RACING NOTES

Evening Star, Issue 21077, 14 April 1932, Page 4

RACING NOTES

[By St. Clair.]

RACING. April 15, 16.—Masterton Racing Club. April 16.— Karamea Racing Club. April 20, 21.—Mnnawatu Racing Club. April 22, 23.—Nelson Jockey Club. April 23.—South Canterbury Jockey Club April 30.—Marton Jockey Club. April 28. 30.—Marlborough Racing Club April 30.—Amberlcy Racing Club. May 4, 5. —Egmont Racing Club. May 12, 14.—Wanganui Jockey Club. May 13, 14.—Southland Racing Club. May 14.—Waipa Racing Club. May 21.—Ashburton County Racing Club May 21.—Waikato Racing Club.

WINGATUI NOTES. Tho climatic conditions at Wiugatui this morning were very cold and raw, but considering the ■ heavy rain which fell in the early part of tho week, tho tracks were in fair condition. However, very little fast work was done, trainers contenting themselves with half to three-quarter work for most of their horses. The new schooling course for hurdlers, consisting of three hurdles with plenty of slope on them, was used for tho first time. Captain’s Gift (Cooper), Raineses (Anderton), and Royal Limond (Beale) were sent a round. Captain’s Gift led the other two by nearly ten lengths throughout, and looking much better for the race he had at Onmaru, gave his usual display of clean, quick jumping, taking Imin 20see from the first to last hurdle, a distance of about five and a-half furlongs. Royal Limond jumped better than Raineses, particularly when the pace was on at tho last hurdle. All three of these horses will be starters at the Timaru Meeting next week. Bulolo (Anderton) was sent out to jump one hurdle, but in tho warm-ing-up canter ho broke away and galloped nearly six furlongs before ho was pulled up. Ho was then sent over three hurdles, and for a green horse jumping by himself, he shaped fairly well, hut was tired when ho came to the last hurdle, which ho hit hard all round, and showed cleverness on his feet in making a good recovery. Glenrowan (Cooper) was given a round on the flat and then put over the hurdle opposite tho stand. Ho screwed badly, but got over safely. His prospects as a hurdler should be better than his recent performances on the flat.

Gallant Fox had all the advantage at the start over a three-furlong sprint with the Pombal —Homage colt, and the pair finished together, Gallant Fox under strong restraint, in a lick under 39sec. Ware leaves on Monday for Melbourne with Gallant Fox, and A. E. Didham will go across to do the riding. Ware will not go on to Sydney, but otherwise has no definite programme.

Antrim Boy has been handed over by Ware to H. A. M'Donald, who will train him during Ware’s absence in Australia. Hot Tea will be raced at Timaru, and as Mr Shiel’s lease is just about up, will then be returned to his owner, Mr T. Baird, of Invercargill. Neither Admiral Drake nor Black Duke are likely starters at Timaru next week. The latter has done a little light work since returning from Riverton, but D. P. Wilson will not take any chances with the Balboa gelding’s leg, which filled after the second day’s racing at the southern meeting. Both Wilson and Gieseler, however, will have others to represent them at Timaru. Kerbside was scratched for the Doncaster Handicap at Timaru immediately on the publication of the handicaps. Now that this mare has settled down in her behaviour at the barrier, it is not likely that she will be put to hurdle racing, at least for a •while. El Boa, who has been blistered, is doing well, and H. Ellis anticipates being able to race her at the June Meeting. Ware received advice last evening that the owner of Aladdin had decided to drop the idea of the Australian trip in the meantime, and space on the steamer leaving next Monday for this horse has been cancelled. JOTTINGS. Meteor is in work again, and his trainer, J. Dynes, expects to have him ready for the Forbury Park Meeting next month. Mocast, who won at Riverton on the third day, lias been turned out, and will not be raced again until next season .

Cimabue was sore after doing sound pace at Trentham a few days ago, and he may have to forfeit his engagements at the Manawatu Bacing Club’s Meetnext week. K. Voitre is now at the head of tho winning jockeys’ list for the season, his total being sixty-two. H. Gray follows with sixty-one, while FI. N. Wiggins is in third place with fifty-four. High Pitch will be greatly improved by the racing he had in high-weight company at the Avondale Meeting. The Sarchedon—Shrill gelding, who is very partial to soft ground, will be a force to be reckoned with in hurdle company for the remainder of the season. Chatting with several trainers at Wingatui this morning about the Dunedin Jockey Club’s programme for the Juno Meeting, they all expressed favourable opinions, one remarking that the stakes were on more generous lines than he had expected. Following on Goshawk’s win in the Karamu High-weight Handicap at tho Hawke’s Bay Meeting last Saturday there was a lengthy inquiry into the form, as he had been badly beaten in a similar event a week earlier. Eventually it was decided to take no action. At the Western Australian Turf Club’s Meeting on Easter Saturday the Easter Milo was won by tho Paladin gelding Don Quixote, formerly trained by J. H. Jefferd, and bred at the Hororata Stud. He was one of the outsiders of the field, and beat thirteen others by a head in Imin 39see.

