The Turf in Australia

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19136, 3 October 1936, Page 9

The Turf in Australia

TN “The Shearer’s Coll” Air. A. B. * (P.anjo) Paterson lias written a sporting novel that is the prose complement of some of his best narrative verso. Air. Paterson knows the Australian bush intimately, lie knows the bush folk and city sharpers who. congregate at up-country race meetings; he knows horses from the outback paddocks, where they arc foaled, t.o where they gleam sleekly in the trainer’s loose box, and lie knows the metropolitan racing game, too. His hero is Sensation, a shearer’s colt., who battles his way past npcountry winning posts, and, after various adventures, is given a trial on city c.ourscs. He has some griyit wiiis, and then is sent, overseas, to an international race meeting; a kind ol equine Olympiad. It is a three-day programme, and, after a bad beginning —not his fault- —the bush-bred horse emerges wreathed in glory.

Dopesters and crooks arc the villains of the talc and two girls, Afoira and Connie, are the .joint heroines. Mr. Paterson lias not let the love interest run a wav with the bonk, of which the main theme is horse.—(Angus and Robertson).