FOR WANGANUI

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 190, 10 May 1938, Page 19

FOR WANGANUI

Horses To Leave To-day NOTES AND COMMENTS Sporting Song Breaks Down

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The Watches.)

H. Telford will leave Trentham this morning for Wanganui with Debham. T. R. George will also wend up' two or three more to join Boomerang, Alunga, and Galteemore. Arctic Star Due. .Arctic Star is due from the south this morning to race at Wanganui, after which he will do the Waikato and Auckland meetings. Having had four races in Southland last month, he is in good order, and he has excellent prospects of paying his way on the northern trip, as he looks a better horse than when he showed useful form over country last winter. A. Trillo will ride, him at Wanganui, and before then it will be known if be is available for the remainder of the circuit. Sporting Song Goes. Mrs. G. M. Bennett has had the bad luck to lose the services of Sporting Song, who broke down at Hawera on Friday. To lose a horse at any time is bad enough, but it is particularly unfortunate to have a jumper go wrong at this stage of the season. A Good Season. Race Call, who has enjoyed a good season, winning something over four figures in stakes, has been turned out for a spell. L. E. George is handling a half-sister to Artful Dodger. She i« a three-year-old by Illumination —Oak Lass. He has also put Lady Boden back into work. Not So Good. Tudor'was missing from Hawera, and according to northern reports he has not stood up to his preparation. Resumed. Nightdress was given a rest for a fewweeks after he was gelded. He w again in regular attendance at the tracks, and he should be ready to race before the end of the winter. A New Arrival. A recent arrival from Sydney in Eric Stewart, ridiug at 7.4, intends trying New Zealand. He will be present at the Southland Racing Club’s meeting. Stewart has had 19 winning mounts in Australia, and intends making Dunedin his headquarters until after the Wingatui winter meeting. Courtyard. Courtyard, the hero of the two brush hurdle events at the C.J.C. Easier meeting, is. getting through good work, and he may do some more winning over hurdles in the winter, as he revels in heavy ground. His victories have brought, two additions to A. McMullan’s team, which now includes two of Mr. A. S. .Jones s horses. One of them, High Speed, is a proved performer over country, and is specially partial to a soft track. the other, Chantcur, is a big gelding, lormerlv raced by Mr. L. W. Storry, and he will start soon on his jumping education. Maiden’s Quick Rise.

Gillie, who won the Starky Memorial Handicap at Amberley on Saturday, performed an unusual feat, for he was a maiden performer, and had fun fourtn in his own elates earlier in the day. The open event was run at a very slow pace earlv, and this suited the novice, who is a- threerycar-old half-brother to Lord Warden,'to Seratchmere Scar, being out of the -Martian ware Vennacher. He is raced by his breeder, Mr. G. Fulton, and is trained by H. Nurs**. Ay is so often the case, Gillie was well fancied for his ■maiden engagement, and comparatively neglected when he won. Laclcham.

The imported stallion Lackhain was sent under the hammer at the Sydney sales but failed to find a buyer. He has since been purchased by Mr. W. Booth and will join the Tatyoon Stud. Lackham is getting on in years, as he was foaled in 1920.

Out. for the Winter. Outts Brothers have eased up a few of their horses but other members of the team are being kept going, with a view to racing through the winter. Wild Chase is on the easy list and will not do any more racing until the spring. He has had an unlucky season, for after running second to Cerite Abbas in the New Zealand Cup. he failed to repeat his best form. Possibly he will come back, after a rest, to show his best form again at five years. Good Passage is another to he spelled. The Winning Hit two-year-old is a smart galloper, although her record has been tarnished by unruly barrier manners, a surprising trait in a filly that is most docile under any other conditions. Provided this trouble is' overcome, Good Passage should come baek to show good race form next season. Kept Going.

Paper Slipper, although he was not quite so successful as iu the previous season. showed excellent form at times, but apparently he was feeling the strain in the autumn of his racing under big weights. He will be kept going and may be §een at the Ashburton and South Canterbury meetings as a preliminary to competing on other courses during the winter. Trench Fight, after spelling for a few months, has been in light exercise lately. He is sound and in good health, readv to resume active work at any time, in preparation for another campaign, which may start about Winter Cup time.

