RACING NOTES

Evening Star, Issue 23292, 14 June 1939, Page 2

RACING NOTES

i! ACINI 1. Juno J 7. J!;iy of I'leiiLy Racing Club, June 17.—Hawke's Mu.v Jockey Ciub. Juno 17.—(ircyuiouilj Jockey Club. Juno 24.—Ashburton County Racing Club Juno 24,—Waipa Racing Club. Juno 24.—OtaUi-Maori Racing Club.

WINGATUI AND RIVERTON

'There are only two clubs in the Otago and Southland racing districts that hold three-day meetings, the Riverton Racing and Dunedin Jockey Club, and at both of these fixtures steepleehasing is featured. Of later years the Riverton Club lias given a larger amount in stakes, this year £6,100. as compared with £5,035~ by the Dunedin Club, at these meetings, and an analysis of the totalisator investments shows that larger stakes also mean larger speculation. But for every £1 given in stakes by the Dunedin Club at this season’s meeting £l6 10s was invested on the totalisator, while at the Riverton meeting each £1 in stakes attracted only £l2 10s through the machines. The following shows the investments each day at Wingatui and Riverton at tin's season’s meetings :

The Riverton meeting had the advantage of two holidays, Easter Saturday and Monday, and the Dunedin Club only one holiday, the King’s Birthday, for the second day. The following table shows the investments at these two meetings over the past 10 years:—

JOTTINGS Airing His Sporting Knowledge. A schoolmaster asked his class, “ What two great races have dominated Britain since the invasion of the Homans? ” and one bright pupil replied: “ The Derby and the Grand National Steeplechase.” A Light Steeplechase Course. M‘Heath, Drink Up, \ and Re.d Terror are the Wingatui-trained horses engaged in the Steeplechase at Oamaru. in. past; years the fences have, been lightly brushed hurdles that take little jumping. A Fitting Penalty. The derating of drivers is to become the usual penalty, for interference in races at all meetings in the future. Derating amounts to suspension from driving during the period covered by the reduction in grade. After a Long Spell. Cerne Abbas, now an inmate of G. Fielding’s stable, is booked to make her reappearance in public in the Winter Handicap, seven furlongs, at the Oamaru meeting next month. Cerne Abbas has not had a race since she started in the Brabazon Handicap last July. Oamaru Nominations. The Oamaru Jockey Club has received quite satisfactory nominations for its Winter Meeting, to be held on July 1, the chief feature being the excellent response from owners of lightharness horses. Handicaps are due on June 23, and winners at the Ashburton meeting the following day will be penalised. Wingatui-trained Horses. Among the Wingatui-trained horses engaged at the Oamaru meeting next month arc M‘Heath, Drink Up, Red Terror, Cerne Abbas, Disband, Astaire, Withdrawal, Foxy, Brilliant Boa, Airdrie, Silver Choir, Epic, Violenta, Pink Robe, Vaiantua, Countervaue, Royal Style, and Green Boa. Returning to Australia. A cable from Fremantle says; Among the passengers in the Strathaird, which arrived from London, is the well-known trainer, Frank Bullock, who is returning to Victoria to race in partnership with his son, who has a string of English horses which has been brought to Australia over the past five months. The Late Mr Higgens’s Horses. Great interest will attach to the sale bv auction of horses owned by the late Mr W. Higgins, to be held at Trentham on July 5. The gem of the offering will he the two-year-old Beaulivre. . It i 6 reported that an offer of 2,500 guineas has already been made for the son of Beau Pere. Buyers are sure to be attracted from outside New Zealand. At Greymouth Next Saturday. Redolent is booked to race over brushed hurdles at Greymouth next Saturday. On his return to Riccarton he is to continue his preparation for cross-country racing. The D.J.C. Winter Meeting. According to the Southland ‘ Times ’ owners and trainers intend making a combined protest against the committee of the Dunedin , Jockey Club extending tho hunter meeting over eight days. The cost of keeping their horses, and attendants for such a long period is ono of the chief grounds of comtdamt. To Be Gelded. It is reported from Riccarton that Night Hawk is to be gelded before being turned out for a spell. Night Hawk struck himself in work while at Wingatui last week and could not be started on the concluding day of the meeting. Pandine. It was intended to take Pandine up to the Trentham meeting next month, but the injury he received when he stipled the Jive fence at the top of the straight on the second day of the meeting is more serious than at first anticipated, and may necessitate this Panmnre gelding being given a lengthy spell.

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-lu!y 1. —Omiiani .lackey Club. Juiy I.—lliinncvirke Hunt Club. July 4. 6. 8. Wellington Racing Club. July lb. Hawke's Bay Hunt Club. July IS. —Waimate District Hunt Club ■July 52. Uangilikci Hunt Club. ■lnly 22.—South Canterbury Hunt Club July 2.‘.-Christchurch Hunt Club. Juiy 22. —Manawatii Hunt Club.

Black Banner and Gold Wren. Both Black Banner and Gold Wren are booked for the Wellington meeting, and in light of recent racing it will bo interesting to note how Mr Coyle compares them in the handicap.

