NOTES AND COMMENTS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 229, 28 September 1933, Page 7

NOTES AND COMMENTS

Juveniles at Randwick. The two-year-old Visage in G. Price’s stable is showing smart sprinting form on the tracks at Randwick. Last week with a mate she ran three furlongs in 38Jscc., the best of the morning. Flag's on the tracks were 70ft. out. Visage is a sister to Veilmond (Limond —Veil). She is being trained by Price for Mr. E. J. Watt, who bought her for 400 guineas at the last Trentham sales. One critic says: “She has a full share of the family speed.” The Limond colt out of Jewel of Asia, who has been named Sir John, is’ also showing promise. He cost Afcv E. Moss 725 guineas at the sales. In a barrier trial on the course proper last week over half a mile the Limond pair left two mates and eased up in 53Jsec. R. Reed has been riding Visage, »and M. McCartcn Sir John. Limond is further represented at Randwick by the filly Limyris, out of Pomyris, and the colt Limoux, out of White Tulip, and this pair also made the best showing in their heat in 52Jscc. Geraldine Cup Memory.

The smallest field on record in a Geraldine Cup was two, in 1895 (says the Timaru Herald). The winner was Chaos, a five-year-old horse by Total Eclipse, owned by Murray Hobbs, who provided the sensation of that year. After winning a double on the first day of the spring meeting at Washdyke, Chaos on the second day, though loaded with 10.2. frightened all the other entrants out of the Gladstone Handicap except the Oamaru gelding Vandyke 7.10, who could not extend the winner. Awarded 9.13 in the Geraldine Cup, Chaos again had a solitary opponent, Invader, who was weighted at 6.5, but carried 201 b. overweight to run for second money. Given 10.3 in the Racing Club Handicap on the second day. Chaos won from two lightly-weighted adversaries. His only other start was in the New Zealand Cup, in which ho finished second to the triple-crown winner Euroclydon, with another good three-year-old, Gipsy Grand, in third place. England’s Wealthiest Rider. Alfred (“Tiny”) White, who was at one time reputed to be the richest jockey in England, died at Newmarket at the end of July, at the a’ge of 70. White narrowlv beat Fred Archer in

the Cambridgeshire in 1886, when they rode The Sailor Prince and St. Mirin respectively, and that defeat was taken so much to heart by Archer that it was believed to be the chief cause of his taking his own life. After trying his hand at training, an'd losing a lot of money. White returned to the saddle, but his sight was then so weak that for some years he rode in smoked glasses. He was blind at the time of his death.