RACING AND TROTTING

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21257, 31 August 1934, Page 14

RACING AND TROTTING

LATEST NEWS FROM FAR AND NEAR;

RACING FIXTURES September I—Otago Hunt Club. September I—Taranaki Hunt Club. September s—Marton5 —Marton J.C. September .13, .15 —Wanganui J.C. September 15—Ashburton County R.C. September 20, 22 —Geraldine R.C. September 22 —Foxton R.C. September 28, 29 —Marlborough R.C. September 29—Oamaru J.C. September Napier Park li.C. September 29, October 1 Taumanimii l?.C\ TROTTING FIXTURES September I —New Brighton T.C. September B—Wellingtonß—Wellington T.C. September 29 —Methven T.C. October 6 New Brighton T.C. October 13 —Waikato T.C. October 20, 22—Auckland T.C. October 20, 22 —Greymnulh T.C. October 22 Oamaru T.C. October 22—Manawatu T.C. October 27 Wellington T.C. November 0. 8. 9—New Zealand Metropolitan T.C. Yov'ember 22, 24—Forbury Park T.C. November 2!, 25 —Nelson T.C. TUKF GOSSIP Reminders Nominations for the Ashburton County Racing Club's spring meeting will close on Monday next. Nominations for the Geraldine Racing Club's spring meeting will close on Monday next. New Zealand Cup The New Zealand Cup. which is to be run on Saturday. November 3, is worth £1275 this year including a cup valued at £75, the stake having been increased by £275 over the amount given last year. The conditions regarding rchandicapping remain, and the entrance and acceptance fees are also the same. Nominations will be taken by the secretary of the Canterbury Jockey Club. Mr F. T. H. Bell, uo till 8 p.m. to-day.

place. He then won the Stewards" High-weight Handicap on Sunny Palm and the Catterham Stakes on Danesford. The latter is by Stratford out of Miss Brian Boru. and is thus a halfbrother to Brian Royal, who is now bcin.tr used as a stallion by Mr F. W. G. Hobbs at his farm in the Denoni district in Australia. In the final event Richards was again concerned in a dead-heat, but this time for first place, his mount. Windolite, sharing the verdict with Spurtle, ridden by J. Sirett. TROTTING NOTES Reminders Nominations for trotting events on the Ashburton and Geraldine Racing Club's programmes will close on Monday. Acceptances for the Wellington Trotting Club's spring meeting will close on Monday. Training' Operations Several horses that will race at New Brighton on Saturday were exercised at Addington yesterday, a fair amount of interesting work being done. A Good Display J. J, Kennerley's two trotters, Explosion and Princess Onyx, were given a solid work-out over a mile and a half, Explosion conceding the three-year-old about 60 yards' start. Princess Onyx made practically all the running and was in front until the post was almost reached, where the older horsegot on terms. Explosion was timed to do the journey in 3min 25 4-ssec, and Princess Onyx went about 3min 30sec. The latter, who is engaged at New Brighton to-morrow, gave a sterling display for one of her tender years and is bound to be well supported in immediate engagements. Explosion is set to give away 14-1 yards in the Spring Handicap, and though this aopears a big task for any horse, he will be well suited by the going, which will not be hard. An Improving Pacer Cloudy Range with E. C. McDermott in the sulky wat; given a solid work-out over two miles, which he covered in 4min 38 2-ssec. He worked without the hopples, and he could have improved on the time recorded. Useful Work Triangle trotted a mile and a half in 3min 30see, and Coral Prince and Morning Sun got to the end of a mile and a quarter in 2min 55sec. Golden Direct, in F. G. Holmes's care, raced over two miles in 4min 3$ 2-ssec, a satisfactory performance in view of to-morrow's racing, and Compass was not seriously troubled when pacing a mile and a half in 3min 28sec. Compass has been improved by the last season's racing and will win races in the near future.

