OUTSIDER CAPTURES CUP

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 1, 2 January 1936, Page 6

OUTSIDER CAPTURES CUP

The favoured division were well beaten in the Wairarapa Cup, which ■ drew a field of only six starters, and -, the honour of adding his name to the list of winners in this old-established event went to the rank outsider Eminent, who has proved a very useful horse, particularly in the smaller Cup races, since the veteran Otaki trainer W. H. Lambess received him as a gift ■;" when of doubtful soundness from the late Mr. V. Riddiford two years ago. ' Indeed Eminent has been a service- '- able performer all through his career, ■ ■ and though now eight years old he :'. continues to take his winning turns ■with regularity. . * Eminent, in contrast to his effort on the final day at Awapuni, was satis- • fled to wait in behind the leaders till .' nearing the straight. Then he ran ■ud to be ranging on the outer of Speed. Might, and After Money as they turned for home, and despite the extra amount of ground he was compelled lo traverse at this stage he finished on resolutely to score well by three parts of a length. After Money, who has been racing '<■ very consistently without luck since ' • her return from Australia, had to be satisfied with still another second. She '. was third most, of the way. alongside Grand Jury following Speed and '{,'■ Misht in the middle stageF. but al- •; though fhe left these horses in the

strainht she was unable to withstand the winner's claim.

Sunee, who was third a length away, was ridden a very poor race. After being dropped back to last early, his rider did not appear to move seriously on him till very near the straight entrance, and when he did get him going he was forced by circumstances to enter the home stretch five horses out, and wide out at that. The ground he covered set him an almost impossible task in the short straight. Grand Jury had dropped back before the straight and there was little of his old finishing dash in him, though the pace might not have helped him. Speed also weakened, and Might, after fighting nearly all the way with his rider, was last to complete. . It was a poorly-run race, the time 2min 9 4-ssec on a good track being the worst for six years. The first two furlongs took 29 2-ssec and the next half-mile 51 2-ssec, but they came home the last half-mile in 49sec.