'GOT UP ON THE INNER?

NZ Truth, Issue 1148, 1 December 1927, Page 11

'GOT UP ON THE INNER ?

Sometimes There Is A Reason.For Openings

"Got up on the inner and v place phrase m race description th AT practically 'every meeting now "N.Z. Truth" witnesses races won through a horseman getting a run on the fence — an opening, had the ridev of the horse m front been awake to himself, would never have been presented. : But with monotonous regularity the "gate" is left open, and the invitation accepted. Owners and trainers have long viewed with dissatisfaction — not to say m some instances, suspicion— of these bpening-up tactics and now a stage has been reached where the public grumble a bit. - Often there is a reason f or : the opening-up, and m more cases than not the rails are left, not to allow another horse up. „ • There is such a thins In racing as: "going out to meet him. ; That to the average person may be so much, double Dutch, but to the hardened ones the expression means a rider, seeing another horse coming up strongly on the outer, goes out m an effort to stop the danger threatenad. Such tactics are,' of course,' not. according to Hoyle, but they are . indulged m very frequently, arid mostly at the'smaller meetings. , This "going out to meet" stunt is foul riding and should be treated accordingly. , -

ivon," is becoming a common-' lese days. . On. rare occasions the leaving of the fence is. for the purpose nf allowing something lying m behind the necessary ground to get through. ■ That may, or may not, be an offence, and when it is brought to mind that thfe false rails, on Trentham and Riccarton were installed for the self -same purpose it is hard to call it nasty names. . .That is of course assuming that the horse m front is not equal to meeting and beating off the challenge. , The whole .'question of coming but is a large one, and is one that might well be looked Into by the officials m charge on the 1 day. : : Questions- asked here and there would. do .no: h'arm^-they would show that it-haoV at least . been noticed — though the stereotyped reply of "he was hanging out", would be the rejoinder, m ninety-nine cases out of a hundred. . . One well-known jockey — now retired —expressed himself on the subject the other day m terms like this: "When i I was riding- to' get up on the fence one would have to come up on the inside grass." Even after allowing for a modicum of self-appraisement m that remark there is no doubt it ail but ■ fills .the bill;