RACING NOTES

Evening Star, Issue 21662, 6 March 1934, Page 9

RACING NOTES

RACING. : Mirth T, B.—Dannfcvirkt R.C. (it Woodvilla). March 8, 10.—Waikato R.C. March ■ 9, 10. —Cromwell J.C. March IS, 17.—Ohinemuri J.C. March 16. 17.-W«Jllingt6n R.C. March 17.—Birchwood Hunt Club (at Invercargill). March 17;—Opunake R.C. : March 21.—Opotiki J.C. March 21, 22 -Manawatu R.C. March 23, 24.—Ommaru J.C. March 24-.—Otautau R.C.

NOMINATIONS FOR RIVERTON

The following nomination's have been received for the first day of the Riverton Meeting (Easter Saturday):—

Trial Handicap, 125sovs. 71. —Unex, Unseen, Saxophone, Drawbar, Half Note,. Bay Biddy, Fairy Dart, Valiska, High. Average, Lucky Pal, Red Terror, ■ Wall . Street, Silver Issue, Garnish, Beam, Osculate, Air Pocket, Panza, .. Wild. Woodbine,- Woodend—Miss Sylvia " gelding, Colossfan, Jacobin, Milford, Substitute, Highwood, Golden Lap, Pompax,, Bowlands. . Waiau Steeplechase Handicap, 115 »ovs. About 2m.—Cultivator, Willow ■ Glen, Radius Rod, Speakeasy, Father Q’Flynn, Ecclefecban, Lammerlaw, Trisox, Thurelli, Barn Door, Dunnture, Morena, Constancy. Aparitna Handicap, 175sovs. 6f.“ Mobile, Hula Belle, Gold Paper, Master Anomaly, Kemal Pasha, Guarantee, Kerbside, Waterpower, Cherry Queen, Palermo, Royal Duke, Miss Redowa, Enwood, Lochlaggan. Longwood Hack Handicap, 12osovs. 7f.—First Song, Lady Kate, Dodge, Mayam, Valiska, Honest Maid, Pink Paper, Last Link, Towing. Young Sentinel, Ada, Silver Sight, Brown Pearl, Great Weather, Palatinate, Conca d’Orp. Broken Rule. Insolvency, Johnnie. Thornton. Riverton Cup Handicap, 450sovs. IJm.—Vpntrac, Amy Johnson, Gustavo, Salmd Salar, Daring Deed, Cough, Jack a’ Dandy, Great Shot. The Smuggler, Signaller, Toreador, Rin Tin Tin, Totolomni. Trivet, All-Humbug, Fairway, Courtyard, Chrysology, Worsliip, Steeton. Palmary. Chbota. Great Western Steeplechase Handicap, SoUsovs. About 3m.—Andy, Speakeasy, Willow Glen, Pinion-, Calham, Umtali,. The Rector, Nylotis. Quinqpal. ■, Visitors Hack Handicap, 125sovs. 6f. • —Unseen, M‘Nab. Slaemish, Mayam, Euge, Eastern Chief, Draciila, Repudiation, Last.Linfc, Coroner. Cheap Money. Brown Pearl, Cherry Queen, Island Linnet, Miss Redowa, Amelita, Double Shot, Baljasalla, Bowlands. Pourakiho Handicap, 175sovs. Im. -—Gustavo, Broughshane, Jack a' Dandy, Great Shot, Signaller, Sailing Home, Toreador, Red Boa, Kemal Pasha, Totolomai. Rin Tin Tin. Fairway, Courtyard. Waterpower, Worship. Royal Duke, Night Maid, Steeton, Tippling, Enwood, Leading Boy, Kerbside. King Balboa, Cbnrmaine,* JOTTINGS. The first race at the Cromwell Meeting is timed to start at 12.30 each day. The nominations received for the Riverton Racing Club’s annual fixture demonstrate the popularity of this meeting with owners. VanCstep, winner, of the Napier Cup last Thursday, is a daughter of that good mare Warstep, whose many good performances included a dead heat in the New Zealand Cup with Indigo in 1914. Gaine Carrington can definitely be left out of autumn racing, but it is thought he will be right again in the spring, states an Australian correspondent. No fewer than eight of the fourteen horses engaged in the open six furlong race to be decided on the first day of the Riverton Meeting are trained at Wingatui The Southern Champion Hack Handicap to bo decided on the second day of the Riverton Meeting has attracted an hntrV list of twenty-eight, including ten from Wingatui.