The Avondale Jockey Club will pay £3,894 13s lOd in taxation to the Government as the result of their recent autumn meeting. This is made up as follows;—Totalisator £1,988 12s 6d, dividend £1,739 13s, stakes £126 10s, amusement £39 18s 4d; total, £3,894 13s lOd.

Hunting Cry scored a comfortable win in the Ormond Cup. Tho opposition was not strong, but the brown gelding showed that ho is in something like his best form. Ho pulled up s@re, and ns no engagements were made for him at Manawatu Air T. Fraser has decided to give him a spell. Hunting Cry has won £8,830 in stakes. There will be an exodus of South Island iockeys for the North during the next few days. A. E. Ellis, G. IT. Humphries, and A. IT, Eastwood will bo riding at the Masterton Alerting on Friday and Saturday, while B. E, Covcny and 11. 11. Brodio will follow later, for the Afanawaiu Meeting, which will bo held next week.

Tho following entries have been re-

May 28. —South Canterbury Racing Club. June 1,3, 4.—Dunedin Jockey Club. TROTTING. April 16.—Ashburton Trotting Club. April 16.—Thames Trotting Club. April 21.—Nelson Trotting Club. April 23.—T0 Aroha Trotting Club. April 29.—Marlborough Trotting Club. April 30.—Auckland Trotting Club. May 5, 7.—Forbury Park Trotting Club. May 7.—Cambridge! Trotting Club. May 14. —Oamaru Trotting Club. June 3. 4.—Canterbury Park Trotting Club.

coivcd for the Te Aroha, Trotting Handicap, 275sovs, 4min 38sec class, two miles:—Lady Yvonne, Master Huia, Great Parrish, Glandore, Kewpie’s Triumph, Explosion, Bingen Crest, Carnui, Dan Direct, Kewpie’s Guy, Brent Zolock, Chenaway, Our Peter, High Sea, Little Guy, First Flight, Real Girl, Bracken, Nona Bingen, Dealer, Peter Pirate, Arabond, Mr Penalty, Sister Rose, Sandown, Dusolina. For tka meeting, which will be held on April 23, ISO nominations were received.

Tho following paragraph is directed by the ‘ Southland Times ’ to the attention of people who oppose the paying out of first, second, and third dividends on races with suitable fields —it relates to the recent A.J.C. fixture in Sydney:—How greatly the “ place ” one, two, three —machine is favoured by the investing public at Randwick is shown by the figures for the first two days of the recent Faster Meeting. On the first day the total investments ran to £45,366, and of this amount only £11,350 went on to the “win only” machine, while on the second day the corresponding figures were £62,180 and £15,107. With the approach of tho winter campaign, jumpers are beginning to emerge from their retirement. The Great Northern winner of two years ago, King’s Jest, had two races at Hastings. He was too big in condition to race at all prominently, but they will work an improvement in him. King’s Jest will probably _ start the jumping season at Wanganui, and then go on to Auckland. With Toxeuma gone for good, M’Kinnon has at present no good class fiat racer in his •stables, but ho is handling a rising three-year-old filly by Greyspear from Tragic, which will race as Admatha. j One of the most improved two-year-olds this autumn is tho Wostmere-bred Speed, which races in tho colours of I Mr C. Haldane, of Hastings. His rej cent form has been _ very attractive, ( and he is a good-looking sort who will, I all going well, be a good sprinter next season. Speed is by Diacqnenod from Rapide, an English-bred mare by the I Polymelus horse Polygnatns, out of j Lady Hasty, by Desmond. Rapide was imported into Australia in 1925, and two years later was secured by Mr J. 1 Donald for his Westmerc Stud. She missed to Chief Ruler in her first season, and Speed is her first foal. He cost Mr Haldane only 75gns at the yearling sales, and he has undoubtedly got a bargain. Although tho South Canterbury Jockey Club, in common with other clubs, finds it difficult to make ends meet in running a race meeting, the committee has taken steps, in connection with the meeting next week, which will be popular with owners. Realising that owners find it expensive to travel their horses, it has been decided to grant the use of the club’s loose boxes on the course for stabling purposes free of charge for days required in attending this meeting, while trainers and attendants will do accommodated at a reasonable charge.

