HIT THE FRONT AND WON

NZ Truth, Issue 1228, 13 June 1929, Page 13

HIT THE FRONT AND WON

HUIRANGL- GIRL COLLECTS ■ .■■-•/■■.■ THE TROPHY / [ ; PAT f^OIBSON AGAIN - } Though Maidos actually hit the front ear|y m .the Hunt Cup \ . Steeples at Egmont, he could not get his usual break on the opposition. ; THAT meant his defeat, and ' Huirangi Girl moved him .out of the lead before going a circuit,' never to | be headed again on the trip. ; , . As a matter of f^ct J^aidos nearly jolted Pat Hobson\out of the saddle by -.an awkward;Vjump,-^at -the second fence .of the dpuble-siri the middle round, and Pat; gained*; the plaudita of I the crowd by regaining liis seat m the saddle. . •■_ ■...;■.-!" • . 3 1 it was always Huirangii Girl's race t out m front from then: on, and' though she had one life on the trip, Horace Dulieu steered her •; t.o , victory 'by seyeral lengths f rom^ ■ Waitaunaha, with Bahjuke third and San ' Fera fourth. San Fera gave a bit of cheek up handy to the leading division for a time, but hardly realised the distance.