RACING NOTES

Evening Star, Issue 23351, 22 August 1939, Page 4

RACING NOTES

RACING. August- 31.—Egmont-Waiiganui Hunt. •September 2.—Taranaki Hunt. September 2.—Otago Hunt. September 7, 9. —Wanganui Jockey Club. September 16.—Foxtou Racing Club. September 16. —Ashburton County Racing Club. , , , September 16 18.—Avondale Jockey Club. September 21. 23. Geraldine Racing Club. September 23.—Marton Jockey Club. September 30.—Otaki-Maori Racing Club. September 30, October 2.—Ohmcmuri Jockey Club. October 6, 7.—Dunedin Jockey Club.

JOTTINGS Answers to Correspondents. “ Central.” —Monipere was foaled in 1930, and is now rising nine years old. His dam. Note, is by Paper Money from Elaine, by Birkenhead. When Record Reign won the Grand National Hurdles in 1900 the distance was two miles, and he carried 12.12 and recorded 3riiin 46 4-ssec, time that was not beaten until seven years later, when Shrapnel, carrying 10.8, wont 3min 44 3-ssec. The 1900 New Zealand Cup, also two miles, resulted in a dead heat between Fulmeu 7.13 and Ideal 7.7, and they took 3min 35 2-ssec. Wet Days in Brisbane. The three clubs that control the 104 days’ racing in and around Brisbane experienced 25 wet days for their meetings last season. To Be Spelled. Spanish Lad had a fairly busy time of it last season, starting in 17 races. It has been decided to give him a spell, A Successful Year. After spending a good deal of money in rebuilding a stewards’ and members’ stand, the Wairaate Racing Club was able to show a profit of about £IOO on last year’s working. On Schooling List. Though Gipsy Fair’s name appears in the list of nominations published for the Otago Hunt Meeting next week, her name also appears in the Racing Calendar of August 16. and it is doubtful if she will be eligible to start. The “ Hat Trick.” The jockey T. Weston was in great form at the Liverpool July meeting. On the first day he took the Molyneux Cup on Valentino 11.. and on the final day won the Liverpool Summer Cup on Sansalvo and the Atlantic Cup on Lord Derby’s Cockpit. Old Members Returned. At last night’s annual meeting of the Forbury Park Trotting Club the members showed confidence in the present management of the club by returning the retiring members of the committee. The Kurow Meeting. The secretary of the Kurow Jockey Club advises that the application for permission to change the date of its meeting from September 30 to December 2 has been granted. Mr A. S. Cambridge, president of the club, is expected to return from a business trip to Europe about the middle of next month. The Light Harness Races. The two light harness events on the Otago Hunt’s programme have again attracted good nominations, andl they include a number of well-bred maidens. Last year these two races were won by Stamboul and) Salalon, both of whom went on to do much better things later on in the season. Concession Withdrawn. According to intimation received by the New Zealand Racing Conference, the rebate of 1 per cent, on totalisator tax, which all clubs have enjoyed during the past four years, is not to be granted by the Government during the yiresent season. On last season’s turnover this concession was worth to the Dunedin Jockey Club £2,088 13s, and to the Forbury Park Trotting Club £1,447 10s. Cottingham Improving, When Cottingham broke down in the Grand) National Steeplechase lie looked a bad case, but he has improved so much in the last few days that H. Nurse thinks the trouble may not bo serious. The horse is to have a spell, hut it is hoped he will come hack for another jumping campaign next winter. Will Stimulate Interest. The appearance of the handicaps for the Otago Hunt meeting on Thursday morning will stimulate interest in the fixture. Spring form is always tricky, but it is interesting to note that several horses that raced prominently at this fixture last year did well during the season. They 7 included! Mount Val, Fireguard, Gold Wren, Slayer, Moniperc, Pink Robe, Valantua, and Milford. The Duke of Kent’s Horses. J. Holt has received his appointment as trainer to H.R.H. the Duke of Kent during the latter’s term as GovernorGeneral in Australia. Dhoti, the first of the Duke’s horses to bo shipped, is due to arrive in Australia next Thursday, and is shortly to be joined by Moon Ray, who last month finished a good second at Goodwood. Moon Ray is a three-year-old gelding by Sandwich, a son of Sansovino, and on his dam’s side traces back to Carbine. Bridegroom’s Defeat. Judging from northern reports of the race, Bridegroom was one of the earliest of the horses beaten in the Pakuranga Hunt Cup Steeplechase. It may be that the two races he had at the National meeting and the long journey immediately afterwards got to the bottom of him. If he raced up to his correct form at Ellerslie last Saturday it looks as if some owners of jumpers missed good money through not sending their horses to the Riccarton fixture.

