Pays Nothing and Lifts All Winnings

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7062, 9 November 1929, Page 10

Pays Nothing and Lifts All Winnings

HIGH SYCE’S OWNER CAULFIELD CUP SUCCESS Most of us have prayed for a rich uncle to fill our pockets with gold, but Mrs. L. R. Buxton, owner of the Caulfield Cup winner, High Syce, will never have any need of such a wealthy relative while Charles Neunhoffex*, her doting father, lives, comments a Sydney writer. Being the only daughter, she is well looked after. Mrs. Buxton is no more than 31. Neunhoffer is the governing director of Canada Cycle and Motor Company of Victoria, a proprietary concern in which Neunhoffer and George L. Scott, who won the Doncaster with Simeon's Fort, are the principals. Mr. Neunhoffer became interested in horse racing, bought a few and gave them to his daughter. He never races a horse in his own name. Some men have used the sport for publicity purposes. Mr. Neunhoffer always has kept in the background, deriving pleasure from his daughter’s success. Besides buying for her, he has paid for their training and allowed her to collect the stakes. Englefield, bought from the Stevenson brothers, was the first horse to race in Mrs. Buxton’s name, and, in Holt’s charge, he won many races, including the Memsie Stakes. But Englefield was small fish besides Highland and High Syce, both of whom have turned out champions in their own class. Let Him Go Terry Ahern, the Brisbane publican, lost a good horse when he allowed Highland to go to Melbourne. He had brought him down to Sydney to try him in good company, but when the gelding failed he offered him to Holt, who had been commissioned to buy a horse for Mr. Neunhoffer and his daughter. His V.P. Trial Not having seen Highland race, Holt suggested a private trial, which was staged at Victoria Park. Highland ran two furlongs on the tan in 24 seconds, and that satisfied the Mordialloc wizard, who got the gelding for 750gns. For Mrs. Buxton, Highland has won about £B,OOO. High Syce was a more costly'horse, but even at the 4,ooogns that was given for him he has tunfed out a bargain, and will be a better one before he has finished. It seems strange that anybody would want to sell a horse of the calibre of the Caulfield Cup winner, but the reason was that High Syce had been weighted out of the handicaps in Brisbane, and his scope in weight-for-age races was limited. 1 His former owner considered him well sold at 4,ooogns. Mr. E. M. Pearce (Mollison’s owner) had been advised that he was for sale, but the other people got in first. It was only to be expected that Holt would get a decent win out of him. This trainer has had marvellous success with horses that have been put into his stable. He has been doing interstate business on a large scale. West Australia was the first to discover his genius. Queenslanders Now Now Queenslanders are coming to Holt. He is said to have remarked that High Syce is the best horse that he. has; had in his stable. It is a big thing to say in the face of the great achievements of Heroic - and Eurythmic. At all events, High Syce has made good quickly.

, Whether or nojt he really believes High Syce to be superior to Eurythmic or Heroic, Holt certainly never was more confident abou£ a race than about this. A long time before the Caulfield Cup he advised the owner and his own personal friends to go for a good win over High Syce, and he never weakened until the Wednesday before the race, when he saw the three-year-old Taisho run away with the Herbert Power Stakes. That put the wind up him a little because three-year-olds are to be feared that display brilliance in the same measure as Taisho did. Duncan's Wisdom As it turned out, Taisho wasn’t seasoned enough for the Caulfield Cup, and he cracked up before the post was reached. Prince Viol, a. horse of the same age with an advantage of 341 b, couldn’t hold the Queenslander from the turn home. If Amounis were a genuine stayer he might have beaten High Syce. Amounis came with a great run from last at the seven, but died on his run half a furlong from the goal. Duncan never goes to sleep in a race. When he came to the home turn it was obvious to him that High Syce had the measure of the lightweights, Taisho and Prince Viol, who had been rushed to the front more than half a mile from home.

That was very comforting, but common sense bade him be on the alert for a challenge from behind. So he took a quick glance round and espied Amounis creeping up on the rails. Realising that he could take no risks with a horse of Amounis’s ability, he dug his heels into High Syce and got so far ahead that Amounis couldn’t catch him. Mrs. Buxton already has won about £15,000 in stakes from Highland and High Syce, and with ordinary luck there is a good deal more to come. The family doesn’t bet much.

• Mrs. Buxton had £3 on High Syce, but with all the stakes she is winning and having no training fees to pay she doesn’t need to bet.