JUST A MATTER OF VIEWPOINT

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

JUST A MATTER OF VIEWPOINT

PLEASED SOME AND HURT OTHERS

THREE IN LINE

Luke Wilson got a chunk of recompense when' My Own held on. long enough to win the Metropolitan at Riccarton, and the win enabled him- to forget partly the manner m which his mare was ridden m th^Otaio Plate. ";■ QN the third .day My. Own -was.. more ■y"iyot Vless murdered "m 'running, but •wltii Wiggins m; the seat; onVSaturday she; was- given .every chance; to prove herself, and -she did. She ran out' every inch of. the mile arid ,a-half,'-'.b^'|i;^s^luq^^f^|her that the ' r£ce was ■ #jf W6l 1 "' j;£rSs ' : longer, -otherwise she' would have been third. Both Star Stranger and Count •" Palatine would have ; beaten her, with another few strides. V Just what a couple of races can do for an old fellow Star Stranger showed, and after being out of it and, with Gray half inclined to throw m the towel, he called for another effort, and ho.w.he 'went. A half furlong from home he did not have a show, a check at the false rail having thrown him back, but ! when Gray gave it to him it was reminiscent of his finish m the Trentham Gold Cup of last season. Then there was Count Palatine, which was set a big task of giving everything with a chance a big start over the last half mile. There is a long straight at Riccarton, but just the" same. It is suicidal to get too far {astern. ' When Yoitre. ran Count Palatine to the outside m the straight the chestnut started to go like the Golden ' Arrow, but he then took it into his head to duck m behind a horse. This meant that his rider had to stop work and straighten him up. Once on the course again he sat down, and though Star ' Stranger went fast the last bit he was as a rheumatic tortoise when compared with Count Palatine. He was going so fast it was a wonder he did not get a keylock ' on himself, and had there been just a few yards more he would have won. His defeat cost, on and . off the course, punters plenty, and it is only a shame how some of them wailed. One big investor broke . several ear drums, so loud were his lamentations.