TURF

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 11355, 15 June 1931, Page 6

TURF

RACING FIXTURES. Juno 15—Waikato RCJune 19, 20— Hawke s Bay J O. June 20-South Canterbury;JL/June 23 —Egmont-AV anganm H.C.* June 26,. 27—Napier Park R.O. June 27— Ashburton County R.O. RACES AT TF. RAP A. ST\R COMET WINS BIG STEEPLES. (Press Association.) HAMILTON, Juno 13. Tbo Waikato winter mooting was bold in boisterous weather. I bore was a fair attendance. ’Hie course was bolding. „ ■ Fairfield Handicap—o U j'™ 1 fSninks) 1, 3 Snow Lap; (Gray) 1 Woo Prince (Ellis) 3. Also ran: •> Kinrr’s Archer. 7 Fraser, o Diamond Maul, 10 Trarbridge 6 Rang. Kin", 4 All Soult. 8 Golden Cross, 12 Book Law, 11 Bonny Play Uon by one and a half lengths and two lengths. Time, 1.20 1-5. Alaiden .Steeplechase.-—6 Domestic Trouble (P. M. 3 Snow Prince (Spinks) 2, - Branson (R. EThomson) 3. Also rap.: 1 West broke •> Wbakamn, 5 Depredate, 4 Nas'one. Won by jour lengths and a furlong. 'l’ime, 5.4/. Winter Handicap.—2 -Little Doubt (R.-E. Thompson) 1. .1 Maud la si (Mcßae) 2, 3 Luc-ky Alice (i.lhs) 3Also ran: 4 Antique, 5 Xnssoc-c Won by two and a halt , lengths and tlirec 'lengths. Time, 2.17. • Open Hurdles.—f Monetize (McRae)! 1,2 Antrim Roy (Mackie) 2, j Lucoss (Foster) 3. Also ran: 3 Sn Russell. Won bv a neck and foui lengths. . Time, 2.28 2-5. 'Waikato Steeplechase. —1 wtai Comet. (Ronnie) 1, 3 CopeV (1 no ker) 2, 5 Alatn . (Mackie) 3. Alsc ran- 2 Spalpiko, 4 St. Warngnl, i Slump. Won bv four lengths anc seven lengths, dime, 6.23. Hiving Handicap.—-! King 4'ore (Keesing) 1, 3 Ruffles (Gray) 2, ( Xingfield (Mcßae) 3. Also ran: c Pnddon, 2 Flying Princess, 4 Prince of Orange, 7 Peknraurau. AN on bj four lengtas and a neck. Time, 1.2: 2-5. ■ ” -Whitiora ‘Handicap—7 Valueless (Goldfinch) 1, 5 L’Allegro (ElHs) - 4 'Uollv Holm (Mclnaily) 3. Alsi ran: I‘Steady Fire, 0 Derry Doll, c Bronze Trav,' 2 Rose Lupin. Woi by a length and three lengths. Time 1.35 4-5. The totp handled £7838 10s. A.J.C. r,URKAFORAI~AYINS STEEPLES. (U P.A. by Elec. Tel. Cepyriglit.) (Received June 14, 5.5 p.m.) SVDNEV, June 14. The "winter meeting of the Australian Jockey Club concluded m splendid weather. Second Hurdle Race. - Drnke, 11*~ (Cutlor) 1 : Sir Carillon, 9.2 (Zelly) 2: Elen joy, 9.2 (Delaney) 3. Sever. Started. Won by three and a ha 1 lengths and ten lengths. Time, 3.42 1< Ivin" Handicap—Green Sea, V.c (.Tones) 1 ; Auda (N.Z.) 7.12 (Pf* 1 / 2 • Eu Id a re, 8.9 (Simpson) d. Kiev en. started,, including Gay Ballerina. Won by a neck each way. Time. '' Australian Jockey Club Steeplechase.- Burrafonn, 10.11 (Hynes) 1; Indicate, 10.13 . (Zeally) 2; Kinross, 10 7 (Giles) 3. Eight started, including Home Alade. Prince Arim fel. at the first' fence. Indicate led almost throughout, with Kinross, Burr.'iform, SB General and Grosvenoi as its nearest attendants, Home Mado being tailed off. Turning foi home, Indicate ran ’wide, and lost ground. Finishing fast, Burraiorm slipped through and won an exciting race by three-quarters of a length, with Kinross ten lengths away third Time, 6.32.

