SLEEPY FOX BEATEN AT ROSEHILL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 226, 24 September 1945, Page 6

SLEEPY FOX BEATEN AT ROSEHILL

NEW ZEALANDER UNLUCKY Recd. 8.20 p.m. Sydney, Sept. 23. Sleepy Fox, regarded as a certainty for the race and starting at long odds on, was defeated half a head in the Clarendon Stakes at Rosehill yesterday. The New Zealander found Accession a liftle too solid in the closing stages. With a furlong to go Accession ranged alongside Sleepy Fox, who had taken the lead a little earlier, and the two raced head and head to the post. Neither the trainer, B. Pay ten, nor the jockey, Darby Munro, offered any excuse for Sleepy Fox but he did not have the best of luck. He began slowly and lost three lengths at the rise of the barrier. The stewards asked why he lost ground at the start and ; Munro told them the horse had blundered in jumping away. Although the I field comprised only six horses, Sleepy (Fox raced three horses wide until at--1 ter entering the stdaight. He was run off his legs in the first seven furlongs land was left without, a finishing kick when Accession challenged. The New Zealanders A. E. Ellis (trainer) and L. Hare (rider) of the Epsom hope, High Play, were questioned for nearly an hour by the stew,ards after High Pla v had finished fourth in the First Division of the I Welter Handicap. After hearing their ’evidence verifying the belting (transactions the stewards accepted the .explanations. The stewards asked j vyhy High Play, after being one of the 1 first away, lost so much ground in the 1 early stages that he was nearly fifteen lengths from the leaders passing the 1 half-mile. Hare said the horse would in°f stretch out and refused to gallop 1 kindly. Results are:— Clarendon Stakes, of £900; 9 furlongs. ACCESSION, 9.0 (Cook) . 1 SLEEPY FOX, 9.1, Munro .2 MAYFOWL, 9.4 Sinclair .. 3 Six started. Half a head; three lengths. Time, 1.511. Arthur Dight Quality Handicap, of £1000; 7 furlongs. REPSHOT, 8.5, Morgan 1 TRIBAL 7.7, McGrowdie 2 SILENT, 7.2, Tomlinson 3 Eight started. Head: neck. Time, 1.24.