RACING NOTES

Evening Star, Issue 20989, 31 December 1931, Page 7

RACING NOTES

RACING. January I.—Waikouaiti Racing Club. January I.—' Wyudham Racing Cut) January 1, 2.— Auckland Racing Club. January 1. 2.-Oreymo U th Jockey Club. January 1. 2.-Hawke’s Bay Jockey Club. January 1, 2.-Stratford Racing Club. January 1, 2.-Marlon Jockey Club. ' January 1, 2.—Wairarapa Racing Club. January 2.-oamaru Jockey Club January 2, 4.—Southland Racing Club. January 7, 9.—Thames Jockey Club. January 8, 9,-Reefton Jockey Club. January 9, 11.—Vincent Jockey C üb. January 13, 14.—Foxton Racing .Club. January 16.-Bay of Islands Racing Club. January 19, 21—VVairoa Racing Club. January 20, 22, 23.—Wellington Racing C January 22.—Ashhurst Racing Club.

WAIKOUAITI RACES TO-MORROW. Otago’s most popular picnic race meeting, the Waikouaiti fixture, is set down to commence to-morrow at 12.30. Many improvements nave been carried out since last year on this pretty course, and from a racing point of view the mos*t important of. these alterations has been the widening of the course. The track is now quite one of the lest, and will he in firstclass order to-morrow. An excellent train service between Dunedin and Waikouaiti has been arranged, and motorists will now find the main road over the Kilmog much unproved. The fixture promises to provide an excellent afternoon’s sport,and the Club having reduced the admission charges, a cheap outing is available to townsfolk for the holiday. The following is the card and some anticipations of horses likely to show up in their respective engagements: —

Colonel Cygnns is an unlikely starter, ns he is engaged at the Wyndham Meeting. Scotch Tea and Traylavah and Demise and lan’s Alarch will be bracketed. This race will probably be run in divisions, and if so Flying Amy, Muff,; and the second bracket should get into the money. NEW YEAR TROTTING HANDICAP, HSsovs. IJm.

Alpha Wrack and Red Spur and Quita and Molly Desborough will be bracketed. The latter pair, lot Wrack, and Red Spur, should be worth following.

As Topere is engaged at Wyndham and Invercargill meetings, he is a probable non-starter. On his form at Wingatui last Monday Martian Chief should start favourite, and his most dangerous opponents will be Locksley and Royal Love.

Both Kakara and Gold Pit have been penalised for their Wingatui successes, and this should give Hot Tea and Lochlagan good chances. Gold Pit should heat Kakara over the shorter distance.

Neither Taboo nor Starshooter are eligible to start in this race, though their names appear on the race card. Dressy showed much improved form at Wingatui, and in this weak field should beat Semper Paratus and Silver Salver, who look to be the best of the others.

Birnie Bingen and Master M'Grath and Onoto and Aviator will be bracketed on the totalisator. Unless there is something pretty good amongst the larger number of maiden pacers engaged, Laracor, Onoto, and Pretty Pointer should get into the money.

Despite his big weight Meprisant is likely to he selected favourite, and the hardest he will have to beat will be Wise Choice and Glenrowan.

An excellent field to bring the meeting to a close. If Gold Pit or Hot Tea are reserved for tin's race both are entitled to consideration. In their absence it points to Grecian Prince, Kerbside, or Red Royal.

[By St. Claw.]

January 23. —Wairio Jo Vey Club. January 23. —\Vai[fapa Kauri Racing Club. TROTTING. January 1, 2.—Canterbury Park Trotting Club. January 4.—Westland Trotting Club. January 5, 6.—Greymouth Trotting Club. January 16. —Wellington Trotting Club. January 23.—Timaru Trotting Club. January 28, 30.—Forbury Park Trotting Club. February 6.—New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club. February 20.—Kaikoura Trotting Club. February 20, 22.—Auckland Trotting Club. February 27.—New Brighton Trotting Club. ‘ . March 4, s.—lnvercargill Trotting Club.

