THE TURF

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 180, 15 July 1927, Page 2

THE TURF

RACING FIXTURES. June 12, 14, 16— Wellington R.C. July 21— Waimate District Hunt Club Jul? 23—S. Canterbury Hunt Club July 28, 30 Gisborne R.C. July 30- Christchurch Hunt Club August 6—Poverty Bay Hunt Club August 9, 11, 16—Canterbury J.C. August 20—Pakuranga Hunt Club WELLINGTON RACES. Wellington, July 14. For the second day of the Wellington races at Trentham the weather was fine but bitterly cold. The tote handled £39,053, against £16,080 on the corresponding day last year, a decrease of £7627. As a result of an enquiry into the running of the Parliamentary Handicap, S. Henderson, rider of Master Doon, was suspended for th© remainder of the season. On an inquiry into the running or the concluding event on the opening day, a charge against R. S. Bagby of interference in the concluding stages of the race was dismissed, but Bagby was warned not to overlook the consequences of careless riding. Late details of the racing .— High-Weight Handicap.—ll Fairy Tidings (Q Tilson) 1, 1 Closefire (J. T Humphries) 2. 10 San Pedro (P. Mcßrearty) 3. Also started: 1 Passionate, 15 Gaze, 16 Gauntlet, 5 Brigadier Bill. 7 Merle, 12 Koauau, 16 Mount Marta, 3 Beau Cavalier, 4 Kamehameha, 17 Outfit, 2 Mister Gamp, 14 Gold Rain, 13 Glenidle, 8 Royal Abbey. Won by ten lengths, a head between second and third. Beau Cavalier was fourth. Time, 2.405. Members’ Handicap.—l King Lu (A. Tinker) 1, 2 Solrose (A. E. Ellis) and Miss Hupana (D. C. Watts), dead-heat, 2. Also started: 5 Delightment, 3 Sun Up, 6 Oration and Hipo (bracketed), 10 Nincompoop, 9 Royal Game, 11 Whenuanui. 12 Deluge. 8 Nadarino. 4 Fairy Herald, 5 Arpent. 7 Gold Box, 10 Lady Fingers, 14 Willow Wai, 15 Phnntasv. Won by a length and a-hatf. Hipo was Hose to the dead-heaters, wrtn Delightment right up. Time. 1.205. Petone Handicap.— 4 Denier (L A. Pine) 1,2 Te Kawana (C. Davis) 2, 9 Coot (A. G. Dixon) 3. Also started: 3 Waicullus. 6 Ned Kelly. 5 Cassolette, 7. Killute, 8 Royal Land, 10 Mountain Jean, 1 Thnrnns. Won by a length, a length and a-half between second and third. Waicullus was fourth. 1.21J.

LIMERICK UNEXPECTEDLY SCRATCHED. Melbourne, July 14. Advice that Limerick has been scratched for the Melbourne Cup came as a bombshell in turf circles. The horse’s chances were particularly favoured and the public are mystified as to the reason fo r the withdrawal, as the reason was not stated in the trainer’s letter to the Victoria Racing Club. HEAVY PRTCE~FOR A YEARLING London, July 14. The Aga Khan caused a sensation at Newmarket hv paying 14,000 guineas fo r a yearling colt by Papyrus—Cnndart. This is 500 'g-nxeas below the sum Lord Glanelly paid for Queensign. which never wen a race, though be sired a few winners. (A. and N.Z.) DIVOTS. (Dug by “The Delver.”) Nominations for the Christchurch Hunt Club’s Meeting, the prelude lo ihe Grand National fixture, are due this (Friday) evening, at 8 o’clock. Alloway and Miss Hupana were each reported as having run a decent race in the Whyte Memorial Handicap on Tuesday. Each managed yesterday to secure a second dividend for followers, and each of substantial amount, the mare’s, however, being nearly twice as big «‘s the gelding’s.

Bonny Rill is said to have given a very game display in the Wellington Steeplechase. bhe had done practically no last work since her arrival at Trentham, and to fiinish sixth undei the circumstances was a remarkable performance. Her bad leg was not improved by the outing, and she was to be sent home without fulfilling further engagements. tt would probably have been better had the game little mare been left there to nurse her hurts to full healing.

The unluckiest horse at Trentham on Tuesday, says an Auckland writer who was there, was undoubtedly le Kawana. His rider did not show himself up as a good tactician in endeavouring' to keep with Denier in the hack seven furlongs, lor the Taranaki three-year-old is very fast for five furlongs. The northerner was left in charge until 100 yards iruui the post, when both Horoinea ‘-.n the rails) and Rowley (on the ouUi ) caught up, and then came on together, giving Te Kawana a veiv rough handling, so that he had to he pulled right up,. He was third, and but for this ‘interference might well have paid a dividend. An inquiry was opened, but adjourned until Thursday, the second dividend being paid out on Rowley.

