RAGING AND TROTTING

Evening Star, Issue 24278, 20 August 1942, Page 2

RAGING AND TROTTING

[By Sr. Claib.J

Nows and Views. The first race at Forbury Park next Saturday is timed to start at 11 a.ra. Twenty-two members of the Forbury. Park Trotting Club are now serving in the armed forces of the Dominion. The disqualification of Heidelberg for short-weight last Saturday meant a loss of nearly £I,OOO to his owner when the stakes and wagers are taken into account. It is reported that the connections behind Prince Shad collected one of the largest cheques tor dividends ever paid out by the Canterbury Jockey Club when that horse won the Summer Handicap on Saturday. This year the proceeds of the annual tootball match played between North and South Island jockeys engaged at the National meeting were devoted towards the cost of sending parcels to fellow horsemen serving overseas. J. L. Pringle has a useful pair of pacers engaged in tne Churchill and Stalin Handicaps on Saturday in Busted Flush and Ronald Logan. In the two miles race Busted Flush will ■ concede Ronald Logan 12yds -start, but in the mile and three furlongs race this handicap is reversed. Dunstan Direct, who will concede the limit horses in the Navy Handicap 48yds, won over a mile and a-half at Wyndhain last March in 3.33, and .!«■ the field is not a strong one would only have to repeat that form to be hard to beat again. The committee of the Canterbury Jockey Club has decided to hold the New Zealand Cup meeting on November 28 and December 5 this year. This means that the first day will clash with the one-day permit <raiited to the Forbury Park Trotting Club. With 10.7 to carry in the Seaview Hurdles at Wingatui next month Donadea will bo fancied if started. He is not a champion ■ and prefers a mile and a-half to a mile and three-quarters, but he raced well at Riccarton, where he was up against a much better class than he will meet at the Hunt fixture. It is understood that the committee of the Dunedin Jockey Club is considering an olteration to the rules governing the election of members to the committee by making it compulsory on members to use the full franchise (i.e., cutting out the right to plump for one or more candidates). Happy Ending, winner of the New Zealand and Wellington Cups last season, will make the trip to Australia this spring if transport arrangements can be arranged. His win at Riccarton over six furlongs this month showed biro to be well forward in condition and with 8.4 he has been nicely treated in the Caulfield Cup. The patriotic trotting meeting held at Addington last month resulted in a profit of £1,415 18s, and a cheque for that amount has been handed over. The Hon. H. T. Armstrong, acting for the Minister of Internal Affairs, has advised the secretary for the meeting that the Government would grant a subsidy of £ for £ on the profits of the fixture. Phalanx won the Otago Hurdles (IJm) last June carrying 9.0, and finished three lengths in front of Heidelberg, 9.4, with two lengths each to Merry Simon, 10.9, and Bow Street, 9.4. In the Seaview Hurdles (l£m) Phalanx will meet Heidelberg on 81b and Donadea lib better terms, while Merry Simon and Bow Street come in on 31b and 181 b better terms than Heidelberg when he beat them at Wingatui. When Anglo-French won the Lincoln Steeplechase last Saturday he carried 9.2, and if started in the Otago Hunt Steeples next month will have an additional' 421 b to carry, and is handicapped to meet Gay Boa on 181 b worse terms. In the Lincoln Steeplechase Slayer gave Anglo-French 361 b. It would have been interesting to know what Slayer’s impost would have been in the Wingatui race had he been nominated. Symbol carried 7.11 when she won the Claremont Handicap (1m 35yds) at Washdyke last month and beat a useful field in fast time In the August Handicap (7f) at Riccarton last Saturday she was always up near the front, and finished a good fourth. In the latter race she conceded Compeer 31b, and over a mile at Wingatui next month will meet him on 101 b better terms. On her Washdyke form Symbol must be given a good chance at the Hunt fixture. Bonny Axworth, who will start off the limit in the Navy Handicap (class 3.43) ,on Saturday, has two placed performances to ’ recommend her chance. At the Banks Peninsula meeting last March she was. runner-up to Gay Time in the Waiwera Handicap, recording 2.50 for the mile and a-quarter. And at Greymouth she finished second to Southern Way over eight and a-half furlongs in 2.27. She is by Calajnet Axworth from a good mare in Elsie do Oro, and is trained by Cj C. Devine. Though only four horses are engaged in the Chiang Kai-shek Handicap on Saturday, keen interest is being taken in the meeting of Within (36yds) and Jimmy Drusus (scr). The last time this paid met, at Add’ngton last, month, Jimmy Drusus was in receipt of 48yds from Within, and finished second to Royal Worthy, Within being some distance away fifth. Each won three races last season. Last November Within won over a mile and five furlongs at Addington in 3.32, equivalent to 3.16 2-ssec for a mile and a-half. Unusually keen interest is being taken in the annual general meeting of the Forbury Park Trotting Club, to be held next Tuesday evening, when elections for the vice-presidency and four seats on the committee will be held. Mr H. Halliday is opposing Mr J. M. Samson, the retiring vice-president, and Messrs J. E. Brunlon, G. R. Stone, and E. G. Williams are opS Messrs J. Black, T. Fogg, James nl, and J. Trengrove, the retiring members of the committee. Members must record their votes personaly at the club’s office within seven days preceding, and including the day of the annual meeting, and no voting paper will be valid unless four candidates are voted for in the election for the committee. There was not a large attendance at the national sale of bloodstock at Christchurch this year, and most interest was taken in the three Paper Money two-year-olds submitted on account of Mr H. W, S. Faulks, of the Mount Barker stud. Paper Lily, from Fairwood, was sold to Mr A. Louisson, Christchurch, at 270 gs; a colt from Clarenceuse to the Loau and Mercantile Agency Co. (agents) at 155^s; a filly from Wanaka to Mr A. Cundall, Invercargill, at 130 gs; and a three-year-old gelding from Royal Flower to Mr G. H. Humphries, Yaldhurst, at 85gs. Other sales included a four-year-old filly by Man’s Pal from Warden’s Queen to Mr A. Louisson at 150 gs; Jocanta, 22[gs; Citoyenne, 721-o's ; Royal Baby, 12£gs; and Lickem, 28gs. Both Eulogist and Gleucos were passed in.