The Stud Book Volume XII. of the New Zealand Stud Book is now available, and as the circulation of this volume hasbeen reduced from the number printed in previous years with the object of bringing costs somewhere nearer the estimated revenue, sportsmen desiring to obtain a copy should make early application to the secretary of the New Zealand Racing Conference. The latest volume contains the records of 2250 mares and their progeny as well as the usual references to imported stock, deaths of stallions, tabulated pedigrees of stallions and mares, mares arranged under their sires, and much other valuable information for the breeder and racing owner. Since the publication of Volume XI., the NewZealand Racing Conference empowered the executive committee to make regulations relating to the admission of horses to the Stud Book, and these are printed in full in Volume XII They impose certain obligations on, breeders, and it is advisable that everyone concerned in the breeding industry should be acquainted with thorn. Sale of Racecourse As- a preliminary to the winding un of the Te Kniti Racing Club a sale of portions of the club's buildings, implements and accessories was eonducted on the course. A large attendance of buyers was present and there was good competition. satisfactory prices being realised. The grandstand was sold for £135 to the Otorohanga Sports Club, which also bought a considerable number of the posts and railings. The building, it is understood, will be re-erected at the Island Reserve, Otorohanga. Although it is a matter for regret that the Te Kuiti Racing Club, which has been in existence for 25 years, has found it necessary to wind up, the racecourse will not be lost to the district as a reserve, as the Te K.uiti Aero Club has made arrangements to purchase it. Apache A Melbourne writer says the New Zealander Apache is 18 vears old and is probably the oldest steeplechaser racing in Australia or New Zealand. The writer is somewhat astray in his tacts, for Apache was foaled' in 1021. and is only 13 years old. A Cup Prospect The horse of the moment is Davolo 'Pombal—lmprudence), second in the Winter Cup and winner of the Islington _ Handicap at the recent Grand National meeting, writes Pegasus in the "Referee." This gelding is a four-year-old and has a very consistent record from five furlongs to a mile and a quarter. Toward the end of last season Davolo was tried on several occasions over a mile and a quarter, but the last few yards would always find him wanting. However, a slightly different system of training has " b'-en tried lately and the most decisive manner in which he won the Islington Handicap, one mile and a quarter, does not seem to leave room for any doubt that he will win over Jonger journeys, fn his latest success Davolo carried 9-6 and ran the mile and a quarter in 2min sscc. He was reckoned to cover the final six furlongs in Imin 12sec During the last two years the Islington Handicap has provided a good guide to the New Zealand Cup. Last year it was won by Palantua, who took the New Zealand Cup a few weeks later while the previous year Minerval. who won the race, finished second to Fast Passage in the New Zealand Cup. Another winner of the race, Compris. did not win the New Zealand Cup, but he subsequently took first honours in the Wellington Cup in the record time ol' 2min 29sec. Compris and Davolo were both owned by Mr P. F. Camobell and were trained by C. Davey. ' It looks as though these two. who have now been associated a &ood many have another champion in the making! At any rate Davolo looks the best of | he Riccarton prospects for the bi," Handicaps of the spring. J Gordon Richards Gordon Richards had a ride in the six races on Derby Day and was placed in every one. In'the opening event he dead-heated for second place, was third in the second, and in the Derby steered Easton into second

