TIED SUFS HURDLES

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 115, 11 November 1935, Page 6

TIED SUFS HURDLES

THIRD IN LINE ON TRACK

; Red" Sun, owned "by the Trentham trainer J. W. Lowe, outstayed his opponents in the. Spring Brush Hurdles to record his third successive victory over the battens on the Riccarton course. He went poorly a fortnight ago at Trentham, but Saturday's track, though dead, was very much different from that at the Wellington Meeting, and he handled it well. Twelve months ago he was second to Free Air in the same race. . •

Red Sun, as usual, was in a rearward position early, but he was never last. He began to move up near the six furlongs, and at the five fxirlongs was already sixth, where Olive Smith, Nocturnus, Rasouli, Polydora, and Black Duke were ahead of him. At this stage Rasouli received a check when the tiring Olive Smith came back, but he was moving up again at the straight, and Red Sun, Polydora, and Rasouli then came away from the field.' Red Sun was just in front at the last fence, which Polydora, on the inner, struck, but once across that he ran on strongly to win by a good length from Rasouli, with Polydora another length off third.

It was a good performance by Red Sun, who jumped excellently and quite obviously likes this ti-ack. Rasouli was, however, unlucky, for he was going like the winner all the way and would probably have succeeded if he had not been sent back those several lengths near th« half-mile. Polydora, too, might have been harder if she had jumped the last fence cleanly. Rasouli was third in most of the running, but Polydora came from behind Red Sun, though she made her forward move a furlong earlier in the race.

The favourite Arctic Star, after drifting: to last along the back stretch, finished on for a poor fourth six or eight lengths away. He may make amends later at. the meeting, however, as he usually does better with a race in him. ' Black Duke moved up from last to a prominent place at the halfmile, but then weakened into fifth. Monastic was never a danger. Olive: Sniilii and Nocturnus both "tired after

making the running, the latter lasting to the straight. Invictus very nearly dropped his rider at the second fence. Burgess being right up on his neck for some moments. The race finished at the second post.