Disappointed. Mittie ran disappointingly at Egmont. She improved a little the second day but she never likely to run into the money.

Poor Horsemanship. 'file low scale of weights at Egmont gave good jockeys few opportunities, and B. H. Morris was able to obtain only one mount iu the two days. A premium was put on lightweight horsemen, and such was the scarcity of competent riders that more than one trainer scratched sooner than run, and several put up pounds overweight: to get riders like Wilson, B.roughton and Wiggins.

New Zealand Blood. Disturbed, surprise winner of the last race at. Egmont. was bred in Australia, and is a tljree-year-old by the Hurry On horse Excitement from Restful, by Birkenhead— Peace, so it is a fairly wellknown New Zealand family. Disturbed was purchased as a yearling in Sydney by Dr. W. C. Ring for 200 guineas. His dam. Restful, is a half-sister to Chakwana, a good class mare raced by Messrs. V. and 111. L. Riddiford some years ago. This Week’s Racing.

The Wanganui .Liekey Club's meeting will open on Thursday and conclude ou SatunHy. when there will also lie racing at Ashburton. Soiithlnml and Marlborotigh. The Marlborough meeting "ill be concluded on Monday.

Dewi Chief. Mr. G. J. Barion is the type of man we want to sec in racing. He puts a lot

of money into horses each year, being a great patron of trotting as well as of galloping. For that reason (says a writer in the Melbourne “Globe”) I do not want to hurt bis feelings, but I owe a duty to the many punters who are “Globe” readers. All and every one of them, including myself, wish that Desert Chief had never left the country in which ho was foaled. A good judge like Erie Connolly declared for’ Desert Chief in the Caulfield Cup of 1936. many weeks before the race. “SYjiit till you see this fellow on a firm track," said the king of the turf. Desert Chief was to be seen coming home in races with a burst of speed that presaged victories in top-notch company. Punters have waited in vain for the five-year-old Chief Ruler horse to come good. He gave encouragement at. Williamstown and Epsom, and was recently labelled the bet of the year for the Pozieres Handicap at Mentone. He failed in the weakest handicap field seen in Melbourne for years. If Desert Chief was my property he would he turned out with a tag on his tail, “Back to the cactus or the desert.” Marl borough Accept,an cos. Acceptances for the first day of the Marlborough Racing Club's meeting will close to-morrow at 9 p.m. Answers to Correspondents. “F.M..” Lower Hutt : Enge was scratched for his Eginont engagements at 10.30 a.m. on May 3. “8.W.,” Wairoa: (1) £3/10/-. (2) £3 14/6. “G. 0. Reg,” Feilding: Not the first day. but the second. 17/-. “Reader,” Marton: (1) £2/11/6. (2) £l/2/6. (3) Lickem was scratched for the Hawera Handicap at 11.15 a.m. on Thursday. (4) Silvaniis was scratched for the Mcßae Handicap at 11.45 a.m. on Thursday. FIXTURES May 12. 14—Wanganui J.C. May 14—Ashburton County lt.C. May 14—Southland lI.C. Muy 11. Hl—Marlborough IC C. May 111, 21—South Canterbury J.C. May 21—Mannwalu lt.C. May 21. 23—Waikato H.C. May 28—Foxlon lt.C. May 28-Wairoa H.C. June 0, 11, 11—Auckland H.C. June 4, (I—Dunedin J.C. June 4, 6—Napier Park KJ.’. June 4, it-Otakl Maori H.C. June 11—Dunedin J.C. June 11— Hawke's Bay J.C. June 18—Hawke’s Bay J.C. June IS—Hay ot Plenty J.C. June IS— Grnymoutli J.C. Juno 2,3—Walpa lt.C. June 25—Asliburtc- County lt.C. June 2.3—Dannevirke Hunt Club. July 2—Uamaru J.C. July 7, o—Wellington R.C. July 9—Westland lt.C. lat Iticeai’toni July Hl—Hawke's Hay llunl Club. Julv Hl—Wai mute District Hun’ club July 28. 30—Poverty Bay Turf Club. July 23—South Canterbury’ llunl Chib. July 23-Malamatn lt.C. July 28 ,30 —Poverty Bay Turf Club. ■lnly 30—Christchurch Hunt Club.