Blandford and Agile Blandford (R. B. Berry 1 and Agile (G. S. Smith) worked a mile in approved style without, breaking records and both should race well in engagements at New Brighton to-morrow. Rcy Spec, who is one of the popular fancies for the Burwood Handirap at New Brighton to-morrow, was allowed to run along over two miles in 4rnin 40scc. He was never extended, and appears to be in fine condition for immediate racing. Little Rela, an unhonpled trotter with little public form to recommend her. went solidly over a mile and a half in 3min 32sec. and Full Hand and Attorney were companions in a spit: over a mile and a quarter, which occupied 2min 54sec. Improving Young Travis has loj>t the good reputation he had when he first commenced racing, and possibly he will not be well supported in the Sea view Handicap at New Brighton. This colt, however, has improved a lot during the last few months, and the manner in which he paced a mile and a quarter yesterday showed hirn to be in firstclass order. His time was 2min 49sec for the 10 furlongs, and if he repeats this effort to-morrow he may be hard to dispose of. A Smart Effort Exywurk, from G. S. Smith's stable, worked a mile and a quarter in 2min 47 3-osec, a tine effort for a horse in his class, and Bide-a-Wee paced a mile and a halt in 3min 22sec. Bidc-a-V/ee is on the limit of the Seaview Handicap, of a mile and a quarter. 3min class, at New Brighton to-morrow and though there is useful class opposed to her, she can be depended upon to make a race of it. No Guarantee Attorney lv.; shown a determination to pace ever since he was a toai, against all the laws of breeding U there are any hard and last rules, writes Ribbonwood in the New Zenland "Referee." Both his Jud&c Hancock, and dam, Bridget were born trotters, and never showed the slightest inclination to go at any other gait. Writer, who was first raced as a pacer, was converted to the trotting gait and is one of our best, although bred to pace more than trot. Every season it is becoming more noticeable that a breeder can have little surety that the foals will be of the gait he aimed at. The situation is not one to bemoan, but something to accept as inevitable. There were once separate trotting and pacing families, but the division today is almost wholly artificial. The trotter and pacer are not two separate entities, but different sides of the same thing. There are, of course, some few vestiges of pure squaregaited. blood lel.'t. while in Logan Pointer, Rey tie Oro, and Jack Potts are three examples of pure pacingbred horses who left, or are leaving, nothing else but. pacers when mated with pacing mares. But in years to come there will be virtually no trotters or pacers in any strict genetic sense—there will be only the standard bred horse, an animal which sometimes trots, sometimes paces, and frequently. as in the case of Wraekler. is capable of doing either. f'aek Country Colt A sensation was provided on the g'und circuit track at Cleveland, America, recently, when a backcountry colt defeated a quartet of liambletonian Stake candidates, including one uf the favourites, in record time. The colt in question was Senator Mimic. He was developed 011 the half-mile tracks in Ohio, where he won his last five races as a two-year-old. His sire. The Senator, 2min. 3isec, was the