Turf Notes

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 15, 18 January 1930, Page 23

Turf Notes

By "Vedette"

Noxt Week. On Monday and Wednesday t.lio Wellington Meeting will be continued and concluded, Tuesday being Inkeu up with tho yearling sales. On Wednesday the Ashhurst-Pohan-gina Meeting 'will be disposed of. Nominations, for the Wnnganui Cup Meeting and first forfeits for tho Jackson Stakes arc due next Friday. Acceptances for the Pahiatua Meeting are ..due on Tuesday, and for the Takapuna Meeting on Friday. Second Day at Trentham. Monday's card at Trentham is an interesting one, with the Racing Club Handicap, of £1000, eleven furlongs, and that much-discussed race, the Douro Cup, the star turns. Most of tho likely Douro Cup horses will be seen out to-day in various events, and backers may get a good idea Of their form. This race occupied a unique position for some time in the Dominion, but ,aow it has several prototypes. However, there is only one Douro Cup, and owners of good hacks have their eye on the event some distance ahead. Some good horses have won this race, which has been the stepping stone to higher things. Cleaning Up Required. There is a growing opiuion in both the North Island and the South Island that the .control of racing is not so strict and, in.fact, not so capable as could be desired, says the "OtagO Daily Times." The most serious aspect of the matter consists in the fact that this unsatisfactory state of affairs has been fully recognised for some time, but those with power to make a change seem to be supine or satisfied to allow a continuation of control that is bringing the sport into disfavour. Such a slate of affairs is really intolerable, particularly when a remedy can be obtained without any great trouble or difficulty. Ellcrslie Jumpers. After a spell extending over a couple of. months Odin has resumed work at Ellcrslie undc^1 the direction of J. Williamson. He is big and healthy after his holiday, and in fine order to go ahead with a preparation.

With H. Dulieu in the saddle, Red Lion Tvas given a lesson over the pony hurdles at Ellerslie on Wednesday, when he gave a very satisfactory display for a beginner. When Red Lion returned from Sydney in the spring and ran a good second to Prince Val at Ellerslie, it was thought that he had improved slightly, and would at..least prove capable of winning a hack race. However, ho hns proved a failure in-the meantime, despite the fact that he lias been turned out in splendid condition by" M. Ryan, and it has been decided to give him a course of schooling in the hope that he might make a hurdler. Red Lion Tiasbeen costly to Messrs. J. C. and P. 5..; Oleeson, and has not proved worth 'anything like the 1000 guineas ho cost as. a. yearling. Advertising the Dominion. The outstanding three-year-old at the ( recent Perth Cup Meeting was the New rZealand-bred filly Pure Blend, by Tea ITray, states an exchange. She was b'eateu (■half a head in the Derby, of 2000 soys, run on the first day, was favourite and comfortably, -won the All Aged Stakes .(w.f.a.), of 500 soys, on the middle'day, and then ran second for the C. B. Cox Stakes, of 600 soys, one mile and a half . (w.f.a.), on the concluding day of the meeting. She beat the South Australian Derby winner Hot Spring in both the De.rby and. All Aged Stakes, and though beaten by Runabout in the C. B. Cox Stakes, she managed to head off the favourite Coolboro, which had won the Perth Cup at the meeting under x-cvicwv R. Syme's Team. ■R". Syme, who came into prominence as the trainer-rider of Wiltshire, with whom he gai*ad several successes, including dual Grand National Steeplechase honours, is now established in the role of a public trainer at Te Rapa, where he is getting together a useful string. In his stable are Gay Caballero; a three-year-gelding by Mountain Knight—Lady Betty, who ranks as a half-brother to Foreign Fancy; ■ a descendant of Archiestown, who is a half-brother to Glenstar; a three-year-old filly by General Latour and Bella, a five-year-old Day Comet gelding from a matron by Soult. An Interesting Youngster. By no means the least interesting of the yearlings to be offered at auction next Tuesday at Trentham is the brown colt bred by Mr. James Gleeson, of Auckland. The colt is by Moabite from Marriage Bell. The opportunity was taken of inspecting him at his owner's stud farm during the Auckland Cup Meeting, and it was well worth while. He is a solid brown, who has been obviously well done and looked after. He has a well set on head, with fine shoulders, and the general conformation of a good horse, with plenty of good bone and substance, and he should be a rare galloper. Indeed, ho is hard to fault, and he should please all those who inspect him. He comes from a great family, for Moabite is a beautifully bred horse by the Polymelus horse Phalaris. The colt is of most interest to New Zeala.nders because of bis dam, Marriage Bell, •who is a half-sister by Tea Tray to that extra good horse Amythas. Moabite has his first crop of two-year-olds out this season, and they are showing good form in- Australia. Wiltshire in Work Again. Wiltshire is being handled Bgain, P. M'Guire now being in charge of the horses Carrying the colours of Mr. T. Wilson. Wiltshire is being brought steadily forward with a view to the big events ahead in the jumping division. The Day Comet —Lady Lobelia gelding will be well up in the weights for cross-country racing of the future, and while he is quality and must be respected in this division, he has hurdling and highweight racing at which his 'prospects can be further exploited. As he is now only in his seventh year/ Wiltshire still has some seasons of usefulness ahead. Still Improving. Only for the luck of the early running being against him, Sir Russell would have made it oven more difficult for Taneriri than he did when ho ran that horse to a length in the Thames Plate, and lie should be one to keep in mind for future meetings. Sir Russell has been .steadily on the improve throughout the season, and it is quite on the cards that ho will display even better form in the next few months, as his powers have probably not yet reached full development. Up to the present Sir Russell has not won beyond a mile, but there is no mason why he should not get further, and lie may be a good prospect for one of the country cups in the Auckland Province. Southerner in the North. Mr. H. E. Bid-will's three-year-old Relation displayed plenty of speed in running.prominently for over six furlongs in, the mile hack events at the recent Summer Meeting at Ellerslie, and it. is more than likely that he will prove an early winner when lie has an opportunity of. racing over shorter distances. Relation has been nominated for a couple of seven-furlong events at the Takapuna MeetiDg, and will only require to reproduce the dash he showed in his latest outings to seriously trouble the opposition he is likely to meet at the suburban course. One thing that should always be in favour of Relation among the hack sprinters is his ability to begin very smartly. Gold Money. After notching three successive victories at the end of last season and running third at her first start this season, Gold Money trained off, and was sent out for a spell. The holiday proved very beneficial and when she made a reappearance among the sprinters on the final day of the recent Summer Meeting at Ellerslie she revealed all-her former brilliancy only to fail in the last half-furlong through lack of condition. That race and the work she will get in the meantime should see Gold Money close to concert pitch again when the Takapuna Meeting is at hand at the end of the month, and she should be an excellent prospect for the ,r, T ;-t •»<.*.« at that meeting.