RACING.

Waikato Times, Volume 112, Issue 18723, 25 August 1932, Page 13

RACING.

LUCK OF THE GAME. EX-WAIKATO WINNER. The luck of the racing game was strikingly demonstrated at the meeting at Belmont Park (W.A.), when a newcomer into the business as an owner-trainer —a young • man named K. Innes —won the Trial stakes with an aged gelding named Rangikaha, who was hardly any better known to punters than his owner, says a Perth writer. Rangikaha, who is by Valkyrian from Rangiraa, had had only ■three gallops under colours in the West, and there was nothing to say that he was capable of spreadoagling even that field. He was backed for a “ ton ” of money in a field of 2i. Whereas the new venturer into the ranks Of owners and punters won at liis third start, the well-known trainer, Bob Burns, who has a fine record for the number of times he headed the list of winning horses, took a string of eight horses to the course, saddled up the lot for various races—and did not win a “ brass farthing ” in stake money 1 ' Rangikaha was formerly owned by Mr J. C. Gerrand, of Ngaruawahia, and was raced in Melbourne following his sale a couple of years back.