SURPRISE IN SPRINT

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 33, 9 February 1931, Page 6

SURPRISE IN SPRINT

ARISUS SCORES .NARROW WIN

Arisua, who has been confidently backed on several occasions since he won a , sprint at the Marton Summer Meeting, ■ but has failed each time, sprang a surprise in the Wairaate Handicap, the open i sprint at Hawera on Saturday, for he was i tho outsider of the field o£ four, and ' in winning paid an unusually good price .for such a contest. It was an excellent finish, the three .placed horses crossing . the line with only short heads between them., v • : .•'. Tenterden , and Ridgcniount were the* first out, but when the field had;settled ; ■down Tenterden was leading Gold Dawn, Ridgemount, and Arisus, and they turn- ', ed for home in this order. Gold Dawn ,'tvas, the first to: challenge-'the-'.leader, ancV ■shp'drew.up to him inside the distance, • tbut Arigus had begun a strong run down the outside, and he sustained his effort determinedly to gain the mastery a stride -from the post, beating Gold Dawn by a short head,' with a like distance, back : ..to Tenterden. The favourite, Ridgemount, ' was a length and a half back. . .-■' -Much credit for ■ Arisus's victory is due to- his rider (W. BrbughtonJi who let • him gallop smoothly behind the others till; ; the straight was reached, and withheld[ his;main effort till that.point. Broughtoiuhas had considerable success in open sprints this season, and he seems able to' get the most out of "his, mounts at the end. Had Gold Dawn not been so, anxious early in the race she would probably have won.