RACING NOTES

Evening Star, Issue 22272, 25 February 1936, Page 6

RACING NOTES

RACING. February 26.—Opunake R.C. February 26. 27.—Gore R.C. February 28. 29. —Marlborough R.C. February 29, March 2 —Ta Aroha J.C March 4. Rangitikci R.C. March 5, 7.—Napier Park R.C. March 7.—Banks Peninsula R.C. March 13, 14.—Cromwell J.C. March 14, 17—Ohinemuri J.C. March 14, 16, 17. —Wellington R.C. March 20, 21.—Manawatu R.C. March 21, 23.—Bay of Plenty J.C. March 21, 23. Oamaru J.C. March 28.—South Canterbury J.C. March 28.—Bircbwood Hunt. March 31, April I.—Pahiatua R.C.

GORE TO-MORROW. The Summer Meeting of the Gore Racing Club will open to-morrow, the first race being limed to start at 12.30. This will allow patrons from Dunedin to travel bv the morning express, which will stop at the crossing right opposite the entrance gates to the course. Recent showers have made the course in good order, and excellent fields are promised. The following horses should he fancied in their respective engagements:— Gore High-weight Handicayp, BJL— * Latitude, Johnny, Impala. Longford Hack Handicap, 6f.—Wild Career, Final Bell, Wall Street. Electric Trot Handicap, class 3.43, Ijm.—Creep, Guywin, Kentucky Sun. Racing Club Handicap, IJm. —Eawood, M'Heath, Grand Finale. Novice Handicap, 6f.—Wyn, Western Song, Palarino. Crovdon Handicap, 6f.—Lochlaggan, Song‘Boy, Silk Paper. Progressive Trot Handicap, class 3.39, Urn.—Silver Guy, Tritoma, Stirling Lady. . Summer Hack Handicap, Im. M‘Heath (if reserved), Bay Biddy, Island Linnet, Ocean Singer. JOTTINGS. The first race at Gore to-morrow is timed to start at 12.30. Owners are reminded that nominations for the Cromwell Meeting close on Friday at 8 p.m. Two trotting races, both saddle events, are included in the Puapeka County Jockey Club’s programme for Easter Saturday, each carrying a stake of £6O. Cuddle’s next race after the close of the V.A.T.C. Meeting will be the Australian Cup, 2i miles, to be run on March 7. Her weight is 9.2. After that she will return to Randwick.. The Svdney yearling sales, to be held by ‘Messrs W. Inglis and Son at Easter, will extend over three days. The catalogue consists of 618 lots. The imported gelding Lord Argosy has joined J. S. Shaw’s stable, where Mr J M. Samson already has 1 enelope and Greek Vase. The newcomer has been off the scene for §ome tune on account of unsoundness. Nominations for all events at the Wellington Racing Club s Autumn Meeting, also forfeit for the North Island Challenge Stakes and the New Zealand St. Leger Stakes, 19J6, close to-morrow at 8 p.m. Last Easter Saturday the Tuapeka County Jockey Club gave £4OO m stakes, and for this year s meeting £426 will be distributed over seven races. Mr Canter will frame the handicaps, and Mr C. Gieseler will do the starting.

Trophies were attached io the stakes of eight races at Winton last week, and no owner succeeded in winning more than one of them. The winners were Mrs M. Clark. Messrs D. P. Wilson, J. A. Rowland, W. A. Land, T. Dorgan. J. A. Pears, M. J. Dooley, and A. M‘lntyre.

The stake money on the Tuapeka County Jockey Club’s programme has been very evenly distributed. The bestendowed race, the Tuapeka Handicap, is worth £56 to the winner, and the Konini Trial Handicap £44. An allround acceptance fee of £1 for such stakes is on the-high side.

Inquiries made this morning regarding A. E. Didham’s condition show that he is suffering from a very bad bruising and an injured wrist as the result of Po'la Negri falling with him at Winton, and he will not be able to ride at Gore to-morrow.

