GLOAMING AT HIS BEST.

Shannon News, 29 September 1922, Page 3

GLOAMING AT HIS BEST.

BEAUFORD EASILY BEATEN

In the second tilt between Beau ford and Gloaming at Rosehill at Saturday (says “Pilot” in the Sydney Referee), the New Zealander, having 71b the better of the weights, confounded everyone by winning with greater ease than Beauford won the Chelmsford Stakes. This time Gloaming did not go to the front early, Beauford making the pace. Their third meeting will be worth seeing. As compared with Randwick, there was very little difference-in the state of the going, both tracks being slightly on the soft side. The real differences were that Beauford was conceding 71b, the distance was a furlong shorter, and he tried to win all the way. Gloaming attempted an a 11-the-way win at Randwick, and failed; but he disposed of Beauford much easier on Saturday than the latler beat him a week earlier.. Gloaming accomplished his task in such decisive fashion as to make us wonder Whether the actual result would have

been different at equal weights Beauford was favourite.

The rivals were drawn together at the barrier, while though Soorak drew No. 2, he was relegated to the outside owing to his behaviour. He reared, and generally played up. I thought he was sure to get left, and though he escaped that, he got off indifferently. Beauford went to the front at the first turn, and at the flv.e furlongs was two lengths in advance of Wish Wynne, with Gloaming at least an-

other two away, and Soorak at his heels. When Beauford increased his lead to four lengths from Wish Wynne at the half-mile, most of the onlookers commenced to speculate what he would win by ,and not whether he would win. At the three furlongs Gloaming commenced to reduce Beauford’s advantage but as he was still two lengths behind the latter entering the straight

there did not seem much hope for

him. Beauford’s admirers were wildly . cheering him, when suddenly there was a momentary silence, succeeded by a roar of “Gloaming’s got him!” The change was remarkable. From a seeming winner just after entering the straight, Beauford was a beaten horse nearly a furlong from home.Even before Gloaming actually got to the front, it was palpable it was his

-day. Beauford struggled, though not going any faster, and the result was •so certain that Young was easing

Gloairfing fifty yards from the winning post. It was good to hear the cheering that greeted Gloaming’s win as it demonstrated theft Sydney racegoers

can still appreciate a great effort on the part of a good (horse. And it is safe to say that many who cheered Gloaming lost their money on Beauford. R. J. Mason’s delight was naturally apparent, and G. Young, who rode the winner, is unlikely to have many prouder moments.