RICCARTON RIDERS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 136, 6 December 1938, Page 15

RICCARTON RIDERS

THEIR HOLIDAY PLANS

Apart from the strong support that is given with horses Riccarton provides great help with riders for many of the meetings in the Christmas and New Year holidays. There is a general scarcity of jockeys at this period and the Riccarton contingent usually can be relied on to make its presence felt over as wide an area as the horses. They will be scattered in all directions this season and some of them will do rapid travelling. THE ELLIS BROTHERS. L. J. Ellis will make an early start in the North Island, as he has been engaged to ride Dictate, and the Chief Ruler gelding may be at Waipa on December 17 before he goes to Ellerslie. It is probable also that Ellis will be riding on the first day of the Manawatu Meeting on December 24, going then to Auckland for Boxing Day and returning to Awapuni for the final day before completing the trip with three more days in Auckland. He will be on the Oaks winner, Peerless, if she is started in the Manawatu Cup,! and Defaulter will engage his attention in the Great Northern Derby. A. E. Ellis will open the campaign at the Manawatu Meeting, where he will ride Argentic in the Manawatu Cup and he may return for the third day, but he will have four days at Ellerslie, with Willie Win as his Auckland Cup mount. G. H. Humphries will concentrate on the Auckland Meeting where the trustees of the late Sir Charles Clifford will have four horses racing. A. G. j Parsons will accompany the other team from the Chokebore stable to Mana-' watu and Wairarapa. The apprentice G. Watson will go north with C. C. McCarthy for the Manawatu and Stratford Meetings. A. Leach, in the North Island at present with Linguist, Will remain if it is decided to race her in hurdle races during the holidays, the Tara- j naki and Stratford Meetings being the probable programme. DUNEDIN AND COAST. C. T. Wilson, H. W. Hibberd, and F. J. Smith will be at the Dunedin Meeting, after which they will motor back in order to do Hokitika on De-! cember 28. Hibberd will remain on the West Coast to handle H. Nurse's team throughout the circuit. Wilson and Smith will remain for the first day at Greymouth and then will go to Waikouaiti and Oamaru, probably then returning to the West Caost for the wind-up at Reefton. A. Russell also contemplates a trip south though he has not made definite arrangements yet. G. Ridgway may do Dunedin as a start, followed by Waikouaiti and Oamaru. J. W. Jennings, M. Caddy and J. Murfltt, I three other riders who will start-at i the Dunedin Meeting, will then go fur-! ther south to Wyndham and Invercargill. C. E. Eastwood, R. E. Coveny, and the apprentice R. Caddy will be on the West Coast throughout the circuit. A. Messervy has not completed his plans, but he has been considering a visit to some of the North Island