RACING NOTES

Evening Star, Issue 19775, 27 January 1928, Page 9

RACING NOTES

. [By St. Cuib.]

RACING FIXTURES. January 28, 30.—Takapuua J.C. February I.—Tokanui R.C. February 1, 2.—Pahiaiua R.C. February 2, 4 Egraout R.C. February 2, 4,—Gisborne R.C. February 4.—Matamata R.C. February 9, 11.—Dunedin J.C. February 9, 11.—Taranaki J.C. February 9, 11.—Poverty Bay Turf C. February 11, 13.—Rotorua R.C. February 15.—Clifden R.C.

SET SAIL A VERY CONSISTENT MARE. When i)r E. J. Rogers purchased Strathpeffer he had little idea she would produce a champion, and she must now no considered one of the bargains in the way of brood marcs. She was a shy breeder, and when mated with Solferino in 1920 she had already been at the stud for seven years, and had only produced two foals, one by Charlemagne 11. and another to Winkie. Set Sail was the result of the union with Solferino, and she. was not raced until she was a three-year-old. After getting Set Sail Dr Rogers even then did not value Strathpeffer, for he did not bother about mating her again until 192 G, after Set Sail had shown she was going to be above the average. Set Sail commenced her racing career in F. W. Ellis’s stable in Invercargill, and to him must be given the credit for having brought this mare out, as she remained in his stable until the end of last season, and under his care she won twelve races and finished second nine times out of forty-nine starts, and won £3,810 10s in stakes. At the commencement of this season she entered G. Geiseler’s stable, and after winning the Geraldine and Oamaru Cups she was well fancied for the New Zealand Cup, but whilst running in the Mosgiel Handicap at the D.J.C. Meeting she received a knock on the knee that put her aside for a while, and she had to be withdrawn from the big race. Since then she has won the two principal races at the South Canterbury Meeting, the Invercargill Cup for the second time in succession, finished third in the Wellington Cup, and next day won the Wellington Racing Club Handicap, her record for the season being six wins, two seconds, and two thirds out of thirteen starts, and winning £2,700 in stakes. She has been well bandied in each of her races this season by F. Voight, and bad be been able to steady her in the early stages of the Wellington Cup 1 think she would have won. He was weak through wasting, and owing to the beat the mare sweated very badly, and bo was not able to get a good bold of the reins.

Set Sail’s good performances now entitle her to be included with Silver Peak, Gold Light, and Razzle Dazzle, all of whom have been produced in the south and have done a lot to place Otago and Southland on the map in the racing world. The following is a full list of her placed performances;—

1024-5 (3yrs). £ Birchwood, Wallace Mad;, (if, 8.1, 2nd ... Id Winton, Trial Stakes, (if, 8.0, 3rd ... ... 10 Wyndham. Trial Plate, sf, 8.10, Ist 103 Gore, Longford Hack, Of, 8.3, 3rd 13 Gore, Hokonui Hack, 6f. 8.5, 3rd 15 Otautau, Strathmoor Hack, Of. 8.7, Ist ... 05 Invercargill, Roslvn Hark, Of, 8.13. 2nd ... 20 Riverton, Aparima Handicap, Of, 6.7, Ist ... 185 Riverton, Flying Handicap, Of, 7.2, Ist ... 100 Dunedin, Empire Handicap, Of, 7.3, Ist ... 1921 *£7751 Twice unplaced. 1925- (4>ts). Dunedin, Shorts Handicap, 6f. 3rd ... 25 Gore, Flying Handicap, 6f, 7,12, 2nd 30 Gore, Stewards’ Handicap, 0?, 8.8, Ist ... 00 Winton, Flying Handicap, Cf, 8.11, 3rd ... 15 Dunedin, Federal Handicap, Cf, 8.0, 2nd ... 80 Dunedin, Grandstand Handicap, Of, 8.0, Ist 245 Invercargill. Shorts Handicap, 6f, 9.0, Ist 225 Dunedin, Publicans’ Handicap, 6f, 8.5, 2nd 120 Dunedin, Flying Handicap, Cf, 0.0, 2nd ... OH Invercargill, President’s H’cap, Of, 9.3, Ist .170 Canterbury, Templeton H’cap, Of, 8.0, 2nd 100 Wellington, Suburban H’cap, Cf, 8.0, Ist 350 £1,510 Seven times unplaced. 1926- (oyrsl. £ Dunedin, Electric Handicap, Of, 9.2, 3rd ... 30 Gore, .Steward’s Handicap, Of, 9.2, 2nd ... 25 Timaru, Tftschmakcr H’cap, IJm, 7.6, 3rd 25 Dunedin, Otago Handicap, Um, 7.9. Ist 420 Invercargill, Invercargill Cup, IJm, 8.9, Ist 7(5 Canterbury, Great Faster, 7f, 7.101, 2nd 200 Canterbury, Great Autumn, 11m, 7.11, 3rd 120 £1,595 Eleven times unplaced. 1927- (6yrsJ. Ashburton, Farewell Handicap. Of, 9,7. 2nd 15 Geraldine, Geraldine Cup, IJm, 8.10, Ist 205 Oamaru, Oamaru Cup, IJm, 9.2, Ist ... 205 Canterbury, Jockey Club I Heap. lin, 8.2, 3rd 80 Timaru, Teschmakrr H’cap, ijm, 9.0, 1M 245 Timaru, S. Canterbury H’cnp, Ini, 9.8, Ist 210 Dunedin, Otago Handicap, IJm, 9.8. 2nd 05 Invercargill, Invercargill Cup, Ujn, 9.6, Ist 825 Wellington. Wellington Cup, IJm, 8.3, 3rd 150 Wellington. W.R C. Handicap, lit, 8.8, Ist 700 Three times unplaced. SUMMARV.

