FIXTURES.

Evening Post, Issue 88, 12 April 1924, Page 20

FIXTURES.

April 19 and 21-Riverton R.C. Annual. Apr, 19 and 21-Wairarapa R.C. Eastfcr. April 19 and 2L—Auckland R.C. Autumn. Aprd J9 and 21—Feilding J.C. Easter Apri 10-Tuapeka County J.C. Annual. April 19, 21, 23, and 20-Australian J.C. AntAPp rro. ! 11-Beaun7oSr^ r C bU Ay nn Juai Al"UmnApril 23—Westland R.C. Autumn ' April 20-Grcymouth J.C Autumn. \\* y o ani *~Havkes Bay J-c- Autumn. May 2 and 3-South Canterbury J.C. Autumn

With a few exceptions most of tlio local trainers will assist at the Wairarapa Racing Club's Meeting at Tauhere.nikau on Easter Saturday and Monday. Owners and trainers are given a reminder that acceptances for the iirst day's events close on Monday, at 8 p.m. with Mr. C. J. Carlyon, secretary, Featlier«ton. ''Touchstone," in the "Australasian," writes that "there does not appear to be much chance of Hector Gray coming over from New Zealand to ride The Cypher in the Sydney Cup, and so far no jockey has yet been engaged for the son-of Martian." .The ; Lincolnshire Handicap winner, Sir Gallahad IH. (Teddy—Plucky Liege), is a French-bred horse. Sir Galahad 111. was strongly fancied by his trainer, Bob Denman, who gained much fame through saddling a large number of important winners for the late M. Edmbnd Blanc. Sir Galahad; 111. was a firstclass performer in France last: year. Aftar a severe race with the Aga Khan's colt, Niceas,. he won. the Proule d'Essai dcs Poulains (corresponding ,to the Two Thousand Guineas). - This was the only classic'engagement'Epinard had, and he was scratched.: /A' .fortnight after ■ his Poules d'Essai' win" Sir . lII.' refused to gallop'in the Prix Lupin, but the following month. (June) made practically all the running in- the .Prix dv Jockey Club (French Derby), and finished third to ' Le. Capucin aiid Niceas. Le: Capucin, who-was last early and had ,a bad passage,-won by a:neck, with a >siniilar distance' between Niceas and Sir. Galahad 111. In the Grand Prix de Paris Sir Galahad 111. unseated his jockey, bolted, and plunged into a mill stream, and took no part in the race. Teddy, sire of Sir Galahad 111., was the leading stallion in France last season, Ills stock winning £49,146. Comedy King's figures for last season) £43,114, is the Australasian.-record. Teddy was by the Flying Fox horse, Ajax, possibly the- greatest horse M. Edmond Blanc ever bred. Plucky Liege (dam 'of Sir Galahad III.) was, raced in England in 1914, winning the last four of her six engagements as a two-year-old. ; She was by .Carbine's son, Spearmint, from the St. Simon mare, Concertina, dam of the Newmarket winner, 'Playaway/ Mr. J. D. Cohn, owner of the Lincolnshire wintrier, was the most successful owner m France^ last year, winning 32 races, worth £60,494./ "Frankie" O'Neill, rider of Sir , Galahad 111., is an accomplished American jockey, who has been riding with much. success in' France for many years. * His services are also ■in great request for important engagements in England. M'Lachlan, rider of the .'run-ner-up, Evander, is the Australian jockey who shares with R. Lewis the distinction' of having ridden three Melbourne Cup winners. Evander is a half-brother-to the last A.J.C. Trial Stakes winner, Balaton (late Clary): Evander ran well, but unluckily last, season. As her Lincolnshire weight indicates, Grave Fairy was not a very good performer last season, when- she won twice, in 11 starts. Radial, who had not won fori a considerable time, paid just under, double figures when he scored, in the Winter Oats at Southland. 