It was remarked before the fifth race that Port St Mary was wearing a very blinding' hood and he played up a bit in the paddock. Mafoos have very peculiar ideas and it is always a good plan to make sure that the hood your pony is going to wear does not interfere with his straight forward vision. The idea of a hood is to hide other starters from him till he is actually passed "The race fell to Mightylight, from the Cire stable, ridden by Chris Moller, who beat the favourite, Lal Bagh, by half a length, King of Kings won the sixth r by many lengths from Flying High, It wa: for from being an interesting race to watch, chief excitement being the battle between Chris and R. B. Moller for third place, the former getting the better of it on Tungsten-light, Felixstowe, a well ' supported favourite, at any rate gave his backers a good run for their money in his-race, being just beaten out of a place in a magnificent finish in vhich there were six ponies all ight there.' Hwangchow gave Parkin, his owner, an excellent ride beating the little fancied Snappy light by half a length. with Kangar. coming back into form again, third, another half length away.
(Ranelagh looked a picture in the paddock before the eighth race and ran well enough to give the hope that he will be back in winning form again before very long, Record Mark took the lead from a perfect start, maintaining this to the turn with White Parade beside him. The race fell to Gram on Corps Cavalry,
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