TURF TOPICS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 44, 21 February 1942, Page 12

TURF TOPICS

VIOLENT OUTBURST

SCENE AT FLEMINGTON

After High Title had won the Oakleigh Plate at Flemington hundreds of punters followed him along the parading lane to the enclosure shouting abuse. It was the most violent demonstration against a winner ever staged at Flemington, says a Sydney writer. High Title ran twelfth in the Tooronga Handicap, a race down the straight, at Flemington on January 18. At his next start in the William Reid Stakes at Moonee Valley a week later he was only sixth. In the Oakleigh Plate he completely outclassed a brilliant field of sprinters to win with absurd ease. High Title started from the outside of the field, but he was in front within a furlong and a half. From then on he ran so brilliantly that interest in the race ended. Hundreds of soldiers joined in the demonstration. The crowd hurled prolonged insults at the connections. Then they shouted to the stewards: "Why don't you rub him out?" High Title's trainer, F. W. Hoysted, said that the demonstration was completely unjustified. "He has always been a goer, but he's shown his best form in races up the straight," said Hoysted. "The only time he failed to gain a place there was in the Tooronga on January 17, when he was left at the post through another ! horse colliding with him." RELINQUISHED POSITION The Gisbome trainer, Ivan Tinsley, who for six years has been associated with horyes owned by Mr. E. N. Fitzgerald, has relinquished his position. The decisipn is due to the recent restrictions on road traffic. Most of Mr. Fitzgerald's horses have been turned out. Those that remain in work he will train himself. There is nothing in view at the moment for Kindergarten, and he is being allowed to potter about the paddocks. Tinslev has won over a hundred races for Mr. t itzgerald, included in which is a Mitchelson Cup, with Small Boy, and a Takapuna Cup, with De Friend. Tinsley may later acquire a horse or two. but in the meantime he will farm the property which he near Hastings?^ 3 ** 1 3t Greenme adows, HIGHLY ASSESSED The weighting of Prince Plato in the open sprint on the first day of the Taranaki Cup meeting ranks him as the best three-year-old sprinter of the season. At Trentham the last time they met Route March. 8.8, beat &ir Beau, 9.9, by a head. at , a difference of 151b. Had they been weighted for a further day's racing there would have been approximately slb. less between them, Sir Beau still giving Route March the best part of 101b. At New Plymouth, where the weights are framed by the same handicapper as at Trentham, jjL B® 3ll has 10.2 and Prince Plato 9.12, a difference of 41b. It is a very high assessment, but fully Justified by form. Prince Plato second day success at Hawera under 9.2 (he was weighted 9.9, but took advantage of a 71b allowance) was achieved in most Impressive style. He can still make use of the allowance at New Plymouth.