SLEEPY FOX’S PROGRAMME
IMPROBABLE STARTER IN EPSOM Sydney, Sept. 10. 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 Australian representative of the owners. said this afternoon that he had conferred with the trainer. B. Payten. about Sleepy Fox’s spring racing programme. Mr Triggs added: “Sleepy Fox won't start in the Epsom unless I get a special order to do so from the owners. That is most unlikely Payten and I think the horse would be better off in the shorter distance of weight-for-age races.
“The George Main Stakes. worth £ISOO. ru H over a mile at weight-for-are on the second day of the spring meeting should prove a soft snap for Sleepy Fox. but the 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 Stakes of nine furlongs or the Arthur Dight Quality Handicap of seven furlongs at Rosehill on Saturday week.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 11 September 1945, Page 2
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