THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 18, 1941.
British, French Horses "Invade" U.S. Tracks
May Do Well After They Are "Acclimatised"
MORE THAN 300 English and French thorough- breds stallions, broodmares and active campaign- ers-have been imported since the outbreak of World War II. A number of them are in training at Santa Anita and Hialeah Park, and several may figure pro- minently once they get the hang of American ways, writes a correspondent.
They went in more for distance in England and France. Speed is stressed on this side. The for- eign horses were not schooled to dash out of the gate. They were rated slower the first part. They were on turf.
foreign lot being pointed for the $50,000 Widener Cup.
Boliver, owned by Banker Wil-
liam Woodward's
course at Hialeah
Belair Stud,
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has won twice over the grass Club find it impossible to to like running on grass only.
appears enter more than one team Raphael 11, 4-year-old by in the Bowls League this Rodosto-Philomela, won two of season. five starts in France.
.. three out of four in this country.
Should Improve Breed
Joseph Early Widener bought Raphael II as а yearling in France for $275.000 francs reced the bay colt in that country as a juvenile, when he prevailed twice and was twice nosed out in big stakes.
Raphael II's Widener Cup weight is 120, but neither he nor Piping Rock, imported by Mar
downing Brighton Beach track shall Field, appear of stakes call-
near London,
Heliopolis Fine Record
On many courses they ran the reverse of the way steeds run here. Used to straightaways and right- handers, the invaders must learn to negotiate such an important event, but the corners that are strange valdina Farms is high on Saint to them.
Andrews.being a factor Sunta Anita
is
Louis B. Mayer's Hunter's Moon IV, winner of the last traditional Caesarwich Stakes in England, is training well at Arcadia perhaps the most prominent for- eigner ever to enter the $100,000) Santa Anita Handicap.
Fast Mile Run
Saint Andrews, which arrived from England last August shell- hocked and at a reported cost of $50.000, was temporarily
on the shelf with bucked shins, but phe- nomenal workouts moved him up among the contenders for the Hundred Grander at the gorgeous plant of the Los Angeles Turf ("lub.
Saint Andrews is nine years old. One of that age never won
in the
George Walsh's Chico, British refugee. has not yet started, but is being conditioned on the south- ern California strip.
bre.
Beau Pere, recently brought to Deepcliffe Farni, near San Jose, Calif.. by Motion Picture Magnate Mayer, sired 15 Australian stake winners out of his first crop of 17. The flow from South America is steady.
These additions to blood-stock can't full to have
considerable effect on the breed of American runners.
O. M. Omar, manager of the St. Joseph's softball team. is Only Imported animals show- pleased with his team's
well success Ing anything at Hialeah Park and intends to run their baseball arc Heliopolis, Bolivar,
Rap-team this season. hael and Plping Rock. Hellopolis, a 5-year-old bay horse. by Hyperion and Drift. owned by Elmer Dale Shaffer's
Coldstream Farm.
is
Heliopolis, bred by Lord Derby as any English animal to brought with him as fine a record these shores with the possible ex- reach
ception of Papyrus.
As a 3-year-old in 1939, Hellop- olis won the Chester Vase finish-
He startled clockers by worked third in the English Derby to ing a mile in 1:39.
Blue Peter and Fox Club. and Saint Andrews did not and his then copped three in a row, the speed twice when galloping into Prince of Wales Stakes at Ascot. action, but these were educational the Princess of Wales Stakes at
and Newmarket
the affairs.
Gatwicke
He was bred In France, but Stakes at Goodwood Park. did most of his racing In Eng The Widener Cap
land, where in 1939 he set a -world-record-of-1:59-4/5-for-a-
mite and a
Heliopolis,-which-will-lug-123- quarter on the pounds, appears the best of the
U.S. MOVE TO TIGHTEN TENNIS AMATEUR RULE
WITH A CASUALNESS and concord that furnished little indication of the far-reaching im- plications of the matter, the delegates to the annual 'meeting of the Eastern Lawn Tennis Association held at the Hotel Vanderbilt recently went on re- cord as favouring the proposed stringent amend- ments to the amateur regulations, writes Allison Danzig from New York.
The changes, acted upon by the so long as he was put up at a United States Lawn Tennis As- private home, rather than having sociation at the Vanderbilt on Feb. had his expenses paid at a hotel. 8. constituted the most drastic re- This dispensation will not
be strictive measures introduced by granted under the proposed re- the amateur rule committee since gulation.
the adoption of the player-writer | 2. Amateurs no longer will be
• provision some Afteen years ago. eligible to compete in sanctioned The unanimous consensus of the tournaments other than closed Eastern Association, largest sec- club events if they are connected tional tennis organisation in the directly or Indirectly with the country: goes a long way toward sale of tennis goods or with a firm assuring- affirmative action on manufacturing or selling tennis the proposition when the delegates -"of the parent body convene
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goods. Under the rule as it stands, they are permitted to work for a' sporting goods company when their. connection.. is of a general nature and they are not identified The amendments. If adopted, with the tennis end of the busi- will have the following results: ness more than with any other de- 1. Aside from national cham-partmen'.'. A÷number of ranking -- pionships - and international team players have been enjoying such maiches, amateurs will be limited connections and the new regula- to twelve weeks of competition, tion will hit home severely for
· during which they may have their some of them.ge uxpanser paid. The so-called eight- 3. The practice of sporting goods [week, rjule' will be superseded by companies giving racquets, gut and
■ twelve-week rule; but the pri- other equipment to players will A'vate hospitality, exception will no be curtailed. A limit will be set flonger bbtain and 'sectional cham='|upon the volume,of, free equip- |pičnships will count - against; the ment the players may receive and
er's time; allowane
rule
initely
the gifts will be made only upon authorisation of the United States. LAWETARIAL Aksociation, through the players' sectional organisations. The manufac'urers are said to be In favour of the change, and have promised to cooperate in its en-
oroement:
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Gaps in the ranks have been occasioned by the retirement of Grimmit!, (ex-colony champion) R. R. Wood, and the transfer of J. Hollidge to Singapore.
Bowlers on leave Include Dea- kin, Collyer and Hillyer, whilst A. B. Allan has received medical advice to refrain from playing this season.
Other members available by reasons and volunteer duties.
will not be of military
An intra-club game will be held to-morrow at 3.15 p.m. and all members interested in bowls are invited to take part.
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