TURF-TOPICS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 22, 9 June 1939, Page 7

TURF-TOPICS

TO RACi: AT TAURANGA The Vaals filly Valimeen, a wince' 1 at the Waikato meeting, is not engaged at the Auckland fixture, but is be raced at Tauranga this month At Te llapa in a severe finish she ac- ■ counted for the. brilliant garland, and as she will not meet either springs ' -at Gate Pa, it may only be a matter -of insight that is likely to trouble her as she is hardly built on line> •of great strength. GOOD SELLERS The well known Sydney trainer, J. T. Jamieson, has just concluded .a, fortnight's holiday in this Dominion. Although principally on plca« sure bent'' he evidently had fresh in his memory the brilliant deeds in Australia of the Bulandshar.The Becolt. High Caste, and while in Hawkc s Bay he purchased two due . yeajlings by the same sire. . A NEW LOCATION The Rotorua trained Kena, ;«fter rrunning unsuccessfully at the Egmont meeting was taken to Awapr.ni •9 :and last week won the Foxton Cup, • one mile and a quarter, defeating • quite a good field of middle distance ••contestants. The Musketoon gelding Hias now been transferred to H. Lorrisgan's Trentham stable. CLASSY JUVENILES Trainer J. H. JefTord, who in his time has prepared many performers f)f a very high standard, notably Ra., ?pjne and Star Stranger for Mr A. B Williams;, of Poverty Bay ? has jusi taken up a quartette of yearlings s;t Ngata t rawa, Hawke's Bay, and they .are likely to be very,.,much heard of next season. Included is a full sister -to Baran, a filly by Bulandshar from Sympathetic and another filly by the same sire from Tino Atua.

THE CARDINAL IMPROVING The Matamata trained, The Card, inal, runner up in the Farewell Handicap at Te llaipa, a position he occupied in the Champion Hack* Handicap at Te Aroha, is expected to be a really good four year old and next season is likely to racc prominently in open handicap events over middle distances. By Night Raid (sire of Phar Lap) from Palestina (N.Z. Oaks Avinner) he lacks little on the score of breeding and may even develop into a cup horse. LEADING TWO YEAR OLDS Two year old racing is practically concluded this season, and figures have already been compiled in respect to the winning totals of tho.se who have I cen the most successful as juveniles. The leading five stake win ners, so far as New Zealand juvenile events are concerned, arc Bcaulivro (£2315) ; Beau Vite (£1310), Submission (5129.3), High Caste (£118{f) and Nora Gregor (£950) . Beaulivre, who heads the list, is a Wellington, owned colt, by Beau Perc from Pass Book, by Paper Money from Password by Martian-Secret the latter a good winner. Beau., livre has the distinction of being a descendant of the foundation marc Starkie, bred in Wellington, in 1870, her dam having been imported from. Australia without pedigree. .From Starkie by Riddlesworth, ha,ve descended many great racehorses best among them being Advance, who won the Wellington, Dunedin and Canterbury Cups and also carried very heavy weights to victory in Australia. Others worthy of note were Fish-hook (Dunedin Cup), Waitiri (Ilawke's Bay Guineas), Rosefeldt and Toi'tulla both New Zealand Cup winners, and Dia„

bolo (North Island Challenge Stakes and Canterbury Cup). Reference is made in the foregoing to the fact of the dam of Starkie being imported from Australia, without pedigree.^lt so happened, under special circumstances, that the importer in Wellington was in no way concerned in regard to breeding lines.