OUTSIDERS WIN

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21617, 9 October 1933, Page 15

OUTSIDERS WIN

lAEGE RACE DIVIDENDS NEW BRIGHTON TROTS failure of favourites \ phenomenal sequence of successes Jiv rank outsiders was recorded at the trotting meeting at New Brighton, Christ church, on Saturday. Dividends reached dizzy heights, one being over three-quarters of a century, one over half a. century, and two not much less Mian lif.lt* a century, while a fifth was little short of a modest score. All these dividends were for a win, but the place dividends also were remarkably large. N'ot one first win favourite won, and ujv three first, win favourites made ,nv return to their supporters. The largest dividend was paid by Vagabond King in winning the Summer Handicap, for which he was sixteenth jvhi favourite and fifteenth place favourite in a field of twenty. H 6 claims p lady owncj-, Mrs. M. Thomson, for tthoni he won two races in one day pt Cheviot last .March. The next lamest B rj c e was that of Idanoe, winner of the Innovation Handicap, in which ho pas driven by James liryce, junr. Like Vaojibcnd King, lie also wfiis sixteenth 'in favourite and fifteenth place favourite, but the field this time war larger, numbering 27. Idanoe has done very little racing, but evidently was thought to have a fair chance at Methven a week before, for he was then seventh fancy in a field of IS. He ran unplaced. Handicap No Hindrance

Don Chenault, whose return in the \e«- Brighton Handicap ranged near Jo the half-century, has shown remarkpbly good form. Last season he won three races, and this season won at (Jsew Brighton oil September 2 and was twice third at Hutt Park, Wellington, » fortnight later. The fact that he was the buck-marker of the held apparently caused him to go out of favour, but, 'driven bv the prominent trotting trainer B. Jarden, he made light of his handicap and scored narrowly.

The fourth large dividend-payer was Checkers, owned by Mr. D. 11. Bevel!, of Auckland, and trained by R. B. "Berry, of Christchurch. He recorded his success in the Beach Handicap, in ■which several horses fell. Last season Checkers had three wins. Waress. winner of the Waimairi Handicap, whose dividend, although much smaller than ;the others, was still extremely satisfying to those who backed her, won five yaces last season. Veteran's Hurdles Success The element of surprise extended fclso to the Dunedin races on Saturday, when Kapuna triumphed in the Wa» lcari Hurdles and his supporters received a dividend exceeding the halfcenturv. It is years since there hait been iluch a dividend at Wingatui, Kapuna is a veteran, 13 years old, and this was his fifteenth win. He has lately raced principally in steeplechase event;! and was victorious in the Enfielcl Steeplechase at Riccarton in August. Kapuna's name was omitted from the telegraphed list of acceptances, and, etrangelv enough, the name of tho hurdles 'winner at Otaki, Kimbo, wan similarly missed. It is surprising hovr often where a mistake like this oecuru that the horse concerned wins. There have even been cases of a horse being left out of the race book altogether and fet winning.