The meeting scheduled for Tipperary tomorrow was postponed yesterday for a week due to waterlogging. The course spokesman, David Wright, said: "It is hopeless as there is flooding to a depth of a foot and half for a furlong in the back straight." The rearranged meeting is scheduled for November 27th.

The two Australian runners in the Group Hong Kong International Bowl (7f) at Sha Tin on December 14th have become subject of a row. Both the respective trainers of Spartacus and Catalan Opening, Rick Hore-Lacy and Bart Cummings, claim to have secured the services of Darren Beadman. Beadman is normally Spartacus's regular partner and Hore-Lacy claims to have booked the rider "weeks ago. `' Cummings has countered by saying that Beadman has definitely agreed to ride the group one winning Catalan Opening.