RACING NOTES

Evening Star, Issue 21080, 18 April 1932, Page 9

RACING NOTES

RACING. April 20, 21.—Manawatu Racine 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.—Amberley Racing Club. May 4, 5.r-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. • April 16—Masterton Racing Club.

JOTTINGS. Nominations for the Forbury Park Trotting Club’s Winter Meeting to be held on May 5 and 7 close to-morrow evening at 5 o'clock. Mr P. Matu, owner of Tai Ao, who has won at eight of his nine starts, races for the love of the sport, and it is said that he is not likely to entertain an offer for the big chestnut. The Amberley Racing Club is introducing the five shilling totalisator at its meeting to be held on April 30. Juniper has been given a great chance in the Teschemaker Handicap at South Canterbury, He was third to Ramo and Princess Argosy at Oamaru, and now meets the former on 181 b and the latter on 131 b better terms.

A northern exchange says: The three months’ suspension of H. Gray dates from February 29, when the Te Aroha stewards took action. The term concludes at 10 p.m. on May 29.

D. C. Watts, who has been out of tho sport for some time owing to illhealth, has recovered, and is back again with J. Henderson at Oamaru. He will do the driving for the Oamaru trainer. The Amberley Racing Club has received 144 nominations for its meeting to be held on April 30. Last year this club had a combined meeting with the Hororata Club, and two years ago the nominations for its meeting held at Amberley totalled 124. The Oamaru Trotting Club’s Winter Meeting to be held on May 14 will clash with the second day of the Southland Racing Club’s Winter Meeting, and the fixture to be held by the Otautau Racing Club on May 21 will also clash with the Ashburton Racing Club’s winter fixture.

G. Price, the Randwick trainer, won 9,03550 vs with his tc..m.at the A.J.C. Paster Meeting. With Kuvera, the best two-year-old in Australia, \and Veilmond he annexed three races, and other horses in his stable filled half a dozen minor placings. The fractured small bone in one of Money Mine’s forelegs is knitting nicely, and it is hoped that ho will recover sufficiently' to become a handsome and useful general utility hack. The well-bred Paper Money gelding is apparently a hopeless racing proposition.

The track at Ashburton on Saturday must have been in excellent order, judging by the times registered by the winners. Satin King won the Gold Cup at a rate of 2min 12Jsec to the mile, and another ex-Southlander in Nelson’s Victory went ax a 2min 13 3-ssec gait to win the Harvest Handicap.

At the last moment S. G. Ware decided to cancel .his trip to Melbourne with Gallant Fox. Both Ware and Gallant Fox will now be welcome patrons of the Dunedin Jockey Club’s Winter Meeting, and a trip to Australia for the early spring may yet be undertaken by this pair. Consono hit out attractively when running five furlongs in 1.7 2-5 at Invercargill on Saturday. This horse did not strike winning form last season until' the Invercargill May Meeting, when lie won a double, and got another bracket at the Dunedin .Winter Meet-

[By St. Clair.]

May 28.—South Canterbury Racing Club, June 1,3, 4.—Dunedin Jockey Club.

TROTTING. April 21.—Nelson Trotting Club. April 23.—Te 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.

ing. He looks bright and well, and may repeat last year’s experience at the forthcoming meeting.

Nightmarch scored easily over Vertigern and Historic in the Awapuni Cup last year, and it is evident he will be the course favourite again for this year’s race. There were five runners in 1931. and in all probability the same number will line up next week. Nightmarch’s chief opponents are selected as Gay Crest and Speedmint, and if the going is good Gay Crest will be very tough.

“Ramo,” writes “Rangatira,” in the ‘ Evening Post,’ is not a Maori name. It is the name of a cape on the north-western coast of Sicily, and appears to have been the scene of an engagement during the Sicilian uprising following the Austro-Sardinian War of 1859. It was in this war that the Franco-Sardinian forces under Napoleon 111. were finally victorious over the Austrians under Francis Joseph at Solferino, in Northern Italy. Solferino, the stallion, is, of course, the sire of Ramo.

The meetings to bo held at Invercargill on May 13 arid 14 by the Southland Racing Club, and on May 21 by the Otautau ' Racing Club, will both stimulate interest in the local Winter Meeting to be held early in June. Nominations for the latter close on May 11, and Mr Canter will not declare his handicaps for first day until the Monday after the Otautau and Ashburton winter fixtures.

