FIRST ST. LEGER WINNER

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 60, 12 March 1937, Page 13

FIRST ST. LEGER WINNER

Sir Charles Clifford had his first •St. Leger success when Wild Chase won at Trentham yesterday. The late Sir George Clifford previously won the New. Zealand St. Leger with Treadmill in 1904 and with Counterfeit in 1912. No Clifford horse has yet won the Great Northern Derby. Wild Chase is the first son of Paper Money to have won either a Derby or St. Leger.

ham class. It was the best sprinter in the Dominion to whom he had to lower his colours yesterday. He was not among the early leaders, but he finished resolutely, and he would' have caught most horses with his powerful final run. He looks better now than ever he has,, and he is holding his form Knockfin, beginning smartly, had every chance, but she was unable to fight down challengers and was beaten out of a dividend by a length. Karl, never prominent, on a track that did not suit a speedster, was. fourth, at the end, clear of Laughing Lass, who began as well as anything, but quickly yielded her placi in going that probably also did not fit in with her requirements. The other- pair, Acceptable (never in the picture) and Deficit (who stopped quickly), were well behind the others..