MARTARA SOLD

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 152, 24 March 1937, Page 17

MARTARA SOLD

Price Said to be 3000 Guineas NOTES AND COMMENTS Easter Riding Engagements (By The Watchek.) Martara has been sold by an Auckland agency to an unrevealed buyer, but judging by previous purchases in the same quarter his ultimate destination my be India. The price is said to be 3000 guineas. Martara will be sent up to Ellerslie on to-day’s mail train and handed over. G. W. New is not making the trip. Martara was bred by Mr. J. Porter, Tittle and was sold as a yearling for only -0 guineas. He has been a rare bargain. He had three unplaced starts as a two-year-old, but this season be won the Maiden Stakes at Masterton, Novice Handicap at Trentham, Trial Stakes at Bulls, Bolton Handicap at Woodville, Douro Cup lit Trentham, Summer Handicap at 'Trentham, Taranaki Cup. and the Autumn Handicap at Trentham, besides running second in the St. Leger to Wild Chase. He is by the Martian horse Martarma, out ot Taraheke, by Paladin. Tauherenikau Time-table. Wairarapa race times on Saturday will be:—11.45, 12.25, 1.5, 1.50, 2.30, 3.10, 3.50, 4.30. Trentham Horses for Riccarton. Red Sun and Sunee will go south to Riccarton to-night. Arctic King and Myriam will leave on Friday night. C. Thomson, who will be at Feilding on Saturday, will be at Riccarton to ride Red Sun. 1. Atkins will ride Sunee on Easter Monday, but so far the gelding is without g rider for the Great Autumn. Sunee and Red Sun have both done well since racing at Trentham, and they galloped a sound mile yesterday morning. Arctic King and My r ” jam have also been working well. No final riding engagements have been made lor this pair.

Riding Engagements. P. Atkins will be riding at. Tauherenikau on Saturday prior to going on to Riccarton. He will be on Big Hook in the Easter Handicap and will also ride Accomplice and Haupangi for 11. Telford.

A Thill Book. G. Tattersail, who was to have been on Martara at Ellerslie, will now be at Feilding, and he has a full bool,, including Silver River. ATby, Race Gall, Karl. Orient Dawn and War Lap. The stable apprentice D. Mansfield will be at T.auherenikau, and has been engaged for Good Sun. Good Sun, who is on the improve, accounted for Accomplice in a five-furlong gallop yesterday morning in 1.2*.

Galloping Well. Debhum and Rona Bay galloped a good mile at Trentham yesterday morning, recording 1.42*. Marsh will ride Rona Bay at Wairarapa. Deficit will be ridden by P. Burgess, who will also be on Gay Mulla, Hazoor and Nelumbo. A. E. Ellis. Jf A. E. Ellis decides to ride at Tauherenikau on Saturday he will have the mount on Trentham’e new filly, Girl Pat. From Australia. Mr. R. J. Murphy’s Victorian steeplechaser Bonnie Rollox has arrived at Trentham and two Australian apprentices have also come over tinder engagement to T. R. George. They are A. Bennet and A. Sim. Bennet will make his New Zealand debut on some of the stable horses at Wairarapa. Sim’s clearance is not through yet, but it is expected.

For the Wairarapa Patrons. The Wairarapa Racing Club has provided extra facilities for its Easter patrons. Portable grandstands have been placed in the outside enclosure, where there is also a hot-water service for picnickers. More tables have also been placed in the bush ami under the trees in the enclosures. A totalizator selling window will also be opened in the stewards’ stand. Increased Stakes at Otaki.

Increased stakes are being provided for the Otaki Maori Racing Club’s winter meeting, which will be held this year on Wednesday and Saturday. May 'l2 and 15. The Coronation Handicap, the principal event of the first <ay, will carry a prize of £250 and a cup valued at £3O, and the open handicap on the second day will be worth £2OO.

Good Prospects. Excellent acceptances have been received by the eiijlis holding meetings at the week-end. It requires only fine weather to see substantial totalisator returns and increased attendances. Dual Engagements.