best three-year-old in .1923. He was under the crre of G. Winings, who is one of those breeJers who do not nominate tiicir colts in luturitics. The result in tin's instance is a sensational three-yi;.r-old that looks good enough to win the Hambletonian Stake, worth about 40.0(10 dollars CCHOOO), but has not been entered for it. American Classics Of the 11! colts and fillies that aiv engaged in the classic events in .America this season, no fewer than 31 changed hands at last season's auction sales of yearlings. Although the percentage is somewhat lower than Hi previous years, it shows how few horsemen in these days are breeding the trotters they race. Another straw which shows this trend is the list of entries for the Kentucky Futurity ior loals, 1934. This list reveals a '.ngle breeding farm contributing

TARANAKI HUNT MEETING

I FLOWER BAG WINS BIG j RACE ! OKAiwr.S SUCCKSS < ,!' LIE ~ l.iu'.ilil'J* I'tiLSt-UAM.) NEW PLYMOUTH, August 30. For the first combined Taranaki and Egmont-Wanganui Hunt meeting the weather was tine, the attendance good. | and the track in good order. The | tofalisator handled £5984. Results; — TRIAL HUNTERS' HANDICAP tiTEEI'LE | CHASE, |OfLi 5 fiiw and H'C'i'Jiy. A hunt mo miles. 1. l- CVNK Al; Kin Ju-I! .. TueWer I 1 I 4. <!— Slol'P.v 10-'J ■ .1. Kci-;:us :: j Kaifnreniai 1 1'-0 : t>. - Clem Courier 10-0 tiein ; in. 10 Ulil Kins; Vole 10-i): 1) 7 Siiamiti 10-ii: ■'■. -Matnro tn-0 (f.dll: 7. f> Ashes -U'-O (Oll'i : - The .Storm IU-0 fXeli) also started. I Won by t!ir.-o lnislli--; heitil Wtwc.su s*«I ond and tliird. Shamin Wii« fourth. Time, j '.linin --'isit, j WERAROA SCURRY. i in' ,'iij -ov:-, I'ivc t'11r111n;--I. t--]T,TKi;.'S J• i-.X<'!-; ; ri-0 I'. Atlvii.' I r,— Harvest. -Moon !l-0 K. \ niin; -Colossal .1-0 W. .1. Hron;;lit..n :: ,s, II II i-h 1-: X cji.-i - rl-0; 7 7 (ro I<l Mission H-li; M, .11 Jia.v Hand f-0; J". 10 ltd Fox 8-0: 1-, I:( J'otern s.ll * :i, -1 (, enera] Qui'x 8-0: 0. Chikara 8 I, y Frii.'.?land S-o: 15. 15 lio;,. Day S-0: (i. i> Sandlark S-0: It. II Queen Aeries is.o also started. Won liy lis If a head : same rr-cond and third. !■'rie:-la n d s*si s t'ourlli. Tune, linin 5 U-osei'. WIIENUAKUKA HACK HANDICAP, ( If I; II sll \ '-even I'll I'lol,. m : c, \. n..rne i !«. 0 'l'alnns-ini;i 7 " . . W li. Pin.- 'J _•< 7 - -Prince 1. 1 110 7 -ii . S. Tr.onain :: 5, 5 Taitoni ;mj ; In. I'l St. Clara, s-7: ■V, :( Illuminalo 8 -1 : 'J. I,andlu 1.!,.r s'.': I. I Lad'. Zinnia H-n; :t -1 Silk S.. s I;• 11, 11 V rli.i II 7 -I': 7. n A ii.pi 7-0: lI :i ] iuM oil i <■! i ni' 7-' i also slartnl. Won l.\ three lenntlis: in*. 1; and third. Hlk Sn\- was fourth. Tino', I nun EGMONT WANGANUI HUNT CUP HANDICAP. j Of I Oil -i'(; and tropin. Al.i.ar i\i ■■ ,11 I and a halt. j I. 1 !' I.nu'lil; lI.Mi I 1 " I!, su 111 van I f.- -i 'ardliu 10-.-i . , i.'. ,1. Thoni]. on (!. li- Hard Cold l'i-r. .A. M.-b.niald 12, -t I,ucr-s s 1 I I; 7, 7 Don Knaa I ! '' : •I, 3 Oooniior 10-7 :5. N'«nrV|n in-'' Csdl;; 11, II Mataro I'i-u: 1", 1" S!.n']i,', l"-" 8, S Kn/i.r loo: (i, I\ aula I n-o al-'i sl:>rt'd. \\'on l.y two loii-Oh-: and a half: sano: olid find til iri r. Ka/or t'our'li. ' I ■lmiri s'.isi..i', WAIIIAU HANDICAP (OPEN). 10' 7" -'"Vs. si", fnrloim-.. I. I—--Hi; M'A I :) o 1., 'i. I L'. :: - -Till. 'l'iLTr .s-t w. .1. 11 iij 1, l" n :• li. ti- - I'n.ly.S', 7-1) - - 11. V. U :: 111, 111 Aa Khan s-7 ; ': ( a'-h". - I : 4, 5 Korokio 7-11: S. « I. al la (Jn.-s 7 - ; 7, 7 flying I'rin.-.. 