RACING

Evening Star, Issue 25172, 11 May 1944, Page 8

RACING

fß.v Si Claib.] Answer to Correspondent. " R.P.B." —Nedda won the Sires' Produce Stakes at Fiemington, for two-year-olds only, on March 2, 1929, carrying 8.7, and, ridden by D. Munro, ran the seven furlongs in 1.26. Previous to that race Nedda had started four times in the Dominion for a second and three wins. As a three-year-old she started 10 times for one win, a mile race at the Southland Racing Club's Winter Meeting. Nedda did not race after her tnree-year-old season. News and Views. It is reported that the Riccarton horseman. A. J. Stokes, is likely to make TrenIhuin his headquarters in the future. When Maggiore won the hurdle race at Ashburton on Saturday she carried more than half the investments on the win totnlisator. The Ashburton Trotting Club has definitely decided to hold its winter-meeting on Monday, June 5, and has issued a programme distributing £3,400 in stakes. Horses owned by Mr E. A. Didhani have won £990 in stakes so far this season. Mr D. P. Wilson has won £965, Mr S. Taylor £9lO, and Mr D. M. Tweedie £9OO. There was a marked shortage of lightweight riders at the recent Egmont meeting, and an unusually large list of overweights, ranging from 31b to 251 b, was posted during the afternoon. Lincoln, who ran a good second to Maggiore at Ashburton, is a four-year-old by Foxbridge from Love Story, and is trained at Riccarton by V. Lee, who was at Wingatui for a couple of years. Lincoln is a likely candidate for the hurdle races at Wingatui next month. The Auckland owner, Mr M. J. Moodabe, has six horses in H. Dulieu's stable. They are Whackie, the two-year-old Martial Note, Desert Victory, Battle Royal, and two rising two-year-olds by Coronach from Helen Hunt and by Ringmaster from Submission. The South Canterbury Jockey Club has circularised owners and trainers asking what support is likely to be forthcoming for the club's winter meeting fixed for June 24. The club is anxious to hold the fixture,' and has drafted an attractive programme offering £1,945 in stakes. Judging by the schooling work being done in Southland, strong teams of jumpers from the south are likely to invade Wingatui next month. At Invercargill Anglo-French, Spanish Main, True Range, Double Light, and Heidelberg all gave pleasing displays. Town Survey, winner of the Great Northern Hurdles last year, has been nominated for both the Northern Steeplechase and Hurdles, also the Cornwall Handicap. The big jumping double has been won by the same horse on four occasions, El Gallo in .both 1915 and 1916, Lochella. in 1920, and 'Sir Roseberry in 1925. In 1940 Streamline won the hurdle race, and the following year the steeplechase. Erndale, winner of the Great Northern Hurdles in 1942, and engaged again in this year's race, has been kept to racing on the flat this season, and in March won the Ohinemuri Cup, .and placed in three other races out of six starts. He is now rising 11 years old, and has won 16 races, the first nine for his breeder, Mr W. James. If the South Canterbury meeting is held next month the Tiinaru Cup, which carries a £4OO stake, will be run over a mile and three furlongs, instead of a mile and a quarter. The additional furlong will give the field a much better chance of settling down before having to make a sharp turn out of the straight. " Many people will contend that racing is no longer a sport, but a business," comments an English writer, " Its character has changed much during the last 50 years, but that it should lose too much of its sporting characteristics is not good, and the introduction of the camera in the judging of close finishes will give still more impersonality (not impartiality) to an already much mechanised industry." When Grand Forest, by the French sire, Lang Bian. won at Wingatui last January, he was expected to go on to much better class. He showed a return to that form by beating all but Irish Note in a big field over seven furlongs at Riccarton last month, and on that performance was sent out favourite at Ashburton last Saturday, but spoiled any chance he had by beginning tlowlv and afterwards meeting with interference in the running. At the end of the first nine months of the present racing season, the Auckland

sportsmen, Hon. E. R. Davis and Mr O. Nicholson, head the list of winning owimrs

with £9,315 in stakes. Messrs A. J. Court £7.818, W. S. Goosman £7,383, J. aud h McMillan £6,210, Est. J. S. and W. JJ. Jlazlett £5,235, G. M. Currie £5.230, and R E. MfcLellan £5,110 are the next on th» list. Sixty-four owners have won over £I.OOO in stakes during the period under review.

