THE BEST HURDLER

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 151, 14 July 1937, Page 15

THE BEST HURDLER

Jofan Charles's Double Once again, says tlie "Post," the lirst day'^ Trentham Hurdles forni gave tlie riglit cluc to the Winter Hurdles, the leading race o\er battens of the year at Wellington headquarters. John Charles, staying on in line style after what might have been trouble at the last fence} lepeated tbe double performance tliat Rasouli and Revision had each aceomplished in two of the preceding three years. The minor places went in the reverse order to the two liorses in the field who were next homo after John Charles on the opening day, Collision and Lord Val respectively in the absence of Clarion Call. John Charles proved himself in all ways the best horse in Saturday's field. Third-last for nearly a mile, he went up fast to third behind Lord Yal and Huskie after jumping the fence in front of the stands, displaced Huskie at the mile post, and juuijped ahead of Lord Yal at the five furlongis. Then Collision was rtished past him at the halfmile, but he was on terins again for the last fence, the top of which he hit liard, and he came away from there for a decisive two-length win. John Charles is a polished fencer, and when he makes mistakes he does not lose ground, or look like taking a fail. On the first day Clarion Call ran into him at a fence and almost auy other horse would have come to grief. On Saturday he struck the last fence hard enough to bring most horses to their knees, yet he did not waver in his stride the slightest. He is a real stayer too, as he has shown in his two successes at the mCeting. His record now reads eight wins and seven minor placings in 28 starts for £1425 in stakes all earned in the last two seasons, as he did not first race till he was seven, and £805 of it.at Trentham last weeJf.