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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 1954.
OLD RACERS IN RETIREMENT
Above are the stable build. ings at Sheung Shui where at 17 of the former present stars of Happy Valley are quartored.
Left: Ataman, prizowinner of past seasons, one of the pensioners. Ataman started his racing coroar in 1948.
Below:
The ponies being taken out to exercise.
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Pensioned-off Warriors Of The Turf Live A Life
Of Ease At Sheung
Sheung Shui
By ROBIN HUTCHEON
who
014
EVENTEEN panies first year of racing, won over day or not, the ponies get their dally quoin of exercise with you're cheered and $11,000 for his owner. Mr E.A.
But over: Bread. including the Derby, the stable boys. cursed at Happs the Pearce Memorial L'up and the busiest day they can do no Valley in years gone the St Leger, Also there
Dure than two two-hour rkles.
well-known None but
1+18 by
champions, place. Wodong
won for Mr D.
trusted horsemen and wonicu Ketters and also-rans--are Benson $37.450 in prize money between 1947 au 1963. Ba-hful
are allowed to tuke out the living today in quiet and wor
Beauty, mother big prize win- ponies. Once two young ridera comfortable relirentent at
ter and holder of the Champion were caught practising stacis belind the hills. Sheung Shui, far from
the Stuky in
and finishes 1050, Possibility an
other Acquisition, two
well- So now the Jockey Club In- clamour of the race course.
Парру какочуть
horse- performers al
alsis upen responsible In four acres of groun
They h in the postwar years.
prefer Valley planted with liquid ambers,
when Know the best is also the home of Busted camphors palme, sinewy
LL intner place-geltes, been. “Golden Boy, Jimuly have some of which
god other veterans standing for The fast 100 Cheller
which.
another, way or yeurs azaleas and grey missed out. There are still green bumbon clumps, theve others who could not manage old warriors of the turi are
to push even their homes the photo-flush pictures. living an idyllic life.
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Meri,
guider
rides to accompany on their outings.
The
AL
poules' day
club
the ponies
begins 让复 5.30 a.m. when they are given their dest food. Then they are ས་ groomed and the stails cleaned Titu
while they are out at exercise. feed noon there is another pony's, followed by more exercise exclusive the afternoon in the surround- homes for artitet mi chora" Ing his. And at 630 pm they Club have Jockey Hongkong
their last The Stewards pick only those which being believe will be suitable night.
determines a What chgibility for this
There, at the Hongkong Jockey Club's stables, they are probably as well attend
and cured for Windsor Greys which draw they
horses It t 21 I w JANDO Stufe t'ou back
when
their racing days yrath the Royal through London - in fact,
As there are only 24 build- stults in the two stuble probably better.
ings, membership is open only to the list, but not say the fastest or the biggest pre-money
ינוד
nol
are
Welfare State
philosophie A
horse, whether he be a $24
the motive power inerely for a milk cart, could help but think that here was Utopia, or, better still, a horse's conception of the welfare state with feve car rots and a grazing paddock. just for the asking, abun dant fool, a clean cool home, gentle exercise, and free and expert medical attention.
winners.
If selected at the
prezenteri
Cool Stalls
<l
in-
11
before The
The typically Chinese exterior of the Jockey Club building in Shoung Shui. It is a popular week-end
resort.
1) slay a week 17 they like, but nol two week-ends running because of the big demand for the club quarters.
Since it was opened the club
Me resident, Hongkong [Excl down for
Hess, brought this branch of the Club into existence,
The Sheung Shui club stands in the grounds of an old couth-
slubled
Five Others
L
has become so
have
there
when as many
A
populor that week-ends
been
As 200 adulls
Moller each week-end (with the kept later it was bought by ponies are
Renovated
17
day) Jockey Club realisext t the would have to provide some-
thing more than just riding. So they built a tennis court, und
comTM
At that time it was virtually
garden
uvergrown
and
the
now
a they are putting up
children's playground,
At the moment there are five try progaity which before the war was the home of an Ameri- Shut at Sheung other pomTOS who at convalescents, There can resident, Mr W. T. Stan- IL was
us 50 children and my many Is the Champions winner, ton. In the war years
and have been present. Then there Wild Knockdown, also
Dat, used by Japanese troops,
the old Chinese style
house, 12
continuous meal-time Teddington Hunca Mencu anet
tho as high, fed roof, was from breakfast sent with
early in been sen of Karrero, who have
used as a barracks. It became a morning to dinner late into tho their raging careers the ponies to the country by their own bullet for British troops when night.
