RACING FIXTURES

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 26, 30 July 1937, Page 13

RACING FIXTURES

July 31—Poverty Bay T.C. . . ' luly 31—Chrislcliurcti Hunt .. . (New Snason-.l August I— 'rovem' Bay Bunt: ' AuKusi 10. 12 14— Canterbury J.C. Ati2ust 21 —Patairanca Hunt. August 2,3—Otaeo Hunt. ~ . September i 4—Combined aunts (at New Plymouth.) ' September « II —Wflneanul J.C. September 18—Foxton R.G. September 18—AshhiVrton C.R.C. September IS, 20—Avondale J.C. September 23, 25—Geraldihe R.C. September 25—JIarton R.C. " October 2—Otakl Maori R.C. .October 2, 4—Tauroarunul R.C. (at Paeroa). October 7, 9—Dunedin J.C. October o—Hawke's Bay J.C. October 9. 11—Auckland.R-C-, . ' In Australia July 31—Moorefielt) R.C. July 31—lloonee Valley R.C. August 2—Victoria Park R.C. August 4—Kensington B.C. August 7—Rosehlll R.C. • AiiRUSt T, 14—V.a:t.C. tn England. August 25—Ebnr Handicap.' ... August 2li—Gimcrack Stakes. ■ : - September "—Great Yorkshire Handicap. SeiiinmniT » -Si i.oscr 'Stakes. September 10—Doncaster Cup. TROTTING FIXTURES. New Season. August 1. 11, 13—N.2. Metropolitan T.C. Aiujusl 28—Auckland T.C. September 4— New Brighton X.C. September 11 —Wellington T.C.-- -

double, being defeated in the last stride in the Winter Cup by the bis outsider Mount Boa, who paid well over half a century.. Martian Chief was third that year in both races. When Princess Doreen won the- Cud the following year the success was an even bigger surprise than Mount Boas. Cor she had previously, when .well fancied, run most disappointingly in the Brabazon. ■ The rule prior.to Toxeuma's year seemed to be for the Brabazon winner to finish second or. nowhere in t.h.2 Cup. Boadicea- (1923), Broadwood (1924), and Sun Up (1925) all finished second in the Cup after winning the Brabazon, then called the Brabazon Welter. In' the next year (1926) Le Choucas reversed the order by winning the Cup after having been beaten by Centrepiece in the Brabazon. Polydora, as already noted, was another Brabazon winner to be second in. the Cup. LONGBEACH AND HOMEBX. The only winner of the Longbeach ■Hurdles (formerly Open • Hurdles) prior to Jolly Beggar to go on to success in the Grand National Hurdles was Lochson, back in 1924. . In that year Santiago was second in both races, so form worked out to perfection. In 1934 the Grand National winner (Huntique) was not seen in action in the Longbeach, and other National winners who did not compete in the Longbeach the same year were Carinthia, Mangani, Nukumai, Wharncliffe. and.' Comical. Hounslow won the Grand National after' failing to fill a place in the Longbeach, and, so did Penury Rose. This year's Longbeach winner is likely to be a horse who is to take his place in the National field. The Homeby Steeplechase has not previously figured in. the Hunt programme since the meeting was restored in 1933, so that it makes a most welcome return this year. Every one of tomorrow's field of ten are Grand National Steeplechase candidates, which illustrates the value of this race. ,rrcm the viewpoint of the public. No Homeby winner has yet gone on to score in the same year in'the Grand National, but the Homeby field has never been so representative as it is this year. The double victory looks quite a reasonable possibility this year. No penalty is earned for success in this event. Nor, for all that, may the winner of either the Brabazon or Longbeach be penalised in the later C.J.C. events.

The last Homeby Steeplechase (XWi^ was won by Radiac, who was not in the Grand National field but won. th.2 shorter Enfield Steeplechase, on National Day. Aurora Borealis, the 1930 National winner, did not compete in the Homeby, nor did Cbrneroli: or Omeo, the minor place-fillers behind Aurora Borealis. .' The preceding year Lord Ronald, the early National favourite, won the Homeby, but broke down and could not start in the National. Wiltshire, winner of the Grand National that year and the previous year, did not race at the Hunt Meeting, nor did Beau Cavalier. Peter Maxwel, Tuki, Studee, or Oakleigh. Passin' Through won the Homeby Steeplechase twice, in 19.24 and 1928, and he was second to Erie in 1925, but he failed to reproduce the form in the National