THE WYNDHAM MEETING. The Wyndham Racing Club will hold its annual meeting on its prettily situated course to-morrow, the first race commencing at 12.15 p.m. There will be a large number of Dunedin sportsmen ip attendance at this meeting and the two following days at Invercargill. The Wyndham course is m excellent condition,- and, as the fields are good, with nothing of outstanding class, a most interesting day’s racing is assured. Racing will commence with a held of nineteen in the Trial Handicap, and on recent form at Wingatm Princess Argosy, Trek. and Colonel Cygnus should be hard to beat. Princess Aigosy and Colonel Cygnus will be biackSeventeen have paid up for the mile and a-half trot, and Wave Soon, one of E. Todd’s bracket, and Rollicking Wave should bo worth following. Thirteen starters in the Wyndham Cup should make an interesting race, and on his Wingatm form King Balboa reads the best. Of the others Topere and Charmeuse should also race are engaged in the Mhmhau Hack Handicap, and Merry Peel, Royal Sceptre, and Spanish Maid have recent form to recommend them. Of the eleven in the President’s Handicap, Aspiring, Rin Tin Tin, and hirst Money appeal most. The thirteen-furlong trot has attracted seventeen, and Willow Wave, Erin s Fair, and Honest Dillon should show up well. ~ ... tt- , Fourteen have paid up in tho Highweight Handicap, and Royal Limond, even with lOst 71b, has a good chance. Steeton and Rioter are the next best. JOTTINGS. The first race at Invercargill on Sat-, urday has been timed to start at 1 p.m., and passengers by the first express that morning can arrive on the course in ample time to see the second race. The Hon. Adam. Hamilton was present at the Win.,on Trotting Club s Meeting yesterday, and presented the trophy attached to the stake of the principal race. , , When Sea Mist won the two miles trotters’ race at- Winton" yesterday she broke a long run of bad luck for her owner, Mr J. Hislop, who is vice-pre-sident of the Invercargill Trotting Club. It was four years to the day since his colours were last successful. Gustavo has had a change of quarters since he returned _ from _ the A orth Island, and now he is an inmate of F. P. Claridge’s stable. He is at present enjoying <i rest, though he is tnken out for exercise daily. His trainer hopes the lameness will disappear soon, and the Solferino. horse will then be got ready fqr racing. Convoy, who mot with a mishap on the eve of the holidays, is under veterinary treatment The fractured joint has been put in plaster of Pans, and the horse already shows improvement, as he is able to bear some weight on the injured leg. Whether he will ever ' be fit to train again is a point tnat only time can tell, and his trainer ,_ h. Christmas, is by no means sanguine, , though he hopes for the best. . 1 It is possible that one or two trainers I at present at the Auckland Meeting will return from the North Wand by aeroplane so as to be on hiuid tor tne first day of the Canterbury Park Meeting (says the ‘Press’). This will not be a novel occurrence, as C. b. Honaia, after leaving the train at Feuding, flow from there to Sockburn, and he was in time to pilot the winner of tho first race, Stand By, at the corresponding meeting last year. A notable feature in connection with racing in England during the closing months of the past season was the number of partnerships which were entered into. Rather than sell a horse, owners have disposed of a half shaie, as a way to reduce their expenses. Indeed, some horses racing this season were owned by as many as four people. Admiral Drake registered another fine performance when he filled second place in the Auckland Summer Cup on Tuesday. The Dunedin-owned gelding is a hardy customer. He started sixteen times as a two-year-old, for two wins and six placings; twenty-two times at three years, for two wins and seven I placings; . seventeen times at four I years, for four places; and so far this j season he has had thirteen races, for four wins and four places. The hard I racing seems to agree with him, as he is a better horse now than at any previous stage, while he looks as if he would make still further improvement. In winning the Auckland Trotting Cup, Royal Silk recorded his most important success to date, and his second since he went into J. Shaw’s hands to be trained a few days after tne conclusion of the November Carnival. Since his reappearance about seven weeks ago ho has won three races, and ho had a large southern following in his most recent achievement. A livc-year-old stallion by Silk Thread from Glimpse, he represents easily the best of his sire’s stock, and is one likely to uuprove sufficiently to reach tho _ most select class, and perhaps ® ar n* himself a qualification for the next New Zealand Trotting Cup. . It is safe to say that no one in the dominion would be made more happy over the success of Admiral Drake in tho Auckland Cup than his breeder, Mr Frank Armstrong, of Akitio, Hawke s Bay (says the Christchurch ‘Star’). Ho is one of the best type of sportsmen, and the fact that lie parted with the horse before ho came to his best would not cause any vain regrets. This is not the first winner of a big race that Mr Armstrong has bred and sold before he attained his best form. Hurakia, the winner of the Grand National Hurdles in 1915, in the colours of Mr J. F. Lysnar, was bred by Mr Armstrong, and there was no happier man at Riccarton that day, even though he had missed the chance of having his own name associated.with the winning of an important jumping event. Cimabue, who met with a hostile reception after winning the Palmerston North Stakes, is seven years old, so lie has reached the veteran stage. He has done a lot of hard racing, as ho has been going since lie was two years old, at which age he started seven times for four wins. His severe campaigning ap-

