THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 1957.
PIPE OF PEACE IS SIR GORDON'S BIG HOPE
FOR THE
CLASSIC
By JAMES PARK
Sir Gordon Richards, now beginning his third year as a will be justified in getting out his "topper and tails" for Epsom. his stable is Pipe of Peace, leading colt in the Free Handicap.
trainer, Star of
"I hope and belleve he may stay a mile and a half,” said Sir Gordon, I could' only reply that he should do so, if he is true to his breeding.
the more In dealing with prominent two-year-old before Christinas.
I fuld much would
depend on how Pipe of Peace developet.
wintered. He has es Pipe Built on greyhound lines
of Peace wit never carry much flesh. I would like to sce little more round the girth, but
there is anple heartroom.
He has grown a lttle and will finkh of at about 16 hunds. He Tach under that at the
alt
SIR GORDON RICHARDS third year as trainer
is an moment, cough. A cleanly buli colt, ho ina shows a bit more rein than
has his two-year-old days and thlekened in the neck. For the time of the year he carries Wonderful polkih, and the Newbury of the Craven Stakes steady work he has done at Newinnrket. Ihrenhout the winler tardened him up.
D
has My guess is that he will go to Newbury which is such
EFFORTLESS
He is ready to go into work ant could be At for
Last the
opening of the season.
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short journey that he could be back in his own box by stable time the same night,
I am hopeful that Pipe of Ponce will sustain his reputation in his first race of the season Pipe of Peace is seen to mod and it will be time enough advantage 6242 the with his Smooth, effortless
racecours
netlen und plocid temperament He will nothing can disturb. not worry about the noise and lurmol of Derby day.
to
discum Derby prospects after he has run in the Gutheas
Sir Gordon is very happy t gene where he served his time with the late Martin Harti
I was just like coming home again and his son, Peter, as light- 11 2,000 plays a worthy part kohanduan,
First there Guineas. As a preliminary the first of the sony's classics the col will have an ouling either in the Greenham Stake at
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Sir Gordon pointed to a little lived there for seven years," bungalow away up the hills.
he said. That was in his young days when his health was not that too good. Few thought, at tune, he would develop robustness which made him the mast
the powerful finisher British Turf has seen for years.
REMARKABLE
the
All the hurses above ve years of age are in remarkable condition for carly March, With a few exceptions, they will soon be brought to prime racing That suggests to me enndition. the stable will get into winning form at an earlier stage than usual.
be more in his line. He is very quick to find his stride.
The staying ARTABAN, owned by Mr J. Lewis, icoks pictures und Is a bundle of muscle. He will pay his way aver a long journey as no dis- tance in a far for him,
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QUEL DIABLE will not be Editor, China Mail, Wyndham Street.
Bying too high, but this well-
Krown
celt has only to be cloverly placed to win. The four- THOUGHT year-old SOBER could not have done better,
As I lett remarked to Sir
that
3 if he wan Gordon
A5 last season successful should be quite satisfied. agreed.
To the Editor, China Mail,
My nomination for Hongkong'a Footballer of the
he Year, taking into regard his playing ability and his 11e sportsmanship on the fleld of play is
Perhaps one day he will lop the 1st of winning trainers,
I There is only one Gordon.
have known him since the days when he was a small apprentice. He is still the seme natural and of the
It is Ro wassuming little man, easy to understand why such affection publie has bem.
the for
-tandem Erpecas Serulce),
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Club.
(Signed)
Mrs Viewer Is Studying Form-And Winning Too
It's a good job for all you lucky backers of the Champion Hurdle winner that women haven't yet buckled down to the serious business of betting.
Otherwise you'd have had no nice 28-1 about the high-kicking Merry Deal, whose "hundred bucks" in the paddock delighted every goggle-eyed female who saw his pranks on TV.
The day is not far off when an incident ke this will send to your old woman scuttling the bookles with the house. keeping money, TV is making the ladies sports-minded.
know this is true, because that report Just cen
I've
some televised amateur boxing on which I commentated from Glasgow a week or two ago kupl The most has been made of | 93; "million viewers transaxed Tecent mild und dry at their sets. These were the weather and if we do have ព lop viewing #gures of the week. return to wintry conditions the horses are so forwart make little difference.
It will
Mr Stavros Niarchou has two
New
you
don't
tej
such
first and second in its last two outings has a chance.
I HAVE MY SAY By HARRY CARPENTER rating: unless Mrs Viewer is Believe Inc. what watching. the missus says goes in most hores in training. They are pe TV households, and if Mrs V. of Peace and MISBEHAVE.
