IS LIKE THE PLOUGHMAN

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

IS LIKE THE PLOUGHMAN

To Victory Old Kawini Homeward „.; Plods His Weary Way I CONSISTENT, IF NOTHING ELSE

(From "N.Z. Truth's" Special Auckland Representative). Had there been' any 'real merit m Kawini's Winter Steeplechase victory at Sllerslie he. would probably have been accorded a rousing reception. •

BUT, though spectators realised that he deserved all the money he could earn per medium of his plugging ability, they also had m mind that he was very lucky >to -take the stake, i. . Both Mangani and Ui'alla would have finished m "front of the son of Formative had they stood their ground, and so far as Mangani was concerned It was sheer misfortune which brought about his parting, with his jockey at a comparatively .easy . obstacle — the second last fence, a sod wall. Uralla was goind easy handy to the leader when she r drashed an the hill the last trip. : ■ . Kamehameha 'and Kawini were thus left handy to each other after Mangani was counted out of the race,, but the first-named was "all m" coming to the last hurdle and baulked because he had had enough, leaving Kawini to reach home m front of the sorely affected Wiltshire by fifteen lengths. "When he won, Kawini "was' entering on his tenth jnile of racing during 1 the three- day fixture, for he had already contested the two miles and a-ha.lf Northern. Hurdles', ; the Northern Steeples of over three miles and threequarters, while the Winter Steeples was oyer a three-mile course. / In the doing Jie had to clear no fewer than fifty-five obstacles m; all, and it says something for him that he negotiated the lot safely and earned Bomething towards his upkeep each stark ■■ - ■.' ■ ' "'■'•■■:.■.■-.

: He was third" m each of the Northerns, and got. the thick end. of the : (Winter Steeples stake— £llso m all. This meant that the three rides were -worth £103/10/- to Jockey Ray Olive. , ; Kawirii has been a great old battler, over, fences, for' during his four seasons on the '".turf \he, has started on i forty-three occasions for eight firsts, twelve seconds, and eight thirds. , ; ■ : ' He has won . something just under £6500 m stake-money, and during his j .career has acted as runner-up m the Grand' National Steeplechase, Welling;- . ton Steeplechase and both the Great Northern Hurdles and the Steeple- . chase. ■.' ' '•■- ■ - . •"■.•' • ■ ;■ ,- . ■•■' • ' Asa matter of fact, he has started m , six Great Northerns to date, and has ( been m a place on five different occasions—a second and a third m the Hurdles, and one second and two thirds m the Steeplechase. . Without a straight-out victory, he has earned £1500 m Great Nor- . therns. .•-■■. - • ■ ■ ' 1 He is one of our most reliable fen- , cers and stayers, but seems to lack the \ necessary brilliance regarding speed to 1 snatch one of the rich plums of the ' winter jumping seasons. ■ He seems to have only the one gear ; andi be the weather . fair or fo.ul" he j keeps on, like the fellow m the soapy ; ballad, jogging along, singing a eong. (