SLEEPY FOX’S MISSION
WEIGHT-FOR-AGE RACES, NOT EPSOM HANDICAP Reed. 7.30 p.m. Sydney, Sept. 10 Unless the owners in New Zealand order a switch in present plans, Sleepy Fox will be scratched from the Epsom Handicap. Mi'. O. Triggs, who is Australian representative of the owners, said this after he had conferred with trainer B. Payten about Sleepy Fox's spring racing programme. Mr. Triggs added: Sleepy Fox won’t start in I lie Epsom unless I get a special order to do so from the owners. That is most unlikely. Payten and I think the horse would be better off in shorter distance weight-fox-
age races. The George Main Stakes, worth £l5OO, run over a mile at weight-for-age on the second day of the spring meeting, should prove a soft snap for Sleepy Fox, hut a hard run in the Epsom with 9.11 might knock him out." Sleepy Fox will not run in the weight-for-age Hill Stakes next Saturday. He will have his next race In either the weight-for-agt Clarendon Stakqs, nine furlongs, or the Arthur Dight Quality Handicap, seven furlongs. at Roselxill on Saturday week.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 215, 11 September 1945, Page 7
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184SLEEPY FOX’S MISSION Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 215, 11 September 1945, Page 7
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