CLEARED OUT

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 954, 23 April 1930, Page 14

CLEARED OUT

HACK CUP WINNER LLYN DU’S SURPRISE While jockey Alan McDonald was busy at Ellerslie with Elicit and Red Fuchs'a on Saturday and Monday, Mrs. Alan McDonald, the well-known woman trainer, was busy leading in winners at the Feilding meeting on those days. On the opening? day the lady mentor served up Potoaform as the best of good things in the hack seven furlongs. Carrying 9.0 (with the minimum 7.11), this fine-looking chestnut led all the way, giving nothing else a look in, finally winning on the bit by three lengths from the exAucklander Brilliant Light, who was having his first race for some time. It was a real walk-over, for Potoaform was never off the bit, and he was only cantering at the post, while the others were making heavy weather of it. So impressive was his performance that he was raised a stone in the Hack Cup on the second day. Another Springer Potoaform was duly produced in this popular hack contest, but Mrs. McDonald had a second string to her bow ih L.iyn Du, a hack that apparently had little to recommend it for s race of this description. This Oroua Hack Cup was contested by a fine field of 18, and among them were Potoaform and Austerity, two first-day winners, and three others who were in the money on Saturday. With so much form to go upon, it was small wonder that betting took a. wide range, so much so that had the ••books” been operating they would have been calling “seven to two the fieid at totalisator closing time. The race itself was a story of lost chances, for more than half the field had their charfces extinguished in the first furlong, among them being Sir Kay, a promising sort indeed, nowtrained by G. Paul at Te Awamutu. Potoaform and Perennis were two that went to the front early, and kept out of all trouble, and they were the first pair to pass the half-mile post. Shot to the Front There was a decided change two furlongs from home. There Llyn Du made a dive to the front, and he was three lengths clear as they landed into the home stretch. Taking no chances, J. M. Pine, the successful Hawera apprentice (he rode five winners in one day at Opunake last month) made every post a winning one, and passing the post three lengths in front of Air Laddie, he was still swinging the bat. With only £llO invested on him. Dlyn Du paid a dividend only a few shillings short of Nassock’s price at -Ellerslie on Monday. It was a clearcut performance, and from all accounts quite unexpected from those quarters that are generally expected to know—the stable. The handsome trophy was handed to Mrs. Alan McDonald on behalf of Llyn Du’s owner, Mr. C. F. Vallance, and Mrs. McDonald herself was presented with a silver miniature of the cup.