HE WON AND YET LOST

NZ Truth, Issue 1200, 29 November 1928, Page 11

HE WON AND YET LOST

Cannot Draw "The Easy Victory (From "N.Z. Truth's." Special Christchurch Representative.). :.-: ■ ■'-"■ If there is 6ne man who will have reason to i^em^r-tliei South Canterbury meeting it is Jack Prbsser. • . ;

WHEN Jack stepped his Solferino .'two-year-old; Great ;Sta^, out last season he won the Lyttelton Plate and paid a hatfuK ,Ha.followed this up with a second m the Russley Plate, third m the Autumn Nursery, and an unplaced performance at Banks Peninsula. Then ah accident put him out. , There was a large army of punters waiting to be oh him when Jack,stepped him. out this season, and they had to wait for the Tycho Hack Handicap at Washdyke. •;,• Jack,. put the stable apprentice up, and it's only a shame what Great Star did to them. - . He led. into the straight by four lengths and went on to" beat a good iiiuinuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinmiiiminiimiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiimiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiliiimiiiimi

'horse m 'First Raid by. two lengths.',, But the responsibility !of bringing 1 * home the. bacon and the excitement of success played havoc with, the boy,: Rickerby, who weighed one and a-half : pounds shy. " : ' ' V' • ~? The pound allowed by the rules was. not sufficient to move the beam, and the race was-. taken from Great Star and awarded 'to First Raid," with : Camp_anUla and Arrowy m the minor places. There was a good price about. Great Star, and a host of puniers V far and wide were smitten by ! the. . \ result. .'.'.. '".. '.'■.•"■.■■■"■ ■: '. ■'.. ' ■'■.■•''■".'.. : It was bad luck f«r Pros'ser, but the moke will keep, and. m his present form is sure to even up the score before long. . . .';'. ■.'•;,■.•' iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiutiumiiu