DEFEAT OF AMOUNIS

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 70, 19 September 1930, Page 6

DEFEAT OF AMOUNIS

A^CE OE BLUFF THAT WAS ' -^':^V^rfJT ..CALLED ." ■

Crafty, generalship on the parl of his rider •(]?.. Dempsey) gave Wise Force his wholly .unexpected victory over. Ainonnis aridkWaterline in the Memsie Stakes at Caulfield on.4th September, a week after Amounis had beaten Pii-r Lap. Dempsey turned the^nine furlongs race into a dash over the final two or two and a half farlongs by taking Wise Force to the front shortly after the start and then slowing down the field. The real part of the business was all at the finish, and neither Amounis nor Waterline was capable then of catching the brilliant sprinter, whom they had. let make the running all his own way.; "';'.' The only rider in the race who realised the full import of Dempsey's tactics was T. Lewis, who, curiously enough, 'was carrying :ori Second Wind the all red colours -Which Dempsey had thrice borne to victory in the Memsie Stakes on Eurythmie.i Second Wind is not a second Eurythmic,' but' Lewis did all he could with him.;..: He urged him forward, and beginning ithe.hpme turn he was on terms with the leader." Dempsey then decided to use his mount's best pace. The last two furlongs must have been done at a clipping pace, and even such a bulldog finisher as Amounis could not quite give Wise Force the start. Beginning the last half-furlong, Waterline on the rails looked a probability, but he faded a little near the ■winning post.

The race was run m the comparatively

slow time of limn si%sec. The record for the course is lmiu 51%sec,'established by Heroic. If the same race were to be run over again half a dozen times Wise Force would not clef cat Amounis once.