RACING NOTES

Evening Star, Issue 22362, 11 June 1936, Page 2

RACING NOTES

RACING. June 13.—Hawke’s Bay J.C. June 20, 23. Wanganui J.C. June 20. 23.—Napier Park H.C. June 20. 23, 24.—Dunedin J.C. June 23.—Opotiki J.C. June 27. —Oamaru J.C. 1 July 1. —Dannevirke Hunt C. July 7. 9, il.—Wellington R.C. July 18.—Hawke’s Bay Hunt C. July 18.—Waimate Hunt C. July 22.—Rangitikei Hunt C. July 23, 25. -Poverty Bay Hunt C. July 25.—South Canterbury Hunt C. July 25.—Manawatu R.C. —Proposed Next Season.— August I.—Poverty Bay Hunt C. August I.—Christchurch Hunt C. August 11, 13, 15.—Canterbury J.C. August 22. Pakuranga Hunt C. AT WINGATUI THIS MORNING. Though there was a light coating of snow on the top of Maungatua this morning, very little moisture had fallen at Wingatui, and the tracks were in good order, most of the little fast work being done on the centre of the inside grass track. Drinkup and The Jeweller travelled fast over the last half of six furlongs on ,the plough-tan track and registered Imin 19 3-ssec for the full journey. Travenna did not move very freely m a run over five furlongs on the grass in Imin lOsec. This horse looks well, but Hancock is going to have trouble in keeping him sound for the meeting. Salmo Salar, with a big pull in the weights carried, Golden King, and Grand Finale were sent over nine furlongs. From the mil© post they took 55sec to run the first half-mile, and finished the eight furlongs in Imin 50 2-ssec. To within half a furlong of the post Grand Finale was doing it best, but then he stopped and the other two finished together three lengths clear of Grand Finale. Nardoo was schooled over three hurdles. He unseated his rider at the first fence and rapped the last fairly hard. He might shape better if jumped with another horse. Half Note and Daring Deed, both looking well, were let off with light work, each sprinting fast down the straight. Tautau Maid had a pull of over two stone in weight when she beat £my Johnson and Master Anomaly home over six furlongs in Imin 19 l-ssec, the last half-mue taking 52 2-ssec. Red Lance was given three rounds at a strong pacej ana ran the last seven fyurlongs in Imm 42 15sec. * ’ Hula Belle and Silk Paper finished together at the end of a six-furlong sprint in Imin 21 l-ssec, the last three furlongs in Imin 42 l-6sec. Both The Smuggler and Umtali returned from Auckland last night. They were on the course, enjoying a sand roll. Both horses look well after their long journey, and Umtali appears to have thrown off the lameness which troubled him after running in the Great Northern Steeplechase. The Smuggler has done well on the trip, and looks better than when he went away. QUANTITY v. QUALITY. Breeding for quantity and not quality is not a success, and commenting on America’s experience in this direction “Reamer ” recently wrote as follows in the Lexington ‘ Thoroughbred Record ’: — » “ After many years’ experience I have come to believe the average breeder does not want to hear the truth, or what may be the truth; he wishes to be flattered, like women about their children. Some of these thin-skinned breeders I have mortally offended in the past by disagreeing with their breeding theories. I do not arrogate to myself the theory of infallibility, but I will at least advance a plausible reason for my like or dislike for certain sires, mares, and strains of blood. . “ And some of our breeders still cling to the theory quantity production ultimately will mean quality _ production. The result is just the opposite. I know of no stud that has been run on a quantity basis that was ever a success. Take the Rancho del Paso —at its peak there wore over 500 mares here' and some 30 odd sires—but considering the number of high-class horses produced this stud was a monumental failure. “ The most successful breeders in the United States in the past 20 years have been William Woodward and Colonel Edward R. Bradley, that is considering the class of/horses they have bred, and the interesting fact is Mr Woodward has never had as many as 50 mares at stud at one time, and I doubt if Mr Bradley has ever had more than 50 mares.” JOTTINGS. Solwit was jumped over three of the brushed hurdles at Riccartbn on Tuesday morning with a view to racing over similar fences at Oamaru this month.

[By St. Clair.]

