INJURY TO JAYSON

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 108, 10 May 1933, Page 6

INJURY TO JAYSON

BEACONFIRE FOR CORNWALL

If the horses themsehes ate all right, the Woodville trainer, H..E.1 Russell, in-, tends to take Jayeon and Beacon Fire to the Great Northern Meeting. The former is engaged in .both the great jumping events,' and Beacon Fire is down to content the .Cornwall Handicap. I Jayson,-who made his debut over eouni try at Marton, when he finished third to' I two good ones in Callamai't and Okopua,i had a chequered career in his Kgmont races. He took on the Egmont Steeple-' chase the" first day and was going very well at the fence -near the half-mile post the last time when he tipped out. He was. a.bit sore-after-his fall. Jayson had .small chance of beating the eventual winner, Copey, but he might have been in the money had he stood up. BEATEN BY FINE ACRE. With Copey out" of the way in the Adamson Steeplechase on the second day, backers were eager to have Jayson on their side, but he was again beaten, Fine Acre winning most convincingly. Jayson finished second, and to this extent confirmed the impression that he was a promising recruit to 'chasing. [ Unfortunately Jjayson Btaked himself during the contest, and he was bleeding freely from a wound just below the stifle. His trainer thought that an extra strong and sharp piece of the brush fence pierced the fle<,h, and he frankly confess-ed that he did not like the look of it. The jumper is engaged at Wanganui next week, and if ho is accepted lor there it can be taken that the injury was not serious. However, whatever the future has In store for Jayson, Trainer Russell .is to go-to-Ellerslie, even if Beacon lire is his only charge. The latter shaped very well atHawera, even if his1 form the second day was rather disappointing. There were perhaps extenuating circumstances which would account for his failure to beat the moderate performer, La Crown. L. U. Morris had Beacon Fire on the outside ot. thiee horses just after the start,, and when the other two faded he was able to get on the rails. WENT WHERE IT WAS BAD. Under ordinary conditions this might "have Been good policy, but with a track that had cut up badly and was by this time-very-heavy_indccd, next to the rails, it was asking something ot a norse carrying 431b above the minimum. At the distance Beacon Fire was actually ahead of La Crown, who had been the pacemaker, all the way, but he could not hold his position- and-Mowia -eased-him -wfceir'ne was assured there was no chance of winning and that he was certain to be second! just over* length from the winner.Beacon .Fire is engaged in, the .AJt.C. Cornwll Handicap, hi« impost being 7*l. Last winter the Lackham gelding wa» ««c----ond favourite for the Winter Cup, and he was always prominent for seven-'tnnonp. Under the lighter'scale of weights he should .be,able" to run a good race *V Ellerslie Vest 'month', t&e main trouble being to 'secure 'the services of a suitable lightweight jockey. Probably Beacon Fire 4u be ridden .by, the stable, apprentice, G Jones.,who,was riAiagU 1* at Hawera last week and may, be'abl* to get down to the 'revisit* ™&*- « at leartbe very little over it. Russell-has had ■good record at Ellerslie with Golden Wings, and now Beacon Fire seems a likely, sort to add to that winning sequence.