SPORTING.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LX, Issue 10829, 30 March 1932, Page 4

SPORTING.

CANTERBURY RACES. SECOND DAY. The Canterbury Jockey Club’s races were continued in fine weather to-day. Results: PEERSWICK HIGH - WEIGHT HANDICAP. — (It Juniper 1. (2) Elude 2, (7) Nightcap 3. All started. Won by a length. Ti ne 3 2/5. AUTUMN HANDICAP.— (3) Arden’s Beauty 1, (4) Oratorious 2, (2) Fleeting Glance 3. Scratched: Grampian. Won by a length. Time 1.12 2/5. YALDHURST HANDICAP. — (5) Rational II 1. (2) Minerval 2, (1) Grecian Prince 3. All started. Won by two lengths. Time 1.38 4/5.

GRIMCRACK HANDICAP. — (1) Countermarch 1, (2) Homecoming 2, (4) Eclair 3. AH started. Won by a length. Time 1.13. ADDINGTON HANDICAP.— (4) Weatherly 1. (7) Crash 2, (1) Muff 3. All started. Won by half a length. Time 1.39 3/5. GREAT AUTUMN HANDICAP. (2) Ramo 1, {5 > Shatter 2, (1) Jaloux 3. Scratched: Black Duke. Earthquake. Won by a head. Time 2.34 3/5. CHALLENGE STAKES.—(I) Silver Ring 1, (3) Azalea 2. (2) Cricket Bat 3. All started. Won by two and a-lialf lengths. Time 1.24 1/5.

TEMPLETON HANDICAP. — (2) True Shaft 1, (1) Autopay 2, (5) Ball Dress 3. Scratched: Grecian Prince. Gold Pit. Won by a. head. Time 1.25. Tlie totalisator handled 214,584 10s compared with £18,558 10s last year, making a total for the meeting of £38,745 compared with £49,694 last year. TROTTERS NOT fx DEMAND. Although there was a large offering of trotting stock at Mr J. R. Corrigan’s sale at Hawera on Monday, few lots were disposed of. The attendance of buyers was limited and bidding was slack. The only horse in training sold was the trotter Finoro, which was bought by T. Agnew, Hastings, for 17 guineas. The top price of the sale was realised by a Worthy Bingen—Free Girl colt foal, 201 guineas, purchased by L. Bolton, Kaponga. J. S. Shaw secured a Worthy Bingen—Flashing Wyn foal for 12£ guineas. Rosie Nelson, with a Worthy Bingen foal and stinted to the same sire, was bought for, 17 guineas by T. Agnew. Prices ranged down to 41 guineas. Winshow and Arabond, who were listed for sale, were not offered, the auctioneer stating they could be purchased privately. No business resulted. Both horses won races during the afternoon. GOING TO AUSTRALIA. Among the horses that G. Jones will take back to Australia with him when he returns after a brief visit to New Zealand following the present A.J.C. Meeting are several of the yearlings purchased by Mr W. R. Kemball at the January sales. These are to be pushed on in their preparation for the early two-year-olds races in Australia next spring (says a Wellington writer). Three of the youngsters who will probably be included in the team of seven or eight horses are Chief Mark Metro, and Easy Money. Chief Mark is a good-looking chest.nut colt by Chief Ruler from the imported Attains mare Prophet’s Mark, a close relation to Spanish Prince, a high-class performer in England. He cost Mr Kemball 200 guineas at the yearling sales, and is probably one of the most forward of the rising two-year-olds in the stable.

Metro is a lop-eared chestnut colt, also by Chief Iluler, and from the Kilbroney mare Kilteel, a, sister to the A.J.C. Derby and G.N. St. Leger winner, ivilboy. Kilteel herself was never broken in, but she has already left one speedy performer in Paper Boy, who might have done better than he did had he remained' sound. Metro was obtained at the sales for 160 guineas.

