CHILDSPLAY DESTROYED

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 13, 16 January 1930, Page 14

CHILDSPLAY DESTROYED

DEVELOPS BLOOD POISONING the trentham meeting. ASPIRING'S CHANCES IN TELEGRAPH. (By Telogrftph.—Special to "Star.") CHRISTCHURCH, Wednesday. Rapier continues to do well in his track work, and he is gradually getting into good form. The present intention is to race him at the Canterbury Jockey Club's meeting next month, also at the Banks Peninsula meeting early in March. Provided he remains sound he will add interest to some, of the big events in the autumn, including the Trentham Gold Cup and the Awapuni Gold Cup, both of which races he won last year. F. Christmas is keeping Red Heckle going in useful tasks, but so far he has made no arrangements for racing the gelding. Red Heckle is a brilliant galloper, but a delicate constitution is a serious handicap. W. McDonald- has 'recommissioned Solgele. The speedy gelding put on a lot of condition during his short spell, but he should be at his best again very soon. G. J. Pine is giving most of his team an easy time at present. It is probable that he will have two or three horses ready for the Dunedin Jockey' Club's meeting next month. G. Murray Aynsley is working his team along steadily, dnd all his-horses are in good order. Several of them will be wanted for the Dunedin' meeting. H. Nurse has'taken Lancer in hand again. Lahcer showed good form among the jumpers last winter, when he was third to Mangani and Aberfeldy in thp Grand National Hurdles, and he will Tie got ready for another winter campaign. The imported geldirtg Honeycomb has rejoined W. G. Hobbs' active team after spelling for about three months. He will be got ready to race in the autumn and winter. ' ■ The two-year-old Pharaoh, by Shambles from Palestrina, was gelded after, racing at the New Zealand Cup meeting, where he. ran second to Princess Betty in the Spring Nursery Handicap: He has resumed work, and he may make hia reappearance in the autumn. Praise did not make the trip •to Trentham, her place in P. V. Mason's team being taken by Swiftray, an Arrowsmith —Sungleam three-year-old, who gftllops well, though he has no form to recommend Praise may make her next appearance in the Dunedin Champagne Stakes next month. _ The four-year-old mare Childsplay was destroyed recently. She was bred by Sir George Clifford, being by, Autumnus from Helter Skelter, by Antagonist from the Clanranald mare Eleetfort. From the time she went into training she showed great speed, and she was an exceptional two-year-old. She started off by winning the McLean Stakes, while the Wellesley Stakes , and the Welcome Stakes followed in quick succession, each of these races being won very easily. Staghunter-beat her in the Foal Stakes at Auckland, and she was not right when she ran her last jace that season in the Wellington Stakes. As a three-year-old she was second in the Dunedin Guineas and Stewards Handicaps. A year ago she ran third in the Wellington Stakes, while on the second day of the meeting she won the Metropolitan Handicap. That was her last race, as she received a knock and developed blood poisoning. It was a bad case from the start, and though it was hoped to cure her for the stud, it was eventually found necessary to destroy her. Silver Paper and Aspiring, two of W. Stone's team, have come strongly into the discussion on the Wellington Cup and Telegraph Handicap double. Silver Paper is a brilliant galloper- up to a mile, but on anything he has shown so far he may be troubled at 'the end of a fast run mile and a half. Aspiring, on the other hand, looks a good prospect among the sprinters. She has great speed, and if she draws a good barrier position she should be in the picture all the way in the Telegraph Handicap.