Carbine's Defeat

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 65, 29 November 1888, Page 3

Carbine's Defeat

In commenting on the V.R.O. Derbj 1 " Augur" says :— " The victory oi ( Ensign was chiefly due to theeplendic riding of the maa who rode him. Tom Hales is now i n his 4 2nd year, bui ueyer during his career as a jockey has he ridden with more consummate judgment. He never lost an inch of ground, and timed his run to a second. Derrett, I thought, made a mistake in taking his horse from the rear to Becond place so quickly. Had he gradually got into that position I believe he would hare won. The New Zealand Jockey, however, knows the capabilities of the colt better than anyone else. It struck me that he was afraid that Wycombe was going to steal a march, and it was that feeling which influenced him when he made the run along the back stretch. Naturally enough O'Brien was greatly chagrined at the defeat of his colt, and I believe he expressed his willingness to match Carbine to run Ensign upon the same Wins for £500 or £1000 a- side, and no doubt he would hare won had the match been made Mel os and Pearl Shell both looked dangerous at the distance, but they were done with 1 00 yds from home. It is a fact worthy of note that for the past three years not a single Victorian bred horse has started for the V.8..C Derby." — Beferee.