His Cast-Off Ran Away With Race

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 918, 11 March 1930, Page 12

His Cast-Off Ran Away With Race

OWNER’S ERROR WITH AMOUNIS SINCE WON £32,250 Of all those at Caulfield the other day' who flay’ed themselves for lettin.Amounis run against them in the Futurity’, Mr. A. P. Wade has least cause to congratulate himself on his judgment, commented a Melbourne writer before the V.R.C. fixture opened Amounis’s win was but another unpleasant reminder of the most costly mistake that Wade has made in his racing career. But that was not all He ran a horse which Lou Robertson thought capable of winning the race—an imported five-year-old gelding named First Arrow—bad ted it heavily, and had the mortification of seeing it unplaced, while his vast-off Amounis won. But that’s the uck of racing. Amounis disappointed him as a three-year-old, when he was givsn half a furlong start on Manfred, anti could not win the Derby. Any man might have passed him out after that. He Likes Melbourne The lucky man who secured Amounis for l.SOOgns—Mr. W. Pearson— has won approximately £32,250, more than half of which the gilding has won in Melbourne. Melbourne has been a happy hunting ground for Frank McGrath, the trainer, and the gelding in the past four years. On this present trip Amounis to date has won the St. George Stakes ani the Futurity', and his winning for the season in the south amount to £9,086. It should have occurred to most people that the fact of McGrath sending him to the post was sufficient indication that the going was al); right, and that he considered Amounis had a good chance of winning. Because Greenline was favourite, it was assumed that the conditions were in his favour, and few gave a thought to Amounis. Class Will Tell Gallopade was heavily backed on the strength of her defeat of High Sy’ce and Highland at weight-for-ige a week or so before. Amounis must have given Greenline and Figure three lengths from the turn. It was a fine illustration of how class tells. It is the same every year. Class horses predominate in the Futurity. There are big things ahead of Amounis, the brilliant son of Magpie. This time last year he wasn’t thought of as a possible rival to Gloaming, the highest stake winner in Australasia. But a few brilliant achievements last spring and a continuance of the good work this autumn have sent his winnings soaring up to within striking distance of Gloaming’s. Only a matter of £7,000 or so now, and the honour of being the greatest stake winner is his. Promising Maiden Barrier positions are of first-rate importance in big fields s jeh as that which contested the Bombay Handicap at Pukekohe on Saturday. Drawn out as far as 24, it was a big question to ask the four-year-old Operatic to win from there, especially as it was his initial attempt under silk. Hr jumped out fairly well, however, but the effort in getting within striking distance of the leaders told its tali*, and he was in the bunch which finished right up after the placed horses. Tho party behind the son of Hylus quietly fancied their chance, too, and the performance suggests that Operatic will pay his oats bill in future racing. Tottenham Corner

Of all well-known names of particular points on English racecourses, such as the “dip” and the “bushes” at Newmarket, and the canal turn on the Grand National course at Aintree, the most widely known is Tattenham Corner, on the Derby’ course at Epsom. In a recent issue of “Horse and Hound,” particulars are given of the derivation of this name. It is as follows: From old documents, it appears that, about the time of the Stuarts, a member of the Tottenham family' bought a tract of land in the parish of Barstead, which remained in the possession of the family for many years, and which came to a point at the spot where the present five-furlongs’ course joins the Derby course, abutting on the road from Epsom to Walton. The corner at the point of this land became known as Tottenham’s Corner, which was corrupted to Tattenham Corner. + w , as *k us incorrect to write or speak or the horses coming around Tattenlarri Corner, as the corner is on the opposite side of the course.