BY INNER ROUTE

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 17, 21 January 1938, Page 13

BY INNER ROUTE

ALLOA WINS HACK SIX

Finishing with a, keenness he has not previously shown, Alloa dashed _the hopes of the pacemakers over the last half-furlong of the Camp Handicap. It was the best piece of form this eelding has yet revealed, and it is Scltion of the faith that T. R. George has had in him since he received him in his stable a few months a Alloa drew the rail and was always nicely placed four or five places back in the running. Over the closing stages the two leaders, : Lord Nuffield ana Accomplice,, hung out a little, and this gave him his chance. A. E. Bennet, who is riding excellently at present, drove him into the opening, and he came through to score decisively by three-parts of a length. One might have expected a larger price from this winner,- but many probably remembered that he made most of the running in the first day's highweight, over a mile, and then hung.

on -for-fifth,- -This- -was only his second success to date. He is a live-year-old black gelding by Grand Knight from the Chief Ruler—Penella mare Tetranella, who did not race herself but is a half-sister to the Great Northern Oaks winner Flying Juliet, and he is owned by his breeder, Mr. Q. Donald, the president of the wairarapa Racing Club. His . name is that of the residence of his owner, whose address is "Alloa," Featherston. Lord Nuffleld, who never emerged from the ruck on the first day, alterdrawing a very wide marble, gained a quick start from No. 3 yesterday, and he was always one of the first pair. Down the straight he held Accomplice safe,' but then he let the winner up on his inner. Accomplice, with HAlb overweight, was responsible for a surprise performance. From a >close draw she was wiLh Lord Nuffleld* in front from the start, and she hung on gamely to retain a place dividend. It was her best showing in a race this season, but she has been working well for some time back on the track.1 Lazybones, from a wide marble, was always within coo-ec of the front, out on the track, and. he, was finishing strongly in fourth place. Pekoe, who came from near the rear for turn, looked a trifle unlucky, as he had to accept narrow openings when issuing his claim. . Race Call was a prospect half-way down the straight, but could not get through. Sunbeam and Double Gift were prominent early, but- did not improve. Mercenary showed up only for a couple of furlongs. Aureus, one of the first horses under the whip, was clearly not herself. Great Quex showed enough to be marked off as an early maiden winner. . Rabble was never sighted.