A FINE SPRINTER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 150, 26 June 1937, Page 20

A FINE SPRINTER.

GAY CHOU'S SPEED. 1 Gay Chou won the Doomben Newmarket (says a Brisbane writer) in brilliant style on June 12. The display suggested that he must be one of the best sprinters in Australia. Gay Chou relished the soft track, and W. Cook said he had one of the easiest,rides he had ever experienced in an important handicap. Pamelus, who started at-short odds, had a hard race, as, after, losing ground early, horses crossed oyer 'in front of him, and for the-first two furlongs; he had to thread his way through the' fields Eventually he worked his way to tHe-front of a batch.on the inside of the course, and just, when his rider, J. O'Brien, thought he had : - the* race' won, • he glanced to the outside-.and. saw 'Gay.-Chou sailing along in front.at a great pace. .O'Brien gave Pamelus a couple of cuts -With the whip, but it was no goddV as r Gay Chou had too muph pace. Pamelus'appeared to be third past the post, but the judge favoured King Merlin by a head. Heroic Faith jumped out first, while Gay Chou also got away smartly* and when the field settled down Gay Chou. was going at three-quarter pace. He could have run past Heroic Faith much sooner than he did.

NOT IN STEEPLES.

A rather surprise omission from the steeplechase events at the Wellington meeting is Clarion Call. The Hunting Song gelding is in the big hurdles, and apparently his connections are going to wait a little longer before tackling the big crosscountry events with the bay gelding.

BALMENTER WELL SPOKEN OF.

According to southern reports, a high opinion is held of the four-year-old Balboa —Commenter gelding Balmenter, who recently won over seven furlongs and also ten furlongs and a half at Dunedin, and it is interesting to note that the gelding figures in the entries for the Wellington meeting. The Oamaru trainer T. Hobbs usually has something good when he undertakes trips to Trentham.

TO BE TURNED OUT.

Horowhenua, who was showing signs of soreness towards the end of the winter meeting at Ellerslie, is to be turned out for a spell. The trouble is in one of his front joints, in which there is still a good deal of heat, and it looks as though the chestnut gelding will need a long rest. Tooley Street and Miss Appellant are being kept going by H. Rama, and if present are carried out he will leave for Sydney with this pair about the end of July. " :

GIVEN BARRIER PRACTICE,

An interesting episode in the work at Trentham on Tuesday morning was the lining up of inexperienced horses at the barrier, whjpn T;.iR. George made, an excellent starters-George gave'four of "his own horses praence-' together.-- They were the rising two-year-old Peerless (Beau Pere— Prestige) and the ..rising -three-year-olds Trcbor '-(Shear-' Dance—Sports Queen), Hinerawe (Robespierre—Oratrix), and the Intruder—Podgy gelding. Except that Peerless was a trifle slow,' they jumped away splendidly. Later on the rising two-year-old Beauly (Hunting Song—Dodo) and the rising tbree-year-old Rondale (Black Ronald —Lucidity) were lined up and they also began smartly, though Rondale, who was having his first experience, seemed a little puzzled about what was required of him.