"to blazes with boxing, There may be classic possibilities says Hjer's
Silvester." have Victor the about the lilly, as well as
then hubby con resign himself sister to Gay Time cult. An
to quick, quick, slow. and Elopement, there is some- thing to like about Misbehave.
tall as She may not be so either of her brothers, but she is a deep-bodied fly who has put on a lot of weight since her iwo-year-old days.
i am not
TIMES CHANGE... Yes, the girls are museling in
sports-viewing. on
Time was when they had only the haziest notions.
14
the
She did not get a place in the
For instance, It was once Free Handicap, and surprised. As she ran only on sale bet that if you asked two occassions, some guesswork girl friend what a maiden was would have had to be applied in racing, she'd tell you it was
young lady horse, to find a mark in attempung for her.
Thanks to their TV education backward the women of Britain are now that on her first appearance at Good-well aware it's a horse wood when beaten a neck but hasn't got off the mark with a might have won had she not win. received a bump close home,
She looked rather
But I gnashed teeth the other Tuckday when my wife smugly announced she'd pleked Merry Deal this way,
me.
"It couldn't lose," "Particularly started kicking Such energy!"
she told when
it
It heels up.
There are few women viewers of cricket who haven't heard of Tayfield, the South African Test bowler.
But it's only because some one day blithely commentator pointed out Tayfield's nervous
before
is
h
over-
sporting knowledge whelmed by motherly instinct,
THEY GET ANGRY
In boxing, if I have to deal
on TV with some youngster of
17 tackling his first senior con-
test against an old minn of 23, 1 can almost hear the squeals of rottling the cocoa- sympathy
cups in a million homes.
loses, my And if the buy postbag is stuffed full of angry Jetters from the mums of Bri- tain, demanding to know what
hod right I
to set an arch- villain on a defenceless youth.
Gentlemen, that's what your sport's coming to. Having a utter on the horses was pretty well a male prerogative.
The
monster one-eyed changing all that,
js
for
Meanwhile, take my tip the Flat. If your wife has a hunck about a horse... get on it.
IT CAN'T LOSE.
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Blackburn YMCA Youth team the dismal record habit of pecking with his left had foot at the cresse
his seventeen matches played
seventeen matches lost with nin-up.
goal
of 17-262. Then It shakes you, this revolution.
average Nothing is more disturbing than they played Pleckgale FC in to have your wife leap from the Mill Hill League and won Comedians used to gug that her armchair in the middle of 5-4. The rejoicings were cut discovered backed а
horse a soccer match and yell "Off-short when it was She did not have a lot to do a woman,
other cach-way, she thought she had side" as Finney collects the ball that both sides had played in- when winning her only.
It went and races for goal. race at Newmarket and is some-a bet on it whether
On certain ever,. woman's
thing of an unknown quantity.
1
I doubt wheller
That
forwards or backwards, won't wash any more. Misbehave
no A nursery is
longer 2 crcche for colts the ladies
will come to hand 60 early as Pipe of Peace, but there is some hope in the stable that the ally positively know it's a handicap may train into a possibility for for two-year-olds. the Oaks.
GOOD COLT
I am not so sure she can be get rently in time for the 1,000 Guincas.
THE OLD 1-2
The girls have even, taken to My studying the form charts. wife, because 12 happens to be insists on her lucky number, COURT HARWELL, who picking horses that have those iwo numbers immediately - belongs to Mr J. R. Mullion, is a good colt in the maiting. He has fore their names.
not
bad Mark you, it's and was been slow to develop
Any horse that's run not seriously trained in his first system. season. Despite that he showed
promise of better things in two
racca towards the
end of the colt
A sturdily built .SODEON.
with a deep body, he will grow up in front in due course
and
level out but his present con- dition gives me the impression he will not come into his own until the second half of the season.
Then we may hear quite a lot about Court Harwell.
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Answers To
Sports" Quiz
1. 15 mlks, -
2, 85.
20
3. Association
cricket
Misa Dorothy Paget has horses in traiming with Str Gordon, on atsociation which lasted for about 20 years in his days. The three-year-olds
SARGENT OLAF, FAIR CLAIM and CADENZA will each be placed to win in their
class
I
shall not be surprised if more store is out by ENDEAVOUR, an uttractive Supreme Court colt
who has yet to start. "..
VERY QUICK :
football
and
4. In football it is a form of attack. In cricket it is the name given to the three
West
Indled batsman,
Weckes, Worrell and Wal- colt.
5. Johnny Haynes, Nino
Valdes and Low Houd.
6. 003 for seven declared.
7. England, at the Oval in
1938.
8. Weightlifting.
Mrs Roderick Graham's 'SIR. Horse racing the thousand
CAMPANEL has wiertered well, guineas.
and though, he is by Prince10, Now Zealand, South Africay Chavaltes fancy aprinting will *d and. England,
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