TIED UP

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 123, 15 August 1927, Page 12

TIED UP

WHIP IN MANE HOW A COUP CAME UNDONE It was but a trifling thing that made the difference of thousands of pounds to backers of Lintress at Canterbury (Sydney) in the Campsie Handicap on Monday week last. Lintress was beaten only a half neck, yet if he hadn’t possessed a long mane, that half neck verdict might have been the other way. Thus backers of the winner, The Lancer, had ia hair-length escape. * Lintress is a horse of large proportions, and, like many of the Linacres, lias long hair in both mane and tail. This looks well, but on Monday it robbed Charlie Barden, his rider, of the chance of administering the stroke of the whip that might have brought forth the winning effort. GRABBED THE MANE Lintress ran from the rear to take charge at the straight entrance, and •there his jockey assumed that the race was completely his. But suddenly Lintress began to loaf, and Barden went for his whip. In picking it up he grasped part of the long mane. This tangled for a second, and, wrenching it free, the whip slipped from his grasp and was thrown over the fence. It was then that Avrom and The Lancer swooped down on Lintress, and, in a desperate finish, The Lancer got up in time to beat Lintress by the narrowest margin. _ . . The jockey feels sure that a few cuts of the whip would have induced Lintress to gallop faster when he gained his lead, and he would have set up an advantage that the others could not have overtaken. It made a big monetary difference to many punters, for Lintress was backed down to second favouritism in a solid betting race. mro<a One who rued the mane incident was Eric Connolly, who had £.>oo to £IOO about Lintress.