REMARKABLE JOCKEY FEATS Riding six consecutive winners in the one day is a feat very few jockeys can boast of. A few years ago the whole programme comprised only six races ioi the°afternoon, and the chances of any one jockey rider”' ithe whole six winners were highly . .probable, though in many cases possible. hrom the ‘ American Racing Manual ’ 1 learn that the remarkable feat has been accomplished by quite a few riders, while a programme of five races has been taken by eleven different riders. Altogether five wins from five mounts have"been recorded twenty-three times; but six from six have been known on only three occasions, according to the authority quoted, which states: — Jn riding the winners of the entire card of six races at Churchill Downs, Louisville, Kentucky, June 5, ri ( J7 James Lee. the colored jockey, established a world’s record. This feat was never duplicated until July 5, 1916, wh*n, at Reno, the apprentice Herman Phillips rode six winners, the full card tor that clay’s racing. The chronicles ot racing in America and England show that only four other jockeys ever rode as many as six winners in one day, and, oddly enough, oh each occasion the programme embraced more than six races. . . , , , “George Fordham, the celebrated English jockey, who scored his first win on Hampton in 1851, and his last on Bragg in 1883, was, on the authority of. ‘ London Sporting Life,’ the first to ride six winners in one day. It was at Bilbury Club Meeting at Stockbridge prior to 1873. There were seven races on the card. Fordham rode in all of them. In one, however, there was a dead heat, his mount was defeated in the run-off. Fred Archer, the most successful jockey in English turf history ’’—[And in the wqrld’s history. —“Musket.”] —'“who scored his first triumph on Athol Daisy in 1870 and his last on Blanchland in 1886, was the second to ride six winners in. one day. He did it at Newmarket, April 19, 1877. There were seven races on the card, but he had no mount in the fourth. The next to accomplish the feat was ‘ Monk ‘ Overton, the colored Araurican rider, who had his heyday in the latter ’eighties and early ’nineties of last century* Overton rode sis winners at

TROTTING FIXTURES. January 28.—Forbury Park T.C. January 28.—Hawkes bay T O. January 30.—Poverty. Bay T.C, Jail. 31, Feb. I.—Nelson T.C. February 2—Takaka T.C. February 4.—Cheviot, T.C. February 11.—N.Z. Metropolitan T.C. February 18, 2s.—Otahuhu T.C. February 25.—KaNoura T.C.