The Hawen-trained three-year-old Denier, another of the speedy Bisogne breed, was noticed going well in the front rank for six of the seven furlongs of the Te Aro Handicap m. Tuesday. Yesterday over the shorter distance of the Petone Handicap lie saw the journey right out, beating the unlucky Te Kawana by a length.

Of the full brother and sister, Fairy Herald and Fairy Tidings (Clarenceaux —Fairy Benzie). Christchurch reports laid most emphasis on the favourable prospects of the former at Trentham. However, on Tuesday his chance in the Whyte Memorial Handicap was lost at the start, for he was hopelessly left. What may have befallen him yesterday in the Members’ Handicap we have yet to learn, as he did not get into place.

His young sister, on the other hand, who had failed to show up prominently at the finish of the six furlong Trial Plate on the first day,’ seems to have made no race of it in the High-Weight Handicap, run over 11 furlongs, yesterday. Incidentally, she paid the dividend of the day, running up nearer to a score than the half of it. Closefire who ran second, though at an interval of 10 lengths, was paying pretty nearlv ns good a price to win. San Pedro, who was a head away third, was just •about as little fancied.

The typo has made a Christchurch writer say that Bonena was baeked very “confidentially” for the X’ittona Hurdles on Tuesday. The word would seem to have been much more apt with regard to the way the “home” money was got on to Nukumai in the Whyte Memorial. It is only alter the event that we hear how the old hurdler was doing great work before leaving Foxton, and how iris connections gathered a fair fistful of the fat dividends. When he won again yesterday under 111 b extra, fie paid less than a seventh of his firstday dividend. What wall he pav tomorrow in the Winter Hurdles. 21 miles, for which, with Ngata, he is top-weight under 11.8?

On Tuesday, Aberfeldy was well up with his for about ten of the fourteen furlongs of the Vittoria Hurdles, but then dropped back apparently beaten. Yesterday he did not find the twelve furlongs of the Corunna Hurdles too far for him, and beat by two lengths both Kaikahu and Vexatious, who on each :>ccasion finished second and third. Seemingly he had in the interval <»ot tlie extra age which his breeder. Mr R. Hannon, said the family all required before being at their best. Joking apart, however, nobody will grudge Aberfeldy’s owner-trainer. x<. W. King, a turn of fortune, for lie had but scant luck with the Quin Abbey gelding in Australia, either on tlie fiat or over jumps, aud it is 10 be hoped he had a good tew tickets on the double-figure dividend.

“The Arikiwai boom.” savs a Christchurch writer, “burst badly at Trentham on Tuesday, when the half-brother to Pilliewinkie was well beaten by a lot of moderates that opposed him in the Trial Plate. it seems that the Paladin youngster is a bit over-boomed, but then again ’t is plain that he cannot act in heavy going. He showed this plainly at Ashburton, although he won most decisively.” Anotuer scribe finds excuse for the Paladin gelding in that he is a big fellow acting under adverse conditions. It would certainly be unwise to condemn a voung horse out of hand on account of Tuesday’s race, and he may yet prove no disgrace to his doughty relative.

If, as is likely, Beau Cavalier starts in the Winter Hurdles he will probably be ridden by H. Gordon. S. Henderson who was engaged for Kamehaineha having been suspended, a fresh rider will have to be found for that horse.

Ban juke’s jockey, H. McSweeney, had anything but a comfortable ride in the Hack Steeplechase on Tuesday, for the riderless Maidos went with them nearly all the way, and was more than a nuisance at several fences. For all that Banjuke did not put a foot wrong, and won easily.

Trainer A. Pearson allowed his five-year-old Winkie mare Peho to drop out of the Te Aro Handicap on Tuesday, but produced her for the Seatoun Handicap run over the same distance yesterday. She was installed favourite and duly justified her backers In placing her in that position, but returning them the smallest first dividend of the day.

When the machine closed for the Wellington Steeplechase nawini was favourite with £1,029, while there was good support forthcoming for Beau Javalier £862, Crown Coin £7BO, Tuki £6lB and Scamp £589. For the Whyte Memorial Handicap Master Doon £905, Sun Up £686, Black Mint. £589 and Alloway £527 were the best bauKe<l. Yesterday Master Doon wnr eight h down the betting when Alloway beat him a head for second place in the Parlianivnlury Handicap.

Writing of the Trial Plate on Tuesday “Vedette” says: “Merry Mint was not by any means disgraced, and his hackers, considering he was coupled with Quantum, received a great price. He had not had a race for eight months, and was a beaten horse nearly a furlong from home. He bat-

tled on in very worthy fashion under pressure, and his owner has every inducement to go on to Sydney with him.” It is said elsewhere that he will be duly shipped under J. M. Cameron’s care when he leaves with The Hawk later on in the montn.

