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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 187, 7 May 1934, Page 13

FOR AUSTRALIA

Prostration To Go NOTES AND COMMENTS Red Bank Resumes Work (By “The Watcher.”) Mr. H. W. Moss, the owner of the Lord Quex gelding Prostration, has made arrangements to send him to Australia and he will join the team that A. D. Webster will take over this week, leaving Wellington on Thursday. Prostration will be trained by Webster in Australia. Riding at Wanganui. L. J. Ellis will be riding at Wanganui this week, when his mounts will include Spiral, Pomp and Rust. A. E. Ellis will also bS at Wanganui. He has been engaged for Pladie. Red Bank Resumes. The steeplechaser, Red Bank, has been put into work again at Hastings. Last winter Red Bank won the W anganui Steeplechase. This Week's Racing. Racing this week will be held at Wanganui on Thursday and Saturday, and at Invercargill on Friday and Saturday. Depends on Their Form. T. H. Gillett stated at Hawera on Thursday that no definite decision had been made whether Hounslow and Tea Garden would race at Ellerslie, and the northern trip would depend upon how the horses come through their engagements at Wanganui next week. Increased Entries. General entries for the Auckland Racing Club’s winter meeting, to be held at Ellerslie Qn June 2,4, and 0, closed on Friday, and are the largest for many years. The total for the 15 events is 528, compared with 385 last year, an increase of 143. The increase is particularly noticeable in the open six furlongs races, which hitherto this season have not attracted large fields. Distance Reduced. A decision to reduce the distance of the Great Northern Champagne Stakes, for two-year-olds, from seven to six furlongs, was made by the committee of the Auckland Racing Club last week. From 1887 to 1929, inclusive, the distance was six furlongs, but from 1930 onward it has been seven furlongs. The event is run annually at the autumn meeting, and it has not attracted the fields in recent years that were expected. This season there were only four starters, while a year ago there were five. Death of J. Armstrong. J. Armstrong, whose death occurred on Thursday evening following a fall off Cappy Ricks at Riccarton on Tuesday, had not been a regular attendant at the tracks until during the last few months, when he supervised, on behalf of his wife, the work of The Bailiff and Cappy Ricks; but in that time he formed some close friendships. Armstrong was attached to R. J. Mason’s stable as far back as 1900. but although considered a high-class horseman, he never did any race riding. His father, Mr W. Armstrong, was then in charge of Mr. G. G. Stead's stud farm at Koringa. After leaving Mason. Armstrong gradually drifted out of galloping interests and took up work among trotters, being for some years with Mr. W. Doyle, father of Mrs. J. Campbell. Does Not Look Serious. Copey’s defection from his engagements at Hawera was due to the fact that one of his hind legs filled. The trouble is yielding to treatment, and the improvement was so marked on Thursday that J. Fryer is hopeful that he may be able to have a race at Wanganui, after which he may compete at Te Rapa. Copey is fairly forward, but his trainer would have liked to have been able to race him at Hawera. Getting Ready. Henry of Navarre has resumed work at Awapuni, after a spell. He is a good hurdler when at his best, and he may be ready to resume winning before the winter campaign is far advanced. Out of Hacks. It was not till he won the Tradesmen’s Handicap at Blenheim on Saturday that Phar Lap’s brother, Nightguard, finally passed out of hack ranks, having increased Lis' number of wins to nine for £523 in first stakes. However, he still has hack nominations at Wanganui to run out, and he will be making the trip north. Riccarton Notes. Courtyard has shown signs of soreness lately and S. Barr has turned him out for a spell. He has not quite realised expectations since he has. been at Riecarton, but he may show improved form next season. S. Barr has taken Don Jose in hand again. The Archery gelding looks in excellent order after bis spell and, as he has had some exercise, he may be ready to resume hurdle racing before the end of this season. F. D. Jones has turned Dollar Prince and Shatter out and they will have a spell for a month, before being got ready for another racing campaign. Imperial Spear, who has had a short rest, will be in full commission again soon. /V black yearling filly is the latest addition to Jones’s team. She is by British Empire from Currency, by Paper Money from Kilroy, by Kilbroney. She will be broken-in and got ready to carrv the colours of her breeder, Mr. H. A. fcnight. . Doiran has been taken in hand again. He looks well after his spell, and if he trains on D. O’Connor shoipd have him ready to resume racing be.ore the end of the season. Ranclagh was eased up after the South Canterbury meeting. He will be spelled for a few more weeks, after which he will be got ready for another campaign, the present intention bcmg to race him at Trantham in July. Schooling Well. High Grader has been schooled over hurdles at Hastings since his last flat racing, and has been giving good displays. Last season he was a very promising recruit but a fall at Ellerslie put him out of action for a long time. A Prospective Hurdler. Although Emotion is out at the Mangateretere farm of his owner. Mr. 0. Nelson, he is not being allowed to lose the excellent racing condition he went out with, as Mr. Nelson is seeing Jliat he does regular exercise each day. Now that it has rained it is quite possible he will be sent back to the Hastings tracks and schooled, as it was for the makings of a jumper that Mr. Nelson purchased him at the late Mr. W. E. Bidwill’s dispersal sale. Retired from Racing. The aged gelding Tanoriri has been absent from the track at Ellerslie for a couple of weeks, having gone amiss again. R. Rama has tried- on several occasions to get the Antagonist gelding to stand a preparation without success, and the last has probably been seen of this well-per-formed gelding as far as racing is concerned. At his best, Tanoriri was a firstclass galloper, especially in heavy going, and if he had not been handicapped through unsoundness his record would have been considerably better.