Washington Park, Chicago, July 1'), 1891. There were seven races. He won tlio first, had no mount in the second, and took the last five. “ An apprentice named Wheatley was responsible lor an exceptional riding lent at the Durban (South Africa) T.O.’s Meeting on April 1, 1916. He lode in seven races, of which he won six, and, though in his first race, which he Avon on a 10 to 1 chance, there Avcre only five starters, the runners Jor the other five ranged from 10 to 17. The lad Avas quite light, seeing that m one race he rode at list. The next rider to duplicate those performances was C. Turner, an apprentice, who, on April 9, 1912, at Charleston, S.C., piloted six of his seven mounts to victory. In the sixth race of the day he finished unplaced. On September 17. 1919, at Havre do Grace, Earle Sa'nde rode six of the seven Avinners, failing in the first race, then taking six in succession. ... At Denning, April 3, 1906, Walter Miller rode the Avinners of the last livo races, and the following day Avas the pilot of the Avinrors of the first three races, making eight successive victories —a record lor America. ... At Latonia, Kentucky, on October 1G and 17, 1923, Ivan Parke rode ten winners, eight in succession, equalling the record of Miller. . . . Steeplechase Jockey F. Williams made a record by riding the Avinners of all the steeplechases run during the meeting at Windsor, Ontario, on August 28 to September 4, 1911. There wore five races of the sort, and Williams made a clean sAveep of them.” “ CARBINE " In an interesting article on Australia's best horses in the Wellington ‘Post.’ the Avell-knoAvn writer “ Wayfarer ” reviews the claims ot Limerick, Gloaming, Carbine, and Desert Gold. In writing of Carbine he says;—“Carbine cannot he so easily compared with Gloaming ns Limerick can be, since their racing careers are separated hy more than a. quarter of a century; but Desert Gold actually measured strides with the Welkin gelding in her declining years, and it should not ho difficult to deduce from their periormanees some idea of the validity ol their respective claims to he regarded as ‘Australia’s Dost.’ In considering the length of time these three groat performers continued to race it should he remembered that Gloaming Avas a gelding, that he Avas not raced as a two-year-old, and that at no time Avas he overdone or set an impossihic task. Carbine, on the other hand, avus raced earlier than a colt of his makeup should have been, and was set tasks for which h 3 was not fully prepared. Nevertheless he ran through four seasons, avihning the Melbourne Cup under the great burden of lOst 51b (a record still standing), the Champion Stakes lAvice, the Sydney Cup twice, and Avoiding up his racing career with a stake balance of £22,526, a sum that Avoukl have readied £61,361 at the present scale of added money. One would think that this mighty son of Musket, an unparalled performer on the Australian turf and a distinguished sire in the Home Country, would not he easily deprived of the proud title of ‘Australia’s Best.’ In the last number of that most delightful of all sporting volumes, ‘ Famous Horses of the British Turf,’ it is shoAvn that no fewer than scv'en of the tAvcnty performers selected for distinctions in 1927 are descended, in smaller or greater degree, either direct from Carbine or from his grandsirc Toxopliilite. Everyone knoAvs, of course, that Carbine’s son Spearmint Avon the Epsom Derby m 1906 and his grandson Spion Kop in 1920. JOTTINGS The Tapanui Meeting will he held next Wednesday. The Oanmni Jockey Club has definitely decided to race at Wingatui on March 23 and 21. Tlie Otautau Pacing Chib’s animal meeting is set down for March 21. This club is protesting against the Oamarn Club racing at Wingatui on March 23 and 21. 1 was wrong last week in stating flint Mr Biggins ivas attending the Wellington Meeting. A mini her of owners thought he should hav r e been there. Pink Note, aviio ran two good races at TTentham, was not started on the concluding day. He has been nicely handicapped in the Dunedin Cup. Dumblanc ran a good race in the Hopeful Stakes Handicap on Wednesday, and is uoav improving in his style of galloping. When Good as Gold got interfered with in her race last Monday she had a plate Avrenched off and her hoof injured. She avus too sore to start on Wednesday. According to Mr Biggins’s handicap ping of Good as Gold in the Publicans Handicap the class engaged in the open sprints at the Dunedim Cup Meeting is 191 b beluAv the stanfflird of the sprinters engaged at the ifleent meeting at TTentham. If Tiiormlale can repeat his form at Trcntham in the Dunedin Cup he Avill be a very hard horse to heat. In the City Handicap at Trcntham on Wednesday Money Order gave Pascal 211 b and a good i aling. in the Publicans’ Handicap Air Biggins lias made the difference 231 b, and Pascal can have no chance of beating Money Order on Trcntham form. Money Order (8.31 finished second and Good as Gold (7.0) fifth in the Telegraph Handicap at Trcntham last Saturday, and ou Monday Avith 8.8 finished fourth again, easily heating Good as Gold (7.0), the difference being 221 b. In the Publicans’ Handicap Money Order (9.9) has only been asked to concede Good as Gold (8.5) 18!b, meeting the mare on 41b better terms for beating her. Mr Biggins made a mistake Avith Good, as Gold at the Summer Meeting, and appears to have made another mistake Avhich Avill cost the club an acceptance at next month’s meeting. Considering the hard state of the track at ■ Trcntham for the Cup , Meeting it Avas surprising to see such good fields on the concluding day. A good deal of interest is being taken, in the forthcoming Dunedin Cup Meeting, and as there are good prospects for large fields it should be a profitable one for the club. Though the committee has not yet decided whether the Avork Avill be carried out hy day Avork or contract the additions to the steivards’ stand at Wingatui will be put in hand immediately after the Cup Meeting. The injury to Battlement is not so serious as was at first anticipated. He received a knock on the outside of the knee which caused the joint to swell. Gieseler hopes to have- him right again soon.

