WHY DARAG WAS SCRATCHED

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 193, 16 August 1941, Page 5 (Supplement)

WHY DARAG WAS SCRATCHED

VETERAN owner-trainer J. M. Cameron, of Hastings, had a spot of bad luck while on the wav to the National, where his prospect's appeared bright. .lack's horse, Darag. the four-vear-old son of Bulandshar and Thornproof, who had spreadoagled a field at Marton a couple of weeks hack, appeared to be a reasonably sxood thing for the Cashmere Plate'. Might have been, too, if he had not been injured in shoeing just before leaving the North Island. The mishap remained unnoticed until Darag arrived at. Evttelton, where he was discovered "with a badly inflamed leg, so bad that the scratchpen was immediately put through his name. Jack Cameron was regularlv in the headlines in 192:M924, when that great racehorse The Hawk was beating the best in New Zealand and Australia, both in handicaps and at wcight-for-agc. Like Kindergarten now. the son of Martian and Sparrow Hawk was the champion in his day, and his name is high on the list of Australasia's great stakeearners. Needless to state, he was the best horse Cameron ever raced, but the veteran reckons that Goshawk would have proved himself a mighty galloper if he had not gone in the wind.