HOME MADE'S WIN

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1008, 26 June 1930, Page 17

H OME MADE'S WIN

great staying powers A-J.c. STEEPI.ECHASE f Th e races for the Australian Jockey .1 ~ub Hurdle Race and the Australian 1 Lkey Club Steeplechase were worthy I tW large amount of prize money I L „ide for each race, says the "Syd*Vv Morning Herald.” Locally-owned j " 4 trained horses were successful f -.nf epectrieul? r races. II New Zealand-bred H"me Made, J2J and trained by A. B. Cowell, one most prominent figures on the ! JLtropolitiin end ' e.u-: • •..lines t strong run In the straight * * j„nltv gained on Ego, who had I off rapidly from the lialf-mlle. II & Juat R ” t „ 1 ” p t o n ,vi^ I ®m rt TuJtralfan I “iipa 1 struggh- to win tr " Australian | *‘t'ev Club thee:-,. ire], use l.y a neck, • pdnee Arim being six lengths away 1 winner of the “first leg” , (he jumping douh.o tried to suc--0 A where Les Paddington failed. lie ■ m found the task too great. Ciros»nnr was sent out favourite in n good Kitting race so far as jumping events I concerned. There was plenty of ' litoiiort for Enrrn form, who, however, tendency to ease at the close, „A Home Made, while Tressady Rock "nA Kinross were not by any means Selected. Prince Arim eased, and I v«t too. Rearguard being tile outsider I Jf the field of eight. The Contest I Kinross set off with the lead, but |8 jj.i not set far away, and wlien tlio If ‘‘pswpro fairly in their stride Home | So and Ego moved close to him. ;, onie Made was inclined to join issue J 3 ' lth Kinross, but the latter began to Pan down the fences, and at the mile K he almost put Home Made off the B .jurse. The first round was negoi l ia , e d safely by each horse, and going I ver the treble the second time Kin--1 £ was leading Home Made and Ego, I with Grosvenor next. firosvenor apI .--red to double bis bind legs at the Lcond of the treble; lie faltered badly : ,t the next, and lost his rider at the 2; following obstacle. Tressady Rock p improved Ids position coming down the 1 yu the second time, but it was a fhort-lived effort. : At the half-mile it was evident that the finish would be between Kgo and 1 Koine Made, and when the former went i right away onlookers were anxious to f i a y odds on him winning, one book- * maker offering to lay 3 to 1 on when £ ihe horse turned on to the course proper with a good advantage from Homo Made. The New Kealand-bred gelding, s however, had more in reserve than ' most people imagined, and responding trefl to .7. Harris’s riding, he revealed -reat staying powers, and reached the I post in time to secure the verdict. ■ Prince Arim, who was a good way back I most of the time, plodded along and I teat Ihe tiring horses for third place. | The time, G.- oi. was a. second and I 6-quarter outside Chrysostom's record I for the pace. Chrysostom won the ■ steeplechase double in 1924.