WRONG RACE
(From "N.Z. Truth's" Auckland Rep.) , '(Get to the front, and go for your life" may be reasonable tactics to adopt m sprint races. WHEN it comes to a three-mile steeplechase, twice over the Ellerslie hill, it is an entirely different matter. These tactics were apparent concerning the, riding of Pompeius m the Pakuranga .Hunt Cup Steeple-. .• ' chase.-' ' ; They proved the undoing of the gelding. ■ : ' ' '. '■-■■ Pompeius was so far out m front at one stage that defeat looked-impos-sible, but the forcing up the hill the last' time told against the gelding from the home turn arid he Avas beaten into third place. If Pompeius. does not win m the hunters' class with ( more patient handling then it is no 1 use. having watched the form displayed on Saturday last. Pompeius would have, been a stone-cold certainty had he taken on the two-and-a-half mile Greenmount Steeplechase. "....'"
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NZ Truth, Issue 1192, 4 October 1928, Page 13
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146WRONG RACE NZ Truth, Issue 1192, 4 October 1928, Page 13
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