RACING NOTES

Evening Star, Issue 21890, 29 November 1934, Page 5

RACING NOTES

[By Sr. Claxk.]

RAGING. November 30, December I.—Feilding Jockey Club. , , , November 30, December I,—Winton Jockey Club. December I.—Ashburton Racing Club. December 6, B.—Dargaville Racing Club. December 8, 10.—Woodville Jockey Club. December 15.—Waipa Racjng Club. December 15.—Hororata Racing Club. December 15.—Wellington Racing Club. 'December 26. —Waipukurau. December 26 and 27. —Dunedin Jockey Club. December 26, 27, 29.—Manawatu Racing Club. • . ~ , December 26, 28, January 1, 2.—Auckland Racing Club. December 26, 29.—Westland Racing Club. January I.—Waikouaiti Racing Club. January I.—Wyndham Racing Club. January 1, 2.—Greymouth Jockey Club.

THE WINTON MEETING. The Winton Meeting will commence at noon to-morrow, and the following horses should be fancied l : Novice Stakes, 6f.—Pompax, Gipsy Fair, Silver Issue. , Otapiri Trot, Urn.— Royal Drive, Hnrd Times, Vacation. Winton Cup, lim. —Kemal Pasha, Cough, Totolomai. Flying Handicap, 6f.—Lochlaggan, Master Anomaly, All Humbug. Winton Steeplechase, about 2Jm. — Possum, Parasang. Barkly Hack Handicap, of.—Silk Paper, Silk Arrow, First Song. Hokonui Trot, lim. —Bright Voyage, Sir Go wan, Weary Voyage. Tradesmen’s Handicap, 1m. —Double Shot, Venite,' Totolomai.

REMINDERS. Owners and trainers are reminded tliat nominations close for the following meetings as under: — Wellington Royal Meeting., Friday, 5 p.m. , Winton Trotting Meetmg, December 6, 8 p.m. Dunedin' Summer Meeting, December 7, 5 p.m. : Gore Trotting Meeting, December 8, 8 p.m. . _ , 0 r Wyndham Meetmg, December 8, 5 P Waikouaiti Meeting, December 10, 8 p.m. , Oamaru Summer Meeting, December 10, 8 p.m. Southland Summer Meeting, December 14, 5 p.m. 0 Vincent Meeting, December 21, 8 p.m, JOTTINGS. Win and place betting will be available again at the Gore Trotting Club’s Meeting on Boxing Day. . Donalda was sore after working yesterday morning, and will not bo taken to the Winton _ Meeting. Silver Ring was sprinted on the INo. 6 grass at Riccarton on Tuesday morning and broke 36seo for his three furlightly will not race at Auckland, and in all probability he will not appear in public again until the autumn, when another trip to Australia is on the cards. _ , T j- _ At Christchurch on Tuesday Indianapolis, looking fresh and well, over a mile and a-quartor in 2.52. He worked soundly, and showed no signs of his recent lameness. At the Otautau Stud recently the iihported mare Spean Bridge produced a colt foal by Balboa. The youngster has three white stockings and marked similarly about th© head as bis dam. Granado easily accounted for the brother to Severe over live furlongs in 69 3-ssec this morning. Lady Leighton was pulling hard over six furlongs on the plough track this morning, taking 40 2-Sseo for the last three and Imin 18sec for the full journey. . , ~ Owing to strong counter attractions, the Timaru Trotting Club will hold its summer meeting pm Januarv 26 instead of January 19. £I,OOO will be given in stakes. . ... It is reported from Winton that, owing to showing Signs of soreness, Fair Vision is. a doubtful starter in the steeplechase to-morrow. _ Foreign Queen and , Guinea Gold were easing up at the end of five furlongs on the outside of the course proper in 69 3-ssec this morning. C. Gieseler has found it necessary to blister the two-year-old Goldboa, and this youngster will he treated to a spell until next season. The Polazel—Similitude gelding in L. Smith’s stable has been named Magnitude. He . will carry Mr W. Crossan’s colours at the summer meetmg at Wingatfii. _ . • . .. . The ‘ Mataura Ensign reports that Sailing Home has been working well for T G. Pollock on the local tracks, and it will be interesting to see bow he will race during the holiday nxLast March, who was operated on last season for wind trouble, still makes a noise when galloping, but was anxious to increase the pace in a gallop ovter half a mile on the plough track in 56 3-ssee. After winning the Melbourne Cup on Peter Pan overtures were made to D. Munro to rid© in England. It was the fourth time the Sydney jocsey had been offered the opportunity to go to the Old Country. Munro received a gratuity of £2,000 for his Cup win. 1 The New Zealand Metropolitan 1 rotting Club’s Summer Meeting originally fixed for January 26 will now he decided on January 19. and will coincide with the visit of the Duke of Gloucester to Christchurch, The Timaru Trotting Club’s Meeting has been postponed from January ,19 to January 26. Sungcm was given her first gallop this morning since she returned from the New Zealand Cup Meeting. She has built up in condition during the spell, and looks to be in great heart. She ran six furlongs on the plough, the last five in 65 3-ssec, and did not appear to be distressed on pulling up. The Riccarton trainer E. Scoullar has several of Mr W. T. Hazlett’s horses in hand, and is likely to he at Invercargill with Strong Light, Madam Pompadour, and General O’Duffy. . Palady. who won the Maiden Handicap at Warwick Farm on Saturday, is a three-year-old bay gelding by Balaam from Lady Anomaly. He was registered in the dominion last May, but has done no racing in this country. In the Tiri Hack Hurdle Race at Ellerslie op Saturday, Illuminate ran the mile and three-quarters in Smin 9 3-sseo —a New Zealand record for hurdle racscoring easily in Smin 10 3;ssec. The New Brighton Trotting Club has received 213 nominations for its summer meeting, which is set down for Saturday, December 8. The Improvers! Handicap has attracted fifty-four entries, so it is likely that it will be run in two or more divisions. A recent registration is that of Prince Echo, a three-year-old gelding by Prince Pointer from Mabel wood. Prince Echo was bred by Mr J. O’Brien at Oamaru, and is owned by Mrs M. M'Math, of Riversdale.

