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Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24610, 5 July 1945, Page 3

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trentham notes little track work yesterday •< The Press " Special Service WELLINGTON. July 4. Tt was an off morning at Trentham this morning The only tracks open were the Snd and the plough, and training activities were confined to pace work on ♦he latter circuit, which was in excellent nrder Trentham had its heaviest frost nf the season, and it was after 9 o’clock before it thawed. The day was brilliantly fine and as the weather appears settled the'track should be in first-class winter condition for Saturday’s racing, and not L heavy as usual at July meetings. The course proper will be available for fast W crk and schooling to-morrow. Arrivals to-day were: Lightfair, Greek Tffort Flving Ace, Red Glare, Abdicate, clnging Hills. Gold Lad. Gayjax. Brantome Dies Faustus, Royal Heir, Lord Thelo Jonathan Jo, Cinna Bay. Kilmanagh, >ii a d 'fox, Panope. Edward. Flying Spy. Aqueduct. Tracer. Royce. Foxiana, Kaitoa Arco, Pink Clover, Air Ace. Piccolo, Nie’ht Fighter. Eagle Flight. Tring, Great nivide Court Dress. Amorlad, Strip. Royal Flight Boloyna, Platform, Gulf Stream. Maggiore, Roval Rae, John o London, Foxhaven. Ncko, Sir Percy, Bafflipg, Valantua, Royoney. Boolamskee, Bruce, Mysterious Melody, Roman Orator. New Bat-' tie Paid Lord Mascot, Ballyneety, Neenah Grev Salute, Foxstar, Broiedame. Sir Dingle, Broielov, Colonel Dink, Abbey Fox and Ernada. Longsword wa? scratched for the Whyte Handicap at 10.55 a.m to-day. As the result of a kick from another horse during his visit to Wanganui. Longsword has had trouble with a knee, and his trainer was not inclined to take any risk with him The injury is not serious, and if Longsword, who is due at Trentham tomorrow. misses no further work he will contest the Parliamentary Handicap on *V\p second day of the meeting. Royal Musk was scratched for the Whyte Handicap at 4.55 p.m to-day. Dual Engagements Six horses claim dual engagements on the first day of the meeting. They are Bisquit. Kilmanagh, Lightfair, Noble Fox, Gayjax, and Abdicate, and all are jumpers. Kilmanagh is to run in the hack steeplechase with W. Stevens riding, but plans for the others have not been comP Hoyal Jay is a doubtful starter In the Trentham Hurdles. He gave himself a •light wrench when he landed badly at one of the fences in the Hawke s Bay Hurdles at Hastings two weeks ago, and has been showing signs of occasional sore•■pee since. The Trentham hurdles favourite, Brantome. was a centre of attraction when he made his first appearance at Trentham to-day. He is an immense horse, and is trained to fine racing condition. He will be ridden on Saturday by P. Brady, who «was on him in his two winning performances this season. None of the visitors at Trentham looks In better physical condition than Town Survey, who is to make his debut as a steeplechaser in the Wellington Steeplechase. He was expected to school on Tuesday, but was let off with two rounds of strong pace work. He is to school tomorrow. and his performance will be watched with keen interest. Those who know the preparation Town Survey has had are confident that he will handle the Trentham country just as efficiently as he Jumps hurdles. He will be ridden on Saturday by J. Winder. TURF GOSSIP C.J.C. Entries Entries for the major events at the Grand National Meeting will close at 5 p.m. To-morrow. —6 Taken to Trentham Valantua’s programme was in doubt until Tuesday morning, when his owner decided to send him to Trentham. and he went north with the remainder of the Rlccarton team. His form has not been encouraging: but his prospects were not much more favourable when he was taken to the North Island last year, when he collected £9OO for a win at Ellerslie and £9OO for his second placings In the Great Northern and Wellington Steeplechases. Valantua will be ridden by K. Thomsen, who has had the mount on him In all of his Jumping races to date. Australian Racing High Play, Amorlad, and Immediate have been nominated for the Melbourne Cup. Amorlad for the Wiiliamstown Cup. and Royal Flight for the Caulfield Cup. These nominations were announced yesterday by the secretary of the Canterbury Jockey Club. A Trentham Prospect Aqua, by Defoe—Malmsey, who has performed consistently since she won the Courtenay Handicap at Riccarton, is likely to be one of the favourites for the Te Aro Hack Handicap at Trentham tomorrow. Aqua will be ridden by W. J. Broughton. Names Claimed A rising two-year-old filly by Kinnoull from Mother Hubbard has had a name claimed for her that will cause some trouble in pronouncing on race days. She will race as Bualdh Others in this week’s list include:—Alnaschar. by