Good Winner, Golden Tan, May Have Ended Career

Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27917, 14 March 1956, Page 4

Good Winner, Golden Tan, May Have Ended Career

RACING

Golden Tan had to drop out of the North Island Challenge Stakes at Trentham last Saturday because of his failure to recover from soreness in a foreleg. The cause of the trouble has been hard to trace, and it has been decided to put the Golden Souvenir gelding aside. He is now seven, and the last may have been seen of him in racing. Golden Tan was the outstanding horse in New Zealand racing two seasons ago. He was successful in six of his 13 starts, and with placings in four other starts, he ended the season with £12,320 in stakes, which placed him second to the Royal Auckland Cup winner, Coaltown. Golden Tan did not run in the Royal Auckland Cup. Through an oversight his acceptance was overlooked. But his owner had rich compensation in the Royal Wellington Cup soon afterwards. In the presence of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh, Golden Tan carried 8-13 to victory by a length and a half from Lancaster. Golden Tan was narrowly beaten by Mount Denby and Fox Myth in the weight-for-age Trentham Stakes later at the meeting, but was unbeaten in his three remaining starts that season —the Wanganui Jackson Stakes, the North Island Challenge Stakes, and the Awapuni Gold Cup. Golden Tan won the Jackson Stakes again last season, but that was his only success. Earlier in the season, he ran second in the Canterbury Cup, which was held on the first day of the New Zealand Cup meeting last season. The New Zealand Cup was run a week later, and Golden Tan, tied up by the hard tracks, completed his preparation on the beach. He was going well close up until he faltered near the home turn, and was eased up. Weight-for-Age Race Mount Denby and Peter Willonyx are acceptors for the Easter Plate at the Ohinemuri Jockey Club’s meeting on Saturday. They are two of five acceptors for that weight-for-age test. Mount Denby’s name was missed from the acceptances, printed yesterday. Peter Willonyx’s name appeared incorrectly. Jamell Surprises Jamell provided one of the surprises of the race trials at Wingatui on Saturday by finishing third behind My Friend and Ark Royal in the open mile. That was his first gallop for some time. He pulled up well and was sound after. Although he is now 10, this former brilliant winner retains a good bit of his ability. If he trains on. he could be a prospect in the Riverton Cup on March 31. Trials at Riccarton Three races will be held by the Canterbury Jockey Club at apprentice trials at Riccarton on March 20. The successful apprentice in each race will receive a prize valued at £5. There will be two races for two-year-olds—one for colts and geldings, the other for fillies, both over five furlongs. The other race will be for hacks over six furlongs. Licensed jockeys will be allowed to ride unraced two-year-olds, but all other horses will be ridden by licensed or unlicensed apprentices. The weight for each event will be Bst. The races will be conducted from the birdcage under race-day supervision and conditions. Riverton Cup Entries Ark Royal’s main autumn engagement may be the Riverton Cup on March 31. Mr G. J. Barton's good three-year-old has been nominated for the £3OOO race, which is run over a distance of nearly 11 furlongs. Other entrants are Golden Morn, Landon, Jamell, Canasta, Writer. Dusty Miller, Roi du Bois, Suphero.

Defallock. Lumphanan, Dinner Chat, Ocean Flight, Gold Mine. Lolita, Happy. Cock Crow. Lucky Bill, Rathkeale, Sir Gerald, Soumai, Royal Mail, Delayed. Skylight, Obelisk, Clinker, Gypsy Tap, Dashing, Swayalong. Ark Royal, Baffling Eyes, Good Abbot, Patris, Spring Night, Cheerio, Zingabo. Idaho Retired Idaho bowed a tendon in the last half-mile of the Autumn Handicap at Trentham on Saturday, and he has been retired. Idaho won 12 races and was 20 times placed in 58 starts for stakes totalling £14,076. He recorded three of his most notable victories at Riccarton—the New Zealand Derby and the Canterbury Cup twice. Other important wins included the Wanganui Guineas and the W.R.C. Gloaming Stakes. He won the main handicap at Masterton on March 3. Idaho was trained for all his racing by J. K. Searle. He was owned by Mrs H. W. Lyda, Silverstream, who paid 275 guineas for him as a yearling. Idaho is a five-year-old entire by Timanova from the Spiral mare, Aspen. Promising ’Chaser Composition was one of the most promising of the steeplechasers at the Wingatui lace trials last Saturday. The young Columcille gelding finished a length and a neck behind Belgravia and Irish Glance after giving a sound display of jumping. Composition showed considerable promise with very little experience when he ran Irish Glance to a length in the Otago Hunt Cup early in the season, and his run on Saturday confirmed the opinion that he has a bright future. His sire, Columcille, has had a good deal of success as a sire of jumpers. His dam, Mymarta, is by Myosotis from Miss Matarma by Matarma (a son of the famous Martian, five times leading sire in New Zealand) from the Limond mare Lady Desmond. Composition is owned by Mr T. Ccltman, Wellington, and Mr E. R. Curtis, of Waimate. He is only six years old, and his record this jumping season should be a good one. Belgravia won well, and his jumping was excellent. He was ridden patiently in behind the leaders, and responded strongly. Irish Glance made most of the running, and just failed over the concluding stages Unfortunately the Irish Lancer gelding has given his trainer, H. A. Anderton, some concern since the race, and a filled joint may mean a restricted preparation. Should Improve Record Pinnacle Ridge, the highest stakewinner of her sex this season with £6OlO in stakes, may add lustre to her record in the President’s Handicap, the first leg of the double on the second day of the Wellington autumn meeting. She was making her fourteenth appearance for the season when she finished an unlucky second to Mighty Dollar in the Thompson Handicap last Saturday. It was her third such placing this season, when she has also won three times and recorded three thirds. Pinnacle Ridge has not been so heavily campaigned as the remarkable mare Joy Step, another leading winner of her sex this season. Joy Step s 22 races this season have yielded four wins, five seconds, one third, and £5115 in stakes. Joy Step, winner of the Franklin Cup recently, is one of the hardiest and gamest mares raced in New Zea*2 d * or a long time - She has raced 136 times, and has covered about 137 miles in doing so. She was especially busy as a four-year-old, when she started 41 times, with an average of a mile a race. s t°tal winnings are