TOPICAL COMMENT

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 197, 21 August 1942, Page 7

TOPICAL COMMENT

JOCKEY MISSING Among thwse recently reported missing in Libya was G. R. Tattersall, well-known jockey, who won the Wellington Centennial Cup on Old Bill. A BAD INVESTMENT < Night Hawk has been an expensive proposition since he was put to steeplechasing In the Auckland district. Sent south Dy his owner some weeks ago, he "has earned only one small third stake, and in his three races at Riccarton he had one fall and ran off twice. IRATE FOR TE RAPA The Canterbury sportsman Mr. G. Mur* rav-Avnsley last week sold his four-year-old filly Irate, by Myosotis from Berate, bv Silverado from Reproachful, dam of Chide. She was bought by the Te Rapa trainer, J. L. Muir, for one of his patrons, who intends to keep her for the stud after her racing is finished. NATIONAL WINNER'S RIDER It is a far cry back to 1924 when a diminutive Maori lad piloted Cold Steel to victory in the Wanganui Cup. That was Tom Tito, and he took no risks that day, making every post a winning post. Poj. a period Tito was quite an ornament of the profession. Increasing weight commenced to trouble him. and for a few years he was not seen in the saddle, but he surprised the sporting world by staging a come-back, showing all his former dash and punch. He was seen more freauently in bighweight and jumping events and a 'chaser who built up a good record when ridden by him, more particularly in the season before last, was Ladv Callaghan. Now he has attained fresh heights by piloting a National winner for he was the rider of Renascor in the big. hurdles at Riccarton last Saturday.

ANWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS T.A.J. —N. Holland.