DUTIFUL IN FORM

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 128, 2 June 1938, Page 13

DUTIFUL IN FORM

DOUBLE TO J. T. JAMIESON

(From "Vedette.")

SYDNEY, May 27,

J. T. Jamieson scored a double at tl Rosehill last Wednesday with Respira- n tor and Dutiful, both of whom started t< favourite at very short prices. . The s quote of Dutiful was justified, for on a form he looked a certain winner or v, the principal handicap, and he scored s; just as definitely as the figures said he should. Jamieson has the Captain t. Bunsby gelding in great condition. v Respirator, a Windbag colt, had been ■ c backed and beaten three times, but in s. a moderate field at Rosehill he was h able to win. Little support was in eyi- -t dence for him, yet the bookmakers declined to extend his price at all. He * was in the middle of the field until d the turn was reached, but then strode «« through and on the post was a com- Jj fortable winner. , j. J. E. Pike has not had a great deal " of success as a trainer, and Night of g Love scored about his best success to s Idate in the Flying Welter at Rosehill. « The Rampion mare started favourite, * and led practically throughout. She is " a useful second-class sprmter, and ran out the seven furlongs much better t than was generally expected. t Perimond, by Veilmond, and tne Posterity mare Kinsfolk .were backed j. to beat Dutiful, but neither any £ chance. At one stage Kinsfolk had a .. six-lengths' lead, but /retired very t auickly at the end of a mile. . c J. King, prominent Randwick trainer, a has no reason" to be pleased with the j present board of stipendiary stewards. f Since their* appoin,tment at the end of c February, King has been before them f six times in connection with the run- j ning of his horses. On each occasion a he has bee* exonerated, but the itequency is ilarked. Some explanation r is possible fronr the fact that he has t at times'4o to 50 'horses in training s at Randwick and at his private track f € at Rooty Hill, some twenty miles out j of Sydney. On the law of averages c with so many horses he is naoie to c attract more attention. . l, . r Gimme* a four-year-old by the im- , ported sire Diacquenod, formerly in c New Zealand, shows more stamina j than the average stock of that horse He ran out a mile very ■ solidly . at t Rosehill and is sure to do better. E iHs not often that Jamieson takes , horses to Menangle, but last .Tuesday i he-started Custody (Lord. Warden— . Clink) and Hunting Chorus,.^ ■Hunting Song. Custody would have won with a fair start instead of being nar- j rowly beaten into second place,, but no j excuse was possible for the two-year-old, who performed poorly. c M McCarten has been kept out of s the saddle .this week by a minor indls- , position. He expects to resume early . ne Mr W Jac k k Whitworth, ,who raced.Ar- j tillerie/in Australia died on Wednes- , rlav after a lengthy illness. Mr. Whit- 1 worth came from y New Zealand many « years ago with that mare, and after 1 enjoying success, as an owner-trainer, took over a; hotel in thT country. Latterly he has been licensee of the Hotel Randwick, which faces the racecourse. Off-the-course bettors are finding tne embargo by the police on star mg-price business \most effective. It is almost . for an illegal wager to be made now owing to the rigid enforce- , merit of the law. Hotels and other . pto formerly brisk and lively places . on race day have been r deserted. So far there Has been an increase in at- i Si but not to a£ outstanding ■ degree, <