HOW REUMAC RAN.

NZ Truth, Issue 243, 19 February 1910, Page 2

HOW REUMAC RAN.

It is marvellous how a gallop will improve a horse, and still more marvellous how everybody knows what a big improvement has been effected. This" is shown on the bookmakers' boards and also on the lotalisator, Take the case ot Reumac at Egmont as a case m point. On the first day the bookmakers offereU 6to 1 about him m a field of four. He was m the rear— and tailed off, too—for the greater part of the journey, and at the iinish he was kicked up. a bit and beat one of the runners, viz., Golden Glow. There was no merit m such a performance, but here comes the peculiar part of the business. On that form l\e could not be reckoned to .have a passible chance on the second day, hut of course that is not, allowing him to have improved. The distance is a quarter of a mile further on the jseco'nd. day, and , the market indicated the result to 'a nicety It said Reumac would- win, with Playmate second, ■ and sure, enough that was how they finished. From the start the Explosion gelding was always m front, and never being headed he ran home a very easy winner. No questions were asked. Everybody smiled because they were all •on the winner. No one was hurt, except the bookmakers, and as one of them remarked, "They will be getting gatling guns next and turning them on us.''-