Tnkson Resumes Schooling. It, Inkson, who was severely injured at Flemington last August, has been granted permission by the surgeon to the v ictoria Racing Club to school horses over hurdles, and last month he made a bv schooling his old favourite, Redditch. liedditeh has not started in a race since lie came, to grief with Inkson in the August Steeplechase, and, before setting out to school him, Inkson, in order to warm

up, rode Lynden, who trotted for two circles on the sand track. Then Inkson mounted Redditch and set out with My Talisman and Plum King in a school over four hurdles. All gave good exhibitions. Four Miles of Special Trains. What a crowded 10 minutes of glorious life the Grand National is! (writes G. Ward Price in the “Daily Mail”). No wonder four miles of special trains brought 50,000 people from all over Britain to see it. No wonder an American millionaire flew to England from the Dutch East Indies so as to be here in time, or that a trans-Atlantic liner in the Mersey deferred her sailing so that her passengers might see this splendid English race. There can only be one Grand National more exciting than this one. and that will be next year’s if Golden Miller runs again. Spectacular Success. Miss Dorothy Paget, owner of the Grand National winner, Golden Miller, Is 28, and has achieved a spectacular success on the turf after only a few years as a racehorse owner. When only 24, she sprang into prominence by running her fleet of racing motor-cars and retaining some of the best drivers at Brooklands. She failed, however, to win any important event, although she was reputed to have spent £40,000 o n the venture. When she turned her attention to racehorses, however, success was almost immediate. She startled the racing world two years ago, when most owners were cutting down their studs, by spending £20,000 on bloodstock. Last December she paid 8200 guineas for a five-year-old mare. Salome. One of her best-known horses, Tuppence, cost £6930, but bo far he has won only £393. Colombo.

The crack English three-year-old Colombo is described as a handsome, wellgrown, sound-limbed, light-actioned bay colt. He was purchased cheaply as a yearling by Lord Glanely for 510 guineas, and as he won seven races worth £17,130 in his first season he has been a small gold mine to his lucky owner, who, a few years ago, acquired Grand Parade as a yearling for 470 guineas, and won the Derby with him. Derby winners in England are not often bought out of a public sale ring, but Major Eustace Loder purchased Spearmint at Doncaster from the SledmCre draft for only 300 guineas. Colombo is by Manna (son of Phalaris) from Lady Nairne, by Chaucer (son ot St. Simon) from Lanimermuir, by Sunstar (son of Sundridge) from Monteni, by Ladas (son of Hampton) from Kcrmesse, by Cremorne. Lady Nairne was a halfsister to the Two Thousand Guineas winner, Ellangowan.

Determined to Win a National. Moloney, the rider of Delaneige, who finished second in the Grand National Steeplechase, like all professional Irish horsemen, has since childhood dreamed of nothing else but of riding a Grand National winner. .For years he lias had no superior at Aintrce, but he has yet to win the great race. This was the third time that he has finished second. On the other occasions he was on Easter Hero and Gregalach. Imagine his feelings when between the last two fences be was in front, with only Golden Miller near him. “My horse,” he said afterward. “was still going on the bit, and I saw that Wilson had his whip up on Golden Miller. Nevertheless, I knew that he would beat me if we both jumped the last fence, because Golden Miller can worry on when tired more stoutly than my horse. That is just what he did. Never mind, my turn will come. I’ll win it, next year, and on Delaneige, too.” Delaneige, with Moloney riding, finished fourth last year, after promising to win half a mile from home.