GAVE HIM A HAND

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

GAVE HIM A HAND

Local Product Beats One of Stars

(From "N.Z. Truth's" Special Auckland Rep.) For enthusiasm nothing could have been more pronounced than the outburst which greeted Glenstar's victory a^ Te Aroha. TT all centred round the diminutive kid who rode the winner, and the fact that he took a strong part m foi'cing the lightly-weighted gelding home from the more experienced horseman, Tinker, on Pegaway after the latter had ranged up alongside the leaders and appeared to have the stake m safe keeping. The lad, who boasts the name of Chandler, is one of Te Aroha's own stock and is attached, to George Reid's stable, while the winner is also locally owned. Therefore, the win had a three-fold interest for the township of the springs. Young Chandler is among the most diminutive apprentice saddle-sitters m the land, and can go to scale at almost sst. 21b. if such was necessaryThat was only his fifth ride, m four of which he was m the t money. Saturda3 r 's success was not his first, he having- previously steered Joy Day home m front at the non-totalisator meeting held at Matamata during the Xmas holidays. After receiving the cheers of the Te Aroha crowd he almost toppled over with the weight of the saddle and gear when required to go to scale to weigh m. "Truth" has to go back a few years for such a display of enthusiasm as greeted young Chandler under similar circumstances. That was away back m the dark ages at Reefton, when Billy Young rode his first winner m his home town. The miners were so delighted, on that occasion that they took the hat round and collected double figures for the first of the Youngs ; a family that later made history.