RACING NOTES

Evening Star, Issue 21433, 9 June 1933, Page 8

RACING NOTES

RACING. Jun» 10.—Foiton Racing Club. June 15, 17. —Hawke’s Bay Jockey Club. June 17.—South Canterbury Jockey Club. Juna 22, 24.—Napier' Park Racing Club. Juna 23.—Bgmont-Wanganm Hunt Club. June 24.—Ashburton County Racing Club. June 28.—Manawatu Hunt Club. July I.—Oamaru Jockey Club. July B.—Wainaate District Hunt Club. July 11, 13, 15.—Wellington Racing Club.

THE TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS. The following is the London ‘ Times ’ racing commissioner’s account of the running of the Two Thousand Guineas at Newmarket last month:— “■The conditions for this race, the first of the season’s classics, were ideal, for the air was pleasantly warm, but not too hot, visibility was excellent, while the going could not have been better. It was generally agreed before the race was run, while the horses were walking around in the paddock, that the field for this famous race was, on looks, much below the average, the best looking horse in the field being Rodosto, who, after showing useful and consistent form last year in France, had won a six-furlong race there this season with great ease. The start was delayed for a time by the ill-behaviour of the Irish trained and owned Franz Hals, who left his field and performed for a time to his own amusement and everyone else’s annoyance on the heath away from the course. His rider dismounted, and led him hack to the gate, where he was placed on the outside. Even there he was,inclined to misbehave,himself, and when the start was made was not too well away. “ Apart from him—and the fault was all his own—the field went away to one of 'Captain Alislon’s best starts. Soon after the beginning of the race it seemed to me that Manitoba and his stable companion Titian were in front in the middle of the field, followed closely by Rodosto. On the stands, side of the course Solar Boy was the most prominent, and may, indeed, have been in front of the other pair in the middle of the course. Coming down the hill past the hushes into the dip, Titian and Manitoba, who had been racing hard all the way against each other, and Solar Boy began to falter, and, in the dip, were beaten, Rodosto then taking up the running. Gino at once improved, and it seemed for a moment that this grey colt by Tetrameta out of Teresina might catch and beat the French invader, who, it had been thought, might not stay this severe Rowley Mile. It was, however, Gino who failed to stay, and it was not left to Gino to follow the leader home.

“ Halfway up the hill to the winning post, King Salmon came with a truly terrific run, and just for a moment appeared to have a chance of catching the French colt, but Brethes and Rodosto held on, and the race was over, this valuable classic event going to France for the first time for many years. His maternal grandsire, Neil Gowi, himself won the race in 1910. No one should rightly grudge the French _ their success, but the race most certainly showed us one thing, and that is that our three-year-olds would seem to be a very moderate lot. Only _last week-end Brunswick could not win the Esher Cup,, and now he finished fourth. Interlace, although well, bred, is, on form, not a great colt, while Loehiel has not suggested by his previous running that he is, a classic colt.” N.Z. SAPLING STAKES. The leading race for two-year-old pacers, the N.Z. Sapling Stakes, of SaOsovs, run over a mile and a-half at 'Ashburton to-morrow afternoon, has created unusual interest this season owing to several of those engaged having shown good winning or placed performances in open races. The following is the field and probable •drivers:—

Durbar Lodge Ltd.’s b f Vanity Fair, by Wrack—Pearlchild (M. Holmes). Durbar Lodge Ltd.’s b f Tondeleyo, by Wrack Estella Amos (J. Behrens) . Durbar Lodge Ltd.’s b g Greenmantle, by Wrack Nantwieh (F. G.

Holmes). C. S. Donald’s cr g Blondie, by Jack Potts —Alone (Owner). C. P. Cameron’s Guy Junior, by Real Guy Princess Perfection (C.

King). iT7. J. Morland’s b g Sir Gowan, by Hey de Oro—Daisy Pointer (F.

Holmes). lira E. K. 'Mauger’s br g War Buoy, by Man o’ War—Little Kewpie (M. B. Edwards).. , B. Grice’s b g Village Guy, by Guy Parrish—Colene Pointer (0. E. Hooper). C. Nordquist’s b g Compass, by Man o’ War—Harold Dillon mare (J. J.

