Betty Moko Kept On Severe Mark

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 688, 13 June 1929, Page 13

Betty Moko Kept On Severe Mark

AFTER MANY FAILURES BACK MARKERS GIVEN BEST OF THE DEAL o r,^, Cn w ße l ty , M ? ko f!n| shed second to Waikaha in the Rowe Cud coniost of 1927 she tramped 4.36 O-S, the best go the trotting mare has recorded over a two-mile journey, and while she has repeatedly tailed to reproduce that effort is soil kept back on the handicap to that time. Placed on 4.34 the next day, the daughter of Peter Moko was well beaten into second place by Peter fctvitt who was conceding her 24yds. For this effort Betty was asked to go on the final day, but she had no chance, Young Blake winning from 4 u 4. going a fraction outside his handicap. At the winter meeting the Mange re trotter was on 4.34. but failed to gain a situation, Waikaha (4.33), Young Blake (4.32) and Rose Bingen (4.37) filling the places. Handicap Lengthened This season Betty* Moko competed at Epsom in the spring, off a similar mark, but again found the opposition too solid. Despite these failures the mare was kept on the tight mark in the Rowe Cup, where she had no earthly chance, and on the second day, let up to 4.35, she again failed badly. At the Otahuhu summer fixture Air. j Gooseman put the Peter Moko mare on 4.30, but she was again well and j truly beaten. Being now in C. G. Lee’s | charge, the Epsom mentor decided to j try the square-gaiter among the pacing division and she was a competitor in ; the To Aroha Cup (4.40 class), off 4.38, I hut was unable to make any impression lon the opposition. When Air. Paul ! framed the Hastings adjustments

Betty Aloko was placed on 3.40 in the East Coast Handicap of 13 furlongs (3.54 limit), which is equivalent to 3.25* for 12 furlongs and 4.40 for two miles. In the Hawke’s Bay* Cup the Epsorn trained mare was handicapped on 4.39, but was not a starter in either event. Beversa! of Opinion In dealing with Betty Aloko for the Auckland meeting Mr. Paul appears to treat her in the peculiar light of an improving mare, as in the Alangere Handicap, one and a-half miles (3.285 class) she is placed 12yds behind, and in the Stewards’ Trot, two miles (4.38 class) the mare is 24yds behind. In the former heat Betty Aloko is on the same mark as Vendome and Turaatukuru, and conceding Ethiopian 12yds, all of whom have recently won in attractive style. Regarding the two-mile trot, Betty is still asked to go a shade faster than she did 18 months ago when second to Waikaha in the Rowe Cup, and allowing that the adjuster considers it the proper mark, why are the back markers, Trampfast and Young Blake, who have placed performances of 4.2 S 1-5 and 4.29 3-5 respectively, let up to 4.295 in this particular race. While Betty Aloko has undoubtedly* got it where the chicken got the axe in being on 4.36, she. like others placed on their tight marks, are dealt a second blow through bark markers being let up on their best times.