Jockey to get
over loss of condition,
rides sick- Hongkong was reoccupied, and
there are only 08 some other club: Those too far gone after lameness or long
Bess. These years of racing have to
Estates, Ltd. It was Mr Ben horses avaliable twice a to the -sttoyerk.
grounds of the estate,
that the property the and their exercise is carefully son's idea
for watched and curried out strict should be bought
Jockey Club. At Sheung Shut this is what ly according to their
owners' instructions, The Club's "Vet," awaits them; rivan, cool coment brick stalls, wide aud
Mr It. H. Robertson, visits his and equcious, With Il veh straw patients weekly, but if a pony's a derullet property. with the plate with slides and swings.
clay. The every
condition is werlous-us it was stalis
The gardens are
being cidentally are screenvu .kaust in the cuse of one
who hutise
Inhabited by flocks of brought back to the colourful
built Their horizon is bounded by
tem birds which had
their fies and squitoes, and this developed the alarming
eir pattern of carlier days. the low green hills of the New
ruminer They * *
have perature of 107 degrees last nests in BF
the eaves and the Tenulories;
old These on
Christmas Eve-le rushes slopes swinging fans installed!
framework of the roof. The they exercise for a
For every two horses there is
to the slables immediately.
atables anci antfoos' quarters One afternoon this week I of four hours a day with only
Aut one maloo, who is responsible
Hongkong has
if [ew,
and anddle
new club in its de room were re saw thin skilled and trusted horsemen, for the
feeding grooming and
any, stables for private riders, novated, enlarged and screened; lightful country setting A meandering creca
winds and exercising of his charges. the establishment of the Jockey extra buildings were erected, to the Chairman of the Stewards,
The ponies
their grazing pau-
have slowly by their
OWA Club's stables October
in
last accommodate a bigger stuff at Mr Bons Robertson, the beds of crisp carrols and weir i thi dock. In season there is
perfect South China
grooms and stable boys, and Surgeon, sky, feeey clouds, the country dally ration is generous. Oals, country setting fulfilled a very to store the fodder. anot unlike the outback of bran and hay are imported for defimte need in the Colony. It
The club bull a manure their native Australia.
them. Whether there are ip- was with an eye to this need, which now supplied the Forestry ed greyhounds in Shanghai
Jockeys at coupled with his deep love proved riders or
until the outbreak Departmens, as well as
us members from 1927 Sheung Shut to ride them every horses,
gardens, with fertiliser. Of the
World War II), 1 watched of stables thero is ал exercise Wodonga and the grey, Winter, track and central paddock return from a ride in the hills, ringed with bamboo outcrops. We saw Bashful Beauty and
behind the Knockdown
their showing paces in the wide paddock
maximum
This is the home of ponies like Ataman, who tu 1948, his
sleep
to
AND HOW TO GET MORE QE IT
A WIDEAWAKE SERIES to help everyone
W
E rarely go to sleep "as soon as our heads touch
All the the pillow."
unconscious sleep pre- liminaries usually take about half an hour if you ure lying relaxed in bed and feeling just normally tired.
Sleep is a halfway state between consciousness and unconsciousness. You do not become unconscious when you fall into a naturai sleep, for the brain and sense organs are still sufficiently
alert to respond to a ger signal,
dan-
of
In most adults periods deep and shallow sleep usually alternate during a full night's repose. The majority of those who keep normal hours rapidly enter a phase of deep slumber which gradually becomes lighter until about 3 or 4 a.m.
rc-
that
of
well-known
WHAT TO DO IF
YOU ARE AN
‘EARLY BIRD'
by
CHAPMAN
PINCHER
At this time sleep may be- como so shallow that con- sciousness L3 almost established und the sleeper may awaken momentarily though often without remem-
The gradual slowing down of Other people, however, bering it next day.
the body's rate of working whom I am one, awaken with a Sleep then deepens gradually during sleep in accompanied by morning temperaturo
of 'about until about 6 am, after which
he is after he has slept in the the time they get home all they
bali an same position for say
want to do is to sit in an easy hour.
chair in front of the fire.
of
a fail in body temperature. The 06 degrees Fahrenheit. Their
it lightens until the person temperature fluctuations of the "engines" warm up so slowly wokes up spontaneously or is human body during sleep have that even by lunchtime their awakened by some slight dis- been closely studied and have temperature 19 Still "sub-
led to extremely interesting normal." deductions.
turbance.
