RACING NOTES

Evening Star, Issue 21821, 10 September 1934, Page 7

RACING NOTES

RACING. • September 15.—Ashburton C. Racing Club. September 13, 15.—Wanganui Jockey Club. September 20, 22.—Geraldine Racing Club. September 22.—Foxton Racing Club. September 28, 29. —Marlborough Racing Club. September 29.—Napier Park Racing Club. September 29, October I.—Taumarunui Racing Club. September 29.—Oamaru Jockey Club. October 4, 6.—D.J.C. October 22, 23.—Gore Racing Club.

Reminder. Nominations for the Dunedin ; Spring Meeting close on Friday next. For Ashburton. Ventrac and Dismiss went north this morning to carry Mr J. P. Herlihy’s colours at the Ashburton Meeting on Saturday. Oamaru Club. The Oamaru Jockey Club has about 220 members, and last year subscriptions brought in £242. The amount outstanding as shown is £157. Thurina’s “ Leg.” The leg in which Thurina went when racing at the Grand National Meeting has been encased in plaster of paris, and it will take some time to find out the possibilities of his standing another preparation. Riding Engagements. G. Humphries will ride Some Shamble, Cheap Money, Bella Rosa, and Southdown at Ashburton. A. H. Eastwood will pilot Quietly, C. Hughes Polygraph, and G. Salt Morepork. In Forward Order.

If appearances are not deceptive King’s Knave is more forward now than he was at the same period last year. He is also looking very well, so it may not be long before he is showing form again (says the ‘ Press ’). Another Maiden. The latest addition to R. M'Lellan’s stables is a four-year-old mare by Balboa from the Markhope—Brilliant Plumes mare First Hope (dam of First Song, who is in the same stable). This brings M'Lellan’s team up to eight (says the ‘ News ’). Shrinkage in Stakes. The Marion Jockey Club’s Meeting, the first fixture of the_ spring, gives an indication of the shrinkage or prizemoney in the North Island. Ten years ago the stakes totalled £1,450; this week the total was £590, only one race being worth £IOO. Winner's First Time. ! It is a remarkable fact that the last four horses purchased from the north on behalf of Southland owners won first up in their new colours. There was All Humbug, who won the richest race in Southland (Riverton Cup), and similarly successful were Double Shot, June the Third, and Silk Arrow. Novice Events. The novice event at Ashburton is for horses that have not won an advertised race at time of starting, but the conditions for the same class at the Geraldine Meeting admit horses who have not won a race worth more than £SO to the winner. New Blood. There are eight three-year-olds and three two-year-olds in training at Invercargill. This is the greatest number of young horses seen there for some seasons, and the sires represented by this lot are Night Raid (3), Balboa (2), British Emipre (2), Paladin (2), Rosenor, and Paper Money. Red Sun Over Hurdles. The Trentham trainer J. Lowe has arrived at Wanganui with Red Sun and Sunee. The former was schooled over the hurdles, but did not shape very well. He got over a couple, but baulked twice at the back, dislodging his rider, who remounted, and tho gelding finished up by taking the remaining two fairly well. No doubt he would have done better had he had a mate. Vincent’s Jubilee. The Vincent Jockey Club will celebrate its jubilee year with tho present season, and to mark the occasion the programme will show_ an increase of stakes calculated to bring extra patronage. The meeting will be held on a Friday and Saturday, and a ball on the first night and a banquet on the second are to provide opportunities for the social side of the gathering. Return to Form. Cadlaud slipped a lot in his form last season, but L. G. Morris once expressed the opinion that it may have been due to his having been turned out for a long spell. He looked fairly forward when he paraded at Marion and ho bore this out by just winning, though he had some luck. Cadlaud may not come back to the form which won him a Stewards’ Handicap, but he looks far from being a back number yet. Chroroadyne as Hurdler. The Auckland owners, Messrs O. Nicholson and E. R. Davis, have purchased Chromadyne, and the Quin Abbey gelding has joined R. S. Bagby’s stable at Ellerslie. It is intended to give the gelding an opportunity to make good as a hurdler, and he should do well in that department, in which other members of the same family in Wedding March and Royal Abbey have previously proved successful. Returned Home. Wiuooka, after his term of quarantine. is again in M. Poison’s stables at Randwick, and is to be given an easy time there, instead of being sent away for a spell. Presumably Winooka is to start work sooner than was originally intended, but it might pay better to reserve him for the autumn. hie has had quite a long spell from racing, and, as there is not much time in which to get him ready for spring racing at Flemington, his preparation must necessarily be somewhat hurried.