The progeny of the Southland sire, Woodend, were well to the fore at the Winton Meeting, Enwood, Beam, Wynwood, and Lochlaggan winning races, and with place money earned by Clara Bow, Shel'lelagh Wood, and Dazzling Eyes, his stock won £385 in stakes.

Ilasouli has joined D. O'Connor’s team. He has some good hurdle form to his credit, and he is to be tried now as a steeplechaser, a department in which be should do well, as he is a good jumper and a great stayer. It will be some time before he is ready for serious tasks, however, as he is backward. Mr H. Elworthy, the owner of Rasouli, is a steeplechase enthusiast.

Coat of Arms and his apprentice rider, J. O’Connor, each scored his first success when the Orari gelding won the Novice Plate at AVinton oh Friday. The youngster lost a stirrup during the race, and this made Coat of Arms’s performance read well. The win put the Pink Coat gelding out of the Trial Handicap at Gore.

fn connection with the ..meeting of tlve Oamani ‘Jockey Club, to be liekl on March 21 and 23, visiting owners, trainers, and jockeys will have an opportunity of viewing the horses at the Klderslie Stud, an invitation having been, issued by Mr Ken Austin, the manager. The new Blandford sire, Solicitor General, will be a special attraction, as he arrived from England a few- w ; eeks ago.

The, totals standing to the credit ol the first 10 sires in the Australian list, when a tally was made recently, were : Heroic, £11,388; Marconigram, £8,877; Pnntheo, £7,392; Constant Son, £6,723; High Art, £6,124; Magpie, £5,650; Windbag, £5,044; Thracian, £5,213: Spearfelt, £5,154; and Beau Fils, £5.081. However, the autumn racing in Melbourne and Sydney is likely to make great changes in the order, and if Marabou realises the hopes of Mr Kellow be might cause Marconigram to replace Heroic at the top of the list.

[By St. Claie.]

TROTTING. March 6, 7.—lnvercargill T.C. March 7.—Wellington T.C. March 14.—Timaru T.C. March 18.—Wyndham T.C, March 21.—Taranaki T.C. March 23.—Roxburgh T.OMarch 28. —Wanganui T.C, March 28.—Cheviot T.C. April 4.—Wanganui T.C. April 11, 13. Hawera T.C. April 11, 14.—N.Z. Metropolitan T.C. April 15.—Rotorua T.C. April 18. —Ashburton T.C. April 18, 22. —Manawatu T.C. April 30, May 2.—Forbury Park T.C, Miay 2.—Cambridge T.C. May 7. —Marlborough T.C.

As a rule, the stock of Night Raid has not come to hand early enough to win many two-year-old races, but there is one smart Night Raid youngster in Svdnc.y. At the Rosehill Meeting this month, the Juvenile Handicap was won by Capaneus, his dam being Sennight, by Day Comet from imported Week End. He cost 675 gs as a yearling at Trentham, and this was bis first start.

Regular Batchelor, who defeated Cuddle in the Futurity Stakes at Caulfield, is a Queensland horse, owned by Mr R. P. Trehey. He is a four-year-old by imported Bachelor’s Persse from Regulate, and is trained by his owner. His rider, Tan wan, is one of Brisbane’s best horsemen; Regular Bachelor was something of a champion in his own State, and he won a race recently at Rosehill (Sydney).

Messrs W. H. Dawson and T. Cosgrove, jun., were the most successful owners 'at the Winton Meeting, each having £l7O to their credit. Messrs D P. Wilson £l3O, J. A. Rowland £llO, M. J. Dooley £lO5, T. Dorgan £IOO W. A. Land £95, J. A. Pears £9O A. MTntvre £9O, J. AV. Pankhurst £BS, J. M. Samson £BS. A. Chisholm, jun., £B6, Mrs M. Clark £BS, and J. Gray £75 were next on the list.

Few more deceptive horses are racing on the Auckland circuit at present than the Kilbroney gelding Kelly. On the tracks he invariably overshadows his companions, but seldom does, he reproduce that promise in his races. Possibly he has become cunning, like ono or two of Kilbroney s stock that raced.in this island.

