HERE AND THERE

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 71, 25 March 1931, Page 6

HERE AND THERE

This Week's Racing.

Racing for the remainder of the week will be at Opotiki (to-morrow) and at Westport and Otautau' on Saturday. There will also be trotting at Hutt Park on Saturday.

Special Meeting.

The Waikato Racing Club has been granted permission to hold a special earthquake benefit meeting, and the dates, 13th and 15th June, have been approved. The meeting will be run as a winter fixture, with hurdlers and steeplechasers well catered for. .

No Dates Yet.

The Waikato Trotting Club, which will hold its Autumn Meeting on 16th May, has lodßpd an objection against the Kotorua Racing Club's holding its Earthquake Relief Meeting on lath and 16th May, and the objection has been upheld. There was gome idea that the Rotorua Club might apply for 29th and 30th May instead, but owing to the closeness of these dates to

the Auckland Slicing Club's Winter Meeting they also are not likely to bo persevered with, lv the meantime it is uncertain when the meeting will "be held. Gold Pit Goos South. Gold Pit, the two-year-old filly by Cockpit from the Gold Keel' mare Gold Bound, dam also of Demagogue, Duo, and Ilka, has been acquired by the Christchureh sportsman, Mr. P. C. Webb, and she raced in his colours at Awapuni on Monday. Gold .Pit will in future be trained at Riccarton by 11. Donovan, who lias charge of Mr. Webb's other horses. Team to bo Split. Horses carrying Mr. W. .1!. Kemball's colours are to race at Kllerslic, Tauheretiiksm, and Feilding at Easter. G. Jones will take Lady Pam, Spear Lad, and Cape Gold to the Auckland Meeting, leaving on Monday. W. Hawthorne will go to Feilding with Hymgreat, White Squall, and Thermopylae, and another section comprising Pat's Boy, Movietone, and Foghorn will do the Wairarapa Meeting. Lincolnshire Handicap. The first big event of the English flat racing season, the Lincolnshire Handicap, one mile, was run to-day at Lincoln. At the acceptance 42 horses still remained in the race, and the field was almost certain to have been a large one. The top-weights, Slipper 9.6 and Leonidas 11. 8.13, last year's winner,, were both French horses. Fancied candidates at latest advice included Slipper, Lion Hearted 8.10, Osiris 8.5, Eyes Front 7.13, Rattliii the Reefer 7.12, Cat o' Nine Tails 7.5, Sargasso 7.5, and Advancer 7.0. For Wairarapa. Sir Charles Clifford has arranged to race Straightcourse ami Winsome Hind at the Wairarapa Racing Club's Meeting, to be held on Easter Saturday and Easter Monday. It is (he intention of Sir Charles to go north for the first day's racing, and then to return to witness the Canterbury Jockey Club's Meeting. R. E. Coveny will do the riding on the first day at Wairarapa. About Cricket Bat. The Riccartun two-yc«.r-old, Cricket Bat, has not won a race yet, but he continues to give evidence of useful form. He stays on well, and his stamiua enabled him to secure second place in the Sires' Produce Stakes- at Awapuni on Saturday. With the benefit of his recent racing, he is likely to run prominently in the Champagne Stakes at Eiccarton next month. It will not surprise if Cricket Bat is one of the best of next year's three-year-olds, and races such as the Derby should be within his reach. Winning Classics. Lady Quex has turned lier attention to the classics this season, and she has already had fair measure of success, for she has won the Feilding Stakes and both the Pahnerstoif North Stakes and the Manawatu Stakes. In addition she has been second to Karapoti in the Jackson Stakes (Wanganui) and Challenge Stakes (Trentham), and has won two open sprints. Her earnings now amount to £.5185, of which £2045 has been amassed this season, thus indicating how valuable a possession a good classic performer is. Her next appearance will be at the Auckland Easter Meeting. A Likely Candidate. Spoon has not been weighted out of the Great Easter Handicap with 7.13, and Riccartou track-watchers are prepared to see her make a creditable showing. She has been galloping very well since racing at. Motukarara, and last Saturday reeled off Eeven furlongs on the plough in good time for the state of the track, which had been watered before training operations commenced. One of Our Best. Cadland, after opening liis career sensationally with a wiu each day at the Otaki Spring Meeting eighteen months ago. did not fulfil the expectation of those victories at once, and, after another double at Otaki the following winter, did not win again till the Manawatu Summer Meeting, when he left hack ranks. Since then his progress in open company has been phenomenal, ami he must now be classed as one of the Dominion's foremost sprinters. His seven appearances in opeu class have resulted in five wins and two seconds, including victories at his last four starts. His stake earnings now total £18S5, of which. £1485 has been won this season. 'Got by Acre from Bellina, by Panraure from Bonheur, by Scatou Delaval from Charente, by Nordenfeldt, Cadland thus belongs to the same family as Nonette, one of the best horses of his day, and as he can go beyond sprint distances he should not be difficult to place in handicaps for some time yet. Killigrew is Well. Killigrew has trained on well, states a Greymouth report, and gives promise of turning out to be a proficient galloper. He is a good traveller, and in any race he contests at Westport should be worthy of consideration. Another .from''T. L. Bennett's stable fast coming to hand is the four-year-old mare Quinola. She will contest sprint races at Westport, and her turn may come after a few runs. Rina Mangu, Limoka, and Pound Note, other members of Bennett's team, have been turned out, Rina Mangu and Pound Note permanently and Limoka for the winter. Foaling Returns. Breeders who do not send in (heir foaling returns to the secretary of the Racing Conference, before the end of the present month risk having the return dropped from the Stud Book. Moreover, in view of possible sales to Australia or elsewhere out of the Dominion, breeders should be doubly -careful about seeing that. their returns are made, for a Certificate of Pedigree, necessary when a horse is being shipped, will not now be issued unless the foaling has duly been recorded at the conference office. No fee is chargeable for registering., a mare or returns in the ; Stud Book. . ■ . A Growing Team. . " The Riccarton-trained Sleipner was gelded last week, 'and will not be racing at Easter." His trainer, C. Emerson, is at present busy breaking in two fillies, the property of Messrs. A. H. and L. V\. Storry, who intend to race them on their own account after failing to sell them at the Trentham sales. One is by Robespierre from Lady Minerva (dam of Miss Minerva, Winkie's Best, and Minerval), and the other is by Weathervane from Grey Linnet (dam of Kildee, Songbird, Value, and Lady Egletine, dam of Green Linnet). Emerson still has Battle Queen in commission, but has sent the Last Dart —Boadicea two-year-old filly home for a spell until the spring. Big Taxes Paid. Ammon Ra will be an expensive horse by the time he arrives here, says the "Sydney Herald," which assumes that the figure at which he changed hands was 3500 guineas (£3675), for, apart from the inevitable shipping costs, the Governments by'legislation are in the way to receive a handsome present over the transaction. For the purposes of primage 10 per cent, is added to the declared value, and of the total 4 per cent, goes to the Government. In the case of Ammon Ra it amounts to £162. This figure is added to the.total, and for the purposes of the sales tax it is presumed that a profit of 20 per cent, will be made on a resale. Sales tax amounts to two and a

