NEW RECRUITS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 97, 24 April 1940, Page 16

NEW RECRUITS.

M itli tlir winter season entered npon interest naturally will he aroused in the prospective jumping propositions, and from now on we can expect to learn of many horses, most of them aged, and considered as beiiifi past their prime as flat racing propositions, being given a chance to earn distinction, and incidentally some money for their owners, in events over fences.

It is not to be expected that .in owner would think of putting a horse to hurdle racing or steeplecliasing while there was good money to be won 011 the flat, and it is only occasionally that a good handicap horse capable of still winning 011 the flat is found playing a part 111 races for jumpers. 1 here have been exceptions of course, and among them Record Reign, Liberator, Padishah and Beau Cavalier might be cited. All four were stayers and proved themselves champions over country. The statement lias often been heard that good sprinters make the best hurdle horses, but that is quite erroneous, and only gets some sort of backing in the same way as does the statement that white sheep eat more than black. It is only because there are more of them. Already there arc many horses being given their first lessons over fences, but so far they do not include any recognised first-class handicap performer.