FIFTH FAVOURITE TO WIN

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 78, 1 April 1936, Page 15

FIFTH FAVOURITE TO WIN

Solaria, backed down to the same short price as Flammarion had paid in a poorer field earlier in the day, obliged investors with their fifth favourite success when he won the Makuri Hack Handicap narrowly but well from Rustem. He gave his army of supporters their usual moments of suspense when he caracoled at. the.start, and finally he was one of the last to move, but once under way he was soon going up fast, and after being third into the straight behind Brown Pearl and Silver Wings he fought off Rustem by a short neck. Solaria has had a hard season of travelling and racing, but though he shows sourness at the barrier he is endowed with speed above ordinary when the race is on. He has not had more than his quota of wins, but he is likely to add to his tally later on in his career, for he carries the stamp of class. A five-year-old chestnut gelding, he is a son of Gainscourt and the Joculator-^Sundust mare ..Sundew, a Flaxmere family that has not yet had much success in the Dominion, its best previous representative, as far as can be recalled, being Austrahs, and he is owned and trained by his breeder, Mr. M. J. Lane, of Hastings. Rustem, improved with his Awapuni race, kept the winner all out over the last furlong. He was troublesome at first at the barrier, but then stood and went away well. On the turn he drifted back a little, but he came strongly from the top of the straight. This three-year-old half-brother to Arikira is likely to develop into a very useful tried to lead all the way, but weakened into third, two lengths back. Her rider, S.. Wilson, was fined: £1 for starting at No. 2 position instead of No. 6. Silver Wings, second most of the journey, was close up fourth, and Golden Chest, without the best of passages, was running on next Lorrelle, early prominent, finished last. Snowball and Acron. made poor beginnings.