[By St. Claik.]

TROTTING. March 10.—Timaru T.C. March 14.—Kaikoura T.C. March 14.—Wyndbam T.C. March 14. Manawatu T.C. March 17.—Cheviot T.C. March 17, 24,—Wanganui T.C. March 23.—South Otago T.C. March 24.-Roxburgh T.C. March 31, April 2.—Hkwera T.C. March 31, April 4.—N.Z. Metroiioli; T.C.

Nominations for the Oamaru Jockey Club's Autumn Meeting close this evening, at 7 o’clock. An entry of twenty-two for the Riverton Cup of 450sovs, includes Iwrses trained at Riccarton and Wftshdyke, while no fewer than nine of them are trained at Wingatui. . Pinion and Umtali are the only Win-gatui-trained horses nominated for this year’s Great Western Steeplechase, and Radius Rod and Morena will represent Wingatui in the hack steeplechases. The Oamaru course is reported to be carrying a splendid sole of grass at the present time and will be in good order for the two days’ autumn meeting to be held this month. Helen’s Bay, who was successful at Invercargill, is a four-year-old filly by Guy Parrish from Gold Patch, by George M. Patcheu—Trilby, by King Quail. Helen s Bay is a half-sister to useful performers in Gold Chimes, Sasin, and Red Shiner. Tunneller. who won the Motukarara Juvenile Stakes on Saturday, is a two-year-old by Winning Hit from Counterscarp, and carries Sir Charles Clifford’s colours. Tunneller had only £6 10s invested on his chance on the “ win ” totalisator and £lO on the “ place,” and returned big dividends on each machine. Last Easter Cricket Bat and Great Star were second and third in the Great Easter, while in 1932 Autopay won this event from Cricket Bat. Great Star was second in the Great Easter of 1931 and unplaced in the 1930 race. Shatter was third in the • Great Autumn last year, and second to Ramo in 1932. All of these horses are again engaged. ■ Mnnetfao, a candidate for the Great Easter and Great Autumn Handicaps, was unable to fulfil his engagements at Motukarara owing to having developed tendon trouble. A hitherto good leg is affected, and his trainer, F. Christmas, says that Manetho will not be able to race again this season. Pay Up, a full brother to the Great Northern Hurdles winner, Make Up, had to be destroyed at Hawera early this week. When galloping round his exercise paddock he swerved suddenly and broke a hind log. He belonged i > Mr J. J. Corry, of Blenheim, and was being prepared for hurdle racing by J. Fryer.

Horses bred by the late Mr H. P, Whitney and his son, Mr Cornelius V. Whitney, headed the winning list in America last year. The number of races won was 282. and the prize money totalled £68,570. This made the eighth successive year Whitney-bred horses were on top in America. Mr E. R. Bradley was second with 201 firsts and £46,950. and Mrs Payne Whitnev third with £39,453.

At Lingfield, England, on January 11 the totalisator “ daily double ” was not selected. The amount invested was £559 10s, but although the first leg, Islandbridge, was selected by seventyseven investors, no one coupled him with Hotcha, who won the second leg. The pool was consequently divided among the seventy-seven backers of Islandbridge, who each received £6 10s for the 10s invested. The Takanini trainer, C. Morse, who took Pillow Fight and Tea Trader to America, has decided not to return, and he has written accordingly to the owner (Mr D. J. Davis). Alorse is again starting as a public trainer on his fine property at Takanini, and is likely soon to have some additions to his team. In a recent letter to Morse Mr Davis stated that Tea Trader and Pillow Fight had both done very well during their spell.

