£10,000 SEASON

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21933, 30 January 1946, Page 6

£IO,OOO SEASON

G. SOUVENIR’S WINS RECORD MAY PERSIST DESERT GOLD ECLIPSED If Golden Souvenir did not race again this season, he would still have rolled up a record for the year that may be a long time unbeaten. Racing records sometimes stand for many, years, and others go by the board season after season, but £10.145 is a lot of money to win in stakes in New Zealand in the short half of the season, and it will take a great horse to eclipse that performance on the part of Golden Souvenir. The Gisborne-owned horse brought his stake earnings to the £IO,OOO-plus mark when he finished second to Irish Note in the Trentham Stakes on Saturday. There was only a neck between him and the long end of a £ISOO purse on that race, and it may be said that with a bit of luck Golden Souvenir might also have won the Auckland Cup, and added another £2OOO to his winnings. However, the figure as it stands is well ahead of the next best recorded, which was Desert Gold’s £8350 in the 1915-16 season.

Irish Note is Riccarton-trained, as is Golden Souvenir, and these two won £6310 between them at the Trentham meeting—not far short of one-quarter of the whole sum offered in stakes.

Other wins of Riccarton-trained horses brought the aggregate for stables located there to £12.015. Wellington horses had a good meeting. and with six races won and 12 minor placings awarded they aggregated £5295 in stakes, while horses trained at Awapuni carried off an aggregate of £3040.