Apprentice Offered Beaulivre Rides

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 145, 21 June 1941, Page 6 (Supplement)

Apprentice Offered Beaulivre Rides

Apprentice J. Thompson, who heads the winning jockeys' list in Sydney this season, has been offered an engagement to ride Beaulivre in all his future races.

The engagement would include the Doomben N e wmarket and the Doomben Cup and the big handicaps and w.f.a. races of the spring, but Thompson has not given Beaulivre's trainer, George Price, a definite answer.

Thompson has been offered the ride on Gallant in the Doomben Newmarket. That horse is handicapped nearer Thompson's riding weight, but the lad and his master, Frank Dalton, will wait until the form of the two horses is better disclosed. Offering a retainer to an apprentice for a w.f.a. champion is almost unprecedented, but Price makes no. secret of his belief that Thompson is the best young rider in Australia, and consequently he wants to secure the lad. Thompson usually rides at 7 3 Beaulivre has 9.10 in the Newmarket and 9.11 in the Doomben Cup, and the lad would have to carrv a tremendous amount of dead weight. If Thompson does not accept the Brisbane mounts, it is expected that the spring' offer will still remain open, but a decision in that regard will depend upon the horse's Queensland showings and any other offers which may be made to the lad