RACING NOTES

Evening Star, Issue 22688, 30 June 1937, Page 5

RACING NOTES

RACING. July 3. —Manawatu R.C. July 3,—Oamaru J.C. July 6,8, 10.—Wellington R.C. July 17.—Hawke’s Buy Hunt CUilv

August 7.—Poverty Bay Hunt. August 10, 12, 14.—Canterbury J.C August 21. —Pakuranga Hunt. August 28. —Otago Hunt.

JOTTINGS The first race at Oamaru on Saturday is timed to start at 12.J0 p.m.> and the betting will be cm the wiu-and-x>lace system. The only race meetings on the calendar this week are those at Oamaru and Awapuni, both on Saturday. Tudor, topweight in the Wellington Steeplechase with 12.0, has received the maximum allowed by the conditions of the race. In the Grand .National the limit is 12.7. R. Beale will ride Sky Pilot in the Wellington Steeplechase. The Day Comet gelding was schooled at lliccarton on Monday, and will leave lor Trentham on Thursday night.

As Polydora has been paid up for in the steeplechase at Oamaru on Saturday she is not likely to fulfil her first day’s engagement at Trentham. Royal Ransom, who has shown ability as a jumper, is likely to be seen out over hurdles at the Waimate and South Canterbury Hunt Meetings.

Dictate was on the tracks at Riccarton on Monday morning, and appeared to have thrown off the lameness displayed alter winning at Ashburton on Saturday'. The trouble was in one of his iect.

Applications for the position of handicapper to the Dunedin Jockey Club close with the secretary, Mr L. G. Hill, on July 14. The salary is £250 per annum.

Five of the horses handicapped, for the Hack Steeplechase to be decided at Oamaru, Polydora, Hunting Go, Shillelagh W 7 ood, Cock o’ the North, and Spearmarch, aro engaged in the Grand National Steeplechase.

The five-year-od gelding Survey, winner. of three races in Auckland province this season, has been sold by Townsend to a patron of A. S. Ellis, and has been despatched to Riccarton.

The tracks at Wingatni have not dried up much since the Winter Meeting, and fast work is still out of the question. Had it not been for the tan and river silt track trainers would have been in a bad way this winter.

A change of rider has been decided upon for Streamline, although H. Turner will continue to school him, and will be paid winning or losing fees as the case may be whenever the horse competes during the remainder of the season.

In answer to an inquiry. New Note had 9.3 in the St. Clair Handicap on the opening day of the local Winter Meeting and Peacock 8.8. New Note finished last and Peacock close_ up fourth. The race was won by Salient Knight, who carried 8.4.

Taxation in connection with the Auckland Trotting Club’s Winter Meeting amounted to £4,556 8s 9d, made up as follows: —Totalisator duty, £2,133 12s; dividend duty, £2,333; stakes duty, £2B; and amusement tax, £6l 16s 9d.

Tunneller raced at Ashburton in the colours of his trainer, Mrs J. Campbell, whose husband also holds a trainer’s license. The Rules of Racing prohibit the wife or husband of a licensed trainer from owning horses,- but it is understood that the executive „of the Conference waived the rule in Mrs Campbell’s favour.

Members of the Wellington Steeplecha: j field who might attempt the Winter Hurdles on the final day are Tudor, Irish Comet, Black Marlin, Brigadore, and Erination; but all except Brigadore are also in the July Steeples on the same day.

R. Beale will ride Black Duke in the steeplechase at Oamaru on Saturday. This will be Black Duke’s initial attempt over steeplechase fences, but they will all be brushed hurdles, and he sho'uld have no difficulty in jumping them.

The Winter Meeting to be held at Oamaru on Saturday will be the last racing fixture of the present season in Otago, .and a very interesting day’s sport is promised. The good rain experienced in North Otago last week has left the course in perfect order.

The death of Southdown means a severe loss to Mr Samson, as he was a promising hurdler. As a three-year-old Southdown promised to take a prominent place amongst the best in the Dominion, but probably suffered from too much racing and became a difficult horse to train.

The committee of the South Canterbury Jockey Club has decided to support a reversion to the 7.0 minimum. Other remits to conference which are approved aro those making standing starts compulsory; allowing the use of whip (but not spur) in races for apprentices; increased allowances for apprentices, and a permanent panel of appeal judges.

Troy, the New Zealand-bred horse who won in Australia last week, is one of the' most highly-rated members of 6. Price’s team, and was bred at Westmere. Helen, the dam of Troy, is also the dam of The Squire, the Beau Pcro colt recently sent from Awapuni to Sydney. Helen is to be mated with Phaleron Bay next season, Brnnhilde proved the host stakewinner among the two-year-old fillies this season, and Trentham racing enthusiasts hold hopes of one of the first of Beau Pere’s progeny named Peerless bolding a similar place next season. Peerless is out of Prestige, a sister to Honour and Courtcraft, who is also expected to take high rank among the three-year-olds.

