The Archive · 1941

Light Weights Show

Then the light weights began to show up and at Kiangsgate, a mile anda half from home, there was a different picture, Even here Nobby Clark. on "Bagshot looked all over a winner, "Bobby" and "Steve Brodie" were still going well but the Scratch people were 100 close. At the monument on the homeward Journey "Bagshot" had galloped clean through the feld and had. 30 much in hand that he won easily even after refusing the monument Sump twice and scrambling ove only at the third attempt, Second came Duncan Fraser on "Off. Chance" also from Scratch. Third Socrates" with Stowell from the minute mark. Fourth " Miss Andrews again from Scratch and Fifth and Sixth C, N, Abbott and Cornell "Franklin.

To win the handicap from Scratch usually takes a lot of doing no matter what you are riding.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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