RACING NOTES

Evening Star, Issue 21006, 21 January 1932, Page 6

RACING NOTES

[By Sx. Clair.]

RACING. January 22.—Wairoa Racing Club. January 22, 23.—Wellington Racing Club, January 22.—Ashhurst Racing Club. January 23.—Wairio Jc 'cy 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.—Eginont Racing Club. February 4, 6.—Gisborno Racing Club. February 6.—Mataraata Racing Club. February 11, 13.—Dunedin Jockey Club.

COMPRIS. Compris, the winner of yesterday's Wellington Cup, is a live-year-old gelding to Kilbroney from Lady Halina, the latter the first foal by Solferino off Halina, by Varco from the imported mare lemba by Sainfoin. Compris was purchased at the November yearling sales at Christchurch in 1927 as a yearling by his present owner, Mr P. P. Campbell for 50gs, and was bred by Mr lan Duncan at the Waikanae stud. He is not a good-looking gelding, being very hollow-backed ; but his racing career has shown him to be a natural stayer and weight carrier, and after yesterday's time record-breaking effort to be the best middle distance handicap horse in the dominion at the present time. The following is a recorcf of his placed performances to date:—

JOTTINGS.

Nominations for the Dunedin Cup meeting close to-morrow at 5 p.m. Acceptances for the first day of next week’s meeting at Forbury close to.morrow at 5 p.m. _ A Christchurch ‘ Star ’ writer very rightly remarks of the deceased Dunedin light harness reinsman arid trainer, Jack M'Eiven, that “he did not have an enemy in the world.” Cynisea, who raced in the late Sir George Hunter’s colours, won the Wellington Cup three times in succession—--1890, 1891, and 1892. # No other horse has succeeded in winning it more than once. _ Riders with more than one success since the Wellington _ Cup was instituted _ in* 1874' comprise; R. Derrett, six wins; 11. Reed, six (including two dead-heats); C. Jenkins, three; J. Lyford, L, H. Hewitt, L. Wilson,, F. Davis, A. Piced, H. Gray, H. Young, M. M'Carten, and B. H. Morris, two each. j The one-day December race meeting held by the Dannevirke Racing Club showed a loss of £382 8s Bd, after a refund of totalisator tax of £lO4 18s 3d., The future operations of the club and the holding of an autumn race meeting will be discussed by members towards the end of this month. When Advance won the Wellington Cup in 1903 he carried lOst 41b, and ran the mile and a-half in 2min 34 1-osec, pvhich at that date established a fresh time record for the race. Advance, who won the Dunedin Cup as a three-year-old in 1900 with Bst 71b, still holds the weight-carrying record in the Wellington Cup. The totalisator figures at Wellington yesterday only showed a drop of £2,215 10s as compared with the first day of this meeting last year, but compared with previous years the drop was a very marked one. On Wellington Cup day in 1929, £73,947 was handled; in 1930, £58,501 10s; in 1931, £28,700 10s, and yesterday £26,485. The record in Australia for a mile and a-half is jointly held by Gothic (Flemington) and Kidaides (Warwick Farm) at 2min 29ijsec. The New Zealand record until Compris established 2min 29sec in the Wellington Cup yesterday was jointly held at 2min 31scc by Maioha (Trentham), Insurrection (Trentham), _ Star Stranger (Tren'tham), Bonino Winkie (Riccarton), and Pilliewinkie (Wingatui). Roy Reed has a wonderful renprd in the Wellington Cup, having ridden the winner, including ’ two dead heats, six tiipes in the last fourteen contests. In 1919 ho was on Rewi Poto when that horse dead-heated with Red Ribbon, and the next year rode Kilmoon when he dead-heated again with Oratress. In 1921 be won on Maioha, in 1923 on Rapine, in 1928 on StaV Stranger, and yesterday on Compris. S. Reid, now one of the dominion’s leading‘trainers, rode Ropa, the winner of the first Wellington Cup, run on the Trentham course, in 1906. Amongst the ridefs in that race were JM'Combe, Ben Deeley, and A. Oliver, who have now crossed the Great Divide. Others in G. Jenkins, L. H. Hewitt (now training in India), Hector Gray, 11. Derrett (now living in retirement at Riccarton), and W. Price (now starter to the Wellington and other racing clubs) are still with us. It is claimed for Treclare, the imported son of Tredennis, who is at the stud in New South Wales, that he_has been represented by winners in England, Belgium, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. Prior to Treclare’s transportation to Australia he served several seasons at the stud in England, and to that advantage is due the wide shape his record as a sire takes.