Night Pilot—Poirlri; Black, March, by Royal Chief—Pateena; Leading Man. by Blatherskite—Arden’s Beauty: Liii Marlene, by Nightly—Tcpsy Wood: Moneta, by Sieg-fried-Cheap Money; Noble Knight, by Medieval Knight—Bright Moment: Pindaris, by Defoe—Athena: Restless, by Balloch—Turn Over; Revolte, by Revelation— Racefox; Straight Pal, by Man’s PalStraight Shot; Tarnhelm, by Siegfried— Asia; Tihoa. by Dink«-Mlss Sphinx; Town Topic, by Beau Vite—Sea Scout; Vellum, by Parchment—Valimeen: Regular, by Nightly—Grey Vixen. Melbourne Entries Three hundred entriesr-46 more than last year—have been received for the 1945 Melbourne Cup. Five nominations have been received from New Zealand, Including Amorlad, Immediate, and High Play. The entries for the Caulfield Cup were down slightly, being 275, as against SO3 last year. Royal Flight Is included In the nominations. Ascot Gold £up The Ascot Gold Cup is to be run at Ascot on Saturday, July 7, over two miles and a half. The race is a sweepstake, of SOsovs each with £ISOO added. The last Gold Cup race at Ascot was run fn 1939. During the war it has been run at Newmarket. A Lean Record Only five mares have won the Wellington Steeplechase. Vlctrix in 1893, Nadador In 1908, Nedra in 1913, Chat In 1940, and Anlnl in 1943. Kilmanagh, winner of the recent Hawke's Bajf Steeplechase, is the only mare in this year’s race. Phenomenal Speedster Mumtaz Mahal, “the flying filly,” is dead. News of her death at' the age of 24 years at the Aga Khan’s Marley Stud, France, was received in England recently Age alone probably saved her from being taken into "protective custody” by the Nazis when they raided studs in France In 1940. One of the most brilliant fillies In tne annals of the English Turf, Mumtaz Mahal thrilled racegoers In t ,1923 and 3924, starting off with five successive victories, her run being broken on a heavy track at Kempton, when Arcade beat her by half a length in the Imperial Produce Plate. The phenomenal burst of speed Mumtaz Mahal possessed bad carried her to effortless wins in The Newmarket Spring Stakes, Ascot Queen Mary Stakes. Sandown National Breeders’ Produce. Stakes, Goodwood Molecomb Stakes, and the Doncaster Champagne Stakes, among her "victims” being Straltlace, later to win the Oaks, and Obliterate. As a three-year-old. she was beaten by Plack in the One Thousand Guineas, and was unplaced in the Coronation Stakes at Ascot, but she made amends by taking the King George Stake? at Goodwood and finished her race career in spectacular style by coasting in six lengths clear of her nearest rival in the Nunthorpe Sweepstakes at York. Mumtaz Mahal was bred at the Sledmere Stud and offered as a yearling at the Doncaster September sales on behalf of Lady Sykes. At 9100gns, the Hon. George Larphton secured her for the Aga Khan, in whose colours she won £13.933. TROTTING NOTES Annual Meetings , . The three Christchurch trotting clubs will hold their annual meetings on the following dates:—New Brighton Trotting Club, July 6: New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club. July 9; Canterbury Park Trotting Club. July 19. At Hamilton , The Hamilton trainer, F. Smith, who has been so successful this season with Double Peter, has n useful team, including Dunkirk. Brass Buttons. Professional, Diamond Trust, and High Pressure, in work. Wintering Well G. S. Smith has Zingarrie and Bromley Boy looking well, and provided the training tracks improve in the meantime they should be at their best for the August meeting. Zingarrie’s last placed performance was a third to Karangi and Manpower in the Heathcote Handicap, at the Metropolitan Trotting Club’s meeting last August, but Smith maintains that this aged son of Jack Potts Is capable of winning a race or two yet. Silid Assets Included in the assets of the New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club. which are shown in the balance-sheet at £126.545 13s lid, are the following investments: Liberty Loan. Ist. £3000; Liberty Loan, 2nd. £3000; Victory Loan, £5000; N.Z. Government Inscribed Stock, £21,512 12s 9d; N.Z. Government Interest Free Loan,