The Manawatu Sires’ Produce Stakes promises to be an interesting contest. The Avondale All-aged Stakes winner, Tea Trader, the Great Northern Foal Stakes winner, Inflation, the Trenthain winners, Tout le Mond and Miclinette, and the Riccarton winner Fleeting Glance, are among the likely runners. Inflation in the Great Northern Champagne Stakes left his effort a trifle too late, being beaten by a head by Game Carrington. However, it was such a convincing run that he unwound at the linish that he will only have to be a little more handy to the leaders at the turn in the classic at Awapuni to be very hard to beat. Considering the value of the stakes they won at Cheviot _ last Saturday, winners at that meeting have paid dearly for their successes (says the ‘Press’). According to the handicapping system in vogue, horses winning their lirst race are subject to a compulsory penalty, and as the majority of Cheviot winners scored their first success at that meeting, there cannot be any complaint, but the winner and runner-up in the Cup, Tempo and Symmetry, appear to have been harshly dealt with on their reassessments. Tempo, the winner, has come back to line 19, which represents the imposing of the full penalty of 60yds for two miles, or a 4min 47sec mark, but the case of Symmetry looks even more severe, as she has been placed on line 18, or equivalent to incurring 36yds, a 4min 48sec mark, the full penalty applicable to a second placing in the class in which she ran second. The title, “ The Iron Horse,” comments “ Sundridgc,” has been given to First Acre, but there are contemporaries of his who are equally entitled to the sobriquet, and not the least is Black Duke, who is still racing and whose career, apparently, is far from being ended. Eclipsing the list of both First Acre and Black Duke, however, is that of The Hawk, who has now been retired. The Hawk contested 130 races in eleven seasons for £26,441. First Acre has contested 141 races in seven seasons for £8,071, and Black Duke has contested 136 events in seven seasons for £7,172. _ Of his total starts The Hawk won thirty-two, or nearly 25 per cent.; First Acre has won twenty-three, or over 16 per cent.; and Black Duke has been successful thirty-six times, representing over 26 per cent, of successes. It is equally interesting to size up their failures, as represented by unplaced performances. The Hawk was sixty-two times unplaced, making nearly 48 per cent, of his total starts; First Acre ran behind the first three on eighty-six occasions, or 61 per cent., and Black Duke’s unplaced performances total seventy-two, or 53 per cent. The Invercargill trainer, F. J. MMvay. who supervises the preparation of Mr W. T, Hazlctt’s horses, has three rising two-year-old members of the Simper family undergoing their preliminary tuition at present. They are all said to be good lookers. One of them is another contribution by Simper herself being a chestnut colt to Grand Knight. Simper was first mated in 1914, when she missed to Kilbroney, and she has been served every season except 1915 and 1917 since. Her foal was dead in 1923, and she again missed in 1027 '(to Absurd) and 1929 (to Grand Knight). None of her recent progeny have been up to the calibre of Affectation. Gold Light, Razzle Dazzle, and Beacon

Light, but two in Lucky Light and Ruling Light have been quite useful, and the last-named may develop into a really good sort yet. The other two youngsters are from daughters of Simper. One is a chestnut colt by Night Raid from Dazzling Light, by Kilbroney, and the other is a bay filly by Chief Ruler from Razzle Dazzle, also by Kilbroney. The latter is said to bear a striking resemblance to Simper’s Chief Ruler offspring, Ruling Light. Considering the large number of Eng-lish-bred sires in Australia, and, further, that they monopolise the places iu most of the leading stud establishments, it is only to be expected that the colonial-bred horses should take second place in stud records, but the fact that only three of the twenty-six races decided at the Australian Jockey Club’s recent Autumn Meeting fell to the progeny of Australian-bred sires furnishes material for much thought. Ilossendale, by St. Frusquin, who had three winners, headed the list, and the only other horses to claim more than one winner were Limond, by Desmond, by Night Raid, by Radium, and Brazen, by Phalaris, with two winners each. The colonial-bred sires credited with winners were :—Wedge, by The Welkin, Wellile, by The Welkin, and Windbag, by Magpie. The progeny of sires tracing to Bend Or topped the list with twelve victories.