RACING.

Grey River Argus, 16 May 1922, Page 3

RACING.

NEW BRIGHTON TROTTING CLUB. ACCEL'TAXCIX CHRISTCHURCH, May 15. The following acceptances have been First. Amateur Handicap (harness i. of 140 sovs; for unhopph-d trotters. One mile and a-half.—Mushroom scr, Sally Dillon, Helenwood, Pete Peter, Merry Peter, Maori Princess "sec. Earl Derby, Culverdell, Sherry 8, Waiwera, White Lupin 111, Diameter, Housemaid 1-, Cousin Jenny 13, Miss Wood, Wcwner 14, Bungav, Rota Mae, Peter s Pet, Kuseabout, Marine, Golden Lack, Wild Hebe, Freeman, Ruby Lincoln, Paimnm, Red Oak, Gentle Ribbons, Peter Morn, The Lily, Whispering Girl, Kelnian, Wniti 15. Belfast Handicap (harness), of 200 sovs; 3.36 class, line mile and a-half. Cammie scr, Peter King 2, Prince Athol, Progress 4, Lady Wildwood. Cole Drift 5, Huia Bird. Gold Crest 6, Ivy livington, Pedro Pronto 7, Final Leave, Fernmoor, Rein’s Greeting, Maryhill, .Lneigetie, Bing Boy, Waipero, Edith Chimes. Leila Denver, Calmness 8. Burwood Handicap (harness), of 51)0 sovs; 4.36 class. Two miles. —Vice Admiral scr, Onyx, Agathos Lsee, Nancy Stair, Goldstream 2, Bellfashion 3, Loganwood, Emperor, Indra 4, Thixendale. Hayseed, Hannah M.. Sympathy 5. Seavicw Handicap (saddle), of 200 sovs: 4.48 class. Two miles. —Koraki scr, Oaknut 2see, Prinzora 3, Dandy Chimes 4, Prince Burlington, Progress 5, Watchman 6, Olive Iluon 8, Blue Chimes 8, Dillon Shine, Wet Day, Outstep, Applesliaw, Placid 10. Autumn Handicap (harness), of 2.>0 sovs; for unhoppled trotters; 4..>8 class. Two miles.—Rostrevor, The Plumber, Peter McKinney scr. Boil Sooty, Mush room, Nighborn 2, Drifting Spec, Bundaberg, Marble Hall, Sally Dillon 3. Marvolo 4, Two Bells 5, Our Lady 6, Welcome Beta 7, Alangoutu, Sil Wil.lmoor, Lee Norris 8, Proud Adil, Dillon S„ Parole Bells. Bon Elect, Wan delligong, Rose Peters, Dragoon .Lin.. Earl Derby, SI. Quentin 9. Dash Handicap (harness), of 200 sovs; 2.20 class. One mile.—Brown ’s Nugget, B: Ilin, Downeast. Latona 3, Pelm- King, Imperial Fan, Lincoln Hmm 1, Homeleigh Dick, Della 5, Florence la Bodie, Bigamist. Colchester, Albert Wallace, Energetic. Malachy. Petrova, Lady Teddington, Royal Chance 6. Waioni ilandicap (harness), of 230 sovs.—Pool Dnfault. M lehlight scr, l.neanda Dillon 2, Logan Queen 4. Pit area. Master Hal, star Queen, pleasant Mount. Glen Mavis, Lord Lytton, Pelm- Mae, William the First, Irvar, Electric Handicap (saddle), of 200 ~ , - - . , i- ..., One mi’.e, — -I Hen Mavis scr. Lens. William Hie First, Soprano I, Ballin, Biyll Brown 2, Silver Lm-anda, Watchman, Tiranim, Proud Logan 3, Royal Chance, Hiekorywood 4, Florence la Badie, Annie’s Dream, Irish Eves. Nutwood Jun., Proud Elsie, Prince Burlington, Coledrift ■>. WANGANUI RACES. FIRST DAY’S ACCEPTANCES. IIAWERA, May 15. For the Waganui Winter Meeting, the lirst day’s acceptances are as folBorough Handicap, six furlongs.—Rational 1-0.4, Kinsem 9.0, Hipo 8.3, Blackmail 7.12. Miss Gold 8.12, Red 800 7.8, Kilreid 7.8, Birkie 7.6, Demos 7.->, Weldone 6.12, Orchid 6.10, La Paloma Ci.B, Comic 6.7. Hack steeplec.-ihse, I wo miles. —General Haven 11.'.', Kato 11.7, To Main: 11. N'gakanui 11.3, Master Boris 10..'. War Loan 10.6, H.vtus 10.4, The Baronet 5.2, Oakrose 9.0, Dumper 9.0, Lady Lvddite 9.0. Kaitoke Hack Hurdles, one mile and three quarters. — Wamba 11.8. Vagabond U.S, Ladogeur 10.13, Simonides 10.11. Hmitnra 10.6, Mntatua 10.2, Voluble 10.0, Spook 9.10, Etiopian 9.5, Guani form 9.4, Halcyon 8.2, Whizz Bang 9.0. Circulate 9.0, Noble 9.0. Connolly Handicap, one mile and a distance.- Marquette"'- 9.11, Tame Fox 8.9, Printemps 8.6, Punka 8.4, Bonnetter 8.3. Corresi lent 9.0, Maiigamahm 7.!', Scion 7.8. Sunny Corner . .8, I leasanta 7.4. Stork 7.2, Erie i.". Purim Hack Handicap, one mile ami 110 yards.