FULMOND BEATEN

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 109, 10 May 1932, Page 4

FULMOND BEATEN

S.A. S*T. LEGER ' CONTEST

Advice-has been received 'that the 2lew Zealand-bred-Fulmond. ran ihirt} in the South AustralianvSt,.-: Leger;. last .Saturday^-, >; : .' ,}...■,'...*'. >v,' ','■ ■■■•.'.■ '-'■■ .;.■', By; the impprtcd.and successfvil Ejoatanui sire, Liinond, out of Full' Swing (a halfsister to Nightmarch), big things' were expected, of Fulmond this season," but so far he has been rather disappointing, none of Australia's rich, classic races falling to. him. .'■'•. ■ Fulmond was sold for 1500 guineas at the Trentham yearling sales in 1029, his purchaser being the well-known Adelaide sportsman, Mr. B. Jolly, a regular patron of the New Zealand bloodstock .Bales. Mr. Jolly vras successful in winning theVSouth Australian .Derby.: last season with Hot Springs,, by Chief Ruler. Although Fulmond has hardly come up to expectations as a thiee year-old, it is possible that he will be a better hoise ne\t season, for he is the type that should improve considerably with age. The principal event at the Mooiefield Meeting last' Saturday, ' the Mooiefield Handicap, was won by Dear March, a sii.-,year-old gelding by March Along fiom Duchess Dear. Etac*i and Australian Belle filled the minor places. GOLD, MONEY BACK Looking \eiy bright and healthy after a spell, Gold Money has rejoined the active brigade at Ellershe-. She- is very fresh and carrying a good deal of fleshy but her appeaiance suggests that she did a fair amount of exercise while spelling, and she may come to hand again fairly quickly. Besides Gold Money, W. Kemp has also taken Killing King in hand again. Ruling King lias been on the ea«y list since racing at Avondale in.the aut\nhn,: and- looks all the better for his short respite.

MAKES HORSE WIN RACE

(From "The Post's" Representative.)

LONDON, 31st March,

' Mr. Boyd Davis (the ex-New Zea-1 lander) continues to have Tur£ successes during what is expected to be his last season in England. Yesterday, at Leicester, his four-year-old brown gelding, Potehhn* (Allenby—Hatsheput), carried off i'the' Prince o£ Wales's Welter Plate (handicap) by three lengths from Mr. W. J. Fryer's five-year-old Part lour, in a field o£ thirteen', distance one mile and a half.

Mr. S. Wootton's Fouqtiet ivas favourite; but finished third. Potchim had been out twice previously this season, in the Liverpool Spring. Cup-and in the Nottingham Spring Cup. Although, unplaced in the latter race, he finished fourth, within a length of the winner, Red Wullie, and only a head and a short head behind l?ouquet, who was then second. Yesterday Potchim secured a long first run from the bend, and readily turned the tables upon Stanley Wootton's horse. > WHISTLED HOME. The "Sporting Life" representative today writes.: — . '■Potchim won the race by virtue o£ his stamina and great fitness. His owner saw the race from, the members' enclosure, and, to the amusement of onlookers, whistled his horse home, just as he does when they are galloping at Devizes. It is Mr. Davis's firm belief that liis horses know' the whistle, as he uses, it when he wishes them to. accelerate in their work. "If Mr. Davis- cannot be induced to. sell Potchim,'. he; may enter him next year for the Melbourne Cup. Worse stayers have'won the race: in recent years;. "Sir. Davis'"agreed, with me'--that little Sharpe rode an admirable race on Potehim. The horse requires some driving. DOOLEY AND NEWBURY. "W. Christie, Jerome Fandor's jockey, rides Mr. Davis's Dooley in the Newbury Spring Cup. He will have to put up two or three pounds overweight. "Dooley, in his owner's opinion, is an even harder horse to ride than Potehim, but Mr. Davis remarked:''l have a few pounds already on Dooley for the race ot Newbury, and I advise you'to have the same. He worked extra well this mornms" taught' to expect it. Quite a vivid story of the whistling incident is made by the "Daily Express" correspondent, who records it as follows: "At twenty-seyea minutes to three this afternoon, at Leicester, as the competitors in the Prince of WalesV.Plate were nearing the finishing post, there was a series of piercing 'shrieks which ■ forced racegoers to clap their hands to their.ears in alarm. "When they turned to discover the source of the noise,- they saw a. man facing the' oncoming horses' blowing a whistle. Its acoustic properties were such that one onlooker described as by Factory Syren out of Engine Whistle. 'The four-year-old Potchim, owned by the New Zealand owner, Mr. Boyd Davis, knew what it meant. ..Potchim was'hying well up with*the field when, the first'shriek struck, his .ears, but .thereafter £here was only one horse in the race-'-and.that was Potchim. .As blast succeeded blast his legs moved faster and faster, and in the end he'sailed'first .past-the: post; an easy winner by three lengths, -at • substantial j odds. . ' ■ • '

"The whistle is part of Mr. Boyd'Davis's training methods. He blows it at the end of his gallops at home to induce his horses to put in all they know at the finish.

"He claims that they have learnt to, expect it, and that they invariably respond to it. "Among the onlookers who failed to appreciate this latest novelty in training methods were the backers of the favourite, Foiiquet, who had been confidently supported to win the. race. "Mr. Boyd Davis's Dooley is in the Newbury Cup, which \iill be run off on 9th April, and it is expected that the whistle will again be heard at Newbuiy that afternoon."

(If Dooley started in the Newbmv Cup he failed to get in the first three. —Racing Editor.)