RACING NOTES

Evening Star, Issue 22576, 18 February 1937, Page 2

RACING NOTES

[By St. Clair.]

RACING. February 19, 20.—Winton J.C. February 20.—Tolqga Bay J.C. February 20, 22.—VVoodville D.J.C. February 20, 22.—Waikato R.C. February 26, 27.—Gore EX. February 27.—W.aiapu R.O. . February 27—Opunakc R.C. February 27, March I.—Te Aroba J.C. March 4, 6—Napier Park R.C. March 6.—Banks Peninsula R.C. ’ March 6.—Rangitikei R.C, March 12, 13.—Cromwell J.C. March 11, 13.—Wellington R.C. March 13.—Birchwood Hunt. March 13, 17.-Ohmemun J.C. March 19, 20.—Pahiatua R.C. March 20.—Stratford R.C. March 20.—Otautau R.C. DATES TO REMEMBER With so many meetings to bo held during the next six weeks owners and trainers will require to keep an eye on the calendar, and the following.list of dates and times for the. closing of nominations may be of service. February 23, 5 p.m.-Invernargill n uary lUb 23, 7 p.m.-Bircbwood H February 23, 9 p.m.-Timaru Trot- — Wellington % e ebruSy b 26. 5 p.m.-Canterbury Jockey Club (Great Easter and Autumn H February* 26, 6 p.m.-Wvndham Trotting Club. _ March 1, 6 p.m.—Riverton Racing C March 1, 8 p.m.—Cromwell Jockey C March 9, 8 p.m.—Tuapeka County Jockey Club. „ . March 10, 8 p.m.—Beaumont Racing Club. , March 12. 5 p.m.—Canterbury Jockey Club (minor handicaps). March 18, 5 p.m.—New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club THE WINTON MEETING The Winton Jockey Club’s annual meeting will be commenced to-morrow, and it is many years since the club has received such good acceptances. The Winton track it one of the fastest mile circuits in the South Island, and is reported to be in good order. The following horses should be fancied in their respective engagements: — • „ T .„ Novice Stakes, 6f.—King Willow, Mona’s Song, Tautau Maid. Otapiri Harness Handicap, class 3.43, lj m ._Abel, Dolores Silk, Prince Charles. Winton Cup, Urn.—Wild Career* Ashaway, Trivet. Flying Handicap, 6f. —Silk Paper, Beam, Moneyless. Winton Steeplechase, about 2Jm. — Faculties, Blazon, Trisox. . Baddy Hack .Handicap, 6f. —Island Linnet, Rodeur, Bay Biddy. Hokonui Harness Handicap, class 3.39, ijm.—Eddie : Tolan, Mishap, Vinoli. Tradesmen’s Handicap, Im.—Linguist, Half Note, Wild Career (if reserved), or Wall Street. THE JOHN GRIGG STAKES Eighteen entries have been received for the John Grigg Stakes, the two-year-old classic event, of four furlongs, for £3O(J, to be run at the Ashburton County Racing Club’s Spring Meeting on September 18, The entries are as follow; O. F. Watson’s ch c, by ColossusShuffler. J. Beattie’s hr c, by Siegfried—Arbitration. Dr M. G. Louisson’s ch c, by Defoe— Misgovern. Dr M. G. Louisson’s ch f, by Hoylake —Royal Baby. F. Holmes’s b f, by Nightmarch— Matty Carling. R. Ellis’s ch f, by Winning Hit— Finora.

