THEN HE SMILED
O more popular win was scored at Franklin on Saturday than that registered by Archieval in the middle distance hack race. Not so much on the part of the horse as the rider.
The diminutive pilot was a youthful Maori, A. Ngakai, who is identical with the boy who rode Glendowie to hounds and so helped to pave the way for that horse's success in the last Great Northern Steeplechase. Ngakai rode a very confident race on Archieval, a doublefigure shot, and he was handling his mount I ike a veteran passing the judge. There was not a smile on the youngster’s dusky countenance as he slowly walked his horse back to weigh in, amid plaudits of the crowd.
But Ngakai's pleasure had to manifest itself, and when he came to where owner H. Rothery and trainer A. Rhodes awaited him his face burst into a real water-melon smile. He had tasted the fruits of victory. This was his second race in public; he was unplaced earlier in the day on Tukunoa. Ngakai has ability, backed by unbounded confidence. A cool head and he will go far.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 609, 11 March 1929, Page 12
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