RACING NOTES

Evening Star, Issue 21233, 14 October 1932, Page 15

RACING NOTES

RACING. October 15. —South Canterbury Jockey Club. October 15.—Masterton 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.

FOR AINTREE. There arrived in London recently a challenger for next year’s Grand National from America. This was the celebrated ’chaser Trouble Maker, who was consigned to Messrs Dale and Dalzicl, of Fordham Abbey, Newmarket, for the express purpose of being trained for the great Aintree race. A winner of the Billy Barton Steeplechase and other important races in the States, Trouble Maker is an ideal type of ’chaser that stands about seventeen hands, and is by Berrilldon, a son of the Cambridgeshire winner Berrill, from Busybody, a daughter of Meddler. Trouble Maker belongs to Mrs Somerville, a wealthy American owner, and sister to Mr AVillie Du Pont, who purchased Tetrateraa’s own brother, The Satrap, the best two-year old in England in 1926. Mr Du Pont also purchased the colt by Hurry On from Pagan Sacrifice from the Buckland Stud that was the second highest priced yearling sold at Doncaster in 1930. For the time being Trouble Maker will rest and acclimatise at Fordham Abbey, and afterwards will go into the care of Mr Noel Lang, who has trained and ridden him for all the races he has won in America. JOTTINGS. There was a doubt about starting Minerval in the Timaru Cup to-morrow until rain fell early this week. It is worthy of note that Minerval’s grand dam, Lady Lillian, won this race twenty-nine years ago. The conditions attached to the Stewards’ Handicap this year provide that the winner of any race of the value of 200sovs, or of any race or races of the value of 300sovs to the winner, may be rehandicapped. Two good steeplechasers, Alma, who won the Grand National Steeplechase in 1892, and Liberator, the Great Northern Steeplechase in 1895, are listed amongst the winners of the Timaru Sup, the former in 1890 and Liberator in 1893. Cadland, by Acre from Beilina, one of the most brilliant sprinters in the North Island, is one of the early fancies for the Stewards’ Handicap. He is engaged at the Wellington Spring Meeting, and can win one race at that fixture without incurring a penalty. The next payment for the New Zealand Cpp iS'due on Friday of next week, the day prior to the commencement of the Wellington and Gore Meetings. There will also be the first acceptance for the Stewards’ Handicap on the same day. Handicaps for tho latter race are duo next Tuesday. The New Zealand Trotting Derby candidate, Indianapolis, will be seen in action in the Hadlow Trot Handicap to-morrow, and off the limit he promises to be very hard to beat, but he cannot afford to make any mistakes with tho Oamaru winner, Happy Boy, off the same mark. This pair and Avaunt should have the best chances. The conditions of the Spring Stakes to be run at Timaru to-morrow are for horses that have never won a flat race of 75sovs to the winner, and, though Palantua has already won two races this season, she is still eligible. On her Wingatui form the race looks good for this filly, with Lady Zephyr and Worship tho next best. It was far from being a good field that Belvoir beat when he won over six furlongs at Geraldine, and he will require to do better to finish in front of either Ranclagh, or Blue Metal. Tho six furlongs will not be far enough for Mount Boa, and none of the others look like being able to extent Blue Metal, Ranelagh, nor Belvoir. A big field, seventeen, has been paid np for the Tycho Hack Handicap tomorrow, with three Otago-owned horses in Kerbside 8.13, Niggerhead 8.12, and Hula Belle 8.9 at the top of the card. Silver Streak, with 8.8, just failed to see out six furlongs at Wingatui last Saturday, hut, with 9lh off his back at Timaru, ho promises to he hard, and may worry Hula Belle and Kerbside at the finish. The Cesarewitch Stakes Handicap, ] won by Nitsichen on Wednesday, run over two and a-quartcr miles, is one of the most important long-distance races in the English calendar. It was j established in 1839, and a very popular event with owners . This year there , were twenty-six starters, the same as ; in 1931. In 1930 there wore 28; 1929, 35; 1928, 15; 1927, 30; 1926, 24; 1925, 33; 1924, 34; and 1923, 29 starters. Eureka Boy will not make the trip to Oamaru on Labour Day, hut will he reserved for sprint races in November. His form to date has clearly revealed that he is a born sprinter, and it will probably he another year before a thorough try-out over two miles will he justified. Since racing at Otaki, Red Sun has livened up. He looked well and galloped smartly on AVednesday morning and is to make the trip to Masterton on Saturday, reports the ‘ Sun’s ’ AVellington correspondent. He was not in the list of acceptances sent out, but was paid up for. Ho is doing well m his preparation for racing at Riccarlon next month.

