N.Z. Visitors Who Like Small Prizes

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 419, 30 July 1928, Page 10

N.Z. Visitors Who Like Small Prizes

INVASION OF SYDNEY

LURE OF BETTING RING Though only one New Zealand horse has won a race in Sydney, the practice of coming to Australia to pick up the comparatively easy money in the winter is certain to prove beneficial before long. THE wisdom of the Xew Zealanders has been borne out for tiie last three or four years (wrote a Sydney scribe last Thursday), and that Sydney owners and trainers remain content to let the visitors run away with the smaller prizes at this time of the racing: season is rather remarkable. EARNING WINTER OATS The visiting: racing: men realise that their moderates cannot be expected to win the big: events of the spring:, or yet even the minor races at the important meetings, but they serve to keep the pot boiling: in the winter while the cracks are just getting into their stride. It is an easy matter to win several races in the winter, and although the prizes are small, the betting facilities are still well worth while, and these smaller prizes are sufficient to more than pay the expenses of a trip. That more Sydney owners do not give up the idea of winning' the big races and utilise their fair gallopers for the task of taking three or four races before the better-class of gallopers being to race in earnest shows that the majority cannot visualise their horses as other- than champions. WILL WIN MORE So it is that Xew Zealand generally though First Acre has been the only successful visitor to date, the certainty is that further wins will crop up in the next few weeks. Jazz Baby - and Greengrocer ran prominently enough at their outings at Rose hill and Canterbury respectively to attract further attention, and * the two-year-olds Amplify and Green Field, though well beaten, are certain of improvement. And Tea Miss, had she not been sold to Mr. Otway Falkiner. who intends spelling her, would have been further demonstration of the wisdom of not overlooking the small pickings for the more elusive glamour of big prizes.

REMINDERS

Nominations -for the Marton Jockey Club’s spring meeting close at 9 p.m. on Friday, August 17. Entries for the Wanganui Jockey Club’s spring fixture are due at S p.m. on Monday, August 20. Final payments and acceptances for first day events at the C.J.C. Grand National meeting close on Thursday, August 9.