i no successes ■'of I*’nil Feather and Sky .Quest at Trentham on Saturday brought the number of races won by Sir George Clifford to 598, This line

record looks as if it is going to be increased next month at the Dunedin Gup Meeting, Avbich Avill attract a useful team from the Chokeborc Lodge stables.

The Oamaru Jockey Club will give £2,480 in stakes at its meeting to bo held at Wingatui in March. The principal handicaps each day Avill be Avorth £3OO and £250. As the club will race on Friday (Anniversary Day) and Saturday the meeting should be a very well-attended one. It is reported that when S. Todd met with an accident at the Wairio Meeting, some unprincipled individual took the opportunity of going through Ins pockets, and relieved him of about £7. Although no information is to hand concerning the names of the four men who have been selected on trial to fill tho vacant stipendiary steward positions, it is rumored that tivo are from Auckland, one from Timaru, and a fourth from Dunedin. Although Logan Chief was not paid up for on the first day of the Forbury Park Meeting, he will be taken south Avith other members of F. Holmes’s team, and will assist on the second day of the fixture, says the ‘ Press.’ The big Logan Pointer pacer has not Avon a race for a long time, but has done well since being under Holmes's care. Rapine has been giving every satisfaction since being recommissioned recently at Hasting*..and figures in the nominations for the Taranaki Meeting. Wayward bolted three miles at Trentbain on Sunday, and Avon on Monday. Ho took charge of his rider again on Wednesday morning, and covered over two miles, but evidently the escapades Ai'ere beneficial to him, as botli bis victories were comfortably attained.

The Forbury Park Meeting Avill be concluded to-morrow, ivlien a most interesting card will be presented. His many friends Avill regret to learn that Mr H. Williams, sub-editor of the ‘ Referee,’ and for many years on the stall' of this journal, is an inmate of a private hospital in Wellington at the present time.

The committee of the Gore Trotting Club held a meeting on Saturday evening, when the business was of a pleasant nature (says the Mataura ‘ Ensign ’). Mr M'Goldrick, said it bad come to the knowledge of the committee that their secretary, Mr R. S. GReen, was going to join the ranks of the benedicts, a very wise step, indeed, and he felt sure all present congratulated him on the coming event. Mr Green, in the discharge of his duties as secretary of the club, had been 'a very capable officer, indeed, and the committee felt that it could not allow such an important event to pass without showing its appreciation of the man and the event. He therefore asked Mr Green’s acceptance of a wellfilled wallet, with best wishes of the committee for the happiness of both Mr Green and the future Mrs Green. Several members added their congratulations, and Mr Green suitably replied. What would have been the fate of Rapier had bis owner elected to produce his horse at Trentham last Saturday to contest the Wellington Cup forms a .subject of not a little discussion in racing circles (says “ Phaeton,” in the Auckland ‘Herald’). In awarding a like impost (9.8) to Rapier a net Star Stranger, Air if. Coyle, it can be said, adopted a course that should have brought him the satisfaction of seeing the brace lie ranged up at the head of the list casting the handicap for the Trentham race included in the held on the day. Star Stranger’s brilliant victory, it may bo said, will win many over to his side as u better horse than Rapier. Advices to hand from Riccarton credit Rapier with being well served on the question of condition, but be is not to be raced again until the autumn, and the Trentham Gold Cup will, it is said, be his particular mission. It may be assumed that, all continuing well with Star Stranger, he will be on hand to dispute matters with his southern rival in the two-milo weight-for-age race set down for decision at Trentliiuu in March, and, though Rapier has the Now Zealand Cup, Auckland Cup, and . Clifford Plate to his credit, it is by no means certain that he will be favorite for the long distance race at Trentham, in which he will have to meet Star Stranger at equal weights.

1st. 2nd. 3rd. U.P. Slakes. Three years Four years ... Five years ««• ... Six years ... .. :"! g 5 2 0 3 2 7 11 3 1,040* 1, 2,700 18 n 10 23 'j£G,610S