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

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Jolted His Hoodoo JIMMY'S TOUGH DIET TF there is anyone racing, who de- *■ serves to get -a decent spin from the wheel, it is Jimmy McFarlahe, the Bay owner. A few winters back he looked, like getting into big sugar with Landbird, and he did get

some, ' but just when the gelding was reaching his zenith he had to go and break his back at Riccarton. • Bennanee was winning m igood class only to go wrong and then Mixed Heather had to break and his racing was over for ever. Through all this Jim smiled and

even when he. himself was put on to a diet that is, good for babes and kittens, he took it as part of the run of outs. • •. , . He just kept waiting for "the m bettors to do a trot. At Napier Park, m the spring, • his mare ' Cuticle won the open sprint m good style, and then last Saturday, m a class that she seems to be up to, she got home m the chief sprint at Feilding. .■/■■ . ■ ■ ■ . Cuticle, ridden by young Alfle McDonald, w.ho does very well for the few opportunities he gets, fought oh long enough to have a flight advantage over, JUSt An Idea,