PUKEKO TAKES SPRINT
Although he has been tackling and winning at middle distances lately, Pukeko showed in the Huia Handicap that he is still a force to be reckoned with in sprint races. A fast _ move round on the home turn had him second to the pacemaker, Mister Quex, at the straight entrance, and he then came on to score comfortably by a couple of lengths from Top Rank. Soft tracks suit this half-brother to Retract, and he has also previously won on the Otaki track. . . Top Rank, sacrificing his early position in the van, waited till the straight was reached before making a claim for the honours, and he then found Pukeko too tough a proposition to account for. - Had better use been made of his brilliance and light weight he might have been a.- lot more troublesome. ' , . Mister Quex tired in the run home, but held on for a poor third. Free Rose ran fairly for fourth, for she was with'the vanguard to the straight. Lone Raider, tailing off early, was a disappointing favourite, but he was simply running up to his past record in failing to repeat a good effort.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 112, 13 May 1937, Page 13
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