August 27.—Egmont-Wanganui Hunt C. (at New Plymouth). August 29. —Taranaki Hunt C. September 5. —Otago Hunt Club. September s.—Marten Jockey Club. September 10, 12.—Wanganui Jockey C. September 19. Ashburton County R.C. September 19. Foxton Racing Club. September 19 21.—Avondale J.C. September 24, 26.—Geraldine Racing C. October 3.—Kprow Jockey Club. > October 3.—Otaki Maori Racing Club. October 3.—Napier Park Racing Club. October 3, s.—Taumarunui Racing Club (at Paeroa) October 8. 10.—Dunedin Jockey Club. TROTTING. June 13.—Aihburtcn T.C. June 20, 23.—Auckland T.C. Fiord, who is in the same stable as Solwit, is to be tried out as a hurdler, and on Tuesday morning he shaped well when schooled over the pony hurdles at lliccarton. Emissary and Moonbeam will do no more racing this season. They are being restricted to light exercise, and they will not be hurried again until the spring. On Tuesday morning Signaller (A. J. Peart), Mayam (C. 6. Humphries), and Parroll (J. Dent) were shooled over four hurdles at Invercargill. All jumped well, and both Signaller and Mayam gave unusually good exhibitions for green hurdlers. The Sapling Stakes was first run in 1919, when the stake was £375, including a cup valued at £25. Saturday’s race carries a stake of £I,OOO. The good three-year-old Blair Athol is slightly lame, and may be given a spell. There is nothing seriously wrong, and a let-up from active service may have the desired effect. Appeals have been lodged with the Racing Conference by B. Burgess and A. Jenkins in the Pukeko case, and they will be heard by the conference appeal judges about June 18. Red Top, who did not shape very prominently at Ashburton on Saturday, is remaining at Riccarton in charge of E. Redmond, until his departure for the Dunedin Meeting later in the month. The highest price the Aga Khan ever paid for a yearling was £17,000 for Feridoon, whom he bought privately. Feridoon never raced in England, and was sold in France for about £l3. There were many other high-priced failures in the Aga Khan’s purchases, which was only to be expected. According to an American exchange South Carolina soil contains four times as much iodine as all the other States put together. It added that iodine is good for a horse’s glands, and makes for healthy nerves. Columbia (South' Carolina) is. now being well boosted by many trainers. In 1927 Smirke, rider of last month’s Derby winner, got into trouble with the Jockey Club, owing to being left at the post on an odds-on favourite at Gatwick. The Jockey Club stewards took such a serious view of the matter that they deprived Smirke of his license, and did not restore ‘ it for five years. Smirke resumed riding in 1933, and since then has been making up for lost years. Last year he rode in 341 races, Some years ago when Mumtaz Mahal, the grand dam of Mahmoud, was scorching the race tracks. “Mankato” raised the question of whether or not the tenth dam (Spitfire) of the filly was a thoroughbred mare. The evidence would seem to suggest that she was not entitled to be classed among the thoroughbreds. In the fifth edition of the £ General Stud Book ’ there is an editorial note to the effect that the pedigree which secured Spitfire’s entry “ was alleged to be an invention.” Whatever the facts were descendants of the mare have since gone on making turf history. Free Air, with steeplechase engagements at the Dunedin Meeting, was a 1 member of H. Rama’s Riccarton team, and she was trairfed at Riccarton for some useful races. Unfortunately, she became unsound, and for some time past she has been at New Brighton. She appears to thrive on the exercise she gets on the beach, so she may race well at Wingatiii, as she is a good jumper. Arctic Star contracted a cold on his trip to the North Island, and he was not seen at his best in his races, though be showed some useful form. He shaped well in his schooling over country, and his display in a steeplechase was very encouraging. He is booked for his next appearance at the Dunedin Meeting, where he is engaged in open and hack steeplechases, as well as in hurdle races. Latitude is to be given a trial as a hurdler, and will bo given bis first lessons this week. Latitude has often shown marked speed, but is not good enough in the company he is being called upon to meet. He is the sort of horse which, although not often a Winner, shows form to the extent of encouraging his connections to keep him going. His sire, Polazel, has produced some good hurdlers, and there is every reason to expect Latitude to succeed in the new branch. Becky Direct has come into favour for the New Zealand Sapling Stakes, and it now seems she will share facouritism with Southern • Chief in the two-year-old classic. She is a goodnmnnered filly, and is bred on five right lines to make a champion. Her trainer, F. G. Holmes, has already driven two winners of the Sapling Stakes, in Richore and Sonoma Child, and may add a third to the list on Saturday next. Feola (winner of the Easter Plate at Kerapton in April, and third in the One Thousand Guineas) ran six times last season carrying the colours of the late King George V. She did not win a race. Tire mare is held on lease from King Edward VIII., by Lord Derby, so that she is the first winner owned by the present King since" he came to the Throne Feola is a fonr-year-old, and is said to be a very beautiful mare. She was bred by Lord St

