TRACK AND STABLE

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 95, 23 April 1942, Page 3

TRACK AND STABLE

EARLY RETIREMENT?

Salutation, who did not show much prominence in the Timaru Cup on Saturday, will probably be retired from racing and put to the stud next season. Premature, another three-year-old, is also to be retired at this early stage of her career. practice of taking classic winning nllies out of commission early without asking too much of them in public lias been followed by Mr. G. M. Currie for many years with good results, and no doubt Mrs. H. D. Greenwood has made her decision about Salutation for the same reason. By Theio, a grandson of The Tetrarch, Salutation is from Queen Salute by Chief Kuler from Soot by All Black from Salute by Soult. Salute is a half-sister to March, dam and grandam of many good winners. Salutation cost Mrs. Greenwood 230 guineas as a yearling ? " as won £3125 in stakes, including £2070 this season.

_ RIDER'S LEG BROKEN Chop Suey stumbled and fell after three furlongs had been covered in the Smithfield Hack Handicap at Washdyke on baturday, and her rider, J. Cappie, broke a leg. Chop Suey collided with the railing after falling and broke a bone in a foreleg, but it is hoped to save her for breeding purposes. WON AT LONG ODDS One of Mr. W. T. Hazlett's team, trained X *-, J - McKay at Caulfield, recently effected a surprise win in a two miles trial hurdle race in Melbourne. He was the four-year-old gelding Otakau, by Colonel Cygnus or Sir Simper from Dulzura, by Chiel Ruler from Dazzling Light. Starting L" a field of a dozen at ionger odds than oO to 1, he scored attractively. TO BE GELDED The Salmagundi colt Broadcaster is being sent to Christchurch. He will be gelded and spelled during the winter. Broadcaster showed good pace in his two-year-old races and probably was little inlerior, on trial, to the best two-year-olds in his stable, which included Indian Sign and Dominate, but he seldom got balanced soon enough in his races to do himself justice. This proved a handicap to him m the Canterbury Champagne Stakes, in which he was flying at the finish. Broadcaster is a long-striding colt and should cio well over middle distances next season. BOOKED FOR AUCKLAND Streamline and Leopardstown, trained ?r ?. lccal ' ton b - v G. Ridgway for Mr. J. H. Grigg, are to be brought north for the Lgmuiit, Waikato and Auckland winter meetings. ANNUAL CONFERENCE The annual meeting of delegates to the -New Zealand Racing Conference will be neld in \\ ellington «on Friday, July 10. <}e day before the second day of the \Vellington winter meeting. Applications lor dates must be made before the end of the present month. BALLOT FOR RACES The large Held problem Is being experienced in Australia as well as in New Zealand, and the ballot is being used to Keen them down to convenient size. Recently the Rosehill club made the acceprun m raC6S ballot for the «g h t to BAN LIFTED The recently-imposed ban on broadcast!Pf? , „.J' aces in Australia was quickly lilted. The reason given was that it deprived the fighting forces, workers in war, industries, people in remote areas and hospital patients of a form of indoor amusement. MAY COME NORTH Hurry Girl recorded an impressive win Washdyke on Saturday, and in view of her success in her previous start at Riverton, her double-figure dividend was surprising. She has made marked improvement of late, and is capable of winning in much stronger company. Her owner, Mr. A. Syme, is contemplating sending Erination to the Egmont, Waikato and Auckland winter circuit, and if that horse comes north Hurry Girl will accompany him. EXPENSIVE FAILURE Arctic Dawn had every chance in the Timaru Cup, and followed Don't Forget and Not Out into the straight. He made a promising effort to get up to Don't Forget early in the run home, but it was short-lived, and he finished a good way from the placed division. AMERICAN BETTING In the State Senate, Senator James J. Crawford, of Brooklyn, asked for favourable action on his bill to enable persons in any part of the State to make parimutuel bets, which would be transmitted to the race track by a messenger service system. At present such bets are restricIS?, to . the track. Mr. Crawford states his bill will eliminate hypocrisy and increase the revenue to the State by 25,000,000 dollars.