TROTTING. September 29. -Utthren Trotting Club October 6.—New Brighton Trotting Club. October 12, 13. Westport Trotting Club. October 13.—Waikato Trotting Club. October 20, 22.—Auckland Trotting Club. October 20, 22. Greymouth Trotting Club October 22. Oamaru Trotting Club. October 20.—Manawatu Trotting Club. October 27.—Wellington Trotting Club. November 6, 8. 9.—New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club. November 10.—Te Aroha Trotting Club. November 22, 94—Forbury Park Trotting Club. *

New Totalisator for C.J.C. Negotiations for improved totalisator facilities at Riccarton. are in. progress between the Canterbury Jockey Club and Automatic Totalisators Ltd., Austraha, and some of the correspondence was discussed at the monthly meeting of the club last week. Several particulars concerning the purchase and installation of an automatic win-and-place totalisator have still to £ be obtained, and the proposal is not likely to take definite shape for some weeks yet. Goes Well at Wanganui, View Halloo (says the ‘Post’) usually races -well at Wanganui, and last spring, after running fourth in the open sprint with 9.2 on the first day, was beaten only a head by Fiji in the Higgie Handicap, one mile and a-quar-ter, oh the second day. Later he ran second in the Harcourt Cup, one mile and a-quarter, at Trentham, with 9.4, and second in the Mitchelson Cup, one mile and a-half, at Ellerslie. View Halloo’s best performance recently was in winning the Cornwall Handicap at the Great Northern Meeting, and he has done very little racing since then. He is due to make his reappearance in the Marangai Handicap at the Wanganui fixture next week, and as he usually races well fresh he should make another good showing in that event, A. E. Ellis Resting. Having found a tenant for his house at Riccarton; in anticipation of an extended visit to Australia, A. E. Ellis has taken up his residence at New Brighton, where he is having a good rest during his period of suspension. He will be free to ride again after October 18. so he will be available for the Caulfield Cup, also the Melbourne Cup Meeting and other events during the Victorian racing carnival in November. His present intention, however, is not to go to Australia (says the Christchurch ‘ Times ’), though his plans are subject to alteration in the event of inducements being offered him to make the trip.

History May Be Repeated. Nine New Zealand Gup ' candidates have been nominated for the Geraldine Cup. The old Turf Registers show that Tasman and Vanguard, who figure as the first two winners of the New Zealand Cup, both paved their way to success at Riccarton by winning the Geraldine Cup. At the Geraldine Spring Meeting of 1883 Tasman won the G.R.O. Handicap of loOsovs, one mile and a-quarter, and on the second day the Geraldine Cup, of ISOsovs, two miles. The following year Vanguard won both the principal events on the programme, and so emulated the good example shown by Tasman by going on to win the New Zealand Cup. Ardenvhor won the Geraldine Cup as a three-year-old, and, after running second the following year to Ringform, went on to win the New Zealand Cup. Possibly something may repeat early history this year in connection with the two races.

Will Melbourne Cup Be Divided? Will this year’s Melbourne Cup provide a record field, and will the final acceptance be of sufficient size to necessitate divisions?

These are two questions which are being raised in Australia. The Centenary Cup this year, apart from its £IO,OOU prize, is a very great attraction, and there are abundant signs that many owners of potential and not so potential stayers have their ©yes on the big Flemington two-niiler. It is not too much to say that some owners and trainers will pass over the not inconsiderable races like the Metropolitan and Caulfield Cup in order to have their horses unimpaired and possibly not rehandicapped for the Cup. When Carbine won with 10.5 in 1890 lie beat a record field of thirty-nine. Possibly the V.11.C. would be averse from a field of this size in these days of safety numbers and a division is quite within the realms of possibility. Better Chances Here. The Riccarton apprentice, A. Russell, who has returned from Sydney, made the trip to Australia with S'. D. Jones’s team recently more for a holiday than with the idea of getting much riding, as he is at present at such a weight that many opportunities would not come his way at the big spring meetings (says a southern writer). It was on this account that Jones sent him back, for his services are keenly sought in the dominion. Referring to Jones’s horses, Russell mentioned that Nightly suffered from his old trouble immediately after his race at Warwick Farm, but Jones had every hope he would be able to get more racing out of him with careful placing. Custodian had been suffering from a splint, and although at times showing signs of tenderness he invariably pulled up all right after any fast work. Abdication had a recurrence of the bad cold which affected him shortly after being broken in at Riccarton, and it had not been possible to give him much work.

Reipar’s Good Efforts. One maiden who came very decidedly under notice at Marton on Wednesday was the four-year-old gelding. Reipar, and he should be. worth following in such events from now on, for he will be unlucky not to be an early winner. His name is an anagram of Rapier, being that word spelled backwards, so evidently his connections have a fair opinion of him. Reipar is a bay gelding by Greyspcar from the Solferino mare Peradeniya, a half-sister to the hurdler Monetize, and his breeding suggests why his appearance on the turf has been delayed, for lie comes from slow-maturing lines on both sides of the table. His dam (Peradeniya) was a winner before going to the stud, and she descends from the successful Juliet taproot, her greatgranddam, Waiorongomai, having been a good winner, with victories among others in the A.R.C., Glasgow, Autumn, Christmas, and Grand Stand Handicaps. Reipar was bred by Mrs A. F. Lawrie, from whom he was acquired privately by his present owner, Mr C. H. Moss, of Tedding, and he is a stablemate to Tiger Gain and Windward. Prior to bis two placed efforts on Wednesday his only start was in the maiden at the Rangitikei Hunt in duly, and he also gained a place in that race. 1

TROTTING NEWS. Worthy Light. When first placed in work a few weeks ago Worthy Light was fairly big in condition, but after some solid work in the last few weeks the gelding has fined down considerably and is in great order to undergo a preparation for the Auckland Trotting Cup at Christmas, says an Auckland paper. Worthy Light is one of the most promising pacers seen in Auckland for some time, and he appears assured!of reaching the highest company. The son of Worthy Bond may be given a run at the Auckland October Meeting. A Class Performer.