7-s: 5, 1 M.otoa 7 :: ■ <J, '■) (ir.rn I.inn"t 7-'..' al-o Marti'd. Won i.y a l"n'_-th: load n'O.nd and third. Cart'..':; was fourth. Tinu', .linin 1 <s^. ) LADIES' BRACELET HANDICAP. Of GO an « and trophy. One. mil', arid a quarter •t. I-- lil.ACi; il AN I'J s .. C 1.. I*.til : 1 I—-li.inform 1 I-o . . .-shi. hi . " 5. li- The Arl; I 1 'i I'. fi. .lark-.m I. 2 Santofi, I'J-'J: 1u,7 March Alone l--e; 7, !' Ovnii.-i 'l'"ivn rj u; Ai'ti'nl |x.d»<-r l'j-0: :i II i: h-lii ah ii il -I I : I sil", t I•,i 11 lt-lt: ». S War hi a 11-:;: 11. I.i On-tsin i Han 1 1 ; 11-4 Kai tonona i I I 0. 1 I linrnu noil II": 1:', t'> No H'mih;,,," 11-" al o start, el. Ilukemar.n "~n h> a i Vr failed draw his ..l iinalifi.'l. Nf.' 1 : 1 .a ill ...I th.- ii"S"t t' t- . I hor-e- . T: til' . -Oni" I 7 >• WAVERLEY HACK HAKDICAI'. . Ilf p., t'. I 'lnn'.' : -;j r.VTI M, I.< >I X.i: li. H. M.'i... : I -I. I 1,-.- ' ohi,--ns 7 . . K. Voilr. • I. "J- Snprrior 7-K: (...hliinea ■ I'.. 7 Hiai;'iiio fi-:;; ::. I ( o-ir!.".-a s 5: ,">. r. I neadtui-tre-e, 7 1 : i 5 Gov. im I.ea 'i 1 aDo started. Writ., hy ,t i-i-ad, v-:; ml and third. Headmi-'! re i'.ir-ii Tim.- Irill:. I* j ACCKI'TANCKS l-'OK l'()-MOUK0*V hack \N!> irr\"Ti'.i:>' ii \vi >n \ v uriiiii,:, i:.\i;i\, o" mo-. on- nnh- ! and .1 hall' and U") jard--I . ( ( . |{ I'';. u !' |( ! i 'mint. I .'-iidroi'f I:: >'..' an Star 0 11 I I.' ii at; n i . . '• II i ~dia no o 't jI la i". ' M... ia!('J I; laf.irm •' » ! on vak !. ifANhrt'Ai' n\i k m-i i:i;y. | ...IV i;in_'M'd" s Chikara .. .- Gold .UDiioi', s lid la rI; .. - . . Kay Sand w ',iue"ii A_-i,■ j n'Ann ii.M i; 11ani»ic.\p. «,f ■ 1 liu'li: t'irioli',.- and a hail' m 11., U.. I Tair..r:i :i n Ythan i j St. Clara. - i Sfe-arforni t I'rin.-''- I.'< n.r.ady /.inn:a I TAUA.v AK I ID .Vl' CI.I lid I' II \ \ M|i \!• of Inn 5,,.| ;. About t■' o mile- and si. 11.. st I'.. lh.vor lia-r II c; 'l'lir .Sf.vr.i I.life;,; . Ill" Wind I" " boil Krnia . II ii I'!• .|ie.eir;.-r I" " (Jardim . lo 1:: st.amin l.i i ijynieal [\'id i" 0 Ma'an. I.') " Ilard Gold 10 Slee-p.v . . I" o lia/.or , , lo 0 STR.ATt I dill lIA N 1 >IC Al\ of ;t, fur 1.,.,-, -I. Ih. .'. Hi. 0ra1.... " 1V.,;y:,0 . 7 A-a Kiiar, s Car;',", * 4 Greeti I.im.et 7 r, K or.il.io 7 S I 'a vi sti i.'k 7 " ur.\Tisi;,-' u ANllit:. 1 , i' n, \T I:\CK, Ii" SON... On.. 1,1 iie and a. .inarVr, hi. 10. st li,. Santoir . . 1 o J 0 Tie- Ar.s " fill Item a i in 1" \-areta 0 7 M.areh Ahuo: .11; 7 l-01-ri- . " 7 Cr./ima T'.ivn l" 7 Kaola x 7 Gynifial Kid I" ."> liurnv. ~O.i 7 tjn rra I" Kk.K I' I H ACK 11 A N bIOA i*. ..i i,.. ...v,. Si l yi r 111 n_ . -1.i1.. - ' li'. ...r s " l'rinee U. 7 hen Col.,- a- s ii Oinvanl.M 7 " 1;.."D Zinnia 7 0 l.«dv lo .. 7 " Ad. p' . . 7 :: I j SOUTH CANTERBURY J.C. OI'KK lALS AI'I'OINTKI) ! ' Air IX Grant presided ever a meei.ing of the committee ol' (lie South Canterbury Jockey Club, when the following committees were set up, with the president and vice-president (Mr C. L. Orbelll as ex officio members of all committees:---Programme. Messrs H. El worthy. A. 5. Elworthy, and H. If. Fisher: linance. Messrs H. Lowry. A. S. Elworthy, and T. R. Rhodes; emergency, Messrs T. Sealon. H. Lowry, and C. H. Gresson; ground. Messrs T. Seaton, H. Lowry, and J. E. T. Cameron: stewards. Messrs W. J. Bassett. J. E. Bennett. M. C. Harper. J. F. K. Jamieson. E. G. ' Kerr. W. Morrison, W. H. Orbell, Jas. Scott, L. E. Wood, and C. S. Youn«. Officials were appointed as follows: Handicappers. Messrs .1. E. Henrys (gallops), G. Paul (trots); judge. Mr C. one-third of all the nominations, which is an unheard-of situation 111 more than 40 years of the Kentucky Futurity. Where there were 138 diftcrent breeding establishments represented as recently as 1020. the number this year is but 52.

