RACING NOTES

Evening Star, Issue 21099, 11 May 1932, Page 11

RACING NOTES

RACING. May 12, 14.—Wanganui Jockey Club. May 13, 14. —Southland Racing Club. May 14.—Wnipa Racing Club. May 21.—Ashburton County Racing Club, May 21.—Waikato Racing Club. May 28.—South Canterbury Racing Club. Jun« 1. 3. 4.—Dunedin Jockey Club. June 3, 4.—Otaki-Maori Racing Club. June 3,4, B.—Auckland Racing Club. Juno 16, 18.—Hawke’s Bay Jockey Club. June 18.—South Canterbury Jockey Club.

JOTTINGS. Nominations for the Dunedin Jockey Club’s Winter Meeting close at 5 p.m. to-day. The “ Come to Dunedin ” movement for the Winter Meeting race week promises to be a success. The shorter distance, two miles, of the Southland Steeplechase next Friday will make it easier for Squatter to carry list 111 b. The Forbnry Park winner Peter Locanda is to be given a few weeks spell before being taken in hand again for future racing. Next season the Caulfield Cup will be worth s,ooosovs"and a trophy valued at 150sovs, the Caulfield Guineas (1933) 2,000g5, and the Futurity Stakes (1934). 2,000 gs also. E. Mackie, who was injured at the Otautau Meetings just prior to Easter, has now made a good recovery, and will ride Calham in the Southland Steeplechase on Friday. Broughshone, who went wrong ou the eve of the Riverton Meeting nearly two months ago, is reported from Riverton to have made a complete recovery, and to be working well. Ho should be a light-weight worth keeping in mind during the next ten days. Taramoa, who unfortunately is atfected in the wind, will set a merry pace in. the Southland Steeplechase tomorrow, and the distance, two miles, should suit him well. If this horse were right in the wind he would be a high-class steeplechaser. The Marton trainer and jockey (L. G. Morris) broke a bone in his band while schooling Consent one day this weqk. The injury was received when Consent slipped at a jump. As a result of his victory m the Egraont Steeplechase on Wednesday, Make Up has been rehandicapped 41b for the Great Northern Steeplechase, bringing his weight up to 10.9. Nukumai, who won the Adamson steeplechase on Thursday, will not be rehandicapped. Bronze Eagle has not been extensively raced, his record being as follows : „ Un-

The victory registered by M. E. de St. Alary’s Kandy in the One Thousand Guineas marks the second year in succession that a filly from France has won one of the fillies classics in England. Last year Lieutenant-colonel Birkin furnished the winner of the Oaks with Brulette, who, like Kandy, was bred in France. Up to the present Amnion Ra lias contested twenty-one races, and his record stands as follows: —

“ Sir Modred,” in the ‘ Southland Times,’ takes exception to remarks published in the North Island to the effect that our steeplechasers are a poor lot. Well, compared with Moifaa, Liberator, Levanter, The Guard, Haydon, Kiatere, Bercola,- El Gallo, Waimai, Lochella, Coalition, Beau Cavalier, and others of a few years ago, it looks as if the northern writers are correct in their remarks. It was intended to race Make Up and Landmark at the Wanganui Meeting this week, but the nomination day was overlobked. Mr J. J. Corry’s two jumpers will make their reappearance at Waikato next week, and they will ho accompanied by Appledore, who is to be tried over # hurdles. D. O’Connor will do the riding. When she won the Kowai Handicap at Ambtrley on Saturday, Reylena was making her second public appearance, her first being at Cheviot, when she showed good speed, but mixed her gait on a couple of occasions. She is owned by her breeder, Mr E. T. Forbes, who also bred from Franzalena, the dam of Reylena, Pointalena, Omaha, and Roddy. The last-named, by Rey do Oro, is a brother to Reylena. Included among the two-year-olds raced in Canterbury viewed in a favourable light for three-year-old engagements is Rebel Song, who is inbred to Bend Or through the same channel, the leading lines in his pedigree being as follows: —Sire: Robespierre, hy Phalaris, son of Polymelus, and grandson of Cyllene. Dam: Toti dal Monte, by Gay Lad, son of Cellini, and grandson of Cyllene. Rocket, who beat all but Execution in the Novice Stakes at Amberley, is by Day Comet from Top Score, a sister "to Winning Hit. He showed promising form at Riccarton at Easter, and his recent track form, though including nothing of a specially brilliant character, has gained him friends. He should make a good horse for next season.

