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.

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,

Nominate YOUR

Hongkong

Footballer

Of The Year

Members of the public are invited to nominate Hongkong's Footballer of the Year for the current

season.

It is a popularity poll organised by the China Mail, and nomination coupons will be accepted until the closing date to be announced later.

The two qualifications for nomination are: (1) Footballing prowess

(2) Sportsmanship on the field of play Nominations should be addressed to the

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 :

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and

4. In football it is a form of attack. In cricket it is the name given to the three

West

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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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