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THE SPORT OF KINGS OVERSEAS

PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE. Tel Asur, one of the promising stayers among Sydney's two-year-olds, is a gelding, and is ineligible for the classics. Jack Munro, who was the first trainer of Tel Asur. tells an interesting story about the youngster. “When Tel Asur first, came into my stable he couldn't even walk. He used to trip over himself, and I didn’t imagine he would ever be any good. Yet when I first galloped him he proved himself a self-made racehorse, and the furthest back he has ever finished is fourth. It just shows you can't pick good horses either by their looks or their actions.” The two shilling unit does not tend to really heavy totalisator betting in England. There was a large attendance at Newmarket on Two Thousand Guineas day, but investments for the six races totalled only £44,689. Of that amount £17.491 was invested on the Two Thousand, for which the were 25 starters. The Australian breeder, Mr P. Miller. does not believe in keeping brood mares at his Kia-Ora Stud when they become so infirm, through age or other causes, that they are a burden to themselves and improbable foal-pro-ducers. In such circumstances mares are occasionallj' sent to auction by some owners, but Mr Miller does not do that. He prefers to have them destroyed and has adopted that course more than once. A few years ago the Soviet Government sent commissioners to England and Ireland to make extensive purchases of thoroughbred stallions and mares. Now report comes from England that the Turkish Government has recently made' similar purchases, mainly of brood mares. A consignment of nearly a score of well-bred mares, all in foal to leading stallions and most of them with foal at foot, recently left Liverpool for Smyrna. It was the largest shipment of its kind ever made from England to Turkey.

For some reason best known to themselves, the Victorian Racing Club’s committee persists with its policy of protecting its races by the imposition of penalties on winners after the declaration of the weights for its big races. When the weights are declared months before the race, as is the case with the Cantala Stakes and Melbourne Cup, there is no justification for penalties, because form can greatly change between the beginning of July and the first week in November, particularly in the case of young horses. The position, however, is entirely different (says “Chiron” in the Australasian) in the case of the Grand Nationals, as most of the horses engaged in those races are old stagers whose form has been well disclosed. The weights for the Grand National Hurdle Race this year were declared less than six weeks before the race is to be run, and there is not much chance of any really striking changes of form in that time. The penalty clauses in the two Nationals are likely to adversely affect the fields for the jumping races on the other courses during the next six months or so. Steeplechasing in particular has been languishing in Melbourne for some time, and it should be the aim of the V.R.C. committee to encourage owners to race as many of their horses as possible over fences, and not to discourage them by the imposition of penalties which, in view of the fact that the National weights are declared so near the day,, are not justified. A variation of a handicap to the extent of a few pounds may have something in its favour, but to give the handicapper a margin of 141 b to work upon is going beyond reasonable limits.

Pibroch, a four-ycar-old horse by Windbag, has been having a winning sequence in Melbourne recently, and on Saturday last won the principal flat race at Caulfield in a style which suggested that more would come. Pibroch’s breeding is of New Zealand interest. His dam, North Star, is by Great Star (half-brother to Papyrus), from Martian Princess, by Martian— Two Step, by Stepniak. Pibroch’s dam is a half-sister to Laughing Princei RACING FIXTURES July I—Oamaru.1 —Oamaru. July I—Dannevirke Hunt. July 4,6, B—Wellington. July 15 —Waimate District Hunt. July 15 —Hawke’s Bay Hunt. July 22 —Rangitikei Hunt. July 22—South Canterbury Hunt. July 29—Christchurch Hunt. July 29 —Manawatu Hunt. August 8, 10, 12.—Grand National meeting.

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 June 1939, Page 9

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THE SPORT OF KINGS OVERSEAS Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 June 1939, Page 9

THE SPORT OF KINGS OVERSEAS Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 June 1939, Page 9

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