CAUGHT ON THE HOP

NZ Truth, Issue 1303, 4 December 1930, Page 13

CAUGHT ON THE HOP

Lady Quex Was Hbt Piece of Goods 5

RAN FOR STA£| : Fop a -fortnight prior to Feild^. ing the news was leaving New Plymouth that tady 7 Quex had, been galloping very well, but with it came the qualification that she yvould have' 'to-', hay'e. a dry track" to show of hetjjesfe ' i. : : ." : . ■ * ■'--•.■■■ • ■ - ■'. - ' . * LIER, best form would have- : tb ..giv.e" • A her .a good show, but- when.; track conditions were "considered* she: was passed. For it was not a dry track .there. "•■ . ■■-;' ', • '■■<■ ■ . ; V--- ". -' Even her trainer, Ernie GeorgeV skid sne would be at a disadvantage; and he practically -let her';- run for the stake.' ' . ■,'.--• Three. were backed to 'beat .her— Supremacy, Gesture and . Autopay— but when it came the right time to do, the beating they failed to live "up to expectations., • : /• " "Snow" Morris, had the hoop and he made rio effort to go; after ; the scatterbrains over .the first three, but he, went up to the two leaderson' the; last bit of the turn, and; when .Supremacy dropped Souchong,- Lady Quex^ was there to take the vacancy. ° It's a 'short straight at Feilding and it was -also a -short fight. Lady Quex quickly vanquished the f avorite; rand over the last fifty, yards 1 she was going away nicely. • . ' I — ■ The form was a big surprise, and no one was* more astounded than her trainer,' who, when he saw what was going to happen, told those m his. vicinity, that he had,; • been caught on the hop. ■; • <-- k' ■■■ •'.-•■> . ■ ■"■■■ . ■Lady Quex 'has always been owner Bill Emeny's pet theory, and h^ has never hesitated to speak his piece, ■ both m victory and defeat./ ■ She is going to get some good Iromps to carry m; handicapSj but she- has shown before this that she can carry ; it and now a five-year-old she will be having her best season. • '