ENGAGEMENT AT WAIMATE

Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25767, 31 March 1949, Page 7

ENGAGEMENT AT WAIMATE

RACING

LUMINOUS KNIGHT IS PROSPECT

Luminous Knight, which was purchased by the Riccarton trainer, C. G. Humphries, at the autumn tale at Wingatui recently, is engaged in the President’s Handicap, of six furlongs, at the Waimate meeting on Saturday. The • Siegfried gelding has run his bes*. races out in front, and if those tactics are adopted with him on Saturday he may be hard to catch on the Waimate course. Luminous Knight last raced on the first day of the Gore meeting on February 12 and finished fourth in the sprint event after leading to the straight. He is a half-brother to Red Pickle. Their dam, Lumiere (Robespierre—Limelight) died foaling in November, 1946. Promising Hack Newspaper galloped impressively at Riccarton on Tuesday miming and. will be one of the favourites for the Waitangi Hack Handicap, of six furlongs, at Waimate on Saturday. The Paper Slipper four-year-Qld last raced in the one mile Belmont Handicap on the second day of the Wellington autumn meeting, and he ran a good race for sixth. He will appreciate the shorter distance on Saturday. Caronia Back in Work Caronia is on the active list again at Riccarton, and she has thickened out during her spell. The Nightmarch—Mauretania filly showed plenty of ability in her three races earlier in the season. At her first outing she was seventh in the McLean Stakes on the first day of the Dunedin spring meeting. She won the Juvenile Handicap on the second day, beating Gold King and Robinfaye into the minor places. Gold King and Robinfaye have since had a good deal of success at South Island meetings. At her last start before being put aside Caronia ran a good race for fifth in the Wellesley Stakes at Trentham on October 16 last. That race was won by the leading filly, Super Snipe, from Robinfaye, with the well-performed Golden Spa third. Flying Control Flying Control, which was put aside after racing in the John Grigg Stakes at Ashburton last September, is back in work at Riccarton and may race at the Canterbury Jockey Club’s autumn meeting. The Beau Vite four-year-old, which is trained for Mr J. R. McKenzie by S. Barr, showed promising form last season. He won three races and was placed seven times for £1227 10s in stake_s. He won only one hack race before adding the Timaru Cup to his record. Ready for Easter Racing Robinfaye. which won two races at the Dunedin autumn meeting, is in good order for her Easter racing. She galloped freely over half a mile at Riccarton on Tuesday morning, completing her task in good fashion. She should be able to increase her two-year-old winnings, which now amount to £lO9O. Plans for Bruce Bruce, which has done well since his arrival in Sydney, may have his first raqe in Australia at the Warwick Farm meeting at Randwick on April 9. The programme includes the Chipping Norton Stakes, a standard weight-for-age race over a mile and a quarter, and the Warwick Farm Autumn Handicap, of one mile and a half. Either of those engagements may be chosen for Bruce. For Gloucester Cup Arctic Circle shaped quite promisingly for a novice over hurdles at Riccarton this week. His next race will be in the Duke of Gloucester Cup at Waipukurau on Easter Monday. He will be ridden by Mr John Hall, son of the owner. Big Team The Hazlett stable has a big team of jumpers ready to race in the next few weeks. They include Lisheen, Waihopi, Benbecuia, Spiro, Kassai, Norwegian, and Wallacetown. Lisheen has not raced since he finished third behind Brookby Song and Arabian Night in the last Grand National Steeplechase at Riccarton, but since he was recommissioned at Riverton several weeks ago he has made good progress in his work, Waihopi and Kassai have also been at Riverton for some time. Norwegian, a four-year-old half-brother by Siegfried to Kassai, and a member of the same family as Master Sandstone and Water Power, is a promising newcomer. Wallacetown has also shaped well in his schooling. He is a Makarewa gelding from Sweet Sign, a Sir Simper mare from Signal Officer’s family. Premising Hack All Alone, a member of A. E. Didham’s Mosgiel team, and considered one of the best hack sprinters in the Otago and Southland districts at the present time, has been nominated to race at both Riverton and Riccarton at Easter. Present intentions are to take her to Riccarton, and she will have bright prospects. Her only success to date was at Wyndham on New Year’s Day, but she was in an accident at the Invercargill meeting the next day. Judging by her Oamaru placing on Saturday she has taken no harm from that mishap. The Salmagundi filly is capable of form far beyond her present rating. Olio Breaks Down Olio, which had been nominated, for the Riverton Cup, the Southern Champion Hack Handicap. ’ and other events at Easter, broke down badly during the week and it is likely to be some time before she races again. The Salmagundi mare had shown herself to be a stayer of marked promise, and she would have been well suited by the heavier tracks likely in the next few months. St. Bruno at Riverton St. Burno, which is to do his Easter racing at Riverton, is already quartered at that centre, where he will be given a period of beach work and salt water treatment. St. Bruno’s best form has been shown on easing tracks and he has raced poorly when the going has been firm. He has not missed a great amount of work, however, and he is the early Riverton Cup favourite. For Santa Rosa Stud The three-year-old English, filly. Whinyard, believed to be the only daughter of the famous sire and Derby winner, Bois Roussel, to leave England, has been purchased by Mr J. A. Mitchell, Palmerston North, for his Santa Rosa Stud., where Tauloch, Majesty, Nizam’s Ring, Idle Jest, Stanfred, and many other good horses have been bred. Whinyard’s dam, Flamberge, which is by the Ascot Gold Cup winner, Foxlaw (sire of Foxbrjdge), is a three-quarter sister to the successful New Zealand sire, Siegfried, and is a sister to another class performer in Frawn. Cardiograms for Horses "How’s your horse’s heart?” asks Robert Herbert in ’’The Blood-Horse.” “There is one trainer at Santa Anita who has thought enough about it to have cardiograms made of all the horses in • her stable. She is Mrs H. C. Morton, of Beverley Hills, California. “Discussing heart trouble with a doctor, Mrs Morton wondered if any horses in her stable might be affected, hence the cardiograms. It turned out that they were all right, but the lead pony, which had the sofest job of all, had a weak pump, so Mrs Morton retired him to a life of ease on a ranch she owns nearby.” To Race in America Bernbrook, the faovurite for the Doncaster Handicap at Randwick, will be taken to America in August to race there. Other horses owned in Sydney and Melbourne by Mr A. O. Romano will be auctioned at the Randwick Easter sales. Bernbrook’s trainer, Harry Plant, has agreed to go with Bernbrook and train him for his American campaign. Bernbrook, a brother to Shannon, cost Mr Romano 3500gns as a yearling. He has run in 13 races and has been unplaced only four times. He has won more than £4OOO in stakes. The order of favouritism for the Randwick double last week-end was:—Doncaster Handicap.—Bernbrook; Filipino, Beau Robert, Phoibos; Columnist; Royal Andrew; Bold Duke, Otairi; Craigside. Denali, Dynamite, Except, Karachi, San Domenico; The Diver, Beau Gem, Beau John, Blue Ensign, Comedy Prince, Heroic Sovereign, Romany King, Riptide, Rio Fe. Sydney Cup: De La Salle; Carbon Copy; Comic Court, Transaction, Vagabond; Sir Raven; Dark Marne, Saxony; Russia, Silent, Sanctus, Steady; Bruce, Clement, Columnist, Plausible.