RACING NOTES

Evening Star, Issue 23799, 1 February 1941, Page 8

RACING NOTES

COHIHG EVENTS [By St. Clair.J RACING. February 6, 8. —Fguiont Racing Club. February 8, 10. —Rotorua Racing Club. February 8, 10. —Poverty cay Racing Club. February 8, 10.—Gore Racing Cmb. February 14, 18 —V/inton Jockey Club February 15.—Tolega Bay Jockey Club February 15.—Opunake Racing Ciub. February 15, 1/. Waikato Club February 20, 22.—Dunedin Joe .cy Club. February 22, 24.—Tc Arolia Jockey Club. February 22, 24. —Wooclville D. Jockey Club. February 22, 24.—Westland Racing Club. TROTTING. February 8. —Canterbury Park i rotting Club, ~ February 8, 12. —Auckland 'Trotting Club. February 15. —New Brighton I rolling February 22.—Kaikoura 'I rotting Club. March I.—lnvercargill Trotting Club. March B,—Tiraaru Trolling Club. March 15.—Wyndham TrotCng Club. March 15.—Cheviot Trotting Club. REVIEW OF FIRST HALF YEAR HUGE INCREASE IN INVESTMENTS The feature of (he first six months- of the present season’s racin': in Otago and Southland has been the big increase in the totalisator investments, the huge sum of £527,455 10s having passed through the machines,, an increase of £72,881, or slightly over 16 per cent, on the amounts handled at the corresponding meetings last season. The increase at the trotting meetings works out at nearly 23.1 per cent., as against slightly over 11.5 per cent, at the racing fixtures. Stakes, however, do not show a corresponding increase, being only £305 more than in the first six months of last season. This works out at less than 1 per cent., and on these figures both racing and trotting clubs, who have all been racing in aid "of the various patriotic funds this season, should bo able to make big donations. The direct taxation on I.lie totalisator investments and stakes amounts to approximately £50,000, anil in addition to that amount the lax on admissions has to be added.

Fifteen horses have won £3OO or over. They are; .Mona's Song £7lO, Doubleack £570, Craiglea £5lO. Koval Lancer £SOO, Straightdell £490, Lord Nuffield £4BO, Trench Fight £465, Schoolgirl £435, Silver Streak £435, Uoria £345, Not Out £345. The Kaker £3lO, Wild Career £325, Hearth £515, Don’t Forget £3OO. Two defunct sires head the list—Balboa £1,795 (£1.325 of which was won at Southland meetings), and Paper Money £1,750. The next most successful were Iliad £1,205, Irish Lancer £9BO, Slraightcourso £B7O, Winning Hit £BSO, Songbird £B2O, Philamor £SOO. Robespierre £495, Weathervane £490. Paladin £4BO, Man's Pal £475, Nightmarch £455, Colonel Cygnus £435, Sir Simper £325. King Potts's good double win at 1-orbnry at the spring meeting placed him at the top of the list in the light-harness section with £670. Twenty others won over £250 as follows;—Naw Blue £570, Nelson Kddy £550. Bush Laddie £535, Peter Smith £445, Parisieime £350, Reception £340, Aspirant £355, Drumoak £330, Gold Pot £320, Dark Hazard £295, Gold Bar £2BO, Indian Wrack £2BO, Jill Tar £275, Fremont £270, Roval Grattan £270, Gleam £265, April Direct £260, Dewey’s Last £255, Star A oyage £255, Toceetie £255. Jack Potts, with £2,787 10s won by Ins progeny, easilv heads the list of winning sires, with Wrack £2,160 10s, Grattan Luval £1,410, Rev de Oro £1,210, Worthy Bond £1,085, Man o’ War £922, Nelson Dcrbv £BBS, Wellington Direct. £730, Adioo Guv £715. Happy Voyage £490, Frank Dewev £335. and Erin’s King £285 next.

ENGLAND'S LEADING LADY OWNER

The following interesting pen picture of England's leading lady owner is taken from the ‘ News Review.” A shy, morose lit tie girl, with spindly legs and a long black pigtail used to work hai'd and plav games indifferently at Heathfield, Ascot. "Police guarded the gates during the races to see that none of the pupils went to the course. Ex-pupil. Dorothy Paget is to-day the wealthiest and best known owner in British racing. With an income of of least £150.000 a year-in her own right, mostly inherited from her American mother, Mrs Almerie Paget, who was the first wife of Lord Queenborough, she spent £20,000 on a string of racing cars before she was 25. But she was unlucky. Not once did she win a race of importance. In 1930 she bought Solarium and switched ber interest entirely to the turf. Owner Paget hoped her horse would win the Grand National, but he fell. Next she bought Tuppence for 6,600g5, with the hope of winning the 1933 Derby. Tuppence saw only the back view of the rest of the field, and was sold two years later for £3OO. Total approximate loss: £IO.OOO. Famed Golden Miller, whom she bought from the late I*. W. Can-, father of the Nottinghamdiire cricketer, made up for her bad luck by winning (lie Cheltenham Gold Cup live times and the Grand National once. Next ycdr Miss Paget paid 20,000 gs for three horses. Her wins that year amounted to £2.573. In 1935 she paid 12,000 gs for yearlings, which did little in return. Then followed a colt for 15,000" s, and a filly for 11.500g5, but both were disappointment^. Ten years' racing under the bluc-ancl-yel-low silk colours have cost Dorothy Paget around £1,000,000, half of which has gone on actual racing and upkeep, flic remainder on bloodstock and stud fees. Now 35, dark and taciturn, she likes lo wear an old speckled tweed coat shaped like man's, with a sporting felt hut shaped like Napoleon's Turning up late at meetings with three plainly-dressed women friends, she stays only to see her own horses run. and usually takes a luncheon hamper with her to the course. Seldom is she seen to smile in public., but she did when Golden Miller won his fifth Cheltenham Gold Cup.

