CURRENT TOPICS FROM STABLE AND COURSE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 November 1940, Page 3

CURRENT TOPICS FROM STABLE AND COURSE

High Caste as Tough as Carbine (BY “THE GRAFTER.”) High Caste is easily the hardest-worked good horse in Australia. One of the heaviest gallopers ever seen, he is a remarkably light feeder. He is nevertheless a glutton for work, does more walking than any other horse In training, provides the highlights on “fast" mornings, and is not kept to look at. Broken tails or bruised heels do not seem to embarrass him. Known as the Strawberry Bull, the big New Zealander was suspected of softness a year ago, but he has gone on to outlast all his opponents. He started in 21 races last season—a big programme for a class three-year-old—and in three months in the current term he has run 13 times. He has tackled all distances up to a mile and a half, and has carried loads up to 10.1. In Melbourne now he is said to be as tough as Carbine.

Rival Interests. A fair amount of publicity has been given in Australia to the break be- ' tween Mr Alan Cooper, owner of Gold S Salute, and J. T. Jamieson, former f trainer of the New Zealand-bred horse. "Jamieson and I have parted with an understanding and without any illfeeling on my part," said Mr Cooper. “Jamieson has done a particularly good job in his training of Gold Salute, whose record since he has been in that stable is proof of that. I wanted to run Gold Salute in the Linlithgow Stakes, and was not prepared to stand down even though the trainer prefers not to have two horses engaged in the same race. This was not t! ’ time two from the stable have it.,. consider that I have met other stabliTinterests in a reasonable manner so far as programmes ' for the horses are concerned.” Mi- Tancred, the owner of High Caste, offered to loss Mr Cooper for starters, the loser to scratch his horse, but Mr Cooper declined, though he was told by Jam-] ieson that he had no chance against High Caste. After the race, which High Caste won easily, with Gold Salute second, Mr Cooper handed Gold Salute over to G. Price to train.