RACES POSTPONED

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22226, 28 September 1935, Page 11

RACES POSTPONED

TATJMARIJNUI MEETING PUT OFF FOR ONE WEEK WET WEATHER THE CAUSE Owing to unfavourable conditions after a period of wet weather, the Tnuniarunui Racing Club's meeting at Paeroa has been postponed until October 5 and 7. The meeting was to have been held to-day and on Monday and the postponement will bring it to within a week of the Auckland Racing Club's Spring Meeting at Ellerslie. The secretary, Mr. H. Poland, stated yesterday that the weather at Paeroa hud been wet and the committee decided to apply for permission to postpone for a week. The Now Zealand Pacing Conference had consented to the application. When it was known that the postponement was to be made, , steps wore immediately taken to advise owners and trainers as quickly as possihle and those who had intended taking horses to Paeroa yesterday were in the main apprised of the fact beforo they had left home. One trainer who failed to receive advice in time was the To Awamutu trainer A. Cook, who reached Paeroa with his candidates, and afterwards returned home with them.

NEW ZEALAND JOCKEYS

FAILURES IN AUSTRALIA AN INFERIORITY COMPLEX Ona of the best known and best liked of all New Zealand racing men who frequently visit Australia is J. M. Cameron, says tho Melbourne writer " Cardigan." He is hero again with Gold Trail and intends taking that mare to Melbourne. Cameron asked me in Sydney the other day why so many New Zealand jockeys fail to do well in Australia, to which I replied rather off-haudedly, " Because they cannot ride." " No," lie said, " it's not that, but I have been puzzling my brain to try to work out why really good horsemen at homo come to Australia and ride like fifth-rate apprentices." He quoted a few examples and then went on to refer to the criticism to which A. Tinker, tho rider of Gay Blonde, received for his display on that mare in the Tramway Handicap at Randwick and on Silver Jubilee at Rosebery. '' Tinker," said Cameron, " is one of the best riders I have seen in the Dominion for years. He has brains and ability, and there are many people who have been going to races for years who declare that he* is almost as good. a rider as Hector Grey. Yet when ho comes to Sydney he does not show his best form. He is criticised and probably tho criticism makes him ride even worse the next time."

Consirlering the number of jockeys who visit Australia from New Zealand with excellent home reputations, there are few who do well. Gray, of course, could ride well anywhere, as on a horse he had a superiority complex. Voitre is much the same, being unaffected by place or conditions, and McCarten is the same, although when he first came to Australia he did not show his best,form and for some time fwag dubbed as " ust a rider." Hut he had the courage and the ability to cast the -complex from him; and nowadays there is no better-liked jockey riding than Maurice ilcCarten. < . ; 1 can recall numerous other New Zealand riders who always shaped badly in ' Sydney and little better in Melbourne. They net onlv failed to do anything right, but also appeared to have the unhappy knack of doing the wrong thine, ■which not only lost them many valuable races, but caused investors to declare that they would nevpr ap;iin support a horse ridden by a New Zealand jockey. It is to be hoped for the sake of Gay Blonde's admirers that Tinker recovers his best form before the Epsom. Riding in those sort of races counts a great deal, and more than one rich coup has been lost as the result of poor jockeyship. TE AROHA TROTTING CLUB NO MEETING THIS SEASON [by TELEGRAPH-7-OWN correspondent] TE AROHA, Friday. The Te Aroha Trotting Club, whose date for this season was December 7, has decided not to hold the meeting. This decision was reached at the annual meeting of members this week. If trotting prospects in the district improve later, a programme, with good stakes, will be issued for the following season. . THAMES TROTTING CLUB PROGRAMME FOR NOVEMBER 2

A well-balance programme has been arranged for the Thames Trotting Club's meeting on November 2, when the chief events will be the Thames Trotting Cup, of £l4O and cup valued at £25, limit 4.33, two miles, and the Kopu Handicap, of £IOO, limit 2.46, li miles. Details of the programme are advertised in this issue.