BREEZE IS NOT WITH HER

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

BREEZE IS NOT WITH HER

FINE FIILY UNLUCKY

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(From "N.Z. Truth's" Christchurch Rep.) JUST how the luck of racing goes is amply demonstrated' by the fate of the Riccarton two-year-old Lochlaggan. One of the best and most beautifully turned fillies seen but for a long time, she displayed speed above the average right from the outset of her career. Her initial outing was m the McLean Stakes at Dunedin, and only through meeting interference at the jump out it was a Rolls-Royce to a kid's scooter that she would have taken out m that race instead of the second placing recorded. Well, that was good enough, and she was not asked to do much after the Dunedin meeting, and was not bothered with for the Wellesley Stakes. However, just before the New Zealand Cup she was doing better than ever, and was sorted out \as the most likely winner of the southern candidates, but m stepped bad luck again. On the eve of the meeting she knocked a joint, while »at half-pace exercise, and her trainer, Charlie Emerson, decided not to race her at all during the meeting m case of more serious injury. She staged a good recovery and was working along nicely and quietly with an eye to the two-year-old handicaps at Dunedin, and had she been anywhere near herself it would have been a. crying shame to take the money, but m popped the black element again. After an easy half-mile last Saturday morning she again pulled up lame for no apparent reason, and she will most likely be sent back to her owner's property for a good long spell, to see if the malady can be overcome.