SPORT OF KINGS OVERSEAS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 August 1939, Page 13

SPORT OF KINGS OVERSEAS

PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE. In addition to Dhoti, who is understood to have been a gift from the Aga Khan, His Rayol Highness the Duke of Kent will also be represented on the turf in Australia by Moon Ray. A three-year-old to English time, Moon Ray has been raced by Prince Ali Khan, son of the Aga Khan. Moon Ray, judging by his record, is a smart galloper. He won the Yarmouth Hastings Maiden Handicap, a straight mile, in Imin 35sec, beating the previous best time of the course for the distance by two seconds. Another mile event at Haydock Park he won easing up by four lengths. He has won three other races this season, and is to leave England shortly. Moon Ray’s pedigree has association with the Australian turf He is a brown gelding by Sandwich.) winner of the St Leger, from Nan. by' Jaeger from Alma, by Spearmint from Moyglare, by Flying Fox. Moyglare was related to many other notable mares, including Electra, winner of the One Thousand Guineas, through whom there is a relationship with the imported sires Salmagundi and The Buzzard. In America “dopers” are hard to beat. A little while ago a stable hand at Suffolk Downs (Boston) found an apple core in a stall and turned it over to officials, who found that it contained caffeine. The following day the stableman identified a man as one he had seen hanging about the stables the day before, and officials said the suspect admitted that he had been employed to throw apples containing stimulants into stalls of certain horses. He implicated another man, who was arrested also. Both men were turned, over to East Boston police, on suspicion of possessing narcotics. The racehorse Silver Ring, winner of the Epsom Handicap in 1934, was recently mentioned in the Sydney Small Debts Court, when Miss Sylvia Berger, aged 21, of Cowper street. Waverley, sued Noel Christensen, ol Kensington, for £lB. Miss Berger said that she met Christensen early this year, and they kept' company. She. mentioned to him that when she turned 21 in April she would come into £3OO. After she received the money. Christensen asked her for a loan of £lB to pay his licence at the Australian Jockey Club. She said that Christensen had insisted upon her accepting a document which entitled her to a third share of winnings by Silver Ring. A week later Christensen began to avoid her and refused to return the £lB. Christensen, in evidence, admitted having received the money from Miss Berger, but denied that he had borrowed it. He had spent the money on getting the horse right. “I lost a lot of money," he said, “and the horse broke down after his third start. The stewards refused to accept his nomination, and now he is a hack." Judgment for the full amount was given Miss< Berger.