RACING NOTES

Evening Star, Issue 23552, 16 April 1940, Page 4

RACING NOTES

[By St. Claik.]

RACING. . . April 20.—Otautaw Racing Club (at I«- • vercargill). April 20.—Waimata Racing Club. April 20, 22.—Marlborongb Racing Club. April 27.—Waverley Racing Qab. . April 27. —SouthCaaterbwry Jockey Club. May 2, 4.—Egmoni Racing Clnb, May 4.—Southland Racing Club. • May 4.—franklin Saeiog Club. . May 4.—Amberiey Racing Club (at Riccarton). _ ■ . . May 11.—Ashburton County Racing Club. May 11.—Otpfci-Maori Racing Club. May 11, 13.—Poverty Boy Tnrf Club. ■ May 16, 18.—South Canterbury Jockey Club. , ;• ■ .. ■ ■ ■ ; . May 16, I#.—Maaawatu Racing Club. - jtniMS Answer to Corrssponint. ’SAnxioua.” —Queen Beth waa scratched ■ for the Parkside Handicap at 11.55 a.m. on the first day -of the Oamaru meeting. Wen Race Four Times-. F. W. Ellis, who -will be represented in > thai JDtautau Cup oh Saturday by Mona’s Song, has won this race with Tommy Dodd . (1988), Bilbo (1928). Red Sea (1930), . and > , . Foxlove (1939). / Change'of Stables. Bodeur, last season .one of - Southlands best sprinters, has been transferred from R. M'Nay’s stable to Andv M'Kay s care. - This season Bodeur has had nine starts without getting into the money. Heidelberg. ■•■■■> It is reported that. Heidelberg caught a chill M the Riverton meeting, and has :// been; haring, an easy time since. It is the resent intention of his ■ owner to race this Lord Warden geMing at some of the ‘ winter meetings fn Canterbury. / A Mined Pfegramme, ‘During the past three weeks Roseman 1 baa been raced twice orer . hurdles, twice in high-weight handicmpe, and once in an open sprint. Ho won orer hurdles once, ' but in hm other sUrto has stopped, badly when atbsr horsea challenged bins. '■ Gats rnd Trtaßmter Down. The gate rsoaipts for last week’s Oamaru "meeting were down slightly under 26 per “ cent and the totalisator.returns just,over 31 per cent. The fiiturewill result in a ' loss of stout £soo to the club. v Dunedin Winter Meeting. The programme for the Dunedin Jockey Club’s Winter Meeting, to held June .■ i 3 and 8, has been issued, and ot the £5 035 offered in atakes £1,975 is for jumping 'races, five steeplechase* being endowed . intii £1,350 and three hurdle races carry-, ■ ing £625. ‘ Right Again. - Gusts, who struck himself juqt previous to the Riverton, meeting, is in regular work ; again, and hsa been shaping well in his schooling taaks. Ha is to be started in the steeplechase at the Otautau meeting, to be ■ held in Invercargill ou Saturday. ■ Dark Flight. The champion sprinter, Dark Flight, is reported to be looking well after running - ‘ about on the beaebe* at Riverton for some time. Mr Tweedie hat had a yearling sister named'Gay Flight in. work for some time past, and she is a likely-looking sort for • early spring racing. Engaged in tbs Derby. , Meadow, winner. of the' Newbury Swing Clip, one mile, was engaged in the’Derby to” have been run on stay 24, and is no dodbt one of the 70 who have been . -nongnated ..for -the substitute race. Last - season he .started three-times for two wins and A third. ■ . , r Lama .b* 8 hen Her. Boawi-11, by Balboa- from the imported ■ mare Celerity 11., who ;has not raced since be finished 'third to Mona’s Song and Dbubleact: in the Southland Handicap last - January, : has been -given ; a course of- sea treatment at Riverton,--but. without any apparent Idnefit.- The trouble is in the ir.-.-shoulderr^V;-, A Hsndsenu? Profit. : - ‘ ‘ It i» estimated that the Vincent meeting v held at Wings.tui showed a-surplus to the club of about 8800. . This, will leave a handsome profit on the year’a working, as the fixture held at Omakau last January resulted in a shout £4OO/ Another Jumper fsr Southland. Mr W. D. MfLeod, of Mandeville. has S'urchased from the Awapuni trainer,’G. W. lew, the Psychology—Bloodshed cight-year-old gelding All luood, and placed him in • T. E. Pankhurst’s cere.; Last September All Blood won a male and a-half hurdle race at the Otaki-DCaori meeting, and has had three starts, all -unplaced, since. . Contrary To Fact., "t The statement that/Vaunt, was not withdrawn, from the, TVial Stakes at Oam- : ant on Thorsday ibitil the - horsea . had gone to " the post is Icon trary to fact. Mr fjewit, the trainer,- who was held up by a train on the Waitaki bridge for a quarter of