TROTTING. February 20.—New Brighton Trotting Club. March 5, 6.—lnvercargill Trotting Club. March 6.—Wellington Trotting Club. March 13.—Wanganui Trotting Club. March 13.—Timaru Trotting Club. March 17.—Wyndham Trotting- Club. March 20.—Cheviot Trotting Club. March 20.—Wanganui Trotting Club. March 27, 29—Hawera Trotting Club. March 27, 31—N.Z. Metropolitan Trotting Club. April 3.—Taranaki Trotting Club. April B.—Reeftou Trotting Club. April 10.—Roxburgh Trotting Club. April 10. —Ashburton Trotting Club. April 10.—Thames Trotting Club. April 17.—Manawatu Trotting Club. T. E Pankhurst’s hr f, by Pink Coat —Tray Bond. Sir Charles Clifford’s b c_ Godfrey, by Magnus—Winsome Hind. Sir Charles Clifford’s b f Wild Talk, by Winning Hit—Babel. Sir Charles Clifford’s b g Scuffle, by Winning Hit—Scrimmage. Sir Charles Clifford’s ch f. Great Fight, by Magnus—Swoopaiong. Sir Charles Clifford’s b f Good Passage, by Winning Hit—Fast Pass* age. H. Rigby’s b f, by Nightmarch—Sky Lass. C. J. Walsh’s hr g Gallant Prince, by Dolomite—Fairy Tidings. G. R. Macdonald’s b c, by Lord Warden—Eulalie. D. M. Tweedie’s ch f, by Lord Warden —Francolin. E. D. Robinson’s eh c Gay Lover, by Philamor—Bon Rose. R, J. Saxon’s Pacific, by British Empire—Melleray. JOTTINGS B. H. Morris rode five winners and a third at the Hawera Meeting. No race on the New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club’s Easter Meeting programme carries a stake of less than £3OO. Dollar Bill, who has been off the scene for some weeks, is reported a possible visitor to Riverton at Easter time. Rex Beale has been engaged to ride Faculties in the Winton Steeplechase to-morrow. Faculties ran a good second to Trisox at Wairio last month. Honest Maid ricked herself during a gallop at Invercargill on Monday morning, and will have to miss the Winton Meeting this week-end.

Western Song is reported to have pulled up slightiy lame after a gallop at Invercargill on Tuesday morning, and will be an unlikely starter at the Winton Meeting.

Silver Issue was very lame after galloping last week, and his facing career has ended. He may be given away for use as a hadk. it was unlucky, for. Mr H. Halligan, as the chestnut had been doing well. , ,

Because-of the poor fields npminated the committee o± the Kaikoura Trotting Club, at a meeting last evening, decided to postpone its meeting set down for . February 27, and to ask permission to race on a later date.

Jolly Beggar has completed plenty of solid work lately at Riccarton, and he will be in forward order for important engagements toward the end of the season. R. Beale, who won the Grand National Hurdle Race on him last August, will ride him throughout his approaching campaign.

The entries received for the John Grigg Stakes are disappointing in numbers, and it was generally considered that the Ashburton County Racing Club called on owners too early to nominate their yearlings for this race, to be run next September. The Easter Handicap, to be run on the first day of the New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club’s meeting next month, will carry a stake of £750, and for horses that can do 4min 26sec or better. The President’s Handicap on the. second day carries-the same stake, but in a second slower class.

The principal races on the Wellington Racing Club’s programme for next month’s meeting are the Thompson Handicap, Im, £760; Railway Handicap, 6f, £450; Autumn Handicap, 1m 3?, £&00; Suburban Handicap, 6f, £450; and the Champion Hack Cup Handicap, 1m 3f. £SOO, including a gold cup valued at £IOO.

Sixteen sires are represented by the 31 two-year-olds left in the Timaru Nursery Stakes, to be run at the Trotting ..Club’s Meeting next month. Those with more than one of their progeny in the list are Jack Potts (5), Man o’ War (4), Truman Direct (4), Frank Worthy (3), Travis Axworthy (3), and Great Bingen (2), Remarkably consistent form was displayed by the winners at the last two days of the W.A.T.C. Meeting at Perth. One horse followed up two wins with a further success; three recorded their second win in succession; another followed up a second with two success; four. horses, a second with a first; and one a third with a win.

Rumour credits the owner of Horsepower, winner of the North Island Challenge Trotting Cup at Auckland yesterday, refusing an offer of £I,OOO for him. Mr Rosenbaum bought Free Advice at the end of her racing career for 76gs, and appears to have made a lucky venture when he bred her to Tack Potts. Yesterday’s race marked Horsepower’s first start.

