RACING NOTES

Evening Star, Issue 21569, 15 November 1933, Page 10

RACING NOTES

[By St., Cum.]

RACING. November 18. —Carterton R.C. November 18. 20.—Waikato 8.0. November 25.—Levin R.C. November 30, December 2.—Feildiog J.C. December 1. 2.—Winton J.C. December 2. 4.—Takapuua J.C. December 2.—Ashburton C.R.C. December 9, 11.—Woodville D.J.C. December 16.—Napier Park R.C. December 16. —Hororata R.C. (at Kiccarton). December 16.—Waipa R.C. December 26. —Poverty Bay T- C. December 26.—Waipukuran J.C. December 26. 27.—Westland R.C. HALL MARK. Writing of Hall Mark after he had won the A.J.C. Derby, au Australian writer said:—“ He is now entitled to be classed as another Heroic stayer. He. has fair stamina credentials from his maternal ancestry, for his dam, Herowinkie, is a full-sister in blood to Trivalve, winner of both Derbies and the Melbourne Cup, but the lines are not the soundest from a staying viewpoint., lv , Hall Mark, like Peter Pun, is a chestnut, and he is said to be a typical Heroic in conformation, very like his sire, too, in general appearance. I t has yet to be seen in full if he is a better distance horse than Heroic, who was a great horse up to one and a-half miles, hut did not relish any longer distance (continues this writer). Heroic (and H. Cairns) won the 1924 A.J.C. Derby by a narrow margin from Nigger Minstrel and Spearfelt. But Nigger Minstrel had been stopped in his work, and had Spearfelt, subsequently V.R.C. -Derby and Melbourne Cup winner, been ridden by a jockey of equal ability to Cairns, the courageous Heroic would have been sorely tried. Heroic did win one race over two miles. It was the V.R.C. King’s Plate in the autumn of 1927. Two days earlier Spearfelt had played with him over the mile and a-half of the Governor’s Plate, but Spearfelt went lame and did not run in the King’s Plate, for which the others were moderates. Heroic was in great form the day he narrowly missed landing a huge coup in the Sydney Cup of 1926. With 9.7 he finished only a yard or so behind the winner, Murray King. He had met with serious trouble at a critical part of the race. On-the third day of the meeting he won the Cumberland Stakes, one mile and three-quarters. Though he never impressed as a genuine stayer, his brilliant pace and courage helped him over a journey. Herowinkie, a 1924 mare, is, like Trivalve, by Cyklon, and her dam, The Welkin mare Deneb, is a sister to Trey (dam of Trivalve), also to Thrice (winner of the Caulfield Guineas and sire .of Red Manfred’s dam. Redshank). There can he little doubt about the brilliant possibilities in such a pedigree, but The Welkin blood does leave a loophole through which stamina may be questioned. , ~ , Trivalve himself was a bulldog stayer, but he was probably a freak horse. Without exception his close relatives have been merely sprinters or railers at most. The inability of his female relatives to stay may be disregarded simply’because of their sex,' buthis male relatives —i.e., the 'male progeny of Teppo (dam of Deneb)—and her daughters were also non-stayers. Cyklon himself was a good horse up to at least a mile and a-half. Deneb’s best staying line is undoubtedly through her granddam, Dum Dum, who' was s daughter of Carbine from the St. Simon mare Charm. Hall Mark was bred by his owner, Mr C. B. Kellow, so that he is not a bargain of the sale ring. His dam (Herowinkie) was bred by Mr E, E. D. Clarke, and was bought by Mr Kellow as a yearling for 800 gs. Herowinkie did not prove of any account as a galloper, but she has now amply made up for this deficiency by leaving such ? good one as Hall Mark as her second foal-” JOTTINGS. Acceptances for the day of the Forbury Park Trotting Club's Meeting close at noon on Saturday. The Vincent Jockey Club has reduced its annual subscription from £2 to £l. and an effort is to be made to double the number of members. Hal! Mark is not the only one of Heroic’s progeny that has won over two miles, as Herolage won the last Brisbane Cup, run over that distance. Mr- J. Haig will handicap the galloping events and Mr George Paul the trotting races at the Vincent Jockey C-lub’s Meeting, to be held on January 13 and 15,

With three and a-half seasons’ racing behind him. Red Shadow has now wqn in stake money the sum of £7,254, his number of successes being twenty-two. Real Belle and Gold Tinge, who raced successfully at the recent Addington Meeting for M. B. Edwards, have been ttirned out, and will enjoy a month’s spell. Hu on Voyage, the winner of the Dominion Handicap decided last week at Addington, failed to reach the reserve when submitted to auction at Tattersail’s on Monday. The programme for the Vincent Jockey Club’s annual race meeting, to be held on January 13 and 15, has been issived, and J he stakes offered, including trophies, amount to £1,183. Owners whose horses do not win a race at the meeting will receive a refund from the Vincent Jockey Club of 25 per cent, of the railage paid on their horses both going to and returning from the meeting. The increased attendance at Rlocation during Cup Week totalled 16,954 persons, as compared with 13,45" last year. Considering there was a falling off of 2.819 on the second day on account of the wet weather, an increase of 3,708. oyer 25 per cent., is a most promising indication of the returning popularity of racing. At the Ashburton Trotting Club’s Meeting, which will be held on Boxing Day, the principal handicap will be the Ashburton Cup, of tOOsovs, and a silver cup of the value of JOsovs. The Champion Stakes, of a mile and a-ha!f, will also be decided that day. This event is worth• fOOsovs an)l a cabinet of cutlery valued at 25sovs, and the class has been fixed at 3min 34sec.

