RACING NOTES

Evening Star, Issue 21232, 13 October 1932, Page 5

RACING NOTES

RACING. October 15.—South Canterbury Jockey Cub. October 15.—Masterlon Racing Club. October 15, 17. —Avondale Jockey Club. October 22. 24. —Wellington Racing Club. October 22, 24.—Gore Racing Club. October 24.—Waverley Racing Club. October ,24. —Waikato Hunt Club. October 24.—Waipawa C. Racing Club. October 24.—North Canterbury Racing Club. October 27, 29.—Poverty Bay Turf Club. October 29.—Banks Peninsula Racing Club. October 29. —Carterton Racing Club. MEW ZEALANDERS AT RANDWICK. At tins point it may be of interest to compare the success of New Zealandowned horses at the recent Australian Jockey Club’s Spring Meeting this year with their success twelve months ago. As far as wins and places are concerned they did relatively better this year, but their stake winnings, on account of the greatly reduced value of the races, did not total much more in all than last year’s sum. The figures are: — LAST YEAR’S MEETING.

The following is a list of dominion owners who were successful in earning a share of the stake money at this year’s meeting Wins. Places. Stakes.

JOTTINGS. The first race at Washdyke on Saturday will start at 12.40 p.m. D. ; O’Connor has been engaged to ride Cricket Bat, Ranelagh, and Nine of Spades at Washdyke on Saturday. Shatter has not been penalised in the Tiniani Cup for winning the Mosgiel Handicap. In the former race he meets fresh horses in Cricket Bat, Minerval, llamo, and Merry Peel. A race card for the South Canterbury Jockey Club’s Meeting on Saturday is acknowledged. Shatter will be ridden in the Timaru Cup by M. Kirwan, L. J. Ellis, who rode him to victory in the Mosgiel Handicap, being engaged for Merry Peel. A. H.. Eastwood will ride Night Recital in the Timaru Cup on Saturday, and will also be on Blue Metal in the Flying Handicap. Bolvoir, Mount Boa, and • Royal Sceptre, who are engaged in the Flying Handicap at Washdyke on Saturday, are the only Stewards’ Handicap candidates in the race. When Ranelagh beat Blue Metal at the Kurow Meeting he gave the Win-gatui-trained horse 341 b. In the Flying Handicap at Timaru they will meet at a difference of 371 b. Rarao, who is one of the ante-post favourites for the New Zealand Cup, will be ridden in the Timaru Cup tomorrow by J. W. Jennings. Mr J. Harvej', trainer of Red Racer and Orangapai, is at present an inmate of the Dunedin Hospital. His many friends will wish him a speedy recovery. His many friends in the commercial as well as sporting world will regret to learn that Mr H. A. Knight, who recently underwent a serious operation in Christchurch, is still on the seriously ill list. The safety margin for seven furlongs at Avondale is twenty-eight, so that there is a prospect of the Maiden Plate having to be run in divisions on-Satur-day. The field numbers thirty-five at acceptance. The three-year-old Rocket has been sold by Sir Charles Clifford to his sister (Mrs H. B. Douglas, of Glenesk, Scargill), and the Day Cornet —Top Score colt will carry his new owner’s colours at the South Canterbury Meeting. Arikira, Spearful, Chopin, Palm, Joie do Val, Full Mark, Red Sun, and Oknpua were New Zealand Cup horses racing at Otaki. Palm was the only winner, and none of them greatly increased his circle of admirers for the Riccarton two-miler. Jaloux is reported from Riccarton to be making good progress in his preparation for the New Zealand Cup and other events to ho decided at the Metropolitan Meeting next month. He has not been sent any record-breaking gallops, but he has done well on the useful tasks allotted him. It is the treatment that suits him best. When Antrim* Boy won the Hurdle Race at Dunedin on Saturday none of the horses he boat was engaged in the Otaio Hurdles; hence his escaping a penalty. In any case ho was handicapped several pounds nearer Captain’s Gift (a non-acceptor) than when he beat him at Wingatui. The first of the stock of the dual New Zealand Cup winner, Peter Bingen, to race will make his appearance m the Washdyke Handicap at the South Canterbury Meeting on Saturday. This is the four-year-old gelding Eastern Prince, who is trained at Now Brighton. The dam of Eastern Prince is bv Harold Dillon. Tho meeting of Minerval 8.12, who will bo ridden by E. Ludlow, llamo 8.11, Shatter 8.8, and Merry Peel 8.6 iu the Timaru Cup will add considerable interest to that race, us all .four are engaged in the New Zealand Cup. Their weights in the latter race are Minerval

[By Sx. Cuaik.]

