TO-DAY'S RACING NEWS

Greymouth Evening Star, 19 May 1938, Page 15

TO-DAY'S RACING NEWS

Galloping MEETINGS TO COME. May 21. —South Canterbury. May 21.— Manawatu. May 21,23.—Waikato. May 28—Foxton. “Ponified”: A. S. Ellis is at; present, handling a “ponified” three-year-old filly by Cockpit from Miss Camouflage, by All Red from the Euroclydon mare Winter Rose. Riding at Te Rapa: S. T. Edwards has been engaged to ride Vivacious. Aymon, and Disturbed, at the Waikato Meeting, and he will also have the mount on Johnny Walls the second day. Australian Horseman: • Leslie Gough. Australian hurdle and steeplechase jockey, arrived by the Aorangi from Sydney at Auckland. this week, and intends following his profession here. Gough lias had a. good deal of experience in Australia. having ridden in Victoria, South Australia, New South Wales and Tasmania. He can ride about 8.12.

Daughter of Hyades: Dr. E. H. B. Milsom lias sold the brood mare Astarth. by Chief. Ruler from Hyades. She will join the Trelawny Stud, and will be mated again with'Foxbridge, whose stock promise to make a. name for themselves. Astarth’s filly foal Io Foxbridge last season met with a fatal accident when a month old. The mare is due to foal to Foxbridge in the coming season.

Promising: A promising sort of steeplechaser competed in public for the first time at Wanganui on Saturday last in the hack and hunters’ race. This was Lads r Callaghan, a five-year-old mare bv Cllghn from by Callaghan from a Lord Lupin mare. She has been hunted so that..she knows how to jump, but, like others of the same type, she is inclined to slow up between the obstacles. With experience she should improve.

Alby Sold: The aged gelding- Alby, by Psychology from Marsala, was purchased after ihe first, day's racing al Blenheim from his owner-trainer, 8.. Burgess. by Mr A. J. Blackburn, of Christchurch, and was handed over to M. Conza. Mr Blackburn did not have to wait long for a. return of his outlay, as Alby won the concluding event of the meeting, and paitl a reasonably good price. Alby’s next race will probably be at Greymouth on June IS.

Tradesman's Prospects: It. is interesting to see Tradesman' at the bottom of the list, in the Cornwall Handicap. He is a noted mudlark, and while now into doable figures so far as age is concerned, he can never be dismissed, lightly .when the conditions are so ttyrical. ot winter. His convincing win al Pukekohe suggested that, he should be capable of improvement, on that effort, and as he is engaged at Te Rapa the racing there, which may. also find him successful, should fit him for his engagements at Ellerslie.

Profitable Deal: Mrs S. Brown, who purchased the aged, gelding Artful Dodger for -Cl 5 last, winter, intending to use him as a hack, decided later to put. him into work with a view to racing him again. Tie was given to J. G. Farrell to train and has made good, as he won the hack hurdles at Wanganui in February and the hurdles at Waverley ieccntlv. After these performances he scored in the hack and hunteis steeplechase at Wanganui on Saturday. These successes, together with two thirds, brought his stake, winnings for Mrs Brown up to some £440. After Saturday’s race she made Farrell a gift of the horse, and ho intends to give him a race at either Toxton oi Awapuni and! then go to Ellerslie lot the Great Northern meeting.

Dearth of ’Chasers: There is every indication that there will be a. dearth, of steeplechasers in the South Island, especially m the Riccarton area. at. least, for the eailj winter meetings. Arctic Star was expected to be a worthy representative for high honours, but is out ot commission in the munntime, although .it is hoped that lie will be able to resume racing next month. Polydora, who appeared likely to be a useful stakeearner at the game this year, has been troubled with soreness, which has so far defied treatment. Monastic is a proficient jumper of any country, but is not what could be termed a reliable steeplechasing proposition. Flashlight is a most promising novice. Bonnie Rollox would lie a welcome addition to the cross-country ranks, but unsoundness will unfortunately ietard. his activities. Punchestown is going along satisfactorily in liis'work,but age will be against him. Nightbound and Tomcat are still in the novice stage. The position appears to be the same in the North Island, fot with the Egmont and Wanganui meetings over no new stars have arisen.

French Importation'. Impressed by the success that French, horses were having in. England the season, before last, and believing that strains of French blood might do good service to the breeding industry in the Dominion, Mr M. Grogan master of The Grange. Studi at Westmere. Wanganui, gave instructions early last year to his English agents to look out for a likely sort, of French stallion who could! be acquired for export to New Zealand. The quest, was successful, the Blandford! horse Broiefort being purchasea for Mr Grogan about twelve months a <, o Broiefort arrived- in the’ Dominlon'at the end of last month, and he greatly Impressed' good l judges who viewed him at Westmere during the course of last week’s Wanganui Meeting Broiefort is a choice mingling oi French and English strains, and only a six year-old now to English time. He is by the Swynford horse, Blandford. His dame was Innoxa, a No. 2 Bruce Lowe mare bred in 1926, so she was only five years old when she was mated with Blandford to get Broiefort. Innoxa was herself a chestnut, which is evidence that Broiefort possesses Blandford qualities. It is one of Mr Grogan’s theories that colour and other qualities in - racehorses are usually closely linked,

WARWICK FARM RACES. RIVAL HIT WINS. SYDNEY, May 18. The New Zealand-bred gelding Rival Hit. purchased 12 months ago by F. Hughes for 200(1 guineas, from Sir Charles Clifford, won the first race, the Australia Flying Welter Handicap at the Warwick Farm meeting :o-day. New Zealand horses filled all the places in the Warwick Handicap. Results: — Flying Welter Handicap:—Rival Hit 9.0 (Munro) 1; Fenracre 2; Shackleton 3. Fourteen, started, including Lynch ' Law. Won by a length; a length and a quarter. Time 1.!4£. . o o Warwick Handicap: Highborn 8.8 (Munro) 1; Dutiful 2; Edible 3. Eleven started. Won by a. head; a head. Time 2.65.

LIMOUX SETS RECORD. SYDNEY, May IS. At Tamworth to-day, Limoux won the Mornington Handicap of nine furlongs, from Sedunum and Dulcedo, in 1.52 1-5, a course record. Housemaster was unplaced.

Jrotting MEETINGS TO COME. May 28.—Canterbury Park. May 28.— Cambridge. ‘ June 4,6,— Wanganui. June 6, B—Auckland. Champion Stakes: After the declaration of second forfeits, 55 three-year-olds remain in the New' Zealand Champion Stakes, of £750, one mile and a-half, to be run by the Ashburton Trotting Club. C. S. Donald with eight, has the most representatives of any one owner. Berry’s Successes: In many ways, the Yaldhurst mentor, R. B. Berry, has 1 had a remarkable season. His l team of pacers and trotters has won £12,682 in stakes, and it can be said that if the prizes had been as big as they were in 1924 his horses would have earned nearly twice that amount. Since August, last. Berry Ims ridden home at the head of the fields in twelve of the biggest races on the trotting calendar. Included in these are the New Zealand Trotting Cup, National Cup. and two heats at the jnter-Doniinion championship, by Lucky Jack: the New Zealand Champion Stakes, Great Northern Derby, and New Zealand Futurity Stakes, which were won by Horsepower; and the New Zealand Trotting Stakes, by Paying Guest.