AUSSIE ODDS AND ENDS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 301, 5 December 1929, Page 2

AUSSIE ODDS AND ENDS

According to Inst Friday’s issue of the Sydney '‘Herald,” the wellknown.racing man Mr. Eric Connolly, who was reputed to have made a little fortune over Nightmarch’s victories in the A.J.C. Epsom Handicap and the Melbourne Cup, had then been seriously ill for some days. Elis condition early in the week was said to have occasioned concern to his friends, but he -showed a distinct improvement on the date mentioned.

A. Melbourne message i f the panic paper states that the damage sustained by the crack jockey W. Duncan when his horse fell with him at the Epsom (Vie.) meeting last Saturday week is more serious than at first thought. The result of an X-ray examination discloses that lie received very serious injuries to the

spine in the region of the neck, and he is likely to be confined to his bed for a much longer period than was anticipated. * * * The Thuynham—Housewife gelding Home Made, who used to carry Mr. W. H. Gaisford’s colours over here, won a race or two over hurdles round about Sydney after being bought for Australia. He seems now to have drifted out into the country districts, and last week won the principal flat event, mile, at the Quirindi (N.S.W.) meeting. * * * Officially compiled Commonwealth (igures for the first quarter of the current racing season show the im* ported New Zealand horse Night Raid well at the head of the winning sires list so far as money earned is concerned. His collection of £18,178 is attributable to only three winners, Nightmarch, Phar Lap, and an cose uro Australian get of his, to whom only a very small amount is assignable. Next comes the Queensland imported horse Hightield,. sire of High Syce and Highland, nine of his progeny bringing in £12,332. Third place is held by Magpie, with twe ve winners of £9,209. Besides. Nightmarch, the only other Dominion sire appearing among the first dozen is Romeo, eleventh on the list, three ot whose representatives won £2,9-4.