NOTES AND COMMENTS

Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2380, 5 December 1929, Page 3

NOTES AND COMMENTS

Horses raced by the Aga Khan in England have won 174,618 sovs. in five seasons. .The Paladin gelding (Rabbi) shapes like a good stayer and might bo dangerous over two miles. Mr C. Hazlett has leased All Smiles from Mr J. White, ai*l she is now being trained by Fred Shaw. j Amongst tho latest recruits to hurdling at Wingatui are Marti, Bellicose and Jimmy Trigger. A two year olid filly by Paladin —- Ada Molding, therefore a lialf-sistcr to that good horse lied Wink, is in Geisler’s stable, aiid is shaping well, j . Nightmurch is doing light exercise on the Riccarton tracks at present. His future programme has not been decided so far. Sydney papers to hand show that: Papatu ruled layourite for the No-j veinber Handicap, in which race ho wasibeaten by The. Banker. An Australian buyer has made overtures for the purchase .of Stealth during the past week, but so far no business has resulted. Acceptances for the WoodviUe races, to be held on the 11th and 12th December, close to-morrow at 9 p.m. * Silver Paper was a disappointment in bis only start at Feilding and he has not been handicapped for h:s WoodviUe engagements. Cirnabuo retains his brilliancy and can skip over a short course. He won the Welcome Stakes of 1926 in the race record time of 58 2-ssec. j 11. Nurse is schooling a five year old gelding named Syd d’Or, who was got by Arrowsinitn from Ania, bj , Solferiuo from Rapier’s dam. J Yoma was entered at Ashburton by a South Island owner who wished to purchase the Campfire gelding. t j Satisfy is again working on the Riccarton tracks, and provided she goes on satisfactorily, may be taken to tho Dunedin summer fixture. Count Cavour is working aloug steadily. He is in the best of health and he should be in good condition for his fifth try at the Auckland Cup on Boxing Day. The Banker’s recent win in Austra-' lia was liis first for about three years, but he did not go out neglected in the market. The Banker won the New Zealand Cup in 1925.

The hurdler, Mister Gamp, is in work again at Awapuni and ho is reported to be doing well. He is best suited, however, to winter conditions.

The heavy going apparently set. tied Paganelli’s chance in the Feeding Stakes. Fie' gave Cimabue 71b and a beating in the Stewards’ Handicap. • ••••••

The Valkyriau gelding Leitrim, who won the Takapuna Plate, gave FI. Gray a chance to display 'his vigour in a finish. Gray has been doing really well since lie regained his license.

The New Zealand-bred The Hare, by Absurd—Lady 1 Ueaufort, won the third division of the Flying Handicap at the Ascot Racing Club’s meeting on November 20. !

Motor transport is entering into competition with the railways, in the carriage of racehorses, and several wer landed at Feilding by this ser-

The explanation of 'Duellona’s running on the first day at Takapuna, aa elicited at the judicial inquiry, was that she got caught in the tapes and did not afterwards race kindly.

‘The Tea Tray filly Pure Blond continues to pay her way nicely in Western Australia. At a recent meeting held there she won the Perth Plate, 0 furlongs under 9.0, defeating a field of eight in good style.

The sale of Chide probably means the cancellation of 0. Murray AynsIcy’s trip to Auckland. Stately was to have accompanied the stable crack north, hut it is unlikely that she will he sent by herself.

The New Zealand-bred Tea Rose by Tea Tray—ltoseland, won tbe Ascot Handicap at the Ascot meeting on November 20. Tea Rose has done a lot of winning in the pony ranks in Australia.

Tamatcte won the Fcilding Stakes three times on end for Mr W. Duncan and twice he ran the distance in 1.1; but the record for the race is held by Gold Crest, the son of Gold Reef being credited with 1.0 3-5 when he won in 1908.

The programme of the Wanganui Cup meeting, to be held on February 13 and 15, has been drawn up. The added money for the Cup will he £9OO, and in addition a gold cup, value £IOO, is to go to the owner of the winner.

D. Campbell’s latest acquisition, Tchcka, is settling down in his new home in the South Island. He is still on the light side, but every day he is improving in appearance. At present he is the only horse Campbell has in work. He may go south for l’ie holiday meetings.

The crack Melbourne jockey, W. Duncan, after riding the first two winners at the Epsom meeting on November 23, sustained a bad full in the third race, and was lucky to escape with a broken collarbone. He will be out of the saddle for a few weeks.

Totulisator figures at the three race meetings in the Dominion on Saturday totalled £105,906, an increase of £30,0924, as compared with

the investments at the same meetings last year. The individual in creases were Takapuna £15,006-4, Forbury Park £7855, and leilding £7231.'

At certain periods ut has been stated that the horsp trade between Australia and India has shown a marked falling off, but it is apparently, far from falling to the low ebb. A steamer which left Adelaide recently for Calcutta conveyed a shipment of no less than 400 horses, many of which had flawless pedigrees.

Kajjioro put up two good performances at the recent local meeting by

finishing second to Cimabuo in the Feilding Stakes on Saturday, and on Monday The Raider beat her home in the chief sprint event. Ivaihoro is a four year old filly by Lucullus from Suratura, and is' a halfsister to Kaiti.

The price for Chide was 6000 gui- • neas with contingencies. The previous record ptice for the Dominion is 5000 guineas, that being the sum which Mr S. Hordern, of Sydney, j paid for the stallion Nordenfelt, by Musket from Onyx, at the clearing sale of the Sylvia Park Stud, Auckland, in January 1891.

For next Easter Monday the stake for the Great Eastern Steeplechase at Onkaparinga has been fixed at £2OOO, or a reduction of £IOOO, because of the general depression j n racing in Adelaide. The total stake money of rthe day will amount to £4IOO. The original plan to spell Limerick fora couple of months following li:s affected leg being blistered, lias been revised, and it has now been decided to leave him out for 12 months in the hope that he will become thoroughly sound to undergo anothei preparation. Koval Saxon was given a let-up after his strenuous racing at Kiccarton last month, hut has joined the active brigade again. Last year Royal Saxon won the Invercargill Cup very convincingly, and looked kkc making a stayer, but be is too hard a puller in Fie early stages of the race, and it has been decided to restrict liim to sprint and middle distance events at the coming holiday fixtures. In refemce to the death of Mi Macdonald, “Beacon,” writing in the Melbourne Leader, remarked: “Ruling Ids long connection with racing Mr Macdonald had won and lost twe fortunes. Revenue and "Wakeful enabled liim to amass a third, aud he declared that the bookmakers having got two fortunes would not ( get the bird, and lie invested liis money it gilt-edged securities, and for the remainder of his days he was a comparatively wealthy man.”