Kennerley). 'A. J. Lawrence’s ch g Morello, by Rey de Oro—Moonlit (R. B. Berry). A. E. Blackler’s b f Evie Denver, by Brigand—Leila Denver (G. White). E. G. and F. A. Bridgens’s b g Chancellor, by Peterwah —Black Gold (F. J.' Smith). Miss R. A. Sutherland’s b f Roma Girl, by Author Dillon—Lady Bee (H.

Frost). Mrs M. A. Hall’s b g Full Hand, by - Jack Potts—Maureen Galindo (C.

l Tasker). ' Guy Junior, Village Guy, and War Buoy will probably be the best fancied.

JOTTINGS. Nominations for the Ashburton Winter Meeting, to bo held on June 24, close at 8 p.m. next Tuesday. . Nominations for the principal races , 'at the Grand National Meeting aro \ due on June 23, and on the same day ■ nominations for the Wellington Winter Meeting are due, both at 8 p.m. When the French bred colt Rodosto won the Two Thousand Guineas, ho started fourth favourite, and after- - wards was made first favourite for the Derby, a race he did not start in. At the New York tracks the general admission has been reduced from 3 dollars 85 cents (about Ms) to 2 dollars 50 cents (about 12s Cd), plus tax._ There is only one enclosure, that being the equivalent of the paddock in Australia. Whether it will be decided to take Olson north for the Auckland Trotting Club’s Meeting will depend on his performance at Ashburton to-morrow. In the Stewards’ Handicap of two miles he is called upon to give starts up to 72yds to some smart and improving trotters. As usual, English owners contributed liberally to the Two Thousand Gixineas, in which the French colt. Rodosto, beat the English runners last month. The ' added money was £2,100, but the winner’s share of the prize was £9,037 10s, while second received £1,075, and third £537 10s, making a total of £10,750. Old stallions are doing well in England this sjeason. Joyous Greeting, who won the Great Metropolitan, Hm, at Epsom on April, is nine years old. As his fifteen races last season gave only two seconds and a third it is not surprising he started at 20 to 1 in a field of a dozen. His tote return was at the rate of 4£ .to X*

[By St. Clair,]

July 22.—Hawke’s Bay Hunt Club. July 22. —South Canterbury Hunt Club, July 26. —Rangitiki Hunt Club. July 27, 29. —Gisborne Racing Club. July 29.—Christchurch Hunt Club. TROTTING. June 10. —Ashburton Trotting Club. June 16, 17.—Nelson Trotting Club. June 23, 24.—Auckland Trotting Club.

The cx-New Zealand gelding Pilliewinkie, who won the Australian Cup in 1926. is now rising fourteen years old. He is ending his days in ease at his owner’s place near.Bowral in New South Wales. An attempt was made to use him as a hack after his racing career, but he was quickly relieved of these services owing to being too uncertain on his legs. ' _ Horatio Bottomley, who died in England last month, at the age of seventyfour, included, in his amazing career, a strong interest in the turf. At one time he raced on a large scale, but the most important success gained by him was when' the Carbine horse Wargrave won the Cesarewitch for.him in 1904. It was a rather welcome change of luck, as Bottomley was in need of money at the time, lie backed Wargrave for a large stake, but most of the money he won went in paying old debts. He registered his colours for life in 1898, so he had a long association with racing as an owner. . Callamart’s two important wins at Ellerslie will bring him into serious discussion for the forthcoming big events. He was originally owned and trained by G. W. New at Awapuni, for whom he won the Grand National Hurdle Race two years ago. For the last twelve months he has been owned by Mr K. M‘K. Duncan, a great jumping and hunting enthusiast in the Wanganui district, and an accomplished gentleman rider. He rode Beacon Fire to victory in the Carbine Plate on Monday. Neil, winner of the hack steeplechase at Ellerslie on Saturday, and again on Wednesday, is a six-year-old gelding by Luciillus from Little Flower, by Shepherd King, and is a brother to Hawthorn, also a winner on Saturday, both being owned and trained by their breeder, J. M. Buchanan. They won the first two races on the programme, an unusual performance for full-blooded relations. Peculiarly enough, a sister and brother won the two last races at Wingatui on Saturday. Kuvera, the winner of the King’s Cup at Flemingtou on Monday, gave M. M‘Garten his second winning ride in that event, as he had previously won on Limerick at Randwick in 1928. > The first King’s Cup was run at Melbourne in 1927, and was won by Spear Maiden. Since Limerick the winners have been Valparaiso (Brisbane), Phar Lap (Adelaide), Rosebunx (Perth), Second Wind (Hobart), and once again at Flemingten, Kuvera. Kuvera’s performance was a good one, for he carried his weight-for-age, 8.6, and heat 1 a pretty good field. Of the seven winners of this race to-day, three have been bred in New Zealand —Limerick, Pliar Lap, and Second Wind. When G. Jones was over here last month on a brief visit to take back another lot of Mr W. R. Kemball’s horses, he expressed hopes that _ Greenhorn would be good enough to win the Brisbane Cup, which was ruu on Monday last. If Greenhorn ran, which is likely, he finished out of a place. The winner, Herolage, a, four-year-old gelding by Heroic from Mucilage, a mare by Fortafix, belonging to one of the old New South Wales families, founded by the Steeltrap mare. Heroic has been well in the limelight lately with winners, four races at a recent Melbourne fixture being won in one day by his progeny.