AUCKLAND TROTS

FIR,ST DAY’S ACCEPTANCES

(Press Association.")

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The following acceptances have been received for the first day of the Auckland Trotting Club’s winter meeting, to be held on June 20 and

Winter Handicap (trotters, of 175 sovs. Two miles. Limit, I.ss—Carl Mack, Colonel Thorpe, Kind’s Guard, Mokanna. Win lluon, Zanzibar limit, Blue and Gold 21yds. behind, Appeal .10, Great C.lee, Valloden 81, Sir. Voyage, Bio .Grande 108. ■’Mangero Handicap, of 175 sovs- One mile and a half. Limit. 1.20. —Bessie Dillon, Carntii, Dad’s Hope. Denver City, High Seas. Hohoro. Lady Vyonne. Pandr Pointer limit,. June Nordi'ca 12yds. behind, Daytime, Imprompto, Nett a Oro 21, First Flight 10. Grand Canyon, Sunchiid IS. Mark Memorial, of 500 sovs. Two miles. Limit, 4.31 —Cyone, Pdlon Logan, Gold Treasure, Satin King limit,' Milo Min'to 12.vds behind, Glenrossie.- Neeoro 21. Florent, Re. rerani 36, The Abbey, Erin’s Fortune Mountain Dell , IS. Jewel Pointer 60.

Stewards' Handicap (trotters), of 250' sovs; Two miles'. Limit, 4.10 Etta Cole, White Satin limit, Gold Sovereign, .fock. Bingen 12yds behind Kolnier 21. Writer 81, Native Star 00. - . :.

.Cornwall Handicap, of 250 sovs. One mile. Limit., 2.ll—Benefice, Nella Dillon, • Tenedos, Tumatakura limit. All (Bell, - Cyone. Dillon Logan, Hal Chimes. Happy Land; Joy Bird, Milo Mjnto. Satin King, Te Wahia ]2yds. behind, Genuine, .Great Ballin, Trustworthy 21,. Mountain Dell 36, Stan moor 48.

Hobson Handicap, of 225 sovs. Two miles- Limit,. 4.40 Bessie Dillon. Concertina, Dan, Direct. Denver City limit, Peter Pirate ■ 2-lyds. behind. First Flight, Explosion 36, Xgingongingo .48, Auto Machine 72, Golden Pedro 81. 1 .Marconi Handicap, of 225 govs. One mile add a quarter. Limit', 2.s2.—Denver City, High Sea; Juno Nordjca, Pavlova, *. Sandy Pointer, Student Princie, Van Newton limit, Little Guy Master 1 Huia, Netta Oro, Goldman 12yds’behind,'Purser 21, Grand Canyon, Simchild -36, Hal Chimes 4b.

WAIKATO ACOEPTASCES

. t (Press Association.)- • , . .. HAMILTON, June 14. ; Maiden. -Hurdles;—Nassoek 10.2, Coolmiht 9.13, Unbco 9.3, Production, Palmares; Nassona 9.0. .Maiden jPlate.—King’s Archer, Wee Prince 9.11, - Snow Lap 9.0, RangiyKihg,'AlL Soult. Ruby, Meteor, Illuritinelli, Book Law 9.0. • Victoria '‘ Hurdles.—Antrim Boy 11.7 Monetize 5.13. , Steeplechase—Star Comet .11.4, Spalpiko 10.8, St, Warrigal 10.5, Copey . 10.2, Pendavies 6.H, Lupin Abbey, Snow, Prince 9.0. " Hillside Handicap.—Valroe 10.0, Little Doubt’ . 9,11, : Paddon 9.10, Ruffles 9.7.' Lucky Alice. "9.s, Flying p ; rinoo. Prince of Orange, Te To» p f l, Trisbiia 9,0.

