RACING NOTES

Evening Star, Issue 21319, 25 January 1933, Page 8

RACING NOTES

RACING. January 26.—I’ahiatua Racing Club. January 27. —Opotiki Jockey Club. January 28.—Napier Park Racing Club. January 28, 30.—Takapuna Jockey Club. February I.—Tapanui Racing Club. February 1, 2.—Egmont Racing Club. February 2, 4.—Gisborne Racing Club. February 2, 4.—Wairoa Racing Club. February 4. —Matamata Racing Club. February 9, 11.—Dunedin Jockey Club.

FORBURY PARK TROTS TO-MORROW.

The Forbury Park Trotting Club will commence its Cup Meeting to-morrow, and everything points to the fixture being a successful one. _ The weather is settled and the track in fast and good order. The fields are just the right size to provide interesting racing and encourage good wagering, and most of the races bear an open appearance. Again the Christchurch stables are very strongly represented, but the locallytrained horses are more numerous than usual, and the North Otago, Central Otago, and Southland stables are also well represented. The following is the card and anticipations for to-morrow: —

12.15: VATJXHALL HANDICAP, HOsovs, Class 3.48. lsm.

Bosun scr Amonos ... 36 Coreopsis ... scr Earl Bingen 36 Mataunga ... scr Reclaim ... 36 Sansaveno ... scr Resound ... 36 Sister Mary scr Sea Mist ... 48 Real Belle ... 12 Gyrate ... 60 Mataunga, on his Timaru form, will probably be sent out favourite, and Reclaim and Gyrate should cause him most trouble. 12.55: SOUTHLAND HANDICAP, 120sovs. . ■ Class 3.39. lim. Eastern John Appear 12 Prince ... scr Quita 12 Hytemoana scr Black Jester 24 Reylena ... scr Anthum ... 24 St. Felix ... scr Chenwood ... 36 Young Frank scr Lord Lupin ... 36 Black Jester finished a good second to Ruth Logan at Timaru on Saturday, and with Reylena and Anthum should prove the best. 1.40: ELECTRIC HANDICAP, loOsovs. • • Class 2.17. Im. Bingen Patch scr Willie Derby scr Flying Cloud scr Aristotle ... 12 Jolly Wave scr Automatic ...• 12 Peter Lo- Sister Rose ... 24 ■canda ... scr Manoeuvre ... 24 Automatic and Sister Rose will be bracketed. Manoeuvre has run some of her best races on the Forbury track, and should be hard to beat in this field. Jolly, Wave and Peter Locanda will race well. '2.20: DUNEDIN CUP HANDICAP, 350sovs. Class 4.28. 2m. Arethusa ... scr King Pointer 12 Dillon Logan scr Regal Voyage 24 Muriel de Oro scr Free Advice 36 Sir Guy ... scr Lindbergh ... 36 Sir Guy and Lindbergh will be bracketed. Arethusa, Sir Guy, and King Pointer will be the fancied candidates.

OTAGO HANDICAP, llOsovs Class 5.2. 2m.

Bosun scr Margaret ParEarl Bingen scr rish 24 Raclaim ... scr Sea Mist ... 24 Amonos ... 24 If Margaret Parrish settles down early she should win, and Bosun and Raclaim each hare chances.

3.40: MUSSELBURGH HANDICAP, 125sovs. Class 4.45. 2m. Elite Bingen scr Prairie King scr Godetia ... scr Prince Author scr Great Real Huon scr Thought scr Erin’s PrinMargaret Bell scr cess 12 Molly Des- ' Special Sun 12 borough ... scr Cloudy Range 12 The best field of the day. Cloudy Range, Godetia, and Real Huon are a likely trio.

4.20 : KING GEORGE HANDICAP. 130sovs. Glass 3.10. 1m and 3f. Flying Cloud scr Aristotle ... 12 Indianapolis scr Automatic ... 12 Jolly Wave scr Sister Rose 24 Probationer scr Manoeuvre ... 24 Automatic and Sister Rose will he bracketed. Manoeuvre, if not penalised, will again be in demand, and there will also be. strong support for Indianapolis and. Automatic.

FLYING HANDICAP, 200sovs. Class 2.45. lim. Arethusa ... scr Muriel de Oro scr Dillon Logan scr Sir Gu.y ... 12 John Noble scr Mountain Dell 12 Little Guy scr Regal Voyage 24 On the axiom “ Horses for courses ” John Noble should bo favourite, as lie always races well at Forbury Park. Sir Guy and Regal Voyage should keep him busy.

