SPORTING

Greymouth Evening Star, 5 December 1929, Page 11

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WESTPORT TROTS. nominations" received. The following nominations for the Westport Trotting Club’s mid-sum-mer meeting were received last evening :— FIRST DAY, DECEMBER 26. Seddonville Handicap (harness), class 2.32, 8g furlongs. —Kitty Audu bon, Beatrice Locanda, Great Author, Jessie Bells, Flood Drift, Altair, Char lie Lincoln, Great Palm, Sissisox, Ko kona, Launa Melrose, Flying Kate, Worthy Girl, Drumly, Allanora, War Chance, Rongonui, Royal Audubon, Bonnie Wrack. Te Kuha Handicap (harness), class 2.34, 12| furlongs (unhoppled trotters pnly). —Bingen Child, Bookstall, Chancet, Addie Guy, Mountain Mist. Olive Nelson, Petrix, Osgood, Avon ess, Childe Boy, Reta Guy, Rapture, Bonnie Audubon. Westport Trotting Club’s Handicaji (harness), class 2.23 g.—Leading Lady, Vecto, Alpine Melody, Danny Boy, All Peters, Nelsonian, Royal Comrade, Kreisler, Bessie Dillon, Great Adventure. Progress Handicap (harness), class 2.30, 12£ furlongs:—Kitty Audubon, Red Comet, Major Brent, Bingen Wilkes, Loretta Napoleon, Dillon Chimes, Shot Silk, Lux, Ratloc, Sissisox, Harvest Boy, Allanora, Denver Hinds, Undertaker. President’s Handicap (harness, unhoppled trotters only), class 2.34, 16g furlongs :—Bingen Child, Bookstall, Chancet, Addie Guy, Mountain Mist, Olive Nelson, Luie /Todd, Osgood, Avoness, Childe Boy, Bonnie Audubon. Denniston Handicap (saddle), class 2.27, 8g furlongs. —Red Comet, Kawana, Lady Bee, Jessie Bells, Royal Iroquois, Life Buoy, Teremoa, Warrenore Flying Kate, Drumly, Denver Hinds, Rodger Lyon, Hilda McKinney, Royal Audubon, Bonnie Wrack. Addison’s Handicap (harness), class 2.28, 12| furlongs.—Great Author, Major Brent, Bingen Wilkes, Loretta Napoleon, Charlie Lincoln, Shot Silk, Hardiness, Harvest Boy, Warrenore, Great Adventure.

Stockton Handicap (harness), class 2.24, lOg furlongs.—Vecto, Leading Lady, Lady Bee, Alpine Melody, Danny Boy, All Peters, Life Buoy, Bessie Dillon, Great Adventure. SECOND DAY, DECEMBER 27. Charleston Handicap Trot (harness), class 2.32, furlongs. —Kitty Audubon, Red Comet, Beatrice Locanda, Flood Drift, Dillon Chimes, Altair, Great Palm, Sissisox, Kokona. Lorna Melrose, Worthy Girl, Drumly, Allfinora, Undertaker, Rongonui. Granity Handicap (harness, unhoppled trotters only), class 2.34, 12g furlongs. —Bingen Childe, Bookstall, Chancet, Addie Guy, Mountain Mist, Olive Nelson, Shot Silk, Osgood, Avoness, Child Boy, Reta Guy, Rapture, Bonnie Audubon.

Dominion Handicap (harness), class 2.30, 12£ furlongs.—Kitty Audubon, Major Brent, Bingen Wilkes, Loretta Napoleon, Dillon Chimes, Charlie Lin coin, Lux, Ratloc, Harvest Boy, Shot Silk, Undertaker, Rongonui. Williams Memorial Handicap (har ness), class 2.24, furlongs.—Great Author, Vecto, Leading Lady, Alpine Melody, Danny Boy, All Peters, Nelsonian, Royal Comrade, Kreisler, Bessie Dillon. ( Waimangaroa Handicap (saddle), class 2.27, furlongs. —Red Comet) Kawana, Lady Bee, Jessie Bells, Alpine Melody, Royal Iroquois, Shot Silk, Lux, Life Biioy, Teremoa, Flying Kate, Drumly, Denver Hinds, Hilda McKinney, Warrenore. Scanlon Memorial Handicap (harness, unhoppled trotters only), class 2.34, furlongs.—Comfort, Bingen Childe, Bookstall, Chancet, Addie Guy, Mountain Mist, Olive Nelson, Petrix, Luie Todd, Osgood, Avoness, Childe Boy, Bonnie, Audubon. Birchfield Handicap (harness), class 2.28,. furlongs.—Great Author, Major Brent, Bingen Wilkes, Loretta Napoleon, Charlie Lincoln, Hardiness, Harvest Boy, Allanora, Great Adventure, Shot Silk. Dash Handicap (harness), class 2.24, 8g furlongs. —Vecto, Leading Lady, Lady Bee, Alpine Melody, Danny Boy, Life Buoy, Warrenore, Flying Kate, Kreisler, BeSsie Dillon, Great Adventure, Rodger Lyon, Royal Audubon, Bonnie Wrack.

