FROM STUD AM) STABLE Backers Fared Better Even With Mainbrace

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31942, 20 March 1969, Page 4

FROM STUD AM) STABLE Backers Fared Better Even With Mainbrace

It never happened even during the career of the great Mainbrace, but it happened at Ashburton on Tuesday when backers lost money with each-way bets on Domic, winner of the Lauriston Two-year-old Handicap.

Domic ran right up to expectations with one of the easiest wins on the programme, but the result was unpalatable for his each-way hackers, who lost 30c on every SI place and gained only 25c on win bets. When Mainbrace was assembling his brilliant sequence of wins as a three-year-old in the early 1950 s he invariably started at cramped odds and on one occasion, in the New Zealand St Leger, his win dividend was £1 for But at least you could not lose on the each-way bet even if his £1 2s for a place was hardly’ the start of the road to betting riches. A week before the St Leger. he had won the North Island: Challenge Stakes and had paid £1 2s 6d to win and £1 Os 6d for a place. Earlier that season, when he won the Waikato Guineas, Mainbrace paid £1 3s for a! place. But he was not the: place favourite. There was; such a flood of betting on ; Correspond for a place that! she returned only £1 Os 6d' w’hen second to the cham-I pion. Betting Changed Since those days the struc-j ture of the betting side of racing has changed with the!J development of the T.A.B. Off-course betting almost f! determines favouritism, even

» if there happens to be some r significant divergence of .opinion on the course. s This is most marked on a - small meeting racing without [•.competition on a week day. When there is a "stand-out.". .' as Domic appeared to be on I Tuesday, the flood of money I c through the T.A.B. can create a farcical situation. In some of tlie major rac- - mg countries overseas such. - a position cannot arise. Backers are assured of > money back even though the; 1 weight of money wagered has i brought the dividends to be-! ,ilow the value of the betting r.unit. | Cup Prospect j Mr and Mrs G. Chitty, who i have a small stud at Whitford! 1 near Auckland, are pleased, they decided to travel to 1 • Melbourne last week. |; On Saturday they were at! I Flemington to see Mrs] I Chitty’s stayer. Sir Kinsman,, win the Duke of Norfolk: i Stakes over two miles by , eight lengths—a performance! that brought him into strong! reckoning for the Sydney ; Cup. Sir Kinsman is only the ■ second horse raced by Mrs ! Chitty. Her first was Collynie, the dam of Sir Kinsman. Sir Kinsman, whose sire is ,Alcimedes, raced in New Zealand as Kinsman, and is now prepared by C. S. Hayes in Adelaide Mrs Chitty’s stayer comes from a family with a strong South Island background. His .dam is by Khorassan out of Psalm, the winner of the Dunedin Guineas, the McLean Stakes and other races for Mr W. Grieve, of Invercargill. Psalm was got by Salmagundi from Venite, a useful winner when trained in In-! vercargill by F. W. Ellis, now of Timaru. ! Mrs Chitty can reasonably! !claim that the dam of her ■Sydney Cup contender is bred; on Tulloch lines. Tulloch was by Khorassan. from Florida, a daughter of I Salmagundi. The next dam. j Island Linnet, also did her' j racing in Southland.