SURPRISE IN NOVICE

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 97, 21 October 1935, Page 6

SURPRISE IN NOVICE

ERUA GOES BETTER RACE

Erua, having only his third race, ,vas a surprise packet on the day, in '.'M'the Novice Stakes. He was well backed on the opening day, but he dis- - "appointed by not revealing the speed his connections expected, and he was ■■ allowed to go out at nearly double ...figures on Saturday. He followed Boomerang, Mowgli, and Jewish Lad ■ into the straight, but then finished,too .. resolutely for them all, cutting down ■ Boomerang inside the distance and " going on to score by a length and a ■-half. • . This winner is a three-year-old . - chestnut gelding by Cape Horn from - the Parimure mare Vuelta, a half-sister '.., to Kinsem and the dam also of Cigar, . now, in Melbourne, and he.belongs to tha same family as the New Zealand t Cup winner Vagabond. He was bred ',' by Mr. A. E. Preston, jun., from whom -L'"he was acquired privately by Mr. J. 'Jameson, the owner also of Takak'ua, 'and he is now one of B. Burgess's ~, team at Opaki. . ' . . ■ Boomerang, a half-brother by Iliad ' to' Might from theCreorge establish.ment, looked all over the winner at the straight entrance, and he might ~'have succeeded too if his rider'"'(S. Wilson) had not taken it rather easily -'•■with him just prior to observing the . ..danger from Erua, for he then could not get him going dgain over'the last furlong. Boomerang will soon atone. , , --■. Jewish Lad was a moderate third three lengths away, not going quite so '" freely as .on the first day. Platter ■ '■surprised by dashing; up into fourth ■■' pace, ahead of Lacread. 'Conversion, .'tf'Ac' Mowgli. Gold Vein reared .'and - rrflftped her rider at the start, having '■'■- »lso done so before the start. ,