U.S. Racing Harder For Cardigan Bay

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30469, 17 June 1964, Page 4

U.S. Racing Harder For Cardigan Bay

(H.X. Press Association) j AUCKLAND, June 16. The champion pacer. Cardian Bay, is finding his racing .n the Unietd States more! punishing than in New Zea-i land or Australia, according to his New Zealand attendant, N. Bennett. Bennett, just back from: Yonkers Raceway, New York,; where Cardigan Bay has won three of his four American! starts, said today that he had had to rub the champion’s back with alcohol after a couple of his races to ease the pain of welts raised by his driver's whip. Bennett said that he did not ; blame the horse’s trainerdriver, Stanley Dancer, for I the welts although Dancer

was inclined to hit the horses he was driving pretty hard. “It’s those American whips,’’ said Bennett. “They’re longer stiffer and more punishing than the ones we flick here.”

. In the U S A., Cardigan Bay was harnessed much closer to his sulky than he was in New Zealand. Consequently, said Bennett, with the longer American whip he was struck on the back almost as far as to his neck. The action of most New Zealand drivers in a tense finish was a flick perhaps each side of their horses, Bennett said. In the United States most drivers used an over-shoulder blow down the horses’ backs.