The success of Dan’s Son in the Interdominion Trotting Championships at Adelaide was a triumnh for Mr Ben Coram, a dairyman at Moorabbin, Victoria. Without any intention of buying a horse, Mr Coram walked into a safe ring in Melbourne when only 10 guineas was bid for Dan's Son, advanced the bid one guinea and secured him. A professional trainer rejected Dan’s Son, and Corarn has succeeded bpvond all his evnectntions with the horse, who has won more than £2,000 in four years. Coram admits that he has a lot to learn about trntring. He actually, experimented, with h'S cha-v pion, shortenin'- his hopvles two holes and changing his shoes the day before the race.

Thnrinn. winner of the Grand National Steeplechase in 1933, who has hist concluded a snell of two months, has resumed work in Mrs .1. Campbell’s team. He is carrying nlenty of condition, and looks remarkably well as the result of the hacking about and the easy time he has had generally

since tlu National Meeting. Silver Step Ims also rejoined the same team after .an absence of about two years. He has filled out considerably since he was previously at Riccarton, and is much more robust-looking than formerly. Now a six-year-old, Silver Step has done practically only one season’s racing, and has finished fourth on nine occasions in 13 starts.

As a result of the investigations arising out of the discovery ol a live battery at Victoria Park (South Australia) recently after the sprint race, C. Wright, who rode Scgati in that race, was disqualified by the stewards for life. “ There was not sufficient evidence to connect anyone else with the wrong-doing,” said the stewards. Wrmht is an apprentice, a brother to 15. Wright, who won the Oakleigh piate on Ibrani, and he lately had distinguished himself by winning successive hurdle races on Pampoo. Wright has lodged an appeal with the S A J.C. The stipendiary stewards have decided to further inquire into the incident.

Taitoru, who won the Egmont Cup last week, making his record for tho season five wins and five seconds in 13 starts, was bred by Mr Pohe Tito, at Pihama, and after doing some racing for his Maori breeder he was leased to a patron of T. H. Fryer’s Hawera stable. Performing consistently, he did not quite manage to win, and was returned to Mr Tito. Some months later Taitoru was bought by Mr E. G. Bayliss for £B, and was used as a farm hack, usually ridden by a woman, who was his pilot in what little regular training he received before he was taken to Trentham in the spring. So far this season Taitoru has won £1,140. He is by Sandstar from Campbird (Campfire—Whio). Campfire was a son of Carbine.

Silk Paper will only have to run up to the form she showed at Wingatui last week to be very hard to beat in the Plying Handicap at Winton tomorrow afternoon. She beat all but Paper Slipper in the Publicans’ Handicap last Friday, and over seven furlongs on Saturday was just pipped on the post by Golden Dart. The field in to-morrow’s race is not nearly as classy as the one she met on Saturday, Rebel Chief being the only one who, beside Silk Paper, is engaged in both. Silk Paper carried 7.10 and Rebel Chief 7.13, the latter finishing fifth. In tomorrow’s race Rebel Chief has 8.13 and Silk Paper 8.1, which will be reduced to 7.12 if P. Spratt rides her again, so she is likely to meet Rebel Chief on 101 b better terms.

Every previous Australian trotting attendance record was shattered at Wayville Oval, Adelaide, last Saturday night, when 45,000 people saw' Dan’s Son, the Victorian pacer, win the Grand Final of the Interdominion Championship by half a head, after a thrilling last lap battle with the South Australian idol, Wrinkle, writes “ Direct,” in tho Melbourne ‘ Globe,’ of February 10. Joy’s John, who made a sensational bid for victory in the straight, was a head away third. Better horses than competed at the first series of the championships in Perth the year before _ and first-class driving and racing indicated a prosperous future for trotting in Australia and New Zealand. New year New Zealand will stage the championships, and it is likeW that the stakes will be at least £6,000. The prize money in Adelaide was £4,250, an advance of £250 on Perth. The Adelaide carnival showed clearly how far Victoria and New South Wales, formerly the home of trotting in Australia, are lagging behind Western Australia and South Australia, because' tbe law debars night racing. But such grand spectacles aa were provided in Perth and Adelaide, will eventually force public opinion to demand night trotting in those States that now forbid it.