RACING Time And Tide Will Miss Holiday Races

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31864, 17 December 1968, Page 4

RACING Time And Tide Will Miss Holiday Races

While most Riccarton horses will be working hard in the next few weeks, Time and Tide will be taking it easy. Mr D. W. J. Gould’s Dogger Bank gelding ended his present campaign in the HorOrata Cup on Saturday.

This week Time and Tide will be sent home for a month’s spell on his owner’s Glenmark property. J. C. Tomkinson hopes to bring him back into work about the end of January and have him ready for racing again at Easter.

“He has been in work since April and racing since May, so he has earned the rest,” said Tomkinson yesterday. Time and Tide also earned his keep on his latest campaign. The $3OO he earned for third in Saturday’s race brought his earnings since May to s37os—the result of three wins and seven minor plicings from 15 starts. The Tomkinson team for holiday racing is now down to two runners. They are Ship-

master, winch was nosed out of first by Red Siren in the Hororata Cup on Saturday, and Inns of Court, which cleared, maiden class attractively at the Hororata meeting. Shipmaster and Inns of Court, which both carry the colours of Mr A. N. Smith, of Dunedin, will race at the Dunedin Jockey Club’s meeting next Saturday and the following Thursday and may > race on the second day of the , South Canterbury Jockey - Club’s meeting at Washdyke the next Monday week. I Pricked Hoof > Harold Bank, which was to ! haVe started his holiday racf ing at Wlngatui with other : members of J. L. Barr’s team, will not be taken south. This • decision was made yesterday 1 morning rfter it was found ■ that Mr W. A. Ford’s Dogger

Bank three-year-old had pricked a hoof. Harold Bank was not lame after having a lead nail, which had penetrated deeply at the back of the frog, removed. As there is always the chance of an infection setting in, however, it was decided not to run him at Dunedin. If all goes well, Harold Bank will have plenty of opportunities elsewhere in the next few weeks. The same applies to Quetta, which earned open-class rating when he won the L. Derrett Handicap at Riccarton on Saturday. He, too, will miss Dunedin, but has been freely nominated for holiday meetings closer to home. David William, Sabell, Meldie and Wenew will represent the Barr stable at Wingatui. If David William and Meldie race well there they may be taken further south. David William has been entered for the Invercargill Gold Cup on January 2 and Meldie, along with Harold Bank, has been nominated for the Southland Guineas on the second day of the Southland Racing Club’s meeting. May Retire After 15 years of racing, the Riccarton jockey, D. N. Hadfield, is thinking of retiring. But he will not make a final decision until early next year.

For two years now Hadfield has been developing a pottery business, and is well-known throughout New Zealand and Australia. He will spend Christmas and New Year filling orders at his plant at Amberley, and will not be available for riding. Between January 7 and 14 Hadfield will attend a course in pottery at the Victoria University in Wellington, so will not be able to ride at the Reefton, Kumara or Westland meetings. Hadfield will be a loss to South Island racing for he is an experienced jockey still able to ride at a reasonable weight.