AUSTRALIAN TURF.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 80, 5 April 1939, Page 22

AUSTRALIAN TURF.

SYDNEY TRACKS HEAVY.

BUT SUIT DEFAULTER.

OTHER TRAINERS WORRIED.

SYDNEY, April 4. Unless the weather improves in the next day or two there are likely to be some worried owners and trainers of important horses engaged at Randwick on Saturday.

Ivearly five inches of rain have fallen in the metropolitan area since last Saturday, and the prospects of improvement at present are not hopeful.

Training meanwhile lias been disorganized. Few trainers to-day attempted to send their horses at top speed, but lJetaulter, Hamurah and Mosaic revelled in the conditions.

Defaulter covered a solid nine furlongs and finished strongly. He appears to bo exceedingly -ifit.

High Caste went an easy five furlongs iS either Malagigi nor L'Aiglon was extended over a mile. Gold Rod, Spear Unief, The Trump and Sal Volatile did steady work. Feminist, a Sydney Cup candidate, recorded the good time, under the conditions, of 2.13 for a mile and a quarter. Respirator and Marauder worked usefully over the same distance.