TWO FIVE-DIVIDEND RACES. In referring to the win and place totalisator at Trentham on Saturday, the.‘ Dominion ’ says:— The win and place system of betting again proved extremely popular, and there was witnessed not once, but twice during tho day the unprecedented happening of five dividends in one race. This came about in the first race through Palace and Flower dead heating for third, making four place dividends instead of the usual three, the winner also paying his straight-out price. In the concluding event there was a dead heat for first between Good Hunting and Slippery. Both horses thus paid a straight-out price as well as. a place price, and the fifth dividend was hoisted for the third horse. The public showed keen appreciation of this unusual happening, and it was the subject of much comment. There was a good deal of discussion after the first race as to whether a correct declaration of the dividends had been made. It arose out of the short price paid by the first two horses, and inquiries showed that for the purpose of declaring tho four place dividends rendered necessary by the dead heat for third the place pool had been divided into four equal parts. This was at once queried by those who considered a mistake had been made. They held tho opinion that the first and second horses should have received their usual allotted share of onc-third of the pool, while the dead-heaters should have equally

[By St. Cuuk.]

TROTTING. January 26, 28.—Forbury Park Trotting Club. February 4, 6.—Nelson Trotting Club. February 4.—New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club. F February 9.—Marlborough Trotting Club. February 18.—Kaikoura Trotting Club. February 18, 22.—Auckland Trotting Club. February 25.—New Brighton Trotting Club.

divided the remaining third. Reference to the rules, however, governing the point showed that the place pool must be divided into as many equal parts as there are horses in the first three places. There seems little doubt, however, that this is contrary to the intention desired, and it is in direct conflict with a prior that the amount of the place pool available for dividends shall be divided into three equal parts, to be divided respectively among investors on the first, second, and third horses. A dead heat for third is equal to one place, and this is a point that has to he cleared up immediately. The, wagering was well maintained, a feature being better patronage of the straight-out machine, which registered over 50 per cent, of the total. The figures were;—Straight-out, £18,040 10s; place, £10,920; total, £28,960 10s. The second day last year was a holiday, when £44,146 was handled. For the Saturday last year, which was the third day, the totalisator put through £32,291.

M. B. EDWARDS’S TEAM NOT COMING.

At the time of acceptances for the Forbury Park Meeting M. B. Edwards appeared to have a very strong team to represent him, but now he will not have a horse at Dunedin to represent him (wires our special correspondent). Real Belle, who appeared to have excellent prospects, met with an, accident on Sunday which will keep her off the tracks for at least two weeks. While being driven along the road she took fright and, unseating her attendant, bolted, dragging the overturned sulky behind her. Her off hind leg was caught between the shaft and footgrip, and the result is a very much enlarged leg, with severe abrasions and bruised flesh. Smoke Screen has not altogether overcome the effects of his spill on the track prior to the Wellington Meeting, and as Craganour has earned a heavy penalty for his Timaru success it has not been deemed advisable to send any of the three to the Dunedin Meeting.

JOTTINGS. The first race at Forbury Park tomorrow will commence at 12.15. Nominations 'for the Dunedin Cup Meeting are due on Friday at 5 p.m. AH the races at Forbury Park tomorrow are harness events. Roi I’Or has been scratched for the Dunedin Cup Handicap. Blazon appears to have made a good recovery from the effects of too much racing at the holiday meetings, and bis mile and a-quarter at Wingatni yesterday was a very pleasing gallop. Irish Lancer’s six furlongs yesterday morning with Blue Metal was run at a very hot pace over the first three furlongs, and it was pleasing to note that the imported colt was staying on despite this fast beginning. An inspection of the track at .Forbury Park this morning showed it to be in first-class order for to-morrow’s meeting, and with _ indications for settled weather conditions the times recorded to-morrow should be fast. The caretaker has everything in bis department looking at its best, and tho gardens are a blaze of colour. Mataunga, who is engaged in the opening event at Forbury Park, and Black Jester in tho second race, are the only horses racing to-morrow that ran into places at Timaru on Saturday. The former finished second to Marvin Guy in the Claremont Handicap, which was run at a 2min 27sec clip, and Black Jester second to Ruth Logan in tho Levels Handicap at a 2min 20sec gait. Frimsel, a winner at Randwick on Saturday, is owned by Mr Corry, jun., who sent him over in the spring to H. B. Lorigan to train. He is a two-year-old gelding by Grand Knight from Rachel. His victory was not only anticipated in Wellington circles, for a cable from Sydney stated that a big betting coup was effected at double figures. It is now stated to bo improbable that Peter Pan will be raced at the Victorian autumn meetings. The fact that he is not engaged in the V.R.C. St. Leger is no doubt one of the reasons why he may not include Flemington in his autumn campaign. Peter Pan is engaged in the A.J.C. St. Leger, but prior to the classic race being decided at Randwick, bo will have an opportunity to contest weight-for-age races at Rosehili and Warwick Farm. Visitors to the recent Wellington Meeting are unanimously enthusiastic regarding the introduction of the win and place betting, and it was very popular with the small bettors, who found it very profitable to split their investments, 5s or 10s each way. It is alleged that much more money would have been recorded on the machine had the two total!,sators been closer to each other, and the staff able to handle all the money offering in tho last five minutes. One Dunedin visitor states that a lot of money was shut out in each race.

