RACING New Zealand Horses Race Well In Uruguay

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27444, 2 September 1954, Page 4

RACING New Zealand Horses Race Well In Uruguay

News of many outstanding wins by New Zealand-bred horses in South America has been received recently by Mr C. E. Robertson, bloodstock manager of Wright Stephenson and Company, Ltd.

Timarua, by Timanova out of Screen (by Spiral) and an own sister to the top-priced colt at the last sales pur? chased by Mr F. V. Lysons for 2800gns, continues io race with considerable success. Last season, she won four races, and in one she ran a mile and a quarter in 2min 2 3-ssec.

This season, she began racing over shorter distances, and in recording het third success of the season in July, just missed breaking a record for six furlongs. She won with great ease, and it is stated that had she been ridden out she would have easily established a fresh record. That was her seventh _win.

Mr Neil Watkins, a former NeW Zealander who owns Timarua and other horses in Uruguay, intends to retire her at the stud soon. He in* tends -to mate her with Choir Boy, a son of Hyperion which he and other breeders in South America recently acquired from the Queen. ’ Choir Boy was the third horse to win the Hunt Club Cup for Her Majesty.

Unlucky Second On the day when Timarua scored her seventh win. Foxdale (by Columcille) was very unfortunate not to win the principal classic race over 2500 metres, in which he ran second. He tailed the field till they reached the straight. As he then had to run through a large field, he encountered interference several times.

A few weeks later, however, he won the Premio Sarandi over 2800 metres at weight-for-age, As Foxdale was the only five-year-old racing, he naturally carried top weight. All the other runners were four-year-olds, and represented the best stayers in Uruguay. Foxdale made a great run in the straight, outstayed the leaders, and won by a good length. This was his sixth win, and his stake earnings now total 32,000 dollars (more than £6000). His original cost in New Zealand was 450gns. Foxdale will contest two other long-distance races at weight-for-age in September and November. The racing oftwo-year-olds in Uruguay does not* begin until the autumn. Mr Watkins "says in a letter that the New Zealand horses bought at the 1953 national sales have begun to show good form. The first to win was the bay colt Fighter, by Foxbridge from Lady Bertha, and therefore a brother to the recent Avondale dual winner, Bertha Fox. He is one of three colts by Foxbridge bought for Uruguay. The other two, out of Cruden Bay and Prudent, are both showing excellent promise: so is the Foxbridge filly from Miss Julienne. The second of the 'winners from New Zealand was a filly, Hinemoa, a first foal by Underwood from Marcher, bought for 400gns. She finished very stoutly to beat the favourite, which, incidentally, was the highest-priced filly at the Uruguayan sales.

The third winner was the Fair’s Fair filly Samoa, a half-sister to the Manawatu Sires’ Produce Stakes winner, Taringaroa, being from Imperial Gold, a mare by Ninth Duke. This filly was bought for 420gns. She had shown outstanding form on the training track, and started a hot favourite at her first start, but failed to race to advantage on the heavy track, and was beaten into second place. However, at her next start, although the track was still heavy, she recorded the excellent time for the 1000 metres of 61sec, and won in a canter.

Timarua was bred by Mr G. M. Currie, Koatanui, and her purchase orice was 1200gns. Foxdale was bred by Mr W. T. Luxton, Hamilton; Fighter by Mr Seton Otway, Trelawney; Hinemoa by Mr Woolf Fisher, Ra Ora; and Samoa by Messrs Malcolm Brothers, Te Rapa. Prefane Retired

