BRED IN AUCKLAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 633, 9 April 1929, Page 13

BRED IN AUCKLAND

MYSTIC PEAK A WINNER EXPENSIVE FARRAGO At the Williamstown meeting on Easter Monday the Auckland-bred colt Mystic Peak won the leading sprint race. The following are the details: FEDERAL HANDICAP Of £300; 6 furlongs MYSTIC PEAK (A. G. Barlow), br c, Syrs, by Romeo—Refinement, T.lu 1 HARRY GAYIX, 4vrs, 8.2 2 CLARION CALL, Syrs, 7.10 3 Also started: Adjong, 0.0; Farrago, 8.12: Double Duty, 7.8; Repellere, 6.13; Solus, 6.9. Won by a neck. Time, 1.131. Mystic Peak was bred by Mr. E. Alison. Tier dam, Refinement, was got by Shepherd King from Elegance, by Seaton Delaval—Antelope, by Apremont— Miss Kate, by Adventurer. Refinement is also the dam of Dresden China, a promising two-year-old in work at Trentham. Among the also vans was the expensive horse, Farrago, the full brother to Thespian, for whom a Melbourne sportsman paid 2,250 guineas as a yearling at the Koatanul sales. He has turned out a very disappointing proposition as a racehorse. REEFTON MEETING ACCEPTORS FOR TO-MORROW Press Associatio)i GREYMpUTH, Monday. Acceptances for the Reefton Jockey Club’s meeting on Wednesday next are as follow: DIGGERS* HANDICAP

IN THE NECK LAYERS AT RANDWICK Not for nearly 20 years have the bookmakers experienced such a losing day as they experienced at Randwick on Saturday week last. They lost so much money, so they report, that one day of outsiders would not enable them to recover the losses. Things looked ominous for the members of the Ring when Bagpipes stood up after hitting the hurdle in the front of the judge’s box. Bagpipes was a hot favourite, and his contact with the hurdle probably affected the candidates behind him more than it hindered Bagpipes himself. Then when the favourite was left at the post in the second race, the second favourite annoyed the bookmakers by

his win. The Doncaster Handicap was really the only race in which the book- i makers had a chance, and for many of them Karuma was a loser. Also he was a bad horse in doubles. Backers were in excellent form, and in the majority of the events the bookmakers were not able to do much business on outsiders. Had Comanche taken the Sires’ Produce from Honour, the result would have been good for the Ring. Comanche was at a comparatively short price, but not much business was done about his chance. All the public wanted to back was Honour or Pentheus. Even in Strephon’s race the one-two betting was against the books. A bad or indifferent start in a minor race is sufficient to sorely try the temper of backers, not to mention the owners and trainers of those horses ! that are the principal sufferers. It was unfortunate that Royal Doulton and j Queen Arch had their chances ruined j at the start of the Foley Memorial ( Handicap, for neither horse was in \ line when the barrier was released. ! Whatever chance they might have had j —and they both shaped promisingly— i was ruined at the outset, and their j supporters were always urging on for- ; lorn hopes.

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