RACING

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 559, 11 January 1929, Page 11

RACING

(Continued.) WARNED OFF JOCKEY AND THREE OTHERS LEAKAGE of stable secrets Host important of all recent happening, m England was tlie outcome of ■no days of inquiry by tho stewards , lhe Jockey Club, undertaken at the obligation of Stanley Wootton, records " Lunc ion writer. Four individuals had e warning off sentence pronounced gainst them —■' i bookmaker of some prominence. the secretary to that bookmaker’* company, a man living at Epsom, and the apprentice jockey. N. Carroll There Is no need to go behind the t,„re details of the official announcement. Yet 11 is Permissible to remind -eaders that the stewards of the Jockey Club * re eminently just and fair-

minded men. Stanley Wootton’s aetion is naturally applauded by all owners and trainers, and certainly at tins moment lie is something of a. hero tor the courage lie has shown in dealing with those alleged practices which are expressly forbidden in the rules of raring on pain of tile extreme penalty being enforced. Leakages of stable secrets must have been a serious matter in the old days, and before the newspapers of to-day died such fierce publicity on training, the movements of horses, and reported such minute and intelligent detail the form. lam sure tilings are vastly lifterent to-day; indeed more than one trainer has assured me it is not possible to keep a secret. Even those sheets which are published weekly, and pose as giving inside stable information. do not appear to flourish as they once did They may be finding it more difficult to buy information. On the other hand, the Press generally can do all thev claim to have done, and probably very much better.

A BARGAIN

REONUI’S BIG WINNINGS NOW CLOSE TO £5,000 Running to the front, with consummate ease a furlong from the winning: post, Reonui then came on tc victory in the Villiers Stakes at Rand wick a fortnight ago. Ho did not experience the slightest opposition over the concluding and he passed the judge a length and a-half in front of Habashon, with the favourite, Karuma, half a length further back. Reonui's success was deserved. The ex-New Zealander has been a consistent galloper on Sydney courses, and had done well enough practically on the eve of other richly subsidised Randwick mile races to encourage his party for good wins. The class, however, was a little too good for him, hut lie invariably galloped up to his form, the possible exception being in the Epsom Handicap, when he stayed at the post (an incident which he repeated a few days af .er winning the Villiers). Reonui has been a profitable horse for Mr. “J. Babin.” who purchased him from P. Jones, trainer of Limerick, a little more than two years ago. Since then Reonui lias won 3 0 races. His record is: AT THREE YEARS: Third, Moorefield Accountants’ H’cap£2o Canterbury Park Stakes .. .. 127 Jon Guildford Handicap 3 73 ”° n Hawkesbury Three-year-okl .. ITS Third, Granthsim Stakes 100 Third, Members’ Handicap 100 Jl on Rosehill Three-year-old .. 192 won Menangle Park Hundred •. .. 100 AT FOUR YEARS. Jon Canterbury Bankstown H'cap 172 JJTOnd, Clarendon Handicap 150 Jon Congee Handicap 922 second, Rous Handicap 150 Tatter,all's Cup 150 olrd, Tf agga Gold Cup 300 Tattersalls Winter Stakes 150 on Auburn Handicap 232 AT FIVE YEARS: w s un<las Handicap 177 S b ouatters* Handicap 200 Plying 140 "on Villiers Stakes 1,274 T< ’ t^L: 1 5 leve " wins, 5 seconds, 4 tnlr ds £4,507 0h 'ne mupi ' s ,r opm *-t the Christmas meeting of 'l'inht' UCk and Racing Club will no T 'iamM e I Ve “® a reliablc guide at .to-morrow, and for this reaBov Ufll l ,ern V Ramblin’ Kid, Good foup Finance, to mention part in t should play an auspicious tiv* rtle decision of their respec:Vweu es ' After acting as pacemaker HaaaS* over 11 mile in the Grandstand , Jh h ap at RHerslie, Ohinemuri faded '-Id i„ U Vt yet to nieet a much weaker n^avpn a , e Goltlfie hl.s Cup. she should Thfkr/s i * u ®** l nut for her opponents. ■ r '* JUst a d °ubt, however, as to ” • it out. A Gt >od Hack ,L P r mus:i 'H young horse, and eonlurt lo °' at that, is Vadroe, whose » out ‘bgs have resulted in two -.at, n J dc "'mances. His form sug--lut uftw l w e ls likel >' to win his way >, a |“ 6 hack class before long, and to lnl A? prove a payable proposition wer-«\, nov - r especially as he is not :h, - Joe.’ and bas not fully reached a tv"o, u£ ills Powers. With 5.4 in ! -mi2» ta * aruru Handicap, at Thames Til™- he reads nicely treated. B «Wblv fi L Carry 1,10,1 f y of support. afialng most opposition from ** an °a and Glenstar .