In America horses’ ages date from January 1, and at Agua Caliente on January 3 and 4 there were races for two-year-olds at a quarter of a mile. The first was won by a filly named Beverley Hills, who ran the quarter on a track described as “ slow ” in 23 4-ssec. She started at a shade of odds on, but investors did not know as much about May Rap, winner of the second race. In a field of six her totalisator dividend was at the rate of 13 to 1 and her time was 23 2-ssee. The first race at Hutt Park trots last Saturday started at 12.30 p.m., not at 12.5 p.m.,,as published yesterday, and all other events were correspondingly later. The times given to the newspapers were inadvertently those at which horses had to be out of the birdcage.. By a coincidence a similar mistake was made by the actingsecretary for the Rangitikei Racing Club at that .dub's meeting last Wednesday. Mr W. T. Hazlett had three acceptors for the St. Clair Trial at Caulfield on Saturday last, but he withdrew Sir Simper, leaving Chief Light, and Dazzling Raid to run. Of these two, Chief Light was the medium of heavy support. Dazzling Raid, on the other hand, was neglected in the betting, and .in parts of the ring was quoted at very long odds. The stable judgment was at fault here, as Dazzling Raid, ridden by W. Tulley, was second, while Chief Light, with the New Zealand rider F. M‘Kay in the saddle, finished next to the placed horses. The presence of Indianapolis, Red Shadow, and Roi I’Or in the Washdyke Handicap at Timaru next Saturday will create considerable interest. These horses have been invited to meet Walla Walla in special races at Addington at Easter, and the race will sharpen them up for’their important engagements later on. While they are entertaining the crowd at Timaru, Harold Logan, who also will be one of Walla Walla’s opponents, will be adding to the pleasures of those who patronise the motor carnival at the New Brighton oonrse by staging an exhibition of pacing over one mile. The American trotting stallion Peterwah has been sold to Mrs S. R. Munro, of Stirling, New South Wales, and was shipped from Wellington last Friday, Peterwah was imported from America by Mr R. C. Fisken, Gisborne, in 1923. Peterwah was then a yearling. He became a champion in this country, winning the New Zealand Trotting Stakes at Dunedin, 1924. in 3min 36 3-ssec. This race was a mile and a-half event for three-year-old trotters. Peterwah won several races, his best performance being at Addington, where he registered 4min 23 4-ssec for two miles.

A sensation was caused in England last month by the sudden death under mysterious circumstances of Kilcash Hill, the early favourite for the Liverpool Grand National Steeplechase. There was previously nothing to indicate that there was anything amiss with the horse, and there was naturally great consternation at his death, Kilcash Hill, who was being trained at Weyhill by T. Hartigan, went out for early morning exercise on January 17, and during nis gallop showed not the slightest sign of anything being wrong. He was returned to his stable apparently all right, but about nine o’clock a stable boy found him lying dead. After the breakdown of Rebel Song and his probable permanent retirement from racing activities his stable mate, Silvox, also held on lease by Mr J. Stafford, pulled uj) lame after a gallop at Riccarton on Saturday morning, and he, too, is likely to go into retirement (says the ‘ Press ’). Both horses, from the Gay Lad mare Toti dal Monte, showed marked galloping ability in tho restricted amount of racing they have been able to execute, and it is most unfortunate for all concerned that their careers have been cut short .at such an early age. Rebel Song claims Robespierre as bis sire, and Silvox is by Silverado. An interesting race was witnessed in the reinstated Rangitikei Cup, which dates from 1885. Count Palatine is owned by Mr T. A. Duncan, who had a previous success in the race with Cashier in 1926, and Cooper King is owned by the club’s president, Mr J. F. M’Kelvie, whom the event has persistently eluded. In a way the race was quite a family affair, for Mr Duncan and Mr M’Kelvie are brothers-in-law, and two of tho other five owners with horses competing were Mr Duncan’s son, Mr K. M’K. Duncan, whose candidate Senegal finished fourth, ami Mr Duncan’s brother. Mr \V. M’K. Duncan, whose candidate was Plateau.

Lilian Bond showed at Wellington on Saturday that her running at New Brighton was not her true form, and in finishing second to Waress in the Armstrong Memorial and winning the An Devoir Handicap she proved herself gifted with both stamina and speed. She has been a good winner for R. B. Berry during the present season, for since August 1 she has started in 20 races, winning four and being placed second five times and third five times. Last season in nine starts she won three races, was second once and third once. She has shown marked consistency, and as she is still only a young mare she should do even better with age. Berry is entitled to a great deal of credit for having kept Lilian Bond in racing form for such a long time. Napoleon Direct (1.59|), celebrated pacing sire, died at Tolley Farm, United States of America, on January 22, at the age of twenty-two. As a son of Walter Direct (2.00 f) and Lady Electress, a foal of 1909, he did not begin His campaigning career until he was a' five-year-old, and was not rated highly at the start, although he accounted for ten winning races in his first year on the tracks, and later became one of the best pacers out, having for his driver and trainer the late Ed. Geers. In successive seasons he proved himself to he a champion, and in meeting Single G during his racing years demonstrated that he was , the latter’s superior; He was ninth in order to enter the twomimite list, and was one of the greatest racing pacers, being especially capable of fast brushes on the end of his mile. He still holds the world’s record for the fifth heat of 2.011 and for a five-heat race.