RACING NOTES

Evening Star, Issue 22515, 7 December 1936, Page 4

RACING NOTES

[By St. Clair.]

RACING. V December 10, 12.—Woodville Jockey Club. December 12.—Waipa Racing Club. December 12.—Hororata Racing Club. December 19.—Otaki Maori Racing Club. December 26. —Waipukurau Jockey Club. December 26, 28.—Dunedin Jockey Club. December 26, 28. —Taranaki Jockey Club. December 26, 28, 29.—Westland Racing Club. December 26, 28, 29.—Manawatu Racing Club. December 25, 29, January 1,2. —Auckland Racing Club. January I.—WaikouaiU Racing Club. January I.—Wyndham Racing Club. January 1, 2.—Stratford Racing Club. January 1, 2.—Hawke’s Bay Jockey Club.

INTERVALS BETWEEN RAGES The New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club’s breach of the trotting rules in fixing the intervals between races at 40 minutes instead of 35 was considered by the members of the New Zealand Trotting Association in committee at its meeting last Friday evening. The following statement was supplied for publication:— “ The association, whilst giving credit to the Minister for Internal Affairs and the acting chairman of the conference for their efforts to assist the club in the awkward position in which it found itself, cannot concede that the concurrence of the gentlemen referred to in a breach of the rules is a justification for that breach. Whilst the association, knowing the difficulties under which the club labours, feels that it should treat it leniently, nevertheless it must be remembered that this is the second offence, and on the occasion of the former breach the association accepted the apology of the club on the assurance that no further breach would take place. ' “It is now open to the association either to cancel the certificate of registration of the club or to inflict a fine. The association, however, does not wish to do anything so drastic as to cancel the club’s certificate of registration, but repeated deliberate breaches of the rules, unaccompanied by extenuating circumstances, would leave the association practically no option in the matter, as clubs must obey the rules as far as it is practicably possible for them to do so. Where a rule requires a club to do something which is, or becomes, practically impossible, and the club _ makes an honest attempt to comply with the rule, then the club would be excused if, in the circumstances, the club failed to carry out the terms of such rule. “ But this is not the caSe we are dealing with; we are dealing with a case where the club advised the association that it was its deliberate intention not to try to comply with the ride, but in effect to be a law unto itself and make its own rule. Whilst the association would like to pass the matter over with /a nominal penalty, it feels that it would not be doing its duty by so doing, and, taking everything into consideration, feels that , a fine of £IOO should meet the case.”

JOTTINGS Nominations for the Gore Trotting; Club’s Meeting to be held o,n- Boxing Day close this evening at_s o’clock, and for tho Winton -Trotting Club’s Meeting to be held on December 29 at 8 p.m. Nominations for the Wyndhara Racing Club’s Meeting to be held) on New Year’s Day close to-morrow at 8 p.m. Chryso'logy, Royal Pal, and Silver Jest were given schooling tasks on Saturday morning, - all shaping well. Half Note, who had a long spell through getting cut in a wire, fence, is working well again for D. J. M'Donald The English flab-racing season closed on November 26 with the Manchester November Handicap, and reopens with the Lincolnshire in March. It is reported that Messrs J. S. and W. E. Hazlett’s novice hurdler Golden Lap may be sent to E. Scoular’s stable at Riccarton. . The Gisborne Park racecourse at Makaraka was recently declared a domain, and the Minister of Lands has prohibited racing there. Song Boy has rejoined the. active brigade in F. Shaw’s stable and galloped attractively over half a mile on Saturday morning. Viking appears to have made a complete recovery from the trouble that laid him aside early in the spring, and ran seven furlongs in a pleasing manner on -Saturday morning.

In addition to riding Silver Ring in the Auckland Cup, A. E. Ellis has been engaged to ride Namakia in the Railway Handicap.

Mr Barton’s horses were brought back to Wingatui for a spell, but on; Saturday morning Silver Bond and Gay Circle were exercised at slow work on "the tan track.

Tlie Nightmarch—Monoxide filly in J. Ruttledge’s stable has had to be destroyed. She developed paralysis of the hindquarters in her first attempt at fast work.

Manetho, who T. R. George was very anxious to purchase last month, gave an excellent* display in a schooling effort over six hurdles at Riccarton on Friday morning. Although Dungarvan figures in both the Auckland Cup and A.R.C. Railway’ Handicap, it is practically certain that he will remain at home, and his mission on Boxing Day may be the Manawatu Cup. ’ Autumn Wind, who has been disappointing in his racing on the flat, has been schooled over hurdles. This might give him the confidence he appears to lack in his races.

The Otago-owned mare, Helen’s Bay, is racing very consistently, but is unlucky in only getting place money in her races.

After her good showing at the Addington Meeting last month the defeat of Parisienne at New Brighton on' Saturday would be costly to straightout bettors.

Quite a number of horses that showed good format Forbury Park the previous week were allowed to return falsely food prices at New Brighton on Saturay afternoon, including Prince Harvester, Renegade, Rollalong, Red Flyer, Tempest, Grace M'Elwyn, Stirling Lady, Casanova, Kibo, and Navy Blue,

January 1, 2.—Marton Jockey Club. January 1, 2.—Wairarapa Racing Club January 1, 2.—Greymoutb Jockey Club, January 2.—Oamaru Jockey Club. January 2, 4.—Southland Racing Club. TROTTING. - December 26.— Ashburton T.C. December 26. —Gore T.C. December 26, 28.— Wairarapa T.C. December 26, 28.— Westport T.C. December 28, 30, 31.— Auckland T.C. December 29.— Winton T.C. December 30.— Westland T.C. January 1,2. —Canterbury Park T.C. January 4, 5. —Greymoutb T.C. January B.—Reefton T.C. January 9. —Cambridge T.C.