The Tiger scored his seventh win for the season when he won the Hack Scurry Handicap at the Egmont Meeting on Wednesday. He is a four-year-old by Sheffield, an Australian-bred horse by Bright Steel, from imported liiane. a sister to the successful sire Linacre. The Tiger is credited with brilliant speed, and be should do well in open sprint company next season. By finishing second in the open sprint on the first day and the Davidson Handicap on the second day at Egmont, Siivermino kept up his record for the consistency that has been a jeaturo of liis racing in the past. I'ho Taranaki-trained gelding is getting on in years, and appears to have lost some of his brilliancy, but ho is wearing well, and his trainer, J. Brown, should win more races with him now that the track conditions are favourable.

The value of the 1 per cent, reduction in the totalisator taxation to the clubs racing in Southland this season would have been :—Gore Racing Club, £277 ; Winton Jockey Club, £92 ; Gore 'trotting Club, £119; Winton Trotting Chib, £S-‘!; Wyndhain Racing Club, t‘B3: Southland Racing Club, £203; Wairio Jockey Club, £6O; Ch’fdon Racing Club, £l6; Invercargill 'trotting Club, £ls-1; Wyndhain Trotting Club, £9l; Otantau Racing Club, £l6, and Riverton Racing Club, £370. Nearly equal to the best stake given by each club. It will help all of these clubs to keep on working for tlw Government for at least next season.-

[By Sx. CiAra.]

Juno 23. —Egmont-Wanganui Hunt Club, Juno 24, 25.—Napier Park Racing Club. June 25. —Ashburton County Racing Club,

TROTTING. May 14.—Camara Trotting Club. May 14. —Thames Trotting Club. Juno 3, 4.—Canterbury Part Trotting Club. June 11.—Ashburton Trotting Club. June 23, 25 —Auckland Trotting Club.

When schooled in company over hurdles at Ellcrslie on Thursday Kawainga gave a vastly improved display compared with her previous effort. She fenced with ’plenty of dash, and did not dwell at her fences to any extent, and, taken on the whole, her effort was very satisfactory. R. Porter has this maro in the right condition to undergo a final preparation for her Great Northern engagements, and she should bo nearly at her best by tho time tlie meeting arrives. E. J. Ellis is handling a recruit to the jumping game. This is the five-year-old gelding Grahall, by Cynic from Purse filler, by Lethe from Golden View, by Gold Reef from Vista, by Torpedo from Blink Bonny, by Cadogan, and who is owned by a well-known sportsman in the Waikouaiti district. There is some good jumping blood in this pedigree. Cadogan sired Kulnic, winner oi : the Grand National Hurdles* and Lethe was another son of Cadogan. Tho Musket lino through Torpedo has provided some good jumpers. As a final recommendation, the imported horse. Cynic, won the Groat Northern Hurdles. . As a result of his excellent form at Porbury Park John Noble has come into demand for the President’s Handicap, the principal event to be decided at the Oainaru Meeting next Saturday, where he is on the limit of the 4m in Jdsec class event. At the same club’s Spring Meeting last season John Noble was narrowly beaten into fourth place by Harold Logan, Grand Light, and Great Logan, when he started from a 4min 32sec mark. Since then lie has won three mile and a-quarter races, and he is on the front of Saturday’s handicap. . . B. Davis, a New Zealander, racing in England with a fair measure of success, seems to place a good deal of reliance on a whistle which he sounds to encourage his horses to a final effort. He is not exactly a pioneer in this field (says the Melbourne 1 Sporting Globe ’). The late Walter Hickenbotbam always had a whistle as part of Ids stock-in-trade, but only used it on the training ground. Even when his horses wore only doing ordinary pace work Hickenbotham always regulated the speed by the watch, and the whistle was pressed into the service to give the riders their cue. Always thorough in his methods, Hickenbotham found this a good means of having his instructions carried out. In this connection a rather curious coincidence may be related. Hickenbotham had Footbolt engaged in a weight-for-ago race at Caulfield in which he was opposed by Wakeful and others. Coming to tho home turn a locomotive in the railway yards nearby whistled loudly. At that moment Footbolt shot to the front and won nicely. There was some chaff afterwards about Footbolt remembering his track experience, but it is scarcely likely that the whistle influenced him in any way. Otairi was sore after finishing second to Callapat in the Tongahoe Hurdles at Hawera last week, and consequently was sent back home without waiting for the second day. Otairi made a gallant attempt to win, but he had no chance to concede the weight to the winner. Nevertheless, his form was good, for it was only his second outing of late. In his first, the Marten Steeplechase, he had gone about six furlongs when he fell, so he should bo a much better horse for his Hawera run. His fencing was as good as ever, and he managed to keep within range of the pacemakers throughout, holding out indications that he has but to keep sound to win soon. Otairi is top weight in the Great Northern Hurdles and Steeplechase, and with tho prospect of the ground being very heavy he will need to bo good to win either event. Not since Coeur do Lion was successful in 1901 has a horse carried 11.5 to victory in the Great Northern Hurdles; and Battlenxe, Fisher, and Kohu are tho only ones who have carried over lOst successfully. On the figures Otairi’s chances are a shade better in the Great Northern Steeplechase, for in the_ last twenty years El Gallo 11.5, Waimai 12.0, Loohella 11.0, Coalition 12,5, and Sir Roseberry 11.5 have been victorious. It is significant, however, that the last half-dozen contests have fallen to the 9st division, ranging: from 9.0 to 9.8.

