TRANS-TASMAN TATTLE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 48, 12 March 1937, Page 8

TRANS-TASMAN TATTLE

Some Flemington Notes Hope Deferred. As has been saul before, Mr W. It. j Kemball was very Uopei'ul that he I would win his first "classic" with Prince Quex in the tbree-liorse St. Leger Stakes at Flemington. The bctt'ng, too, indicated that the "ring" , waa of the same o-pinion for his backers

had to lay odds-on to gefc a bet. However, the fates were against the ,exNew Zealand owner, for Peerage just lasted .long enough to beat the New Zealand-bred colt by'half a head. ! * # # At Long Odds. ; The third plaeing which Mr E. E. i D. Clark's Heroic colt Hua, as a rank outsider, gained a week or so earlier at : Caulfield does not seem to have raised him much in the estimation of backers ! when he went out to win the Sires' Produce Stakes at Flemington. According to press 6reports now to hand, wlijle Ajax, the favourite for the latter event, was quot'ed at two to one and shorter, there was plenty of twenty mon- ! ey on offer about eventual winner, who ; was run to half a head by Caesar. W © bave yet to learn how the betting ; ranged when in tho Ascotvale Stakes Caesar and Ajax both finished in front • of Hua, who was. penalised to the extent of lOlbs for his earlier success. » • • Jamieson's Flemington W:n. ' When the Chief Ruler— Podokes six-year-old gelding Upoko Ariki — a miserahle attempt at translating the mre's names into JMaori— by winning the Brunswick Stakes, 1} miles, at flemington, ^ gave J. P. Jamieson his j first Victoria-n success since his suspensiou, it was as first favourite. He also had the hono-ur of giving u early a stone and a beating to Mutable, the liorse that was destined a week later to win the Ausiralian Cup . as a rank outsider

Cold Rod's Essendon. The betting public seem to have had no great dcrnbt about Gold Itod's ability to get the ten furlongs of the Essendon Stakes on the first day of the V .R.C. meeting. Nothing very much better "than even money was going about him on the day, while Cuddlo was a gcod long double-figure price. Yet Gold Rod won by only a head from the New Zealand mare. Of the race a Mefbourne scribe says: Gold Rod was responsible lor a plucky- performance to win the Essendon Stakes on Saturday. Forcing his way out of apocket a littl© more than a furlong from home he went on to beat Cuddle in tho last stride. Gold Rod was the leader at the end of a furlong, but was then passed by Cuddle and Young idea. He went along very comfortably behind those horses to the home turn, where Golden Promise moved upon tho out-sido of him, and seemed to havo him effectively hemmed in. Cuddlo and Young Idea "did not move out, and with Golden Promise keeping elose on the outside of lnxn Gold Rod did not appear to have any chance of becoming clear. McCarten, however, forced Gold Rod out from the rails, and his inonnt fairly swepfc Golden Promise aside, thus obtaining a clear run. In ihe meantime Cuddle established a uselui lead, and Gcld Rod's task seemed lt;o great, but as in the Futurity Stri-c-. Gold Rod rcsponded in great si\ I--when McCarten drew the uhip, nuu gradually woro down Cuddle.