Both Fell

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1051, 15 August 1930, Page 12

Both Fell

Auckland*s Big Hurdles Hopes

Late for the Grand National Hurdles at Riccarton yesterday were Fine Acre and Craigmore, leaving a fine field of ten runners. The race attracted a big pool, there being heavy wagering for—

Mangani £1,193 Carinthia • £9OB Mister Gamp . . . . . £648 King’s Jest £519 while the Steeples winner, Aurora Borealis £361, was at a fine price. Pangolin set out to make a torrid pace from Mangani, Carinthia, Omeo, Mister Gamp and Mountain Guide, but a lot of interest went out of the race when Mangani crashed at the second fence. At the end of the first mile, at the stands, Pangolin' was half a dozen lengths clear of Omeo, with Mountain Guide and Carinthia leading the others, and Llyn Du tailing the field. The pacemaker came back to his field entering the back stretch and was joined by Carinthia, their attendants being Omeo. Mountain Guide, Aurora Borealis, King’s Jest, Nukumai and Llyn Du. Five furlongs from home Mountain Guide fell when making a forward move, and here Aurora Borealis, Mister Gamp, King’s Jest, Omeo and Llyn Du were all becoming prominent in behind Pangolin and Carinthia. The latter left his companion across the top, but was immediately > joined by Aurora Borealis and then Llyn Du, with King’s Jest, Omeo, Nukumai, Pangolin and Mister Gamp all within striking distance. In this order the home turn was negotiated, Carinthia, Aurora Borealis and Llyn Du having nothing between them, but it proved easy for (Carinthia

in the run to the judge, and she had a lot in reserve to beat Aurora Borealis by a couple of lengths. Third money was taken by King’s Jest, who finished splendidly a length farther away. Then at good intervals followed Nukumai, Llyn Du, Omeo and Mister Gamp. The winner gave a polished exhibi-

tion of jumping and did it comfortably over the last furlong. Beaten, but not disgraced, applies to Aurora Borealis, while King’s Jest would have been closer had he not given the leaders the start at the turn. Nukumai will improve, and so, too. will Llyn Du, who will be suited by a shorter distance. Mountain Guide looked a likely placegetter when he fell, up to which point lie had travelled well.