JOTTINGS IN GENERAL

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 15, 19 January 1933, Page 6

JOTTINGS IN GENERAL

The Wellington Racing Club's Meeting will be continued on Saturday, and will be concluded on Monday (Anniversary Day). The. Tasmanian Derby, run on Bosing Day, and won by Highbroney (High Art —Lahineh), was worth only £100, plus n 'sweepstake of £10 for starters, to the ■winner. It' attracted three starters, and the winner was a hot odds-on chance. The main item at Trentham on Saturday is the Wellington Racing Club Hanldicap, run over eleven. furlongs and carrying a stake of 400 sots. The January Handicap, one mile, and, the Metropolitan Handicap, six furlongs, are other ©pen events. Another event of interest at Trentham on Saturday will be the Douro Cup, the ; most valuable hack prize to be won in 'the Dominion. Until recent years its Tvinhing alone removed a horse from hack class, but with reduced stakes this js not the case now, though most of Saturday's prospective field would cease to .be in Lack clasa if they wefe to succeed. A Sydney paper has hit on a new- way of discovering the result of betting operations. "Punters," it observed recently, '"must have had-a bad day, for 127 tramcars went out to Randwick, and after the races an additional 37 cars were required, presumably to bring back those who travelled to the . course in taxis." Paganelli was given a brief let-up following his successful trip to Manawatu and Stratford, but he is now back in work again, states aTe Rapa report. He is looking particularly well and has evidently thrived on his recent racing. Ilia next appearance will probably be at the Takapuna Meeting, and he should more than hold his own; Billy Boy, winner of the last Wellington and Grand National Steeplechases, will remain m New Zealand until after the Great Northern Meeting, then he will go to Melbourne for the Victorian jumping season. There was a suggestion that lie would be a candidate for the big jumping prizes in South- Australia, but i that, programme has been revised. .' jAi^iEnglisli /jisitor,. 46 Australia; jvtxj

I regards Shakuni, Kuvera's full brother, as a fine advertisement for Brazen, is the Hon. Hugh Lygon, who takes an active interest in Turf matters in England. Recently he remarked that Shakuni was one of the finest type of gallopers he had seen in Australia, and added that he compared very favourably with any of the two-year-olds he saw in the Old Country last season.

Two other New Zealand horses ' who willprobably be sent across to Sydney for the big autumn handicaps are.Jaloux and Azalea, who have been nominated for the Sydney Cup and Doncaster respectively ■Mhey progress .satisfactorily they are delmitely to make the trip; and they will go m charge of P. V. Mason, their trainer Mason owns Azaleal and he trains Jaloux for -Mr..P. F. Campbell, who' formerly owned Compris. In piloting 182 winners for the Season recently closed, Johnny Gilbert (Kansas) and Hank Mills (Colorado) tied for the years, riding honours on the American -Lurt. filbert scored the necessary win on the final racing day to enable him to make the honours square with his rival In England Gordon Kichards scored 190 wins for the season, and that broke all records for the century