J. DOOLEY'S RECORD

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 83, 9 April 1931, Page 8

J. DOOLEY'S RECORD

SIX FIRSTS NOT UNIQUE

Although J. Dooley's feat at the recent Beaumont Racing" Club's Meeting of having ridden six firsts in the six galloping events on the first day and six seconds in the six galloping events on the second day may justly be styled a record, and is, moreover, one that may not be equalled again in a. century, nevertheless the riding of six winners in six cv'ents is not a sole record in the annals of Now Zealand racing history. At least once previously in the last thirty years, to delve no further into the past, it has been done. Thai was by W. Whitaker at the Pora- • ngahau Racing Club's (now defunct) Meeting on 27th December, KUO. There were eight races on the programme, but two

were for gentleman riders. AVhitnker rode the winners of the other six. The riding of six winners iv a day is not in itself a unique achievement, and has been accomplished on several occasions. Three others that come, to mind are those of F. O. Porter at Tolaga Bay on 22nd February, 1913, of J. Conquest at Rotorua on 23rd February, 1917, and of A, Whitaker at the non-totalisator Huntly Meeting in 1903. On several times, too, B. Deeley just failed to win a clay's galloping programme. At the Nelson Meeting in 1912, for instance, he rode four winners in six events on each day.. On the first day he did not have a mount iv one race, and on the second day he was second in the two races he did not -win. The Nelson and Marlborough Meeting were happy hunting grounds for Deeley, who, at his prime, could usually be relied on to capture half the programme.