The pacer Royal Silk, who won three races at Auckland and last week won the Wellington Gold Cup, has left J. S. Shaw’s stable and is now being trained by J. M’Kondry, at Addington. Since being sold to his present owner by his breeder, Royal Silk has been trained by C. S. Donald, R. Donald, and J. S. Shaw. For the lastnamed trainer he has raced jn brilliant form, and it comes as a big surprise that a change of trainers has been made. '

February 11, 13.—Taranaki Jockey Club. February 11, 13.—Poverty Bay Turf Club. TROTTING. 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.

Punters at Trcutham yesterday had a bad day, only one first favourite, Cadland, who ran second in the Telegraph Handicap, returning a dividend. One eleventh favourite, two tenth, one sixth, two fifth, a third, and a second favourites won races, while a sixteenth, two seventh, two fourth, and two second favourites were the other second dividend payers. Such a sequence of big dividends must have very seriously affected the totalisator turnover, which) with the ordinary share of favourites getting home might have equalled last year’s total. The ‘Southland Times,’ commenting on the track work at Invercargill on Tuesday morning, says; “The Invercargill Cup winner, Red Sea, is being sent along again in her work, and a six-furlong mission was her portion, when she was not under pressure to cover the last half-mile nicely in 54 2-ssec. Thornton and Cough ran out a sound jnile, the seven furlongs taking 1.34 2-Sscc. Wide out, it was h useful performance, with Cough giving her relative weight. Steeton demonstrated the fact that she is in forward condition by running out an attractive mile. The eight furlongs were left behind in 1.49 2-ssec, the last five furlongs taking 1.9 l-ssec. How Mr Richard Wootton, now of Sydney, was deceived by a gang which made large sums of money by dyeing horses and running them in other names, is disclosed in an article by Mr Edgar Wallace in the London ‘ Sunday Graphic.} Mr Wootton is father of Stanley and Frank Wootton, former jockeys and now trainers in England. Mr Wallace says that the gang'purchased one of Mr Woottons horses, dyed it, and entered it for a small selling race at Doncaster. The horse was doped on the day of the ra6e, but on the way to the barrier it became uncontrollable, gnawed through the reins, and broke them. The jockey lost control of the horse, which bolted. Mr Wootton, by an extraordinary coincidence, caught the horse, and led it back to the saddling naddock. Mr Wootton. however, did not recognise it. In a letter addressed to the secretary of the New Zealand Trotting Association, the Canterbury Owners’ and Breeders’ Association, expresses its views regarding the suggestion that there should be an alteration made in the administration of trotting. The letter is as follows: —“ A very large attendance of our committee was present at our meeting on Wednesday last, and considered the Ngingongingo case, and certain action was taken of which you are already aware, and which we anticipate and hope will materially assist in retaining the New Zealand Trotting Association as at present constituted. Naturally the whole question was considered, and particular reference was made to the suggested alteration of control to district committees in place of your association, and our members were unanimously against any such alteration, and I was instructed to convey to your association the goodwill and appreciation of our members for the splendid service which the New Zealand Trotting Association has rendered the sport of trotting during the many .years it has been in existence, and we fervently hope that suqh efficient administration will not be . upset or altered.” , Under the heading of * Appointment of Judges in Trotting Appeal Cases,’ an Invercargill correspondent, signing himself “ Well-wisher,” writes to the Christchurch ‘ Press ’ of January 18 as followsSir, —Under the existing rules the president of the Trotting Conference has the sole right to appoint appeal judges when any club appeals against the ruling of the association. Ho thus is constituted a" dictator in absolute authority and>with unlimited power. It is neither fair to him nor. the contending parties that he should be saddled with such a grave and. sole responsibility. The association, which is the responsible'head of\ the sport for the proper administration of the rules, has at present no voice in the appointment of such appeal judges. This is not right. If at the next meeting of the conference it is decided that the association and the conference continue to function as hitherto, the method of the appointment of appeal judges should receive consideration. No individual should have this supreme right. The executive (not the president only) of the conference should be empowered to elect one judge, the association should have a similar right, and the two judges thus appointed should appoint the third. This appeals to me as a fair and equitable way of dealing with the matter, and I respectfully ,submit the suggestion to the trotting authorities for their consideration.” After Heartbreak Hill had won the Grand Sefton Steeplechase at Aintree on November 13, it was revealed in the ‘ Daily Mail ’ that the mare was officially not in England at all, but in America. It was suggested that an objection might be lodged on behalf of Mr J. H. Whitney, the owner of the second horse, Sir Lindsay, but this does not appear to have been done. The ‘ General Stud Book,’ the official record, showed that the mare Little Sweetheart had a filly foal by Don Juan in 1925. This foal was registered as Heartbreak Hill, and a note was added in the official record that she went to America in 1928. As far as the registry office is concerned, she is still there, though actually was novel' out of Ireland until she crossed the Irish Sea to contest the rate she won at Aintree. Mr T. J. Lavin, the Irish, agent for Mrs C. S. Bird, jun., the Amencr. i owner of Heartbreak Hill, relates how the error arose in the ‘ Stud Book ’; “ When M s Bird bought the mare in 1928,” he said, “ she intended to send her to America, but after the necessary formalities had been completed she changed her mind, am Heartbreak Hill remained in Ireland. Perhaps I should have informed Messr Weatherby (the agents of the Jockev Club) at the time, but 1 am sure that the entry will be corrected in the next edition of the ‘ Stud Book,’

