NEWS AND VIEWS

Evening Star, Issue 25169, 8 May 1944, Page 5

NEWS AND VIEWS

fßy St. CLAia.J Answer to Correspondent.—" Seventy ": A horse named Foremast won a hurdle race, the principal handicap on the flat, and a saddle trotting race at a meeting held either at Pine Bush or Fortrose, in 1835. He was afterwards owned by the late Mi Robert Jamieson, ftt Winton, for whom he won a number of trotting races. Acceptances for the patriotic trotting meeting, to be held at Winton on Saturday, close to-morrow at 8 p.m., and nominations for the Gore fixture, to be held the following Saturday, close et 5 p.m. to-morrow. Lynden Lea, winner of the Trial Stakes at Ashburton, is a five-year-old gelding by Myosotis from Miss Quickly. The committee of the Wellington Racing Club has decided to hold the winter meeting at Trentham in July, but will not drafi the programme until later on. Silver Plane, winner of a double at Clftudelands on Saturday, is an aged mare by Peter Bingen from Hal Lady, and had previously won at both pacing and trotting gaits. Racing continues in England, tind for the first part of the season, April 10 to .Tuly 22, the English Jockey Club has approved of 39 programmes, to be run at Newmarket, Windsor, Ascot, Salisbury, Stockton, and Pontefract. Novocaine scored his first success when he won at Hawera on Saturday. His breeding is of interest to southerners, as he is by Man's Pal from Monoxide,, the dam of Cerne Abbas, winner of the 1937 New Zealand Cup. Eulogia, winner of the six furlongs hack race at Ashburton, is a four-year-old mare by Paladin from the same dam as Eulogist. She had nbt won a race since scoring in a division trial race at Geraldine'in September. 1842.

W. 'J. Broughton retained the jockey premiership at the end of last month with 32 winning rides. The cx-Mosgiel Park jockey, L. J. Clutterbuck, and H. N. Wiggins, with 29, are next. Last year's premier jockey, <W. F. Ellis, is fifth on the list with 19 wins. . Silver Sail' a winner at Ashburton, by Samagundi lfrom Sweet Memory, the dam of two good performers Membo and Nightcalm. She is trained by C. G. Humphries, who also led in two other winners in Maggiora' and Gulf Stream, during the afternoon. Amorlad, who has not won a race since he led the field home in the Birthday Handicap at Wingatui last May, is in work again with the Wellington winter meeting in view. He has been spelling since last January, and should be seen to advantage again now the tracks are becoming softer. Alexcelia did not win out of turn when she scored in the principal race at Hawera on Saturday. Since winning at the Stratford meeting on January 3, 1942, she had started 25 times for a few minor placings. She is a six-year-old inare by Captain Bunshy from Silver Wings, a Tea Trav mare. Last Match, winner of the Egmont Steeplechase on Saturday, is an aged geldingr by Illumination from Lady de Reske. Last August he won a steeplechase on the same course, and last month ran second to Idle Hour hi the Churchill Steeplechase. Like many of Illumination's slock, he is seen to advantage in soft going. Up to and including the racing at the end of * last month, G. .W. New, with 25 wins to his credit, the list of winning trainers. Of the- southern trainers. W. E. Hazlett and D. P. Wilson are equal in fourth place with 13. J. R. Cochrane 12. G. A. McKay 9, and A.-. E. Didham and It. E. McLellan have each turned out 8 winners

Thirty-two owners have won over £I.OOO in stakes in the light-harness sport this season. The list is headed by Mr J. R. McKenzie with £4,850, followed by Messrs B. Grice A. J. Wilson £3,510, and lE. G. Bridgens £3,040. Messrs Saunders and Todd, £1,120, are the only Otago owners to have reached the four-figure mark. Maggiore scored her third success over hurdles at Ashburton on Saturday, having previously won on this course last spring and again at Riccarton last month. She is one of the very few of Dolomite's progeny to race consistently, and inherits her jumping ability from her dam, Quinola, who was by Quinopal, the sire of many good jumpers. Foxhaven was standing up a big start to Gamble when half the distance of the Ashburton Handicap had been run. Approaching the far turn he began to move U.p. and was handy to Gamble turning for home, wearing liim down iu the run to the post to beat him by a neck. Foxhaven (Foxbridge—Pelogia) is now trained by C. C. McCarthy. The following are the dates fixed for tho running of the English classics and principal races:—May 16, One Thousand Guineas; May 17, Two Thousand Guineas; June 6, Coronation Cup; June 16, Oaks and Queen Mary Stakes; June 17, Derby and Coventry Stakes; and July 5, Cold Cup. These races will be run at Newmarket, and will not be confined to horses trained at that centre.

When Gulf Stream (Tiderace— April Fool) won the Wanganui Guineas last September it was anticipated that he would show up in the classic races this season, but his two successes since have been in seven furlong handicaps. All three of his wins have been scored on heavy or dead going. In Saturday's race his task was made easier by getting out from the barrier on the move and quickly opening up a gap that (he others were not able to close. The success of the Ashburton meeting on Saturday should give the committee of the Dunedin Jockey Club confidence in the Winter fixture to be held next month. In the racing events very few horses were withdrawn, and an increase of just on £7,000 in the totalisator investments shows that the public managed to get to the fixture despite transport difficulties. Over 90 per cent, of the horses racing at Ashburton had to be transported from other centres, and for the bigger stake money on offer at Wingatui owners will find some way of getting them to the meeting.