GETTING A PRICE

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 983, 28 May 1930, Page 14

GETTING A PRICE

PLAYING THE MARKET BOOKMAKER AND TOTALISATOR Some of the Australian papers publish accounts of how clever punters have manipulated the betting market over Phar Lap in Australia by building a false price against the Night Raid gelding with support for something else in the race. Looked at in another light it is the greatest advertisement straighout fielding has ever obtained in Australia. The exploitation of the market shows that by supporting one horse the odds are automatically extended against something else and that the set price obtained is held by the punter no matter how the market may fluctuate. For instance, if a horse such as Phar Lap opens at 4 to 1 on and dx-ifts to evens and back to 6 to 1 on, the operator at evens still holds his price. That is why the fielders are so strongly established in Sydney and can operate successfully against the totalisator. It is also the reason why the battle against the totalisator in Victoria weakened sufficiently to allow its introduction. TO GRAZE HERE AUSTRALIAN TWO-YEAR-OLD On board the Ulimaroa (which arrived at Wellington yesterday) there was a two-year-old gelding by Cyklon ii om Cleis, named Encase, sent over to have the benefit of New Zealand pastures. According to the records. Encase has had very little racing. He was a cheap yearling and cost his owner only 80 guineas. REIGH COUNT AND ANOTHER SPEEDSTER It’ bloodlines count for anything-, Mr. john E. Hertz, Chicago taxi magnate and internationally known sportsman, should some day own the world’s super-horse. At his Leona Stock Farm, near Chicago, Mr. I-lertz recently mated the two prize equines of his stable, Reigh Count and Anita Pea- ! body. As both the stallion and the j mare, when at top form, were virtually unbeatable in their respective divisions, the issue of their union should be the super-horse. Reigh Count and Anita Peabody ran bead and bead down the Belmont Park chute to win and finish second in the 1927 Futurity, under Mrs. Hertz’s silks of bright yellow, with black circle on sleeve. In that year Anita won several other important races. In 192 8 Reigh Count was the season’s acknowledged champion, and last year he went abroad, failing by a neck to win the Ascot Gold Cup in England. This pair of speedsters, on paper figure to produce a colt or filly with dazzling speed; but breeding is decidedly uncertain at times and fraught with disappointments. Xot all of Man- ° ar’s get were champions, although several of them have written turf history. NOT INTERESTED According to a Southern critic: “Although the important meeting of the Auckland Racing Club is little more tnan a week off, very little interest is being taken. The class of the jumpers engaged in the ‘Northerns’ is not nearly as good as many former years, and owing to the lack of class nothing stands out prominently in these jumping events. Possible this is the reason that the interest is so j slight compared with other years.” i Possib’y also that is an opinion held j only by the Southern critic.