'v.: '' •'-.-■■ \ Renunciation (Hallowmas— j-Pas Seul) won the /Jumpers' ' Flat RaceV at the; W.A.T.C. ..Charity: Meeting Con- 29th March.- The Auckland-bred Microphone (Thurnham—Tecoma) . was 'among the winners.the same day.. .. :-.:.: :" i j-. For some time past the Auckland Racing Club ■' Committee has .been1 trying to relieve the 'congestion a(j Ellerslie, caused by the large number of horses- in training. A prominent' Auckland:trainer at, Awapuni last.week "stated that all trainers at Ellerslie ' had received, :■ or were about to receive,, noticefrom -'the.; A.R.C., to the effect that, a-new .'system was .to' come into.operation almost, immediately. A No. 1: license was to '■ be issued: to those trainers who owned their own property, and all other* would have to find other training grounds: -"Further, all horses were to be^off the tracks by 10.30 a.m. each day. • ' , Mr. C. W. Murchison, for some time in the Dominion, has resigned from the position of stipendiary steward to the Australian Jockey: Club.. Mr.' F. W. Coombes, who has for some time acted at New South Wales country • clubs' meetings, has been appointed, to fill the .vacancy.; •' . -'■ . ■ : , ' Mr.: W. .Stone parted with a 'good horse when. he sold. Roseday. He has evidently become possessed' of another useful Solferino gelding'in Master Sandstone, who won the principal handicap event each day at Southland. ',-■ : Advice has been received by Mr. Sol. Green by cable from London' that two of the brood mares bought on his behalf at the English blood stock sales in December have foaled. Arquebus has dropped a brown colt by Son-in-Law, and Chivalry '""a bay-filly'by Lemberg. The third mare, Hecla, is due to foal in June to Hurry On, sire of the 1922 English Derby Winner Captain Cuttle. Before the mares are shipped to Australia two ■of them will.be served to Australian time by Gay Crusader, .winner of the Triple Crown, .Two Thousand Guineas, Derby, and St. Leger—in 1917, while the other will be similarly served by Golden-Myth, son of ■ Tredennis. Bonnie Winkie competed on the eluding day at Southland, but evidently is. not. back to his best form, as he finished outside the placed division. In the "Australasian," "Snowden" writes at length of the importations of Mr. W. .Blackler to South ' Australia fifty years ago. They included Instep, who, mated with Richmond, produced Aura;, dam of a long list of successful performers. Aura did not pass any of her stud . life at Fulham Park. She commenced duties at Mr. W. R. Wilson's St. Albans Stud. I'or the first four years she, was mated with Trenton, by Musket fro"m Frailty, by Goldsborough, son of a Fisherman mare. ■ Her- first foal was the filly Trenora, then came the Melbourne Cup and Oaks winner Auraria, whose daughters appear to nick well with Lucknow, a descendant of Instep's dam. ; Aura slipped the following year, and then, 'produced Aurum, proclaimed by many as the best three-year-old ever seen in Australia. Aura's other.Aus-tialian-born foals were Auriferous, by Eobinson Crusoe; Auric, by Bill of Portland ; Aurous, by Wallace; and Mistral, by Havoc. In foal to Wallace, she was sold to go to New Zealand in 1900. The foal nh.c was carrying was Golden Knight, a sire of winners, and one of hey

