REED’S LUCK
It was indeed fortunate for Jockey Roy Reed that it was noticed on Saturday that Whaka King hung out under pressure coming up the straight. On Tuesday there was an awful jumble caused at the bottom of the straight through tire same horse coming right over, but the watchfulness of the stipendiary stewards saved Reed’s ticket for him. Whaka King was first into the home stretch, and then Catapult and a little later Harbour View came at him. When the leader bored out first Catapult ran into him, and then Harbour View cannoned into Catapult. A pretty mess it was. The fortunate part about it was that Harbour View was still good enough to go on and win, whereas Catapult had to be pulled out of the crush and went over to the rails. The reversal of the second and third piacings was freely anticipated. But Reed can account himself exceedingly lucky that a steward saw him with a tight hold on the near rein only in an effort to keep Whaka King in his course, for from the stands ft looked a bad case. The stipendiary stewards were quite satisfied that the incident was unavoidable, although they had to change the judge’s piacings.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 30, 28 April 1927, Page 6
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206REED’S LUCK Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 30, 28 April 1927, Page 6
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