-—Crosslire 9.5, Mort Avis 9.0, Left 8.8, All Cerise .8.5, Ben Nevis 8.3. Marble Crag 8.1, Lady Nassau 8.0, Birkenella 7.13. Martulla 7.13, Tekuri 7.11, Gold Star 7.10, Pantier 7.1 n. Skylight 7.10, Molleen Oge 7.8, Yankee Igoi 7.it Manchester 7.5. Fiddles! rings 7.3, Merrt Queen 7.3. Santiago 7.3, Sweet Song 7.3, Merry Ann 7.". Patroyeii 7.0. Wanganui Steepleealise, about three miles. —Coalition 12.13, Onmhu 10.12. Sturrlee 1".6. First Lin - 1".3, Kohn 10.2, Maniahera 9.12, (■ener.-il Raven 9.8. Sii Solo 9.5, Khartoum 9.10, War Loan 9.0 Century Hurdles, about two miles and a quarter. — Explorer, Gladful 11.7 Gamecock 11.4, Onmhu tn.l2, Alteration 10.7, Wlmnoko 10.1, I'aoniti 10.1. Kyoto Simonides 1'.12, Spook, Guianatorm 9.0 NOTES. George. Y'-'iiig Ims been retained b; M r <; I). Grecnumid to do 11" stable's t iding during tl'« <<imnq sea son. N'ine firsts, five seconds ami si: thirds out of twenty-nine starts 1 Songbird’s record for the present, sell son. His total eturnings equal £l.ool' Purple Spur, the three year old eol by Antagonist—Heatherbrae, ha been sold by Sir George ( uffoid annil) d<. stud duty in the Ch.atlia.m U lands next season. Ho left Jus ol onarters at Kiecarton bed week an is to b<4,shipped to 1 1m’islands. Purpl

Spur xvas a brilliant galloper, but *lke many of bis sire’s stock, he was always more or less unsound. It i.s on the cards that Air It. Acton Adafs’s teain of jumpers may make a. trip io Sydney and Melbourne lor the big w.’uiter fixture. I’cinmy Direct is now an inmate of D. Bennett's stable. The Souininndownetl pacer has some smart performances to his credit, and should pay ! hi.s way .’in this part of the Island. Bota Peter has done well since her enforced retirement, and it is the intention of A. (•. Wilson to put- the dual New Zealand Trotting Cup winner into work after New Brighton. Mr 11. Ellaxvay has sold the pacing mare Dilemma to L. Al. Denton, cjvrner an<| trainer of Dandy Rose. I’op Score, a coining tax o-vonr-old lull-sister to AVinning Hit, lately arrived at Rv-carton from Sir George Clifford's breeding establishment at Stoneyburst. Siu* is shortly to be broken in by the Cutis brothers, the private traiiner to Sir George* Clif- .!. Mvsscrvey has made a< start on the three-year-old filly Logan Pointer from Olive Wood, and sin* is shaping xxi'll in her work xvith the weight up. Sleigh’t-4of-hand has been returned to bis oxvner. All' F. Armstrong, of Akitio. The Mystification, gelding ixas giving signs that he xvonkl not stand training. so it was decided to pension him off. and he will in future be used as a station hack. Kohn, x\ ho has freely nominated for leaping events to take place in the . future, is giving lirst-class exhibitions of jumping on tlie preparing circuits at Hastings. Last season the stock of Absurd placed h’ini in third position on the list (>f succes'-ful stallions for the his sons and daughters having earned stake money a-mounling to C2I,JLn ,\s his gels have this season so far | von prize money in the vicinity ol . 36.(MM) sovs-. it looks a. fair tiling to ; pick the English bred son of -Sunridgo and Absurdity as the likely holder of | tinv top notch position amongst the i victorious stallions xvhen the tally is i made up on 3uly 31. The xxa 11-known Australian horseman | W. H. AL Lachlin, is noxx- on his way - to England, xxhere he intends iolloxving his calling. During Ids 16 years | of rid'htg in Australia, he won 5o() i races, includ'ng 29 cup events. G. Archibald, the rider of St Lon’s in the Txxo Thousand, is an American jo-kox xx ho Ini’S had an advenv.HOUS career. He has piloted many