£2400 INCREASE

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 171, 16 April 1937, Page 17

£2400 INCREASE

Stakes For Trentham Winter Meeting NOTES AND COMMENTS Another Trip to Australia

By

H. E. Russell

(By The Watcheb.) An increase of £2400 has been made in the stakes for the Wellington winter meeting, to be held on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, July 6, 8 and 10. The Wellington Steeplechase has an added £250, bringing the stake up to £1000; £2OO has been added to the Parliamentary Handicap, and £250 to the Winter Hurdles, which are now worth £6OO and £750 respectively. The hack stakes are all worth £3OO, of which the winner will get £195. One feels that the club has now gone far enough in stakes for hack races, and any further increases that it is possible to allot should all go to horses of better class. So far as this. programme is concerned, however, it is well balanced, and the best since 1930. A good response should be received from owners on the closing of nominations on June 21 next. Novices at Nelson. The following is the field for the firwt event at Nelson to-morrow:—Novice Stakes, of £75. Five furlongs (fixed weights: two-year-olds, 7.11; three-year-olds and over, 8.8).—Gay Sceptre, Bit o’ Blue, Adieux, Ohanga, Potent, Arrowin, King’s Choice, Haggis, Southern Blood. Trentham Minimum in July. With the exception of the three principal handicaps, the Whyte, Parliamen- | tary, and Winter Oats, the flat handicap minimum at the Wellington winter meeting will be S.O. Team for Australia. The Woodville trainer, H. E. Russell, is making another trip to Australia, and is due to depart about May 11. The team will comprise five horses—Mala, Golden Treasure, Brown Oak, Golden Flame, and Sports Coat. The first-named pair have previously raced in Australia, and should pay their way in the coming venture. Golden Flame is a rising two-year-old filly by Laekham from iMegalo, and is therefore a full-sister to that brilliant galloper Golden Wings. -Sports Coat, of similar age, is by Pink Coat from Jarretiere, by Clarenceux from Madama, by Minstead from Knight’s Dame, by Sir Hugo, and was purchased at the yearling sales at Trentham last January for 200gns. Galloping Well. Respectful, Sergia and Young Paddon have been galloping well recently on the Te Rapa tracks. For South Africa. On the first day of the Sydney yearling sales, Mr. D. > Mackay, a South African journalist, secured for racing in the Union tile colt by Heroic from Luminous at 1050 guineas, the colt by Marconigram —Silver Dell at 550gns., and the colt by Marconigram from Valaway at 425gns. Mr. Mackay was also a buyer at the Melbourne sales. A Projected Trip. Mr. J. Irvine, the owner of Golden Vision, will visit Australia soon, and there is a possibility that he will take Golden... Vision with thim. It depends on how the mare shapes At the Waimate and Oamaru meetings. Capital Reappears. After running second to Triune in the Members’ Handicap at Riccarton last November, Capital was turned out aud only recently has he been recommissioned. Capital, throughout his period of training at Riccarton, was always one of the fastest sprinters on the tracks, and contrary to the usual run of Paper Money horses, he improved with age, winning seven furlong races, whereas earlier five furlongs had been the limit of his effective range. Capital is again in commission under S. Barr, but it will be some time before he is sent against the watch. Streamline as 'Chaser. Streamline was given his first experience of the steeplechase fences at Riccarton on Wednesday, and he jumped the two fences set him well after going over two hurdles. The fences were not exactly new to thi£ five-year-old Day Comet—Sailor’s Hope gelding, as he competed successfully in brush hurdle events last season. T. H. Gillett has Streamline in excellent order, and from now on his work will be of a n. >re serious nature. Martara Departs. The three-year-old Martara, recently purchased by Mr. Alex. Higgins, was shipped to Sydney this week by the Awatea on his way to India. After arriving in Auckland before the Easter meeting, Martara went under the care of R. S. Bagby, and he was carefully let down in condition in preparation for his long trip. Much interest will be centred in the future of Martara, who won rapid promotion from the time he opened bis winning ac.ount in the spring, and if he follows in the footsteps of Soultline, Karapoti, Heremia, and Kahapa he should prove a further advertisement for New Zealandbred stock. Four other horses were shipped to Sydney by the Awatea, and thejj are to join J. T. Jamieson’s team at Randwick. They comprise a four-year-old fullbrother to Closing Time, by Tippler from Miss Myra, and three two-year-olds, comprising a chestnut filly by Lord Warden from Clink, a gelding by Siegfried from Vigilance, and a gelding by Nightmarch from Gestee. Well Engaged. Dictate, Final Bell, Araboa, Double i ]

Gift, Stolen March, Dropped Catch, Balmenter, Hanlon, and I-leloise are engaged in two races at the Waimate meeting.

Daughter of Iliad. The New Zealand-bred mare, Dainty Verse (Iliad—lsa), has lately been racing with commendable consistency in Western Australia. In a second start following a spell, she was runner-up in a welter seven on the W.A.T.C. course. At the next start, Belmont Park, she won at seven furlongs aud a half. Tbe third run was again on the W.A.T.C. course, when she won a welter seven from Beenarra. Later she again won another W.A.T.C. welter from Aguenor and Beenarra. Good judgment has been displayed in the selection of races for Dainty Verse, who will probably win again before the handicappers get her measure, says an Australian writer.

Danuevirke Entries. Nominations for the annual meeting of the Danuevirke Racing Club, to be held at Woodville on April 30 and May 1, will close at 8 p.m. to-day, with the race secretary, Mr. W. A. Lyon, Woodville (telephone 56 and 110).

Answers to Correspondents. “Maugaweka”: Lagoon was scratched on the day of the races at 11.30 a.m. “Interested,” Pahiatua: £2/6/-,