RACING NEWS

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 78, 29 September 1924, Page 10

RACING NEWS

(BY "VEDETTE."}

So far as the Dominion is concerned, the week is a quiet one in regard to racing, the Hawkes Bay Jockey Club's fixture on .Wednesday and the Kurow Jockey Club's fixture on Thursday being the only meetings to take place. Or: Saturday, however, the big A.J.C. racing carnival will be opened in Sydney, and although for divers reasons the Dominion contingent has been weakened considerably, there will be still much of interest to New Zealanders. The A.J.C. Derby, the Epsom Handicap, and the Spring Stakes (one mile and a half at weight for age) are all decided on Satuiday.

It is understood from a well-informed quarter that the Eoyal Despatch case is by no means concluded so far as the New Zealand Racing Conference is concerned. It seemed certain that the confeience would endorse the A.J.C. sentence, but it is believed that the New Zealand body is not satisfied altogether, and anything might happen yet, even a breach between the two controlling bodies.

Form worked out well at Napier on baturday in most of the races. The Railway Handicap seemed the one extiaordinary exception, and providing the race was timed accurately it must have been falsely run. Kilceit, with 7.1 D, was credited with running lmin 15 4-ssec in the Ahuriri Hack Handicap, while Civilform, 8.6, took lmin 17sec in the Flying Handicap, with Wassail, 9.11, in third place. Even making allowance for the rain- that commenced to fall after the fourth race, the discrepancy in time is hardly in accordance with the class. A cable ,message from Sydney state* that-no New Zealanders were placed at the Hawkesbury races on Saturday. A Press Association cablegram states that-Windbag has been scratched for the Melbourne Cup, and Tressayr has been similarly treated for the Caulfield Cup, Contala Stakes, and Toorak Handicap. The weights issued to-day for theMasterton Meeting draw pointed attention to the good class and numerically strong nominations received for the Wairaiapa fixture. "Under these circumstances, much larger' fields than customary seem certain, and the meeting next week should prove a great success. There is a fair sprinkling of Trentham horses engaged, and the large percentage of the acceptors will no doubt be racing at Trentham next month.

The track work at Randwick continues interesting-, although the times cabled do not convoy a great deal. The distances covered vary according to the number of trestles placed to keep the horses on the outside of the track, and obviously the distances really galloped are. always considerably above those cabled. For instance, on a morning recently when the coin-so proper was open, tae distances actually covered were: Four furlongs (four furlongs 83 feet), five iurlongs (five furlongs 126 feet), six furlongs (six furlongs 166 feet), seven furlongs (seven furlongs 166 feet), ono mile (one mile 196 feet), nine furlongs (nine furlongs 231 feet), ten furlongs (ten furlongs 264 feet). This may explain .to some writers and other sporting folk why brilliant horses do not appear toregistor extraordinary fast times on the ttaek at Kandvvick, and yet are credited with really good ' performances by the critics on the spot. Tho brief cable to-day concerning the result of the Newbury Autumn Cup and tl.e disqualification of Brisl shows that tha stewards of the Jockey Club in England will nrt tolerato anything in the nature of fou; riding. Tljw is one section of racing control where the Old Land is in front of our boasted colonial enterprise. ■ i

Dinpnson, who received the winner's end of the stake in the Newbury Autumn Cup consequent on the disqualification of Brial, was running in Maiden Plates at minor meetings early in the season, and with indifferent success. Norseman, who was awarded second place, is apparently another of tho Roi llerode breed who has prete.nsions to slaying. The cablegram giving the result of Jipinard s second race would suggest that the programme has been altered for according to the exchanges Saturday's race was to have been decided over a mile course, whereas the time cabled suggests that the mile and a quarter event was run on Saturday. Ihe only other way out of the puzzle seeing that there is no mention of rain, is that the time was simply cabled 136 2-5, which could be read, lmiu 36 2-seec for a mile, or 2min 16 2-sseo for a mile and a quarter. The race seems to have' been a gruelling ono. with all the luck against the French champion. Concerning Ladkin, an exchange states:—"Mr. August Belmont one of the pillars of tho American Turf' has ii, good thrce-yeur-old in Ladkin, a son of Fair Play, and Ordinance. Ladkin is a tremendously fast horse, but is not a good slayer, nor ran lie handle a wet track. Still, with conditions in his favour, ho may [jo hard to beat in the mile race." This seems to indicatestill further that the race on Saturday was over a mile.

On the second day a). Gcraldinc, after the Gladstone Handicap, V. Voiglit, rider of Heraldry, complained to tlio stewards that 0. Emerson, on Sun Up, had interfered with his mount soon after the start. The evidence was conflicting, and no action whs taken.' 0. Emerson rodo eight winners at Ashburton and Geraldine, four at each fixture. Songbird lias suffered no ill effects from hia two hard races at Ashburlon1, and he may be given another run at Kurow, after which he is booked for Wingatui and J.hen for Ificcarton. writes "Argus." The Kifbroney horse thrives on plenty of racing, so that if he goes on all right he should be ready to show his best form over seven furlongs and a. mile at the Canterbury Jockey Club's Meeting in November. Moorland lost a lot of "admirers by his poor showing on tho first day at Ashburton. He ran much better next day. and improved still further in each outing at Geraldine, where he won twice. ! His effort on Friday was easily his best, as he beat Los Ambus and The Harp much more easily than on the previous | day, though he was meeting them at a great disadvantage in weight. Prosperity scored a very comfortable win in tho concluding event at Geraldine. j He was not well placed early, having started wide out, but he was one nf the front lot three furlongs from home and from that point he had the race well in hand. Prosperity was a good two-year-old, who subsequently lost form, ' but he is now racing very consistently, and further successes can"be looked for before the season is much older. Happy Warrior has incurred a pen- ' ally of 7lh in (.he Kuviiw Handicap, and Shnndrj- has earned 711 > rxlra in the Publicana' Uiuuluap ,-it Ihr simir uu-d,-

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