Sir Garnish Gains Favour For The Dunedin Cup

Greymouth Evening Star, 24 February 1948, Page 7

Sir Garnish Gains Favour For The Dunedin Cup

Sir Garnish enhanced his reputation and increased the number of his admirers for the Dunedin Centennial Cup, when he won the Waikaka Handicap at Gore on Saturday so convincingly. He ran out the mile and a half in the manner of a genuine stayer and his performance was by far the most impressive that the Dunedin Cup candidates produced during the day. . Sir Garnish is trained by !.,£• Panckhurst at Invercargill and this stable also has the Wellington Cup (winner, Spare Part engaged. Sir Garnish is regarded in the south as not the least of Panckhurst’s team and there are many who consider he is better than Spare Part. C. M. Cas - sidy, who was associated with Sir Garnish at Gore will again have the mount on him at Wingatui, and A. E. Didham, one of the best horsemen in the country, will be on Spare Part. A six-year-old brown gelding by an unfashionable sire (Garnish, Sir Garnish inherits some sound staying blood from his dam, Totolomai. A °ood winner, whose successes included the Birthday Handicap at Wingatui, Totolomai was by the Aus-stralian-bred Some Boy II from Morse Signal, the dam of Signal Officer, Doubleack and Trebleack. The Smuggler and Signaller were other well-performed staying members of the same family. Riders At Wingatui

Riccarton riders’ engagements at Wingatui on Thursday include:—C. T. Wilson, Signal Officer, Magnaform; L. J. Ellis, Indian Dawn; C. C. Stokes, Royal Tan, Responsive; A. J. Stokes, Deep Harmony, Detract, Lady Melrose; H. W. Hibberd, Beechwood; R. W. Shaw, Helio; P. Jones, Excellent Flight; G. G. Hampton, Card Money, Flying Control; M. R. Jones, Thornbridge, Show Boy; K. Thomson, Voltaire. In the Centennial Cup, Kartikeya will be ridden by K. Ford and Authentic by W. D. Skelton.

Reading In California The Australian-bred stallion Reading II has caught the fancy of Californian breeders and his list for the present season filled rapidly at 1000 dollars a service. Known as Reading when racing in Australia, the bay son of Marconigram was the outstanding three-year-old of his year, among his wins being the A.J.C. and Victoria Derbies and both St Legers. A magnificent individual, he is being given every chance to make a name for himself in his adopted country.

Oustanding Effort The Nizami-Francolin three-year-old filly, Super Flight, put up an outstanding performance to win the Apprentices’ Handicap at Gore oh Sat-

urday and she promises to do excellent service for her owner-breeder, Mr D. M. Tweedie, who has been so highly successful with this fine winning family. Super Flight was slow away on Saturday, but she raced round her field from the back at the home turn, and then came away for the easiest of wins—three lengths to the second horse, Waicoe, and Super Flight not off the bit. Passed in at Auction

Bronze Pay, the winner of the Whatawhata Hack Handicap, at the Waikato Racing Club’s meeting on Saturday, was passed in at auction the previous day at 700gns. He is a five-year-old gelding by Autopay from Bronzette, by Bronze Eagle from Whitinaga, by Abound from Black Watch, and is related to that fine sprinter, Royal Scot, whose dam, Highland Queen, is a half-sister to Bronzette. Bronze Pay is raced by the Matamata trainer, G. Cobb, and has had four wins, a second, three thirds and three fourths in 15 starts this season and is now out of hack company. Hazlett’s Loss

The Hazlett stable had the bad luck to lose the services of French Knight, who had to be destroyed last week. He was a five-year-old brother to a Grand National Steeplechase winner in Anglo-French, and won tw’ice oVer the Wingatui country last season. Maxee Sold

Maxee, a gelding by Maxegjn— Lady Bunker, by Guy Parrish-Bes-sie Bingen, has been purchased by W. J. Doyle, of Leeston. Maxee is a solid trotter and in Doyle’s hands he may improve considerably on his record.

Westport J.C. Nominations for the Westpoi t Jockey Club’s meeting close at 9 o’clock this evening. ASSAULT RETIRED NEW YORK, February 22. Assault, “the club-footed Comet,” a champion believed unique among racehorses in that he had a crippled foot, has been retired from the turf, following the discovery that he damaged a growth on the fetlock joint in the Widener Handicap on Saturday, in which he ran fifth. Assault’s career nearly ended in 1943, when he stepped on a surveyor’s stake which drove into his off forefoot. This caused a permanent injury, which made it necesary for him to wean a specially-made built-up shoe. In spite of this malformation, he went on to increase his earnings to 626,620 dollars, making him the third greatest money-winner in the world. Forthcoming Fixtures Racina February 26, 28.—Dunedin. February 28.—Egmont. February 28.—Te Aroha. , February 28.—-Rangitikei,