Uncle Remus out of stakes
I PA Auckland I Uncle Remus, which promised to be a big attraction in the Bardstown Stakes at Avondale ' ,on Saturday, will not start. His trainer, Colin Jillings, said at the weekend that he had recommended to the owners, Mrs iG. M. Donaldson and Mr K. F. iClotworthy, that Uncle Remus be let up from training for a time. I “I will give him a bit of time off and we will see how we go from there,’’ Jillings said. “He ; lias been a bit listless and I think ! phat in trying to get him ready: for the Foxbridge Plate I might I have ‘gone over the top’ with 1 [him.” | Jillings said there was no thought yet of plans to race! s Uncle Remus in Australia this 1 spring being abandoned — Mel- | bourne was still “on.” The present setback had noth- ’ |ing to do with the respiratory I problems for which Uncle Remus < [underwent surgery last autumn.!'
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