MILD DEMONSTRATION

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 23, 28 January 1938, Page 4

MILD DEMONSTRATION

PLACINGS QI ESTIONED BIG RACE AT THAMES. Following the running of lhe Presi dent's Handicap at Thames on Mon day some patrons of the lawn enclosure made a mild demonstration Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney has temporarily retired from the American turf, and 15 of his horses have been sold for £23,920. The salt was the most important of its kind ir maryland turf history. It also marked lhe disappearance from the turf for f time ot the famous Eton blue silk.with brown cap which have been known internationally for three generations. Mr. Whitney recently asserted that when he has an opportunity to devote personal attention to his stable he will be back in racing. In the meantime his wife has expanded her stable of jumpers by taking over some of her husband’s former flat racers, which will be put to jumping. The horse which brought in most money was Dauber, which was sold to Mr. William du Pont, jun., a member of the Jockey Club, for 29,000 dollars (about £5,800), while The Chief, which was rated as Dauber’s superior at the beginning of the season, went to Mr. Maxwell Howard for 14,100 dollars (about £2,820). Honours in the racing world of England seem to have a very limited range, and, glancing through the excellent statistical tables published the day after the close of the 1937 season, one sees this revealed. For instance! the Aga Khan, who headed the list of winning owners, tilled that position for the sixth time in nine years. The amount won, £30,655 10s, is, however, less than half the record sum his horses won in 1934. C. Boyd-Rochfort heads the winning trainers’ list for the first time, beating J. Lawson, but both these men are always at or near the top of their division. As for the jockeys, Gordon Richards has nearly a monopoly of first place, having figured there 11 times in 13 years “