ANOTHER HIGHWEIGHT

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 21, 25 January 1934, Page 8

ANOTHER HIGHWEIGHT

PRINCE COLOSSUS AGAIN '

Ihe sctond c\ent ot the tjpe at the meeting went to I'iintc Colossus when he scoicd <i nauow but meiitowuu-. win in the Wallaceville UiuhneiLht Handicap. Mi^s Jluahabjo displaced him iiom the lead attei gonij; .1 couple oi uulcmgs but lie diovc to the iiont iij,.iiii at the top ot the -anight, and he finally pulkd on the leqiiLied extiii eftoit to withstand challenges fiom Walton Paik and the biacketcd pan, Nightguard and Koieio. It was another excellent peifoimdnce, and this foui-jeai-old son ot Colossus may shortly be winning among the open handicappers. lie lids dheady had half a dozen buccesfcei this season.

Walton Vark appeared to.be a shade unlucky, as he was cramped for room when battling his way through along the rail in the straight from six places back at' the straight entrance. It was easily his best showing at the meeting, and the smallest factor in, his favour would have' made him the winner

Nightgudid, who had been purchased cheaply at the bales lor 13 guineas the pievious day by Mr. J. V. D. Couj, went an impioied iace, and he finished ■vjlidlv iiftei being fifth into the sti.usJit Ilia (lead Ue.it loi second fetumed .L 22 10ij i=o hr icon lct-ovcicd Ins iJiuclnse l>iilc, .is well <i» '-.niiig a dividend lot In^ biutUcted in.ito Koipio, who was. icxponsible ioi tlio bi.uket'» hot idvomitistn Koieio was udden an txtellcnt late Jill the way on the ieiue and he had eveiy th.ince. It Aviif, piobably through has hanging m on Walton j?aik iu^t alter passing the faUe ldil that the latter -was? lobbed oi the; iruita of success. The otheis wcie well beaten, but Melisande vai agaiu lunnmg thiough shongly iiom the baik at the nnish. k