Visiting Horses Were Successful At Ellerslie

Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27860, 7 January 1956, Page 6

Visiting Horses Were Successful At Ellerslie

RACING

Eighty-six owners shared in the £36.700 in stakes distributed bv the Auckland Racing Club for the 32 races during the four days of the clubs summer meeting, which ended last Tuesday. Horses from outside Auckland won £20.650. Visiting riders, including R. J. Skelton from Wingatui and A. J. Stokes from Riccarton. won 16 races. Mr A. T. Marinovic. of Wellington, topped the list of winning owners with £3400 from Tesla’s Auckland Cup win. £_■ B- Greene from Hastings, and *1 J- Broughton from Palmerston F.orth headed the winning trainers’ «nd jockeys’ list respectively. Mr S. H. Walker, who owns the champion three-year-old Syntax, was second on the list of winning owners. Syntax’s victories in the Great Northern Derby and the King’s Plate were worth £4900. Then followed Mr R. J. Koberstein. the owner of Emphatic, with £3425. and Mr H. S. Limmer, *ho races Fox Myth, with £2425. Greene had a most successful meetu Hc took three horses—Lingual. Zariba, and Yes Please—north, and they started seven times for five wins. « „ a third. Their earnings totalled £4155. Broughton won seven races on Zanba (twicei. Yes Please <twice). Lingual. Lochgair and Allamor. N. B. Holland, with four wins, on Syntax (twice). Emphatic and Indian Mars, was next. Another Start F. D. Jones has made another start L " rd ? arton - which had to miss holiday racing because of soreness. There will still be good opportunities for the Canterbury Jockey Club’s welcome Stakes winner if he has no snore setbacks. He has shown ability tnat gives him high ranking among the two-year-olds this season. Somerset Fair’s Programme Somerset Fair will start his autumn racing in the seven-furlong Australia Day Handicap at Randwick on January 30. He is now trained at Randwick by T J. Smith, and will be ridden in future by A. Ward. He has not raced since failing in the C. B. Fisher Plate at Flemington on November 5. Visitors for Sales Three Randwick trainers. T. J. Smith. F. Dalton, and M. McCarten, will come to New Zealand for the national yearling sales, which will be held at Trentham on January 16 and 18.

Smith will leave tomorrow, and Dalton and McCarten later in the week. Each trainer has received quite a good purchase quota. Copenhagen Fit

Copenhagen will be the only representative of the Riccarton stable of J. C. Tomkinson at the Wellington Cup meeting. He is an acceptor for the Telegraph Handicap, the second leg of the double, next Saturday. Copenhagen has not thrived on earlier trips to Trentham. so it says much for his ability that he has been able to perform so creditably there. At present he is a picture horse, and to give him every chance to hold his condition he will not be taken north until next Wednesday. Mr D. W. J. Gould’s five-year-old Admiral’s Luck gelding raced twice at the Wellington spring meeting. Each time he was beaten by a member of A. E. Didham’s Wingatui team —by Mighty Dollar in the Shorts Handicap and by Field Chief in the Pearce Handicap. Copenhagen made three appearances at the New Zealand Cup meeting, and improved a very good record by winning the Jockey Club Handicap. Nashua’s Purchaser

Leslie Combs 11, owner of Spendthrift Farms, of Lexington. Kentucky, who bought Nashua for 1,251,200 dollars last month, has paid kings' ransoms for a horse before. A syndicate headed by Mr Combs purchased Alibhai. a 10-year-old chestnut bred by the Aga Khan, from Mr Louis B. Mayer, the film magnate, for 500,000 dollars, which up to last month was the record price for an individual horse sold in America. That was in 1948. The same year. Combs headed another syndicate which paid 300,000 dollars for the great Australian racehorse. Shannon 11, which was purchased by Mr Neil S. McCarthy, of Los Angeles. Also in the same year, acting as business agent for Mrs Elizabeth Graham, owner of Maine Chance Farm, he paid 150.000 dollars for Busher, leading three-year-old of her year. Combs is essentially a commercial breeder of horses, although he has raced in his own colours. Some of his better-known racers were Doranza. Myrtlewood and Miss Dogwood. Further, he is the only man ever to serve on two State racing commissions, that of West Virginia and Kentucky.