GIVEN AN IMPROMPTU BATH

NZ Truth, Issue 1141, 13 October 1927, Page 9

GIVEN AN IMPROMPTU BATH

Steeplechase Creates Roars of Laughter

(From "N.Z. Truth's" Special Auckland Representative.) Racing is a cold-blooded business and it is not often the crowd can be coaxed into seeing the funny side of it!

PLL.ERSLIB on Monday, however, Lj provided a star comedy turn and all present enjoyed it — even the principal actor.

To start off with, there were only three runners m the Steeplechase, but one — Taitatata —had no right to be there, as he was broken down

The stewards recognised this and ordered his withdrawal. This left two, Glenotus and (Fendavies, the latter the better fancied of the pair.

They negotiated the first fence all right, but the next I — the water jump — started the crowd laughing. Pendavies cleared it well, bat Glenotus tried to baulk and swerved sideways into the fence.

He had enough pace on to crash over it and horse and rider flopped with a

big splash into the water amidst roars from an unsympathetic crowd. Bert Rae, rider of Glenotus, has a cork leg and this prevented him from

being drowned!

Out of the water he came — and he was anything but an Annette Kellerman.

When Bae and Glenotus came down the straight the last time the crowd was still laughing — and also applaud-

The horse was Btill there and Bert grabbed his mount, put the bridle on again and half a mile to the bad set off once more. Pendavies was, however, so far m front that he could have fallen twice and still got up and won — and he did so by over two furlongs.