Engaged at Oamaru. Enniskillen, who has been nominated for the steeplechase to ho run at Oamani, met with a mishap about two years ago, but since then has been regularly limited. He had schooled well since returning to the track at Riccarton. To Be Spelled.

Waitoru raced well below his best form in his two outings at Wingatui and was not produced on the final day. His stable mate, Milford, made his only appearance in the Duke of Gloucester Cup, and was always well back. Both horses will be spelled until next season. Able To Return Home.

Alan M'Donald, who, at Palmerston North, has been an inmate of a private hospital since he met with a mishap while schooling Power Chief at Awapuni, is well on tlie road to recovery and was well enough to return to his home last week.

Jockey’s Earnings. The winning ride of A. E. Ellis on Survey earned him £lO3 10s; A. Jenkins, as the most successful jockey at the recent Auckland meeting, drew the biggest cheque. On the first day his earnings were £146 16s, on the second £64 16s, and five losing rides on the final day added £24 16s—grand total, £236 Ss. A Son of Te Monanui, Outstanding among the hack hurdlers at the recent Great Northern meeting, the ranks from which Full of Scotch emerged last year, were Ellanui and Loombinatidn. Ellanui improved with every run, and, after being left and finishing fourth'on the first day, he won stylishly at his next two starts. A sturdy six-year-old gelding, Ellanui is bred on sound lines, being by the good handicap performer Te Monanui (son of Potoa) from Elmona, by Elysian from Wenoma, by Salpeen, and it is probably from Spalpeen that he inherits his jumping ability. Admitted to Stud Book, The admission to tho New Zealand Stud Book of two Arab stallions recently imported to the Dominion has been allowed by the Executive Committee of the New Zealand Racing Conference. Arabs are not eligible for inclusion in the General Stud Book (England) or the Australian Stud Book, and on this ground alone _ the action of the New Zealand authorities is somewhat surprising (says a Wellington writer). The two stallions wore imported by Mr W. S. Glenn, of Wanganui, and by Mr T, V. Caverhill, of Masterton. The main idea was to use them as utility sires, a commendable object; but now that they are in the Stud Book one may expect to find them mated fvreely with thoroughbred mares, perhaps not to the ultimate benefit of tho New Zealand racehorse. The Leading Jockey. W. J. Broughton, who, with 71 winners and tho season well-nigh closed, is assured of the jockeys’ premiership for 1938-39, has been in tho public eye since ho was little more than a lad. As far hack as 1933-34 he piloted 59 winners, to finish third in the list to L. J. Ellis and Keith Voitre, who met an untimely end a few months ago in a race in Melbourne. A year later Broughton was more successful. Ho had 85 wins. This time only L. J. Ellis beat him. The 1935-36 period was a bad one for him, an accident keeping him out of the saddle for several months, with the result that his winning total was limited to 17. Then came the realisation of an ambition. He headed the list with 63 wins, C. G. Goulsbro taking second place. Fiftyone winners was his next total, and now he is on top again. The season does not close until the end of July, but in that period, with all the meetings featuring a bigger proportion of jumping events, the chances of H. Wiggins, Broughton’s nearest rival, overtaking him are light. Wiggins scored on valmint at Ellerslie on Wednesday and brought his tally to 63. Martian Blood. The greatest sire of stayers in New Zealand was Martian. In eight years he was responsible for six New Zealand Cup winners Warstep, Ardenvohr, Menelaus, Sasanof, Vagabond, and Royal Star. His Auckland Cup winners were Warstep, Mascot, and Rapine; Canterbury Cup, Cherubini, Reputation, Warstep, Snub, Mascot, and Rapine; Trentham Gold Cup, Warstep. Sasanof, Rapine (twice), and Star Stranger (twice). In Australia Sasanof won a Melbourne Cup and Cherubini an Australian Cup. All these races were run over two miles or two miles and a-quarter. Very strangely, sons of Martian have failed to carry on the sire line, the only ones to meet with any success being Martarma and Raceful. On the other hand, Martian mares have proved wonderful producers, and from daughters or descendants of the Martagon horse have come Nightmarch, Strephon, Estland, Finmark, Gaine Carrington, Peter Jackson, Limelight, Enthusiasm, Laughing Prince, Starland. Moterc. Minerval. Cuddle, Padishah, Footfall, and a long list of winners of good races.

Dunedin. Riverton. First dav ... £24,406$ £32.743$ Second dav ... 31,185V 29,257$ Third day ... 27,648 24,052$ £83,240 £86,053$

Dunedin. Riverton. 1930 ... £60,927 £51,523 1931 ... 41,788 37,915* 1932 ... 32,368 37,889* 1933 ... 36,673* 34,853* 1934 ... 40,018* 35,599* 1935 ... 42,789 45,948 1936 ... - 60,566* 57,176 1937 ... 62,270 66,318 1938 ... 71,637* 79,083 1939 ... 83,240 86,053* Totals ... £532,278 £532,359*