TROTTING FIXTURES

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 123, 27 May 1930, Page 6

TROTTING FIXTURES

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Racing This Week. The early start made by the Dunedin Jockey Club' for its steeplechase meeting was rather overlooked when'stating that the current week would be a quiet one. As a matter of fact, the Dunedin Meeting is'to be opened on Saturday and the Canterbury Park Trotting Club is-also due to commence its meeting on that day. ■ Otaki Acceptances. ' : j ' Although the Otaki Maori Racing Club is ,up against a strong counter-attraction on Tuesday i-i the shape of a Rugby match iv Wellington,' those who patronise the meeting in preference should be rewarded by some excellent racing. The fields all through are good, for the best of the horses entered in the main survived the acceptances. Merry Damon, for all his 30.1, will take some beating in the Raukawa Cup. Admiral iDrako, with a change of horsemen, might be the next best, and Full Mark, a likely lightweight. Backers are not likely to go past Laughing Prince in .the Huia Handicap, with Ridgeniount the next best. In connection with, this meeting the Railway Department is granting special j excursion tickets to Otaki on, 3rd and 4th, j June. On 3rd June trains leave 'Wellington at 8.8, 8.20, and 8.45 a.m., arriv- I ing Otaki at 10.12/10.25, and 10.49 a.m. Re- ] turn trains leave Otaki at 4.30, 5.0, and 5.17 p.m., and arrive Wellington af 6.15,; 6.50, and 7.13 p.m. On 4th June trains leave Wellington at 8.20 ancl 8.45 a.m. Return trains leave Otaki at 4.40 and 5.17 p.m. How: Flying. Prince Won. ,■ ■ \ Flying- Prince scored a good win in the President's Handicap, at Taumarunui, which resolved itself into a duel between the winner and Tinakoa. This was Flying Prince's first success since he won the Dunedin Handicap, six furlongs, at the Pakuranga Hunt Meeting last August, but in the meantime he ran third in the Great Northern' Derby. He likes the going soft. Flying Prince^and Tinakoa singled themselves out from the start, and passing the stand Flying Juliet was next, Tinakoa went out in front along the back, with Flying Prince handy, and the two were a good half-dozen lengths clear from Thursby who ran past Flying Juliet. Flying Prince headed Tinakoa turning into the straight and came on to beat him home by one length and a half, with Thursby two and a half lengths away third. Transformer was fourth, with Flying Juliet a bad last. Flying Prince returned a good price tor a five-horse race. His rider, H. Buchanan, who is apprenticed to F. E. Loomb, scored his first win. He brought his mount home in good style. This ■•distance', was . too tar for Tinakoa, while Flying Juliet, who carried 121b overweight to secure H. Gray s services, was never in the picture, fane has generally run her best races on /a hard' track,- and seeing that she was carlying so much overweight backers made a bad error in sending her out favourite. Thursby, who was second favourite, ran a fair race to get third. His Unlucky Day. . . ;. H. Gray was not a, .profitable rider., to follow at Taumarnui. He had six mounts, four of which were favourites,, and only one, Prince Val, second, paid a dividend. An unusual happening was that he was twice left at the post, on Silver Division in the Maiden Handicap, and on On Top in the Matiere Hack Handcap. Silver .Division drew the rails: and was cut out, and On Top, who was playing up, refused to face the barrier. Country-Trained Horses Succeed. Te Awamutu-trained horses had a run of successes at Taumarunui on Saturday, when Pukerimu (F, ■E. Loomb), Royal Visitor (A. Cook), and Flying Prince, (F. E. Loomb) won the first three races, and Hose Lupin (H. L. Russell) scored later in the day. • The other winners all came from country stables, Valreina (R. H. Martin) and The Jack Jumper (Mrs. M. E. Lark), winning two for Matamata, Ruling Chief and Mosque, both trained by A. Tinker, two for Te Rapa; and Snow Prince i"N. J.'Prenter), one for Paeroa. vCanterbury Jockey Club' Criticism. There still persists some peculiar, antipathy to the Canterbury Jockey Club, a body that provides possibly the best training facilities in the Dominion and caters for the public in the cheap enclosure better than any other club in the Dominion. Years ago the C.J.C. earned a reputation rightly or wrongly as an autocratic body, "but owners and trainers have changed their minds very considerably of late years, and in comparison one or two North Island clubs come in for much stronger criticism. That the racing at Ricearton is conducted on the. top plane in comparison is also beyond argument. -There is also one other matter in which the C.J.C. officials set an .example which is worthy and is not generally known. 'Whereas most clubs entertain at the expense of the club, or out of the public money, of which the clubs are only the trustees, the lticearto'n officials pay personally for their own entertainment and that of- their friends. Some clubs have earned a great reputation for generosity, but it is .easy to be generous out of the public purse and not out.of the personal pocket. . < ' ' . • Honiton in Trouble. • This week Mr. P. A. Swny's mare, Honiton,| came in contact with a wire fence, and sustained minor cuts that will necessitate her being placed on the easy list for at least a few days. Taumai, in the same sstable, is executing satisfactory •work, arid may be forward enough to compete at the Auckland Winter Meeting. .White Ringlet for Sydney. The proposal to take White Ringlet 'over to Australia for pony racing is under consideration, and the probability :is that the Some Boy 11. representative will-go over. She is quick leaving • the' barrier and possesses a nice dash of speed, so should do well on "the other side." The Totalisntor in Victoria. The Totalisator Bill had a few minpr amendments in. the Upper House in Melbourne, but generally it was altered materially. Amendments to rule out bookmakers after 1935, or to prevent any increase in their numbers after this year, and' to prohibit women from betting on tlie .totalisator, were lost. The Government's share'of the turnover was fixed at 5 per cent., as agaiust the 9 per cent., of the New South Wales Government, [t is suggested in well-informed circles .that if the "revenue does : not reach expectations, the bookmakers' betting ticket tax will be increased and also a much larger license fee will have to be paid. A Record Price. Australian racing folk were agreed that Phav Lap's return on the totalisator at Adelaide when he beat his solitary opponent, an aged mare Fruition in the1 .Elder Stakes, was the best bet of the year. The odds looked about 1000 to 1 on Phar Lap, for his opponent—a moderate —had to give him 91b! Yet Arikiwai nt Ashburton on Saturday started at a price that was very little better.