Connexions of Profane have avoided the risk of a breakdown by retiring the nine-year-old Probation gelding. Profane is now-doing duty as a hack in North Canterbury. - . .’Profane had. fair success on the flat before being put to hurdling, and he ended his career with a record of eight wins and numerous minor placings. His stake winnings were £3673. His major successes on the flat were in the C.J.C. Riccarton Handicap and the North Canterbury Centennial Handicap. He won over hurdles, but his peak performance in that role was his second to . Coppice in the Grand National Hurdles two years ago. Profane did most of the pacemaking, and the great* North Island stayer did not find him easy to master. Profane was trained for Dr. M. G. Louisson by C. Emerson. Casseek’s Half-brother Wins . Cassock's half-brother Durante continues to improve a very useful record in handicap races in England. Early last month he carried Ost 121 b to victory in the mile and a quarter Restoration Plate at Haydock. The runnerup was Lord .Lambton’s Cambridgeshire winner, Jupiter, also carrying Ost 121 b; and Border Chief, a three-year-old Big Game colt, carrying Bst 61b was third. Durante is a six-year-old chestnut gelding by Dante out of Lapel by Apelie.. Cassock, now back at the stud in Canterbury, is by Casanova. Tribute to Great Jockey “Audax” writes knowledgeably about the career of Sir Gordon Richards in “Horse and Hound.” He writes: “That he (Sir Gordon Richards) had quite exceptional ability goes without saying. No-one could have been champion jockey for every year from 1925. to the end of last season unless he had a touch of genius. “Perhaps part of his secret was that, as Lord Rosebery once said at a 'Sport-ing-Life* luncheon. ‘He loses fewer races than he ought to have won than any other jockey I can remember.’ Perhaps the fact that he was never unduly troubled by weight problems was also a help. "I am sure that much of Sir Gordon Richards’s success was due to the fact that his acceptance of a ride carried a guarantee that he would do his utmost whether the owner was rich or poor, mean or generous. Perhaps the majority of the allegations made against jockeys are made by people who are disgruntled because they have lost their money and would not bear a moment’s investigation; but it is a significant fact that even these unpleasantly bad losers never made such suggestions when the rider was Gordon Richards. To have earned such a reputation and justified it is to have rendered a signal service to racing.” Audax” summarises Richards’s record. He rode 4870 winners between March 31,1921, and July 10,1954, and in 1943, 22 years after riding his first yinnet, he eclipsed the previous record of 2749 winners set by Fred Archer, who committed .suicide at the age of 29. Big Australian Betting

It is now disclosed that £2OOO was invested on the New Zealand horse. Lord Bosworth, to win the A.J.C. Epsom Handicap, writes the Australian racing correspondent of “The Press.” The commissioner who placed the bets is one of Sydney’s most colourful betting men. He secured long prices, but, in spite of the confidence of those whose money he handled, he did not make a single bet on his own account. Lord Bosworth’s price has been more than halved since he won the Flying Handicap at Doomben on Saturday. In that race. Lord Bosworth was one of the first to move, and was never further back than third. He held that position on the turn into the straight, and won convincingly from Dashing Friar and Clever Beau.

The money invested on Lord Bosworth for the Epsom was more than recouped by the Brisbane win. In Australia, there are hundreds of

illegal bookmakers who bet prices the day before a race meeting. Queensland operators were combed in one ef the most amazing pre-post commissions launched for many months. The overnight price about Lord Bosworth was 3 to 1, but on the course even money was the best bet, and odds on were demanded at the close of betting.

Newcastle Cup Favourite Another New Zealand horse, Earldom, is now favourite for the Newcastle Cup, to be run next Saturday. His was a first-rate performance on Saturday, when, starting favourite at 3 to I, he won the Newcastle Jockey Club Handicap, one mile end three furlongs, the recognised trial run .for the cup. Earldom finished particularly Mr if. J. Moodabe's colt, Telyar, is now favourite for the AJ.C. Derby, a position nominally held by Lindberg. On Saturday, at Rosehill, Telyar won the seven-furlong Mixed Stakes. He made a solid run near the rails in theJast furlong to beat the outsider, Blue Regent, with the hot favourite, Half Past, third. Telyar is by Count Rendered (imported) from Lady Vennachar. He is a really good type of colt, and looks certain to develop into a stayer. Telyar will race in the Canterbury Guineas next Saturday, ■ and the Rosehil! Guineas a week later. His trainer, M. McCarten, believes the colt requires a lot of racing to season him for the Derby on October 2. Dual Favourites Mr M. J. Moodabe has the distinction of owning the Australian Derby and Epsom favourites. His nomination in the Epsom Handicap is Prince

Cortauld, which doing everything right in his preparation for the race. Prince Cortauld has had one run, and finished second to Tarien in the Warwick Stakes a fortnight ago. The race sharpened him up and he should win at his next start if he reproduces his form in track trials.

Another of the progeny of Mid-day Sun won at Rosehill on Saturday. This colt, The Maori, is trained by M. McCarten for’American owners, Mr and Mrs J. de Blois Wack. He was bred by Mr W. Fisher, at Ra Ora Stud, New Zealand. The Maori is one of the best-looking three-year-olds in training, but he has disappointed McCarten too often to be ragarded as a serious challenger to Telyar in the Derby, although he is to run in that race. Mr Wack won an A.J.C. Derby with Deep River, which is now in America. McCarten trained Deep River.