SUCCESSFUL

NZ Truth, Issue 1301, 20 November 1930, Page 13

SUCCESSFUL

P^ammbCliange

A HACK SIX

When the C.J. C. decided. to alter the o.rder of .the big' handicaps- on -. Cup w.eek programme, they did / so with some trepidation, but the ' switch round proved a, great sue- ' cess.- '.■■ ..,'-■ -.'■-. . i. ■ „.', V. TNST^SAD of running th© mile and ay half Metropolitan on the- second, day they transferred it to the last, and to replace it shifted the mile and a-quarter Fendaltori from /the last into, the vacancy. v .-,'•'.' Having run hprsds over two miles on Saturday, many trainers did not like tackling the .twelve -furlong trip two days later, but with only; ten to traverse it was hot so bad. There' were those' who reckoned that by the time 7 the; last day came there Would .rot be a field for the Metropolitan, but thirteen ' runners were on hand last Saturday to tackle the mile and a-rhalf, and' there has never been a better' contest for Vcve race. The club has every right to take the- change to be a successfuj one arid >if ever there was a meeting where horses were likely to be knocked % up it was the Cup fixture. The time has arrived for the C.J.C. to seriously consider deleting the two and a-quarter mile weight-for-age event, the Canterbury Cup, from the programme/ For years now the race 1 has attracted two and three starters, and seven when the distance was reduced to a mile and three-quarters this did not help at all. In its place could be substituted a six-furlong hack race. There is only one six on the four days, and that for . the best sprinters m the land. Surely the hack class should be", allowed to have one over six?