Gauntlet has badly belied the good promise ne gave when he opened his hurdling career. On Tuesday he is said to have run a perfect pig in the Vittoria Hurdles, refusing either to jump or gallop kindly. His owner, Mr K. S. Williams, was there to soe him, too.

The stipendiary stewards reported to the Racing Conference on Wednesday that they again desired to draw attention to the unreliability of many of the weighing scales in use by clubs at race meetings. This was a matter which should seriously engage the attention of the Racing Conference.

By the end of the current racing year approximately 318 days’ racing and trotting will have been held, and up to the time of writing 165 persons have been warned off the different courses, as against 217 for the year 1925-26 (stated the chief racecourse inspector in his report to tne Racing Conference yesterday).

Kawini, writes “Early Bird,” was ridden a most judicious rave by A. McDonald and it was surprising to see how he cut the cornets, it is safe to say that he saved his mount to the extent of several lengths, and even then he could not carry him home a winner. Kawini never made a mistake during the whole contest, but when Zircon ran down the brush just before coming to the mile, on the last circuit, Kawini bumped into him and this cost him a lot of ground. However he could not have been better than second best.

It was an education, goes on the same writer, to see how Henderson bluffed not only the public, out Bowden and McDonald into thinking that his mount was just about beaten. There was no Ellerslie hill to aid him in his deception, but he gave Beau Cavalier a breather at the five furlongs, and it was here that Kawini and Crown Coin had almost caught him. When Henderson lot his head go it was exactly the same as what happened at Ellerslie, Beau Cavalier shot way and left the other two standing.

The Auckland “Sun” critic does not seem to have been so well impressed with Bowden’s steering of Royal Form, in the Trentham Hurdles, writing as follows:—“Over the first six furlongs he was right up with the leaders, and then in the back stretch he dropped back in startling fashion, altogether unbecoming of a favourite. Four furlongs from home ne was standing the leaders at about ten lengths, but in the next quarter of a mile he made a phenomenal run, this carrying him actually to the front at the last fence; ’but he was travelling so fast that he jumped badly, and so lost an excellent winning chance. Royal Form would lose no friends for the Winter Hrudles on the showing.”

As the Trentham. Hurdles winner, Wharncliffe, was handicapped at only 9.7 for ‘the W.ntcr Hujrules and has uo penalty to carry, his chance tomorrow cannot be overlooked. The distance is, of course, half a miie lougei, but, though he has never run beyond two miles, southern writers speak well of his staying powers and have good hopes of him seeing the race out to the end. After Nukumai’s two great wins on the fiat, there is little doubt as to what will go out favourite.

A few weeks ago (writes “Vedette”), a jockey was fined tor making a miscount of tne rounds in a steeplechase in that he tried to win one round too soon. R. E. Thomson appeared to be under just the opposite delusion on Tuki on Tuesday, for his effort was most belated, to say the least of it. Tuki may not have beaten Beau Cavalier, but differently handled it can be assumed with safety that he would have been much closer up at the end. His running in future will be watched with interest.

San Pedro is sa d to have run a solid race in the Trentham Hurdles on Tuesday, and he mushed third in the High-weight Elat Handicap yesterday. With only 9st, to carry in the Winter Hurdles to-morrow he cannot be altogether disregarded should he be a starter.

The Hack Hurdles at Trentham on Tuesday provided a wealth of exciting incidents, says an Auckland writer. At th<> start Perle de Leon ue-rly knocked over Captain Sarto, and at the first fence Guncase ran across right into Hyama tend s«nt him flying. It was more than a push. Safely over th© second fence, Mount Marta got a bump and as a result he deposited Stanway on the ground. To finish with, Peshwa, although beaten, crashed at the last hurdle. However, it cannot be said that these incidents affected the result, for Mount Marta was the only horse that might have bothered the winner.

Cartoon, if started to-morrow, will be a fresh horse among tn© steeplechasers. He forfeited his first-<iay engagement, hut was brought north early in the week with a special view to the open cross-country event tomorrow, in which he has been weighted at 9.7.

The surprise of th© Wellington Steeplechase was the running oi Dick. He tailed off in the first round and it was not until the field had set out on the last mile that he made any show. Then he went up >ery last -and was not very far behind Tuki at the end. On the other hand. Wedding March gave a poor showing and was a big disappointment. He was always well back, and from the start he never looked like getting out of the ruck. On this showing it does

not look as if his owner, Mr. M. Wells, had suffered much loss from his horse being prevented from stalling in the Great Northern Steeplechase,