TRACK- AND STABLE NOTES. 'The local jockey V. A. Lee, has ridden in 15 Greymouth Cup events. He won three times, on Warlike, Wharfedale, and Prosperity. Local trainers are somewhat unlucky in regard to use of the track at Victoria Park, owing to the weather, but there is pot a great deal of work being done. T L. Bennett has a good string in training for the holiday carnival, and others being exercised on nr a Kawana bv M. Swift,

Royal Audubon by T. Lalor, and a maiden by W. Hughes. It is very likely that the Riccarton trainer J. G. Pine will take a team to the Manawatu and Wairarapa holiday meetings. Silver- Coot probably will make the trip, and if Paper Boy, Don Jose and Noteworthy do well in the meantime they also will go North. The progeny of imported Night Raid has done particularly well this season, but one of his three-year-olds that lias disappointed is Night Lad, who is trained at Washdyke, and who is listed for the Tinwald Handicap at Ashburton on Saturday. iNight Lad gave evidence of developing into a really good galloper as a juvenile, but so far this season his best performance was a close second to the English mare Celerity 11. in the Ranfurly Handicap at the Dunedin Jockey Club’s spring meeting. However, it would be unwise to condemn the three-year-old for his recent failure, and the first time he has a fashionable horseman on top he is likely to prove most difficult to beat. i The Hawk has contested in all 109 races, and has won thirty, has been placed second fifteen times, and third sixteen, with forty-eight unplaced performances. In all he has won £23,881 in stakes. The Hawk has raced over all kinds of distances up to a mile and a-half, and has won at weight-for-age and in .handicaps. He is a living monument to the stoutness of the Martian blood, and it is little wonder these days that Australians are keen in their demand for Martian mares for -brood mares.

Grand Canyon is beginning to atone for his ‘ early disappointments in no uncertain manner, and bred as he is the Wrack colt should make a handsome return to, his owners, who paid a big price for him. Grand Canyon is

out of the Logan Pointer ’’mare Nell Pointer, a brilliant race mare some years back. The Aga Khan races on such an extensive scale that were he not to figure well on the winning owners’ list therein would be the surprise. A London cablegram to hand states that 20 horses carrying the colours of the Indian noble on the English turf this year won stakes to the value of £39,886, which gave him the leading position. A perusal of the sums won by Aga Khan’s horses in England during this and the preceding five years shows a total of £174,648. There is always some difference of opinion regarding the merits or otherwise of the rehandicap system for winners as against fixed penalties. There is much to be said for both, and both schemes appear to work out satisfactorily, although naturally the rehandicap idea throws more work on the officials. It is rather a noteworthy fact that for the first day of the Feilding meeting Mr J. E. Henrys had to rehandicap no fewer than 14 horses on account of wins at Otaki and Levin in the previous week. The extra poundage apparently found favour, for all 14 were accepted for in the various events. The American Mr Robert Eastman, furnished a contestant in this year’s Cesarewitch, in the shape of a quadruped rejoicing in the name of Alike Hall. “Mike” managed to finish twelfth, but he is referred to as a horse likely to see a' better day. The Americans have a great taste for doing matters in style. Mike Hall, it is said, reached the course in a covering described as a spectacular blue robe. This was removed, however, before he came in to the saddling paddock, but his* mane and tail were each plaited with blue and white ribbons. In order to fix the identity of Alike Hall, and apparently to make it clear as to his ownership, the jacket which the jockey wore had a white “E” back and front worked into it. LETTING BLOOD. Reference made recently to the intention to have the racehorse Alollison, a former Victorian champion, bled, might have been a surprise to many, but it seems that the bleeding of thoroughbreds is by no means an uncommon practice. The intention was to relieve Alollison of six quarts of blood, give him a rest, and bring him in for the autumn, no doubt in the hope of winning again the £3,000 Eurturity Stakes, in which he defeated Gothic last February. The Randwick trainer, Payten, says this is a light bleeding for a horse. A two-year-old in his stable was recently relieved of ten quarts, rested for an hour, was quite normal, and ate his meal soon afterwards, and was on the track again a couple of days later. Bleeding is resorted to to freshen up a horse’s vitality. Letting of the old blood temporarily weakens the animal, but the blood stream is quickly renewed, and the new supply acts as a stimulant that resuscitates the vitality. The process of bleeding is effected by a small slit in the neck where the jugular can be opened with a tiny nick. A strap pressing forces the blood through the opening, and immediately the required quantity has been taken away the strap is released, and the tiny hole in the vein closes. Then the wound through which the operation has been performed is stitched - There are rarely ill-effects from , it, and even the weariness that follows soon disappears.