SPRING IS HERE, MY BOYS

NZ Truth, Issue 1188, 6 September 1928, Page 11

SPRING IS HERE, MY BOYS

nANNEVIRKE last week found jockeys very much en their toes—for ** spring was close at handi It waa too nearby for several riders. The period of the nine stone minimum had found them never missing at the festive board — they jumped every hurdle twicel But with the seven stone bogey at their heels they wers beginning to think and wonder very hard. "Wonder how the weight Ib?" ran through their respective heads. It is a good thing the scales at Dannevirke are built on solid pro-: ' portions. Both sets — the one In the jookeys' room and those m the weighing enclosure — were made to work overtime. Horsemen on whom the publio look as some sort of tin gods sat, or stood, and looked at the answer with fishy eyes — too heavy was the verdict m every case. , One well-known rider went eight-six and he should be six pounds lighter. Tabloid meals for him In future! \ Another, equally well known, was anything but optimistic, and, when questioned by "N.Z. Truth," said he would ride eight-eleven, In a pound "skin." /Tis not the winter of the jockeys' discontent, but the winter of their full content — and contents. MtiiiiliiiiitMiniiiiiiiinimiuHiiniliiHnniiniitHiiminniiiirMimiiiiiiiiimtitnuiimmitinmmiiniinritlim ' aii)fjfiiii]iiiiiiitijitijiiiiifiiiiiiitjtiiiijiiijiiiiitiikiiitiriijiiiiififiiiiitititiiiiiiiii,iiiiiiiiitiiiiitjiitiiiiijijiijiititaiiitiititiiisiiiiiiii>iiniiituijiijiiiiriintiiiiiistiitiiiiiiiitisiiiiiiniiifiuriisitiitnitiiitnfiiti*iti>auuiii___l