NOT IN BIG EVENTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 129, 27 November 1940, Page 14

NOT IN BIG EVENTS

AUCKLAND WINNERS

KINDERGARTEN AND CORNISH

' Neither of the handicap winners at Ellerslie over the weekend, Kindergarten or Cornish, is engaged in either the Auckland Cup or the Auckland Bacing Club Handicap, the two longer open races at the Auckland Racing Club's Summer Meeting. Kindergarten is in the Railway Handicap on the first day, the w.f.a. King's Plate on the second day, and the Nathans Memorial Handicap, H miles, and the w.f.a. Clifford Plate on the fourth day, while he will have the chance to nominate for minor open events on general entry day next Friday week. Cornish's only important engagements at the meeting are the Summer Cup on the second day and the Nathans Memorial on the fourth day, both over 1-& miles. Old BUl's Mission. Old Bill's particular mission last season was the Wellington Centennial Cup, and he succeeded, despite the fact that he had an exceptional three-year-old in Beau Vite to defeat. The brown horse's mission this season is the Auckland Cup. Old Bill has already had a couple of races this term, including his second to Lady Tinkle over a mile at Trentham last month, and he was taken to Levin last Saturday for a gallop between events. He ■wiU probably have another short race, possibly two, before going north, if not at Feilding then at Woodville, where he has been nominated for the first day's sprint. As the two steps in his final' preparation for the Wellington Cup last January he ran a creditable third iin the Flying Handicap at Feilding and won the Awapuni Handicap, 7 furlongs, at the Manawatu Summer Meeting. A real stayer can be fitted for a distance race on such a preparation. No Holiday Bacing. Serenata, winner of the New Zealand Cup, will not be raced over the Christmas and New Year holidays. According to her trainer, T. R. George, her next start will be in the Wellington Cup on January 16. Duncannon Indisposed. Duncannon, though still in work, has not been doing at all well lately. He was given a veterinary examination last week, but nothing could be found that would account for his indisposition. There is just the possibility that he was not quite ready for the effort he gave in winning the open sprint at the Wanganui Meeting in September first up after his spell. Sir Crusoe's Weights. Sir Crusoe, who was nominated for the second day's sprint at Levin on Monday, was given 9.7 and was not produced. The Levin handicapper, Mr. H» Coyle, discussing on Monday a recent article on the weighting of this horse, pointed out that it included a mistake in stating that Sir Crusoe and Not Out were required after their rehandicapping for the Stewards' to face each other at the same difference in weight as on the final day at Trentham last month, when Not Out won easily. Sir Crusoe had 41b less and Not Out 41b more, which was a difference of 81b to balance the Trentham form. To get this balance Sir Crusoe had to be lifted 71b near the top of the weights and Not Out only 41b near the bottom of the weights. And all the while Sir Beau, who was viewed by many good judges as next to unbeatable in the race (he ran second after drawing and racing out wide), could hot be penalised at all for his decisive win in the Wellington Guineas. Another Juvenile Winner. ; Panoni, winner of the Ruakura HancSicap at Te Rapa last week, gave a clue to her possibilities when she finished second to Cambria at Avondale in September. She is a brown daughter of Vaais and the Lucullus —Altercation mare Angry Words, whose previous progeny were of no account, and she is being r,aced by her breeder, Mr. B. Clarke, of Auckland, for whom she is trained at Te Rapa by J. F. Tutchen. The family as a whole has not been a great success in the Dominion, but Altercation may be remembered by some as a useful mare round about the Manawatu in the years shortly • after the last war. Holiday Nominations. Nominations for the Christmas and New Year holiday meetings will be taken during the coming fortnight. Next Tuesday entries are due not only for the Otaki Maori Racing Club's Meeting on December 14 but also for the Manawatu Racing Club's Meeting Bft December 21, 26, and 28. On Friday

week entries close for Auckland (minor events), Taranaki, and Dunedin, on the following Tuesday (December 10) for Stratford, and on the Wednesday for Wairarapa. The Marton Jockey Club, which usually takes its nominations late, has not yet published its New Year programme. Sale of Settlement. Settlement has been sold by Mr. N. H. Barlow to Mr. J. Smith, who raced the Nightmarch gelding Merry March with 'some success. Settlement, who is now six years old, has on the whole been a disappointing horse, though he would run. odd good races, sufficient to encourage his connections that he might come solid and reliable with age. At the recent Cup Meeting he was running on ninth at the end of the New Zealand Cup, then on the final day he finished fast into third place behind Royal Chief and Little Robin in the Metropolitan Handicap. He is to be given a short rest by his new owner and later on .he may be tried as a hurdler. Turf News in Brief. Old Bill's usual pilot, G. R. Tattersall will be on the brown horse m the Auckland Cup on Boxing Day. Foxola is being mentioned as a likely three-year-old for the Railway Handicap on Boxing Day. The 2000-guinea Bulandshar—Tea Tattle colt, purchased at the last sales for Mr. John Wren, of Melbourne, has been named Murmuring, and, a member of the Ajax. stable, he will not have his first race till the autumn. It was his three-year-old half-brother Teacony who won very easily at Levin on Monday. . -~.-. When A. Mclntosh was in Chns,church for the New Zealand Cup Meeting with Sly Fox, he arranged to send two novices to Riccarton. A three-year-old by Commandant (an Austra-lian-bred horse by Legionnaire) go into D. Cotton's stable, and F. Christmas will take over a two-year-old by * Sporting Blood. Defy who won her two races at Levin with brilliant final runs on a course that is not suited to such efforts, is now carrying the colours of Mr. J A Betts, of Master ton, who secured her a few months ago from Mr. I. MacRae as a mare not expected to stand !up to training. Mr. Betts also raced her half-brother Sky Limit and the steeplechaser Primak. She was m training for over a year at Trentham, but was produced only thrice, so that her record is now three wins and a third in seven starts to date.