ONE FOR SECOND WIND

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 781, 30 September 1929, Page 12

ONE FOR SECOND WIND

HOSTILE RECEPTION (United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) MELBOURNE, Sunday. At the Moonee Valley meeting yesterday, the following was the result of the leading event:— QUALITY HANDICAP Seven fui'longs. HIGHLAND. 9.0 (Duncan) 1 DAVID GARRICK, 5.3 2 AG A KHAN, 7.13 3 The Tullemarine Handicap was won by the New Zealand-bred gelding Second Wind. The victory of Second Wind brought about a vigorous display of hooting, owing to inconsistent form on the part of the horse. Thirteen started. Won by half a length. Time, 1.275.

Irish Stock Reports of the blood stock sales held in Ireland during tho early part of last month show that Mr. J. M. Samson did not go on a fruitless errand to the Emerald Isle. Mr. Samson purchased two colts and a filly that should on breeding prove a decided acquisition to tho New Zealand Stud Book. One is a chestnut colt foaled on February 17 (No. 5 family), got by Argosy from Miss Hazelbrook, by Mr. Brian, by Ardoon (son of St. Fi'usquin), from Maudie, by Red Prince 11. Argosy was got by Bachelor’s Double from Fragment, by Spearmint. The other colt is a bay foaled on May 9 (No. 1 family), by Cygnus from Kish-le-shee, by Acclaim, a son of Amphion, granddam Bon Niu, by Berrill Beaume, by St, Frusquin. Cygnus was got by Sunstar—Mangabui, by William the Third (son of St. Simon) from Vampire, the dam of Flying Fox. The filly is a bay foaled on May 9 (No. 23 family), and got by Haki from Little Spitfire, by Argosy from Wild Vixen, by Wildflower—Pet Vixen. Rabelais was one of St. Simon’s most successful sons at the stud in France.

Won in Bad Weather What did surprise me was to hear a trainer complain that his jockey had ridden a bad race, as if be thought his horse ought to have negatived that six lengths* margin, commented the London writer, “Rapier,” after the Brighton meeting last month. The other six lengths winner was the bigtubed five-year-old Jugo, owned by Mr. Tom Richards, and trained by Walter Nightingall. Now this big follow can be under no delusions that ne was born to be merely looked at, as last season be only ran twenty times, and had had but seven outings tills season, so that be was overdue for another outing now, for the Brighton Stakes, a mile and a-half handicap, which brought his owner £4OO. They aro not all wise people that come out of the East, for they were wrong in arguing that Jugo, with a tube in his throat, would not be able to operate properly against the raging gale. So they left him alone and backed others, especially a rascal of a horse ironically called Good St. Anthony. That was nothing to the name hi's loving backers gave him after be had finished a furlong behind Jugo. Mr. Richards thought his horse would win. He always does. He even did a few days later, when, under a 101 b. penalty, he thought he ought to have another race. 1 and accordingly let him go to the post for the Lewes Handicap. When the bookmakers were knocking him out in i the betting.at Brighton, one of them, offered 9 to 2, and Jugo’s owner, with a set jaw, stepped off the stands and took £9OO worth, in addition to what be had already booked. He simply could not resist the longer offer. The bookmaker was silenced. He was also chastened momentarily when he beheld t£e treachery of Jugo in the storm.