RACING NOTES

Evening Star, Issue 21717, 11 May 1934, Page 4

RACING NOTES

RACING. May 12. —Wanganui J.G. Mav 12.—Southland 11. G. May 19.—Kangitikei K.C. May 19.—Ashburton C.R.C. March 19, 21.—Te Kuiti R.C. May 26.—South Canterbury J.C, June 2, 4.—Otaki Maori R.C. June 2,4, s.—Dunedin J.C. June 2,4, 6.—Auckland R.C. June 9.—l'oxton R.C, June 14, 16.—Hawke’s Bay J.C. June 16.—South Canterbury J.C. OAMARU TROTS TO-MORROW. The Winter Meeting of the Oamaru Trotting Club takes place to-morrow, and it is reported that Oamaru missed most of the bad weather experienced during the past eight days. The track, a six-furlong grass one, is carrying an unusually heavy sward of grass, and will be slow, but not likely to cut up. The presence of Walla Walla invests the fixture with more than ordinary interest, and his meeting with Harold Logan, Hoi l’Or, and Red Shadow will be his last performance in public in the dominion. The totalisator will be open on this event, and after his success at Forbury Park Harold Logan is likely to be made favourite. A fast special train service from Dunedin has been arranged, and this train will run right to the racecourse siding, and returns after the races. The following horses should be fancied in their respective engagements: — 12 noon —Innovation Handicap (3.50), unhoppled trotters, lira- —Prince Harvester, Renegade, Patty Todd. 12.-10—Advance Handicap (3,45). lira. —Captain Heath, Hoyle, Doris Derby. 2—President’s' Handicap (4.33). 2m.—Worthy Queen, Ayrmout Chimes, Waress-Potor Locanda bracket. 2.40 Waikanra Handicap (3.45), uuhoppled trotters. lira. —Hakatere, Triangle, Sister Mary. 3.2o—Enfield Handicap (2.46). Tim. —Ayrmont Chimes, Peter LocandaWaress bracket, Grand Canyon. 4—Stewards’ Handicap (3.36). Tim. —Dundee, Golden Dollar, Greenmantle. 4.40 Electric Handicap (2.53). lsm. —Sure, Margaret Bell, Margaret Chenault. THE OAMARU TROTS. Oamaru has missed the heavy_ downpours experienced both north and south, and the moderate rain at the end of last-week has, if anything, improved the track at the Oamaru racecourse. Pine weather has prevailed at Oamaru throughout the week, the track will be in well nigh perfect order for the Oamaru Trotting Club’s Winter Meeting. An inspection of the course shows that it has never been in better condition ' for the May meeting. The placiugs at the barrier for the Oamaru invitation Match are as follow:—Walla Walla, Harold Logan, Roi I’Or, and Red Shadow. Patrons at Oamaru will have the last chance of seeing the champions in action. All football fixtures have been postponed, and business premises are closing .early on Saturday, on account of this special trotting attraction, and with splendid acceptances in the other seven races, a record attendance for the course is confidently anticipated. A special train will run lor the convenience of patrons from the south attending the Oamaru Trotting Chib’s Winter Meeting on Saturday, leaving Dunedin at 7.42 a.in., and arriving at Oamaru at 10.53 a.in. in ample time for the first race, which is timed to start at noon. On the return journey the train leaves' the racecourse at 5 p.in., Oamaru station at 5.49 p.ni., arriving at Dunedin at 9 p.m. The invitation Match over the mile and a quarter at Oamaru, will be the deciding one over the three distances between Walla Walla and Harold Logan, the Australian Champion winning the mile, and the New Zealand champion the mile and a-half. Rm I’Or is likely to meet with much support, as on the second day at Christchurch he went the race of his hie from 73yds behind, to finish half a length behind Auburn Lad in 4.14 1-5.. The fact that Red Shadow finished ahead of Harold Logan at Auckland should also add great interest to the contest. In the mile from a flying start at Forhury, Harold Logan beat Walla Walla by half a length. Mr P. J. Kelleher, of Hakataramca, lias given a gold-mounted whip to trie Oamaru Trotting Club, for the winning driver in the Invitation Match. REMITS FOR CONFERENCE. The committee of the Canterbury Jockey Club yesterday decided to forward four remits to the New Zealand Racing Conference, three of which were negatived at the last conference, and one was amended. The remits are as follow; — 1. Substituting a three-fourths majority necessary to pass a special resolution instead of a two-thirds majority. 2. Reducing the amounts to be won to declare horses ineligible for hack class from £250 for one race to £2OO, and from £SOO for collective races to £4OO. This motion was narrowly defeated at last year’s conference by 25 votes to 21. 3. Providing that in the case or a two-day meeting any day of which falls in the period from September 1 to May 31 inclusive in any year a hack handicap flat race of not less distance than a mile and a-quarter be included. A similar motion was advanced by the club last year, hut after a long discussion the’ distance was amended to one mile, and the motion was passed. The chili now desires the adoption of the original suggestion of one mile and a-qnarter. 4. Regarding special totalisator regulations governing the win and place dividends, providing for first and second place dividends where the number oi starters is seven, eight, or nine, and not five, six, or seven as at present; providing lor first, second, and thiid dividends where the number of starters is ten or more, and not eight or more as at present; and providing for the win and place system to operate only where there are seven or more starters, and not five or more as at present. This remit was withdrawn by the club s delegates at the last conference. JOTTINGS. The first race at Oamaru to-morrow is timed to start at noon. The Invitation Race, m which Walla Walla. Red Shadow, Roi TOr, and Harold Logan will take part, is set down to start at 1.20 to-morrow. Jacobin, with his Invercargill engagements thrown in. is on the private sale list The Canterbury Jockey Club netted £1.512 0s lOcl out of its sales of race cards this season. The Canterbury .Jockey Club last season gave £20.235 in stakes and received £30.388 3s lid from the totalisator. Members contributed £1,405 19s by way of annual subscriptions to the Canterbury Jockey Club last season.