I half per cent, of the new total value, aud is £120 in the case mentioned. By this time Ammou Ka's price has risen from .£3(375 to Z'MS'A, of "which the Government receives £288. Favourite for Doncastcr. Waterline's victory in the Rawson Stakes at Sydney on Saturday over the two best three-year-olds in Australia emphasises the big improvement effected in the former New Zealander in the past few mouths. Since his defeat of Phar Lap at Kleniiiitfton, he has been the public; eliok-o for the Donc-asfer Handicap, of 2001) soys, one mile, to be decided at Kandwick on 4tli April,, aud his latest success will bring him into further favour. His weight in the Doncastcr, declared early in February, is 9st 21b, or jib over weight-for-age, and he is not liable to be rehaudicapped for his recent weight-for-age wins. Waterline ia also engaged with 8.11 in the Sydney Cup, two miles, to be run on Oth April. "Mr. S. A. Rawdon" also has Temoin in the Doncaster, weighted at 7.0, and it is possible that both will contest the event. During the past twenty years the Doncastcr lias been won on only one occasion by a horse carrying over 8.13. In the race of 1924 the five-year-old Whittier scored a victory under 9.5. Unusual Incidence. . An unusual instance of the working of the taxes was experienced by a New South Wales owner.recently. He had a brood mare in foal to an Australian sire, and wished to have her mated with a sire in New Zealand. She was sent across, and while in the Dominion dropped a colt. When she reached Sydney again it was found that primage aud sales tax was payable in respect' to the foal, but not so far as the mare was concerned. In this instance the owner had tj set a value on the foal for the purposes of the computation of the amount payable, and it is interesting to note that in this event the. Customs authorities reserve the right to buy the horse for' the amount stated Such a clause is sufficient deterrent for those who would be inclined to under value. Odds and Ends. Acceptances for the Auckland RaLing Club's Mooting close at 5 o'clock on Fuday evening, and for the AVairarapa, Peilding, and Waipukurau Clubs' Meetings on Monday. A special permit has been granted to the Waikato Trotting Club by the Minister of Internal Affairs (the' Hon. P A do la Perrelle) to hold a meeting ,it Claudelands on Saturday, 30th May. J. Brown will take Silvermine and Chief Link to Auckland for the Easter_ Meeting, and Awaken will race at Feilding R M'Tavish has been engaged to ride Si! vcrminc in the Easter Handicap. W. M'Kinnon will go to Eljerslie at Easter with Toxeuraa, Pewa, Pukitere, and Curie, all of whom were racing at Wellington and Manawatu. R. S. Bagby mil do the riding when the weights suit. Trentham trainer E. J. Murtagh con sidered the handicaps a-warded Habit and Arikintii at Kiverton satisfactory, and lett at the lyeek-end for the South. S. Wilson will probably go down to do the riding There were two errors in the teleguiph ed weights for the first day of the Wai rarapa Racing Club's Meeting. Kozan ha^ S.ll, not 8.1, in the Ferry Handicap, and in the Tuhitarata Handicap, The Sun has 7.11. not 7.12. L. Dulieu's next riding engagements are at the Westport and Keefton Meetings. Bich Harvest and Warn'He are included among his mounts at- these meetings! Advice from Duncdin states that. Mr. J. M. Samson intends placing all his horses in P. Trilford's stable, and will have them trained on the Washdyke racecourse. Most successful horseman at the receut Manawatu Meeting was E. Reed, who won twice each day, on Nightmarch and Wallaruh the h'rst clay, and on Knollinere and Lady Quex the second day. Tj. J. Ellis has often ridden at Manawatu Meetings, but until Monday he had failed to bring a winner home. No wond«:r Cessation was at such tiill odds! Coomassie is reported to be working well at Kumara, and will open his Easter campaign at Westport. Coomassie is a smart galloper, but is handicapped by bad barrier manners. Following up her success in the Marlborough- Cup, The' Dove has continued in the right direction, and should be worthy of consideration in Coast races, notes a Greymonth exchange. She will probably do better at sprint distances than beyond a mile, in spite of her Marlborough Cup victory. Two other horses who are working attractively at Omoto (West Coastl are Mataa and Baby Bun, and both are expected to win on the coming circuit. Mataa is a four-year-old mare by Arrowsmith from Lady Mildred, and she has not been extensively raced.