GEORGE'S SYDNEY TEAM
The small team of horses T. R. George will be taking to Australia next Thursday has been slightly changed. In place of the two-year-old Beau Courier, who was to have made the third member of the team, the three-year-old Pearl of Asia has been substituted and will now accompany PeerI less and Beau Vite.
The rising two-year-old has not made quite the required progress during the last month because of the weather, which has kept the tracks almost constantly out of use so far as fast galloping is concerned. On the other hand, Pearl of Asia, who is a rising three-year-old full-sister to Tout le Monde and Icing, wintered exceedingly well and she has a season's race experience behind her for when she is set on serious tasks across the Tasman. Pearl of Asia is not engaged in the early Guineas events in the Dominion, which is another reason why she is being ■ taken to Sydney, where she will contest mainly the middle-class handicaps. George finally decided not to send Dungarvan, Lustral, and Lord Cavendish down to the Christchurch Hunt Meeting because they had been unable to do any fast work this week, and they were scratched for today's racing at 12.30 p.m. yesterday. They will .now go south with Might next Thursday or Friday in charge of P. Reardon. Might will be ridden on the trip by H. M. G. Challinder, who will also have the mount on Etzel and probably two other North Islanders in the south.
It has been decided not to race Catalogue's half-sister Tom-Tom further, and she will be mated in the coming season with Defoe.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 25, 29 July 1939, Page 22
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274GEORGE'S SYDNEY TEAM Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 25, 29 July 1939, Page 22
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