Desert Maiden showed a lot of pace in a fast-run mile and a-half race at Ashburton a month ago, and if she has improved at all will be very hard to head off in the Washdyke Trot tomorrow. Whitstono meets Sunbrown on 36yds worse terms than at the Kurow Meeting for a bead beating over ten furlongs, and Sunbrown should be able to turn the tables. These three appear to have the best chances in this race.

The Timaru Cup was first run in 187J5, when Castaway won with 9st 11b. It was then a two and a-half mile race, and' it took the winner 4min 37sec. Since then it has been run over various distances, from seven furlongs to two miles and a-quartcr, but for tho last twelve years over a mile and aquartcr. Some of the best horses fo win this race have been Sir Modred (1881), Tasman (1883 and 1884), Liberator (1893), Lady Lilian (1903), First Glance (1914), and Loughrea (1923). In certain quarters Chopin is strongly fancied for tho Now Zealand Cup. He did not run up to expectations at Otaki, but had a rider who was now to him. His owner intends to give him plenty of racing between now and Cup day. ami will start him at Masterton, where ho looks to stand an excellent chance of earning some of

[By St. Clair.]

November s.—Hawke’s Bay Jockey Club. November 5, 7.—Auckland Racing Club. 5, 7,9, 12. —Canterbury Jockey TROTTING. October 22, 24. -Greymoutb Trotting Club October 22, 24.—Auckland Trotting Club. October 24.---Oamaru Trotting Club. October 29.—Wellington Trotting Clnh. November 8, 10, 11.—N.Z. Metropolitan Trotting Club. November 19.—Northland Trotting Club. November 24, 26. —Forbury Park Trotting Club.

the expenses of the Riccarton trip. So far, a rider for him in tho New Zealand Cup has not been definitely decided upon. Lord Rosebery has decided not to take the risk of keeping Miracle in training for another year, and tho Eclipse Stakes winner is to be retired to liis owner’s stud at Mentmore, where he will serve a limited number of mares next season. Miracle won four races—the Selsey Stakes at Goodwood and the Gimcrack Stakes as a two-year-old, and the Newmarket Stakes and Elipse Stakes this year—of the total value of £14,606. He is a son of Mannar Nitsichen, who won the Cesarewitch Stakes Handicap, last season started third favourite in and won the Irish Oaks. She also won the London Cup Handicap, mile and a-qnarter, and the Alexandra Park Three-year-old Handicap, mile and 150yds. She is owned by Mr D. S. Kennedy, and was considered one of the best four-year-olds in commission at the beginning f rhe present season,, having been awarded top weight in the Rosebery Stakes Handicap, run at Kempton Park, last March.

Tippling failed over a mile last Saturday after winning well over six furlongs tho first day, but as he had not been up long this was not surprising. In tho Kerrytown Hack Handicap tomorrow he has Bst 111 b, and it looks as if he will strike most trouble from Metal Bird and Nightflyer. The latter won well over ten furlongs at Ashburton, and Metal Bird over, seven furlongs at Geraldine. Blue Hills has been galloping well lately, and might effect a surprise in this raec.

When Minerval beat Shatter into third place in the Ashburton Handicap, one mile, he was in receipt of 61b from the Shambles gelding. Minerval won the Geraldine Cup with Bst slb, his last start. Shatter did not start at Geraldine, but ran third in the Kurow Cup with 9st, and followed this up by winning the Mosgiel Handicap withSst 41b. In the Timani Cup to-morrow Minerval, Bst 121 b, has to give Shatter, Bst 81b, 41b, and on Ashburton and Geraldine form it points to Minerval again finishing in front of Shatter.

When Hounslow ran on the second day of the Geraldine Meeting he had 9st 81b and Antrim Boy, who fell, list 111 b, a difference of 311 b. In the Otaio 'Hurdles at Timaru to-morrow Antrim Boy has list 61b and Hounslow 9st 51b, thus Hounslow meets the locally-owned horse on 21b better terms. Nine of Spades, who finished second each day at Geraldine, meets Morena, who beat him the first day, on 61b, and Hounslow, who beat hint the second day, on 51b better terms. If the course is not too hard to-mor-row it looks as if Hounslow should bo the hardest to beat.