E. Hassall: starter. Mr P. D. MeNab: j clerk of course, Mr J. M. Shaw: hon-! orary time-keepers, Messrs A, Dickson ' and J. O'Leary; clerk of scales, Mr D. j McKenzie; surgeon, Dr. G. H. Ussher; ! honorary veterinary surgeon. Messrs i VV. Smith and C. H. Williamson. ! The ground committee reported that the old refreshment booth had been I pulled down by day labour and that j the timber taken from it had been! stacked. It recommended that four additional scraping sheds, an imnlernent shed, and a feed stall should bes erected from the timber, this being j agreed to. ; At a subsequent meeting, over which Mr Grant presided, a vote of sympathy was passed with Mr J. O'Leary in the death of his father. It was decided to write to Mr E. G. Shipley (Christchurch) for further information about the installation of loud speakers for broadcasting descriptions of races at the club's meetings. The Racing Conference notified that the levy on the club for conference 1 expenses, stipendiary stewards, and racecourse inspectors for the vear was £B6 9s 9d. Messrs Raymond, Raymond, and Tweedy were appointed to transact the legal business of the club. The Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry was granted the use of the course on certain conditions for a refresher camp from October 20 to 23. A letter was received from the Trotting Association stating that when enquiries were being made into cases of interference, crossing, etc.. it would be of assistance to the association if judicial committees were to state whether, in their opinion, such interference was wilful, accidental, or due to careless horsemanship. The programme committee submitted a programme for the spring meeting showing a total of £BOO in stakes. The Timaru Cup had been transferred to Ihc autumn meeting and the Teschemaker Handicap brought forward to the spring meeting. The programme was adopted. The chairman reported that improvements had been carried out to the main track, which had been harrowed, sown, and rolled, an excellent job having been made. The new booth was well on the way lo completion. AUSTRALIAN RACING j RANDWK'K AND ItOSKUKKYj TRACK WORK ! A('( KI'TANCES FOR (AN TICK- | HI'UY stakes I ,IIv I KIL j I J'. 1.. I\ L■ n ..I'.li i.. j 1 Received August 30. <1.50 p.m.' ! SYDNEY. August. 30. | The we:, trark caused many horses j to-day io leave Rand wick for Rose--1 ■ r\, but at Kamiwirk Chatham did well'to register 5-Usec for four fur- | !oi:gs. I Silver King and Golden Hair shared ■ with Silver Seem live Cuiloug lion-i , u:s in 7'.:- ec. Golden Wings taking I mill <Umv. Nightly was given nn easy task. He j has been lame intermittently this I Week. | At Reseller;.-. Capri---, Hinera. Mar-] ens Cicero, and Martian Chief worked satisfactorily, as did Piter Pan. The tiack will probably be heavy at Canterbury on Saturday. The following are engaged for the Canterbury Stake-: --Chatham 9-2. koneh .Wagh 3-13. Golden Wings !I-13. Silver King 8-13. Whittinghaiu 3-13, Saimot!) 3-12. Silver Scorn 3-11.! Golden Hair 8-9. I