RACING NOTES

Evening Star, Issue 22067, 28 June 1935, Page 4

RACING NOTES

RACING. June 29.—Levin R.C. July 3. —Dannevirke H.C. July 9. 11. 13.—Wellington R.C. July 20.—Hawke’s Bay H.C. July 24.—Rangitikei H.C. July 25. —Waimate District H.C. July 25, 27.—Poverty Bay T.O. July 27.—South Canterbury H.C. July 27. —Manawatu R.C, —Next Season.— August 2.—Poverty Bay H.C. August 3.—Christchurch H C. August 13, 15, 17.—Canterbury J.C. August 24.—Pakuranga H.C. August 29.—Egmont—Wanganui H.C. (at New Plymouth). August 31.—Taranaki H.C. September 7. —Otago H.C. September 7. —Marton J.C. September 12, 14 —Wanganui J.C. JOTTINGS. Nominations will be t'aken till 8 o’clock to-night for the following events at tho Canterbury Jockey Club’s Grand National Meeting:—Grand National, Beaufort, and Lincoln Steeplechases, Grand National and Sydenham Hurdles, and Winter Cup. The report that Linguist will bo sent to Melbourne next month is officially denied, and this filly 'will be definitely a starter at the Trentham meeting. A. Messervy will ride Sea Fox, Royal Gallant, and M‘Heath at Trentham. , The annual general meeting of members of the Dunedin Jockey Club will be held on July 25. The New Zealand Referee,* in reviewing the fields for to-morrow’s meeting at Levin selects Bodyline, Unseen, and Bazaine to be the best fancied in the Kimberley Hack Handicap. Nominations for the vacancies on the executive of the Dunedin Jockey Club for the ensuing three years require to be in the secretary’s hands by 4 p.m. on July 11The Levin Meeting to-morrow will attract quite a number of horses engaged at the Wellington Meeting next week, and tho form shown should help punters find winners at thd latter fixture. A northern writer ventures tho opinion that Adult would have beaten Hounslow at level weights at Ashburton, but at Trentham Hounslow is asked to concede him 171 b. Tlie programme for ‘ next season’s meeting at Geraldine will he on iiio same lines as last year, excepting that the distance of the Ohapi Hack Raeo will be increased from five to six furlongs. J. Kerr has boon engaged to ride Aladdin in his engamesents at Wellington. The Washdyke horseman piloted the Hunting Song gelding in his sucsesses three or four seasons ago. It is reported from Invercargill that Double Shot will not make the proposed trip to Melbourne, but is likely to ho raced at the Grand National Meeting. There is no question about the success of J. S. Shaw in the galloping side of racing. His record for the season is now 18 winners, 15 seconds, and 9 thirds, while-in stakes his horses have earned £1,958. A suggestion made by the stipendiary steward (Mr G. N. M'Lean) that the Ohapi Hack Race on the Geraldine programme should be for two and three-year-olds at set weights, was turned down at a meeting of the committee Held this tveek. Tho members of the executive of the Dunedin Jockey Club who retire this year are Messrs A. C. Hanlon (president), L. C. Hazlett (vice-president), Arthur Barnett, W. J. Goughian. C. N. Draper, and F. Tyson. .It is announced that Mr Barnett does not intend to seek re-election.

Mr E. J. Harvey, secretary to the Marlborough Racing Club, whose course was recently, sold by an order of the Supreme Court, has advised the secretary to the New Zealand Racing Conference that there are hopes that the club will be able to continue and still have the use of the course for its race meetings.

E. Henry, who was the leading jockey at pony race meetings in Sydney for several years, has had a lean time since the A.R.C. clubs crossed .over to the A.J.C. rules, and he has announced his retirement. In the course of his career Henry rode more than 1,000 winners. It was worth going down tp Epsom if only to see the joy of the Aga Khan at his victory (says an English correspondent). Umbrella in hand, he ran down the course at such an amazing speed to lead his horse in, that it _ was humorously remarked that he might easily have won the Derby himself even without Bahrain.

