SPORTING

Grey River Argus, 24 April 1931, Page 3

SPORTING

RACING FIXTURES. (April 30, May 2—Whangarei R.C. April 30, May 2—Nelson J.C. May 2—Marton J.C. May 2—Amberley R.C. May 6, 7—Egmont R.C. May 9 —Franklin R.C. May 8, 9—Marlborough R.C. May 13. 14—Southland R.C. May 14, 16—Wanganui .J.C. May 22, 23—Masterton R.C’. (May 23—Ashburton C’ty R.C. >May 23. 25—Te Kuiti R.C. TROTTING. May I—Nelson T.C. Autumn. Mav. 2—Cambridge T.C. Annual. May 7, 9—Forbury Park T.C. Winter. May 13, 14—Southland R.C. Winter (one trot first day. two second). May 16—Waikato T.C. Autumn. SOUTH CANTERBURY MEETING. TIMARU, April 23. j The autumn meeting of the South Canterbury Jockey Club was held to- • day in fine weather, with a good attendance. The totalisator took £1*1,187, ’compared with £7900 on the correspondiing day of last year. Results:— Tckapo Hurdles.— 1 Troihis (G. Salt) 1, 4 Perl De Leon (D. Connor) 2, 8 ißarington (N. Trillo) 3. Also started: 3 Pangolin, 5 Oriflamb and After Ten bracketed. 2 Huntley. 7 Synonym, .6 Aladdin. Won by three lengths; a ’head. Time 2.43 1-5. Electric Stages.— 2 Ilkley (L. J. ElHis) 1. 1 Arrow Maid (J. Jennings) 2, 16 Tippling (Cooper) 3. Also started: *4 Seagrave, 13 Bronze Wood, 5 Coroner. 15 Flaxbird, 9 Golden Note, 14 Miss .Warbler. 16 Monoxsol, 10 Rastus, 12 I Royal Sceptre, 7 Silver Salver. 8 Tea 1 Urn, 11 Teresa, 3 Whatnot. Won by two lengths ;three lengths. Time 1.1 ; Ot : pua Trot.— 4 Lord Antrim (M. Holmes) 1,2 Bracken (I). Warren) 2, 3 Royal Parade (AL B. Edwards) 3. |Also started: 13 Copper Noh and Evening Sun bracketed, ’ Gold Spear, 4 Gt ent Antrim bracketed with winner. 6 Eire Logan. 7 Matchless Bingen, 1 I Prince Wrack,. 8 Black Watch, 10 EifelJton Lass, 9 Linella, 11 Great D’Oro, ,12 l’ront<« Bingen. Won by half a length; one length. Times 3.30 3-5, 3.30 4-5, 3.31 U 5.

Tesehinak'r Handicap.— 2 Compris (R. Coveney) 1, 5 Night Effort (A. H. Eastwood) 2. 1 Inevitable (L. J. Ellis) *3. Also started. — 4 Black Duke, 8 -Town Major. 8 Sharpshooter, 3 Mount Bea, 7 Red Racer, 6 (Urn Rowan. Won by a head; half a length. Time 2.5 1-5. Rose will Handicap.— J Royal Love (A. Eastwood) 1. 2 Punelvstowu (R. Coveney) 2. 6 Felony (N. J. Dwyer) 3. ‘Alsu started.—4 Night Parade, 8 Carinthia, 7 Pharoah. 3 King Musket, 5 Taragona. Won by *a head; three lengths. Time 2.7 1-5. Gladstone Trot.— 9 Matchmaker (.1. Bryce) 1, 6 Pronto Bingen (R. Butt tfield) 2. 1 Compromise (J. Bryce jun.) 3. Also started.— Alpha Wrack and Scot tv Bingen 1 > rack e ted. 16 Black Watch, 2 Blue Glen, 12 Dice, 15 Free Logan. 11 Linella. 5 L ; ly Bingen, 3 Lord Antrm, 7 Needles, 14 Schoolmate, 8 Erin’s Advance 13 Ulni, 10 Jessie Huon, 17 King Abdallah. Won by a> neck; half a length. Times: 2.51 25, 2.51 3-5, 2.51 4-5. Smithfield Hack. — 6 Tippling (N. .1. Dwyer; 1, 8 llkloy (W. McEwan) 2, 9 R,’d Royal (.1. Dooley) 3. Also started: 2 Hot Tea, 1 Bonrose. 7 Winsome Maid, 5 Night Recital, 10 Valuator, 3 Crash, 4 Ozon • 13 Last Mark, 11 Dukla, 12 1 Teresa. Heads each way. Time 1.12 (Doncaster Handicap.—< 1 Milaster Anomaly (L. J. Ellis) 1,2 Rin Tin Tin (A. Didham) 2, 3 First Raid (J. Jennings) 3. Also started: 4 Waving Corn. 7 Ranelagh, 8 Highcourt. 5 Rascal. 6 Adelphi. Won by a length; three lengths. Time 1.12 3-5. RACING. Acceptances for all events of the Nelson Jockey Club and the Nelson 1 Trotting Club close to-night. Friday, 24th April, at 8 o’clock. Horse owners please note. The Hymestra gelding Hynanna, who has been spelling at Mastrrton, lias joined W. Hawthorne’s active team at Trcntham. It is intended to put him to the jumping game.

