WAS THERE CROSSING?
AFTER the first division of the Maiden Plate at Avondale on Saturday, in which Lucky Alice (ridden by K. Gill) defeated Mountain Guide (R. J. Mackie). the owner of the latter entered a protest on the grounds of crossing in the straight.) The stewards dismissed the protest, and the lucky backers of Lucky Alice of Te Aroha collected their nice double-figure dividend.
No doubt the protest was entered upon the report of jockey Mackie, and this fact lends colour to the view that there was cause for action. It is very difficult from stewards’, Press, and members' stand to see clearly the horses as they race up the straight with the crowd lining the lawn fence obscuring the view, so that the owner of Mountain Guide had little prospect of winning his protest. Up the long and tiring Avondale straight, horses are inclined to hang out under pressure, and for this reason the club may well consider the advisability of erecting for the stipendiary stewards a look-out tower in a location giving a view of the home stretch.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 775, 23 September 1929, Page 12
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181WAS THERE CROSSING? Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 775, 23 September 1929, Page 12
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