THOSE W.F.A. CRAWLS
It is rarely that weight-for-age races over a distance are not run at a muddling pace and more often than not the blame is put on the jockeys. The following comments made by a jockey after a weight-for-age race at the recent Randwick carnival are therefore interesting. "You cannot blame us for what happened today," he said. * "We ride to instructions, and naturally we have to do as we are told. The trouble is that the weight-for-age. contestants at this carnival are horses who are accus-
tomed to having the pace made for them. They are true stayers, and it is not their role to make the pace. With horses capable of setting a fast pace missing, it merely becomes a battle of tactics among the riders themselves. No one wants to do anything early that is likely to give the other riders an advantage, and that was why it was' merely a walking match for the best part of the journey today. I'll admit they are not truly-run races, but what can you do?"
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 106, 1 November 1939, Page 15
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178THOSE W.F.A. CRAWLS Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 106, 1 November 1939, Page 15
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