When Craganour and Indianapolis last met, at New Brighton, the former was in receipt of 36yds over two miles, and he beat Indianapolis by two lengths. They are both on the limit of the Winter Handicap at Ashburton to-morrow. Craganour is good in any kind of going, but Indianapolis floundered about in the early part of race in the mud at Addington. On 12yds is Avernus, one of the most capable of mudlarks, and on 24yds is John Jinks, whose ability on any kind of track is beyond question. This may prove the best race of the day. Silk Coat trotted in excellent style on his last visit to Ashburton to finish fourth in the opening event from 84yds behind, .and come out later in the day to win the Utility Handicap, in which he beat Resound and Amonos into the places, 3min 27 3-ssec being the time registered. In that race Real Belle, when looking a winner in the straight, broke up badly and was beaten into fourth place. The distance of the trotters’ race on Saturday is two miles, but Silk Coat has several times been placed over that distance, and he should be one of those coming in for most consideration in to-morrow’s race at Ashburton.

Beacon Fire, the winner of the Cornwall Handicap and the Carbine Plate at the Auckland Meeting,' affords a striking instance of a bargain going begging. Mr C. T. Keeble would have quitted him at any time during the past twelve months for £3OO, and. he could have been bought right up to the Auckland meeting. His recent form has been very consistent, but the Cornwall Handicap is easily his best performance. Beacon Fire was bred by his owner, and is by Lackham, .who also is the sire of Mr Keeble’s other great galloper, Golden Wings. His dam, Mountain Signal, is* by Mountain Knight from the Bezonian mare, Signal March, a descendant of the imported Miss Kate. It is interesting to note that Dolomite, who was purchased by Mr H. Murphy, of Wellington, in Sydney a few years ago, and raced here in his colours, is a member of the family of Hyperion, the winner of the English Derby last week. Hyperion is by Gainsborough from Selene, by Chaucer from Serenissima, by Minoru from Gondolette. Dolomite is by Pommern from Dolly Strong, by Count Schomborg from Gondolette. Gondolette is the foundress of Lord Derby’s most successful family. It is also of interest to note Count Schomberg in Dolomite’s pedigree. Count Schomberg was the sire of Merry Moment, sire of several good winners in New Zealand, and whose daughters are in turn leaving good gallopers.

High Commissioner made a most impressive showing for a first start over steeples when he ran second in the Great Northern Steeplechase (says the Auckland ‘Star’). He led over the water jump the first time passing the stands, and was still in charge when thev came round again to take the double. At the brush, two fences further on, he did not jump too well. He led up the hill the last time, with Callnmart handy, and the latter was in front when they reached the course proper, aiul u'pnt on to befit him by fl- length. High. Commissioner had not the experience or the condition that Gallamait had for such a trying race, but nevertheless it was an excellent start, ami ho should do particularly well in his department.