The Avondale Jockey Club made a loss last year of £1,457 without making any provision for depreciation. The loss is_ attributed to the club’s spring meeting clashing with the Now Zealand Cup Meeting at Riccarton. For next season the club has applied for September 21 and 23 as the dates for its spring meeting. The Southland Racing Club has made an amended application for the dates of its winter meeting next season'. It originally applied for Friday and Saturday, May 15 and 16, but now wishes to divide the permit and race on November 23 (a free Saturday for both racing and trotting in so far as the South Island is concerned, and another one-day meeting on May 16. Unquestionably the best-looking horse in the parade prior to the Derby was Lord Aster’s Field Trial. , This colt excited universal admiration, and, had he been, more ready, might, quite possibly, have won outright. He finished third—the sixth time that Lord Astor has beon_ placed in the Derby without ever having actually won the blue ribbon of the turf. _ Field Trial, admirably ridden by R. Dick, may possibly have missed his stablfe companion, Plymouth Sound.

In an interview after winning the Derby on Bahrain, Fox said: “It was a good race. It was never in doubt; I could have won anywhere I liked. I tracked Gordon Richards and was never out of the first seven, and came into the straight about fourth. When I drew up to the lenders _ below the distance ray horse had nothing to do but take 'command. and proceed to a very easv triumph.” Worth. 20.000 francs, the Prix Melbourne was run over a mile and a furlong at Le Tremblay (France) last month, and went to Lord Derby’s Will o’ the Wisp, a colt by Pharos, who was ridden by the Australian “ Togo ” Johnstone. Johnstone rode two other winners the same day. One of them was the Grand Prix Tremblay, won by Assuerus by a short head. Johnstone’s other success was on M. Pierre Wertheimer’s Quebec in the Prix Winkfield.

Although Mr Coyle could have gone up to I2st to start the handicap for the Wellington Steeplechase, he lias commenced with Valpeen at 101 b below the maximum. Tlie low scale is a feature of the handicap, only two horses being weighted at 11.0 or over, four between 11.0 and 10.0. and nine under 10.0, with two on the minimum. The result is a flattering handicap, in which every horse with any form worth while has an excellent prospect of success.-— 1 Dominion.’

September 21.—Ashburton Cbunty R.C. September 21. —Foxton R:C. September 21,' 23.'—Avondale J.C.. September 26, 28.—Geraldine R.C. September 27, 28.-Marlborough R.C. September 28.—Napier Park R.C. September 28, 30.—Toumarunui R.C. (at Paeroa). TROTTING. - June 29.—Auckland T.C. —Next Season,— August 10, 14, 16.—N.Z. Metropolitan T.C. August 31.—Auckland T.C. September 7. —New Brighton T.C. September 19, £1. —Hawke’* Bay T.C. October s.—New Brighton T.C. October s.—Methvon T.C. October 12.—Waikato T.C. October 19, 21,—Westport T.C.

All Hastings enthusiasts have a good word for Collision, who got on the winning list on the second day of the Napier 'Park fixture. Collision is a strongly-made son of Colossus from Arbroath, the dam of Huntingdon and Hunting Star, both of whom are good gallopers. Ho has been doing excellent track work for some time past, and his win last week-end was well anticipated. The Wellington Steeplechase weights show marked variation from those at the end of the Riverton Meeting. On the final day in the south Dunmure was given 11.5, Royal Limond 10.3, and Graball 9.0. Graball, the only ono of the three to start, finished a poor third. At Wellington their weights are Dunmnre 9.13, Royal Limond 10.4, Graball 9.8. In the interval Royal Limond has won the Great Northern and Graball four races on end, Jwhile Dunmure has not started in a steeplechase.—Timaru ‘ Herald.’

