A TURN UP FOR THE TOMMIES.

NZ Truth, Issue 119, 28 September 1907, Page 2

A TURN UP FOR THE TOMMIES.

Mow the Favorite was Beaten.

j On. the second day of the Ransri- | tikei meeting pullers ' would have i nothing but Lord Sou-It for the Telegraph Plandicap, and a hucce sum of 'money was invested on him all over ihc colony. The rush was so great that fully £500 ■ Was turned away m Wellington, alone, as I)he bookmakers flatly, refused to" lay against him after a certain limit had been reached. On the. course .he was .very hot, and at starting time he was -3 to 1 on favorite. The race was soon over. Lord Soult was easily beatcD, and the bookmakers coffers were '-eplenished. Many excuses, were offered for the Foxton horse's defeat, but, m 'mv opinion, the weight was too much for him. He had a. eood position all through, a first-class horseman on him, and he did not cove,r an inch too much of ground, but the last fifty yards found him out and he died m Jenkin's '.hands, . Punters next set thernselv??! out to .'i'ct even on Kareroa m the Killeymoon Hack race,) but he failed, .as did Rosegrove m the September Handicap, and r.lto.eT-ther the Spring meetin- of the Ransritikei Racing Club was a very disastrous one for backers.