TOO MANY RIDERS?

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 29, 4 February 1932, Page 8

TOO MANY RIDERS?

SPEARFUL'S FAILURES

One horse who has been somewhat disappointing' "iv recent engagements' ■-."■has" been the New- Zealand Cup winner, Speavful, from whom .much, better things might have been e\pccted Hub son of Giev speii has nin tnnh consistently since his big Mctoiy in No\cmbei, but in his si>c subsequent starts'he has only o'nee ' been succcs^lul lh it ins on the second daj at the -Manau itu Aleetnig

It hn not been tlie weight that ha\e stopped him continuing Ins Mctonous w iv, foi lie Ins beeu let into all Ins races most reibonabb, .aid, on tho handicap should hi\e been a good thing at leist loi the Welhngtou Cup in which he could do no bettei thin bi\th Howevei, that event was mil in leeoid time, so that some excuse might aftcL- all be made.for him there.

One feituie about Ins leeoid thn sea son noeitheless cannot escape notice, and this is the number of changes that his connections have made m Ins uders Such a shuflhng about mtfcht well ha\e stood lery much in tlie way of his achieving greater success than he has

At the Gund Kitioml Meeting, m which hib ideeb among hick lesultod in a second, thud md non placing, he was udrlcn bj H Goldfinch With A Jenkins in the middle he won md was second at Otiki, agnn mion^ the hacks rlhen, remo:ed to open company he wis pio wded with the of W J Brough ton, who coined a second at Masterton, wins m the Caiterton and. New Zealand Cqps, and a. fouith in the CJC Metiopohtan Biou^hton rode him well, but obviously cued in judgment in the Metropoll tin For the Jlinawalu Cup, after somp ■* icillitiou, his Connertious decided on J 13iuj wlio hnded him in thud plice B II Moms won on him the "ecoiid dij A Jenkins wis agnn in the saddle in the Wuuiapa Cup, and might ha\c won the l ice if Anow Lad had not bepn allowed to steal a march on the field Then in the Wellington Cup it was smpnsing to find another change to G Humphries. Finally B. H. Morris was put up again in the WRc! Handicap, and a third-placing was the result '

It will usually be noted that when a noise has had an exceptional run of success, one oi two horsemen, not always fioin among the top rankeis, ha\e been responsible foi the sequence Peihaps Speaiful would ha^e-done better had one or two ndeis been regulaily engaged to steer him. lie is a somewhat difficult horse to undeistand, and he has hardly been assisted by constant ringing of the changes.