More may yet be heard of the case which resulted in the suspension for three months of W. J. M'Dowell, who rode Hunting Jay in the hurdle race on the first day of the Napier Park Meeting (says the ‘Sun ’)• Hunting Jay is a good type of hurdler, and seems sure to make" a name for himself when he becomes accustomed to racing over obstacles. Some experienced turfites go so far as to say* that they do hot regard any jumping race in the country as beyond him. One of the best hacks in Hawke’s Bay is Royal Banquet, who is equal to big weights and does not mind soft ground. He has improved greatly in recent weeks, and should be able to hold his own when ho takes the stage against the strong opposition he will encounter at Trenthnm next month. In the course of time, Royal Banquet will be put to hurdling, and as ho won in his only start over the battens, his prospects in that department are bright. While in Australia early in the year Mr G. J. Barton stated thaff Indianapolis would visit the Commonwealth next year. As the interdominion championship's in 1936 will bo held at Adelaide, Indianapolis will be a big attraction at the South Australian Trotting Club’s carnival. The champion is in elegant order, and is as sound as a bell. Helias not had any experience on small tracks, but he will have ample time to get accustomed to a four-furlong circuit, which is the size of the courses at Adelaide, Perth, Melbourne, and Harold Park. Sydney. The possibility of the .Eastern South land Hunt Club becoming affiliated with the Associated, Hunt Clubs wp.s raised by Mr Green at the annual meeting of the Gore Racing Club on Wednesday evening. He said this might prove beneficial to the Racing Club as focal horses could qualify as steeplechasers in their own district, with the result that steeplechase events might be reinstated on the club’s programme. He contended that in the event of such an affiliation occurring, the Eastern Sonth|and Hunt Chib should be assisted financially. After a short discussion it was decided to recommend tl» com mitteo to favourably consider assisting the Hunt Club Royal Limond won the Great Northern Steeplechase with 9.8, and has been allotted 10.4 in the Wellington Steeplechase. The opposition he encountered at Auckland was probably the weakest paraded for the race for many years, and he will meet the best of the dominion steeplechasers! at Trentham, but nevertheless, in view of his ability to master the Trentham country and to act satisfactorily in the usual holding going, his prospects have to be seriously considered, (says the ‘ Press ’). He has not been schooled since returning from Ellerslie, but the respite will not have any ill effect on him, as ho has had more jumping daring the winter to date than the majority of his opponents, and incidentally has not suffered a fall.

Bahrain so completely dominated the post-wagering bn the Dorb.y as to cause it to lose interest. Thd market was thrown into n state of chaos. “We cannot make a book,” the bookmakers declared. ” The only bets we are offered are for Bahram, and we have already accepted so many that we cannot take more.” In fact, the Jjnly transactions for some time were each-way stakes, and they were for small, sums. Thus the general public lost their opportunity for their annual flutter, and in the aggregate the amount' of money staked was Jess by 50 per cent, than that on any Derby within memory. Lord Derby has suffered many rebuffs in racing, but none, I imagine, which has caused him more disappointment than in this year’s Derby (writes an English correspondent). In, Bobsleigh he believed that he had an exceptional horse, one fully capable of challenging’ the Aga Khan’s unbeaten Bahram; and then, a few days before the race, the colt fell lame. It was a slight mjshap. but sufficiently serious to interrupt the preparation of the. colt to run at Epsom. Bobsleigh is a magnificent horse, and the stable estimate him to be a stone better than Hyperion, their last Derby winner. If this is correct he is indeed, a horse of remarkable standing, and he may yet prove it. because it is not anticipated that his present trouble will remain. Mr W. 11, Kemball started the day well at the compensation meeting at Caulfield on June 13, when he won the Trial Hurdle race with the novice Wnrlitzer. The gelding, who is a three-year-old son of Hunting Song, did his work like a veteran, although the success was his first. Good renorts had been heard of his schooling efforts, but Wnrlitzer, who, had given a poor display at Woodond, was almost entirely neglected in the betting,_ says Melbourne report. For the first half of the journey ho was a long way hack, but he improved his position so rapidlv then that he was in front seven furlongs from home. Ho was ridden by the Tasmanian, R. Rice, and looks the makings of a very promising young jumper. " Now, Patrick,” said the smiling priest as fie looked at his black sheep standing outside a public house, waiting for it to open, “you look like a man who's going to he hanged, and I think—" ■' Oh, then, father, you’re not far out there. I’m sure of having a drop.”