RACING Americus Won More Than £2000 At C.J.C. Meeting

Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27637, 19 April 1955, Page 4

RACING Americus Won More Than £2000 At C.J.C. Meeting

Successes in the Stockholm and Dominion Handicaps and a third in the Great Autumn Handicap placed Americus at the top of the list of stake winners at the Canterbury Jockey Club’s autumn meeting. Americus’s earnings were £2200. He raced for Mr and Mrs H. C. Kidd on the first two days of the meeting and earned £l2OO for them with his win in the Dominion Handicap and third in the Great Autumn. Last Saturday he carried the colours of his owner, Mrs L. K. Page for the first time, and his Sockburn Handicap success yielded £lOOO.

Mrs Page was also successfully reJ resented on Saturday by Melinda ane, and her winnings for the meeting totalled £1325. She was second on the list of owners to Messrs C. R. Newman and C. Pateman, for whom the good three-year-old, Ray Ribbon, won £l4OO, the result of his win in the Great Autumn Handicap and his third in the 63rd Challenge Stakes. Kingship’s win in the Great Easter Handicap placed his Riccarton ownertrainer, C. C. McCarthy, third on the list.with £l3OO. Kingship had only one race at the meeting, and was the only representative of McCarthy’s stable. It was also Kingship’s last race before he is taken to Australia early next month with the former North Islanders, Santiago, Milwaukee, and the unraced two-year-old Philadelphia.

Memijour and Tamrin were the only others at the meeting to pass the fourfigure mark in stake winnings. Each won £lO5O. Memijour with three wins against the hack stayers, and Tamrin with his win in the Challenge Stakes and his second to Kingship in the Great Easter Handicap. Demijour’s three wms placed R. E. Johnstone, Riccarton, at the top of the trainer’s list for the meeting. The Sun King gelding is owned by Mr F. Williamson, of Christchurch, and had not raced from Johnstone’s stable before the meeting. Tamrin is owned by Mr A. N. Smith, president of the Dunedin Jockey Club, and trained at Riccarton by J. C. Tomkinson. .This has been a most successful combination, one also associated with Coral Are, Ballochmyle. Hush Money and other winners in the last few years. Leading Sires Booby Trap was the most successful sire represented at the meeting, mainly through the deeds of Americus, helped

to a small degree by placings by Tulagi. The record of the leading sires at the meeting is:— Booby Trap (Americus £2200, Tulagi £120). Total £2320. Perilous (Ray Ribbon £l4OO, Honest John £325). Total £1725. Ruthless (Avenge £B5O, Tess £650). Total £ 1500 Timanova (Kingship £1300). Total £l3OO. Sun King (Demijour £lO5O, Some Bounder £5O). Total £llOO. Sabaean (Tamrin £1050). Total £lO5O. Royal Chief (Macduff £360, Royal Voyage £3OO, Half-a-Crown £l5O, Field Chief £l3O, Exchequer £5O). Total £990. Super (Suphero £650, Dahlia £125, Ultra £5O, Rio Negro. £5O). Total Columcille (Harleston £650, Brown Baron £100). Total £750. Count Rendered (Watch and Wait £570, Blue Count £25). Total £575. Gold Nib (Sir William £450, Gold Trend £5O). Total £5OO. Successful Jockeys Six jockeys won more than one race each. The Awapuni horseman, J. W. Harris, and A. J. Stokes, Riccarton, each had four successes. Harris was associated with Demijour in his three wins, and was on Avenge in the Champaigne Stakes. Stokes had two victories on Tess in handicap two-year-old races on the second and third days of the meeting, and his other winners were Tamrin (Challenge Stakes) and Great Tom. N. Eastwood was closest to Harris and Stokes on the Jockeys’ list with three successes—Suphero, Watch-and-Wait, and Meteorologist. C. McDonald, K. Nuttall, and R. Forward, each had two wins. McDonald improved a good record in major races at Riccarton by riding Ray Ribbon and Kingship, winners of the Great Autumn—Great Easter Handicaps double. Nuttall won Saturday’s Sockbum Handicap on Americus, and the Opawa Handicap on Macduff on the first day of the meeting. R. Forward won the hurdles double on the Trentham-trained Harleston. C. G. Humphries, R. W. and W. G. Hawthorne, J. E. Kerr, J. E. Shaw, and V, D. Clutterbuck each had two training successes. Kerr, a Riccarton ownertrainer, gained his second success with Spike Jones through the disqualification of Michael Briefly in the Wigram Handicap on the second day of the meeting.