Hormuz, the top-priced colt at the 1943 national yearling sales, has had seven staris this season, and in his last gained his only placing, a third to Periwig and Black Simon at Riccarton last month. Hormuz, who is by Foxbridge from Rippling Waters was purchased on account of an India» sportsman, Mr F. Mehta, and realised 1,400g5. Rippling Waters is a' full sist«r to Ruling Chief, and during a short racing career won five races, including the Auckland Welcome Stakes.

Pensive, winner of the Kentucky Derby last Saturday, is a son of the English sinHyperion from the English-bred Penicuik (by Buchan). A member of the Bruce Lowe No. 1 family, Penicuik was not a brilliant success as a racehorse. She did not race at two years, and ran four times as a three-year-old without being placed. Penicuik made her debut in. the Severais Stakes, five furlongs, at Newmarket. Next outing she ran eighth in a field of 20 for the One Thousand Guineas, won by Exhibitionist. Her third was at Ascot, in t,ho Coronation Stakes, one mile. She was favourite, but was unplaced. Gainsborough Lass, who had run second in the One Thousand Guineas, being the winner. Her fourth and last start was in the Falmouth Stakes, one mile, at Newmarket. She was joint favourite with Tumbrel, the winner. Divisions at Otaki. The Kuku Maiden race at the Otaki Maori meeting will be divided into two races, which will be second and fourth on the programme/

First Maiden Race, £l5O. 6f,.—Arctic Night, Day Lightning, Glen Urquhart. Grey Donne, Toaiti, Midshipman, Miss Pompadour. Nisus, Palanui, Sporting Style, Teao, True Friend. Sporting Gold. The Tosser, Theioway, Zapporah • 8.10, Hine Rei, St. Hilton. Sir Warrior. Sival, Happy Climax 8.0.

Second Maiden Race, £l5O. 6f.—Btmeve, Fairy Godmother, Gold Claim. Grand Central. Moutoa Lad. Nanook, Prince Wheriko, Sir Raleigh, Rosinante. Sandy Cape, Trekalong, Tintern. Rotopai, Tajapa 8.10, Cure Clare. Marshal Cook, Mysterious Melody, Rockanui. Stonvbroke, Well Armed 8.0.

Starting- Times.—ll.3o, Tararua Steeplechase; 12.15, First Kuku Maiden; 1.0, Raukawa Handicap; 1.45, Second Maiden; 2.30, Otaki Hack: 3.15. Te Horo Hack; 4,.0, Huia Handicap; 4.45, Waitohu Hack.

Poverty Bay Meeting. At the Poverty Bay Turf Club meeting the Herriesville Hurdles and the Trial Handicap have been divided. The first Trial Handicap is the second race and the second Trial the fourth race. The divisions are:—Herriesville Hurdles. £2OO. ljm.—First division: Our Nation 10.3, Northlander, Spring Bay 9.2, Diagonal, Pinocchio, Collect, Imperial (Eagle, Bright Fox, Day Dreamer, Whetuwhenua, Kouraeka, Show Day, Maratopu, Anteuor, New Battle 9.0. Second division: Spyetta 0.6, Expellant 9.2, Bronze Night, Star Vaal, Willow Wood, Mashona, Teacoijy, Jehangir, Carnaro, Vaferflame, Purveyor, Verus, Radio Call, Landfall. Brackets: Imperial Eagle and Landfall, Vaferflame and Show Day, Verus and Maratapu, Purveyor and Antenor, Radio Call and New Battle. First Trial Handicap, £2OO. 6f.—Gunman 9.0, Pink Shell 8.8, Mercurial 8.0, Lynander's Last 7.13, San Antone 7.9, Altess, Val Jay. Royal Warrior, Craven, Lucky Alex, For Spi, Sally Wood. Roianui, Rive>--lands Roe, Esmonde, Ballynokane, Commis. sar, Theology, Just Ora, Ballina 7.8. Second Trial Handicap, £2OO. 6f.—Tarzah 8.9, Chevalila 8.8, Ra Ora 8.0, Odvaals 7.13, Richelieu 7.9, Fine Kin, Lady Nenagh. Tressless, Lady Love, Valona Bay, Hunting Loch, Royal Icing, Valley Boy, Kaiala, Bettermusk, Lumond, Queen Baffles, Flying Gold, Roman Orator 7.8. Starting times: 11.30, Herriesville Hurdles; 12.15, first Trial: 12.55, Junction Hack; 1.40, Waimate Hurdles; 2.20, second Trial; 3.5, Makaraka Hack; 3.50, Roseiand I Hack; 4.35, Electric Handicap. '