To give an illustration of the charges attached to the landing in Christchurch of a horse coming from Sydney the case may be cited of a yearling purchased at the Sydney sales for 100 guineas costing £137 to bo delivered in Christchurch. Of this amount £ls If i was freight from Sydney to Lyttelton, while the balance is made up in attendant’s charge and three separate veterinary certificates. Bronze Eagle, the crack three-year-old; is to be taken to Sydney for the spring racing. He was galloping brilliantly a few weeks ago at Takanini, when he knocked himself, and in consequence could not fulfil his autumn engagements, which was very bad luck for his owner, Dr Ring, for ho appeared to have classic prospects second to none at that time. Dr Ring states that the colt has quite recovered now, and will bo taken in hand again in June, and will bo shipped to Sydney at the end of August. The late Mr G. W. Lambert, A.R.A., the famous Australian painter and sculptor, was a great lover of horses and an acknowledged authority on their make and shape. He described Heroic to Godby as one of the most perfect thoroughbred horses he had ever seen. In Mr Lambert’s opinion Heroic could only be faulted in his neck, which he held was not perfect. Heroic won twenty-one races, had eleven seconds and four thirds, and hisstake winnings were £38,062 10s. R. Wilson, who rode Johnnie Jason to victory in the Sydney Cup, was selling newspapers in the Melbourne streets a few years ago. Mr Ned Moss, owner of Veilmond, who ran third in the Cup and won the A.J.C, Plate, is

a wealthy man these days, but as a boy lie also sold papers. He is one of the most popular men in Australian racing —and fof good reasons.. Prosperity has not caused him to forget what hard times are like, and many a Sydney racing man out of luck has had reason to speak well always of Ned Moss. Messrs H. A. Pierce (handicapper), H. B. Ireland (judge), and T. Marshall (starter) have been appointed the principal officials for the meeting to be held by the Otautau Racing Club at Invercargill on May 21, when £428 will be distributed in stakes. The programme will be: —Trial Handicap, £4O, six furlongs; Otautau Harness Trot, class 2min 42scc, £SO, mile and a-half; President’s Handicap, £BO, one mile and a-quarter; Wallace Hack Handicap, £4O, five furlongs; Birchwood Steeplechase, £65, two miles and a half; Aparima Saddle Trot, class 3min 2sec, £4B, one' mile and' a-quarter; Orawia Hack Handicap, £4O, six furlongs ; and Macaulay Memorial Handicap, £65, one mile. The A.J.C. Meeting preserved its record for the rout of punters to the end. The last day was relieved only by the concluding event, in which a plunge on Agincourt materialised. A prominent Sydney punter, whose losses for the week touched the £IO,OOO mark, wiped out his debit by the success of the Spearhead—Battle Scene mare. Battle Scene will be remembered as a useful South Island performer a few .years ago. Agincourt is small but wiry, and sticks well. She was admirably handled by Jacko’s rider, ,D. Lightfoot. During the eleven seasons ho raced Logan Chief started in 180 races, and the following table shows his wonderful record:—

23 16 12 8 121 £12,138

According to reports from Melbourne the New Zealand-bred Mystic Peak, by Romeo from Refinement, was sold last week and will bo sent to India. _ Ho was bred at Auckland by Mr E. Alison and taken to Australia as a yearling, where at auction he was .purchased for 550 gs by Mr A. G. Barlow, who raced him successfully. Subsequently Mr P. B. Quinlan bought him for 1,500g5. Carrying his colours, Mystic Peak won the Cantala Stakes and William Reid Stakes, one of Greenline’s Moonee Valley downfalls In the Futurity Stakes last year Mystic Peak nearly defeated Phar Lap. It was only the outstanding brilliance of the champion that saved him. Mystic Peak had a light season at the stud last year and only resumed racing a few weeks ago. In England a new system was recently introduced in connection with the tote. “ daily double.” Patrons were sold a ticket with a definite horse number on .the first of the selected races corresponding to the number on the race card. Those who were fortunate enough to name the winner of the first race were, upon the runners being declared for the second “ leg ” of the double, permitted to write in. their selection and place the tickets in the box provided for the purpose. This system is somewhat similar to the “ exchange ” system that is in vogue in South Africa and South Australia. No figures are yet available to show whether it has caught on with the public. There is little doubt that it is a fairer method than naming the two horses at the same time, though, of course, there will be less chance of obtaining sensational dividends.

