WHERE JUDGMENT TELLS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 706, 4 July 1929, Page 12

WHERE JUDGMENT TELLS

f) N a couple of occasions at AlexJ a T dra Park driver Tomkinson and h.s king-pin trotter. Young ° j C * have been subjected to a mild outburst of disapproval when winning a heat after an inferior display earlier in the day. The demonstration has come, however, from a thoughtless section probably the cry being raised by a few who have lost their cash at the first time out. It is true that on both occasions Young Blake was pulled up in his earlier start bef°Fe,a *H r,on 9 wa * covered—but why. Simply because he lost so much ground at the start that his prospects of ever making a race of it were out of all reason. Analysed, the position was this. Had Tomkinson hunted Young Blake along on his hopeless task. he would have been left without a punch for his later task, yet if produced again, the trotter would have been well backed— and of course well beaten, which would have caused adverse criticism of Tomky s driving. These are little things the public overlook, but they mean a great deal to the man at the top of his profession.