Some Toff’s good showing oyer a mile at Wingatui last Saturday is sure to bring him into some favour for the Timaru Cup to-morrow, but Cricket Bat, Merry Peel, Shatter, and Ramo are likely to bo better backed when the totalisator is balanced. Cricket Bat is unquestionably a high-class horse, but 9st 51b is a steadier for a horse that has yet to show ho can run. a mile and a-half. Merry Peel will meet Shatter on 21b better terms for beating him at the Kurow Meeting, and, provided the course is not hard, should beat him again, but Minerval, on his Ashburton and Geraldine form, should beat both of them. Ramo ran badly at the Ashburton Meeting, but has been doing attractive work in the interval, and if ho has a chance in tho New Zealand Cup should race prominently to-mor-row. Minerval, Merry Peel, and Shatter are the three that appeal most. It is to be hoped that Indianapolis and Cloudy Range will both go to the post for the Redcastle Handicap at Oamaru, as their New Brighton running did not serve to show which was the better three-year-old. They were bred by Mr H. F. Nicoll at Durbar Lodge, and Indianapolis was sold after the Sapling Stakes to the Dunedin sportsman, Mr G. J. Barton, at a big figure. Last season Mr Barton bought Tempest from the same breeder, and Mr Nicoll’s other three-year-old, Giro, beat Tempest in the New Zealand Derby, but Tempest had his revenge in the Great Northern Derby, and so far has proved the better horse. Indianapolis beat Cloudy Range in the Sapling Stakes, but Cloudy Range improved after that race, and won at Ashburton a fortnight later in 3.26 3-5, which was the fastest time registered by a two-year-old for a mile and a-half last season. Severe strictures on the circumstances following the falling and injury to Balloon at Otaki are made by the Wellington critic, “Rangatira.” He writes: “Not only was there unpardonable delay in shooting him, but there was a shocking misdirection of aim in the two shots fired into him, and as there was apparently no other ammunition tho horse had to suffer tho agony of a lingering death. It is certainly tho Otaki executive’s duty to see that so far as is within its power there shall be no recurrence of such a slaughter on its course again.” Balloon, whose career ended so deplorably, had begun his fifth season. On the flat he was not a great success, and last autumn, after he had reverted to his breeder, Mr W. Kirkland, of Foxton, he was put to hurdling. He showed promise in this department, but never won over the battens. In all he contested 111 races, and won ton, his total winnings being £1,941. The wonderful performance of Harold Logan when he established a new world’s grass track record for a mile and a-quarter at New Brighton on Saturday has led to many arguments regarding the best performances done in tho world over that distance (says the Christchurch ‘Star’). Harold Logan’s effort on Saturday was 2min 38 2-ssec, which was 2-ssec better than that done by Peter Bingen when he won the Free for All at Addington in 1928. Last year King Pointer had to do 3min 39 4-ssoc to secure the honours. Prince Pointer boasts of a record of 2min 39seo for the journey. In America Phil O’Neill paced ten furlongs in 2min 33Jscc. That was in 1925, and he did it against time. Trotting contests in the United States do not provide opportunities for establishing new records over any other distance than a mile, and it is only when an owner becomes seized with an idea to send his horse for a record over other distances that a comparison of ability of the horses of both countries can be obtained.

Racing against time in New Zealand is not encouraged to the same extent as it is in America, and a comparison of records is always interesting (says the ‘Sun’). Peter Manning, the recognised champion trotter of the world, has a mile record of 1.565, and he also put up, against time, the two-mile record of 4.10 J. Shortly after Onyx’s mile and a-half against time at New Brighton in 3.13 was claimed as a world’s record Peter Manning promptly shattered it to 3.92. Now New Zealanders are obliged to claim Onyx’s time as a “world’s grass track ” record Likewise, Harold Logan’s two miles in 4.13 2-5 is a race record, and so is Huon Voyage’s 4.22 3-5 for a trotter. The only straight-out world’s record hold iu Now Zealand is Native Chief’s mile saddle in 2.7 1-5. The best mile saddle performance in America is County day’s 2.8 L but there is not much glamour attached to Native Chiefs performance, as County Jay made his record away back in 1909, and light harness saddle racing has been practically forgotten in. the States.