Second Dozc
University, who
Professor Nathaniel Kleitman, Hard To Get Up of Chicago the greatest living authority on
IF you fall asleep again after sleep, found that the Internal MUCH,folk, who are usually opening your eyes in co temper body is far from con- get up and may feel groggy ank
of the healthy thin, as I am, find it hard to morning you often feel much human more drowsy when you wake stant. Instead of remaining at irritable until long after break- up than you would have dono 98.4 degrees Fahrenheit, as the fast. They do not reach their had you not indulged in *elementary text-books usually second doze,
state, it fluctuates in a defnite, the afternoon. It is from then peak temperature until late in After waking from a long 24-hour cycle. sleep you are returning from
only
a slight degree of somino-
You
lence, but if you restart the cycle by dozing off again may find yourself back in the first phase of deep sleep with
Ti
Midday Peak
onwards that they are most alert and capable of their best. "Late to bed and late to rise" would be a good maxim for HE total swing is usually only them if work allowed.
Kieltman recom- two degrees Fahrenheit at the menda that every business man
Professor in a few minutes.
most, but it is believed to have should find out Contrary to common
bellef
which type he profound effects. In people
19 so that he can
urrange blu the deepest sleep, which occurs who keep normal hours, work- in the first one or two hours, ing by day and sleeping by past important affairs at times is not necessarlly the most re- night,
the body an
temperature of maximum temperature. freshing. The hours of shallow usually rises to a maximum of Ha belloves that these dally sleep are equally important for about 29 degrees during the day up and downs of temperature the recuperation proces
and falla to a minimum
human sleep degrees or so during sleep. The before, midnight. Is particularly temperature drop Usually that marriages between "morn
Ing** and ""avening" types are beneficial
seems to be an old greatest at about 3 wives! yarn based
to be harmonious on the obvious fact that as most of us than not well-built, have to get up reasonably early,' types--the
body
temperature in a a house where the husband going to bed after midnight is rises sharply soon after waking. Ioaps out of bed to sing in a likely to make us lose aleep. • These are the poople who jump cold bath while the wife drago Each time a sleeper turns, out of bed and are hearty at herself downstairs with All fo01- over his.slumber becomes light" the breakfast table, idhay reach "maybe Lowards
Tho
Idea that
me just before the
11.571.
of 07 havo such an imehaviour
fluance
an
In some people—more often oppiness is unlikely to reign
musculer
mbyament top temperature and the peak of fore marriages are brokim and deepens when it com their ability by about midday,
pleted Cappe recent
moved in air sleep lie in more samad, osally, awakened by a noise than
but their capacity fockwork all up by temperature than tem on their temperature begins permanent,”, says Kleitman, ( to fall in the Mus attainou By
(London: Exprkas Berolce)
Ол the
rian
Country Setting
With
the Veterinary
and
the Supervisor of the property, nuro sito Mr G. J. Norman (who train-
the
stables there now stands the
magnificent clubhouse. It was
Out there, there is nothing
put back into commission last so frightening for the ponies year, with a spacious, and comly as the pushing, bustling, shout- lounge, dluing room,
alling, cheering crowds of a race electric kitchen, shower rooms, day, It is changing and Jocker
the
quiet and s rooms. with the sky and There are four small dormitory and hills completely enclosing rooms for members, and 5000
them in their new lives. Some- there will be
two times as they canter up the hills completed "ehale or bungalows behind and gallop around the paddockc main club house in the they re-capture the old thrill sume Chinese style architecture of their racing days. Could any accommodate four couples. old racer ask for a more, perfect At Sheung Shui members can retirement?
the
to