YOU CANNOT HANG VOUR HAT ON HUNTING CRY THESE DAYS

NZ Truth, Issue 1305, 18 December 1930, Page 13

YOU CANNOT HANG YOUR HAT ON HUNTING CRY THESE DAYS

LOOKS REAL RACEHORSE

Railway Candidate Has Outing At Woodville

The members of the Natalie family are not renowned for their good looks but, like the juice of the grape, they improve with age.

WHITE FANG would not get a prize for beauty, and when his halfbrother, Hunting Cry, was first produced he looked like two boards nailed together. But handsome is as handsome does, and m the autumn of .his two-year-old days Hunting Cry lived up to the boast of Jack Cameron and made a field of babies at Hastings look like so many sick children. Last season, as a three-year-old, Hunting Cry was still lean and hungry-looking, but at /Ellerslie at Christmas he once again bore out the statement that they callop m air shapes and sizes. He was asked little after that, and then m the winter Cameron took him over to Sydney, and on the last day at Randwick he. gave the bookmakers every known. incurable disease. The Cameron punters borrowed all the money the banks had and stuck it on him, and home he v rolled, singing racketty. The books' tears caused a flood which inundated the Riverina. i vcam" then brought his meal ticket

home, and it was at Woodville when he next produced him. On the morning of the second day Hunting Cry ran three m time that would win anything. ' ■ Consequently it was not surprising to see the hip pockets unbuttoned ■ when it came time to bet, and once on the way it was not a matter of what would win, but what he would p t ay. It was short, but how sweet. Outside the easy manner m which Hunting Cry won, the most outstanding feature was the way he had filled out. He has grown into quite a goodlooking horse, and you can't hang your hat on him now. His next burl will be m the Railway, and, with his 8.12, if he draws a decent inside marble, Chromadyne and Karapoti will have to be a bit better than they say they are. There is only one drawback — Hunting Cry is not as sound as he could be, but with just average luck he will be m the line up when Starter Skipwith tells them to get into position.