Carnival Clues
Sydney Morning Herald
Thursday October 1, 2009
EMPEROR GETS NEW GEARBART CUMMINGS'S Melbourne Cup trio, including last year's winner Viewed, are in action in Saturday's Turnbull Stakes at Flemington. Viewed will be joined by the AJC Australian Derby winner Roman Emperor and the sparingly raced Joe Blow.Cummings will fit a Norton bit to Roman Emperor. "They don't pull with it, helps them relax," Cummings said at Canterbury yesterday."He has settled in well, they are very happy with him."Leading Sydney jockey Hugh Bowman retains the mount."As long as he rides it patiently he'll be right," Cummings said.Bowman, who landed a double at Canterbury yesterday, also has the ride on birthday boy John O'Shea's sprinter Fist Of Fury in the Gilgai Stakes down the Flemington straight. O'Shea turned 40 yesterday."It is a tough race but Fist Of Fury had a good gallop at Flemington on Tuesday morning," O'Shea said at Canterbury.BERRY CANED FOR WHIP USEApprentice on the move Nathan Berry is the latest whip offender. Racing NSW stewards found Berry had struck Cool Shower eight times leading up to the 100 metres in the opening race at Canterbury yesterday. Three more than allowed under the new whip regulations.Stewards nabbed Berry for $300 with acting chief steward Greg Rudolph advising "you must find a happy medium". It was in reference to Berry recently being suspended for seven meetings when found guilty of not riding a runner out to the end of a race.Berry was in line to ride Yallingup in Saturday's group 1 Epsom Handicap at Randwick. "When the weights went up to 54 kilograms Guy booked Robert Thompson for Yallingup," Berry said.Yallingup's trainer, Guy Walter, has booked Rodney Quinn, who makes a return from injury, for Emissary in the Craven Plate.Berry will partner debutante Triple Crown in Saturday's Gimcrack Stakes, which is the first juvenile race of the season in NSW."[She's] a very nice filly that trialled well," Berry said.SUSPICIOUS MINDS WIDE OF MARKRacing NSW stewards watched a young lady, a trackwork rider with a rich history, sitting in the members' stand next to the saddling enclosure for a couple of races at Canterbury yesterday. Seated at the table, the young lady had a laptop computer switched on.A steward fronted the lass and wanted to know her business due to concerns betting was being conducted over the internet."I'm too poor to gamble, I'm a uni student," was the reply.One wise guy with thoroughbred bloodlines stretching well back remarked: "She could have said 'I work for the Waterhouses."' The wise guy said the lass was in the midst of an international studies course and rides trackwork for Gai Waterhouse.
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