EARNINGS OF TRENTHAM TEAMS

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 153, 26 December 1936, Page 6

EARNINGS OF TRENTHAM TEAMS

BRUi^Eim BEST EARLY WINNER IMB BEASON

A pro rata share of the increased stakes that have been provided, by racing clubs throughout the Dominion during the present season has not yet found its way to Trentham stables. Though there are now more horses in active commission than there were t twelve months ago, the winnings of horses trained at the centre for the portion of the term up to th c commencement of the holiday carnival are less than they were for the corresponding period last year. The distribution of the winnings, however, has been more even, and the outlook for the remaining section of the term is probably brighter than it was on the eve of the Christmas-New Year meetings last year. ■ The main reason for the decline in stake-earnings is the lean time that the "Brentwood Farm" team has been having during the past three months. 11l luck has dogged T. R. George, with many of his best horses going out of action just as they were nearing winning trim; but misfortunes always come to an end, and the stable promises to play a more prominent role during the remaining seven months of the racing year.

/ aggregate winnings. With £490 as the result of her two wins, a second, and a third in five "starts, the two-year-old Siegfried filly Brunhilde, in Reid's team, is the best winner so far this ■ term. Brunhilde is a clear leader among the | centre's horses, but several others have won over the £100 mark to date for the season while racing from Trentham. Second to Brunhilde is the three-year-old Siegfried gelding Siegmund j in McCauley's stable, who has gained £360 in stakes for her three wins. Then 1 follow: Boomerang (George), £285; Billy Boy (Lewis), £230; Rona Bay, (T. Yates), £270; Geitel (Lorigan), £250; Deficit (George), £240; Toper (Lorigan), £215; Cuddle (George), £210' Sunee (Lowe), £205; Liane (Simpson), £180; Cricket (George), £165; Shy (Lewis), £140; and Darecourt (George), £100. ■ It is to be noted that when Rona Bay scored her first win from Trentham she was in charge of her owner, ' Mr. O. Disley, who later handed her over to her present trainer. The prospects for the remainder ol the season, despite the fact that during the past week or two still other horses have become troubled with ailments, looks at present every bit as bright as it did twelve month ago. Though a number of George's older horses have been forced out of commission by ailments, the remainder of his brigade "are just coming into form, and there are also several promising lights among the younger and novice section. In other stables, too, horses are very well, and the opening of the big holiday carnival today would probably have seen some of ,the distinctions marked off for consignment to Trentham. • ■.'.'• ;■■■,•'

Both in number of wins and in J stakes earned Trentham has scored fewer points'this season to date than it did last year. It was Cuddle's New Zealand Cup twelve months ago that made the stake aggregate higher, but even without it the number of wins for the period would have still been, a point better than this year's. The centre nevertheless is not as a whole much worse off in its prize participation for the current term', due to the; measure of success achieved by the majority, of the stables.. • With over a third of the season go»e, T. R. George, the leading trainer of the last three years, has produced only five winners from his stable. But this figure after all does not place him in a greatly worse position than he was in at the same time last year; for then he had put only wins on the slate prior to Christmas, but • during the next seven months.he increased the tally to 52, which is the record for any season in the Dominion's Turf history. Should fortune now smile again on the establishment the half-century mark is still within the bounds of, possibility for the second successive 'season. Two years ago, when George first set up at Trentham, arriving from Blenheim in September, he had eight points in his score, by the eve of the holiday meeting, and he increased the total to 35 before the close of the season. He has a potentially- stronger team now, despite its troubles, than he had when he first took over the "Brentwood" stables. ■. : . . ; , , ~-■■ i STABLE WINNINGS. The centre's'wins to date this season are twenty, shared •by eleven stables. The following table shows the record and • winnings of the; stables up till-the eve of the holiday meetings:— •'■ ■ • ■ Stnkes. Trainer. Wins; Places. £ T. R. George 5 20 11S0 S. J. Held 1 2 490 H. B. Eorignn 2 7 470 R. W. A. Lewis 1 3 420 D. McCaulcy 3 5 ' 39.T J. W. Lowe 2 3 290 T. Yates : 1 ,1 380 ■ ~E. Simpson 1 1 180 O. Disley ;i'...>..•/..... 1 — 90 3. Kelson... ~ 11 flO J. Ayres ■ ...-. i. 1 - — SO Others — 3 25 Totals '....''. '..'..'.'.. 20 ■ :-><jfsV? V£3'S9O Last year for the same: period the centre, had .enjoyed •22 wins and 42 minor .plaeings for £4202,, which of course included Cuddle's New Zealand Cup, as well''as a single win gained by George's, team on its unlucky Sydney trip. In wins and plaeings, therefore, the centre has done relatively as well as it did last year; what has been lacking have been important successes. The, best'stake won this' season has been Deficit's Wanganui Guineas, worth £240. ; The Guineas is really the only notable race yet to come to Trentham this term. ... For the same period two years ago, the centre had won only £2458 for-17 wins aridl'27 minor but not only were prizes at' a low ebb then, but all the. principal Trentham establishments'had been closed during the preceding year,, and, George, had taken up quarters 'there only after the commencement of the season. As it was, George's newly-arrived team that was to grow so 'rapidly accounted ■ for half the total winnings. . ; An interesting feature of this years list is that it includes the -names of S. J. Reid and H. B. Lorigan, two trainers who were leaders several times for the centre a few seasons back. Lorigan went' across to Sydney for a couple of years, and returned last December. Reid was out of the game for two years, and resumed only at the beginning of the present season; but now shortly,he is to transfer to Hawke's Bay, so he will be lost again to Trentham. NO AUSTRALIAN MONEY. .No Australian winnings are included in this year's iist because 'ho Trentham horses were taken over to Sydney. Cuddle did a spring campaign in New South Wales and Victoria, but while she was away she was in charge of the Randwick trainer G. Price, and her winnings could not 'therefore be credited to Trentham. It is the first year for a decade that horses taken over to Australia by Trentham trainers have not figured in a table of the centre's early-season winnings. - In recent years the centre has usually had a horse that stands out from the others in its winnings, but this is not so this season. Two years ago the horse was the three-year-old Synagogue; and" last year of course it was Cuddle, who by this date had accounted for more than a third of the centre's