RANDWICK HUBBUB

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 29, 4 February 1932, Page 8

RANDWICK HUBBUB

STABLE COMPLICATIONS

(From "Vedette.")

SYDNEY, 28th-January

■ Racecourse demonstrations arc becoming unplcasintly common in Sj dnej, the latest unfoitundte to aiouse a section of the public ue being the usually popuki tiainci, I MeGiath

AJcGLath was unfoitunate enough to hnc two hoises eligible for sumlir tj pcs of rices m featmoth and the CHulfield Cup winnei, Denis Bo> Both staited m the. Jiinum Handicap, one mile and a quai tei, last featuiday, Sdtmoth (A Kuoi) being fivounte and Denis Boy, ndden by an apprentice claiming an allowance, at good odds. Knox was a trifle too eagei with Sttmoth, and Denis Boy beat him home.

IScst came the Anni\et«ar> Hnudicap on Tuesdaj, at a mile and a half, the -weights being in Satmoth's faNOiir be cause an allowance could not be claimed for Denis Boy on account of the size of the stake C. Scahill, a nder who is not ??5? s,eell outi but Bo°n to be ilctrrath s son in law, was put up on Denis Boy, and Knox again rode Satmoth, Denis Boy natuially being a hot fay omite md Satmoth this time at extended odds batmoth, mote paticntlj ridden, handsomelj, while Denis Boy was a poor second.

Then the fun commenced The public demonstrated loudly, while occupants of the official stand, ivith whom the respectue owners aie popular, staged a counterdemonstration. A stewards' mquiiy lesulted in Scahill being censmed foi his pooi handling .of Dems- Boy,- McGratlr satisfying the Istewaids thit the horses weie inn on then meuts.

ilcGiath, ahva\s lojal to his own, has eained 6ome criticism for his action of putting up Scahill when othei and bettei uders were available It was an example o£ the dancer of unpleasantness.when two horses,in form start from one stable m the same race. The Sydney public is nurtuied by a section of the Press in the belief that everything in racing is corrupt. It is certainly no parlour game, but it is not so crooked as some irresponsible scribes would have it to be.

The stewards sifted the betting tiansactions of the stable in each case, and were satisfied that there was nothing sinister. As money talks in the most eloquent language, that was the Conclusive evidence that it was only another example of the uncertainties, of the game