RACING NOTES

Evening Star, Issue 21622, 18 January 1934, Page 5

RACING NOTES

[By St. Claie.3

RACING. January 20.—Bay of Islands R.C. January 20. —Wairio J.C. January 20, 22. 24.—Wellington E.C. January 22.—Ashurst-Pohangina R.C. January 23.—National Yearling Sales, iTontham. January 25, 27.—Wairoa R.C. January 27, 29. —Takapuna.J.C. , January 31.—Tapanui R.C. February 1, 3. —Egmont R.C. February 3.—Poverty Bay T.C. February 3.—Matamata! R.C. February 8, 10.—Dunedin J.C. February 8, 10.—Poverty Bay T.C. THE KING’S DERBY CANDIDATES. A racing victory for the King always creates enthusiasm, arid the numerous successes scored, by his horses formed a highly pleasing feature of the last English racing season. With five colts engaged in. the Derby next J une hopes are held that a classic winner will this year emerge from the Royal stable. The five colts nominated by His Majesty are bred as follows: Corody, b o, by Coronach—Stained Glass. Free Pass, ch c, by Warden of the Marshes—Frankly. Catherine Wheel, b c, by Knockando —Catherine. Blady, br or gr o, by Winalot—Skip Bridge. Brief, b c, by Foxlaw—Reef. JOTTINGS. Acceptances for the first day of the Forbury Park Trotting. Club’s Summer Meeting close to-morrow, at 5 p.m. Dressy broke down during the Vincent Meeting, and was not'able to start on the second day. The trouble is with her knees, and she may not race again this season. ■ ' - The Wyndhara Trotting Club has not yet decided whether to have the win and place totalisators at its meeting in March. A decision will be made after the Forbury Meeting next week. Chiming Billy, who won a double at the Vincent Meeting, was' nine years old last foaling. Until last Saturday he had never won a race, and then had to go 4min 47 ■ 2-ssec on a • country course to score. , Two young horses by Arrowsmith, a filly and a gelding, are due to join E. Scoullar’s stable at Riccarton shortly, to be trained for the Southland sportsman, Mr W. T. Hazlett. To date this season horses regularly trained at Riccarton have won 128 races. They have also registered 110 seconds and 104 thirds, and in prize money have won £20,474 10s. The wins have been gained on twenty courses. After his gallop on. Saturday with .Marietho,' Argentic came, into greater favour for the Wellington Cup, and he is now as well fancied as is Minerval. However, no announcement about the former’s rider has yet been made. This factor will have a strong bearing on his chance. , * Mrs J. Campbell, who is at the head of the New Zealand winnir' trainers’ list, has prepared the winners of sixteen races this season. Her team has also recorded six seconds and four thirds, and has won £2,194 in stakes. The stable will be represented at Trentham by Highbrow and Final Shot. The Wyndham Trotting Club will distribute £1,050 in stakes at its annual fixture to be held on March 14. Should it be necessary to run any of the races in divisions the stake in such races will be increased by £2O. The Wyndham Trotting Cup, a 4min 45sec class event, will carry a stake of £230. The jumper Lucess is again being trained at Matamata by W. J. M'Lean with a view to contesting jumping events at the autumn and winter meetings. He has been working for about two months and is in nice order to go ori with his preparation. Lucess is a reliable fencer, and although he does not stay well enough to be a topnotcher, he has paid his way handsomely during the past few seasons. The Marble .Arch mare, Persis, has a tine record as a brood mare, for among her progeny are Lady Lois, Tuahine, Nucleus, The Fox, Royal Duke, Perseus, Persham, and Gay Scion, all winners. However, the last member of the family to race, Gay Sister, who is fully related to the lastnamed filly, has not so far given any promise that she will follow in the others’ steps. -. • In a strictly racing sense the season has been notable for the performances accomplished by Lord Derby’s colt Hyperion (says an English writer). It is insisted by many that be is the best classic colt since the war, but there is nothing to prove this. He has, however, unquestionably been the outstanding horse of the year, and, despite his smallness, being little taller than a pony, 1 think he may go through next'season unbeaten. At the Trentham sale in the summer of 1932,' when the Great Northern Derby winner Red Manfred was sold as a yearling for 200 gs, his -dam, Redshank, with a colt foal at foot by Night Raid and in foal to the same sire, was bought by Mr G. N. Magill, of New South Wales. The colt that followed Redshank into the ring has been named Hands Up, and the foal she produced to Night Raid in the same year is a filly. In the 1932-33 season the progeny of Heroic placed their parent at the head of the sires’ list in Australia with 1 a total of £25,441, which represented the earnings •or forty-seven horses in ninety-five races. With five months of the 1933-34 season gone, Heroic’s stock hold such a commanding lead that it seems safe to conclude that the Australian sire will head the sires’ list for the second season in succession.

The Martian mare Marsa,, who produced the brilliant Nightmarch in her fifteenth year, has since failed to furnish any further notable addition to the New Zealand Stud Book. It seems safe to conclude that her fame as a matron will rest entirely on her brown son by Night Raid, whose record ensures a good place for her among noteworthy stud mares, for he won £32,11 (J in prize money, his victories including the New Zealand Derby, Melbourne Cup, and New Zealand Cup. Forestry is gaining in favour for the Wellington Cup While he did not meet the best class of handicapper during the holidays, when he was successful in his three starts, he accomplished in good style all that was asked of him, a feature being his resolute finishes. His track work recently leaves no room to doubt that he has improved, and many good judges at Trentham are keen on his chance in the Wellington Cup. It is expected that Mr E. Moss, who is a prominent owner in Sydney, will again be at Trentham for the yearling sales this month. So far there has been no news concerning George Price, but probably he will be on hand. A year ago Mr Moss purchased the Limond— Jewel of Asia colt for 725g5, and gave him to Price to train. Now known as Sir John, he has won in such good style as to suggest that he is going to be a performer of the best, class..