May 18, 20.—Waikato Racing Club. May 25.—Foxton Racing Club. TROTTING. April 17, 20.—Wellington T.C. April 20.—Waikato T.C. April 27.—Auckland T.C. April 27—Westland T.C. May 4.—Oamaru T.C. May 9, 11.—Forbury Park T.C. May 11.—Waikato T.C. May Xl.—Marlborough T.C. May 18, 20.—Nelson T.C. ' May 25, 29. —Auckland T.C. May 25. —Canterbury Park T.C. June 3.—Ashburton T.C. an hour, arrived in time to withdraw Vaunt before the field left the birdcage. Horses field. Mr E. C. Govan. of Te Anau, has sold Black Bard to a patron of R. E. M’Lellan’s stable,' and,.as this Nigger Minstrel.gelding it low In condition he mty be •given spelj until next season. Mr Govan also sold the brood mare Honest Maid with a foal at'foot by Salmagundi and in foal again to Siegfried. Southland Pacer for Hamilton. The well-known pacer Katene has been sold by the Bolton brothers to Mr R. Dunn, of Hamilton, and the entire eon ob Great Bingen and Lady Marvin was railed through to hit new honio in the Nbrtn Island last week. Though Katene has yet to win ,°V a distance of two miles, when he finished third to Willowbank and Happy Locanda in the Winton Trotting Club Handicap last December he recorded 4min 28 2-ssec. A Woll-carsd-for Track. Horsemen generally regard the Churchill Downs track, on which the Kentucky Derby is run,' as the safest in America, and this has been brought about by “gardeningmethods. Mr Young, superintendent of the track -recently said: “Horses break down on exceptionally fast tracks because, a track to be fast, must be hard. The hard track is -one with soil that has little fertiliser content; Each fall (autumn) we cover Churchill Downs Oval with « mixture of manure’and decayed fruits and. vegetables, -In. the spring, wben we work it- over; the track is soft and spoinsy, just like- a well-cared-for -garden, patch, and that is why the breakdown of horses at the Downs is si rarity.’’ New Zealand Jockey in fiouth Africa. Writing to a friend, in Auckland, the New Zealand jockey, L-,H. Clifford, speaks favourably of racing condition*. in South Africa. Many of the races carry good, prizes, the Durban July Handicap being, worth £6,000, Metropolitan Handicap £5,000, Peninsula. Handicap £3,500, and several others £2,000. Races-are held every Saturday in Capo Town, where Clifford stales he averages- five mounts .at each meeting; and had ridden 17 ■ winners (to March 11.- The stable be rides for has 30 horsea in training practically all. the year. Clifford adds that be is doing well, but finds the climate very hot; • He does not travel, and appreciates < the" fact that there is no taxation or deductions from riding .‘fee*. Clifford expects to return to New Zealand before the end of the year. .* Traces Rack to Stockwell. Midgsrd ('commenced-bit: racing career at the Geraldine meeting .last September, and in his (second start finished second to Gus-. pini ’ over six, furlongs; He then had’ four unplaced .sfarja, and scored his .first win at. Cromwell last: month. He followed that up by a pecond: and/another win, on the second day of the meeting, and then Won a double at Oamaru last week. - Midgard has thus won four time* out of his last five starts, and hisf (take winnings total £353. :• His dam; Jeanarette, was a shy breeder, but included: in her four :living foal* was Epris, winner Of the, Winter Cup, as a six-year-old. She was by Kilbroney from Iberia by Grafton, and through her grand dam, llerda, great grand-dam, Lerida. traces back to Mattendon and the Stockwell blood. Valkyrians invariably improve with age, and Midguard has shown all the signs of developing into a good sprinter. Mixed Starting.. . No .better work with the starting barrier has ever been seen on the Oamaru course than last Thursday, when Mr Gieseler had perfect control of the’ riders, and each field was sent away to a standing start. On Saturday the’ field for. the first race was despatched to a snap start, Slamannan coming on the move,, and for the remainder of the day rider* were looking for another start of the same description;, with the result that most of the despatches were ragged. Mr Gieseler found it necessary halfway through the afternoon to administer fines on two riders who attempted to anticipate the release of the barrier. It yras again, demonstrated that the two styles of starting cannot be used,. and so long as he insists on the horses standing flatfooted into the barrier, Mr Gieseler is a very capable official. A Well-bred Filly. Homing, who finished second to Big Joe in the Novice Stakes at Oamaru on Saturday, is a lightly-framed three-year-old filly by Nightraid from Homedale, and is owned by Mr E. Steele. Homedale, by . Rossendale from Hasten Home, won several good racea in Australia, including the Moonee Cup, and belongs to the same family as Quantock, Son-in-law, Hermit, Reputation, and Bobadil, Hpmedalo’s next foal, by Solicitor General, realised 650 gs at the 1939 national yearling sales. Homing, raced four time* unplaced as a two-year-old, and on Saturday was having her seventh start this season. She scored a second and a. third at the Cromwell meeting last month. In Saturday’s race she was. one of those caught flat-footed in a snap start, and with Escort and Swift Course, the slowest to begin. She put in a good finishing run to score second money, and is engaged in a seven furlong race at Waimate on Saturday.