GLOAMING'S DEBUT

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 61, 9 September 1937, Page 13

GLOAMING'S DEBUT

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SYDNEY TATT'S HISTORY.

The spring campaign in Australia will be continued on Saturday, with the Tattersall's Club's Meeting in Sydney and the Moonee Valley Club's Meeting in the Melbourne metropolitan area. Again the direct New Zealand representation will not be strong, but most of the cracks of the Commonwealth will be seen in action. The A.J.C. Spring Meeting, with the Epsom, Metropolitan, and Derby, opens three Saturdays later. j Sydney Tatt's is an important link j in the spring chain, with only the ■ Rosehill Meeting remaining afterwards as a metropolitan prelude in New South Wales for the racing at Randwick opening on October 2. Tatt's is the only pre-Randwick fixture carrying a £1000 stake, the prize that is attached to the Chelmsford Stakes, run at w.f.a. with" penalties and allowances over nine furlongs. The two main handicaps, the Tramway Handicap, 7 furlongs, and the Spring Handicap, 1J miles, are each endowed with a £500 stake. CHELMSFORD VICTORIES. In past years New Zealand horses have had good measure of success at Tatt's Meeting, , particularly in the Chelmsford Stakes, the Spring Handicap, and the Welter Handicap. The Only New Zealand horse to have won the Tramway Handicap was Ceremony in 1929, Cimabue running second that year, after having finished third the previous year. Two years ago Gay Blonde was third inthe Tramway, won by the Queenslander Lough Neagh, but last year Cuddle, Silver Streak, Sporting Blood, and Gay Blonde were all unplaced, the victor being the.Heroic horse The Marne. The Chelmsford Stakes has considerable interei'. to the Dominion because of previous achievements in that w.fta. event. Back in 1918 Gloaming, as a three-year-old, made his debut in th s race, and, with the full allowance as a maiden, he cantered home eight lengths ahead of the favourite, Rebus. He had disclosed his promise on the track, however, and he was sent out second favourite. Gloaming incidentally won the A.J.C. Derby at his next start, and then the: W.R.C. Champion Plate and the New Zealand Derby, but he was beaten by Sasanof in the G. G. Stead Memorial Stakes at his fifth start. That first season he won thirteen races in sixteen starts, his other defeats being at the hands of Desert Gold in the Taranaki Stakes, and then in the North Island Challenge Stakes at Trentham, when he was caught in the tapes and fell at the start. Although. Gloaming made so successful a debut in the Chelmsford Stakes, the race saw him twice defeated in two subsequent attempts on the prize. In 1922 he was beaten a length by Beauford, on whom he turned the tables at their next meeting in the Hill Stakes at Rosehill. Two years later, then nine years old and in his last season, he was easily defeated by Heroic, then a three-year-old, and he never had an opportunity of avenging that defeat. RAPINE AND LIMERICK. In 1923, the year between Gloaming's two defeats, another New Zealander in Rapine, then a four-year-old, won the Chelmsford narrowly from that good horse David. Three years later Rapine was third in the race, when Limerick recorded the first of his three successive Chelmsford wins. Limerick was a three-year-old that year, and he was having his third start and first win for the term, easily beating the favourite, Windbag, who had won the previous year. In his second success Limerick beat another New Zealander in Merry Mint, and' his- third win was over Winalot. Limerick thus had the honour of winning the three Chelmsford Stakes he contested, and no other horse has ever won the race three times. Rogilla was twice successful in 1933 and 1934, beating Peter Pan on the second occasion. The only Dominion-owned horse to win the Chelmsford since Limerick's sequence, was Game Carrington. as a three-year-old in 1932. But Dominionbred horses in Phar Lap as a four-year-old and Ammon Ra as a three-year-old were successful the two preceding years, and last year's winner was Gold Rod as a three-year-old from two New Zealand-owned colts of the same age, Mala and Custos. Phar Lap was beaten by the flying Mollison as a three-year-old, and when he won the race the following year he had Nightmarch next behind him. HANDICAP WINNERS. With nine successes since 1918 New Zealand-bred horses have a particularly fine record in the Chelmsford. The record iri the Spring Handicap JS not numerically so good with four wins but the successes have all been achieved in the' last eight years. . In 1929 Nightmarch won the Spring Handicap from Paquito, with Tidal dead-heating for third. The next year Paquito went the necessary point, better; and Gay Crest was second. Those were both good years for the Dominion, as in 1929 Ceremony .won the Tramway and- First Acre the Welter Handicap; and in 1930 Phar Lap and Nightmarch.were first and second respectively in the Chelmsford and Sargon and First Sight were first and third respectively in the Welter Han*A third placing was registered by First Acre in the 1931 Spring Handicap, and the next year Mana Whenua, after having run third in a division of the Tramway Handicap earlier in the day, the racing being postponed from the Saturday-to the Monday on account of rain, came out again and won the Spring Handicap from .Historic. In (hat year Game Carrington won his Chelmsford, and Gold .Mag completed the day's proceedings by scoring in the Welter Handicap. Three years ago Waikare, who was to go on and win the Metropolitan, ran second to Oro in the Spring Handicap, with Journal (subsequently second in the Metropolitan) third. Two years ago the Dominion had a further success in the race when Sporting Blood trounced a useful field that contained (unplaced) the subsequent Metopolitan winner Oro. Last year Golden Treasure ran third for the Dominion to Satmoth and Wykeham. Golden Treasure's older full-brotther Golden Chance won the succeeding event, the Welter Handicap, with On PaThe e Dtominion will have fairly wide representation on Saturday with horses who were bred here. In the Chelmsford are Mala, Gay Blonde, Birthday Boy, and Lynch Law; m the Spring Handicap Latharna, Golden Chance, and Viceroy; in the Tramway Handicap, Gold Rod, Golden Treasury Golden Chance, Gay Blonde, and Brown Betty; and in other events Hands up, Riposte, Only One, and Aero King. At Moonee Valley, where the Moonee Valley Stakes, £1010, for three-year-olds, 1 mile, is the main item, the Dominion has only minor represent*■sm^ ™vfo^lit eri n-use Yaringa, Greenhorn, .SunnyISorn, and others now. owned m Australia At last year's meeting New Zealand failed to secure a successvbut Gay Circle and Cape Race were in