WRACKLER'S HOPE WAS WRECKED

NZ Truth, Issue 1258, 9 January 1930, Page 11

WRACKLER'S HOPE WAS WRECKED

Son of Wrack Got Into Pocket At Summer Meeting . ... ' ■- — '■':-■ ! DILWORTH'S CLOSE SCRAMBLE (From " N.Z. Truth s Special Auckland Representative. ) The best of good things ever beaten was Wrackler m the President's Handicap on the third day of the Auckland summer meeting. ,yYy ■

AFTER Dilworth's mediocre showings on the two previous days she was allowed to go out at a remunerative price, and saved her reputation, by ' scrambling home by a neck. . Quick into h'ei* stride Dilworth assumed the role of pacemaker from •Linkman, Bonny Logan, The Abbey and Machine Gun, and this bunch was always prominent.. A . , Wrackler was, .well placed for over a mile, but getting 1 on "the rails with .'a round to go saw him immediately pocketed when-Bonny Logan began to drop back and Peterwah flashed up on the outside. . i , While held m by this pair Dilworth, Linkman and Machine Gun spurted at the half-mile station and gained further ground, and it was. not until 'another furlong had been covered that Wrackler received, an ' opportunity to pull to the outer. A: Once clear the son of Wrack set

the. .spinnaker for home, but he was wej I behind Dilworth, Linkman and Machine' Gun once the bend was negotiated. ■ Turning on a woriderful burst of specd i Wrackler literally flew, but at tlie wire was a neck behind Dilworth, Linkman getting third money a similar distance away. •'; Native Prince did, good work to get f o urth and AMachirie^ ,G un was fifth. With a clear run Wrackler would have won and on the day showed himself to be one of the gamest and speediest pacers that has looked through a bridle. There was a suggestion that M. Holmes could have avoided trouble by making a move at the six-furlong post, but m being m the centre, of such" a jam it was the: luck of the game that kept him m such a "possy," and one seldom .experienced by the young Southern reinsriian. ■ i