RACING Daysun Has Won More Than £9000

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29382, 8 December 1960, Page 4

RACING Daysun Has Won More Than £9000

It will be fitting if Daysun continues his Auckland Cup preparation successfully in the £l2OO W. S. Goosman Handicap, a race which bears the name of his owner, at Te Aroha on Saturday. Daysun could not be termed a public idol, mainly because of some very indifferent displays of galloping on race days, but a perusal of his record since he began racing in the 1956-57 season discloses that his best is very good.

His last start victory in the Waikato Gold Cup, 12 furlongs, at Te Rapa last Friday week, was not popular but all the honours of the race were with him for he galloped powerfully in the lead for the last mile and fought off a determined challenge from Climbing in the run home.

The Waikato Gold Cup marked Daysun’s second victory this season—his other was as a hurdler at Te Kapa on October 24 —and his tenth in a little more than four seasons. The winner’s share of the Waikato Gold Cup stake was £1650 and it brought his total earnings to date to £9130. Daysun has not failed to win a race in any one season but his best year was as a three-year-old when his four successes included the Gloaming Stakes at Trentham.

Daysun has done most of his racing from the Takanini stable of F. and G. W. Smith but since his switch to hurdling, in an attempt to get him to race more generously on the flat, late last season he has been prepared at Te Rapa by R. T. Cotter. The veteran Takanini trainer, F. Smith, acting as agent for Mr Goosman, paid 700gns for Daysun at the National Yearling Sales at Trentham in 1956. Daysun. now a six-year-old, is a gelded son of the English Derby winner Midday Sun (SolarioBridge of Allan! and Cairness. a mare by Tiderace (FairwayPanic) from My Own, by Lord Quex from Tressida. There is a doubling of the blood of the stallion Phalaris. which made a great impact on English breeding, in Daysun’s pedigree. Both Bridge of Allan and Fairway were by Phalaris. Tressida, the third dam of Daysun, was bred in Australia in 1913 and acquired for New Zealand as a yearling. She raced each season until she was a six-year-old and won in all except the last. Her most important successes were in the Great Northern Oaks and the Burke Memorial Handicap at Hastings. Although she compiled a useful race record Tressida became even more prominent as a brood mare and founded a family which has produced both sprinters and stayers of good class. Sold To Australia The former Takanini mare Criss-cross will do her future racing in Australia. She was sold last week-end to the Brisbane trainer, J. Hogan. She will probably leave for Sydney on her way to Brisbane tomorow. Criss-cross is the second horse Hogan has purchased in New Zealand this season. His last visit was in August when he bought the Matamata gelding, Dormello. Criss-cross. a five-year-old mare by Globe of Light from

Servile, has not raced since the 1968-59 season. She had six starts as a three-year-old for three wins, a second, a third and a fourth. She was formerly raced in partnership by Mr E. Jaffe and her Takanini trainer, H. H. Riley, but was put out of training after winning a division of the Ruatangata Stakes at Whangarei in March last year. The partnership has since" been dissolved. Messrs Jaffe and Riley also raced the good stayer Great Scot, which won the 1957 New Zealand Cup. Wins For Ropiha The Woodville trainer, E. Ropiha, who recently returned to the Dominion after a successful campiagn in Australia, saddled up two winners at Woodville last Saturday. They were Mare Nostrum, which won the Kiritaki Hack Handicap at odds of more than 57 to 1, and Kingdom, the 9/9 favourite of 20 in the Stewards’ Hack Handicap. Ropiha also had the Caulfield Cup winner. Ilumquh, at Woodville on Saturday, but he was only there to parade with HiJinx and Howsie which beat him home in the Centennial Melbourne Cup. The major placegetters in the. Centennial Melbourne Cup cantered round the course, Hi-Jinx and Howsie coming down the straight at threequarter pace and Ilumquh following easily a couple of furlongs behind. On display in the birdcage were Hi-Jinx’s Centenary Cup, the Caulfield and Williamstown Cups (won by Ilumquh) and the 1916 Melbourne Cup won by Sasanof. C. H. Mackie’s Feat When the Hastings horseman, C. H. Mackie, rode Warwick to victory in the Oete Handicap on the first day of the Woodville Jockey Club’s meeting yesterday week he completed a notable treble in the race. It was the third successive year that Mackie’s mounts had succeeded in the second leg of the Woodville double. The aggregate of double dividends amount to £671 19s 6d. Mackie was successful in the Oete Handicap in 1958 on Goudvink, and his mount in last year’s contest was Tyrant, which gained a runaway win.