Easy Money is a bay colt by Paper Money from the imported Somme Kiss mare Piquant, a winner herself of several races in the Dominion, and a sister to Eros, who had much success in England under National Hunt rules. A full sister to this colt, Dollar Princess, has been performing well in Australia, among her two-year-old successes last season being the Gosford Nursery Handicap, Canterbury Park Nursery Handicap, Menangle Two-Year-old Handicap. Easy Money was bought for 65 guineas at the yearling sales, and since being broken in has made rapid progress. STARTLING THEORY ADVANCED. London, March 21. Who was Phar Lap’s sire? The startling possibility that it was not Night Raid is raised by Captain Tom Hogg, one of England’s greatest trainers and veterinary authorities, who once partly owned Night Raid. Captain Hogg’s partner in the ownership was Mr Archie DouglasPennant. They sold the horse for an alleged “meagre £120” to J. McGuigan, an Ayr trainer, and the horse was eventually sold to Australia. Asked what sort of a horse was Night Raid, Captain Hogg replied that the horse’s best performance was third in a. Selling Nursery. He showed very poor form. “I am mystified that he ever sired such a wonder as Phar Lap, in addition to Nightmarch,” the captain declared. “I cannot understand how it happened. Night Raid never looked to me like growing either as a. racehorse or as a stallion: he was so narrow,Jacking size, substance and bone. We gave only 100 guineas for him as a yearling, when stock was bringing good prices. It was not because of any particular virtues that McGuigan bought him when we sold him at the back end of his two-year-old career.

“I still maintain that the horses were mixed on board ship,” Captain Hogg went on to say. “Some other horse was delivered to New Zealand instead of Night Raid. I cannot believe that the horse we sold ever sired Phar Lap. No doubt it is stupid of me, but in default of overwhelming evidence I refuse to be convinced. Horses cannot grow bone if they do not possess it. Therefore, it is impossible to believe that Night Raid developed sufficiently even on the luscious grasses and oats of New Zealand.” EMPHATIC DENIAL. Sydney, March 24 Mr Peter Keith, formerly a leading trainer in Sydney, brought Night Raid from England to Australia, and has emphatically denied that the stallion was poor looking. He claims Night Raid to be one of the best-pro-portioned horses that ever came from England. Mr Keith said that he commisisoned McGuigan to* purchase two horses for him, and in due course Night Raid and Cymric reached Sydney. The purchase price of the pair was £950

While raced by Mr Keith, Night Raid ran a dead-heat for first in a race and was third in another. Those weer his only placings in Australia. Mr Keith said he quite failed to understand the statement of Captain Hogg that Night Raid was narrow

and lacked size. Eventually Mr Keith sold Night Raid to Mr A. P. Wade, a leading Sydney owner and breeder, for 1400 guineas. He in turn sold him to the late Mr A. F. Roberts, studmaster in New Zealand, for 700 guineas.

After Nightmarch and Phar Lap had scored phenomenal successes on the turf Mr Keith wanted to buy the sire back, but an offer of 10.000 guineas was refused by Mr Roberts.

Commenting on the statement that Cymric and Night Raid might have been mixed up in the matter of identification on arrival in Sydney. Mr Keith said that there was no shadow of doubt that Night Raid was Night Raid.

His description tallied perfectly with the details supplied to him by Weatherby’s. in London, and through which ’firm the horses were shipped to Sydney. Mr Keith added: “A blind man could tell the difference between the two horses, as, for a start, they were of different ages.” AMERICAN HORSES EXCELLED. Vancouver, March 21. Mr Will Rogers, popular humorist, has a laughable paragraph about Phar Lap. ‘‘The name sounds like a mouthwash,” he writes, "but he runs like a racehorse. All that the American horses saw of him was his tail and his dust.

“This racehorse makes a sucker out of the United States, and with England holding the motor, aeroplane and footracing records, there is only one thing in which Uncle Sam excels. Our international bankers have lent more of other people’s money to foreign countries on less security than ever was lent before even on security.”