Galloping

Greymouth Evening Star, 10 June 1933, Page 11

Galloping

MEETINGS TO COME. June 15, 17 —Hawke’s Bay. June 17 —South Canterbury. June 22, 24—Napier Park. Ju,ne. 23 —Egmont-Wanganui. June 24—Ashburton County. July I—Oamaru. July s—Danneyirke Hunt Club. | July B—Waimate District. | July 11, 13, 15—Wellington. I July 22— South Canterbury. I July 22—Hawke’s Bay Hunt Club. July 27, 29 —Gisborne. July 29 —Christchurch Hunt Club. Thurina: Is well forward to commence a preparation, and this useful steeplechasei’ I should not be long in reaching good form for racing. Baldowa Destroyed: Southern reports announce that Baldowa (Balboa-Redowa) was destroyed last week. Baldowa was a firstclass handicap horse. Miss Redowa and Red Boa are full relatives. ißoyal Visitor Out: f Royal Visitor practically broke down after the Great Northern Hurdle race, and he is unlikely to do much more racing this winter. He had been under a cloud prior to the race. Back to Form: Paddon’s winning form at Ellerslie lon Wednesday emphasises the fact I that he will have to be reckoned with in future engagements, this winter. I Callamart: From now on Callamart will have to carry big weights, but the fixed maximum of 12.0 in the Wellington Steeplechase, and 12.7 in the Grand National Steeplechase will help him. Grand Nationals: The Grand National Steeplechase will be run this year on August 8, the Grand National Hurdles on August 10, and the concluding day of the meeting will be August 12. Had Every Chance: Thespis had every chance in the Remuera Hurdle Race on Monday, in which he could only run a moderate third. On that form he is nothing out of the ordinary. He ran down a couple of his fences badly, and this cost him a lot of ground, but did not ( affect the result. It is just possible j that Thespis do better when the going is not so deep; therefore, < it would be unwise to condem him un- ; til he has further opportunities as a < jumper. s

A Capable Jumper: Wee Pat made her first appearance in a hurdle race when she contested the Panmure Hurdles at Ellerslie on Monday. She jumped well and was fairly close to the leaders three furlongs from home, but took off too far at the obstacle and came down. Wee Pat showed that she was a very capable jumper, and with a little more experience she should be seen to advantage over the battens. Ran Good Races: Although beaten in both hurdle events that he contested at Ellerslie, Emancipation ran two good races, staying on solidly on both occasions. The stout hurdles appeared to trouble him, and faulty jumping cost him a number of lengths in the Great Northern Hurdles, and also in the Remuera Hurdle contest. Still, he has not had a vast amount of experience over hurdles and is a horse likely to develop better form, for he is a proved stayer and can gallop in any sort of going. A Beaten Horse: Copey looked to have a great chance of winning the Great Northern Steeplechase till he made a. mistake at the sodwall the second time round. This took some of the dash out of him, but he went on, and after ascending the hill in third place the last time he was a beaten horse, and from then on had no. chance with Callamart or High Commissioner while both Billy Boy and Kawini passed him in the run home. Copey won the Egmont Steeplechase recently, and though he failed to finish in the money in th© big event at Ellerslie he should prove much harder to beat in the big southern cross-country events.

Makeup’s Breeding: Makeup, winner of the Great Northern Hurdles, comes from one of the oldest families in the Dominion. His dam, Roseaur, is a bay mare bred in 1919 by the A.J.C. Derby winner, Kilboy (son of Kilbroney), from Roseland, by Finland (son of Bill of Portland and granddam of St. Simon) from Rosie, by Hillstone (son of the King Tom horse, King Cole) from Rosalind, by Albany (son of Thormanby) from Red Rose, by Traducer from Moss Rose, by Camden from Young Rosebud, by Sir Hercules from Rosebud, by II Barbiere. This family was founded by a thoroughbred mare imported from Sydney to Nelson without a pedigree about 1848 or 1849, and who was mated with II Barbiere by the Hon. C. A. Dillon in 1850 to produce the chestnut mare, Rosebud, the recognised taproot of this family, which is still holding its own and producing good horses after surviving for over eighty years. Makeup has had 96 starts for 22 wins, and his stakewinnings amount to £4451.

The Last Laugh: An. animal that was to be trained for a big race arrived in London from Ireland in one of the best horseboxes the L.M.S. Railway could provide. Awaiting him was a motor horse-van in which any Derby winner would be proud to travel. Grooms were there, too, for their employer, an Epsom trainer, had received a letter notifying him of the arrival of a promising recruit for his stable. When the truck had been shunted to the proper siding there was a rush to the box, the flap was let down, and . . . out trotted a donkey. For a moment the trainer could not understand. Then he relieved himself of a few epithets that would have withered the practical joker in Ireland could he have heard them. Finally, with the good sportsmanship of a racing man, he paid the carriage due on the donkey, hut refused to take it away. The publicity given to the joke has led to a happy sequel. On reading the facts at least a score of people telephoned to the superintendent of the railway offering the donkey a home. In consideration for the donkey—a Stocky, well-fed, and wellgroomed animal about three years old —the superintendent has selected for

it an aristocratic home. The Duchess of Portland is to be its new owner, and it has been sent to Welbeck Abbey. So the donkey had the last laugh.

QUEENSLAND APPEAL. BRISBANE, June 9. The connections of the racehorses Fragrant, Zephyr and Pentheus, appealed against the disqualifications imposed by the Queensland Turf Club stewards. The stewards, after hearing evidence, removed the. disqualifications in regard to Fragrant Zephyr, but dismissed the appeal by C. Brown, the owner-trainer, reating to Pentreus, and also estreated the appeal fee of £2O. The disqualification of the jockey, R. Ellis, was reduced to twelve months, and his appeal fee was returned.