Friesland and Lowenberg have both accepted at Wairarapa and Lowenberg has also paid up in the Feilding Cup.

From New Plymouth. -*[■ Gray will have a team racing at the n airarapa meeting comprising Bantry, Captain Tudor, and Eagle’s Eye. Captain Tudor was lame at Stratford, but it may not have been serious as his connections were aware of it yet raced him.

C.J.C. Meeting. Final payments for the C.J.C. Easter meeting at Riccarton next Monday and Tuesday are due to-day by 5 p.m. At Ellerslie.

Wildflower has been rebandicapped 61b., making 9.4, for the Onslow Handicap, to be decided on Saturday at Ellerslie. Lady Kyra will not be rehandicapped for the Easter Handicap.

Riders in Riccarton Double. A. Messervy lias been engaged to ride Cyrillian in the Great Easter Handicap, while he will be on AVillie Win in the Great Autumn. A. E. Ellis, as usual, will be on Silver Ring in both races, while P. Atkins will handle Chief Ranger. G. H. Humphreys will be associated with Sir Charles .Clifford's candidates, probably Paper Slipper and Wild Chase. No rider has been engaged for Argentic in the Great Autumn Handicap.

Spell for Lynch Law. Lynch Law, who was regarded as the best of the Sydney two-yeear-olds, but recently went r.miss, is to be sent out for a spell. It is hoped that he will recover in time to enter on his preparation for the spring meetings.

New Zealand Yearlings. Mr. J. G. Alexander, of Maxwell, Wanganui, sent three yearlings to the Melbourne sales this month, all of them being bj’ the Chief Ruler horse, Rulanut. A colt from the imported mare, Pebble 11, by Rock Flint, realised 300 guineas, and a filly from imported Violet 11, by Rich Gift. 55 guineas, while a filly from Kiriinn, by Marble Arch, was passed at 110 guineas. New Horses.

l‘\ D. .Jones Inis some new horses doing useful work. A hig gelding by Philamor from Windshield is a half-brother Io Shatter and he may develop into a good galloper. A couple of yearlings lire both by Lord Warden. A filly that looks a likely sort is from Tea Drill, by Tea Tray from Quadrilateral. the dam of Homer and Hob Hoy. The other youngster, a colt from Windshield, dam of Shatter, is resting at present, having suffered some injuries when he got into a fence.

At Feiiding. The Feilijing Jockey Club has hud alterations made Io its totalisator in anticipation of increased turnover at the Easter meeting. Tickets will be sold in units of 10/-, £1 and £5, and in all there will be 27 selling windows, and 20 on tlio

pay-out. The public is asked to bet early as the machine will be closed on time. On Easter Monday the daylight Limited will be a convenient means of transport for Wellington visitors. They All Can Make Mistakes. Any steeplechaser that does a fair amount of racing, and goes through his caree.r without a fall, is unusual. Reynoldstown, winner of the last two Grand Nationals, was competing over a much easier course than Aintree when he ran at Birmingham last month, but be fell at the last jump. It was au easy fence, and. coming to it, Reynoldstown looked a certain winner, all the other runners appearing well beaten. Reynoldstown was not knocked about in his fall, which his owner. Major Furlong, attributed to the horse taking Ihe jump awkwardly, and brushing the too of it. Silver Scorn. Silver Scorn, who missed to Royal Sun at her first season at the stud, was not mated this season, but next season she is to go to Royal Suu or Mid Kent. Althought she won in Sydney, Silver Scorn never ran quite up to her New Zealand reputation, and it is to lie hoped that at the stud she will reward her owner with something good. Answers to Correspondents. '■Sprinter,’’ Wanganui.—£2s/17/-; £6 2/6. *’M.L..’’ Wanganui.—£6/5/6 “F.R.N.,” Wanganui.— CD £l/12/-. (2) £2/2/-; £l/1/6. (6) £l/9/6; £l/12/-,.