Reefton Race Conditions Were Not As Advertised
A five-year-old, Grecian Prince, won a race advertised for two and three-year-olds only ait Reefton last Saturday. The Black’s Point Novice Stakes appeared in the club’s programme in the Official Calendar on September 12 as a five-furlong race for two-year-olds and three-year-olds teat had not won an advertised flat race at time of nomination.
Two-year-olds were to carry 7-9 and three-year-olds. 8-5.
The Riccarton trainer, P. H. Jones, took the two-year-old Castle Air with- him to Westport with other members of the team so that she could start in the Reefton race. On finding that the filly was in a race against five-year-olds, Jones questioned a Reefton official and was told there had been a misprint in the advertised programme. Jones said yesterday that he would not have gone to the expense of taking the two-year-old on the circuit had he known the race was not being confined to two and three-year-olds He had received no communication from the club that the conditions of the race were any different from those published in the Official Calendar.
Only two three-year-olds and one two-year-old ran in the Black's Point Novice Stakes, but there were four
older rivals for Grecian Prince, including the five-year-olds Llandex and Coral Lagoon, which had both won at Westport.
Pepe and Winkler, both three • year - olds, finished second and third respectively. Pepe is also in P. H. Jones's team.
Grecian Prince won the Black’s Point Novice with 8- Later in the day he won the No. 2 Novice with 9- which included a rehandicap of 101 b.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29952, 13 October 1962, Page 4
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