RACING NOTES

Evening Star, Issue 21260, 15 November 1932, Page 5

RACING NOTES

racing. i November 18. 19.~\Vinton Jockey Club. November 19.—Carterton Racing Club. November 19, 21.—Waikato Racing Club. November 26.—Levin Racing Club. November 26, 28.—Takapuna Jockey Club. , „ . : ■ November 26.—North Canterbury Racing Club. . . November 30, December 1. —Feuding Jockey Club. . - December 1, 3. Dargaville Racing Club. December 3. —Ashburton County Racing Club. . T .'December 7, B—Woodville District Jockey Club. . „ ‘ December 9, 10.—Taumarunui Racing Club. . , , ' December 17. —Waipa Racing Club.

A, H. EASTWOOD’S RECORD. . The Riccarton light-weight horseman, 'A. H. Eastwood, was eligible to ride in twenty-four of the races at the f New Zealand Cup Meeting, and he had a mount in each. Eastwood established a new record by riding the winners of the New Zealand Cup, Derby, Oaks, and Canterbury Cup in one season, and only finished out of the money in eight races. His mounts, the stakes won by them, and the amounts invested on them in their individual starts were:—

Thus the total amounts invested on Eastwood’s mounts was £11,815. approximately one-seventh of the total investments at the meeting. L. H. HEWITT’S PERFORMANCE. Many fine performances have been registered by horsemen at the Metropolitan Meeting, and while the record made by A. Eastwood is highly creditable, it falls far short of that made by L. H, Hewitt in 1901, when the first call on his services was held by Mr G. G. Stead and the second by Sir George Clifford. On the opening day he won the Maiden Plate on Golden Knight, was third in the Riccarton Welter on llubia, won the New Zealand Cup on Grand Rapids, the Welcome Stakes on Munjeet, was unplaced in the Stewards’ Handicap on Gold Lily, and won the Shorts Handicap on King’s Guest. On the second - day- he won the Epsom High-weight on Quarryman and the Derby on Nightfall, while in the Juvenile Plate he was second on Rubia to a stable-mate in Sungod, and was iniplaced in the Metropolitan Handicap on Grand Rapids, in the Otaio Plate on The Mohican, and in the Irwell Handicap on Eden. On the third day Hewitt had six mounts for five wins and once unplaced. He won the Spring Nursery on Delaware, the Canterbury Cup on Martian, the Avon Welter on Golden Vein, the Oaks.on Nightfall, and the Electric Plate on Machine Gun, while h© was unplaced in the Jockey Club Handicap on Cannic Chiel. On the fourth day Hewitt rode seven times for three wins, a third, and three unplaced performances. He won the Cressy Welter on Golden Vein, the Members’ Handicap on Savoury, the Randolph Handicap on Machine Gun, while ho was third on Coral in the Seymour Handicap and unplaced on Eden in the Pioneer Handicap, on Signalman in the Jubilee Cup, anl on Golden Lily in the Fendalton Handicap. At this meeting R. J. Mason trained twelve winners for Mr G. G. Stead, while Sir George Clifford won five races. Hewitt’s average was certainly a remarkable one, for in all he had twentyfive mounts for fourteen wins, one second, two thirds, and eight times unplaced. - In 1901, 1903, and 1905 Hewitt rode nine winners at each of the Metropolitan Meetings.

JOTTINGS, £19,556 15s was invested on ilio totnlisator on tlie Melbourne Cup. On the Now Zealand Cup £5,517 invested, and on the New Zealand Trotting Cup £8,43!) 10s. Admiral Drake started at 100 to _1 in the Melbourne Cup, and carried £253 15s on the totalisator. Gusto, the loading long-distance performer in the U.S.A., has won about £54,727 in stakes this year. Ajppian Way recently started favourite in a hurdle race at the Western Australian Turf Club’s Meeting, but finished outside first or second places. Stealth, who had just previously won the Tattersall’s Club Handicap in 2min 6 l-ssec, scored again at the Western Australian Turf Club’s Meeting on October 29 in the Anniversary Handicap. After racing unsuccessfully at 1 ticcarton on the first two days of the Cup fixture Chopin was hurried off to Hastings to win over ten furlongs on Saturday. Mr A. G. Hunter, owner of Liberal, instead of spending money on wine to celebrate the colt’s Derby win, gave £SO to the Melbourne Hospital, a very commendable _ act in these days when humanitarianism is so necessary. The acceptances received for the first day »f the Wiutou Meeting, to be held next Friday and Saturday, are good considering the nominations received, and Wingatui stables will be represented by Pink Paper, Assemble, Tippling, and Hula Belle. Mac Dillon does not often figure as a winner, but when he does it is usually at Forbury Park, a course for which ho appears to have a strong liking. Ho raced well enough at Addington last week to suggest the possibility of his racing with credit at the same course again next week. With eight wins to his credit the progeny of Silverado won £1,650 in stakes during the four days of the meeting. The Ace was second on the sires list, with £895. followed hy Kilbroney £760, Paper Money £525. Hunting Song £435, Arrowsmith £395, Acre £365. . M. Holmes was in great form at the Spring Meeting of the J'fiew, Zealand

[By St. Clair.]