Chancellor is being kept going in solid jogging work at Takanini, and the bay pacer is in great order. It is the intention of his trainer, F. .1. Smith, to nominate him for events at the Auckland Meeting in October. Chancellor is one of the most consistent pacers in the dominion, and he rarely fails to produce his best form.

A Busy Trainer. F. J; Smith is a very busy man these days, for he has just on twenty horses in work at Takanini. At present he is working Chancellor, Nell Vole, Wee Machine, Ganton, War Girl, Wrecker, Worthy Light, Rare Rey, Rayon d’Or, Botterwin, and unraced novices in Embers, Muriel Bond, Polly Pan, a three-year-old pacer by Guy M'Elwyn, a four-year-old by Torpedo Huou, and his Great Northern Derby candidate Bonny Azure. There arc also a few youngsters being put through their early education.

J. T. Paul’s Many Horses. J. T. Paul has a large number of trotters and pacers under his supervision at Mangere, and with very few exceptions they are his own property (says the Auckland ‘ Herald ’). Besides Ringtrue, Bismuth, Young Rodney, Golden Eagle, and Great i Parrish, who raced at the Auckland August Meeting, the stable shelters Bessie Parrish, Moko Bells, Aircraft, Elissa, and three two-year-olds by Great Parrish from Great Eyre, Jewel, and Sunshower respectively. Ringtrue was the only winning representative of Paul’s team last month, and he looks like proving a good stakeearner this season. Bismuth, who won only one small race last season, failed at his last start, and he will require careful placing to gain further success. Golden Eagle and Great Parrish had not been long in work, and improvement can be looked for. Young Rodney, owned by Mr H. Hedley, ran his usual consistent race without breaking it for a win.

Bessie Parrish, Aircraft, and Moko Bells were all winners last season, and when ready to race again should meet with' further success. The two-year-olds are a nice-looking trio. The Sunshower gelding shows a lot of promise,; and may render his owner,- Mr W. Walker, useful service. The other two are fillies, the one from Jewel being a half-sister to Bismuth, and the other from Great Eyre is a half-sister to Golden Eagle. Elissa is a four-year-old trotting mare by Worthy Bond from Gwen Thorpe, and raced unsuccessfully last Christmas for her owner, Mr W. Conning.

Successful Lady Owner The < Auckland lady owner, Mrs I« E. Sweetapple, has been a liberal patron of trotting for twelve years, and during that time her horses have won over £13,000 in stake money. Mrs . Sweetapple has never stopped at the price when she has desired to pufchasa a trotter or a pacer, and one reason for her success has been that she has nearly always purchased horses who have had winning form to their credit, says the Auckland ‘Star.’ Up till thq last three years the southern trainer, J. S. Shaw, had always been associated with the , training of Mrs Sweetapple’s horses, but when she decided to retire from the sport in 1931, Shaw moved to Addington. After an absence of two years, Mrs Sweetapple again joined the ranks of owners in the 1932-33 season, and the colours are again being brought to the fore by the deeds of Blue Mountain and Modern Lady. In her first three years on the thrf Mrs Sweetapple raced in partnership with her trainer,but in ■ 1925 only raced horses on her own account. She has usually paid ' good prices for her horses, and several! nave proved real bargains. In 1922 she bought Nipper, who won a few, races, and nekt came Florrie Bingen,who raced very consistently, and when retired to the stud produced Modern Lady, who shows signs of developing into a high-grade trotter. Mrs, Sweetapple paid £1 ; 000 for Peter Dean, and in less than eight hours from the time of purchase the Pe-tereta gelding won two races. Bittern was then added to the team, but he won only one race, and Great Change, who cost £6oo* proved something of a disappointment.. Before the match race between Koro Peter and First Wrack, Mrs Sweetapple purchased the former, who won the match worth £250, and she immediately sold the big trotter to Mr G. ; M‘Millan for £I,OOO. Warplane costi £350, and returned this purchase money several times over, but Arachne, at £I,OOO, won. only several small races before being retired. Native Prince changed hands at £I,OOO, and at this price he proved a bargain. He won races in all parts of the dominion, and when retired from the race-track' was sold for £6O to do stud duty in Australia. Stony, who cost £750,proved a bad investment, and in three years he won only £ls. Her last purchase was Blue Mountain for £650, and she can have no regrets at haying paid a good price for the grey gelding. He has more than returned the price paid,, and looks like adding to the total,. With the brood Arachne, Florrie Bingen, and Luvan still owned by her, it is reasonable to assume that Mr* Sweetapple will remain in the trotting sport for some considerable time yet.