STABLE AND TRACK NOTES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 281, 26 November 1932, Page 16

STABLE AND TRACK NOTES.

FRESHENED UP. J. H. Prosscr has given Great Star very little serious work since his recent racing and he has freshened up nicely. He and Grand Review are booked for a trip tu Auckland during the holidays. USEFUL TASKS. P. V. Mason as keeping Jalpux and Azalea going in useful tasks at Riccartou. He has started to work them the reverse way, and he expects to race the pair at the Auckland Cup meeting. , A. E. ELLIS' INJURY. A. E. Ellis is a regular visitor to the Riccaivon tracks during working hours. His right arm is in a sling yet, but it is mending fast, and he hopes to resume race riding during the approaching ' holiday season. ' PROVING UNRELIABLE. A brilliant galloper on the track, La Poupee has failed in her recent starts to produce her best form. At Feilding next week she will have a chance to make amends, figuring in the Kiwitea Handicap of seven furlongs. A TEAM DIVIDED. Sir Charles Clifford may have two teams racing during the Christmas and New Year holiday period. Fast Passage, Cricket Bat and Fracas are likely to compete at the Auckland meeting, while some of their stablemates may do the Manawatu and Wairarapa trip. DEVELOPED SORENESS. High Tor, who won on the final day of the Canterbury Jockey Club's meeting, was nominated for two races at the Nortn Canterbury meeting at Riccarton to-day, but she was not to be produced. She has developed soreness and R. Longley will have to give her a short spejl. RED MANFRED WELL.

The Wellesley and C.J.C. Welcome Stakes winner Ked Manfred has done well since returning from Christchurch, and is developing into a fine colt. The juvenile beans a marked resemblance to his sire, Manfred. His next start will be in the Great Northern Foal Stakes at Ellerelie. PAID HIS WAY WELL. The three-year-old Rocket has paid his way well since he went into his present ownership. He won a hack race at South Canterbury and early this month he ran 6econd to Silver Scorn in the Derby at Riccarton. After racing at Riccarton today he will be allowed to go along quietly, as it is not intended to start him during the holidays. AN IMPROVED 1 14ACK. Since scoring an impressive win at the Hawke's Bay spring meeting the Woodville hack Chock Say has improved greatly, and looks like being a very useful middle distance performer. This Lord Quex three-year-old is trained by her owner, D. Kemp, who also has the speedy Foreign Queen. HAS SHOWN SPEED. Now trained at Woodville, the two-year-old Lady Nan (Tea Tray—Margarethe) showed sufficient form at the Wellington spring meeting by finishing third in the Roseneath Handicap to Fracas and Midian to suggest that she would be prominent in a minor two-year-old event. Lady Nan is to race on .the second day of the Feilding meeting.

ENTERED FOR ASHBURTON. Gay Crest, Concentrate arid Cricket Bat, who figure among the nominations for the Tinwald Handicap, will provide the class at the Ashburton meeting at "the end of next week. The firstnamed pair would be more at home over a longer journey, but they should be equal to go_pd performances at a mile, a distance which will suit Cricket Bat well. These three may all be racing at Auckland during the holidays, and the Ashburton contest will be a nice preliminary. BROUGHTON INJURED. The New Zealand jockey W. Broughton had an unpleasant experience while riding a horse named Raptores in Melbourne recently. The horse became unmanageable when going out to race. He broke through the gate leading from the birdcage to the mounting yard. The gateman, J. Carter, received a cut scalp and Broughton sustained contusions on the thigh and shock. Broughton was taken to the Alfred Hospital. Injuries received by Raptores included a fractured foreleg and he was destroyed by a veterinary surgeon. BRED TO STAY. The three-year-old Argentic, who won three races at the Canterbury Jockey Club's meeting, will probably do his holiday racing ai; the Auckland meeting. In addition to competing in some of the minor handicaps, he may take on the best company in the Derby. In his Riccarton races he showed that he could run out a mile solidly, and the extra journey may not trouble him. All the Silverado horses seem to stay, while Argentic's dam, Spotlight, is bred for stamina, being a sister to the Auckland Cup winner, Starland, by Nassau from Stardancer, by Warstep from Stepdancer.

AN EASY TIME. Silver Scorn has had an easy time since the New Zealand Cup meeting. As was only to be expected, she lightened up after her week's racing, but otherwise showed no ill-effects, and according to her ownertrainer she settled down immediately after the meeting and gave little indication in her daily routine of having undergone a severe programme. It is as yet too early (says the "Press") to make definite plans for Silver Scorn's movements during the holiday period. A trip to Ellerslie has been in view with' her and Berate, but the latter's task may now be made too severe. Meprisant and Muff are intended to race at the Dunedin, Waikouaiti and Oamaru holiday meetings, and it is possible that the two three-year-old fillies may accompany them south.

DID NOT INCREASE GAMBLING. When the first and second dividend was first introduced it led to an increased turnover on the totalisator and also a protest against the alleged increase of gambling (says "Sentinel"). Those declaiming against the alleged increase of gambling overlooked the fact that the first and second dividend did not increase the amount of floating capital in the country, but was only the means of keeping it in greatw circulation. In other words, the first and second dividend did not increase the so-called gambling spirit, but reduced the risk of losing, and so gave people more chips to play with. Possibly, the first, second and third dividend will increase the totalisator turnover, simply because it will reduce the risk of complete loss and so make the punter's capital last a bit longer. The'gambling spirit will remain exactly the same as it did long before the totalisator was ever heard of in the country.

IMPROVEMENT OF JOCKEYS. At latest the stewards of the Durban Turf Club (South Africa) were greatly exercised over the poor standard of the riding of apprentices, and also some fuliyfledged jockeys. At the invitation of the stewards a large number of owners, trainers and jockeys attended a meeting to discuss the best steps to be taken. Opinions differed "as to whether the short or long rein was better, but one experienced rider expressed himself against very short stirrups on the score that they gave boys little or no control over their mounts. Others were against whips and apprentice races, it being contended that the latter served no useful purpose and did not benefit the boys or the public. A 7.0 minimum was advocated, but most of the speakers held that' the main essentials were the establishment of a school of instruction, a board of examiners as to the boys' capaN bilitics, and limitation of the amount of dead weigh? to tio-jnit up by an apprentice.