JOTTEtIGS Dunedin Cup Meeting. Nominations for the Dunedin Cup Meeting close on Monday at 5 p.m. Gore Sumner Meeting. Acceptances for the first day of the (.lore Summer Meeting, to be held next Saturday, close on Monday at 5 p.m. First for Over Two Years. Master CyUlon, who received the verdiet. in a, light finish in the principal event on tile second day' at Pahiatna, had not won a race for more than two years. A Handicapper’s Tip. If Confidant docs not win a race at lion she. should have excellent, prospects in the maiden events at Wintoii, which are run at a set weight of B.O.—limarn ‘ Herald. Well Commissioned, It is reported that the connections behind Gold Bar were very confident regarding his chance in the Air Force Handicap at. Hull. Park on Thursday, and layers of odds from Auckland to Invercargill suffered. Giving up Training. It is reported that the well-known North Maml trainer, H. B. Lornga.i, is retiring to rr o into the hotel business. For a while, at fcasl, Lorrigan will rontmne in superintend the training of the hordes carrying Ins own colours. OK Colour. Density, winner of the. Great Faster Handicap last autumn, and one of the fastest sprinters at Ricc.arton, raced badly at, I rentham last month, and is now reported to bo suffering from an ailment that is likely to necessitate a rest for some months. Not Agreed to. It is reported that, the authorities in control would not agree to the proposed amal"aniation of the Kaikoura and Marlboiongh Trotting Chibs so that a. two-day meeting mmlit be held at Kaikoura this month, the Kaikoura Club will hold its meeting on February 22. Areas Sold. In the early part of the present season the four-vear-old gelding by Hunting Song from Callislo, Areas, gave promise of developing into a useful handicap horse, and was ono of the early supported candidates for the New Zealand Cup, He was recently sold by Mr lorns to Miss M. C. Wilson, and will go into G. C. M’Carthy s stable al> Riccariou. Not in the Stud Book, Minny Yet, the dam of Auric’s Star, who has now won four races on end during the past few weeks, is not in the Stud Book. Minnv Yet, the dam of two other useful performers in Mystery Yet and Jimmy de Ore, is by O.Y.M. from Mine Y'ct, by Kentucky Yet. She is not eligible for inclusion in the. Stud Book; so also arc Sundock, the dam of Toorak and Gleam, and Coy Hells, the dam of Guinea Gold and Waller Gay. Trainers in Hospital. The blastings (vainer, 8. ,1. Reid, is at present, an inmate of Bowen Street. Hospital, Wellington, where he is to undergo an operation. H. Duliew, who (rains in New Plymouth, was operated on in an Auckland hospital last Monday, and is progressing satisfactorily. Two of Dnlien's team, Empire, Action and Kaiwaka, won races at. Ihe Pahiatna meeting last Monday—a good tonic for a sick man. By Southland-owned Sire. At a (rotting meeting held at Westhury, U.S.A., two of the eight races on the card were won by a colt named Quite Sure, Jun. He is I lie only horse racing in America by (he .Sonihland-owncd stallion Quite Sure, and holds a mile record of 2iuin 9sec, made on a half-mile track. Quite Sure, Jnn., like Ccriksitnus and Special Force, also by the Southland sire, has built, up a good race record, having scored 10 wins out of 14 starts. Waikato Entries. Nominations for the (wo principal events on the opening day of the Waikato Racing Club's Summer Meeting, on February 15, are; — - 'Storey Memorial, £7OO. One mile three furlongs.—Lon Rosa, Greek Queen, Gay Rosette, Bean Leon, Pern, Kaeccamp, Our Jean, The Ring, Clinch, Orelio, Cornish, Proud Fox, Fbxscn, Mintlaw, Namara, Forest Acre, Flying Acre. President’s Handicap, £4OO. Six furlongs. —Dnvach, Gold Vaals, Suleiman, Llandaff, Rex Mailland, Orate, Gay Miss, Paluslrc, Marshall Hall, Llangollen, Fat-land, Corato, Trilliarch. Related to Silver Streak. Gold Craft, the big dividend payer at the Pahiatna meeting, is closely related to that hardy veteran sprinter Silver Streak. She is a four-year-old maro by Defoe ironi Golden Streak, who was a. full younger sister to Silver Streak. Gold Craft’s earlier form was disappointing, hut there was no doubt about, tbo merit of Monday’s win, for she clearly outstayed her opponent-. Bhe is raced' by Mrs' V. Haldane, Hasting-, who purchased tbo mare privately 1 rom her breeder, Mr A. Ldmnnd Preston, jnn,. after she was passed in at the 1938 yearling sales at, 130 gs.

TOTALIZATOR INVESTMENTS. -Racing.— 1339-40 £ meetings 161,2S9i Southland meetings ... 116,8371. 1940-41 £ 177,725 132,447 £278,137 £310,272 —Trotting.— Otago meetings 129,524; Southland meetings ... 46,913 165.151 52,032 £176.4371, £217,183; Grand totals .. £454,5741, £527,455; STAKES. —Racing.— Otago meetings 11,71S Southland meetings ... 7.61.0 10,870 7,445 £18,235 £18,315 —Trotting.— Otago meetings; 10,550 Race meetings 1,4-40 Southland meetings ... 4,095 Race meetings 2,085 10,700 1,460 4,145 2,070 £18,150 £18,375 Grand totals ... £36,385 £36,690