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Jans 21. 23.—Napier Park R.C. June 23.—Ashburton C.R.C. June 30. —Oamaru J.C. TROTTING. May 12.—Oamaru T.C. May 12, 14.—Waikato T.C. i May 19.—Wellington T.C. June 24.—Canterbury Park T.C. June 24. —Hawke’s Bay T.C. June 9.—Ashburton T.C. June 20, 23. —Auckland T.C. The steeplechaser Red Bank Jins been put into work again at Hastings. Last winter Red Bank won the Wanganui Steeplechase. The Melbourne trainer D. J. Price and the jockey S. Tomison, recently disqualified for two years for alleged improper practices, have appealed. Red Manfred is still another horse mentioned as likely to race in Australia in the spring. Ho has been on the easy list for some time and has thrived on it. The South Canterbury Jockey Club has applied for four single-day meetings next season, the dates being October 13, April 6, May 18. and June 15. Training fees brought in £316 Is to the Canterbury Jockey Club this season, but against that it cost £940 7s 9d to maintain the tracks. The Grand National Meeting at Riecarton will he held on August 14, 10, and 18 this year, and the Christchurch Hunt Meeting on August 4. There will be an interval of over two months’ racing in the Canterbury district next season. The Hororata (lub lias applied for December 15, and the next meeting will be the Canterbury Jockey Club’s Midsummer Meeting ui February 16. The Grand National Steeplechase will be worth £I,OOO, ,the Grand National Hurdles £6OO, and the Winter Cup £SOO this year. The Beaufort and Lincoln Steeplechases each carry a stake of £350. “ J.M.G.”—It is not usual tor horses’ names to appear in alphabetical order in the list of acceptances. These lists are supplied by the secretaries and published in the order as written out by that official. Still more good Soutlihuid-pred pacers and trotters are booked to be trained in Canterbury. In addition to Prairie King and Mocast, already mentioned m these columns, Journey’s End has gone into M. B. Edwards’s stable, and Sure joins her half-sister' Probationer in S. A. Edwards’s stable. Though the income and* expenditure account for the year ended April 30 shows the Canterbury Jockey _ Club made a loss on last year’s working of £414 14s 9d, the sum of £3,375 14s 44 was written off buildings, machinery, etc. During the season the club reduced its indebtedness by £2,865 Is 7d, but still owes its bankers £11,293 16s Id. „ . The good winter performer I oreigu Queen is . aw reported as getting through useful tasks at Woodville and as looking a much more solid mare than formerly. Foreign Queen is a brilliant galloper when the tracks are on the easy side, and she should be prominent this winter. Tout le Morale has been so long showing the form anticipated of him that liis trainer, T. Lloyd, is considering a new line of treatment. Tout le Morale is being given a, lot of jumping on the lead, and it is possible that he wJI be schooled over hurdles in the hope that this will bring improved form for future racing on the flat. When Sea Gift non the Peninsula Handicap on Wednesday she ■arned £4BO on her chance, and never gave her supporters much anxiety about their dividend. It would be interesting to know the reasons for this mare’s solid support. On the first day feea Gift finished fifth nearly twenty lengths behind the winner in the Bayfield Handicap, in which she was supported to the extent of £34 in a pool of nearly £I,OOO. General entries for the Auckland Winter Meeting closed on Friday, and are the largest for many years. The total for the fifteen events is 528, compared with 385 last year, an increase of 143. The increase is particularly noticeable in the open six furlongs races, which hitherto this season have not attracted large fields. The five-year-old gelding Shining Gold (Arausio—Gold Lighfj), who. recently won a race for his breeder. Mr W. T. Hazlett, at Pakenham (Melbourne), won again at Woodend on April 26, but this time for a new owner, Mr Hazlett having in the meantime disposed of him. Shining Gold is now owned by his trainer, F. Fort, who soon got some return of his purchase money. Shining Gold led all the way, and won comfortably. Mr H. A. Knight has disposed of Imperial Spear to a Christchurch resident. Imperial Spear, by Greyspear from Imperial Molly, by Crown Imperial, was purchased as a yearling at Treuthaui by Air Knight for 125 guineas, and although showing promise at times of developing into a good' winner. he has had only one success for Mr Knight. His recent efforts have, however, indicated that he is improving, and at the 100 guineas paid for him by his new owner he should turn out a payable proposition. The ‘ Press ’ says one reason why trotting does not go ahead by leaps and bounds in Dunedin is that few trainers are resident there, for while some of the most prominent owners hail from the

