CAN'T GET HOME!

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 122, 26 May 1941, Page 10

CAN'T GET HOME!

Proud Fox Offered For Private Sale

Fox. will) won the Km pile Bay Handicap ;it Kmidwick on Satiuday like a lthml stayer. lias been offered for private .-••iir Iht.iiim* cannot be made to r.riiJ» 11:111 bark to New Xealainl. states the "S\ilni'.v Snmlay Sun."

Mr. S. .1. Wood. who own< Proud l'"ox. is a New Xcala nil nr. and. although 110 lias done well ti mil Proud Fox's win yesterday and ]1 i■ • <l--.nl heat in '.lie City Tattersali"? I up tlii ee weeks lie dues not want to I.il l- a Inn.-;- in Aiiotialia if liu is not here.

If I*; mi.l Fox's trainer. Frank Mc<iratli. <■ a: 11111: liu-1 a buyer, however. Mr. Wood w i'! have no alternative. Proud Fox will thru bo spell.-d immediately and ttv.iiud for Iho biur handicaps next spring. No Protest Pi oud Fox si-einl'd to push the second f.ivoui ile. hockuii . so ilisc to the tunning 1-til in tin- !.i-*_ .">l.l yards of the race that clu-• w.itiheii- anticipated a protest. "A piotest didn't enter my head. Lock--lay had plenty of room when Proud Fox passed 11 i: 11. and he had every chance if he'd been jjotnl enouirh." said Lockray's jockey, dim Duncan. Mookinakei s would have had little financial interest in a piotest. Pron.l Fox st.ll led lavouiite. hut. Lockiay was a firm =-ec'nid lavoiirite. and either horse would have taken nearly C 10.000 fi om the l ing. Big Pay-out (•in- prominent racivji man who invests l"'a vi I \ on horses from the MeCliath .-table backed I*i oud Fox for more than l'"Joo'.'. and bookniakei s paid out for nearly •-'1 m.mites after the race to small cash l-ii nt ers. Proud I-ox received an Air Force reception when lie returned to scale. IShie uniforms predominated at lland-wi--k ami Proud Fox's trainer. Frank M-.Crath. is always willing to tell the men trout the forces when lie thinks a horse trained by him "ill win. A few ninrninrs of "What happened last week?" were ilitc-rniinuied with tincheers from the H.A.A.F.. but MeGrath answered any that Proud Fox had heen responsible for a form reversal.

"I kmnv Proud Fox wu unplaced in the •Tallies Haines Plate a week aijo. but this wars, a weaker field, and. if mv hov.»e unproved. s.> did Lockray." said MeGratU alter the race.

ISotli Proud I*ox and Lockray finished together a week ago. but this time Proud 1-ox had a slightly better 11m. and it made tin' difference." lie added.