HERE AND THERE

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 133, 3 December 1930, Page 8

HERE AND THERE

This Week's Racing. The only race meetings for the remainder of this week are the fixtures of the Taumarunui' and Ashburton Clubs. The former is on Friday and Saturday, and the latter on Saturday. Singleton is Sold. ' "Singleton has been sold by Mr. D. J. Barry to Mr. A. Harris. Singleton was a good performer-on the flat, and he has recently been schooled over hurdles, showing great aptitude for this branch of the game. In Trainer's Colours. * H. Brown, who until «recently trained his team at Trentham, but is now settled at Otaki, has purchased Mr. W. Green's interest in Limousin, who will henceforth run in the colours of his trainer. For Auckland Meeting. The Hawkes Bay trainer, W. M'Kinnon, will take Toxeuma and Pakitere to ■Ellerslie for the holiday -racing, the Wanganui trainer, W. H. Dwyer, will take Paratoo and IJnollmere, and the Hawera tjainer, J. Brown, will probably take Silvermine and Awaken. Out of Action. The Hawera trainer, J. Fryer, has had' the bad luck in the past fortnight to lose the services through lameness of his three handicap horses, Bright Glow, Mendip, and Orazone. Orazone may recover in time to race at New Plymouth and Stratford, but it is unlikely' that either of the other pair will take their place in fields over the holidays. Auckland Cup Weights. With 9.13 for the Auckland Cup, Nightmarch has not been badly treated, but the task of winning in such ,a field looks beyond him. Last year he was weighted 'at 9.10, but was immediately scratched. In last year's list Star Stranger, who finished second to Concentrate, .had 8.12, one pound less than he has this year, and lie meets Nightmarch at 91b better terms than in the last New Zealand Cup. Concentrate is on the same mark as Star Stranger, and meets Nightmarch at 41b better terms than in the New Zealand Cup. In the Shade, at 61b better terms with Nightmarch than in the New Zealand is very favourably handicapped, ariS at a casual glance he would appear to be the pick of the weights. Perhaps Star Stranger is as handily placed as any of the others. High-weighted Winners. There. have been few winners of , the Auckland Cup with nine stone or over. Nelson, winner in three successive years, carried 9.8 when he scored his second victory in 1886 and 9.12 in the following year. That stands as the record weight-carry-ing feat for the race. Wairaki won with 9.8- in 1903, All Red with 9.1 in 1909, and Rapine with 9.8 in 1925. No other horse has "succeeded with nine stone or over. Nightmarch will therefore have to create a record to win, and at the present stage the Vote is against his doing so. In Friday's Hurdles. 5 Sea Cob, who showed ability over hurdles when he made his appearance as a jumper in the Trial Hurdles, one mile and three-quarters, at the Auckland Spring Meeting, is an acceptor in the hurdles at Taumarunui. In the Auckland race he finished a good second to Claremore, and if started on he should prove very hard to beat. • Returning to Form.,, v Mosque, who ran seeSnd to Royal Doulton in the St. Andrew's Handicap atTakapuna on Monday, appears to be returning to his best form, and he will need to be given full consideration in the Taumarunui Cup on Friday. A couple of seasons ago Mosque wdl a most useful performer. He was very unlucky in not winning the Rotorua Cup, but he subsequently accounted for the Te Aroha Cup in good style. Prior to the Takapuna Meeting he showed promise in his races at dshe Waikato Spring Meeting. Cruachan's Prospects. * Another candidate in* the Taumarunui Cup who will have a good following is Cruachan, who ran two good races at the recent Waikato Meeting, winning thi Taupiri Hack Handicap, one mile, on the first day, and the Waikato Hack Cup, of similar distance, on the second day. He finished well in both of them, and on. those performances he should have little difficulty in seeing out a further distance. Freely Engaged. Prince, who has been accepted in three races at Taumarunui, won the Matiere Handicap on that course in May last, but since then his only performance of note was his second to Chromadyne in the Carbine Plate at the Auckland Winter Meeting. Snow Prince goes well in any sort of ground and as a result of his recent racing at the Waikato Meeting should show improved form at Taumarunui. . . , Sir Kay's Next. Sir Kay, who is engaged at the Taumarunui Meeting, has so far failed to win a race since, being acquired by G. Paul. However, he has shown that he possesses abundance of speed, ■ and* finished second on three occasions last season, one of his best efforts being when he ran second to Marble King at the Waipa Meeting in June last. Sir Kay has been going along the right way at Te ■Awamutu recently, and if he is in anything like the form he showed last season he should be hard to beat in his engagements at Taumarunui, providing the going is firm. Australian-bred Pair. Hampton Park and Puriri P%k, two Australian-bred three-year-olds, are doing well in their preparation 'at Ellelslie. Puriri Park has not yet raced, but he displays plenty of speed in his work and looks like developing into a good proposition later on. Hampton Park won a two-year-old race at Takapuna last season, but he has not sported silk this season. They should both be ready to race in the Tiolidays. About Fortune's Wheel. Fortune's Wheel, the elder sister to Phar Lap, who has joined Mrs. J. Campbell's team at Riccarton, is being restricted at present to easy exercise. She was a disappointment; when trained earlier, but she has since had a foal by Polazel, now a yearling, and it is hoped she will now show improved racing form. • Compris is Fit. The Kilbroney gelding, Compris, who was among the winners at the recent New Zealand Cup Meeting, has been kept in quiet Work at Riccarton during the last week or two, and he is in excellent health to tackle holiday engagements. His owner (Mr. P.F. Campbell) has not made definite arrangements yet. He had an idea of coming north foil the Manawatu and Marton Meetings, but tne Dunediri, Wyndham, and Southland circuit may eventually be decided on. Seatown's Programme. ■ Seatown is engaged at the Auckland Sjimmer Meeting, andtshfis also been entered for the Te Awanftitti Cup, to bo decided next Saturday week. Last season Seatown was accepted" for in both the Auckland and Manawatu Cups. It was infended to take him to Ellerslicwfor the Auckland Cup, but the ship in which hr was sent from New Plymouth to Oiicliiin;r:i was bar-bound, and he was returned to!

