RACING NOTES

Evening Star, Issue 20998, 12 January 1932, Page 5

RACING NOTES

. . . RACING, January 13, 14.—Foxton Eating Club. January 16.—Bay of Islands. Racing Club. January 19, 21.—Wairoa Racing Club. January 20, 22, 23.—Wellington Racing ' January 22—Ashhursfc Racing Club. January 23.-Wairio Jo';ey Club. January 23.—Waipapa Kauri Racing Club. January 27, 28—Pahiatua Racing Club. January 29, 30—Takapuna Jockey Club. February 3.—Tapanui Racing Club. February 3, 4—Egmont Racing Club. February 4, 6.—Gisborne Racing Club. February 6.—Matamata Racing Club. JOTTINGS. the Vincent meeting should result in a three figure profit. The programme for the Dunedm Cup Meeting has been issued and is more liberally endowed with stakes than was expected. • i i Owners and trainers are reminded that nominations for the Forbury Park Trotting'Club close this afternoon at five o'clock. ~, ,- * During the progress of the Vincent meeting J. Crawford sold Sunmaid to the Central Ofcago owner, Mr . Con. White. The. latter is now getting a big team in his stables. The success of Silver Paper at Omaka'u'on Staurday shows that the Paper Money-Silver Peak gelding is not yet done with. He looked to be in bigger condition. than he has ever raced m before, and is apparently quite, sound Again. Under Mr White's care Silver Paper looks like becoming a good! racing proposition this autumn. When Eaglet went amiss last month is was at first thought certain that her racing days were over, but the leg trouble has yielded well to treatment, and it is now thought probable that the mare will recover well.enough to be given another preparation. Nightmarch is a regular-visitor to the Eiccarton tracks. He looks in excellent health, but A. M'Aulay is not giving his champion any gallops, his tasks, in the meantime, being of the useful pace order. The victory of Greenaway in the Lochella Cup yesterday was a very popular one, and as Mr Con. White has now won the cup, presented by Mr E. Acton Adams, outright, the executive can amend the conditions of this race. In future it will probably be an open mile and a-quarter event, and as such will attract more attention from owners. . It has not yet been decided by the executive of the Cromwell Jockey Club whether the annual race meeting will be held 1 this year. At the conclusion of the Vincent meeting yesterday Mr

R. Brace asked the visiting trainers ' if "they would support the meeting ■if held, and they and several owners who were present,, assured Mr Bruce that they would do their best to assist the dub to hold the meeting, ' _ There was a large number of visitors from Dunedin present at the Vincent meeting,, and at .a social function held after the fixture yesterday evening, Mr G. J. Barton expressed the gratitude of the visiting owners for the great hospitality accorded them during their visit. He said that he had given Ins traihd’; - to. have, aahorse ready that will win the John, Clare Gold Cup for him next season. No pacer in New Zealand has a better all-round record than the Auckland horse, Jewel Pointer, and when ho led the field home in the Champion Handicap at Epsom last week, establishing a grass track record of 2.40 1-5, he set the seal on a remarkable career of success. Jewel Pointer, who is now ten years old, has won £8,450 in stakes. • . . , . Mr W. E, Kemhall s private trainers, G. Jones and W. Hawthorne, have each received 1 three additions to their teams. Jones’s are a gelding by Cape Horn from Paraki, and Miss Beatrice, a half-sister by Cape Horn to Spearmiss, The other is a yearling by Hunting SoHg. Hawthorne has 'received the three-year-olds Trader Horn, and Homeward Bound, and the two-year-old Cape is getting-through a fair amount of steady, pace work under G. Holland’s supervision, at Ellershe and the son ; of : Surveyor is now carrying more condition than formerly. He also seems to have grown slightly sine© Tiis arrival in Auckland, and, judged

[By St. Clair.]

February 11, 13.—Duhedin_ Jockey Club. February 11, .13. —Taranaki Jockey Club. February 11, 13.—Porerty Bay Turf Club. TIOTTINB. January 18. —TTallingtom Tr«tti»g Cl«». January 23.—Tiwaru Trotting Club. January 21, 30.—Forkury Fark Tr«tti*g 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.—lnrercargill Trotting Club. by his bright and healthy appearance, there is little wrong with him, and it is unfortunate that he has no early engagements. Although the complete figures are not vet available, it is known that the Auckland Trotting Club will emerge from the Cup Meeting without a loss, a result which, under present conditions, is distinctly-gratifying. Had the club not reduced the prices of admission there would have been a proht or somewhere about £6OO. The attendances showed a substantial decrease compared with the Cup Meeting twelve months ago. . As a result of his victories at the Auckland Trotting Club's Meeting, Royal Silk is now assessed at 4.26 tor two miles, which makes him eligible tor the next New Zealand Cup, but it is hardly likely that while in such great form he will be put aside for that race. The Wellington Gold Cup should suit Royal Silk admirably, for while he will be closer there to the cream oi the dominion's pacers, he looks mute capable of again stalling them oft. Three unplaced performances went down against Chromadyne at the Auckland Racing Club's Summer Meeting, but he was by no means disgraced because he performed very creditably in good company. As a result of a sequence of defeats, Chromadyne is now in a good position in the handicaps, and the first time he has an opportunity of racing on a track that is in any way soft he is sure to be very difficult to beat. Going on the way he ran in the Summer Cup, a middle distance handicap should not be beyond Chromadyne. Mr Sol Green, who owned Comedy King, Gladstone, Gothic, Strephon, and other noted performers, will resume racing in Australia this month. He was annoyed over an inquiry into the running of his mare My Lady Gay at Flemington in March, 1929, on an occasion when he had backed her heavily. He withdrew from racing in Australia, but announced at the time that he would return to the sport when the progeny of Gothic were two-year-olds. His former trainer, the New Zealander, Lou Robertson, has the iuveniles Oratory and Cynara in hand for him, while C. T. Godby has charge of the' youngsters Attempts and Verbatim. . . The burden of taxation borne by racing is illustrated by the large payment that has to be made to the Government on the recent holiday meetings m Auckland. The Auckland Racing Club pays £20,053 and the Auckland Trotting Club £8,437, making a total of £28,490. The Racing Club's payment is made up as follows: —Totalisator tax, £9,899;- dividend duty, £8,661; stakes duty, £917; amusements tax, £576. The Trotting Club pays:—Totalisator tax, £4,279; dividend duty, £3,743; stakes duty, £282; amusements tax, £133. After the recent Auckland trotting meeting, Mr F. B. M'Farlane, the Melbourne owner-trainer, had a good word to say about trotting generally in Auckland. He said he was more than, surprised at the fine' form of some of the horses at the meeting, and frankly admitted that the opposition was much stronger than he expected to meet. Without offering any excuses for the defeat of his horses, he said he discovered when racing on the first day that they were short of work, particularly the trotter Huon Voyage, who tired Jn the Rowe Trotting Clip just when he expected him to make a forward move. That this contention was correct was borne out by the improvement which the racing effected in Huon Voyage, resulting in a well-earned victory on the final day of the meeting. The win of Huon Voyage in the Association Handicap was not sufficient to pay the expenses of the team to Auck' land, which he estimated at close on £2OO.