AUSTRALIAN TURF.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 217, 12 September 1936, Page 20

AUSTRALIAN TURF.

hurdler destroyed

CONTACT DEVELOPS SORENESS.

SYDNEY, September 11

A promising hurdler Section severed a tendon while schooling over the hurdles at Rand wick to-day, and subsequently was destroyed. , _ r The fancied Metropolitan and Melbourne Cup candidate Contact is amiss, showing soreness* - and , h'ijg Been- scratched for Tattersall's races, to-morrow. He is, to be withdrawn from all spring engagements. The New Zealand cross-country jockey ST:; Trillo- intends /to' apply- for - a license George iPWce ~is jiot .sanguine that Egmont will start -in tlie Metropolitan. Egmont may 'start jhv the Hill Stakes and the Rosejiill . Stakes /on Saturday week, when-- a ' decision .will;>be made as to his A.J.C.-.programme. . BAN lifted. A SUCCESSFUL APPEAL. W (Received 10 a.m.) :" ' V SYDNEY, this day... The A.J.C. committee upheld the appeals of L. Gilroy, W. Chappelow. and D. Lightfoot. The Vappellants •submitted fresh evidence, and the disqualification on them, and the horse Little Man was raised. 'Asthe result''of a stewards', inquiry.' into the running of Little Man at the Victoria Park races on August 26, L. Gilroy, the owner, W. Chappelow, the trainer ■ of-. Little Man, the jockey, I). Light'fbot, and also the horse, were disqualified for twelve "months. Little Man is a four-year-old gelding by Son o' Mine from Double' -Mint. SUSPENSION CURTAILED. ■ ; < CASE OF T. WEBSTER. • (Received 10 a.m.) MELBOURNE, September 11. T. ;Webster obtained a curtailment of his montli's; suspension,, which' will enable him to ride Cabalist in the Epsom Handicap. Welter applied-to the V.R.C. for the remission pf the . last two days of his suspension, and his application wa6 approved by the committee. Webster was suspended for a month for allowing-his mount to interfere with other horses in the last race at Caulfield last Saturday.