CANTERBURY CHAT

NZ Truth, Issue 771, 14 August 1920, Page 6

CANTERBURY CHAT

' GRAND NATIONAL DAY. • Heavy going Grand National day. Enormpus crowds and big dividends. Coalition's time was the slowest for twelve years. Oakleigh ran a great race for three miles after getting away very badly. Lochella, who carried a quarter of the money invested, fell at the sod wail the first time round. Master Strowan ran off and pulled up very lame. • Old Waimal made the pace for tliree milc3, when ho wan overhauled by CorUtlon and Oakleigh. San Sebastian was beaten a long way from homo. Guanaco is »a much Improved horse and ho will go on improving. He came from a long way back to make a race of it over the last furlong. Crib ran a solid race, but only managed to get fourth, Just m front of Oakleigh. . Southerners had a groat win when Killowen romped away with the Winter Cup from start to finish. Killowen Just won from Heather Sprig by the margin of advantage ha got at the barrier. Gold tap, Rose Pink. Brackenfield and other good things were not sighted m the race. . - Will Oakland seemed to get hung up In tlie tapes, getting all the worst of , on otherwise excellent start i Somebody ought to talk to -tho Cani terbury Jockey Club about the rotten arrangements at the pay-out windows. The present synitoru & more than fua. abomination. Carmine romped home- In the Avonhead Handicap, being ridden. nic*ly by Jimmy Campbell. Slgnyslan outclassed tho moderates opposed to him m the Hunters' Hurdles. ■ He led all the way aitor a nijio had been tra veiled. Most folk had forgotten Eonibproof's 1 showing In good company some months 1 ago and lot him go out comparatively neglected. Thosa tlmt rejoice m & good racing memory profited thereby. Gamecock made a great showing In the Trial Hurdles, leading from start till the lost fence, a.ud lumping like a deer. Oneo on ths fiat, however, Bombproof had bis measure, PalEtaff wa.a always a long wa.y back, while Calina, another good thing, fell. Gaylleht made his run too scon m the Jumpers' flat e.n& v.'aa unable to sustain his effort, when Kauri King put m an appearance. King Scar waa third. Other North island horses engaged m this race. Including Thrace, Fisher and Mannish, were nover near the front. If old Wild Pilgrim had kept going for another four furlongs, what sort of a shock would he have given punters? Bill Terry's rider took him for a little private chat after getting over the last Jump, otherwise Golden Prince might have won. His right-angled cut from the . far side of the steeplechase course to the rail*} undoubtedly cost him the race. Golden Prince humped his load like a" racehorse, being m front most of tha journey. Ormesby, John Bunny and Bill cost the northerners a lot of money m the Enfield. Ormesby and Bill were the last of the horses that completed the course to a finish. N A photograph of Wormald's bump of six feet m the air when General Petain; blundered at the first jump m the Trial Hurdles would be valued by tho sportIng papers. The lad made a plucky attempt to .collect his mount when it was going at top, but it was bumped by another horse and he lost his reins.