PREPARING THE WINNER

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 18, 22 January 1937, Page 13

PREPARING THE WINNER

According to his owner-trainer, Mr. j; E. Hay, the. recent Perth Cup winner, Manolive, has never failed to do all that he has been asked. Only once, in a race at Canning Park, did he give any sign that he could not finish on. "He has never had any hard preparation," Mr. Hay said. "He is trained on the beach at Fremantle, and, apart from smart gallops, he has never been asked to stretch himself out. He is a good onest trier in a race; that is shown by the fact that he has won five of the last eight races in which he has run. I had him only six weeks before the Derby last year, and when he finished third then he was not in his best condition. When he went to the post for the Perth Cup he was in the pink of condition, as his finish showed." NO "LEVIATHANS" NOW At one time bookmaking in Sydney was a genuine money-making business. Licence, fees were light, and the present heavy Government taxation was non-existent. Furthermore, the books were the possessors of most of the information as to horses' prospects. They paid for it, and got it. All has changed. The Government extracts as much as possible in taxation, racecourse licences are higher, and the public are now quite as well informed as the "books" as to horses' doings in private. Among the bookmakers themselves competition was never keener, and under present conditions it is improbable that some men who made big names in the earlier days would have reached the "leviathan" class.