CONSISTENT AUSSIE

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 972, 15 May 1930, Page 14

CONSISTENT AUSSIE

COMES HOME AT THE WRONG END OF HELD TIME FOR HIM YET Aussie kept up his sequence at Randwick on Saturday week last. He has run in four recent races and in all of them has been last home. This persistent practice suggests that when Mr. Joe Matthews bought Aussie from his New Zealand owner that gentleman didn’t hand over with the horse the instructions how to make him run, comments a Sydney critic. On the track Aussie works all right, and he can sprint with a free-goer such as Fuji San. But he deliberately drops back to the rear at the end of his races, and slow as any rival dares to go, he cannot beat Aussie for the dishonour of whipper-in. It is a strange loss of form on the part of this horse who once beat the mighty Limerick, and who on his arrival in Australia put up a sequence of good performances in first-class sprint company. Matthews's Bad Day In the last two months Aussie has run two lasts for Jim Pike and two for W. Matthews. Soon Mr. Matthews may be offering a premium to the jockey who can get him to beat one horse in a race. It was Mr. Matthews’s day out with his New Zealand purchases on Saturday week. Another, Papatu, was last home in the Club Welter. But it was Papatu’s first for a long time and as he won twice for his owner soon after purchase ,he probably represents a profit, and no doubt will recover form soon. Trained by Mick Poison of Randwick. these New Zealanders were not alone in dishonouring the stable. Student Prince ran last in the novice event. ivioorgas's Run Another, Moorgas, was last at one stage of the Cup, but, determined not to share the ignominy with his stablemates, he hurried past a few horses in the run home, and left Exact behind to be whipper-in as they passed the post. (Moorgas won at his next start.) Jt is a good job that both owner and trainer are a philosophical pair who can take their lasts with their firsts, and on Saturday week were smiling when reminded of Aussie’s consistency. Anyway, it is questionable whether any one of the quartet cost connections much on this occasion.