pears to have done him no harm, as he is probably as good now as at any stage of his career. Ho scored a brilliant win in tho Stewards’ Handicap at Riccarton last month. Since then ho has done well in his training, and on tho ovo of tho holidays he was being selected as a certainty for a sprint win at Awapnni. He disappointed his admirers in the Eit/.horbert Handicap on Saturday, when he covered a lot of ground, but he made ample amends yesterday. Some more money will come his way before the season ends, as he carries weight well. Supremacy, who broke a leg while being worked at Ellorslie on Tuesday morning, was a five-year-old by Chief Ruler, In's dam, Lucella, being by Luculhis from Seatonella, by Seaton Delaval from Amorolle, by Phoebus Apollo from Lady Gertrude, a Cadogan in are who founded a successful family in Otago for tho lato Sir George M‘Lean. Supremacy opened bis two-year-old career by winning the Avondale Stakes, while in his next two outings ho was successful in the Auckland Welcome Stakes and the Great Northern Foal Stakes. Ho was unplaced in his other two starts that season. Then ho went wrong and he did no racing at three years. Last season ho was wonderfully consistent. Ho had only one success, but lie was second six times and unplaced twice. This season he was second to Chief -Joy in a mile race at the Waikato Meeting and second to Karapoti at six furlongs at tho Waipa fixture, prior to his success in the Railway Handicap at Ellorslie last Saturday, when he beat a very strong field of sprinters.

TRIAL PLATE, , lOOsovs. 6f. st lb st lb Hurlingham 8 10 Scotch Tea 8 10 Pink Paper 8 10 Song Box 8 10 Kipps 8 10 Traylavah 8 10 Heigh Ho 8 10 Plying Amy 8 10 Muff 8 10 Terra Firpia 8 10 Tautbow ... 8 10 Sunward ... 8 10 CounterRose Dart 8 10 march ... 8 10 Sunworthy 8 10 Colonel Banderilla 8 10 Cygnus ... 8 10 Clarenses 8 10 Denise’ 8 10 First Song 8 10 Ruatui 8 10 Diapason ... 8 10 Miss March 8 10 Sun Palace 8 10

College Boy ... scr • Quita ... .. . scr Red Spur ... scr Birnie Bingen Y.b. Alpha Wrack scr Shirley Bingen scr 12 Tat Wrack ... > 12 Wattle Bell ... scr Jolly Queen 36 Jacob scr Molly Des- , 36 Frank Mao ... scr borough; ... Rhodamine ... scr Almont Cling 48

WAIK0UA1TI CUP, 330sovs. lim. Taboo 8 8 Glonrowan 7 9 Full Feather 8 8 Starshooter 7 8 Martian Topere 7 7 Chief ... 8 1 Riri 7 7 Royal Love 8 1 Felony 7 7 Locksley ? 13 Anne ShakeJhnnblanc 7 11 speare ... 7 7 Camisacler 7 9

BRAY MEMORIAL, HOsovs. St. Kakara ... 9 12 Lochlaggaii 8 4 Gold Pit ... 9 8 Bulolo 8 2 Tracsono ... 9 1 Academy ... 7 12 Hot Tea ... 8 9 Terra Fima i 7 Weatherly, 8 5 Associate 7 7

HIGH-WEIGHT HANDICAP, 115sove. 1m. Felony ... 10 5 Silver Salver 9 7 Semper ParDressy ... 9 7 atus ... 10 4 Red Leaf 9 7 Evening ... 10 1

DOMAIN" TROTTING HANDICAP, HOsovs. 1m. Bingen Fay ... scr Pretender . . scr Rough Sea ... scr Great Scott .. . scr Stepaway scr Aviator . scr Merrigal scr Prank Mac .. . scr Cast Iron scr Y.b. Jacob ... ... scr Jolly Queen .. 12 Alpha Wrack scr Laracor 12 Master Molly Des- * M'Grath ... scr borough .. 12 Shirley Bingen scr Almont Cling 24 Tat Wrack ... scr Onoto 36 Evening Sun scr Pretty Pointer 48 Birnie Bingen scr

ORBELL STAKES HANDICAP, ISOsovs, 7f. Meprisant 10 4 El Boa 8 1 Meadow Glenrowan 7 11 Lark 9 9 Night Effort 7 10 Caterpillar 8 5 Ramo 7 10 Ranelagh 8 5 Captivate 7 9 Wise Choice 8 1 Wingatui 7 9

HAWKESBUBY HACK HANDICAP, HOsovs. 6f. Gold. Pit ... 9 4 Bulolo 8 1 Grecian Hod Royal 7 13 Prince ... 8 in Genteel 7 13 Kerbside ... 8 9 Academy 7 11 Hot Tea 8 8 Hurlingliam 7 7 Weatherly 8 4 Scotch Tea 7 7 Pair Money 8 3 Associate 7 7