south, and the training facilities are of the best, very few horses are trained there. On the first day of the meeting at present in progress, only eight horses of the big number accepted for are trained in Dunedin. It is only natural to suppose that interest is not so keen as it would be if a strong local team gave promise of making things interesting for the teams that go there from Canterbury and Southland. In view of the fact that the Aus-tralian-bred sires, Heroic and Windbag, went to the stud in the same season, 1927, special interest attaches to a comparison of results achieved. Up to the present 118 yearlings sired by Heroic and 104 by Windbag have been submitted to auction, and the following is a statement of the amounts realised :

For some time a conference of racing club secretaries has been mooted, but an announcement was made two months ago that there was little likelihood of such a conference being held, as it was frowned on by some of the leading authorities in New Zealand racing. At the request of a number of racing clubs, however, the executive committee of the New Zealand Racing Conference has reconsidered the matter and it has been decided to hold the conference at Wellington on July 6, a few days prior to the annual conference of club delegates. The conference of secretaries should he productive of much that will be for the betterment ot racing conditions. When the track at Forhury Park on Tuesday was unfit for work of any description, and trainers were at their wits’ end to find ground on which to. work their horses, most of them were kept on the roads, but. one stable lad in charge of a very good horse happened to be passing the, football ground at Anderson’s Bay and ho was struck with the idea that it provided going that would suit his champion nicely (reports the ‘ Press ’). After a few circuits had been made an irate caretaker appeared on the scene, and told the youth in unmeasured terms what he thought of the liberty that had been taken. the stable lad pleaded ignorance of rules and regulations governing sports grounds, and it is said that the owner, who was watching his horse, work, made a discreet disappearance. The Great Northern candidate, Thespis, it getting through a solid preparation under J. Burgess’s guidance, and it is doubtful if the brown gelding has ever looked better than at present. He has been entered for a couple of hurdle events at the Te Kuiti Meetiim, and the racing at that fixture should provide a reliable guide for his Great Northern Hurdle engagement,. to be decided shortly afterwards.. Last season a similar programme was fo.lowed with Thespis, who started one of the favourites in the Pio Pio Huixf.ss on the second day of the te Kmti Meeting. On that occasion he was going well until crossing the top, where he hit a fence hard and dropped back, eventually finishing some distance behind the, placed horses. His next appearance was in the Great Northern Hurdles, and when out in front with Prince of Orange about seven furlongs from home both horses came to grief. Thespis was going well at the time, but whether he would have won had he stood up is open to question. However, he is now a better and more experienced horse than he was twelve months ago and should run accordingly.

Heroic. Windbag fins. Gris. 1930 (251 ... 7,000 1950 (18) ... 4,175 1931 (33) ... 7,995 1931 (13) ... 2,000 1932 (18.) ... 6,330 1932 (18) ... 1,875 1933 (20) ... 6,480 1933 (25) ... 2,065 1934 (22) .. 11,535 1934 (30) ... 7,663 39,340 17,778