SABELL FALLS
Some falls in jumping races prove expensive, but that is part and parcel of racing.
Washdyke saw a fail with a difference on Saturday. This was a fait on the flat, and in a preliminary. It could have cost Sabell a winning chance in the Donald Grant Memorial Sabell, the favourite for the race, which was the first leg of the T.A.B. double, crashed heavily when Windvale Lad collided with him at the end of the preliminary.
The Riccarton horse was passed fit to take his place in the field, but failed to show anything like his best and finished ninth.
Saibell carried-£5543, including £5050 10s off the course, on the double. He also carried investments totalling £706 for a win and £772 for a place. Sabell’s trainer, J. L. Barr, was critical of officials of the club. He did not hear of the incident until the jockey, E. G. Low, told him after the race.
“I should have been allowed to examine Sabell after such an accident,” Barr said later. - Low said it would have been impossible for the horse to do his best after such a fall a short time before . the start of the race.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30794, 5 July 1965, Page 4
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