£10,000; 'Bomber Bonds, £1149; National War Savings, £1000; a total of £44,661 12s 9d. Promising Trotter ■ „ , , Noble Crest, Which Is by Nobleman trom Worthy Crest. Is owned and trained by T. McQuold at Epsom, and ■ he Is regarded as one of the most promising trotters In work on the northern course. Worthy Crest was by Worthy Blngen-from Edna, which was by Havoc. At Mangere , , M Paul has a useful team In work at Mangel e, Including Jewel’s Eyre, Axniinster. Fighting Friend. Heydey. Cossack (a maiden trotter), and Pirate’s Jewel The last-named is a maiden pacer by Jewel Pointer from Gay Pirate, which was by Nelson Bingen from Wild Moko, by Petei Moko from Wild Pirate. Control of Trotting ~ _ . In his report to the New Zealand Trotting Conference last July, the president. Mr H. F. Nlcoll, stated: “Another subject that 1 have been seriously considering Is the control of our race meetings. You' all know into what a troublesome business the racecourse inquiries have frequently developed, taking a judicial committee the major portion of an afternoon to hold an inquiry which is hedged in by so many legal arguments that an have to step warily. The judicial committee has to endure an irksome ana worrying day, and after having done Us best to arrive at an impartial conclusion giving even-handed Justice, it is liable to have its decision upset by an appeal to the association, which, obliged to delve laboriously through the maze of innumerable rules, may discover some minor tecnnicaiity necessitates a reversal of wnat had been a just and proper finding “This causes one to believe that tne time has arrived, not only for the simplification of our rules, but also tor the reconsideration of our racecourse control In England, Australia, and America, the control is by three stewards who conduct inquiries, and there Is only one appeal from their decision and that Is to the governing racing authority Here, u we adopted an analagous procedure it could be to the stipendiary stewards committee. which, as you know, is composed of the executive, together with the president and vice-president of the Trotting Association, or else by some other such body appointed by the conference. If the conference, after consideration, should decide to adopt such a method, not for the coming season as it would be impossible to redraft the rules in time the procedure would be to appoint three permanent Judicial stewards who would be supported bv assistant stewards when required. and' with the stipendiary stewards carrying on their usual jobs. Such a system would have considerable advantages. It would relieve club stewards of their onerous duties in relation to inquiries. it would ensure .control of racing by experts, who. from their continuous work, would have a thorough knowledge of the form of the horses and of the disposition and character of-the horsemen. and. with the simplification of the rules the judicial stewards would be able to arrive at their decision' without the attendance of a shorthand writer, a typist, and the need of a solicitor." At the comine conference in Wellington on July 12 if Is assumed that this matter cl racecourse control will be one of the most important Items discussed and it is expected that considerable progress towards the new system of racecourse control will be made.

Values were:— Light porkers, 53s 6d to 57s 6d; medium, £3 Is 6d to £3 9s 6d; heavy, £3 12s 6d to £4 5s 6d. Choppers, £8 11s to £ls. Light baconers, £4 9s 6d to £4 17s 6d; medium. £5 4s 6d to £5 9s 6d; heavy, £5 14s 6d to £6 2s 6d; extra heavy, £6 4s 6d to £6 19s 6d. Average price per lb, 9d to 9id. STORE PIGS The store pig yarding was again small, only 10 pens being offered. There were not any weaners forward and the entry was confined to slips and small stores. The attendance of buyers was much larger than at recent sales, and values' were better by approximately 8s to 10s a head. Values were:— Slips, 30s to 355. Small stores, 36s to 40s; medium, 40s to 455. BURNSIDE (P.A.) DUNEDIN, July 4. There was a larger yarding of fart cattle at the market at Burnside to-day. as compared with last week, 330 head being offered. Again there was a very keen demand for prime quality beef. All round, cows had an Improved sale, while the rates tor heifers were firm. Extra prime bullocks realised up to £24 7s 6d, medium £l6 17s 6d to £lB 2s 6d, light from £l4 12s 6d; extra prime heifers, to £ls 17s 6d, prime £ll 2s 6d to £l3 2s 6d, medium £8 17s 6d to £9 17s 6d. light from £7 12s 6d; extra prime cows to £l4 2s 6d. prime £lO 2s 6d to £l2 12s 6d, medium £7 12s 6d to £8 17s-6d, light from £6 12s 6d. There was also larger yarding of fat sheep, 2300 being offered. There was keen demand for wethers, which sold af last week’s rates. Extra prime wethers sold to 49s 6d, prime 45s to 47s 6d. medium 39s to 42s 6d, light from 345; extra prime yoUng ewes 37s 6d to 40s; prime heavy ewes 32s 6d to 34s 6d, prime 26s 6d to 29s 6d. medium 21s to 24s sd, light Irpm The entry of store cattle was small, with a fairly good demand for any well-bred sorts. Prices were about the same- as last week. Extra quality runners made up to £lO 17s, good runners £7 10s to £8 10s; best vealers, £5 10s to £6 ss, medium £3 15s to £4 2s. In the pig section, baconers met with a keen demand, and last week’s rates were well maintained, and at times a shade better. Heavy choppers realised from £9 15s to £lO 17s 6d: extra prime baconers. £8 to £8 14s, prime £6 16s to £7 12s, medium £5 12s to £5 16s, light from £4 15s.