LONG AND SHORT

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 841, 9 December 1929, Page 12

LONG AND SHORT

HOW JOCKEYS FARE McCARTEN BEST IN SPRINTS No experienced backer would support a mile and a-quarter hors, over six furlongs. Yet, while they* know better than to make thatpunting blunder, 99 per cent, fait to take into consideration the fact that a jockey may prefer a long to a short journey. Very few punters could even ten which rider is the better sprint bov and which is the bettor long distance jockey, yet it is an ixnportan facte* in a race, comments a Sydney writeNaturally, it has not the importance that race distance bears on a horse* chance, for where it is practically a& impossibility for a mere sprinter to wir, a distance race, and vice versa, t!« sprint rider can sometimes show sutft, cient judgment to win a long hands, cap. What Results Show Less than four months of the present racing season have passed, yet investigation of the varied success of riders at different distances proved an inter, estinsr study. There are fewer races over a mil* than there are of that distance or under, and for that reason the ma, jority of successful riders have scored in more short races, but two of Svd, ney’s outstanding riders, E. Bartl* and M. McCarten. axe remarkable ex* am pies of how riders can favour certain distances. Smart at Barrier A fow years ago, before lie commenced his really successful run. Barile was considered more as a distance* rider, yet this season he has won 15i races at a mile or less, and only two above a mile. He has developed into one of the smartest jockeys from the barrier, that counts in short events. McCarten has won 11 short races and only one middle distance or long race. J. Munro has only ridden three sprint and three distance, winners, yet in the few two-year-old races that have been run in Sydney he has collected four successes. The only other Sydney jockey to ride more than on* winner in youngsters’ events is W. Cook. HAKANOA’S PENALTY The following re-handicap for the YVaipa meeting, which is to Le held at To Awamutu on Saturday next, has been declared by Mr. F. J. JCcManemin: Paterangi Welter Handicap.—Haka* noa up 141 b to 9.13. Cybele and Joy Germ, who were also winners at Taumarunui, will iv)t be reliandicappcd.