RACING NOTES

Evening Star, Issue 20440, 22 March 1930, Page 11

RACING NOTES

[By Sr. Ciaii?.]

RACING CLUBS March 24.—Oamaru J.C. March 26. —Opotilci J.C. / March 26. 27. -Manawatu E.C. April 3, s.—Wbangarei E.C. April 3, S.—South Canterbury J.C. April ♦, s.—Masterton E.C. April 11, 12.—Hawke’s Bay E.C. April 12.—Otautau E.C. April 12.—Hororatft E.C. April 12. 14.—Westport J.C. April 12. 14.—Waikato E.C. April 19.—Tuapeka C.J.C. April 19, 21.—Wairarapa E.C. April 19, 21.—Feilding J.C. April 19, 21.—Auckland K.O. April 19, 21, 22.—Riverton E.C. April 21. —Beaumont E.C. April 21.—Waipukurau J.C. April 21.—Kmnara E.C. TW« GOOD ONES Star Stranger and Desert Glow are two horses that have been well in the public eye recently: in the Auckland ‘Herald,’,has recorded their doings as - follows ~ •** Up to date Star' Stranger has contested seventy-three races, and his record stands as follows: ' ,Un- ' First. Second. Third, placed.

- Star Stranger was bred by Mr C. J. Toxward, from whom he was purchased privately by Mr A. B. Williams. The son of Martian has proved a good speculation to the Hawke’s Bay sportsman, for hds winnings in stakes amount to £17,574. •The four “cup” events—Wellington Cup, Trentham Gold Cup (twice), and Awapuni Gojd. Cup—won by Star Stranger each carried a trophy of the value of £100; ’so that mementos of his victories are well in evidence on the sideboard'of- his owner. A perusalv’of Desert Glow’s performances reveals that he has contested no, less than'l34 races, so that, even if he accomplishes no more, he can be well cited as one of the hardest-worked horses that, have raced in the dominion* Desert Glow’s record-stands as fol- ' lows:— \ Un- -

At three and four years old Desert Glow was raced by his trainer, Mr F. E. Loomb, who sold him to Mr D. R. Walker. Up to date Desert Glow has won prize-money to the amount 0f£8,822, and of this sum £7,667 has been won under Mr Walker’s colours. . JOTTINGS the* •jSvuth panterbury Jockey Club’s Meet-. Jidgt awidueofi.Tuesday^; Mount Boa is a most improving hack, and his; owner should get some money during the autumn meetings. Both Quinopal and Royal Tractor in E. J, Ellis's stable at Washdyke are be schooled Over; hurdles in the near 'future. ' Haze, iwbo has won over £1,200 in. stakes by running second in his races, has only won twice, and on each he has been; ridden by T. Green. , There was a large percentage rf the horses engaged at the Wwudham Meet- . ing. who race as if it will be a long timp. before, (and in A very slow class) „ V they will’ be returned winners. The strength.of.the, trotting stables . F 1 in Southland was' well demonstrated at the Wyndham Trotting Meeting on ' ‘ .Wednesday when all eight winners were produced : .in the honie province. . The nominations If e'ceived for the 'Meeting atEaster -time are 'the. best the club figs. 'ever had, and the' steeplechases pn ,the programme vy’. promise tb be a hig’dtaw to the meet- ‘ 'Corn ran so badly in the ~ .opep sprint face at. Waimate on Thurs • •* 5 "day the - she received to one of her hocks; - "when being taken ttf -.the- meeting was’more .serious than at first anticipated. •*’ j; T. Jamieson ndw heads the/list of ; \ winning trainers fof the current season : with 30 winners, S. G. Ware 25, C. Gieselef 20, J. Fryer 18, and Mrs A. ,W. M'Dohald 17 are.next on the list. ‘ ' In both of the races he won at the .Waimate meeting, the North Island horseman, T. Green, showed the starter some points. A successful jockey must ... .he just as good a judge of men as h© is of horses. Up: to date • the; progeny ,of Paladin ha«( won .twenty-on© races, , and stake money to the value of £7,924; Some d. Boy EL thirty-five'wips and £5,705; ~ Balboa . twenty-two wins and £3,988; Songbird, nine wins and £2,432; and .Traitor fourteen wins and £2,239. Mr G. J. Barton sold Royal Flower ~to a Mosgiel sportsman. She was just '., about sold, a month ago, but fortun- . ately ’ for Mr Barton the . sale fell ’ ■ through, and he collected the value of ' three stakes at Cromwell. ,• Mr J. E Henrys, the well-known South Island handicapper, was present at the Oamaru and Waimate meetingjsf Mr Henrys nowadays rarely sees any .racing in the districts of Otago ..- or Southland south of Oamaru. ■ The . Oamaru meeting will he con- ;/ chided'on Monday, when the old-estah-.listed Oamaru Gup will be run. The winner this year will receive a handk some silver cup ‘donated by the president of the club, and the rider of the winner a gold-mounted whip. ..On Monday afternoon the South Otago (BaHurha) Trotting Club will . held its second annual meeting, and excellent acceptances have been received. The ordinary south express ‘ trains to. and from Invercargill will permit patrons of the club from th'e : city to see. the full programme. , Tardy .has been a useful stake-winner for her owner-breeder, Mr Harry , ‘ Orbcll, but the Waimate Cup is easily ‘the most important race she has yet wop.. She, was lucky to ,beat her stablev ‘mate-. Stealth on the . day, the latter ; ■' Apt being ridden with the best of judg- ;'' ■ meiit. - The ordinary north express leaving Dunedin at 8.40 a.m. on Monday will land holiday-makers at Oamaru in ample time to see the first race, and ; -the second express from Christchurch 'is timed to leave Oamaru about fifty 1 * minutes after the last race.

