LEN. RIGHTON

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 162, 11 July 1925, Page 25

LEN. RIGHTON

graduated from tha Ponsonby pack to the reps, as a siderow forward, who had club experience as a rover, but in 1923 he "found a place in the New Zealand team as lock of the scrum, a place be has continued to hold in club and provincial games. Jde was aispiacea oy Harvey and Masters in the All Black combination of Inst year, but got back into the middle of the New Zealand scrum for the recent trip to Sydney. In following up and handling he is keener and more accurate than the lock men of last year.

Sir Loftus Bates, the clerk of the course at Thirsk, stated at Ripon (England) recently that he had received a letter from the secretary of the Jockey Club to tho effect that the analysis of the saliva taken after Azimuth ran at Thirsk did not reveal either drug or stimulant. A sample of Azimuths saliva was taken on behalf of the stewards of the Jockey Club by a veterinary surgeon after the horse l.ad run second in the Thirsk Handicap to Night Guard. E. T. O'Sullivan, the trainer of Azimuth, expressed his surprise at the time that the Jockey Club had seen fit to take this action, and denied that at any time any horse under his care had been "doped." He went to England some years ago from Australia, and trained at Doncaster before taking over his present quarters at Malton in 1922. "Steve" Donoghue, who won his sixth Derby on Manna, rode two winners in a day at Paris. He won the 08th Biennial (worth 30,000 francs) on Coram, and the Prix Terplexite (15,000 francs) on Almaviva. Donoghue IS not the only jockey that has accomplished the feat of riding six Derby winners. J. Robinson won in 1817 on Azor. in 1824 on Cedric, next year on Middleton (owned by the Lord Jersey of the time) in 1827 on Lord Jersey's Mameluke, next year on Cadland. and in 1835 on Lord "jersey's Bay Middleton. The late Fred Archer won tho race five times. J. Holt has found the RichmondVictoria Cup rather a lucky race. In 1918 he won the event with Yandil. He scored again in 1922 with Miss Pinkerton and last year with Mastei Vibrator. George Harrison, who, owing to suspension, will be unable to ride ir the Richmond Cup this year has piloted four winners of the Richmond Cup ii the last eight years. Harrison score, on two of Holt's representatives—Mis: Pinkerton and Master Vibrator—and lv also won on Lutcplaycr and Defence Some Brisbane jockeys are reputed tc be clever at the art of fisticuffs. Then are two keen rivals as horsemen wh< have only to meet and there i.s a willinj "go" (says an Australian writer). The_ bad a bout during the progress of tin Moreton Handicap. It was a one-round no-decision affair. First they had ; punch apiece, then they used their whips \ i After that they got to the business o I trying to win the race. But both arrive* [la trifle late. It was near the half-mili 'that these two well-backed candidate: . j ranged abreast, about six lengths behini i i the leaders. One crowded the other [and that started tlie light. Thorny Sim |moiis, from Melbourne, on King Seremond ; | kept the rails while the light was on, ant shortly afterwards got a clear run o ' about a furlong. Turning for home hi ' swunghis mount three horses wide, and ' kept just behind the leaders until tin ! distance. Then he came away and won '! comfortal.lv. The pugilistic jockeys * were also dose up when the judge was »| reached. The light incident rccaHii a ' I happening some time ago. for which the »' stewards fined Jockey Billy HiH. J" . had lost his whip *nd ranged «long do : an apprentice on .» be .ten horse «ho had ■whin and th- apprentice gave it to him . j whip, andl tne «w fc ifc without 11 Tho apprentice saici ■"■" asking. Boys will bo boys. _