Awapuni Trainer Does Hat Trick

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 209, 23 November 1927, Page 10

Awapuni Trainer Does Hat Trick

FIRST THREE RACES (Special to THE SUXJ WELLINGTON, Tuesday. One of the most popular trainers in these parts is J. Coyle, and when he t established something of a record on 1 Saturday at Levin by winning the first ; three• races with horses trained in his j stable, congratulations flowed in from every side. . j First of all he won the hurdles with ; Mister Gamp, who was contesting a hurdle race for the first time in his: career. Next he produced Some Lad. who had not been before the public for a long while, and with him he won and secured a substantial dividend. Came the third race, and the stable had Desert Lad engaged. All hope of winning the treble and performing the hat trick looked to be lost when Desert Lad, who had misbehaved at the barrier, got away badly. But he worked his way to the front and in the end he won. It is a long- time since such a feat has been performed. Races are too hard to win nowadays for trainers to perform the hat trick very often. There were many arguments at the course as to when the feat was last performed, and some contended that A. D. Webster did it on the West Coast of the South Island, though not in consecutive events. A. E. Cox, the Te Aroha trainer, also accomplished this at the Thames meeting at Ellerslie last month. NEARLY A TREBLE FRYER’S BAD LUCK ONE WIN AND TWO SECONDS The Hawera trainer, J. Fryer, J ook three horses to Levin, and he went close to winning races with all of them. With a shade of luck he would have at least won the two principal handicaps on the programme—in popular language, the double. He landed the Levin Cup with Paitonu, who was favourite for the race and was considered to possess an excellent chance in the sprint with Orcades, a Bisogne mare owned by Mr. H. Spratt, who used to race that speedy mare Inah, who in addition to winning a Stewards’ Handicap, won a lot of sprint races in the North Island. Orcades had the race won half way down the straight, but luck was against the stable, as T. Green rode a wonderful finish on Mireusonta and stole the decision by a head. Mireusonta had been passed by Orcades and looked to be beaten, but Green was sitting very quietly and awaiting his chance. He pushed Mireusonta up on the rails right at the death and stole the race. In the final event of the day the stable produced Eka, and less than a furlong from home she appeared to have the race in hand, but a fine late run by Miss Pat defeated her. Thus what might easily have been a treble panned out at merely one win and two seconds. Certainly the double should have gone the way of the stable.