RACING Another Good Chance For Redcraze To Win

Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27638, 20 April 1955, Page 4

RACING Another Good Chance For Redcraze To Win

Redcraze may record his eleventh win tor the season in the Ormond Memorial Gold Cup .at Hastings on Saturday. The Woodville-trained Red Mars gelding was easily the outstanding handicap horse at the Auckland Racing Club’s Easter meeting, where he won the Oliver Nicholson Handicap, one mile and three furlongs, with 9-9, and the H. O. Nolan Handicap, one mile and a half, with 9-3. Redcraze’a successes at Ellerslie brought his earnings to £11,700 in the last six months. Some of his notable successes earlier in the sea-

son were the Awapunl Gold Cup, the Wanganui Cup, and the Wellington Racing Club’s Summer and January Handicaps. He has had a fairly busy programme this season, and the way

he has held his form has reflected credit on his young trainer, S. A. Brown.

Redcraze’s dam, Myarion, won five races and left two earlier winners. She is by Myosotis (son of Phalaris) from the unraced Miss Martarma, whose dam, Lady Desmond, won five races.

Lady Desmond was a half-sister to Alloy, winner of 20 races, and to Grotesque, whose 13 successes in New Zealand and Australia included the Avondale Guineas and the Easter Handicap at Ellerslie. Lady Desmond was a daughter of Bronze, winner of 15 races, including the North Island Challenge Stakes, and a half-sister to Cowl, which left nine winners of more than £30,000. The good winner Veilmond belonged to this family. So did the Caulfield Cup winner, Peshawar.

Northern Campaign Likely. A northern campaign is apparently in view for the Southland jumper, Riverstone. He has been nominated for the Vercoe Memorial Steeplechase on the first day of the Waikato Racing Club’s winter meeting on May 7. Lucky Jordan Destroyed The stallion Lucky Jordan *was destroyed recently at Onga Onga, Central Hawke’s Bay. Foaled in Ireland in 1943 and brought to New Zealand six years later. Lucky Jordan was a bay horse by Panorama from the same female family as Foxbridge and Gold Nib. He stood at the Rosswood Stud, Masterton, but was an uncertain breeder, and sired fewer than 12 foals.

Succeed, Jaffa, and Prince Jordan were successful representatives in New Zealand, and Cathbar won five races in Australia. Peter Ora Dead

KT l J ter , Ora, winner of the Grand National Hurdles at Riccarton in 1952, collapsed and died after racing at Feilaing last week. An eight-year-old bay gelding by Leighon, Peter Ora was being prepared for the hU Marton tralner ’ Peter Ora started racing as a three-year-old. , He had 86 races for 11 wins, 24 minor platings and £7137 10s. His last success was at Te Rapa in October.

Ta Race in New Caledonia Havelock, which did his early racing for Southland owner, Mr A.

from T. I. Smith’s Riccarton stable, is on his way to New Caledonia, where he will race in the interests of a French owner. He left for Sydney last week on his way to Noumea. Havelock won the Dunedin Jockey Club’s McLean Stakes for Mr McKenzie in 1952, and has raced 29 times since then, more recently from F. J. Cobb’s northern stable, for two further wins and a third. His earnings are £1375.

Recent departures for Sydney from Auckland were Anzus and a bay colt by Marco Polo from Water Vixen. The Marco Polo colt was bought for 650gns at the national yearling sales. . Winner for Howe

Howe, now at the stud in Masterton, was represented by a winner of two races at Randwick last week. This was

Tranquil Lass, which won the Easter Handicap for two-year-old fillies on Easter Monday, and the Fernhill Handicap over a mile last Saturday. Tranquil Lass is from the same stable as the Sydney Cup winner, Talisman. Debited, a three-year-old Count Rendered gelding formerly trained at Riccarton by J. S. Shaw, was runnerqp in the Neerim Handicap, one mile and a quarter, a race for three-year-olds at Caulfield last Saturday. Expensive Failures Two horses carried more than half the pool of £58,919 5s on the double at Riccarton last Saturday, and both finished out of the money in the Sockburn Handicap. They were the Hawke’s Bay stayer Easterbrook and the Riccarton-trained Half-a-Crown. Easterbrook was a pronounced “ r *ytaB £17,683, including £15,266 off-course. He was fifth to finish.

Those who put £12,217 through the totahsator and T.A.B. windows on Half-a-Crown on the double did not get anything like the same run for their money. The Royal Chief gelding galloped at the rear of the field all the way. Off-course betting accounted for £10,374 5s of Half-a-Crown’s total on the double. Toparoa was a clear third favourite on the double, carrying £8159 5s and £7107 5s from off the course. He did best of the most heavily-backed runners by finishing fourth. Easterbrook, Toparoa, and Fictitious were the only three North Island stayers in the field. Fictitious had little support, but betting on the three t0£27148 B io n < ® ou^e amoun ted Sixteen of the 17,188 5s tickets available for distribution on the second leg by holders of tickets on the Sockburn Handicap winner Americus were not accounted for. Field Chief was a strong favourite . Waltham Handicap with 5228 5s tickets, but he carried 79 fewer onco“rg®.tban Clinker, whose total was only 2349. , Nei s h ?JL Clinker nor Field Chief was placed. The winner Suphero was, proportionately, more strongly supported on-course. He carried 840 tickets, 599 off-course and 241 on the course. Only one runner in the second leg carried fewer than 100 tickets. This was Royal Warrant, with 99,18 of them held by course patrons. Royal Warrant was one of the tail-enders.