CLARENDON STAKES
SLEEPY FOX ENGAGED
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) Rec. 12.30 p.m. SYDNEY, Sept. 10. i Unless the owners in New Zealand 'order a switch in the present plans, Sleepy Fox will be scratched from the Epsom Handicap. Mr. O. Triggs, who is the Australian representative of the owners, said this after he had conferred with the trainer, B. Payten, about Sleepy Fox's spring racing programme. Triggs added: "Sleepy Fox won't start in the Epsom Handicap unless I get a special order to do so from the owners. That is most unlikely, for Payten and I think the horse would be better off in the shorter distance weight-for-age races. The George Main Stakes, worth £1500, and run over a mile at weight-for-age on the second day of the Spring Meeting, should prove a soft snap for Sleepy Fox, but a hard run in the Epsom with 9.11 might knock him out." Sleepy Fox will, not run in the weight-for-age Hill Stakes next Saturday. He will have his next race in either the weight-for-age Clarendon j Stakes, nine furlongs, or the Arthur; Dight Quality Handicap, seven furlongs, at Rosehill on Saturday week.
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 61, 10 September 1945, Page 6
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190CLARENDON STAKES Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 61, 10 September 1945, Page 6
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