“ I- am very disappointed that I am unable to throw Winooka’s box open and allow the public to have a look at the horse,” said Mr M. Poison, the trainer of Winooka, to an Auckland writer when the steamer called _ at Auckland last week, “ but he has just settled down after all the excitement, and Friday night was the first night he lay down since we left Sydney. He has been feeding well, hut was unsettled, and I do not want to upset him again. He is a real galloper, and, though Gloaming, Phar Lap, and Beaufort were also great. I think Winooka is more brilliant at six or seven furlongs. He has won the ast six races he contested, and holds the Australasian record of Imin 35isec for a mile, but he is even a better horse at six furlongs. I don’t think they will have anything in horseflesh in America to heat him, all going well.” Moifaa, who won the Great Northern Steeplechase as a five-year-old in 1901, had only one success in England—the 1904 Liverpool Grand National Steeplechase in the Colours of Mr Spencer Gollan. He had five starts prior to this solitary hut notable victory. He contested the 1905 Liverpool Grand National also, hut in the colours of the late King Edward VII. His Majesty was anxious to be represented in the race, and his manager, Lord Marcus Beresford, finally purchased him on his behalf, as no other prominent ’chaser was at the time under offer of sale. When he was transferred to Egerton House (the Royal stable) it was discovered that he was gone in the wind. So that His Majesty would not be wholly disappointed lie was run in the National, but lie fell before going a mile. He appears to have raced only three times afterwards. _ The breeding of Garnish, who attracted attention at the Dunedin Meeting, is interesting. This first foal is by Ornamentation (by Tracery from Document, by Spearmint) from Rosebrook, by Roseworthy from Birnce, by Earlslow from Birida, by Wallace from Emmie, by Robinson Crusoe. Rosebrook was bought specially by Mr T. L. Willsallen, the New South Wales breeder, to mate with Ornamentation, who returns to her a double cross of Carbine and St. Simon, and also inbreeding to the No. 26 family through Petrel, the ancestress of Gloaming and Solario, the two best horses of their time. Spearmint, William the Third, and Musket figure in Garnish’s pedigree in a similar way to Phar Lap’s. Garnish cost Mr M. Mouat, his owner, HOgs at the Trentham sales, and he gives every promise that he will become a good horse. The first two-year-old to break 3.30 in a race in New Zealand was Wrackler, who went 3.29 4-5 when lie finished third to Delightful and Loiterer in the Longheach Handicap in a field of twentv-three, in April, 1928 (says the ‘Sun’). Ho was a sick horse when the Sapling Stakes was run, and could only finish third to Sonoma Child and Grandlight. He proved a much better three-year-old than either of these, and won both Derbies easily, Wrackler s two-year-old record of 3.29 4-5 was lowered in the following season by John Jinks, who won the Sapling Stakes in 3.28 1-5. Next year’s winner, Arethusa, shattered this to 3.25 3-5, which stood through the next two seasons, hut was lowered recently by Guy Junior, who finished third in a maiden race at Ashburton in 3.24 2-5. Later, at Washdyke, Village Guy heat Guy Junior and Compass, all three two-year-olds breaking 3.24 and Village Guy setting the present record of 3.23 1-5. On the time test, this season’s two-year-olds are the fastest ever, and a great race is promised in the Sapling Stakes to-morrow between Village Guy, Guy Junior, War Buoy, Sir Gcnvan, Compass, Chancellor, and the Durbar Lodge trio, Tondeleyo, Greenmantle, and Vanity Fair. C J. Groves, the well-known writer on the Sydney ‘ Referee,’ was present at the inquiries held into the running of Pcntheus and Fragrant Zephyr at the recent meeting at Brisbane, and was not impressed by the stewards system of trial. He says. It was noticeable 'throughout both inquiries that stewards chipped the witnesses in the midst of their statements and pulled them up to ask questions. That is unfair and not permitted in a court of law. A witness makes his statement. Questions concerning his evidence come afterwards. There are legal luminaries on the committees of most of the principal clubs throughout Australia, this, my first experience of attending stewards’ inquiries for many years, suggests that the stipendiary system is all right, but many need lessons in the legal conduct of their cases. It might prove useful if the committeemen who practise law afforded the necessary advice in this direction. At the adjourned inquiry the stewards decided to disqualify Pentheus, C. Brown (ownertrainer), and Rv Ellis (jockey) for two vears in the Pentheus case, and Fragrant Zephyr, Brown, and Ellis for one year in the Fragrant Zephyr case.