TROTTING. November 19.—Northland Trotting Club. November 21, 26.—Forbury Park Trotting Club. December 3.—Waikato Trotting Club. December 10.—New Brighton Trotting Club. December 26. —Ashburton Trotting Club. December 26.—Gore Trotting Club. December 26.—Wairarapa Trotting Club. December 26, 27.—Westport Trotting Club. December 27, 29, 31.—Auckland Trotting Club. December 29. —Winton Trotting Club. December 30.—Keefton Trotting Club.

Metropolitan Trotting Club. He took part in eighteen races, and was fifteen times in the money. Ho was first in live events, second five times, and third on a similar number of occasions. His winning mounts were Wrackler, First Wrack, Gold Country twice, and Sodium. Forty-four owners shared in the stake money during the four days of the Canterbury Jockey Club’s Meeting. Mr G. Murray Aynsley headed the list with £1,305, while Sir Charles Clifford won £1,125, Mr R. J. Murphy £625, Dr M. G. Louisson £445, Mr T. A. Duncan £350, Miss M. C. Wilson £330, Mr J. M. Samson £320, Mrs M. S. Curie £2BO, Mr A. H. Fisher £240. In all my cup memories I have never seen a horse take the cup from behind a rival horse who had the lead Tarrant ba had set up, and, for that reason, one must take off his hat to nu undoubted champion (writes C. J. Graves, in the Sydney ‘Referee’). There is a greatness about Peter Pan that makes him perhaps another champion of world renown, if he survives the stress and strain of this cup. If he comes right for future racing he will undoubtedly be another Phar Lap. A. H. Eastwood, with eight wins, four seconds, and four thirds, easily headed the list of winning riders at Eiccarton. L. G. Morris, three wins, four seconds, and two thirds, H. N. Wiggins, three wins and a third, L. J. Ellis, two wins, two seconds, and five thirds, B. H. Brodie, two wins, three seconds, and a third, R. J. Mackie, two wins, and J. Walker, two wins, were the nest most successful riders. Twentynine horsemen finished into places. Dolores was improving with each race she had at Addington last week, and on the concluding day finished fourth, only a head behind the third horse, in the' Governor’s Handicap, in which she was handicapped on a 3.30 mark for the mile and a-half, and doing 3.26, equal to about 4min 37soc for two miles. In less select company in the Dominion Handicap, to be decided at Forbury next week, Dolores has been handicapped on a 4.41 mark, and looks liko being hard to beat. Eight of the horses engaged in the President’s Handicap, to be decided at Forbury Park next week, cither won races or finished in places at Addington hist week. Their handicaps for this race, and the times recorded by them at Christchurch, are:—

