WINS BOTH THE PRIZES

NZ Truth, Issue 1183, 2 August 1928, Page 11

WINS BOTH THE PRIZES

Palmerston Has Leading jockey And Trainer Palmerston cleaned up the honors m the racing" world this year with a vengeance. ■ ■ ■ '.■ : - '• ■ •■•'..•:*' , ' ' ' '■' r THB Manawatu capital supplied the • Tom came back to the birdcage with 1 leading trainer for the season— a biff smile and just before the last George New — and the first and the race was presented with. a whip* second m the jockey's championship— He used- it m the last race, but it did Tom Green and R6y. Reed, not bring him luck, and so he finished New was so far jn front that his "J c season with a tot£ll of 75 toi.Reed's position was never challenged. 73 * ■ ,_,„.• ■-.■"■ :, • ■ Not so with the jockeys. ■ Bert Ellis, who rode three winners, , .: \ ( / brought his total tp 69, and as he rode In the late autumn; Reed came with 'm every type of race— and had his a strong 'run and for the last couple share of misfortune— his was really a of months he has had Green thinking splendid, if not remarkable performhard — and riding hard. anpe. . • . Tom wanted the honor and he Gisborne was excited over the finish fought every inch to retain his lead. and there were many' wild rumors 'Last week he started with two of a travelling round. ' margin, but, after the first day at Gis- One individual tried to tell "N.Z. borne, he had only one iip his sleeved- Truth"- that Green and Reed had a Reed came home on dishonored. ' side wager of a hundred on the result The second day Reed was back to — he had heard that such was the case ■where he started from when Green fr,om fifty-second hand information, scored on Abisogne. :•*•"%.>'. "i To those who are inclined to beThere was at that stage still four |j eve tnat there was a wager it races to go and thus s^ill- a., chance for may be news to them that Reed .' Reed. - --,_. was n ot very keen to go to the Came the finish of the second to meeting. last race and Reed had not won Had Dishonored not been there, Reed and Green could not lose. would have ~ stopped at home. . ' ■''.■/■ ■ ■ ' :