FROM AUSTRALIA

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 23, 27 July 1927, Page 13

FROM AUSTRALIA

MR. G.'m. CURRIE RETURNS

Amongst the passengers by the TJK-. maroa from Sydney to-day was Mr. G. M. Currie, the well-known New Zealand studmaster, who has spent a two» months' holiday in Australia. Whila there he saw hia horse, The Thorn, run four times for two firsts, one second,, and a third. The Thorn, goes into George Price's stable to be prepared, for future engagements, and will xc. main with Price provided he is not sokL The Thorn is engaged in the. .-Epsom Handicap. J. Williamson, who took The Thorn to Australia, is expected home by the Niagara early next week.' Mr. Currie, in common with all New; Zealanders, who race horses in Sydney^ was impressed by the centralisation o^ racing and the facilities for travelling when one had to go afield. ..- Williamson's horses were taken to the country; meetings by'motor : yan,. and this was becoming an increasingly popular modi of horse transport. Horses with en* gagements early in a day could be sent home and the vans returned for another shipment. Away from Bandwick, stakes.were very poor, but the betting was on a scale which made sotria amends. ■ . "

Concerning. Williamson's team, Th«j Thorn was the sheet-anchor, and was| the only winner. Clarus was most unlucky in running more than once, and; should have won. Pentagram lost a winning chance in the big jumping' event at Bandwick by erratic fencing^ Prior to the meeting, when schooling he had knocked right over a panel of a fence which hitherto had withstood the knocks of all comers.

Mr. Carrie did mot have an. opportunity to visit any of the-studs. He stated that the Phalaria horse Moabite was earning a good name, and was likely to be one of the coming successeß at thai stud. Mr. Currie was most favourablji impressed by the Trench horse Bions^ cup, which had one race at Warwick Farm and showed plenty of pace so long as his condition lasted. Eionseuii is said to be a most impressive ihdS vidnaL ......

All Sydney ia waiting to see thd meeting of Limerick and Commenda* tion, and, according to Mr.. Currie, M, M Carten is anxious to secure the rid« on Commendation in the Caulfield GupJ a race in which he has left' himself without a mount pending the arrival of Commendation from New Zealand, "