The following paragraph appeared in the ‘Dominion’ on Saturday:—“The three-year-old Silverado filly, Silver Scorn, winner of the Derby and Oaks, has been sold to Australia, delivery to bo taken after this meeting. Some negotiations for her sale to Australia were in progress prior to the meeting, hut they did not materialise. The sale has, however, now been completed. The price is understood to be 2,000g5.” Inquiries made last evening (says yesterday’s ‘ Press ’) revealed that a sale had not been made. Negotiations had certainly been in progress before and during race week, but had not gone as far as the paragraph suggested—in fact, a price had not even been placed on tho filly by the owner-trainer. Tho Free for All race could bo run a dozen times with the field composed as it was last Friday, and Harold Logan would win it at least ten times. When Free Holmes, who drove Boi L’or, turned into the straight behind the champion, he would have been quite contented to have been assured, at that stage, that he would get second place, and it was not until more than halfway down the straight that he realised his son, who was driving Harold Logan, had allowed him to ease up a little when he reached tho front. Boi L’or, a much smaller horse than Harold Logan, responded very quickly to his driver’s final call, and, catching the champion before his driver could get him going at top again, snatched an assured victory from him. It would be quite safe to say that Free Holmes won the 1932 Free for All. One of the strongest arguments used by tho opponents of tho ban placed on geldings running in tlie Derbies was that there would he no demand for Australian-bred sires (writes “ Chiron,” in the ‘Australasian’). Windbag has given a convincing reply to those arguments. Although tho spring campaign is not over, Windbag lias already given us the winners of tho Epsom Handicap, Craven Plate, Caulfield Guineas, and Victoria Derby, I wonder how many of the protagonists of the geldings have analysed tlie results of the Melbourne Cup. At the time of writing sevontvone Melbourne Cups have, been decided, and of that number only twelve have been won by geldings, four hy mares, and the remainder by fully sexed horses. Tho gelded winners of the Melbourne Cup have been Tory hoy, Warrior, Nirablefoot, Haricot, The Grafter, Revenue, The Parisian, Posinatns, Sananof, Nightwatch, Bitalli, and Phar Lap. The fifty-one entire winners of the Cup have included many notable sires, among them being Carbine, Maine, Grand Flannenr, Comedy King, Windbag, Malvolio, Chester, Martini Henry, and Prince Foote. There is much to be said in favour of tlie action of the A.J.C. and V.B.C. committees in banning geldings from classic races. Remarkable incidents marked the Encourage Stakes at the Gosford (Now South Wales) races last week. Flying Jason, ridden by J. Pratt, and an equa second favourite, attempted to lead ail the way. He entered the straight about half a‘length ahead of tho comparative outsider Sir Joe, who was ridden by A. Hunter. Soon after tho horses straightened for the run to the post Flying Jason lugged out a little, and he and Sir Joe became almost locked together. There was considerable jostling over the last furlong, but Sir Joe won by a nock. The horses wore only a lew strides past the post when one rider was struck across the back with a whip. Pratt lodged a protest against Sir Joe being declared the winner, alleging interference in the straight. The stewards decided to dismiss the protest, but the interference in the straight was

further considered at the A.. 1.0. office the following da.v, when J. J’ratl, the riclor of Flying Jason. was suspended for six mouths for havin'' caused interference to Sir Joe, and A. Hunter, the rider of Sir Joe, was suspended lor two months for having struck Pratt with his whip after passing the post. Referring to Orbell’s return to form when ho bent Taj Kasra, the latter receiving 91b, over a mile and a-quarter, “ Friar Marcus,” writing from Newmarket, says:—” Having regard to differences in respect of weight and distance. the running of the pair had some resemblance to that in the St. Leger, hut it is difficult to say low much Orwell, has had in hand when winning any race. for. while he promptly accelerates when asked, his ears are instantly laid back, to be ‘ cocked ’ again directly ho is eased. He is altogether a queer chap, and does not appear to want to put in a stride more than is necessary. There was always a temperamental ‘ kink 1 in Orwell’s paternal grandsire, Bayardo, and it was supposed to be a legacy from Bay Ronald, whose family was a mixture of the good and the sour. But I do not remember any trace of it in Bayardo’s son, Gainsborough, nor in the latter’s son, Singapore, whose frailty was a physical one set up by hard ground,. That also was a trouble with Gainsborough's greater son, Snlario, although, unlike Singapore, lie kept sound on his logs to the end of his last race. Yet ho flinched the final stage of the struggle against Foxlaw in the Jockey Club Stakes, and was deservedly disqualified for edging out of line.”-

Stakes. Invt. Silver Scorn. £105 £1,3741 Worship 105 183 Fast Passage 700 1,0261 Fracas 40 Earthquake 15 4081 Fracas 30 476 La Poupee Silver Scorn 25 3281 560 1,0481 Irish Lancer 210 487 Silver Scorn 280 867 Sharp Thorn Fleeting Glance 30 3351 30 2781 Grouse 15 213 Red Heckle 100 391 Silver Scorn 240 309 Berate ; 105 8251 £3,590 £9,123 The eight horses ho failed to secure even place money with were:— The Quorn 3351 Chopin •• I Locksley •• 2201 Grouso 2361 Muff -77 Berate 330i Metal Bird 3391 0851 £2.692 Wise- Choice ...

Handicap. Time. Gunfire 4.32 4.28 3-o Mountain Ore 4.32 4.23 3-o Nelson’s Victory 4.32 4.22 4-u Sonicrby 4.32 • 2.8 (mile'* Steel All 4.32 2.15 (mile) Sir Guy 4.32 4.25 3-5 Wrackler 4.30 4.23 3-5 Dillon Logan 4.29 4.25 3-5