WHAT’S THE TIME?

Taranaki Daily News, 21 November 1930, Page 4

WHAT’S THE TIME?

A PQSER FOR PUTTERS. ;■ • ~ | ' “Ropata” sends along the following soser for punters, clipped from T. -U Briton’s “Intellect Sharpeners.’ Phis icing our busy day, the conundrum was landed on to the office boy, who, while •efusing to commit himself, or to SUP; ily the answer, states: (a); Ropata should be disqualified as a timekeeper, ind (b) Ho would like to know the lame of the horses which ran sis furlongs in Imin. 7jsed., so that he could put his week’s wages on them the next time they start. The conundrum readss-" “A Triumph Of Handicapping” It: has been frequently noted how 1 apt our sporting writers are whenever a race results in a “dead heat’’ betweentwo horses or men, to describe me incident as < ‘‘triumph in handicapping, regardless of the fact that-the’ other competitors may be “distanced. Here is a 'little problem-of a horse race in which two of them showed Pharlapian speed, rendering quite excusable the “also rans” being left down the course.’ The event was a mile race, in which there were nine starters, the field being dispatched on even terms, but after running ten chains, these two “Pharlaps’’ left”the others and raced neck and. neck throughout, the remaining seven furlongs. They ran the first six- in ; one minute seven and a half seconds, the first four. occupying exactly three seconds less than twice-the time of the fifth and sixth furlongs, the latter two taking one second more than the time occupied by these “flyers” in the last quarter mile. The interesting question is in what time was'the race run. oy the two speedy horses, which- were “locked level” as ■they passed the posit