STABLE AND TRACK NOTES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 172, 22 July 1936, Page 16

STABLE AND TRACK NOTES.

HACK STEEPLECHASER AMISS. j Joppa, a promising hack steeplechaser in C. C. McCarthy's stable at Riccarton, has developed knee trouble, and a spell may be necessary. This is unfortunate, as Joppa looked like winning good money in hack steeplechase events ahead. J HORSES RECOM MISSION ED. { The Hunting Song mare Lady Diana has ; resumed work at Ellerslie under A. j McMullan's. guidance. Carshalton, the j aged Lapidary gelding, has also joined the active workers at headquarters, where lie j is being prepared by W. Nightingale. i FAIR WEATHER RECOVERED. Fair Weather made a quick recovery j from the foot trouble that caused hies | Trentham trip to be cancelled. He has | done some brilliant sprinting during the i last few weeks, and I'\ Christmas should j have him at the top of his form for his engagements at Riccarton next month. HAVING A LET-UP. Owing to contracting ft, cold, the* rising two-year-old Harlech has been given a let-up and he is at present spelling on a farm in the Pakuranga district. He is now on the mend, but will not resume work for a few weeks. This youngster is developing splendidly and promises to furnish , into a good-looking two-year-old. WON LAST YEAR. _____ The Duke of Gloucester was the guest of Mr. T. A. Duncan while in New Zealand, and it was fitting that Mr. W. R. Duncan, a son of the Royal visitor's host, should win the first Duke of Gloucester Cup. Mr. Billy Duncan is after the second of the miniatures this year and will ride Cottingham in the race at Riccarton next month. NEW PLYMOUTH TEAM. Hector Gray is steadily enlarging his team at New Plymouth and recently it has been augmented by Mr. Guy Ring's two Bronze Eagle youngsters. A further addition to the team is tine shortly in the rising five-year-old Mowgli, a half-brothcv Chief Ruler from Forest Girl to 1' orestry. Mowgli has done very little racing. FORM HAS BEEN ENCOURAGING. Yesterday morning at Ellerslie Teddy Boy was schooled over four flights of hurdles in the centre of the course and got through his task in good style. On the few occasions that this horse has raced over hurdles his form has been very satisfactory for a beginner, resulting in two placed performances over the battens at the recent Great Northern meeting. Teddy Boy is likely to do better in the new season. PREPARING FOR NEW SEASON. The stablemates Landlubber and Kilonsoa are both doing well on the work H. Jury is allotting them and are in the right condition to commence the new season. It is some time since Kilonsoa had a race, but her effort over half a mile 011 the No. 3 grass track yesterday morning proves that she has lost none of her speed. When this mare strikes form again more money should be in store for her. FAIRWAY TOP OF SIRES' LIST. The Aga Khan, owing principally to Mahmoud's victory in the Derby, heads tlie list of winning owners and breeders in England to May 31. His totals are £16,013 as owner and £14,575 as breeder. Lord Derby is a ' close second in both classes, having won 12 races, compared with the Aga Khan's seven, and £14,361. Horses bred by Lord Derby have won £13,782. Lord Astor and Sir Abe Bailey are next in the owners' list, with £10,504 and £9378 respectively. Horses bred in France have won 39 races and £22,165. Frank Butters, leading trainer last year, has prepared winners of 14 races and £19,210 in stakes, and C. Leader, who is second, has led in 15 winners of £16,774. Gordon Richards is well clear of other jockeys in the winning list, having won 54 races out of 275 mounts. J. Sirett has had 29 winners, three ahead of W. Nevitt, whose vinning percentage is best. Fairway has forged ahead of other sires, and eight of his progeny have won 11 races and £25,618. Blenheim has had only three winners of three races, but they have won between them £10,442, Malunoud accounting for £9934 of the amount. Tolgus, sire 5 of the Oaks winner, Lovely Rosa, is third 1 with £7669, and then follow Tetretema, . £6120; Apron,. £4338; Winalot, £3909; x Obliterate, £3819; and Blandford, £3584.

YEARLING PARADE. In the interval between the second and third events at the Hawke's Bay Hunt meeting at Hastings on Saturday a yearling parade was held, when fourteen youngsters made their appearance. They were: Mr. F. Hall's br c Carrington Hall, by Hunting Song—Merry Roe; Mrs. C. Haldane's b g. by Gaseony—Lady Pera; Mr. C. Haldane's eh g, by Gaseony—Chief Salute; Mr. F. Tong's eh f Fullamore, by Tidal—Valley Rose; Mr. W. Goosenian's br f Guimper, by Arausio —Chemise; Mr. W. Goosenian's br f, by Arausio —Imperial Rose; Mr. J. S. McLeod's eh c Only One, by Limond—My Own; Mr. W. Henderson's cli c, by Captain Bunsby; Mr. J. Cameron's b f, by Hunting Song—Egyptian Flower; Mr. j. Cameron's cli f Fair Diana, by Hunting Song—Lotus Lily; Mr. \V. Wood's b f Flame Queen, by Siegfried—Belgian Queen; Mr. R. Gregory's b f Money Raid, by Night Raid —Par Money: Mr. C. Twist's cli c, by Hunting Song—Unreasonable: and Mr. C. Twist's br f. by Nigger MinstrelFairy Mark. These juveniles were sprinted down the straight in three divisions, and the majority appeared to be well forward and to understand what "was required of them. Among those that made favourable impressions were Fair Diana, Only One and the Hunting Song—Egyptian Flower filly. FOURTH SUCCESSIVE WIN. A rather remarkable record was established by the hunter Flower Bag when he won the Tally-ho Steeplechase, the principal event at the Egmont-Wanganui Hunt Club's annual point-to-point meeting at Waverley on Saturday, as that was his fourth successive win in the event. Flower Bag made his first appearance in the Tally-ho Steeplechase in July, 1933, when he scored an easy all-the-way victory, and after repeating the performance twelve months later lie was placed in training under R. Brougli at Hawera. He made his first appearance on a racecourse in August of that year, when he outclassed his opponents in the Pakuranga Hunt Cup at Ellerslie. He followed this up by winning the Egmont-Wanganui Hunt Cup at New Plymouth, and then beating all except Capella Abbey in the Wailcato Hunt Cup at Cambridge. Unfortunately he developed soreness, and had to be thrown out of training. He was hunted last season, when he again won the Tally-ho Steeples, but he was sore after the race and no attempt was made to train him. This winter he has been much more sound, and his owner, Mr. A. Watkins, was quietly confident that he would score his fourth win on Saturday. This confidence was more than justified. Giving a magnificent display of fencing, Flower Bag literally jumped himself to the front with half the journey covered, and despite his steadier of 12.10 lie was never in any real danger of defeat. It was a splendid performance and lie pulled up quite sound afterwards. Flower Bag will be prepared for the combined Egmont-Wangamii-Taranaki Hunt Club's meeting at New Plymouth at the end of next month, and then he will go into retirement. "Though I may use him as a hunter, lie will never compete at either totalisator or point-to-point meetings after this season," stated Mr. Watkins after Saturday's race. Flower Bag is a big upstanding bay by Gasbag from Sweet Flower, who died two years ago and was also the dam of Cardliu. Sweet Flower traces back tq a mare, Manarau, with whom • Mr. Watkins' father won hurdle races when in mounted rifle camps over fifty years ago. '