November 5. —Hawke’s Bay Jockey Club. November 5, 7.—Auckland Racing Club. November 5,7, 9, 12.—Canterbury Jockey Club. TROTTING. October 22, 24.—Greymouth Trotting Club. October 22, 24.—Auckland Trotting Club. October 24.—Oamaru Trotting Club. October 29. —Wellington Trotting Club. November 8, 10, 11. —N.Z. Metropolitan Trotting Club. November 19. —Northland Trotting Club. November 24, 26.—Forbury Park Trotting Club. 7.11, llamo 7.11, Shatter 7.6, and Merry Peel 7.4. The winner will incur no penalty. Hula Bello has two engagements at Washdyke on Saturday, the Tycho Hack Handicap and the Plying Handicap. When Blue Metal beat her in the Shorts Handicap at Wingatui last Saturday Blue Metal 7.2 gave her 21b. In the Flying Handicap at Washdyke Hula Belle 7.5 is asked to meet Blue Metal 7.0 on 71b worse terms for the beating she received. A cable was received in Christchurch on Tuesday afternoon by F. Holmes, from Mr A. Louisson, in Sydney, that all of A. M'Aulay’s team will be leaving for New Zealand on Friday next. The reason for the change of plans regarding Nightmarch was not stated, but evidently he is not to race again in the meantime, as Mr Louisson has instructed Holmes to make arrangements for Nightmarch to stand for the balance of the season under Holmes’s care at Riccarton. There is no doubt that Gold Country will become a firm favourite for the Camara Handicap (says the ‘ Sun ’). His brilliant finishing run in the Avon Handicap at New Brighton after a bad beginning shows that he is very well, and that he should be at the top of his form on Labour Day. It is a very strong field, though, and in Belinda, Colorado, Ayrmont Chimes, Impromptu, Auto Machine, and Lindbergh ho will encounter proved stayers, mostly in the pink of condition. At Riccarton on Tuesday morning the tracks had benefited by the recent rain, but was holding. Shatter and Craigavon galloped seven furlongs comfortably in Imin 33sec, the first half in 52 2-ssec. They finished abreast, but the former was not called upon over the last furlong, llamo ran a mile with Night Flyer in Imin 48 l-ssec, the last half mile in 54 2-ssec. Night Recital ran seven furlongs in Imin 33sec. Minerval and Red Heckle ran half a mile in 51 3-ssec. Hounslow (W. Pascoe) and Punchestown (H. Turner) were companions in a round of the hurdles, both giving satisfactory displays. The former will again be prominent at Washdyke should the going be soft. Spearfnl, winner of the last New Zealand Cup, was an interesting competitor at the Otaki Meeting on Saturday. He has been off the scene since be ran third to Gay Crest and Admiral Drake in the Wellington Racing Club Handicap last January. He got into trouble during the running of that event, injuring a leg, and according to his trainer, M. Williams, he has been a source of anxiety since. He was not forward enough to make more than a brief showing at Otaki, and it does not seem that he will be at his best for Riccarton. At this time last year he was disputing the issue in all his races.

Addressing the annual meeting of the Victorian Amateur Turf Club last month, the chairman, Mr Ben Chaffey, said that in his opinion the outlook had become a good deal brighter during the year. The profit of £5,004 was Fairly satisfactory, taking into consideration the strenuous times. Attendances had improved a little, but the profit shown was really due to reductions in stakes and general expenditure. The committee was fully alive to the fact that without substantial stakes breeding, and, with it, racing must decline. The committee had under consideration the inclusion of a reasonably good race or two during the autumn for three-year-old fillies. Mr Chaffey expressed the hope that taxation on racing would not bo further increased.

