/ THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST (28,~1958. ̄
RAE JOHNSTONE:
QAYANI
SA
was 'sent to England to be tho only three year old to rul against the older horses in the Hunt Cup.
He was set a very stiff task, but it was still ex- pected that he would run botter than he did. soon as I realised he not going to take an active
Aa
Was
I GIVE YOU
A REAL 'GREAT
part in the business end I NO DOUBT about the most-discussed name was not hard on him.
Two days later, when I had in racing today.....Rae Johnstone. For John-, engagement back rodo stone is telling in the frankest way-the Joy amazing story of his life as a top jockey. He anybody now gives his assessment of one of the beat Wayward Beile top horses he rode.
France, Roger Poincelet him in tho Ascot Stakes and connecticas were
surprised when he turned up
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short head
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at 100-6
with
the disap-
pointing Edword Tudor third, bridgeshitc,”
vouchsafed
on
That second Ascot run was Epson Jock in the weighing the result of a chance, un room after Quatrain had run planned, decision. Maybe I left Afth out of six.
an erroneous impression that I had pulled him in the Ifunt Cup. Erroneous but understand- able,
I sounless I was never to Ilve down my Australian record
at dib, on his back and a most notable training feat by Joseph Lleux.
The early rubning of a басе like the Cambridgeshire unnot "What makes you say that?" be followed properly from the 1 asked.
'A BULLOCK'
"Because,"
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stands and not urnaturally my account of the events soon after the hump-off was received with a litle seeplíciam by some,
Wherefore I record here the Jaber,
words, quoted some time
we
of one self-confessed juvenile
he replied, "crime" maybe accounted have been up on the downs for what I can only term the while your French trainer has of the alarter, Captain uberi official persecution that was to beat working him and every Allison, who stated: "I person- follow in England.
half ally think that a Sayona the lad gels up to Sayani returned to France speed he pulls fils handkerchiel possibly saw the best horse, up almost of the and I won the Jacques le out and waves him down. He to 14 miles, Marios on him at Deauville. He looks like a bullock and he'll be century. He was on his nose was then
after going about 150 yards in Hural just about as it as one." Kent over
them Park, where the Boussac. Ally
the Cambridgeshire and won. He is a magnificent horse of great power and with a wonderful temperament."
Cuardrlila, ridden by Gordon, These opinics, plus his race was made favourite to beat him, In the Select, plus the fact that be attempting a but Sayani gave me one of the he would smoothest winning rides I have weight-carrying effort never pre- three- ever enjoyed.
viously achieved by year-old or runner of any other oge in
Cambridgeshire, contributed to his odds which desplie the fact that connections lad gone for a really good win
were 25-1.
He was nex! sont to Epsom to follow a pre-Cambridgeshire training schedule laid down by trainer Joseph Leux,
As a preliminary race he ran in the Select Stakes
in which. only Preciple turned out lo oppose him and he won (as 5-1 on chances should) but col all that impressively, in of many observera.
the view
DECEPTIVE
Sill, two-horse race can be very deceptive and although he only won three parts of a length I had ridden him to win and no more, wanting to give him as easy a race as possible.
the
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QUALITY
Talking of Sayani....Joseph Lieux had another useful runner in 1847--the three-year-old ofly imprudence whom he wanted me to ride when I could.
She wasn't a big one, this Imprudence, but she had plenty u depin und power and Was a And quality For quality.
of the virtue lacking in most English allies that year.
Twenty-five to were one thousand to one after we'd gone a furlong in this 34- runner Cambridgeshire, even on the broad acres of New nurket, a little early jostling is kevitable in a field this size and inside the first 200 yards Sayant plichod, his nose struck the ground, and I thought be had "gone."
For me the race was over. When I looked up, the leaders, looked like Shetland ponies, I The assumption of Epsom, just followed on. Is this the way where the subsequent falshing races should be ridden? You touches to his Cambridgeshiro tell me. preparation were observed with keen professional interest, that Sayani had been short of work at Newmarket,
when she was a two-year-old et I rode and won on Imgrudenice Longchamp on September 11. 1010. Then we leamed up again. this year for her first three- year-old outing the Prix Lados on April 10, Here she beat a not very distinguished looking colt named Pearl Diver.
And so to Newmarket for the 1,000 Guineas in which, since fcu direct contrast
To her aire, Canot, I let her stride along fairly freely from the outset and, without any company in the closing stages, she held on well to beat another French-trained visitor, Mr Laudle" "Lawrence's Rose O'Lynn, by a neck.
I only know that, from follow her style of running was Was
ing, the next stage was that I was in touch. The next that I So with Joseph now flying eyes had a chance to be actually over almost daily to ensure that placed. The next that, "picking he did not gallop, rather
than him up"-taking a firmer hold, to watch him work, the locals squeezing him, and endeavouring became very sceptical. And one to inspire him with my body Epsom trainer made it known in the dip, he tugthened his that if Sayani won the Cam- aride and began to devour that bridgeshire he would "pack the , so that (as I thought! be geme up"-a threat which had got up to beat Langton Abbot not been fuifliod 12 years later, inside the last 50 yards,
As well as Sayant, the stable
ran Quetrain (on whom I had
BY A HEAD
INVINCIBLE
in!
Hiding Imprudence again the Oaks on u wet, windy after- moon on June 5, she seemed an akmust invincible partner on whom to wipe out to come extent my course defeat of long
won the Ostend Derby on In Jact Langton Abbot, Was July 14) at the Cambridgeshire placed fourth there was no meeting. But he was no match "photo" In these days and I ago on Mesa.
for the older horses in the found that Gordon Richards, Limekiln Stakes on the first racing nearer
There was le among the the stands on Clare was second, beaten a head. opposition that she had not that with the grey Toronto (ridden already disposed of in the 1,000
Guiteas at Newmarket. "
day.
"That's
A3 well froggle of yours, what-do-you- call-it? will run in the Cam
The Rap Johnstone Rory will be pabished later Wils year by stanley Paul and Co.
by
"Midre"
Richardson)
further head away third.
I pai quiet and stil on
It was a great performance Imprudence" and left it all to for a three-year-old to establish her. She pricked her cars as
a weight-humping record with the crowd started to give her a
big hand when she neared the winning post and received a pai with a shake of her head, as if to say she had done
from me
nothing to deserve it nothing at all-and strolled back to the lively interest in the surround
whner's enclosure taking a
ings, The official winning margin-tve lengths.
"They want you inside, Rae," gagged Michael
Beary, "for winning too easily,"
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