The principal payments of riding and

winning fees made by the Canterbury .)ockcy Club over the New’ Zealand Cup Meeting were as follow; —A. Russell, £93; A. Eastwood, £7B; W. H. Jones, £76; B. H- Morris, £73; S. Wilson, £64; G. Humphries, £49; M. Kivwan, £47; A. Messcrvy. £45; K. Voitre, £43- A. E. Ellis, £3B; H. Mackinnon, £34- J. W. Jennings, £32; G. .1. Jones, £27; W. Pine, £23; and C. Eastwood, £2l. . In view of his forward running at the New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club’s Spring Meeting Blue, Mountain appeals as a likely prospect at the approaching Forbury Park Meeting. Blue Mountain last week raced well, but he

December 26. 27.—1’inuu.ki J.C. December 26, 27.—Dunedin J.C. December 26, 27. 29.—R.C. December 26, 28. January 1, 2.—A«*kland R.C. TROTTING. November 23. 25. Forbury Park T.G. December 9.—New Brighton T.C. December 26.—Core T.C. December 25.—Ashburton T.C. December 26. 27.—Wairarapa T.C. December 26, 27. —Westport T.C. December 27, 29, 30.—Auckland T.C. December 29.—Winton T.C. December 30.-Reefton T.C. did not receive a good run in any race he contested. However, he is better placed in his Dunedin races, and will start from the front of the handicap instead of from 36yds behind, as he did in the two mile races he contt .ted at Addington,

.When Ruling Light won the second division of the Van Yean Handicap on the same day as the Melbourne Cup was run, she started at double-figure odds.

The proposal that Red Shadow and Harold Logan should meet in a match at ; the Forbury Park Trotting Club’s Meeting next week is not likely to eventuate. It is understood that the members of ibe committee of the local club do not favour it. When Pike was out of luck and didn’t ride a winner , from April to August, there were many critics ready to declare that he bad finished bis career as a great jockey. They are eating the leek now.

Hall Mark has contested fifteen races and his record is as follows;—At 2yrs— Four firsts., one second, two thirds, two unplaced. At 3yrs—Four firsts, one second, one third, none unplaced. Total: Eight firsts, two seconds, three thirds, two unplaced. The total stakemonev he has won now amounts to £17,669. “ He is deliberately doing it.’’ remarked the magistrate, Mr F. K. Hunt) when inflicting a line of £2OO on Douglas Hopkins, charged with bookmaking at Auckland last Friday, indicating a blackboard bearing the words, “ Full tote odds—all meetings.” This was stated by the police to have been prominently displayed in defendant’s office.

The French St. Leger. which was run at Longehamps, on September 17, gave Jumbo (Zambo —Anna Bolena) a sensational. win. Unplaced in his three previous races, he was scarcely given a thought in a field of seven, but he won in a canter by twenty lengths. At one stage the riders of the other runners allowed him to get a lead of nearly fifty lengths, reckoning he was sure to stop. “ Like a billiard table,” was a complimentary reference recently heard made to the Caulfield racing track, it was deserved, too, judging by the times recorded at the recent V.A.T.C. Meeting. In the Caulfield Cup Gaine Carrington ran the mile and a-half in 2.28 J, against the previous best for Australia of 2.29. V, by Gothic at Flemington. and Kidaides at Warwick Farm.

With the phampion three-year-old Hall Mark racing for Heroic, matters shape extremely promising for the son of Valais again figuring at the head of the winning sires’ list in Australia this season. At the close of last season it was computed that the progeny of Heroic had captured prise-money to the amount of £47,953 in the three years in which they have figured on the turf. The yearling sales at Doncaster, extending over four days, yielded an aggregate of 188,268g5, and an average of , sS6gs, against 156.956g5, and an average of 528 gs in 1932. The highestpriced lot was Lord Furness’s very shapely chestnut filly by Fairway out of Harpy, the dam of Orpen. This filly was bought by Fred Darling on behalf of Lord Woolavington for 7.100g5. -The most successful jockey in America this year is a light-weight named J. , West-rope. _ Up to August 26 be had ridden 197 winners, and he is declared by some American critics to be a better rider than Earl Sande was at the •sarne_ stage of his career. Wesirope’s winning average was slightly better than one in four, and it looks as if he will finish with a greater number of wins than Richards will in England this season. Westrope, however, will ride over a longer period of the year than Richards.

The Sledmere stud, in England, has frequently been cited as the most successful bloodstdck breeding concern in the world. A reference to the record of bloodstock sales in England shows that from 1919 to 1.033 the Sledmere Stud sent to auction 230 yearlings, which realised 516.807g=. The greatest, year for the stud was 1919. yearlings submitted being sold for 61.300g5. This year it sent ten yearlings, which were sold for 17,460g5. A filly’ by Gainsborough from Trustful realised 5.400g5. and a colt by Solario from Gracclla 5,000g.5. C. J. Graves, writing in the Sydney ‘Referee,’ says; Hal) ’Mark was fairlv lame and favoured his off hind leg all day Monday, and. with the veterinary surgeon paying frequent visits of inspection. relays of strappers were busy until a late hour of the night applying iced compresses, which had been dipped in a boracic solution. These seemed to alleviate the pain and reduce the beat and soreness in the injured member, so that in the morning, after a careful inspection, the vet. and the trainer decided to take him to the course and there await, developments. As the day wore on the heel became, better, and it was finally resolved to run Hall Mark. The injured member was relieved of pain by an injection shortly before the race.