NOTES AND NEWS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11835, 17 January 1933, Page 6

NOTES AND NEWS

The All Rod mare, Ayah, darn of that, brilliant two-year-old Inferno, and the Perth Avinner in record time, Jemidar, is represented at the Trcntham yearTihg sales by a natty filly sired by Hunting Song, who also sired that gfcat colt Pink Coat Avhen ■similarly mated. Tins Tilly, like Argentic, wa s bred in Canterbury by Air S. Higgs.

The Auckland Racing Club has fdvmd it' necessary, or at any rate deemed it prudent, to make some fairly, substantial reductions in the prize-money schedules tor this season’s autumn and winter meetings. As compared with last season, the total come-down for the Easter meeting is £I9OO the Oaks and Leger being each reduced by £2OO, the Champagne Stakes by £l5O, the Easter Handicap (to which no sweep’stake iwill he at. itached)'by £IOO, and the Autumn Handicap by £SO. Similarly for the winter meeting, the total reduction.is £SOO, the Great Northern. Hurdle Race is down' by £IOO and each.of the principal flat events and th e Winter Steeplechase by £SO each, hut the Great Northern Steeplechase still staiids £IOOO.

The Wellington, Stakes looks the best, of good thingk for Diatomous. The two-year.old son of Diacquenod is possessed of a-torrent, of speed .and there have been few faster horses out of the. barrier than he.. The AVellington] Stakes extends" to only five. furlongs, and-if in the same form as when he raced at Auckland this month, Diatomous should be first out and first home.

Jaloux and-Azalea-.are- in, such good racing condition, that P. V. Mason has not asked, them t-o'do much since they returned " from EUersli'o. ■ They are to'run' at Trentham. When - Compris created a Now Zealand and Australian record (2min 29sec) for . a mile and a half in. the Wellington Cup last year he heat Jaloux by only a- head. Jaloux carried 7st • 81b on. that occasion, and ho has 7st lllb this. time: He will be ridden/by",Q. Humphries.

.T. Lindsay lias completed arrangements for racing Juniper and rEupa'tqr at Tronthrini. Juniper' has two engagements on the first day, but it; is intended to start'him in the Wbllilig-,-ton- Cup. This 'is a much - stronger field than any he has yet encountered but his AVaikouaiti Clip success - has encouraged liis connections 10 t.rv him over a longer journey. He is in good fettle at present.

A. E. Ellis will ride Shatter and Cricket Bat on the first day at Trentham. A. 11. East wood will have the mount on Fracas, Drumfire, Rocket and Zcebrngge. C. H. Humphries will he on AVise Choice and Idolize. J. AV. Jenkins will ride Niggerhcad and Counterplay if the latter runs in the Fitzherbert Handicap. Should Counterplay run in the AVellington Stakes A. Russell will have the mount and this apprentice is also to ride Juniper, Shelter and either Argentic or Eupntor in the Apprentices’ Plate. 11. Turner is to ride Nightgunrd.

The two-year-old Counterplay, has two engagements on. the -opening day at Trentham and his recent form will cause some interest to- he falcon in his appearance against strong opposition. J. AV. Jennings will ride him if he is started in the Fitzherbert Handicap, hut, he may take on the cracks in the AVellington Stakes, in which case A. Rn.pssell will have the mount. » • » Another instance- of what-imglit have-beens of the Turf was supplied iwhen Lord. As tor’s Mannamead won a .-£2OO race at Manchester recently. A year ago Mannamead retired, into win. ter quarters, having won the only three races in which he had taken part-. Ifb was bracketed with Orweß ns the most brilliant two-year-old of the /season, and named 1 ns the likely Derby winner of 1932. Last spring tbe racing world was surprised by the news that Mannamead was Suffering from leg trouble. 'Later be was scratched from tbe Derby, and be did •no.tf run for the St. Leger. He bad not seen a racecourse for 13 months until bis appearance at Manchester. He had only two opponents, but bo won bis race in such effortless style that all the experts agreed that here was a great horse. Lord As tor has never won a Derby, and the mishap to Alannamead must he regarded as one of the 1 cruellest strokes of ill fortune he has experienced in the Epsom classic.

A yearling parade at Trentham during the week-end commenced with two excellent colts bred by the former prominent, racing man. Air A. B. Williams, of Gisborne, who’se yearlings are reared at the Hororafia Stud ni North Canterbury. Lot 1, a. chestnut colt, by the champion, sire, Chief Ruler shows all the great, early development, for which, the best- of tiffs sire’s stock are noted. This colt is a beautiful type and a grand walker. His darn has produced already those great- co ts Cylinder, u'ho Avon the Derby and defeated Night.march under w.f.a. conditions in the Stead, Gold Cnp, and the A.J.C. winner, Cypress Avho unfortunately, broke a. leg before Ins rca merit as a galloper had been demon strated. Cvre-ne, the dam, is bv Hi - same sire, CS'lgad, as the great Australian champion. Heroic, and is lioui the same family as that higi-cass three-voar-old, Orpen, who was second in the English Derby, cdo Auo hei cood colt in this, draft that lias both speed and stamina, in his pedigree ill bar yearling by Pbnr Lap’s Bir , Night Raid, and from the benutifoUy hred English mare, Sweet, Chanty.