MUDDLING PACE

NZ Truth, Issue 1273, 24 April 1930, Page 11

MUDDLING PACE

Don Quixote's Rider Not Caught

(From "N.Z. Truth's" Auckland Rep.) The Great Northern St. Leger was run at a very muddling pace for over a mile, and this accounts for the time being slower than for the last eight years. PRAY won the stake on Don Quixote because he woke up to the pace a lot earlier' than most of the other horsemen, and put a gap between the field more than a furlong from home. He was thus out of the trouble which My Own struck just when a clear passage was most needed. The majority of horsemen engaged were evidently under orders to keep the pace down, but that part of the business was overdone., My Own secured second money half a length off the winner, with Motere third and Vali fourth. It took 3.9 2/5 to cover the fourteen furlongs, time which ranks as the third slowest m the history of the race.