Satin King is registered as a gelding by Erin’s King from a mare by Harold Wilkes, but he is by no means the shortbred horse these meagre details would suggest. His owner-breeder, Mr W. M‘Donald, provided his full pedigree for “ Ribbouwood,” of the ‘ Sun,’ at the Forbnry Park Meeting. His dam was got by Harold Wilkes (Quincev— Gentle Zephyr) from Satimvork, ”by Satinwood from a thoroughbred mare by a well-known Tradueer stallion which Mr M'Donald could not call to mind. Satimvork is also the dam of Donsidc, a good but unsound pacer whose promising career was cut short, batinwood, sire of many winners, was by imported Wildwood from Black Belle, by Blackwood Abdallah (imp.)— hannio Belle (imp.) Fannie Belle and Blackwood Abdallah were among tho first American importations away back in 1882. It is little wonder, therefore, that Satin King has turned out a good one. Another descendant of Fannie Belle is a remarkable stayer in Rollo, who was got by Jingle (brother to Gold Bello), by Capitalist (by Rothschild) from Merry Belle. Rollo’a dam, Madam Templeton, was got by Copa de Oro from Tongauui, bv Wildwood 11. from Berlin Maul, by Berlin. Wildwood It. was by Wildwood from Fannie Belle If., by General Tracey from Fannie Belle (U.S.A.). Both Berlin and Fannie Belle wore members of the celebrated Mambrino family, which has been extolled from time to time by the highest authorities in the trotting world.

It is tlie view of “ Watchman,” who is one of the race special writers for tho ‘ Morning Post,’ that the early clays of this flat racing season have been by no means devoid of satisfactory features to owners ami breeders. An encouraging sign lias been iho good prices fetched by platers. Trainers who have placed something tolerable useful in .selling events are not finding it easy to retain tbo winners: while the fact that a. two-year-old plater fetched as much as 1,000 guineas at Liverpool I accept as indicating that bloodstock values have returned to a higher level than that at which they stood last autumn. Again, when Mr Boyd Davis wisliecl to sell ono of his Stratford colts last .week he

quickly found a customer at a price which returned a handsome profit on the figure given for tho colt as a yearling. After the Doncaster sales a wave of pessimism swept over bloodstock breeders, and the Newmarket December sales did not do much to dispel the gloom. Recent transactions, however, show that there is still plenty of money about for the right type of thoroughbred, and I am convinced that when the foreign market rights itself British breeders of bloodstock will have little to complain of. Tho first genuine test of the bloodstock market this year will come at tho Newmarket first Spring Meeting, when horses in training belonging to the late Sir John Rutherford and Mrs Edgar Wallace will come under the hammer. 1 venture to predict that they will not he associated with anything in tho nature of a slump.

First. Second. Third, placed. At 2yrs 4 0 0 i At 3yrs 4 3 0 I 8 , . ~3 0 2

First. Second. Third, placed. UnAt 2yrs 5 1 1 0 At 3yrs 10 2 0 2 15 3 1 2