Bonazel, Blazon, and Topsy Wood are being schooled over nurdles at Invercargill, and reported to be showing aptitude at the game. They will make a welcome addition to the lists of hurdlers in the south. \ Tempest won the Mace Memorial Handicap on Saturday from a big field, and is a very consistent pacer. In his last five starts he has four seconds and a win. Sterling Lady has at last struck form and her .win in the Wainoni Handicap at the Brighton Meeting on Saturday in 4min 30sec is her best performance to date. Last season this mare won five races, second in three, and third in-two out of 17 starts. A gelding named Larry Resta is being schooled over the steeplechase fences at Invercargill and showing good form. He evidently has a good turn of speed also, as on Saturday morning after jumping two of the big fences he ran home the last half-mile comfortably in 56sec. Few horses have won the Auckland Cup with 9.0 or over. Nelson was the first to do so when he scored with 9.8 in 1886, and he repeated the success with 9.12 in 1887. Wairiki won with 9.8 in 1903, All Red with 9.1 in 1909, Rapine with 9.8 in 1925, and Cuddle was_ victorious last year with 9.0, establishing 'a race record of 3.23 1-5. Silver Ring, Cuddle, and Oratory have, with the exception of 11b more on Cuddle, been identically handicapped in the Auckland Cup with -the .weights they were allotted in the Melbourne Cup. Silver Ring was the only one of the trio that started at Flemington, the two mares having returned home. Sporting Blood is down 41b at Ellerslie from his Melbourne Cup weight. J. Bryce, who has trained five Auckland Cup winners, will this year he represented by Red Shadow, who ran second to Indianapolis in the New Zealand Trotting Cup last month. Red Shadow, who has not won a race since August 14 last year, has previously raced at Epsom, where in 1930 he won the Great Northern Trotting Derby in the record time of 3.20 2-5. Bryce’s Cun victories were Cathedral Chimes. Admiral Wood, Man o’ War (2), and Ahuriri. ' A t last .Friday’s meeting of the New Zealand' Trotting Association, P. Gallagher was charged with unseemly behaviour in the birdcage at the Methven .Trotting Club’s Meeting, and it was decided to caution him severely, and to grant him conditional licenses in place of those at present held by him ; Argentic is definitely booked ..to contest the Auckland. Cup, and his stablemate Screamer will race at the Manawatu and Wairarapa Meetings (says the ‘.Press’). A. Messervy, who.,rode Argentic at Riccarton, will have to accompany Concertpitch and Culotte south if the southern trip is .undertaken with this pair. Otherwise he will be at Ellerslie. An explanation of the naming of Wotan is based, on the German trench system on the western front. After the first battle of the Somme, the Siegfried Line, known to the Allies as the Hindenburg Line, became the main defence system l of the German armies. From Queant: northward was a switch line, known as; the Wotan system. The fact that the Siegfried Line gave rise to the Wotan Line, which was on the left of the German front, reveals that the Melbourne Cup winner is aptly named. At Friday night’s meeting of the board of the New Zealand Trotting Association the secretary of the Timaru Trotting Club wrote stating that the club was not satisfied with the nominations for the classic races, and it had been • decided to extend the date of nomination for the Nursery Stakes until December 9 and for the New Zealand Trotting Stakes to .March 17, 1937. A question was raised as to whether the Timaru Trotting Club had authority to alter the date of nominations. ~ Under the rules it was suggested that the dub had no right to alter the date. There was_ a big risk in the matter. It was decided to advise, the Timaru .Trotting Club that the only course open was to cancel all nominations made and to call for fresh nominations. Floodtide is reported to he favourite for the Auckland Cup. At his only start this 'season he won the Mitchelson Cup, but compared with the weights in, that race he will meet Jonathan 231 b worse in the Auckland Cup, Master Brierly 141 b worse, -Red Manfred 171 b worse, Spiral 181 b worse, and Mungatbon 201 b worse. On their best form Floodtide looks much too close to Silver Ring and_ Cuddle, but -he is probably improving while the topweights are most likely on the down grade. It was generally believed that Silver Ring would be spelled on his return to New Zealand, so that uis arrival at Auckland with the announcement that lie is a likely starter in the Auckland Cup will necessitate a revision of opinion on the issue in that race _ (says ‘The Watcher’ in the ‘Dominion’). Silver Ring went off form at Melbourne, but at Randwick he was distinctly the best weight-for-age horse over a distance that raced at thof meeting. Ho was weighted at 9.9 in the Metropolitan Handicap and was among the quoted favourites until the announcement that ho would not be a runner, and he was given 9.4 in the Melbourne Cup, in which he ran unplaced, but considering his soreness put up a creditable effort. Mr Henrys gave him 9.12 in the New Zealand Cup. Back to his best he would be a very hard horse to beat at Auckland, and his progress during the next week or so will he followed with great interest.