MADE THEM FEEL SILLY

NZ Truth, Issue 1261, 30 January 1930, Page 9

MADE THEM FEEL SILLY

Royal Saxon Upsets Some Calculations

They say it takes an old dog for a hard road, and though Royal Saxon is not really old-— he is only six— he knows all there is to be learned about hard roads. ■''■)-. .'* ' ''• :' '■

LIE does not "by any .means idle his *•* head off .m his' box, and it says much for his constitution, not forgetting his trainer, that he can ocome0 come out meeting after_. meeting,, .opposing the best a:nd : f£|i^ When '^Bert ' vCoyle slipped the Saxby gelding into'the Telegraph with j^l^er^^ere. -rjnai^-- m the south V"QVtßo!ug.h.tj , a''.risk 1 had been taken with him. / ( 7 7 However, the handicapper proved that he was. right. Royal Saxon did not get any of the money, 'but he was fourth. ■_.; '.. .". , With the jclass a bit weaker the next ' ' ' . . I . ■' - ♦

day he was give.n a- show, but, after being m the leading division passing the false rail, he could \not hold his place, and once again he was fourth. On the last day he took on the open' mile — a race that he won at the meeting twelve months previously. . v There were one or two m this event who thought they had the winner. To be more explicit, Jack Cameron and Hector Gray thought that Huntipg Cry was unbeatable, and theve were many of the' same opinion. Then Bert Tinker and Fraser Smith reckoned it was a good thing -.for Mervette, and they said so.

George Feilding and Jim Ellis had their own ideas on what was going to win, and though they reckoned the strong opposition would come from Hunting Cry and Mervette, they bad sufficient confidence m their own horse to get m , for. their chop. Royal .Saxon did not let them down. He bounded' away to the . front and invited the rest to take his dust. „'' ' .;■''■ . In the middle : stages, while ' Royal Saxon was streaking away m the load, both Hunting Cry and Mervette were not getting any of'the best of it, and when they should have been m a pcsi-

tion to put m a challenge they wore missing. Gray sent Hunting Cry after the leader, and the three-year-old responded, but Tinker was so far out of it that he recognised it was use-, less to knock the stuffing out ot the mare m a vain attempt to gather the front division. And so Royal Saxon won his second Summer Handicap, Last season the big gelding had thirty-one races, and judging by the way he has been raced this season he will not be far off that total when the end of July is reached. „ '