February 8, 10. —Taranaki J.C. February 9, 10.—Marlborough R.G. February 10, 12.—Rotorua R.G. TROTTING. January 20.—Tisaaru T.C. January 25, 27. —Forbury Park T.©. February 3. —N.Z. Metropolitan T.S. February 3, s.—Nelson T.C. February 17, 21.—Auckland T.C. February 24.—New Brighton T.C. March 2, 3.—lnvercargill T.C. March 3.—Wellington T.C. March 10.—Titnaru T.C. “Tom and Bill.”—In the Dominion Handicap . run- at • the New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club’s Meeting on November 12, 1929, Western Voyage won from ■ Tamerlane and Sister Beatrice, and was driven by J. Bryce, sen. Trarapfast started favourite, and was unplaced. Young Blake and Elzear were starters, and bracketed with the winner, who started second favourite. Mother Superior will be the only penalised runner in the Wellington Stakes, having, as the result of her successes, earned an extra 101 b. The Fordell stable also has the three-year-old Porotiti engaged, but they will not be bracketed as they run in different interests, Mother Superior being owned by Mr Russell Grace and Porotiti by Mr W. M‘A. Duncan. A 141 b penalty in this race did not stop Lady Cavendish as a two-year-old in 1925, nor, similarly, •Motley the previous year. Rocket, who started favourite for the Auckland Cup on Boxing Day,. has gone right out of favour as the result of his form there, but it is not safe to take Auckland failures as an absolutely reliable guide. Experience has shown that many horses, in addition to galloping below form the reverse way round, are also troubled by the up-and-dow.n nature of the Ellerslie track. Rocket’s Trentham form is much better than his two holiday disappointments make it appear, and this is worth keeping in mind (says “ The Watcher” in the ‘Dominion’), So far no rider has been engaged for him next Saturday. New Zealand was expected to have an interest in the Viceroy’s Cup, the principal race of the year in India, run over a distance of one mile and threequarters, on Boxing Day, as Compris was understood to have been purchased with a view to contesting this event, but he was not mentioned in the cabled account of the race. The winner was Star of Italy, who was also successful in 1929 and 1930. He is a bay or brown gelding foaled, in 1925, by Caligula (son of The Tetrach) from Star Belle, by Sunstar from Butterfly Belle, by Fariman from Orionis, by Orion from Dunover, by Donovan. Caligula won the St. Leger in 1920. The sum of £14,020 was invested on the totalisator at last Saturday’s meeting at Hutt Park, compared with £14,552 last season. There was only one .pool on each race, two dividends being paid on the basis of 75 per cent, and 25 per cent, where the number of runners was in excess of five and not greater than eight, and 70 per cent., 20 per cent., and 10 per cent, in races in which , there were nine or more runners. In two races in which two dividends were paid the backers of the second horse received less than the amount' invested, while in two of the four races in which a third dividend was paid, supporters of the third horse lost about a quarter of their investments. There was an inquiry recently on the part of an Australian buyer for the big Shambles gelding Vintage, but Mr D. W. Westenra was not prepared to discuss a sale. Vintage has a great record since he made his first appearance, a week , before the New Zealand Cup, as in eight starts he has had five wins, two seconds, and a third. He has won up to a mile and a-quarter, with prospects of going further. Though requiring another race before he is out of hack class, he has ' earned such big weights that his future racing may be done in open company, and he may have his next start in the Dunedin Cup next month. Miss Flat, the dam of .Welcome Jack, winner of the New Zealand and Great Northern Derbies, the Auckland Cup, Canterbury Cup twice, and many other good races, was also grand-dam of Wakawatea, who raced twenty-one times as a two-year-old, and continued till about sixteen years old. He is said to have raced longer and started more times than any other horse on the turf. Silver Streak is by Paper Money from the imported mare Fulica, of the No. 19 family. She is by Braxted from Bald Coot, by Fowling Piece from Aminte, by Minting from Griselda, by Strathconan. Fowling Piece was a son of Carbine from a Galopin mare. The family has not many representatives in the colonies. Croupier in New Zealand and Millieme in Australia are its more recent winners. The lease held by the trainer, T. Hobbs, of Silver Streak, winner of the Stewards’ Handicap at Riccarton and the Railway Handicap at Ellerslie, expired on Wednesday, and at Trentham' next Saturday he will carry the colours of his owner, Mr E. H. Aubrey, of Alta Vady station, Awamoko, North Otago. When Hobbs took a twelve months’ lease of Silver Streak as from January 11 last Year, the three-year-old had won only £305 in_ stakes, but during his period of possession the gelding’s stake winnings were increased to £1,972, giving a gross return of £1,667 for the .year, a fine sum for a handicap sprinter to earn in these days of depleted stakes. With falling prices for bloodstock in England, some concern was expressed for the industry. However, matters improved last year, and the returns secured by breeders have created a very much improved outlook. Although doubts are expressed whether the big prices paid for yearlings in former years will be approached for a considerable period, a review of the bloodstock question in a London journal says: One of the most remarkable of the features of the British yearling sales_ at Doncaster in 1933 was that for the first time for many years there was no foreign competition. In the four days’ sale no horses were bought for the United States of America, yet, in spite of lack of outside competition, 321 lots sold for 188,268g5, with an average of 586 gs. This was an advance of 11 per cent, on last year’s average.