RACING AND TROTTING

Greymouth Evening Star, 6 December 1945, Page 7

RACING AND TROTTING

FORTHCOMING FIXTURES GALLOPING December 8: Woodville. December 8: Waikato. December 8: Canterbury. December 15: Waipa. December 15: Otaki-Maori. December 15: Hororata. December 15: Tapanui. TROTTING December 26: Gore. December 26: Ashburton. December 26: Westport. December 26: Reef ton-Westport. December 27, 29: Auckland. Racing Well: The GreymouthCcmmemorate was interfered with near the five furlongs post in the Middleton Hurdles and then finished on for third. He ran another good race in the Suburban Handicap and will be a light-weight prospect for the Port Cooper Hurdles. Cup Race: Miss Medley has been accepted for in the Canterbury Cup in preference to the Fendalton Handicap. She was finishing on strongly for third in the Metropolitan Handicap, and may again run well, though she will have 191 b more to carry. GREY JOCKEY CLUB. Mr. T. E. Coates presided at a meeting of the Greymouth Jockey Club held in Greymouth, yesterday. Also pj'esent were Messrs AV. Greenhill, A. J. Wilson, C. McKechnie, F. Costello, L. S. Robertson, A. Smith, R. Hall, H. Moore and M. J. Fogarty (Secretary). The following were accepted into membership: J. Troubridge, W. Greenhill Junr., J. Moore, H. L. Cox, A. Marshall, C. E. Russell, H. Cummings, A. S. Reid, R. P. Morphy and G. Eadie. The Secretary was directed to send a letter of sympathy to Mr. C. J. Walsh in the loss of his son. Consideration of a letter concerning portable electric totalisators was deferred. DISTRICT "COMMITTEE. Mr. Coates also presided at a meeting of the District Committee which was also attended by Messrs M. B. James, H. Moore and M. J. Fogarty. The following programmes were approved: Westland Racing Club, January 2at Hokitika, Stakes £1100: Reefton Jockey Club, January 5, stakes £1050; "Westport Jockey Club. February 2 and February 4, stakes £2260. The application by T. I. Smith, "Westport, for a trainer’s license was recommended. An application by C. N. Fox for a jockey’s license was refused. STUD STOCK. LONDON, December 4. Thoroughbred strains would seriously deteriorate if artifical insemination were adopted, said Lord Rosebery, President of the Stockbreeders’ Association, at Newmarket. He added “If bottles of Hyperion-Fairway extract were disseminated throughout the world, the breed would be so inbred in one or two years, it would deteriorate beyond imagination. Everyone who paid for the service of the stallion was entitled to have the particular service for the particular mare.

The Swedish Government paid the highest price at the 'Newmarket bloodstock sales on the second day—--7600 gns for Aga Khan’s Durbhanga, a three-year-old colt by Dastur from Mutaz Begum. Durbhanga will stand in Sweden as a stallion. The aggregate for the day was 127.155gn5., and rhe average 784gns. Other high prices included 6,300gns for a 15-year-old mare, Sister Sarah, by Abbot’s Trace from Sarita, and 5100gns for a nine-year-old mare, Calgary, by Bosworth from California. _ .