Suspension for rider of big treble winner
The veteran Riccarton jockey, E. G. Low, was suspended from race riding until after April 19 after riding the “bolter” Dusky Satchel to victory to complete a record T.A.B. treble of $38,804.40 at the North Canterbury Racing Club’s meeting yesterday.
“Perhaps one of those fellows who won the treble will help to pay for my holiday,” Low quipped as he left the course at Rangiora with the news that he would lose two riding days.
He had been charged with careless riding, allowing Dusky Satchel to cross too quickly from wide out and causing interference soon after the start of the Oxford Handicap, third leg of the treble.
Dusky Satchel was carrying the hopes of two ticketholders on the treble when she went out for the Oxford Handicap, and brought off the major surprise of the day
when she won by three lengths. She was the 13/16 favourite in this, her first win since she was successful as a two-year-old at the Waikato Racing Club’s New Zealand Day meeting in 1974. Her win dividend was $58.85. Like No Retreat, winner of the second leg of the treble, Dusky Satchel carried No. 13 saddlecloth. Battle Joy, winner of the first leg, was No. 1. Battle Joy was the second fancy in win-and-place betting on the Inglewood Stakes and No Retreat, the mount of Brent Thomson in the Swannanoa Maiden, was third favourite to win and second favourite for a place.
The off-course favourites were Tin (second leg), and Rulaway (third leg). Rulaway did the better, finishing third, but almost four lengths from the winner. Excluding $97,011 bet on T.A.B. trebles, off-course betting on yesterday’s meeting totalled $358,243.50, an increase of $92,582 on last year. This is a record for a North Canterbury autumn meeting. Betting off-course slumped on only one race on the programme — the high-weight. That was the only race without a North Island rider. The on-course turnover of $116,714 was also a record for a North Canterbury autumn meeting — $34,870 above the previous best, re-
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Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34127, 13 April 1976, Page 9
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