DUTIFUL AT SHORT PRICE

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 125, 28 May 1937, Page 13

DUTIFUL AT SHORT PRICE

(From "Vedette.")

SYDNEY, May 20. The owner of Pharaoh, Mr. J. Harris, wcxi another race at Rosehill on Saturday, also with a New Zealand-bred gelding in Dutiful, by Captain Bunsby. Dutiful, like Pharaoh, is trained by J. T. Jamieson. Although only a three-year-old and topweight with 9.0 in a seven-furlong Novice Handicap, Dutiful was at a very short price. To the consternation of those who laid odds on him he could not go in the early part of the race. Bartle was riding him hard at the haltmile and making little impression, but once into the straight he ran from first to last in a few strides. His sticky going in the early part was explained subsequently by his having gone very shin-sore. Mr. W. S. Glenn's three-year-old Improvement had his first run in a hurdle race at Rosehill. He was unfortunate at the first hurdle and then jumped the next three very carefully. This caused him to lose a good deal 01 ground. From the half-mile post, however, he put in a strong run, which carried him into second place. Three-year-olds in' hurdle races are very uncommon in Sydney. Usually horses are not put to the jumping game until they are practically worn out or have failed at every other branch. Improvement showed at Rosebery on AVednesday that his course of hurdling had been of real benefit to him. Over one of the hardest mile and a quarter journeys in Sydney he carried 9st in front all the way to defeat a moderate field of novices. It was a very easy victory, for at no stage was he in danger of defeat. For once quite a fair price was on offer lor a representative of his stable. LIKE AN OLD HAND. M.Papworth, an apprentice who drew some attention to himself by winning two races on Curator at Randwick, rode the two-year-old filly Gold Spark like an old hand at Rosehill. Gold Spark was challenged at the finish by Correct (D. Munro), Lifebuoy (McCarten). and Love from Maggie (R. Heather), but the hard heads could not bustle the lad, who rode out the filly with hands and heels. Young Pap worth has a bright future. His successes have reopened the question of more opportunities for apprentices. There are very few apprentice races in Sydney, and the question is being raised again as from where are to come the riders of the future, for the present-day crop of jockeys cannot last for ever and many of them have been riding for a long time. ■ While on the subject, of jockeys, M. McCarten has a great record on two-year-olds. At Rosehill,, however, in both divisions he had to be content with minor places. He looked to have one event won with Bachelor King, but in the last furlong the Pantheon colt Red Sails had the race won in a stride and went right away. MUNRO'S NARROW ESCAPE. D. Muhro and the three-year-old Quizzical had a narrow escape at Rosehill. Quizzical was just making her effort in the race won by Dutiful when she stru-k the heels of the horse in front. She was right down on her nose and how she and Munro recovered is a miracle. Quizzical struck her off foreleg so hard that it was temporarily paralysed, the first impression being that it was broken. Only bandages saved her from serious injury. Birthday Boy, now a gelding, is bacK in Jameson's team at Randwick. He looks extremely well after his holiday and- is much more like his brother Limarch now than earlier in his career. If he carries the likeness on to the race track he will do well for himself Linklet was rather unluckily beaten in the Rosehill Handicap. His rider, J. O'Sullivan. lost his whip ]ust after entering the straight and the Limond gelding just failed in a close finish. Linklet has been an unlucky horse lately for bookmaker Frank Alldrett. George Young was a trifle unlucky with the Posterity—Lady Cavendish filly Lady Cay. at Rosebery on Wednesday. Ridden by M. McGrath, she became mixed up in her field at the start and was again unfortunate on the turn. Had she made this correctly she might have won instead 01 finishing second to Return Ticket, who was the medium of a mild plunge. ,