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Saddle Slips as Hi Laude Is in Midst of Top Trial Queens Plate Hope Had Gone. Half in :472/s at Time of Mishap By JACK AYERS Staff Correspondent ■WOODBINE PARK, Toronto, Ont., May 28. — But for his saddle slipping after going the first half-mile of a scheduled mile workout at Woodbine -Park on Friday morning, Dr. L. H. Applebys Hi Laude might have broken every training trial registered by a Queens Plate candidate this spring. Breaking from the stand with Emil Roy aboard, and full of run, the three-year-old son of Cum Laude and High Level went the first three furlongs in :34%. Moving right along at the same rapid clip, the Appleby colt streaked the half mile in :47% and it was here that Roys saddle began to slip. Taking Hi Laude right to the outside fence and while attempting to pull his mount up, the colt still went out a mile in 1:46. He went another quarter of a pole before Roy brought his mount to a standstill. The exercise wasnt the least bit harmful as the colt went off kicking and playing. It was the opinion of dockers and work-watchers that Hi Laude would have traveled a mile in at least 1:39 but for the mishap, a mark that would have been tops among the Guineas candidates this spring. Hi Laude was regarded as one of the leading Canadian-foaled juveniles.-of last season. He won three of his 13 starts, finished second five times and was third on four occasions. His earnings for the year were 1,982. During his campaign in the East last autumn after a successful conquest of his two-year-old rivals in the West, Hi Laude turned in a smashing effort to finish second to King Maple in the Coronation Stakes at Woodbine. He was well beaten by Canadas Horse of the Year but his race was considered an excellent one as he got away slowly and had to make up a tremendous gap before reaching contention. Out at Long Branch the son of Cum Laude turned in three encouraging races, finishing second to King Maple in the richly endowed Cup and Saucer and third to the McMacken colt in the Golden Spoon Handicap and Diamond Ring Stakes. Hi »Laude was bred in western Canada by his owner Dr. L. H. Appleby and after receiving his early conditioning for the Queens Plate in British Columbia, was shipped east to Woodbine early in May. The colt competed in last Saturdays Plate Trial Number One and finished in runner-up position to the Bur-Fit Stables Collisteo, who went the six furlongs in 1:11%. Since the conditions of the Queens Plate were altered to allow thoroughbreds foaled in any part of the Dominion to compete, a number of Westerners have tried and failed to gain honors. Hi Laude might well be the first to turn the trick for the Prairies.