Although Simba, the mystery racehorse, at present is in very poor condition and cannot possibly bo raced, it is hoped that the gelding will be able to face the barrier in about three months’ time (says a Sydney writer). No racehorse in this State in recent years has been surrounded by so much mystery at Simba. He came into Australia on May 5 last year, and on July 3 Mr George Guest announced that ho was the owner. Little was heard of Simba until his mysterious disappearance from stables at Alexandria. When ho was found his eyes were dull, his ribs prominent, and ho had a thoroughly jaded and dejected appearanep. Mr Guest said recently that Simba was in very bad condition. Ho had not had proper feed since ho disappeared nor had ho been looked after as a racehorse should. It was his intention however, to put Simba into training and commence immediately to give him proper care and attention. “It should take about three months to get Simba back into form,'’ said Mr Guest, “ and then I intend to race him ” Mr Guest added that although Simba might not hold his own with the best company at Rnndwick he had every hope of winning on suburban courses with him. The enterprise of the Ashburton Trotting Club in establishing a now event, the Ashburton Gold Cup, attracted a New Zealand Cup class field of eight horses, and groat public interest (says the Christchurch ‘ Star ’). Harold Logan (£001) and the Satin King-King Pointer bracket (£545 10s)

dominated business on the totalisator. Royal Silk, third choice, carried £329. .It was a fine contest. The field were well together most of the way, King Pointer early and Wrackler later acted as pacemakers. Harold Logan lost some ground leaving the straight, but moved up fast from the mile post and was fifth at the half-mile. At the home turn Satin King, on the outside, Hoyal Silk, and Wrackler were .practically on terms in the lead. Harold Logan, next, was coming on the outside. Wrackler was beaten entering the straight, where Satin King took charge. Free Advice came very fast in the straight, but failed by a length to rqach Satin King. Hoyal Silk was two lengths away. Then came Harold Logan, who weakened in the last hundred yards, Carmel and Jewel Pointer. This is the fifth successive succes of Satin King, who is owned in Southland but trained in the Ashburton district. The win was very popular, and there was much cheering. The cup was presented by Mr J. Connolly, M.P. It has already been pointed out that Ngahue, winner of the Hiverton Steeplechase on Eastet Monday, is wellbred as by Ngatapa (St. Ambrose from Ambush), but it also appears that he can claim a very satisfactory line of descent on the female side of his genealogical tree (says “ Sir Modred,” in the Southland ‘Times). Bred by Messrs Grieve Brothers, of the Western District, whose colours are to-day carried by Jack a’ Dandy, the Hiverton winner’s dam, Miss Chatswood, was got by the Australian-bred horse Chatsworth from Miss Collingwood (a Winton Guinea winner in the days when the W.J.C. provided a three-year-old classic event), by Leinster (son of Albany from Zelica) from Marjory Moore (dam of another Winton Guineas winner—viz., Master Moore), by May King, a North Island sire. In her day Marjory Moore was quite a useful performer in this part of the world, and in 1887 she ran second in the Invercargill Cup (decided on the old Queen’s Park course within the town boundary) to a good mare called La Rose, owned by the late Mr J. Stephenson, of Dunedin, and ridden by the late W. Sharp, a crack hrosemnn of those distant times. Miss Collingwood’s sire, Leinster, who was one of the gamest horses ever raced in Southland, owing to the fact that he won many of his numerous successes practically on three legs, was invariably trained and ridden during Ids declining turf years by A. M'Kenzie, who is with us to-day figuring as a capable mentor responsible of late for the preparation of Red Sunset and Sailing Home. In quoting Marjory Moore, many people have put her down as the daughter of a one-time Southland champion called May Kiug, by Alluvium (imp.) from May Day, hut this is incorrect, as she came from Hawke’s Bay, where her sire, May King, was known as a useful stallion. Claiming, as ho does, successful lines as represented by Ngatapa (descendant of St. Simon) and Miss Collingwood (descendant of St. Simon through Chatsworth, by Bill of Portland), it is not surprising that Ngahuo possesses galloping ability in addition to superlative jumping skill.

rjJ CO g -+j u O & O ■a 3 0 s 2 s cc in P P in 2 years 0 1 0 0 2 £110 3 years 5 2 0 0 5 1,695 4 years 5 3 2 1 8 2,334 5 years 5 4 1 2 5 3,795 6 years 0 0 2 1 15 200 7 years 0 2 1 0 17 290 8 years 3 2 1 0 17 1,044 9 years 1 0 2 2 13 500 10 years 2 ; 0 1 0 18 1,230 11 years 2 2 2 2 10 940 12 years 0 0 0 0 11 11