January 1, 2.—Hawke’s Bay Jockey Club. January 1, 2.—Stratford Racing Club. January 1, 2.—Marton Jockey Club. January 1, 2.—Wairarapa Racing Club. January 2.—Oaraaru Jockey Club. January 2, 3.—Southland Racing Club. January 7, B.—Reefton Jockey Club. January 10, 12.—Thames Jockey Club. January 11, 12.—Vincent Jockey Club. TROTTING. December I.—Northland Trotting Club. December B.—New Brighton T. Club. December B.—Te Aroha Trotting Club. December 26.—Gore Trotting Club. December 26.—Wairarapa Trotting Club. December 26.—Ashburton Trotting Club. December 26, 27.—Westport Trotting Club. December 26, 29, 31.—Auckland Trotting . Club. December 29.—Winton Trotting Club.

F. Christmas is one of a number of Riccarton trainers who has planned a foray on southern prize-money at Christmas. He has Manetho, Grey Honour, and Fair Weather for his travelling team, while Jolly Beggar may also be included. Gold Paper is recovering from her recent mishap, and will resume work early in January. « As a result of representations by the Canterbury Owners and Breeders’ Association. the Gore Trotting Club has decided to extend the time for taking nominations until 8 p.m. on Saturday, December 8. This will allow the nomination, in their right classes, of horses competing at the New Brighton Meeting on December 8. Gipsy Fair'(Barclay), after running two furlongs in 23 4-ssec and three in 36sec, completed five furlongs in 1.4 2-5 on the Invercargill course yesterday. This was a very smart piece of work, and typical of all her recent gallops. • This daughter of Rosenor is a real speedster and should be one of the hardest to beat in the Novice Stakes at Winton.

It has been officially decreed that the two-year-old Honour’s Lad (Honour—Grey Lass), who showed promise in juvenile handicaps at the Cup Meeting, must race in future as Grey Honour, the name in which he was originally registered. There is nothing sublime m Honour’s Lad as an effort in nomenclature, but to call a bay colt Grey Honour borders on the ridiculous. Gordon Richards is credited with great horsemanship at Nottingham , on October 6, when lie won three races, and the margin each time was a head. These races were the last three_ on the programme, and on the following day he had five mounts at Chepstow and won four of them. The next day he rode the first three winners at Chepstow, making ten winners in eleven mounts. It was at the corresponding Chepstow meeting last year that Richards accomplished his record-breaking feat of riding eleven winners in twelve. According to Mr W. J. Smith, one of the partners of the “ Smithden ” syndicate, who recently returned to Sydney from a trip abroad, -the criticism levelled at the Australian jockey W. R. Johnstone; for his handling of Colombo in the English Derby was unwarranted. Johnstone rode an ideal race on Colombo, and the reason he failed to run better than third was because the colt was not good enough! Mr Smith says that Colombo was overboomed. He certainly won his early three-year-old races impressively, but when ho tackled the Derby he was found- lacking in stamina. The breeding of Harold Logan is still under discussion, and while he is known to be by Logan Pointer—lvy Cole, by King Cole—-Wisconsin;. by Duncan Abdallah —Charity, the blood lines of the last-named are not generally known. Mr Lyall Laurenson, of .Kumara, writes as follows to the Christchurch ‘ Press ’: —“ With reference to a paragraph in Trotting Notes on the breeding of Harold Logan, there seems to be a doubt as to the thoroughbred mare Charity having been served by a trotting sire. Maybe there was a trotting mare also called Charity, as many years ago a mare called Charity Belle raced in Otago. This mare was given as by Bellman—Charity. If this mare could be traced further light might bo thrown on the breeding of our wonder horse.” A reference to the files shows that a mare named Charity Belle, by Bellman—Charity, won races at Winton and other meetings about 1909, and Charity races some ten years earlier. Both proved useful performers ou the race track,"and both raced in the nomination of Mr T. Brown. Charity is described as a chestnut mare foaled in 1889 by' Orlando, A thoroughbred named Orlando, by The Painter—Valerie, raced with success in Auckland as an aged gelding in 1890, and possibly this horse, before he was gelded, may have been the sire of Charity. As. the compiler of the New Zealand Stud Book is not prepared to accept the opinions of certain writers concerning the breeding of the mare Charity, the champion racehorse of New Zealand is left with very doubtful ancestors in the fourth remove. It is generally understood Charity was a southern mare, and possibly light harness enthusiasts may help to solve the problem.