NORTH WILTS DECIDES THAT HE WON'T

Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5324, 10 February 1947, Page 5

NORTH WILTS DECIDES THAT HE WON'T

Bolts Three Circuits Before Race Something* of a circus turn and something of a hunt was provided by the Rotorua-owned and trained North Wilts before the running of the third race at Arawa Park on Saturday. Mounted by the well-lcnown hurdle horseman, A. Gordon, he was being paraded in the birdcage when he evidently decided to go home by the shox-test route and jumped the fehee at the lawn end of the encloSure, breaking three piclcets from the fence in his leap. The crowd, whieh was gathered in numbers ro-und the birdcage, and those on the lawn nearby hegan to scatter, hut the jockey dismounted ■ and lerl his charge quietly round the members' stand io the entrance gate. As the field was being lined up for the start, North. Wilts entered another protest against the job assigned to him. , He broke through the tapes and bolted three times rc-und the track. On his second appeararfce down the . straight, Mf. Harold Short, taking a grey hunter that was on the course, as a spare mount for the clerk of the course, Mr. B. Doggett, set off in pursuit, the 1 after also joining* in for sc-me distance, and finally the grey overhauled the bolter and he was led baclc to the starting bari'ier. However, he still held the bit when Mr. Short released the lead and he ran another circuit, hy whieh time he had beeome amenable. He was led back to the birdcage amid cheers and" toolc no part in the race. %