FIRST MONEY'S SIX

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 125, 24 November 1930, Page 6

FIRST MONEYS SIX

SUCCESS FIRST, FOR.A YEAR

■■First Money ran. up ; to..his best, track form in; the M'Donald. Memorial Handicap, the open six furlongs at Levin/and registered his first .win for over twelve months." He showed promise o£ recovering his two-year-old ability -when he finished close up behind the place-fillers iv the sprint on the final day of the recent Wel]ington Meeting, and he fulfilled expectations in bo undecided way on Saturday by leading practically, the whole way and coming home full of running. He was given. & couple of runs over hurdles at Otaki, and this appears to" have settled the wayward disposition he displayed in Bo many of his races last season. Just an Idea, Mandy, First Money, and Coon Song moved off in a line, but First Money soon shot clear and led past the half-mile from. Mandy, . Coon Song, Malayan, and. Broad Acre. Broad Acre continued to improve well, out, and followed First Money and Mandy into.the straight, .with. Malayan and Coon Song-just behind 'him. First Money,was never in. actual danger in the .run down to the post, and he' beat Broad Acre-by:-a-'length, and a half, with Malayan; only.v.half, a neck further away, and Hunting Call finishing fast right up., Mandy, Make Up/ and Green Linnet were next. ....,." , Coon Song was a hot favourite, with First Money arid Just- an Idea . evenly ba.cked, and Hunting Call also in .good demand. Coon Song drifted in unaccountable manner over the;-whole journey, ■and never gave his supporters a moment of hope. Just.an Idea also failed to keep iipSvith'the. field, .but it was. his ..first race ior some time;'and he -will:improve as a result:' Hunting-Call. was squeezed out at:the start, and did remarkably well to finish1 up so' close in his first essay at open company. Broad Acre ran strongly throughout, and had; he been better placed early he might have troubled' the winner. Minidy was somewhat disappointing, for she had every chance, and could not come on at the finish. . ■ "