April 21, 22.—Canterbury J.C. April 23, 24.—Westland E.C. April 26, 28.—Greymouth J.C, April 26, 30.—Avondale J.C, April 30.—Eeefton J.C. TROTTING CLUBS March 24.—South Otaso Trotting Club. March 29.—Thames Trotting Club. , April 5. —Waikato Trotting Club. April 10, 12.—Wanganui Trotting Club. April 19, 21.—Hawera Trotting Club. April 19, 23.—N.Z. Metropolitan Trotting Club. April ,25.—Taranaki Trotting Club. April 26.—Ashburton Trotting Club. : May 3.—Cambridge Trotting Club. May 8, 10.—Forbury, Park Trotting Club. : May 17.—Oamaru Trotting Club. May 31, June 3. —Canterbury Park T.C. Chief Baler’s progeny have won fifty-seven races, been US'*times placed, and secured £15,980 in stake money this season Paper. Money with fortythree winners and £9,906, Day Comet' ■twenty-seven winners and £9,504,-and Lucullus thirty-nine winners! and £8,755 place money are the next most successful sires. , At the. beginning of the season Mount Boa was considered to be only a sprinter, and. was kept to races over short distances. During tho few weeks S. G. Ware had charge of him at Wingatui this gelding improved, wonderfully, and judging by the form he showed in the Waimate Cup on Thursday he promises to be a useful horse over handicap,distances. : One owner at Waimate was not at all backward in informing the stipendiary steward in attendance that he was blind to a whole lot that happened in the running of a race. The owner in question was extremely lucky he did not have to make his bow to the Judicial Committee for insolence to an official. It will be thirty years next July since Merman registered the first and only victory for an Australian-bred horse ‘in the Gold Cup, and we aye hoping (says the ‘ Sydney Mail ’) that Strephomwill make the second; but o will have” twb particularly hefty rivals in Bosworth atid Kopi, the latter being, a descendent of the Musket tri.be through Spion Kop, Spearmint, and Carbine, whilst .his dam, Suncroft, is by Sunstar from the Desmond mare Miramonde. Quite a number of horses who raced at the Waimate Meeting on Thursday found difficulty in negotiating the' turns. ' Both the straight and the run alpng the back are good stretches, but the turns from one to the otlvr are not good, and in the mile race it looked as if an accident was sure to happen as the field turned out of the straight. As the originator of cash betting m Australia, Mr R. S. Siovier will be remembered by old-time racegoers who knew him in the ’eighties of last-cen-tury as ‘‘Bob Sutton,” and they will be sorry to learn that his wife, Lady Mabel Sievicr, died in a London nursing home on January 9 after an operation three weeks earlier. Prior to marriage the deceased lady was Lady Mabel _ Brudenell-Brueo, sister to the Marquis of Aylesbury. One of Strephon ll.’s stoutest opponents in England will be Kopi, who, it will be remembered, fell in last year’s Derby when looking dangerous at Tottenham Corner, and then crossed over to Ireland to win that country’s Derby. Kopi was not engaged in the St. Legor, but prior to his fall.in the Derby-won the March Stakes, IJm, at Newmarket, and after_ returning from Ireland carried lOst in the Great Yorkshire Stakes and ran second to Maggi, to : whom ho was conceding 241 b. Fairway, many . English scribes do not consider a stayer, though he did win the St. Leger in 1928. _ As. a rule, the progeny of Phalaris (sire of Fairway) have not shone at distances over a mile and hut Fairway may be an exception, and yet, again, he may not be; so he must be dismissed as the likely ■ conqueror of the Australian visitor. The French have nominated thirteen, including the wellknown performers Palais Royal 11, -and Bubbles H., while Trigo’s brother, Athford, and Baytown form the best of the Irish division. Sealed entries for the Ascot Gold Cup may remain unopened until after the running of the Oaks in June, so that it is not known yet for certain who will oppose Strephon in this race. Dealing with the breeding of Trigo (the English Derby winner last June), the ‘ Irish Field ’ of November 16 has this to say of his fourth dam, Stella: “Everyone knows the reason why the late Mr Peter Murphy bought Stella. It was none other than that he wished for a shapely mare for his stud at not exceeding 50g's. He found bis ideal at 42gs. Then there is also the story—it is authentic—of the American breeder of one of these many “horses of the century.” The horse in question having gained renown, a pedigree expert investigated closely his descent. The expert hied to the breeder, iaquiring why ho ha'd ‘ balanced this, that, and the other_ blood-lines in * e mare’s ancestry with such-and-such lines in ' the sire’s pedigree.’ The expert. gave his imprimatur to the pedigree, and then awaited the. breeder’s reply. This was the reply; ‘My dear fellow, I’m glad to have your approval of my horse’s pedigree; but if you must know why his dam and sire were mated, the reason was that the sire was the nearest to my stud by a hundred miles!” ,

'At 2yrs ... 0 v. 1- - 1 2 At 3yr» ... <5 . (5 2 5 ■ At 4yrs ... 2 : ‘ 3 It - --4 At 5yrs ... 4* - 2 1 9 At 6yrs ... - 0 . i 1 4 At 7yrs -r . 3 . 1. ; 13 ‘ 13 ‘ .16 . . 7 37".

At 3yrs First. ... 1 Second. 1 Third, 1 placed. 13 At 4yra ... 5 2 2 10 At 5yrs ... .3 3 4 15 At 6yrs ... 1 2 1 11 At 7yrs ... 4 1 0 19 At 8yrs ... 4 5 1 15 At 9yrs ... 1 0 2 7 19 14 11 90