IN TROUBLE

NZ Truth, Issue 1206, 10 January 1929, Page 13

IN TROUBLE

Kohara Got It In President's

(From "N.Z. Truth's" Auckland Rep.) Had Kohara not been interfered . with on the third day at Auckland, Prince Pointer would have found it harder to win the President's Handicap. THERE was .less than i half a length . between them passing: the post, Kohava having- made up leeway over the final stretch. . It was after going about seven fur-, longs that (Sold Jacket created trouble, causing Kohara to lose ground. . Again, strange to relate, Gold Jacket stopped him when they were about to enter on the. final circuit. While Kohara was getting it, Pointer was going along conifortably close up to the leaders and all this was to. his advantage. ' . Still, the ■ black ■ must be given all credit for running a sterling race arid more so after his great Champion Handicap win two days previously. That popular fellow Great Bingen showed a sample of his brilliancy by getting third and he came from the clouds to do so. He was running over everything at the finish and tuned the 'watch up to 4.25 3/5 : — not a bad • effort on a dead track. . ' ' • Jewel pointer improved to get fourth and his running suggests that he is regaining old form.. . . . The big failure was Gold Jacket. He was a decided nuisance and upset calculations, for seldom does an Auckland Cup winner show such a bad reversal. ■ . ' } . It was a spectacular event, but to the : , . dispassionate * thinking mind Kohara's connections have every reason to feel that the brown came m for niqre than the average share of ill-luck and- interference. . ■ ''\ : f ■ '■:■'■'■'■