Wall Street Reformed By Sydney Trainer

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28750, 22 November 1958, Page 6

Wall Street Reformed By Sydney Trainer

[From Australian Correspondent of “The Press.”}

SYDNEY, Nov. 19. T. J. Smith has reformed Wall Street, whiche came to him from New Zealand as a barrier outlaw. Wall Street has only to learn to run straight in a race and he may become a first-class proposition in Sydney. There will be a certain amount of justice if Smith can win a big race with Wall Street, a three-year-old grey gelding by Khorassan (imp.) from Chubin. Smith bought Tulloch in New Zealand. where the colt was bred by D. M. Blackie and raised at the Trelawney Stud by L. S. Otway. The Blackie-Otway combination races Wall Street, which was offered at the New Zealand sales and bought in by Mr Blackie. Tulloch is by Khorassan (imp.), and it would be fitting if. having sold one champion by Khorassan, Mr Blackie should get for himself

another good galloper by that sire. Smith liked Wall Street as a yearling, and almost bid for him. He told Mr Blackie this after the sales, and Mr Blackie said that if the colt reached top form he would be sent to Smith to be prepared for the big handicaps in Australia. Smith got Wall Street much sooner than he expected, but for a different reason. Wall Street developed an aversion to the open barriers and was becoming unmanageable. Upset at the start, he would run about a good deal in a race. Still Races Greenly Wall Street has not quite learned the lesson of racing straight when under pressure. His jockey, G. Moore, found this out on Saturday at Warwick Farm where Wall Street won his first race—a division of a Maiden Handicap. If Wall Street had run straight in the finish he would have won by some lengths. Instead, Moore had to stop riding him several times to keep him from Interfering with other horses. Smith is very pleased with Wall Street s prospects. Smith said that Wall Street was still very green according to Moore, and that the gelding would be given plenty of racing to make him more accustomed to it. Compte de Paris Compte de Paris has developed newfound form, and although beaten in the Horsley Handicap—the feature sprint race at Warwick Farm on Saturday—he was far from disgraced. The distance, six furlongs, was not quite far enough for Comte de Paris, which was finishing on strongly behind Teranyan and Reign as the post was reached. The story is told that Sydney’s millionaire Jeweller, Adolf Basser. sought wajs and means to buy Comte de Paris. He approached Mrs I. Richter and broached the subject. Mrs Richter asked that an offer be made: Mr Basser replied that as she was the seller Mrs Richter should set the price. A deadlock was : reached.