Manawatu, and won the Cup there. He afterwards visited Auckland for the concluding days of the meeting, but he finished out of a place in the Summer Cup and the Grandstand Handicap. Seatown's owner apparently intends to make an earlier trip north this season. ' Ashburton's Main Race. Although the Tinwald Handicap, the chief event at Ashburton on Saturday, has attracted only three nominations, it should be an interesting race. The Riccarton candidate, Beau Geste, will be strongly fancied, but High Court, though a disappointment so far, since he went south, is about due for improved form. Glenrowan has raced well up to a mite, and his recent running showed that he was nearing his best again. Division Was Correct. * The division in the Aorangi Trial Plate at Feilding on Saturday was correctly made. A special interpretation of Part o', .Rule 14, of the Rules of Racing made by the conference states that when brackets are "created on account of insufficient accommodation on the totalisator they shall not be disturbed when making the allotment for the divisions." Futurist and Black Plane were therefore rightly included in the same division. Had the pair run in a common interest, they would have had to be placed in different divisions and would not have been bracketed on the machine. A Brief Respite. The A.J.C. and Victoria St. Leger colts, Balloon King and Veilmond, are resting preparatory to being trained for their airlum* engagements. Balloon King may come back into work this month. There is nothing in a report that Veilmoud is to be gelded. Looking Ahead. 1 "It's looking -a long way ahead/ said 1 a Sydney sportsman after the recent V.R.C. Meeting, "but I think I saw two Derby possibilities at Flemington. They were Stephen and Bold Bid. Stephen may not prove another Phar Lap, but I think he will make a high-class horse." L. Robertson, the trainer of,- Stephen, nlso trained Strcphon'before he went to England. Fast Two-year-old Mile. In America early this season Equipoise was (lie outstanding two-year-old, but later he went under to Jamestown, and now another superior to him has been discovered in a colt named Twenty Grand. They met in the Junior Champion Stakes, one mile, at Aqueduct (New York), and Twenty Grand, in receipt of lllb, beat Equipoise by a length. Excuses were made for Equipoise,, but Twenty Grand again 'beat him, this time at level weights, in the mile Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes, a fortnight later. Equipoise lost only by a head; and the time was lmin 36sec, remarkable figures for two-year-olds carrying 8.10. Twenty Grand, who is owned by Mr.?l Payne .Whitney, is by St. Germans from All Gold, a Persimmon mare. Some Big Earners. A first-class two-year-old can earn a lot of stake-money in""America. The added money for some races is high, but, as in England, owners' forfeits and sweepstakes account for the value of several of the most important stakes. Jamestown, with 145,925 dol. (£29,185), was an easy first up to 18th October, and other youngsters credited with over £3000 this season were us under:—Equipoise, by Pennant, £18,295; Epithet, by Epinard, £11,140; Vander Pool, by Olambala, £7423; Twenty Grand, by St. Germans, £7036; Siskin, by Badajoz, £5322; Baby Kenny, by Black Servant, £5210; Insco, by Sir Gallahad 111., £4680; Don Leon, by Lee O. Cotner, £4641; Betty Derr, by Sir Gallahad 111., £4482; Risque, by Stimulus, £3880; Blind Lane, by Blind Play, £3323; Tarpaulin, by Supremus, £3240; Black Log, by Bunting, £3234. There were many winners of over £1000 and less than £3000. Odds and Ends. Nominations for all events at the Manawatu Racing Club's Summer Meeting close at 9 p.m. on Friday, when forfeits for the Palmerston North Stakes are also due. Acceptances for the first day of the Woodville District Jockey Club's Summer Meeting close at 9 p.m. on Friday. Nominations for the minor events of the Auckland Racing Club's Summer Meeting close at 5 p.m. on Friday, when forfeits are also due for the Great Northern Foal Stakes, Great Northern Derby, and Royal Stakes. - Nominations for the South Wairarapa Trotting Club's Annual Meeting, to be held on 26th and 27th December, close with the secretary, Greytown, at 8 o'clock this evening. The Wellington sportsman, Mr. (C. Boyle, who had an unsuccessful trip to Melbourne and Sydney with Conjurer 11., Rational 11., and Rasouli, returned home by the Maunganui on Monday. After an absence of ten months from • New Zealand, the North Island jockey, N» C. Trillo, returned from Australia by the Maheno last week, and is at present in Invercargill. If' sufficient inducement is forthcoming, he will remain there for some time. The Invercargill jockey, L. J. Cotton, has left F. W. Ellis's stable for a position at Greenmeadows. R. Reed will be riding at Ashburton on Saturday. True Shaft and Knockany tire a pair he will be associated with, and he is not likely to lack opportunities in other events. [