1 'Die t h rt*’-year-old colt Autopay. who has been rac’ng since the beginning of the flat racing season, has put up a wonderfully consistent record. In his two-year-old season he had 12 races, and was twice fi’st, twic • secon l, and twice third, for £420 in stake's. This season he has raced 19 times. He star 1 ed with a. win, and altogether was past the post first six limes, includ’ng the (’.J.C. Stewards’ Handicap, the Wellington City Handicap, th’ .1, M. .lohnston Memorial, and the C.J.C. Templeton Handicap. He was also four times second, and three times third. Altogether Autopay has won £2420. winning ex-

(actly £2OOO this season. He is now to be given a spell. i Two days’ racing at Avondale and a (long trabi trip left Lady Quex looking very light when she saddled up for the Hawke’s Bay Stakes last Saturday. IShe was never going like a winner, though sho ran a very creditable race. Jjady Quex will now be treated to a • well-earned spell. i The hurdlers that raced at Treutham lasi, Saturday were nut a particularly : promising lot. ami only a few of them at th” most are likely to rise to anything better than just mediocre class. Bilkbeck was easily the best, but Ca’lamart, Hymgreat, Tunbridge, Princess (Elizabeth, Spearopa, and Ex Dono may w'n races during the winter. i Birkbeck is a seven-year-old brown gelding by Birkdale (a son of Birkeuj head) from the Martello mare Fother- • ingav Castle. He learned to jump with I the hunters in Hawke’s Bay. and he did not app- ar under racing colours till he was five years old. since when he has confined his attention wholly to the fencing game, both steeples and hurIdies. Few jumpers are made this way ! now, and it will be more than inter (•sting to follow his career this winter. If Saturday’s showing was a real earn|est of his possibilities ,hc is going to play a prominent part in the coming big I ap'iig contests. Mr John Donald, of the Westmere J Stud, has sold the stallion Diacquenod to the‘Rand wick trainer. W. Booth, and the horse was shipped by the Ulimaroa last Saturday.

On the final day of the Randwick meeting A. R-ed was fined £1 for failing to do a preliminary on First Acre. A report from Sydney states that the Takanini trainer, j. T. Jamieson, in addition to purchasing three colts for himself at the Sydney sales, also purchased a brown coit by Brazen from Roseberiij by Bernard, for Mr D. J. Davis, ot Sydney. Mr Davis is well known to New Zealand through his connection with the champion Phar Lap. The son of Bronze Eagle’s sire, Brazen, is to be. trained in New Zealand by Jamieson.

' 'A.This colt is from a good family. | dam, Rosebern, is a half sister to £<>ur other winners, including Picardy,/winner of the V.R..C. Summer Flemington Stakes, and to Wishing Cup, a good performer that was narrowly defeated jin the Australian Cup ,two miles and a j quarter. Another good performer, that ‘claims close relationship to Mr Davis’s colt is Sunburst, who won the V.R.C. Newmarket Handicap, and also scored at w.f.a. Callamarf is an improving hurdler, and he may be good with more experience. He is stoutly bred, being by imported Callaghan from a Martian mare, ami he should stay, though it is ’questionable if he will successfully carry the biggest weights. v • Hymgreat is no newcomer to the jumping business, but he has not been I remarkably successful. He jumps s3|tcily and has a fair turn of speed without I being brilliant. Waterline contracted influneza when at Randwick, and will be treated f . to a long spell. It developed after h’s race fin the Doncaster Handicap, and was no doubt responsible for his disappointing display. I Quarterdeck .which broke down after {the big race on the first day of the Greymouth meeting, has been lame since 'returning to Riccarton, and her owner IMr R. Adamson, has decided to retire |the eleven-year-old to the stud. Being by Panmure of Autumnus from Sailor’s Hope, she is a half sister to the brilliant I Waterline ,and has thus every credeu•tial to prove a successful matron.

CITY AND SUBURBAN. LONDON, April 22. The City and Suburban Handicap resulted:— ANTHURIUM 1 THE PEN :2 CABALLERO » 3 Seventeen started. Won by three lengths: a length. A.J.C. STAKES REDUCED. SYDNEY, April 23. The Australia:) Jockey Club a>nounced that it has decided on a re-ducti'-n of the prize money, as the receipts from all quarter# had fallen oft considerably. The following arc* the piincipal cuts; —Epsom, reduced |’rom £3OOO to £2000; Metropolitan £6OOO to £3500; Breeders’ Plate, £l5OO- 'to £1000; Gimcrack Stakes, £lsoo' to £1000; December Stakes, £2OOO to. £1500; Derby, £BOOO to £5000; Knox Stakes, £l5OO to. £1000; St. Lege?, £2OOO to £1500; Sires’ Produce Stakes, £5OOO to £3000; C’ham])a'gne Stakes, £3OOO to £2OOO.