That 1 per cent. Concession. In hie presidential address to members of the Forbury Park Trotting Club last evening, Mr 13. S. Irwin issued a timely warning to clubs regarding having to watch their finances now that the Government had decided to withdraw the concession of 1 per cent, of the totalisator tax. To the racing

[By St. Clair.]

TROTTING. August 26. —Auckland T.C. September 2.—New Brighton T.C. September 20, 23. —Wellington T.C. September 30.—Methven T.C. October 7.—Now Brighton T.C. October 21, 23.—Greymouth T.C. October 21, 23, or 25.— Auckland T.C. October 23.— Oaraarn T.C. October 25, 28.— Wellington T.C. October 25, 28.—Invercargill T.C. November 7,9, 10.—N.Z. Metropolitan T.C. November 23, 25.— Forbury Park T.C.

and trotting clubs in the Otago district it will mean a loss of revenue of £5 442, and in Southland £3,728, a total of £9,170.

Sporting Prime Minister. Mr Alex. Hair, the new Premier of New South Wales, is unique among Premiers in that he is a racehorse owner. He races Isambard in partnership with Mr E. A. Underwood, one of the candidates for the vacancy on the committee of the Victoria Racing Club. Isambard, who is a three-year-old by Harinero, is engaged in the Melbourne Cup. He was placed in a two-year-old race at Williamstown in May, and he gives promise of developing into a useful stayer. T. Green Returns to Race Riding. T. Green, who won the Admiralty Handicap on Brouweu at Ellerslie on Saturday, had just had his license restored after a lapse of a year or two. Some seasons ago he was one of the Dominion’s prominent riders, and did well also in Victoria. Recently ho has been attached to the Pope stable at Auckland. Green Ton the Auckland Cup on Rapier, the New Zealand Derby on Agrion and Honour, and Great Easter on Great Charter, and during his term as first horseman for R. J. Mason piloted a lot of other good winners.

Winning Sires in Australia. Heroic, by Valais—Chersonese, again heads the list of winning sires in Australia last season. Forty-five of his progeny won 100 J races worth £35,496. The imported sire Buzzard, by Spion Kop, was close up noxt with 45 of his ■get winning 104 races worth £33,523. The New Zealand sire, Beau Pere, by Son-in-Law, was fifth on the list with 23 of his progeny winning 63£ races worth £20,872. During the nine seasons Heroic has been at the stud ho has sired 175 winners of 818 races, worth £255.581, and has headed the list of winning sires in each of the last seven seasons.

Nobody Overlooked. In order to celebrate Blue Peter’s Derby win, J. Jarvis entertained his employees at a dinner at Newmarket early last month.. There were about 80 present, these including stud employees, as well as those who work at the Park Lodge stables. Later in the week he igave the wives of his employees a picnic at Hunstanton. As earlier in the week he -gave his fellpw members of the Newmarket Subscription Room Club a dinner, Jarvis did uot overlook anyone.