winners in the r.S.A., Austria. Germany and Spam., ruling for the' King ol the lastnamed country. Born neair San I* rancisco. in IS9O, In can go on the scale at 7.12 • .lust before the last mail left I'-'T’S land. H. Gray scorvl his lirst winning ride, of the season in England, steeiin<r .sir G. Beaumont's gelding Thonghth’ss to victory nt the A’ictoria» Spring HainLeap at Lingfield, in which cx'cnt his mount x\a> second faxounte. aind xxoii easily. On the same dax (hay rode Polymagnus into second place in Hie Oxted Selling Plait’’, the wiimor, Powerful, starting labourite ami xx inning easfiA . T’hiee yearlings purchased at tho Randwiek sales were secured on i>eluiir "f till' Giiverniir "f Vietovi", the E:,.r| ~1 Stradbroke. One of tbe yi>u"gsters will, it * s understood, be trained at Aloidialha by J. Holt, while another will join a well-known trainer’s team at Raiid.viea. At the Warrambool races on May 3 the New Zeala.nrf-bred three-year.old False Alarm, a half-brother to Bobrikoff, wa.s runner-up in the I’ritfl Handicap, in which he carried r2st. 31b False Alarm lias not. yel non. a rm-e, though he cost Mr \ . E. MaeDonald over four figures as a yearling. A Sydnev writer says: “Sydney 's i about to become the happy huntniß ; ground of more than one prominent New Zealand owner in the near future. Negotiations are mi foot tilth two prominent trainers to handle the fairly extensive strings of two "1 tin' i Dominion’s wealthy owners. Others ' are sure to fall into liue.’’I After being engaged for Solfancllo in t!i-: Doncaster Handicap, says the “Sydney Releree." Mr •>. was asked to stand down because the trainer ol the horse stated lie bad heal'd alligations to bis discredit. It is understood that as a< solatium Pike was laid £11)90 to nothing in the event of Soll’anello’s smeess. ArtTmtpMi I do not fancy Pike reported the matter, knowledge of it rem-hed the A. .LU. Committee, ajnd Solfnnello's tnnMer. || Telford wins asked lor a.n cxplamiAs was only to l'h expe.-ted, |,u.| nothing whatever to supM'i’t llis mspicions ami the Committee fined him £lO. Unfortunately there " "o too manv owners and trainers only too ready to listen to groumlloss uumm's concerning jockeys. | On the eve of the '-Lincoln.’' says rm English writer .the following stort told by Mr Fairfax- Blnkeborongb the “Live stock Journal,’’ is worth retenimr; A young curate found li'mself . the midst of ». very sporting <"m- --; omnitv ill Yorkshire. Late one KH-tn-day evening a deputation wn.'ted him in ask him to offer prayers mi the following day lor the vend I he congregation wore asked 1" . member her. and for three Snndavs |wa.s the. request repeated. O". H'e fourth Sunday the eteak took the preI caution to inform the curate that it 'was needless Io invite further supplications for Liwv. “Is she quite recovered?” asked the qrlratlc. ‘Tteeovered'.’’ reiterated the clerk. “Sue 'wan, an’ all U parish backed her.’ 1 I),, the first two days at Rnnawiek the. queues nt the issuing and pavO ni windows were of iremomlous

length, and the time taken ini the collection of dividends was occasionally wearisome, and this brought the tolowing from a. Sydney writer:—Although a totalisator advocate, I doubt whether a* departure from the dual system ol betting would bo a.u advantage at Randwick. It appears to me that it would be almost- impossible lor the dub and totalisator people to cope with the whole of the- turnover on a big day. There are over 140 bookmakers operating in the. paddock at Rand wick, and it would be difficult to cram sufficient tote buildings into that enclosure to cover the additional business if betting wore confined to the maehir.v. The well-known trainer