A Southland performer in the seven-year-old gelding Jolly Wave will have to be considered in his Forbury Park engagements according to tho form he has shown recently. In the Winton Trotting Club Handicap be finished third to Girvan and Gumdigger in the good time of 4inin 29sec, so his form cannot be scorned in his present class. He is by Waverley, few of whose stock have reached high class, from Pleasant Drive, by King Cole from Queen’s Drive. Pleasant Drive is also the dam of Dalnahine and Dalmeny. John Noble, Little Guy, and Mountain Dell are the only horses in tho Flying Handicap a't Forbury Park on Thursday who arc not engaged in the Dunedin Cup. Little Gny was a winner at his last start, and John Noble showed very promising form at Tirnarn last Saturday. Mountain Doll raced disappointingly at the Auckland fixture at Christmas time, but her track work since she has been at Addington has shown her in the light of a high-class performer. Horses sired by Leighton have been ipore noted for speed than stamina, but the Wellington Cup winner, Royal Artist, is one who can got a middle distance successfully. Sprinting rather than staying is signified by the breeding of Leighton, and Royal Artist has no doubt inherited a good deal of the stamina he possesses from his dam. Oddity is a hay mare bred in 1918 by Mr H. Hassal, by AH Black from Conceit, bv Boniform—Lady Wayward 11., by Lada's. There have been some very useful performers from the family in

New Zealand, and among them are Emperador, Egotism, and Jaloux. Royal Artist was purchased from his breeder, the late Mr W. G. Stead, by Mr R. T. Reid, who acquired him as a yearling. Royal Artist has been a profitable purchase, having won £1,872 in stakes and a cup valued at £IOO, and he should not be finished winning yet. Royal Artist’s running in the Auckland Cup, in which ho failed badly at the end after being up in the first three at the home turn, indicated that he is not a genuine stayer, but at a mile and a-half he is a solid performer, as he has proved in no uncertain fashion by his victories in the Mitchelson Cup and the Wellington Cup. The career of Lucullus, whoso death was recently recorded, furnishes a pointed illustration of what may happen in the life of a stallion when matters are at zero so far as the animal winning a good place on the sires’ list is concerned. Bred in Germany, Lucullus was exported to India for racing, but ho proved such a pronounced disappointment that he was not considered worthy of a nomination for a chargers’ race at the Tollygunge Gymkhana Meeting, where the first prizes wore little silver cups of the value of £3 3s. In the hope that Lucullus could be sold as a stallion, he was shipped to England, but in the one season lie stood at Cobham Stud only two mares were on his list. _ The Indian syndicate interested in his ownership were so disappointed that they exchanged the black horse for a two-year-old gelding, and he was sent to the west of Wales, but he failed to obtain any patronage. Sent up to auction at Newmarket in July, 1914, he was allowed to go for the paltry sum of 25gs, the late Mr J. O. Hayward, of Grey town. New Zealand, being the purchaser. The lucky day for Lucullus to make a name for himself came when the late Mr William Walters jwas encouraged to buy him for £l5O, and, with Ihe opportunities he received at Glenora Park and patronage from outside sources, the records show that up to the close of last season his progeny raced in New Zealand and Australia had won prize money to the amount of over £129,000.