RACING Riccarton On Smoke Ring’s Programme

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30480, 30 June 1964, Page 4

RACING Riccarton On Smoke Ring’s Programme

"The Pre**” Special Service

AUCKLAND, June 29.

Smoke Ring, the winner of the Great Northern Hurdles, is to have his next start in the £2500 Winter Hurdles on the third day of the Wellington Racing Club’s meeting at Trentham oh i July 11, He is also booked to go to Riccarton for the Grand National Hurdles.

Along with another member of M. C. Conway’s team, Count Filou, Smoke Ring will travel to Trentham early next week.

Count Filou, which has only lately returned from a rest, is to contest the Members’ Handicap, an open sprint over seven furlongs on the second day of the Wellington meeting.

Surging, which was second to Smoke King in the Great Northern Hurdles, is to go to Trentham next week for the second day of the meeting, but he will not be starting over fences. Instead he Is to contest the £2OOO Parliamentary Handicap, of 11 furlongs. He will be ridden by G. L. Willets.

Toureg, the beaten favourite in the President’s Handicap at Avondale on Saturday, left for Trentham by float today. He was accompanied by The Frenchman and Lochwood.

Lochwood, from B. L. Hillis’s stable, and Toureg have engagements on the first day of the meeting. Toureg is a candidate for the £2OOO Whyte Handicap and Lochwood is to contest the Wellington Steeplechase, an event he won in 1962. The Frenchman is to continue on to the South Island. He is to return to his owners. Over the last couple of months he has been with M. E. Ritchie, but he has found the righthanded way of going against him. His only show of form since being in the north was a second over country at the Rotorua meeting. The stablemates Ringlock. Svbeau, Calm Jane, and Braemar and the Matamata gelding, Time Payment, left for Trentham today. Ringlock, a winner at his last two starts, and Braemar. are major contenders for the Wellington steeplechase. Sybeau is a candidate for the Whyte' Handicap and Calm Jane is in the Te Aro Hack Handicap. At his last start Ringlock won the Windsor Hurdles at Avondale. Three weeks previously he was the winner, very easily, of the McGregor Grant Steeplechase on the third day of the Auckland meeting. Next Saturday he will be ridden by J. S. Humphries, who is with J. W. Winder’s stable.

Braemar, the winner of the Wellington Steeplechase last

year and the runner-up to Johnny Dee in this year’s Great Northern Steeplechase, will be ridden by J. H. Hely. Last year Braemar was successful with 9.11. On Saturday he has been given 110.6. ■ The Matangi mare, Quenby Hall, winner of the Waikato I Steeplechase this season, is ito by-pass the Wellington Racing Club’s winter meeting. For Riccarton She is to have her next start in the Whau Steeplechase at Avondale on Saturday. All going well, she will then go on to Riccarton for the Canterbury Jockey Club’s Grand National Meeting in August The Grand National Steeplechase will be Quenby Hall's main mission at Riccarton.

She will be ridden by P. R. Wilson, who will also have the mount on her at Avondale.

Captain Rebel, another member of I. Robinson’s highly successful team, will accompany Quenby Hall to Riccarton.

J. H. Hely, one of the leading riders over fences this season, will be on hand for the first day of the Welling-

ton Racing Club’s meeting at Trentham on Saturday. Besides having the mount on Braemar in the Wellington Steeplechase, he has also been engaged for Chesterman in the Vittoria Hurdles. The Takanini light-weight B. F. Andrews, will also be at the meeting. He is to ride the Avondale gelding, Mantovani, in the Whyte Handicap.

Mantovani, along with his two-year-old stablemate Wonderbar, a colt by Able Seaman from Gold Crescent is to leave tomorrow. Wonderbar is to start in the Juvenile Handicap, six furlongs, on the second day at Trentham. He will be ridden by Andrews.

E. C. Holloway is the rider for Time Payment in the Vittoria Hurdles. It will be Holloway’s second ride since he resumed riding after a bad fall a couple of months back at Matamata.

G. F. Hughes will be at Trentham for the second day. He has been engaged for True Title (Juvenile Handicap) and Elkayel (Parliamentary Handicap). Another jockey, N. D. Riordan, is to make the trip for the second day. He is to ride Sparkling Maid in the Parliamentary Handicap.