JOCKEY’S GENIUS

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 84, 30 June 1927, Page 6

JOCKEY’S GENIUS

BEATS THE FOREIGNERS

HOW EXHAUSTED FOXLAW WAS NURSED A feature of the Ascot Gold Cup a few days ago was the victory of the only English-owned horse in the race, Sir Abe Bailey’s Foxlaw, ridden by the Australian, Brownie Carslake. Of the eight starters, two were owned by Indians, two by Frenchmen, one Argentinian, one Belgian and one Englishman. The slow-run race exactly suited genius Brownie Carslake, who rode a magnificent race, judging the capacity of Foxlaw almost to the ounce. Fifty yards past the post Foxlaw was so distressed that Carslake had to wait until he recovered before returning to the official enclosure. OUTSIDER SECOND Altay, who was the outsider of the field, gained second place, ahead of the Aga Khan’s Dark Japan, favourite for the event, at a Great Earl (first day) price. Altay, who is owned by a Belgian, led the field to within 100 yards from home. Then Dark Japan threw out a weak challenge, but was soon beaten off. Carslake, who had ridden a clever waiting race, brought Foxlaw with a rush in the last 50 yards, and won by two lengths, with Dark Japan the same distance away. ROYAL BAN As owner of Ascot, the King banned a repetition of C. B. Cochran’s airplane stunt, when a machine with a banner streamer advertising his revue, “One Dam Thing After Another,” ancl carrying as a passenger the star of the show, Edythe Baker, flew over the course. The King informed Colonel Gordon, clerk of the course, that he objected to the wording of the vulgar advertiseing, and also that there was a chance of it frightening the horses. • It was not stated what his Majesty considered would scare the thoroughbreds. It might have been the noise of the airplane’s engine, or the streamer. Perhaps it was the naughty words emblazoned on the streamer.