R. Wootton, was judge of the blood-stock at the Sydney Show at Raster time. Cetigne, who gained first prijjc, it is stated, has filled out into a fine stallion, and his Grrdtou descent is easily recognised in his powerful frame. Sands of the Orient, the second prizewinner, is bred in the purpio, being by Rock Sand, sire of Tracery, while his grand-dam, Grtegar, was a sister in blood to the great O T monde. The judge was rather hard on. the broodmare class, and said that the animals shown were not worth exhibiting. It is pointed out, however, that owners of valuable brood-mares carrying a. foal a,re not likely to risk mishaps while attending the show, all fcr a ten pound prize*. A little while back Kennaquhair vas commencing to look so well that it was thought another win for bdm was probable. A mishap on the training track disposed of that idea., ami the Turf has seen the last of him. He was a really good horse, and it vas unfortunate for his owners and trainer that he should have been racing at the same time as Poitrel. He von over f 17.0(H). but with Poitrel out of the way b's earnings would have been a few thousands greater. I-T< - deadboated the latter lor one weight-for-age race, but ran second to him in six others. Races won bv Kennaquhair included the Sydney Cup, Metropolitan, Anniversary Handicap, C. B. Fisher Plate. and City Tait’s Cup. He still holds the Australian two miles record of dm 22 : ‘5., and throughout his career’ was trained by M . Stringer. The Smith African sporting writer '‘Vedette” complains of the long delays between races in South Africa, and goes on to say: Tziglish racmg methods are described ms being conservative and old-fashioned, and they may lie, but thev only allow 30 minutes’ intervafl between each race, and a starter who does not have his field lined up at the time appointed fur the race to start, and the horses sent oil within five minutes afterwards :i not so, he has to furnished a. very full ami satisfactory explanation lor the delay. From experience, fair average margin of time would not exceed two minutes. High' prices paid lor i horses arc recalled by the offer C g 10.000 for Boauford, following 1 defeat of Eurvthmie at. .Sydney, '• ,ie offer was refused by Bcnuford's owner, Mr V. 11. Mackay. Beaufort! was s.ngnt lor India, where ther,< are many wealthy patrons of the turf, who are prepared to go to almost any limit. Nightwatch who won the Melbourne Cup of 1918 for Mr T. 1.. Macdonald, went to India as di'd Kndoxus, a.n exceptionally fast sprinter by the same sire as Eurythinic. The Huke ol Portland gave 13,000 guinea's for Carbine in 1895, and the horse was taken to Knglaind. ft was rumoured early tins year that an offer of £20,000 was made for Tlurytlnnie. 1 rafalgar was sold at auction for 7500 guineas in 1916, and Cofedy King changed hands privately at 7300 guineas. The purchased was Mr N. Falkiner, who recently bought David at a figure that has not been disclosed, but which is believed to be about 1000 guiimas. Magpie was sold for 4000 guineas, and it is understood that 6000 guineas was refused for Whiz Baing. Tndxin hitters are believed to have offered between 7000 and 8000 guineas for the New Zealand ehampion Gloaming. 'I he record price lor Australia, for broodmares is 2600 guineas, paid by Mr A. S. ChirnsMe for Brunelle. with Alnwick at foot, at auction. In England and America, the record is £53,000, which was paid for Tracery in 1920. although it is staed that at the normal rate of exchange the sum could be little more than £lO,OOO paid for Prince Palatine and Botafoga, bwoutu America). When Flying Fox reached the end of his racing career in England lie was sold for £39375.