later New Zealand-bred foals was Golden slipper. After winning the Williamstown Cup, the A. J.C.:Champagne Stakes winner Auriferous was exported to England. Auric was no wonder either as racehorse or sire. . Aurous was a brilliant galloper, and became the dam of DunPlly, Aureity, Aurarius, Golden Point, bolden Hop, and others. Aureity's progcncy1 include Tangalooma and Chatelaine. Aurarius, of course, is famed throughout 'Australasia as the dam of Desert Gold, but she had other good foals. Aura's daughter Mistral is granddam of the brilliant Maid of the Mist. _ Parody looks a likely proposition in ,1116 Easter Handicap with 8.6, but southern writers are of opinion that she will start in the Oaljs, which is run. on the same day. Parody won the Railway Handicap'with 6.12 and the Newmarket Handicap with 8.3 at the A.R.'C. Summer Meeting, while she carried .off ,'the Telegraph Handicap, at Trentham with 8.5. On her .running in the St. Leger, one mile and three-quarters, at AVellington, £he ( looked as though she would get to Uie end of a mile event nicely. ' There is no doubt about her pace. She was beaten a length and a half by Eazzle Dazzle in th£ New Zealand Oaks at Riccarton last November, and with Mr. W. T. Hazlett's filly out of the way Parody must be given a' good chance in this event. Whatever her trainer elects to start her in she should be hard to dispose, of. - . It is anticipated there will be a good, response from owners for the Fleet Meeting, to be held at'Trentham on the 26th instant. Nominations close on Saturday next. . ■ . . It is on the cards that Steve Donoghue, the famous English rider, will visit Australia at'the close of. the next English flat racing' season. A well-known Australian now in \lndia,' who knows Steve well, writing to." Cardigan ',' from Calcutta on 24th February, says: "Steve Donoghue is leaving for England, next week for the flat racing season, and states that he will,afterwards leave for Australia on a: six months' holiday, where he may ride probably for one'of the Clarkes. , Steveis;a little gentleman, wherever he goes,; as he is quiet, and t_ays much attention .to diet and .exercise. He said: .Mthave heard so much about Australia and Flemington racecourse that I mustgoand see it for myself. I understand that Eandwick! is one of the prettiest courses, in the world, and I would like to ride on'it.'• Australians will like Steve," continues the 'correspondent, " for he never tries to swank. ■Donoghue I considers YOrange William a world-beater at the present time up to a mile and a half. -That horse must certainly be quite out of the ■ ordinary, as generally the last horse-into the straightin his races', he simply bounded along when Morris gave him his head. He seemed'to have the exact knowledge of what amount to win by, and most Indian racing men- consider him a freak." 1 A very nice betting coup 'was pulled off by a few Australians at the Calcutta Meeting with the aid of a horse called Twi^worth. Three men worked the cbfn,mission—one the. place tote, another the place books, and another the members' place tote. " The books laid for a place, and, when several big wagers had been snapped up from, them, endeavoured to coyer themselves by getting 'on the tote, but it was "too "late :ior the "window had closed. 'The "books''were left to their, fate, arid^ Twig worth /duly ran second. When the numbers went up* it was seen that the tote paid well, and the commissioners held 95 per cent., of the tickets. It' is estimated that 'over 50,000 rupees were taken from the books, and a large amount.from the tote. ■Valiard (Valais—Poinard), who scored his first win in a division of a. Nursery Handicap at Eosehill recently, 'is a halfbrother to Poitrel. Valiard cost 850 guineas as a yearling.' , ' >'Mr.,' A.. Hendricksen, of. Santa Rosa Farm, Canterbury, has purchased the American-bred three-year-old colt Seal Guy, by Guy Axworthy—Gay Tod,: the price being stated at 1500 guineas. Eeal , Guy was brought to the Dominion by Mr. R. C. Fisken, of Gisborne, .along with Peterwah, who won the New Zealand Trotting Stakes .at Forbury this 'Bason. Aristime (The Welkin—Brisselette) winner of • the Trial Stakes at Rosehill, is_ a three-year-old half-brother, to Bonne Winkie. Aristime is trained by his breeder,. Mr. E. E. D. Clarke, in Syd-I ney. .'..,. ' " • ' Bred as she is, it .would not bo surprising ,if Limelight got the' Great Autumn Handicap distance. At Riccartbn o/i Thursday-morning she ran about a mile and three/furlongs by herself. Timed from the 7 mile and a quarter mark, .she reeled off half a mile in 51sec. seven furlongs in liuin. SOsec, and the full journey in 2min 3 l-ssec, the'last three furlongs taking 39 l-ssec. She finished full of running, and it was a good performance. /':'■' " Lilypond,. West Australia's latest champion, has .arrived in- Melbourne. ■Lilypond is a three-year-old by Lilyveil (winner of t a Sydney, Cup), and is ex- . pected by West Australians to follow in the footsteps' of Eurythmic and Eastngwold. Lilypond has won four races, including: the Derby and Cup ,at the Perth Meeting in December, and is one of the cheapest racing propositions of rp.cent years. He cost his owner, Mr. 'V T. Foy, only 130 guineas as a yearling, and.has already won nearly £4000 in stakes. He will be prepared for racing next sprins, and.in view of his superior form in Perth his career in the East will be closely watched. ' The Steeplechase to bo run at Trentham at the' Fleet Meeting on the 26th mst. will bo the first of the season. Formerly cross-country events were run throughout the year in the Dominion, but there is now practically a close season; The C.J.C. used to have a couple oi steeplechase events at the Cup Meeting in. the old days, and for many years the Summer Steeplechase was .one of the mostt important, events at Ellerslie at New Year time. • ■ At the Menangle Meeting on. the Ist inst., ; Farceur carried 10.5 in the Welter" Handicap, seven furlongs,^ and was beater, three lengths in the good time of lmm 25sec. He was conceding the winner 201b. The ex-New Zealand trainer, : George Price, who has recently won good races with Stony and Biickra. is constantly adding to his already big team. The latest addition is a half-Sister, to Quest, by Seremond from Down South, ownpd In-Mr. W. Keocrh. Another youngster Price will train for Mr. TCeo^h is the brown colt by The Welkin from that good mare Tadanga, who was purchased at the Melbourne yearling sales, for 300 guineas. He will arrive* in Sydney in a.few weeks' time.: Acceptances, for the first day of the Uairarapa Racing Club's Easter Meeting close on next Monday night; also . •^acceptances for the first day of the Feildin.cc Jockey Club's Easter Meeting. ■I he Marlborough Racincr Club's Aut- ""'" Meeting will be held on 9th nnd ipth May Nominations for all events close on Wednesday, 16tk April