SPORTING

Greymouth Evening Star, 16 September 1926, Page 6

SPORTING

DANNEVIRKE R.C. MEETING.

(Per Press Association.)

DANNEVIRKE. Sept. 15. The Dannevirke Racing Club’s Spring Meeting was held in cold, wet weather, which made the track soft half way through the proceedings. The attendance was fair. The totalisator took £12,414, as against £13.827 last year. Th e only unfortunate occurrence was 1 in the Tahoraite Hack Steeples,, in which six started, three completing the course, the first two being subsequently disqualified for being inside the flag. Remaining results: — Tahoraite Hack Steeples.—4 Gay Bobbie (H. Gordon) 1. Also started : 1 Labour Morn, 3 Oneroa, 6 Fairfield, 5 Ohorere. Three horses which finished were Kovno, Fail field, and Gay Bobbie in that order, the other three having run off or fallen. Russell, the owner of Gay Bobbie, lodged a protest against the first two horses on the ground that they ran inside the flag in the first round, and the stewards, after an inquiry, awarded the race to Gay Bobbie. Umutaoroa Hack. —2 Royal Game (Carroll) 1,2 Black Mint (bracketed with winner) 2, 5 Rising Star 3. Also started : 3 Mime, 1 Beth, 6 Hynigreat, 4 Strongholt. Won by a length; a head. Time 1.20.

Ruahine Handicap.—3 Birthmark (R. J. Mackie) 1, 1 Beaumont 2, 8 Arataura 3. Also ran • 2 Tiega, 6 Serene, 10 Misgovern, 4 Miss Hupana, 7 Morose, 9 Tenipean, 5 Tongatbtoa. Won by half a length ; a head. Time 1.32 4-5.

Tapuata Hack. —1 Our Jack (B. H. Morris) 1, Va Lhynia 2, Panart 3. Also ran: 7 Jubilee, 2 Othon, 5 Lin Arlington. 3 Gurnion, 10 Joyeuse, 9 Jazzy’, 6 Boy, 11 Tea Lea\es. Won by a length; a length and a half. Time 1.52 4-5.

WELLINGTON R.C.

WELLINGTON, Sept. 16.

At the annual meeting of the Wellington Racing Club, the Balance Sheet showed £43,900 was paid out in stakes and £49,289 in taxes. Interest totalled £8,689. The total receipts were £95,842 of which £61,197 came from the tote; gates and railway £18,497; fees from owners £9,679.

The report mentioned that the work on the new grandstands was still going on, and arrangements were now secured for running an electric tote. Mr. J. B. Harcourt was' re-elected as President. NEWS AND NOTES. Goosestep has been weighted at the minimum lor Ashburton. Money Order is asked to concede two stone to the bottom weights.

Goosestep has had a good programme mappea out lor him, as he has been nominated for events at Dunedin and Geialdinb

The successful Booster is amongst the active brigade again and has been nominated for the. Geraldine meeting. Since winning at Wanganui a heavy demand lias set in for Beacon Light for the New Zealand Cup. Nelson Derby is the local favourite for the Trotting Cup.

W._ S. Bagby’s license has ben cancelled by the Racing Conference, following on his suspension during the progress of the Grand National Meeting.

Tommy Dodd won his first race for his new owner at Melbourne last Wednesday.

Bachelor Gay, who gave exceptional promise as a hurdler last season, has been nominated for the Dunedin Meeting.

Commendation started off the season well with a win at Dannevirke yesterday. If his manners have improved he will reach very high-class company this year. At the Caulfield Cup Meeting the smallest stake on the programme is bOOsovs.

The West Coast representative Goosestep, who is weighted at the minimum in the New Zealand Cup, is among the entrants at tlie Dunedin Jockey Club’s meeting. L. G. Morris was in good form in the saddle at the Wanganui Meeting. He piloted- three winners, having mounts on Penman and Mint Leaf on the concluding day.

Baron Bingen is the name claimed for the brother to Great Bingen. He is very like his relative in conformation, and is a natural pacer. He has just been broken in to harness, and is very well mannered.

Paper Money sired the first two-year-old of the season when Frenzied Finance won at the Wanganui Meeting. She is a bay daughter of Peronilla (dam of Boadicea), who Avon the Welcome Stakes of 1912.

Some idea of the dearth of jumpers in Canterbury may be gleaned from the fact that there are only three horses trained at Riccarton figuring m the list of hurdlers at the Dunedin Jockey Club’s Spring Meeting, the steeplechaser King Abbey being included in the trio.

Rapine’s present form is most encouraging, he is always handy in his contests, and invariably gets a share of the prize-money. This, too, when he is racing over distances which are not regarded as suitable to him. His forward running under the circumstances augurs well for successes later in the campaign. In referring to the fact that Gloaming, Ihe Hawk, Rapine, Sasanof, and Ballymena were all geldings, a Sydney scribe states that it is high time the Australian Rules of Racing were altered so as to debar them from receiving allowances for weight-for-age races. Frenzied Finance, the winner of the Debutante Stakes at Wanganui, the first two-year-old race of the season in New Zealand, is another'advertisement for Paper Money as a sire of early speed. Her dam, Peronilla, by Achilles from Prelude, was also a precocious youngster, who won the Welcome Stakes for Mr W. Nidd in 1912. On going to the stud Peronilla started her stud career well as the dam of Boadicea, a very useful Clarenceux mare. Frenzied Finance will make her next appearance in the Avondale Stakes, and, though she will meet a new lot of opponents, the experience gained in the Wanganui race will give her a big advantage. The Avondale form win be interesting in another direction, as it will an early comparison of the two-year-olds in Auckland stables, with Frenzied Finance as one of the trial horses.

A big Melbourne Cup sweep, with £20;000 for first prize, filled sores weeks ago, and another for a similar amount is already more than half full. It is stated that an Adeladian, has drawn Windbag, and a Melboumeite Manfred. An exchange suggests that both these ticket-holders will need a diet of sleeping powders for the next two months. New South Wales is such a heavy contributor to lotteries in Tasmania and Queensland that it seems a pity the money is not kept in this State. It would mean a fine revenue for the Government, and I doubt, says "Pilot,” whether a lottery on a horse race or one on Queensland lines would do us much, , if any harm,

morally. Considering that we have nearly a thousand days racing a year in this State, and “art union’’ tickets for various institutions are always on sale in Sydney’s streets, it seems inconsistent that sweeps on horse races should be barred.

The Australian papers have presented an intersting study in regard to Limerick. He was more or less ignored on his arrival, despite his good New Zealand form, and his chance of beating Rampion or other cracks was not considered seriously. It was not until some weeks ago that by a win in a handicap he drew serious attention to himself, and then followed his second to Rampion in a fast seven furlongs. This was followed on Saturday by a defeat of Windbag and Rapine over nine furlongs at weight-for-age. That Windbag was not quite right is possible, but there could have been little amiss with him to beat Rapine. All three placed horses, Limerick, Windbag and Rapine, carried a 71b penalty so that they were meeting one another relatively on a weight-for-age basis, with the advantage, if anything, to Limerick, whose increase would not tell so much as that of his heavierweighted opponents. It will be interesting to read now of how his prospects of downing Rampion are assessed in Australia.