IT is now disclosed that the British Press shocked Sydney Wooderson beyond. comprehension. Joe Binks, ex-holder of the mile record, the only British journalist to accompany Wood- erson to the United States, asks what it was that brought such "a wild hysterical clamor in the Press in America and in England?"
THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 17, 1939.
SPORTS PARADE
leading to set the pace and thus pre- vent his competitors from making that The Press furore, according to Binks, final dash which left him standing, arose out of indiscreet remarks made
It is good news that Wooderson, by Wooderson's trainer and his bro-himself, realises he did not adopt the ther, who, before they knew what best tactics and that he departed from really had happened, said that Wood America in the best of feelings erson would never again race in good comradeship with his competi-
America.
Binks stated that the hard racing that Wooderson took part in prior to
his departure for the United States was not the correct preparation.
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THE totalisator turnover on the three days of the English Derby meet- ing was £220,017. Of this the "daily WHAT puzzled Binks was the refus-double" was responsible for £17,822, when he was but as investments on the "daily tre-
al of Wooderson
ble" amounted to only £1781, seem- ingly it will take some time to educate English bettors to that method speculation.
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from the clever producer Fancy Free, dam of Full Sall and ottlere, brings attention once more to the tremendous value of the right kind of mates for even progenitors of the highest type (says a writer in "The Thoroughbred Record," USA.).
"California breeders are gradually the notlon any getting away from femalo no longer able to earn bric- kets even in the most plebeian of com- pany should be placed in a paddock at haras. The false a neighbourhood reasoning making a brood-mare out of unpromising material from the
race-
WHEN Johnstown recently won the Withers, 1 mile, at Belmont Park (New York), in 1.35 4-5, he ran the second furlong in 10 4-5, which was course is akin to the practice, unfor- stated to be the fastest furlong ever tunately growing fast, of sending pro- the mising matrons to the court of dis- clocked by the official timer of
cards from private nurseries" turned Jockey Club tracks.
over to the public service.
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THAT Blue Peter, vanquisher of a very large field in the Derby, is
"North and South, owners of mares
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