SPORT OF KINGS OVERSEAS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 July 1939, Page 11

SPORT OF KINGS OVERSEAS

PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE. Sir Abe Bailey. 75-year-old South African millionaire sportsman, lay in bod at his home in Bryanston square after seeing his horse Caerloptic win the Ascot. Royal Hunt Cup. He said: "My greatest ambition is to win the

Derby before I die. It is a terribly hard rate to win—l have had a second But I don’t stop trying. I lost the biggest bet I have made for 20 years on the Derby, but I got it back again. My run of bad luck is ending.” This year was Sir Abe’s fiftieth Ascot. With both legs amputated he sat in an invalid chair in the Jockey Club stand “I was able to see the race quite well and it was thrilling. They told me that it was a popular win. I did not know, because after my horse won I came home. I started racing 52 years ago in South Africa. That was before I worked my way from my father’s store in Pretoria to Barberton. . I remember a tramp coming along to the store, and I gave him a drink. He said that a rich strike had been made and that they bad called it Sheba. I left the store and set out at once for that gold strike. I own it today.” Sir Abe Bailey hoped to have success in this year’s Derby with Fairstone but he was not placed. Fairstone won at Ascot.

The stable double, Green Cape and Giant Killer was backed to win £50,000 according to a statement made in a'Sydney paper prior to the meeting. The trainer of both horses made no secret of the confidence he had in them. The Australian market and the possibility of successfully exploiting it has always been a most magnetic lure to New Zealand owners and is the chief factor in putting a price on yearlings at the national sales.

The former Auckland light-weight jockey, N. Vaughan, has attracted the favourable attention of racing men in the brief time he has been riding in England. According to the latest files he was placed fourth on his first mount; in his second ride, at Yarmouth, he was beaten a short head, both his mounts carrying the colours of J. Bell, the Newmarket trainer. On his third mount, an outsider. Musque Robin, owned by Lord Durham, he was runner-up to Chain Bay. ridden by G. Richards. One observer stated: "Musque Robin’s little-known rider, N. Vaughan, did distinctly well against the champion. G. Richards, whose vigorous riding made all the difference."