Davids. As a yearling she was bought by Brigadier Tomkinson on behalf of the late King, and cost 3,000g5. She is a brown by Friar Marcus (sire of the dam of unbeaten Bahrain) out of Aloe (a sister to the 1927 Ascot Cup winner, Foxlaw) by Son-in-Law from Alope by Gallinule. She comes of the No.' 2 family. Foxlaw was the sire of. Fox-earth, now at the Lyndhurst stud in Queensland, and also of the fine stayer, Tiberius, last year’s winner of the Ascot Cup. During his racing career Ecclefechan, who broke a fetlock in training at Winton on Tuesday, started 28 times for four wins, three minor placings, and £335 in stakes. The Invercargill _ apprentice, E. Baker, who was injured when Call Money broke through the tapes at the .South Canterbury Meeting last month, has been discharged from the Timaru Hospital and has returned to Invercargill. Friday of this week is an important day for breeders and owners. Entries close on that day for the future classics of the various clubs in New Zealand with such races on their programmes. At the Western Australian Turf Club’s Meeting on June 1 the hurdle race was won by the ex-Trentham gelding Zephyrus (Weathervane —Nada). Zephyrus started at double figures and won by half a head. Entries for this year’s Melbourne Cup are 281, compared with 241 last year, and for the Caulfield Cup 267 as against 238. The nominations for Australia’s big spring races are, all round, the best for five years. The Wingatui light-weight, •W. Jenkins, who was disqualified for a year by the V.R.C. stewards, in connection with the Gold Fox case, returned to the Dominion at the beginning of the week. Although it has been announced that an electric totalisator will be installed at Addington next season, nothing has been divulged regarding .the type of machine selected. In well-informed.

quarters it is understood that it will bo of the same make as is used by the English Betting Board. The King’s steeplechaser, Marconi, who is raced on lease by Lord Derby, was made a warm favourite for a steeplechase at Stratford-on-Avon. He finished fourth, but got third money consequent on the horse that filled that position failing to draw weight. Mr Sol Green’s horses have been transferred from L. Robertson to D. J. Price. Alaric, Springbok, Bravest, and Stevenage were sent to Price’s stable at Caulfield last week, but five yearlings, owned by Mr Green, will remain for a while with B. Price, son of the Caulfield trainer, at Mordialloc. Robertson, who had a remarkable time with his horses during the spring carnivals in Melbourne last year, has trained horses for Mr Green for many years. The move has created a sensation in Victorian racing circles. An awkward situation was narrowly averted at Foxton. Just before the Whirokino Steeplechase field was about to be sent on its journey the discovery was made that the field was being assembled at the wrong starting point. A message was hurried across the course and everything was put in order. Had the change not been made the field would have run a distance of two miles and a-quarter instead of two miles and a-half, and under the rules of racing the race would have had to be run over again. If time alone was the essence of the contract, Parisienno would be entitled to rank as equal favourite for the Sapling Stakes. At Ashburton last month the filly registered 3.22 2-5 when she finished third in a 3.43 race, while Southern Chief took exactly the same time for third in the 3.39 division. Of the two performances, however, that of Southern Chief was much the more impressive. The only other two-year-old yet placed in an all-aged handicap is Effie Parrish, who took 3.34 4-5 .at Oamaru. The track was slow, but there was not much merit in the performance. Frisco Bov stepped about 3.24 for fourth at Ashburton on Saturday, but Jiis form was no better than that

of Becky Direct, who started from No.. 18 (in. the second row) and was close up without being driven out. Of the other youngsters in the Stakes, .Loyal Pat has strongest claims to consideration. He was second in the Timaru Futurity Stakes, and was in front of Becky Direct, Effie Parrish, Tin l Worthy, Dark Hazard, Donald Dbn, Rapidian, and Zincali in the Wai-iti Trot at Washdyke. The big gelding looks to be a good place prospect.