SPORTING

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LIV, Issue 9029, 7 November 1925, Page 2

SPORTING

aOTES. Talking of sale ring bargains, tHe ca*e of Whittier should not be passed over. He was purchased for 250 guineas as a yearling, and to date has won over 24,000 sovs. in stake-money. The English mare Celebrity 11. created a favourable impression when she waltzed home at the head of a big field in the Trial Plate at Ranglora (writes “Mascot'’). Before being purchased by the Southland sportsmen, Messrs Chisholm and McDonald, she ran second twice in England. She is a beau-tiful-looking mare, being by Gainsborough from Force of Gravity. One can confidently look forward to Celebrity 11. returning her supporters several dividends this season. ( ( The progeny of new sires are I beginning to make their presence - felt. The Paper Moneys, Catmints, Limonds, and Tea Trays are all getting on to the winning list as sires of early speed. 'A Queensland politician of some 1 tonnage was having a bad day at the Albion Park races (says the Sydney Bulletin). He had run out of cash and was half a hundred to the bad towards the end of the day. He borrowed a pound from

a friend, look » branny 1 *'.' v him courage, went back to the ring and booked a tenner on the last® race. After another brandy ho booked another tcumu. there was no time for more before his horse romped home, putting hi™ «0 ahead on the day. " ith a couple more brandies 1 would have broken your ring,’ he said when collecting. Up to the end of August the principal stake-winners in America this year were: American Ha 01 . Z our Wins. *13,670; Pompey. 2yrs, Six wins. *12.630 ; SiU-er Fox, 3yrs, nine wins, hll 680, Atherslont, syrs, three wins, Tll,605; Mad Play, 4yrs, seven wins, £11,416; and Flying Ebony, three wins, Ti 1,400. Few English classic winners do any racing after they are four years old and the Aga Khan’s St. Leger winner, Salmon Trout (The Tefarch—Salamandra) adds to the number. He was disappointing in the little racing he did this season, his last start being in the Ascot Gold Cup, in which he was beaten by Santorb, and he commences stud duty during the coming year. Although many owners and train era do not care about jumpers, they are worth racing in Sydney nowadays (says a Sydney writer). Piratic, who was never more than ordinary on the flat, has earned

XIG67 in bis last four starts bo has won each time-over hurdles, and Pay Day's last five runs 111 steeplechases have given his owne X 1644. Decidedly good for horses that now have a poor chance ot winning a suburban mil© and aquarter handicap,,evcn if weighted near the minimum. 'At the Fasig-Tipton sales at Saratoga in August, all previous American records were broken. 460 yearlings disposed of averaged 3820 dollars (approximately £766). This beat last year’s average by about £2BO. The highest price during the sales was ,£IO,IOO for a Man o’ War filly, and the lowest a '“tenner.” A clipping from the Hon. G. Lamblon’s book, “Men and Horses I Have Known,” will interest New Zealand racing men who hold that our horses do "not possess nearly as good conti tutions as those of earlier years. Mr Hamilton and Mat Dawson were discussing racing from a general standpoint, and the latter, after reiterating a previous-ly-expi essed opinion that betting was no good, and, that ninety people out of a hundred lost money at it, continued: “But you (Mr Lambton) should make money by breeding and selling horses, if you study their make, shape, and constitution, but remember this, horses are getting more delicate and nervous every year,” I ask ‘ ed him how he accounted for thr

and he said; “Horses for years Ixavo had too great a strain put lon them in their two and three. 1 year-old days, consequently every succeeding generation becomes less robust, and you will hud that as f imo goes on horses w ill less and less be able to stand the work that their more hardy ancestors did.” Ho added thai, if he was a young man, he would aim at- breeding from the best staying blood availante. Mr Lambton’s comments on t.he> above statements were as follow: “1 say that these nrophefic words have, been proved to be right, for year - after year do we sec the high-class two-year-olds degenerate inl«> non-stayers in their throe-year-old careers, and you havo only to look through the entries for the Cups and long distance handicaps of these present rears to realise their truth.” Rampion, who won the Maribyreng Stakes at Flemington was also successful in tho Breeders’ Plato at Band wick. Polyphonies, who won the Eclipse S-okes at Sandown in 1924 and 1925 is to go to the stud at his owner’s property, Maiden Erlegh. Two successful stallions of past years, Orme and Buchan, equalled Polyphontes’s performances in tho race at Sandown, Up to the end of the A.J.O. meeting, G. Price had won eight races in the Sydney metropolitan area of the value of £9951.