Success of Royal Colours. Outstanding in point of interest at the Newmarket second July meeting was the successes of His Majesty’s Cosmopolitan in the July Handicap. Cosmopolitan, a three-year-old son of Sir Cosmo, was ridden by R. Perryman, and in an exciting finish with Davy Dolittle managed to have his head in front at the post. Applause started when Cosmopolitan ran past the favourite, Glucose, at the bottom of the hill, and again when Cosmopolitan’s number went into the frame above the judge’s box. He is an attractive colt, and seems sure to win many more good races for His Majesty. Wellington Racing Club. After allowing for depreciation of assets to the extent of £8,250 and setting aside a sum of £I,OOO as provision for Social Security taxation, a net profit of £1,854 13s 5d is shown in the balance sheet attached to the annnal report of the Wellington Racing Club for the season recently closed. A reserve account of £IO,OOO has also been created for the repair and maintenance of the grand stands, a step considered advisable in view of the report on the buildings submitted by the club’s architect. The amount distributed in stakes during the year was £38,710. Government taxation amounted to £63.303 7s Bd. Stipendiary Steward Attacked.

There was a wiki scene for a few minutes at the Queensland Turf Club offices in Brisbane on August 7, when an adjourned inquiry was being held into the running of Bellicose, owned and trained by E. Gomersall. Gomersall asked that the inquiry should be adjourned to enable him to get witnesses from Toowoomba, but the request was not granted. Gomersall is then said to have attacked Mr J. Williams, one of the stipendiary stewards, by striking him with a chair and punching him on the face. The other stewards intervened, and Gomersall was put out of the room. Backed to Win the Big Cups.

The £7,000 Bulandshar colt High Caste will probably make his first three-year-old appearance next Saturday in the Hobartville Stakes at Warwick Farm. Heading is another probable starter, and the field may include Bonny Loch, a Rampion colt of which much is expected. Bonny Loch js trained by A. G. Papworth, who had charge of Talking when that horse was sold' for £19,000. Reading defeated Hhdi Caste over seven furlongs in the A. -T.C. Sires’ Produce Stakes, but it is perhaps significant that trainer J. T. Cush and the other part owner of Reading, Mr Luscombe, have backed Reading and High Caste to win £30,000 in the two cups. Their selection of High Caste for the Melbourne Cup seems to indicate that they regard the New Zealand colt as the more likely to stay.

Popularising Wingatui. The committee of the Otago Hunt Club has decided to admit its patrons to the outside enclosure and stand free of charge at its annual race meeting to be held on Saturday week. This experiment will be watched with interest, and as all those patronising this enclosure will have to go through tho turnstiles tho club will have a record of the number present. The takings at the outside gates at this meeting for some years past have only been very light, and it is anticipated that tho extra number who will accept the club’s invitation to watch an interesting afternoon’s racing free of charge will, by their investments op the totalisafcor,

easily make up the amount of admission charges that the club will lose. The Hunt Club’s race meeting is always looked on as one of the most popular day’s racing in Otago, and this innovation should help to popularise Wingatni as a sporting centre.

Phar Lap’s Sister. “ For his venture of importing from Australia the sister to the redoubtable Phar Lap Mr Whitney has had small ifeturn so far,” says ‘ The Blood-Horse.’ “ Nea Lap was brought to the United States in 1932, and her arrival was reported in the same issue of ‘ The BloodHorse ’ with the report of the death of Brocatelle, daughter of Radium and dam of Toro. Toro’s pedigree probably was largely responsible for the importation of Phar Lap’s sister, since Nea Lap was by Night Raid, son of Radium. She was mated with The Porter (sire of ’loro) her first three seasons in the stud. The first year she slipped twins. In 1935 she produced Floor Maid, a filly which won two moderate races at three. In 1936 she had another filly, The Wind, which broke her maiden status at the Belmont Park meeting this spring. Nea Lap was then sent to Royal Minstrel, and produced in ]937 the chestnut colt Poet’s Corner, now in England, but not yet a starter. In 1938 she was barren to Equipoise. This year she is nursing a twin colt by The Porter and has been bred to Peace Chance.”