LATE SPORTING

Greymouth Evening Star, 2 November 1929, Page 2

LATE SPORTING

COON SONG SCRATCHED. (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, November 2. Coon Song was scratched for all engagements at the Canterbury Jockey Club’s meeting, at nine o’clock this morning. PRICKLES Prickles, whose injury reported today will at best mean retirement of the four-year-old daughter of Panmure from Brambletyre to the stud, had only recently shown promise of developing into a really profitable proposition. As a three-year-old she was owned by Sir George Clifford for whom she did not score a win, but she helped the stable to the extent of £270 by seconds to Pride in the N.Z. Oaks Stakes, to Beau Geste in the South Canterbury Handicap, to Battle Colours in the Sockburn Handicap and to Buoyant in the T. B. Starkey Memorial at Amberley, and a third in the Teschemaker Handicap at the South Canterbury meeting. Carrying the colours of Mr. W. J. Blake, she began her carper as a four-irear-old by winning the Brabazon Handicap, at the Christchurch Hunt Club’s meeting. She then raced unplaced in the Winter Cup. Hei’ third start this season was in the Ashburton Handicap in September when she ran second to Chide and in her last race she won the Geraldine Cup, her winnings for her present owner amounting to £264.