NEWS AND VIEWS

Evening Star, Issue 25083, 26 January 1944, Page 3

NEWS AND VIEWS

The Dunedin Jockey Club has applied for MonUiiy, dune 5, for its patriotic meeting, or, tailing that date, Saturday, April i. The June date .would be more suitable as fitting in with the club's winter meeting ou May 27 and June 3. In the matter of monetary loss, W. J. Broughton's suspension represents a very severe fine. In addition to losing the handsome winning fee attached to Saturday's stake, plus a probable good present from the owner, he will lose riding tees, approximately averaging £lO a week over a period of 26 weeks, so that he was actually fined in the region of £360 to £4OO for his unintentional offence. On the other hand his unfortunate lapse cost Glenfalloeh's owner £1,375, the difference between first and second money, and it was also very costly to supporters of Glenfalloch on the win machine.

La Bru, dam of the Coronach filly purchased last week at Trentham by Mr A. Louisson, of Christchurch, is by Beau Pere from Mandane, bj Panmure from Cherry Mart, by Birkenhead. La Bru was a winner as a two-year-old and Mandane won seven races and £5,310, including New Zealand Oaks, Auckland Summer Cup, and Wanganui Cup, and was a half-sister to Goblin Market, also a good winner. No doubt Mr Louisson bought the filly with her stud value in view.

The Canterbury Jockey Club has received a very satisfactory list of nominations for its non-totalisator meeting at Riccarton on February 5 The IrweU Handicap, for two-year-olds, has drawn 17 entrants, and the Halswell Handicap for three and four-year-old non-winners has 19 nominations. There are 21 still in the Middle Park Plate, but although many-"of these are probably left in in error, there is every prospect of a strong field. Handicaps for the Irwell and Halswell Handicaps are due to appear next Friday. As yearlings by Coronach sold exceptionally well at the national yearling sales it is interesting to recall that Subdued's grandsire Colorado, and Coronach were contemporary as racehorses in England and they were champions. Coronach 0 was a great galloper, who scored a remarkably easy victory in the Derby, in which Colorado was only third. Colorado, however, beat Coronach on several occasions, as a three-year-old in the Two Thousand Guineas and as a four-year-old in the Princess of Wales Slakes and in the Eclipse Stakes.

Statistics published in the ' Trotting Calendar ' show Haughty to be at the head of the list of winning horses for the season with £3,475. The winnings of Pacing Power and Shadow Maid cannot be correctly computed until the Trotting Association has given its decision in an inquiry into the running of the Ollivier Handicap on the second day of the Metropolitan Club's meet-

ing in November. Other good winners for the year include Loyal Friend £2,670, Countless £2,665, Parshall £1,935, Imperial Lady £1,870, Gold Flight £I,BOO, Gold Bar £1,275, Loyal Rey £1,145, Parrish Lad £1,095, Indian Clipper £I,OBO, Bomber £975, Happy Man £950, Hardy Oak £895, Clockwork £B9O, Highland Scott £B9O, Fantom £BBS, Lady Dawn £BBO, Bonny Bridge £B7O, Springfield Globe £BOS.

A.. G. Waddell, who won the Wellington Cup on Don Quex, will be 16 years of age next month. He began riding early in 1942, and in the Easter of that year rode his first winner, Starlet, in a two-year-old ever,;- at Feilding, says the ' Dominion.' His cider brother js S. A. Waddell, who won the New Zealand Cup on Serenata and who has ridden Subdued in all her winning performances this season. They are both apprenticed to G. W. New, who has turned out some of the Dominion's best riders, including Broughton and Tattersall, the last-named now a prisoner of war in Europe. The Waddell boys are sons of F. A. ; Waddell, a successful horseman in his day, and a nephew of the late Stewart Waddell, who was one of the leading trainers in the Dominion for many years. Two of the three big cups of the current season have been won by apprentices in their 'teens. Mervyn An drews won the New Zealand Cup on Classform, Al.ex. (" Bubs ") Waddell won the Wellington Cup on Don Quex, and Jaek Bagby was deprived of the Auckland Cup honour on Merry May by the narrowest of margins. Like Waddell, Bagby has horse in the blood. His father, R. S. Bagby, was n. first-class horseman, and his mother was a daughter of the late Jack McCombe, one of the best riders of his time.