Young trotting stock sold cheaply at the sale of Mr J. R. MTCenzie’s horses at Christchurch on Friday evening. Abe sales made were—h f Grattan Silk, 4yrs, lOgns; bay Ally, 2yrs, by Silk Thread—Pearl Light, 9gns;; bayn y, 2yrs by Silk Thread—Belle Keller (imp.), ‘lOgns; bay filly, lyr, by SilkThread—Addie Guy (imp.), 6gns; filiy, Ivr, by Great Bingen—Dolores (imp.), Signs; filly, lyr, by Silk Thread—Petrova, 6gns; filly, lyr. by Silk Thread —Flora Volo, 15gns; filly, lyr, by Silk Thread—Snow Queen, 9gns.

Valarth let bis connections clown very badly in the open mile race at Winton on Saturday, as he was backed with great confidence A. E. Didham, who has been in indifferent health for some weeks back, admits that he made a mistake in judgment in not going with Beam when the latter headed off Broken Rule. Shortly after this Valarth got a knock which unbalanced him, and from then on lie did not appear to be able to gallop. Ditlhara does not think he could have beaten Beam by the way she was going when she passed him, but if Valarth had not been interfered with he would have been second. Valarth will be ridden by J. W. Jennings at Gore to-morrow.

T. H. Gillett will have a busy time with a team of jumpers during the next few months (says the ‘ Star-Sun ). Hounslow has been kept in steady work and it will not take long to get him ready for a race. The present intention is to give him an extended course of schooling over fences, as he is to be tried as a steeplechaser in the winter. Streainline is going along nicely, and his form in the brush hurdles at Riccarton this month makes him look a good propect. Punchestown is doing some exercise at his owner’s place, and he will return to Riccarton soon, to be prepared for another steeplechase camxwign.

An imposing double totalisator has been installed at Ascot, one of the Sydney “ pony ” courses, and is to be operated as soon as the Government has approved of the regulations drawn up. The double totalisator is popular in Queensland, where it is worked on the English plan. Instead of backing a double straight out, speculators ouy tickets on horses engaged in the first “ leg.” Those who back the winner are entitled to select a starter in the second “ leg,” and the odds are automatic, just as in the case of investments on the strnight-Kiut machine. By this method backers are assured of a start in each race, they know who the riders will he, and are armed with as much information about the second leg as about the first. A double machine on these lines would be popular in New Zealand, and would probably do more harm to the starting price business than any system of telegraphing bets to the racecourses.

Blue Tiger, winner of the Orinpi High-weight Handicap at WoodvilTe last Friday, did his final gallop on Thursday in rather unusual circumstances, and his case serves to illustrate further that the watch is not always a reliable guide to a horse's prospects. When he went out to gallop on Thursday the Woodville course was enveloped in fog, so much so that it was impossible to see any of the posts. Blue Tiger's task was six furlongs on the course proper, and Ids jockey was Ben Kowhni, a Maori lad, whose instructions from B. Goodman were to

yell as he approached the six-furlong barrier. He was soon swallowed up by the fog, and the watch-holders waited in silence. Nothing happened for so long that it seemed as if he had lost his way. Kowhai, however, knew what he was doing and that as long as he did not hit a fence he was still somewhere on the course. He cautiously felt his way through the fog, but as soon as something loomed up in the fog he dug both heels m and let out an car-splitting screech, which must have been heard for miles. Blue IVer, thoroughly startled, put his ears back and went «.ir his life. Some time later the drum of galloping hoots was heard at the bottom of the straight and Blue Tiger, flat out, flashed past the post, being clocked to run the six furlongs in Imin 33sec. Ibe watches were within a second or so of each other The times had to be believed rtoarlv correct, but later it was ascertained that the first object Kowhai had spotted in the fog was one of the iikumli marks, the best part of a furlong' before the six-furling barrier.