SHOWS WHAT THE CLASS IS

NZ Truth, Issue 1212, 21 February 1929, Page 13

SHOWS WHAT THE CLASS IS

•THAT two old-timers, m Rapine and Yoma, could fight out the finish of the Wanganui Cup gives a pretty good indication of the poorness of the class running m handicaps at the present juncture. Both are m the sere and yeiiow stage, yet when it came to racing home over the last two furlongs, they were the only ones m the story. Rapine was greeted with a demonstration when he returned to weigh m, and the old fellow deserved every note of it. He was licked to a frazzle at the three-furlong post, and Reed was .kicking the tail off him. When he straightened up for the short run to the post the stick was applied. Unlike many other horses, he did not turn it m. Each kick and each thump with the "bat" made him get down lower, and lower, and if the flesh was weak the heart was willing. Rapine is very much like the tough gentleman from Arizona — he wants to die with his boots on. -