Suburban KarfcSioapu—-Lucky- Alice 10.6. Gay Lap 9.12, Kingfield 9.4, Tradesman, Bronze Troy, Rekaurau 9.0. i Te Palm Handicap.—Steady Fire Valueless 10.1, Valmarie :10.0, First Lap 9.13. Derry ' Belle, L’Allegro 9.9, Snow Prince 9.7, Rose Lupin 9.7, Bronze Tray, Hollyliolm. 9,6; Wild Country; Alii Soult 9.0. EARLIEST . RACING HISTORY. ) NEW ZEALAND; TURN. ; • THOROUGHBRED IMPORTS, BY , PIONEERS. , New Zealand racing is accorded vent generous recognition in “Racing at Home and Abroad/’ a- delightfully written and exquisitely illustrated volume edited by Air. Charles • Richardson, and lately issued from Cecil House for publication in America and " the Mother Country .(writes, “S.S.”; in the “Christchurch Times’.’).. The New Zealand section of this unique work was entrusted to a- local journalist, a prolific-writer as well as acquainted with sport as with .many, other branches .of his occupation. ..Some fragments,, from" his contribution to tiiis do luxe production may ho ol interest to others than ardent followers, of the sport , that Mr. Richardson .has, featured with so much success. ,

•‘No other outpost of the British Empire,” says the local con tribute: to this work,, “has' assimilated, life manners, the .customs, the traditions, the ambitions’,.. the sports , and the pastime of the' Mother Country more gladly or more thoroughly than has New Zealand. It is; loss than .100 years ago that these,- -fruitful, sun-kissed islands lying ‘at the other end of the world’ were ceded by the Native people to the British : Crown to become oiip of the brightest mid most, enduring emblems that stand for national unity and endurance.

WORK OF THE WHALERS. “Long before this historic happening, however, whalers from England, from Northern Europe-and from Hie. United Stales of America, coming and going, • I had sheltered- and reequipped in one or other of the many coves and inlets lying along, . the coast. Oil and whalebone, not settlement, were the quest of these hardy adventurers. Though, they may have done little towards promoting the welfare of the. Native race, thev assisted materially in keeping alive a national . interest in Cook’s discoveries of three or four decades before, and some conception of their potentialities. “The missionaries otliciallv assumed their share of the arduous task of subduing this picturesque wilderness in 1815, and. thus became one of the factors which ultimately brought the European and the Maori, nominally at, first.,. but long since in amity and mutual regard, under the rule of the British Crown, it was in the later thirties and early forties, mainly prompted .by tlnactivities of the New Zealand Company, a body promoted by Edward Gibbon "Wakefield and sponsored by big political figures of the day, that young men of parts and station, accompanied by mechanics and workers of sill descriptions, began to make their way in increasing numbers in the 'Promised Land’ in the Ear Pacific. -On this foundation oi enterprise, courage and ambition the colony of New Zealand was raised, freed" from the prejudices of the past, cheered by the prospects of the present and sure of the future, a piece of the Old Country proud to make its own place in the history of the world.” ARRIVAL OF THE HORSES. So far there is no mention of horses in this interesting story and it remains necessary to quote another passage to tell of their arrival.