AT FOUR YEARS. Summer H. Hp., 1m 9.0 2nd £50 Fairfield J±. Up., 1m 7.4 2nd 10 Timaru Cup, ljm 7.0 2nd 35 Kingsdown H. Hp., 1m 8.8 1st 95 Oxford H. Hp., 6f 8.6 1st 90 Ashley H. Hp., 1m ... 8.13 1st 175 Otago Handicap, l*m ... 7.0 1st 235 Orbell Stakes Hp., 7f ... 9.3 1st 155 Dunedin Cup, IJm 7.1* 3rd 50 Midsummer Hp., ... 7.3 -3rd 30 Great Autumn Hp., lira 7.4* 2nd 75 Teschemaker Hp., Ijm 7.10 1st 160 £1,160 Eleven times unplaced. ’ . AT FIVE YEARS. Winter Cup, Ini 9.9 3rd 50 Islington Handicap, IJm 9.7 1st 175 Geraldine Cup, IJm ... 8.12 2nd 20 Fendalton handicap, Um 8.6 1st 210 Metropolitan Hp., lira 8.9 1st 350 Bolton Handicap, limy 8.11 2nd 15 Auckland Cup, 2m 8.8 3rd 200 Auckland R.O Hp., lira 8.8 1st 700 Wellington Cup, lim ... 9.0 1st 600 £2,320 Six times unplaced. SUMMARY. 1st 2nd 13rd Unpld. Stakes. Three years — — — 4 — Four rears 6 4 2 11 £1,160 Five years 5 2 2 6 £2,320 ' 11 6 4 21 £3,480