One of the most promising hacks to be stepped out for a long time in these parts is Mr W, M‘A. Duncan’s Plateau, who, in his only two starts to date, was very narrowly beaten by Sanguine King in the Tuamannka Hack Handicap on the first day at Otaki, then on the second day was backed down to ridiculously short odds in the Rahui Hack Handicap, and won as and when he liked, with just how much in hand it is possible only to conjecture, for he was under a hold and had his ears pricked almost all the way down the straight. Plateau has been allowed plenty of time, for he is now four years old. He is a bay gelding by Acre from the Husbandman mare Moorefield, and is thus a full brother to the well-per-formed Crown Area, a brilliant galloper and a great weight-carrier, and a half-brother to Moorgas, ‘a useful horse, who ran third in Nightmarch’s Derby. Mr Sol Goldhill, a bookmaker, of Sydney, who returned recently from a visit to England, informed a Sydney ‘ Morning Herald ’ representative that racing was in a sounder position in the United Kingdom to-day than at any time since the war. Betting was on a larger scale than it had been during the last ten years. This improvement, it seemed to him, was reflecting the times, and was evidence of a general improvement in conditions. Although one heard the usual stories of had times, it was necessary to book weeks in advance for any succesful play or revue, one could not always obtain a table at the better class restaurants, and the stores were doing huge business. The only Australian racehorse he had seen perform in England, said Mr Goldhill, was Strephon, and it was pitiful to watch him. “Ho could not get out of his own way,” he added, regretfully. The handicapping system provides some complications for trainers of Trotting Cup candidates. Roi I’Or is entered for the 4.30 two-mile race at Oamaru, but was omitted from the 2.45 mile and a-quarter. That is a sensible proceeding, as the Waimate crack can ho given a real work-out in the tworaile without danger of incurring a penalty for the Cup—his chances off 4.24 in a 4.30 field are remote, and if he happened to fluke a win in a slowrun race he would pick up a stake worth the penalty. _ But if he won a mile and a-qnartor just now, he would go back a second in the Cup and win very little money. Kingcraft is in the same position, as his last win was over a mile and a-quartcr, and another success over that journey automatically entails a penalty at two miles. There arc other pacers on slower marks who are in the Oamaru Handicap whose trainers would have been annoyed had they won recently over ten furlongs. One of the results of mechanical handicapping is that some Cup horses will have to be kept out of races which they have a chance of winning, or that they will bo having* a work-out. To put it bluntly, the system at the moment is not altogether conducive to honest running (adds a writer in the ‘ Timaru Herald ’).

Published summaries of the regulations framed by the Conference Executive to enable three dividends to be paid in races with large fields, gave the impression that when this system was adopted it would be necessary to pay two dividends on a five-horse race. This is not correct, as clubs will still have the option of adhering to the present allocation in fields of six to eight inclusive. The position is that any club is authorised to pay three dividends in cases where there are nine or more totalisator chances, and to pay two dividends (as it may wish) when there are either five or six chances. The only condition imposed is that the system adopted must he adhered to for the currency of a meeting. At Otaki last week, two dividends were paid on fivehorse fields, but at Wingatni only one dividend was declared on a five-horse race. Two dividends with only five starters will not be generally popular or profitable to clubs, as in the event of their being a hot favourite, big backers are unlikely to operate through the machine. The percentages are: —For nine or more chances, 70 per cent., 20 per cent., 10 per cent.; for six to eight chances, 75 per cent, 25 per cent. ; for five or fewer chances, 100 per cent; or, in the alternative, five to eight chances, 75 per cent., 25 per cent.; four or fewer chancers, 100 per cent. The three dividend system is not compulsory.

Wins. Places. Stakes. First day 1 1 £2,237 Second day ... — 1 700 Third day ... — 2 80 Fourth day ... — 2 95 Totals 1 6 £3,102 THIS YEAR'S MEETING. Wins. Places. Stakes. First day — 1 £100 Second day ... ; 1 4 * 1,275 Third day ... ... ... 2 4 979 Fourth day ... 2 3 990 Totals 5 12 £3,344

E. R. Davis and Nicholson ... ... 0. 1 _ £1,015 A. D. Webster ... 1 1 452 R. J. Murphv ... 1 — 378 V. Riddifofcl 1 1 358 J. M. Corcoran ... 1 — 316 Smith Bros — 5 305 A. Louisson — 2 180 II. Rama , — 2 160 D. Fraser —• 1 100 N. E. Aitken and P. Wood H. \ 50 D. G. Fraser ... — I ■ 40 Totals 5 12 £3,344