The Lackhnm filly Sea Wrack, who was sold by Mr S. E. Hill to Mr L. V. O’Hara, of Perth, last March, did not remain long in Western Australia, as she left Fremantle a couple of weeks ago hound for Malaya. Mr O’Hara took eight horses with him when ho sailed on one of his periodical visits to Singapore, all selected for owners in the Straits Settlement. Resides Sea Wrack they were:—Alikoom, by Drake; C'arioca, by Bullhead; Cascade, by El Cacique; Dainty Silvius, by Siivius; Despatch Boy, by Beau Fils; Selangor, by Isle of Arran; and Two Up, by Sar,clis.

July 17.—Waimatc Hunt Club. July 24. —Ilangitikei Hunt Club. July 24.—South Canterbury Hunt Club. July 29. 31.—Poverty Bay T.C. July 3i.—Christchurch Hunt Club.

NEXT SEASON.

trotting. August 7, 11, 13. N.Z. Metropolitan T.C, August 28.—Auckland T.C.

inonev was invested on Last Post in. the Maiden Stakes at Ashburton on the win totalisator, and he earned only £2 on the place machine. Last Post is a son of Sopra, dam of Reonui and High Note (dam' of Concertpitch). Youno- Paddou has been nominated on several occasions lately for events at Auckland provincial meetings, but has not been produced. He is engaged in the novice events at Trentham, and as he likes heavy going he will repay attention. Epris will miss the Wellington MceC jntr next month, although he usually raced well at Trentham. _ The Oran has been a disappointment this season, his only placing in more than 20 starts being a second at the treraidine Meeting in the spring. The Great Northern Steeplechase, run at Ellcrslio this month, was three and three-quarter miles. The -Wellington Steeplechase to he run next week at Trentham is a three a™ aquarter mile race, and the Orand Rational Steeplechase to be run at R ecarton in August is a three and a-ha i mile race. The Riccarton country is much the most difficult to negotiate.

A number of the jumpers engaged in the Wellington Steeplechase on the opening day of the Wellington Winter Meeting have another engagement <m the same day. Streamline High Speed. Polydora, Battleground, Padnos, and Snowy Dawn are in the Mann Hack and Hunters’ Steeplechase as well, and for some of these the hack event would appear the more suitable.

Of the hundreds of Australians who ■watched Mid-day Sun win the English Derby recently, none would be more delighted than Mr Sol Green, who has bred a colt at his Underbank Stud closely related to the winner the youngster is a chestnut, and is by the Solano horse Lo /mgnro. Mr Green paid a very high price for Lo Zingaro, who is established at bis Underbank Stud at Bacchus Marsh, and the stock of the Solario horse is said to be promising. The youngster at Underbank that is closely related to Mid-day bun is a son of the imported mare Lady Rush, dam of the very useful performei Clever Son. Lady Rush whonever raced was purchased in England as a three-year-old by Mr Green and is by Papyrus, winner of the Derby, and the horse that figured in the famous match race with Zev, at Belmont Park, Ivew York.

The each-way favourite Allegretto failed dismally in the W; G. Park Steeplechase, run over two and a-halt miles at the Walpa Meeting on Saturday, showing no dash at all and racing as if he were feeling the effects or his strenuous exertions at the Ureat Northern Meeting. Victory went to the well-supported Windsor Lad, who made amends for recent • failures over country. The only one to give the winner any trouble was Tudor, and tho top weight covered himself with (dory even in defeat. Tudor, who earned. 12.4, attempted to wrest the lead from Windsor Lad over the last five furlongs, and his prospects appeared rosy when he drew level _ at the last fence. However, the weight tovd in the run home, and Windsor Lad heat him comfortably in the last little hit. Don Erma, whose rider came in with his face covered, in blood, made a good showing for third, and Lucidus was a fair fourth, ahead of Master Musk and Emancipation. The first and second were clearly too good for the others. Gascyne ran off at the fence near the half-mile post after going once round, and carried off Erination, who was travelling well. Valpeen fell three fences from home, but was beaten at the time. .

In referring to the high prices paid for brood mares in England, a Loudon writer remarks that a filly who subsequently won fame was once sold for 2s 6d: —Atalanta, when a frail foal, was carried into the sale ring in a blanket and was purchased by Load Rosslyn for 2s 6d. Atalanta, who was a highly-bred mare by Galopin from Feronia, won thousands in stakes for the. Duke of Portland, but she was destined to win greater renown. Mated with Hampton, she threw a bay colt, who, as Ayrshire, won the Derby under the Duke of Portland’s colours, and when h© retired from racing bis earnings amounted to £35,915. As a sire Ayrshire also won a good place. Deadlock, dam of Isinglass, who only once met defeat and won £57,445 in stakes, was purchased by Captain Machell for £l9. She subsequently fell into the hands of a farmer,, who worked her in a cart. Captain Machell got back the mare in exchange for a draught colt and put her to Isouomy, with the result that Isinglass was given to the turf.