‘'Before immigration of this kind l>egan to descend upon New Zealand there were no horses in the country.” the author tells his readers. “Tho only quadrupeds known to the Natives 'were pigs, the progeny of stock left behind by Captain Cook during his voyages along the coast, and rats of a diminutive quality that may have been acclimatised from a similar source. The Maoris’ methods of transport, were hy water and by foot, by both of which means in resource and endurance they excelled the. average European. Horses had been brought to Australia much earlier. There is mention in that [delightful 'publication ‘Horses in Australia’ of racing at Parramata (New South Wales) in 1810 when the ‘celebrated horse Pnramnta’ beat ‘the bay horsp. Belfast,’ and the famous mare Miss Betty won a trotting race ‘in a style scarcely to be surpassed by .some of the first, trotters in England.’ At this time the systematic settlement, of New Zealand by Europeans was contemplated by none of the nations concerned. 'Thirty years later so high an authority 'as William Ewart Gladstone was protesting against Mr Wakefield’s proposal to send emigrants to the Antipodes from England. That, 'it is scarcely necessary to .say, was in the early days when Macaulay described the budding orator as ‘the rising hope of the •stern and unbidding Tories.’ SPORT IN AUSTRALIA. “In Australia, howc.ver, set Hemen t bad made considerable -progress by the end of the first decade of last ‘ century, particularly in that part of the island (continent, now known as* New South Wales; the military element, associated with a . growing community of squatters, the pioneers of grazing pursuits on the great open spaces of ,Iho new land,- saw to it that the traditional sports and pastimes of. their race were not neglected under tho Southern Cross. Horses of a hardy typo had been imported from Cape-Col-ony, from India land from South America, and with a climate, for the most .part, adapted, to their needs they multiplied amazingly in tho course of a few years. This, however, is ..Australian history, with which the summary has nothing to do;, but as - the present . Commonwealth in its childhood was importing thoroughbred horses - as long ago as 179C>,. and . .between -that year and 1338 acquired between forty and fifty blood stallions from the .Mother Country, it -is. necessary to indL cate from whence New Zealand first satisfied' its needs ..and gratified .its inclination in this' respect.”. Beyond this, one must not venture upon the contents of a most imposing (and. interesting book which eclipses all publications of. the, kind, previously .submitted to the public and does infinite credit to. its. editor, and to his" army 01 assistants.

NOTES. AND NEWS. Hava spot's Casula .Handicap success at Warwick Farm cn May (says a Sydney writer) was something of a , celebration. It constituted the first, win. for the owner, Mr. D. G. Fraser, a recent addition to the ranks of paddock bookmakers, as a racehorse owner iu the Commonwealth. It also gavo - Gloaming's old-time rider, George Young, bis first winner as a trainer, and at hfs first attempt. The victory had * real New Zealand flavour, for Jlavaspot has, done most of his racing in tf)o Dominion. Fr as er and Young

hail from, across the Tasman. M. McCarten, the rider, is also a. New Zealander. Havaspot, despite having'drawn No. 15, at the barrier,jwas backed- down to equal favoritism With Tortoni. Ho began very smartly and was soon up in third place. Ho-appeared to have the race won at the turn, where Tortoni was challenging,' hut the latter went wide on to. the better ground, Tortoni caino again, and so did Celtic,-hut Havaspot hung tenaciously to his advantage, to win by a nock. Young was confident of his charge’s' success. .He stated, that ho know what was necessary to-win, and even if Havaspot had. little to spare, his - judgment was - vindicated. • Nothing succeeds like success, so possibly he will receive further opportunities.

Conditions" of a race may set forth that the winner of a certain amount is to carry a penalty, but if the owner’s share, (consequent, on Ins horse running a. deadbeat, falls considerably short of the snecitkxl sum, it does not seem right that the hnrsp should he penalised ns ii it had won the stipulated amount, 'Hie A.J.C. ruling, which created a precedent a couplo of years ago, makes a dead-heat winner equivalent to a sole winner, notwithstanding the fact that the owner’s share of the stake falls short of the specified sum. This question cropped up m Brisbane recently and the A lick land Turf Club took the view that a dead-heater, for penalty purposes, should be credited only with the actuni amount won by- him. This is a commonsensc ruling. ■ Last year the English Jockey Club altered its penalty rule to road ns follows: “In the case of a dead-heat for first place, account shall he taken only of the amount which the horse lias gained for its owner or any other person. ... If in the conditions of a race a fixed penalty has to l>q carried for a winning race specified by name, the horses running a deadbeat for • such race .shall carry the penalty fixed ns if the race had been won outright.” The New Zealand rules say: “In calculating penalties the value of a race shall be the amount actually payable to the winner (inclusive of the value of any trophy or other prize not in money)'*. This would appear to cover a deadheat, hut seeing that the (revised and tabulated rules are now in oireulation and ate to come up for consideration by the Conference next month it might he just as well to insert a provision definitely touching upon a dead-heat.