GUP WAS DISAPPOINTING

NZ Truth, Issue 1301, 20 November 1930, Page 15

GUP WAS DISAPPOINTING

Wrackler Paralysed Opposition With Late Run

LOGAN PARK MISSES GETAWAY (From "N.Z. Truth's" South Island Trotting Bepresentative.) Although the qualifying heats m the New Zealand Cup contest i promised that the final would be a real thriller, it has to be written' of the 1930 event, as it has been written of so many before, that it was a disappointing race.

WRACKLER unwound a run as they i came into the straight that left the others anchored, and from then on it' was not a race, with Wrackler simply jogging m. Disappointments started early m the race when Logan Park was left so badly that he was pulled up. King Pointer galloped off and lost so much ground that when he did strike his gait he was behind Terence Dillon from the twenty-four mark, and that horse had dwelt a little. Author Jinks was favored by a moving-in start, but that was of no use to him, as he broke up after going off, and he lost so much ground that he went to an apparently hopeless position. Jewel Pointer soon took up the - running, followed by Kohara, Logan Chief, Wrackler, Terence Dillon and King Pointer, and this was the ordor practically to the home bend. King Pointer struck more bother early by getting a bump, and he went to a tangle, but he was with them again soon, and down the back he gave his supporters a /thrill by coming with a strong run on the outer that looked like taking him to the lead, but another bump -broke him up and put him out of court. At this stage, three furlongs from home, Jewel Pointer was still m the lead and going nicely; Kohara was alongside, apparently full of running; Terence Dillon was working out for a run and was still on the bit; Logan Chief was throwing out signs of distress, and Wrackler was shaping up to put m his claim.

Within a furlong an altogether dif- ] ferent complexion had been thrown upon the matter. Before they had completed the home bend Terence Dillon dropped the bit and was beaten. Bryce became busy on Kohara, but that horse, could not raise a kick, and Jewel Pointer was feeling the pinch, so Wrackler's run, started just as they swung into the straight, found not one horse fit to go a yard with him. The race was over with such dramatic suddenness that it left the spectators spellbound, although they revived sufficiently to give Wrackler a rousing reception as he, romped home the easiest of winners. The rest were so thoroughly distressed that Author Jinks, from an apparently hopeless position, came with a wet sail to be just as easily second as Wrackler was a winner, and credit must be given to Author Jinks as a real horse, as well as to English horseman J. Young, as a patient horseman and an excellent judge of pace. No one to witness Wrackler's paralysing run would wish to deprive him of all the credit due to him as a super horse, and probably one of the greatest stayers to ever grace the, track, but still the prevailing note struck was disappointment that Logan Park did not get away and thoroughly test the winner. That he would have done that was demonstrated on the final day of the meeting when he won just as pointlessly as did Wrackler m the Cup, and Logan Park was timed to come his last mile and a-half m 3.10 3/5 as though such an effort was a joke.