THE TURF

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 212, 22 August 1927, Page 2

THE TURF

RACING FIXTURES. August 20—Pakuranga Hunt Club Sept. 3—N Taranaki Hunt Club Sept. 7, B—Marton J.C. Sept 10 Otago Hunt Club. Sept 14 Dannevirke R.C. Sept. 24 26 Napiei Park R.C. Sept 24. 26 Avondale J.C. Sept. 29, 30-Geraldine R-C. Oct. I—-Hawke’s Pay J.G. PAKURANG.A HUNT. Auckland, Aug. 20. The Pakuranga Hunt Club’s annual race meeting was held at Ellerslie to-day in showery weather, which affected the attendance. The course was very heavy. The totalizator handled .£41,928 10/-, compared with £51,399 10;- last year, a decrease of 1'9471.

H. F. Gilmer, rider of Ramblin’ Kid in the Hunters’ Hurdles Race, sustained a fractured skull as a result of a fall and was admitted to hospital. Late results:—

Pakuranga Hunt Cup, about 3 miles.—l Pendavis (Syme) 1. 2 Hypotheses 2. 7 Sea Comet 3. Also ran: 5 Stonewall, 6 Arsene Lupin, 4 Syndicate, 3 Rafferty. Won by seven lengths. Time, 7.13.

Auckland Handicap. 1 mile.—4 Takaranga (McTnvish) 1, 1 War Officer 2,2 Captain Cobham 3. Also an: 6 Red Comet, 10 Daddy’s Girl. 15 Rarakau, 9 Slump, 3 Acushla, 15 Cullgie, 7 Double Mint, 8 Josie Melville,. 16 Mountain Guide, 13 Ponti-

cus, 12 Restaurant, 17 Sandbag, 11 Tetahi, t l4 Valentino. Won by threequarters of a length. Time, 1.59. Ladies’ Bracelet. 1| mile.—s Quinvardia 1,2 Pokerimu 2, 9 Levenside 3. Also ran: 4 Ramblin’ Kid, 7 Clockwork, 6 Edifice, 10 Mashoor, 3 Prince Lupin, 1 Odlin, 8 Lady Faye. Won by two and a half lengths. Timo 2.38. Dunedin Handicap, 6 furlongs.— Delightment 1, 3 King Lu 2, 7 Automne 3. Also ran: 3 Day Guard, 1 Town Guard, 4 Tinekoa, 9 Finelli, 5 Sii Archie, 1 Desert Knight, 8 King Emerald, 10 Whaka King. Won by four lengths. Time, 1.26. AUSTRALIAN RACING. TATTERS/.LL’S CUP. Brisbane, Aug. 21. Tattersall’s Cup resutcd: —Aoachalance 7.0 1; Canning 7.7., 2; Sopilly, 8.12, 3. Twelve starters. Won by a neck. Time 2.5 J. GRAND NATIONAL HURDLES. Adelaide, Aug. 21. The Grand National Hurdles result cd: Pisrui Barrell, 9.11), 1; Rumford, 11.0, 2; My Greek, 10.0, 3. Seventeen starters. Won by six lengths. Tome 4.59. KOSEHILL THREE-YEAK OLD. Sydney, Aug. 21. At the Rosehill meeting the Three>ear old lianuicap resulted:—Prince Don, 8.9, 1; Chromium, 9.0, 2; Merry Mint 8.11, There were 23 starters Won by half a j eng th. Time, 1.2 7 id. DIVOTS. (Dug by “The Del ver.”) Nominations for the meetings of both the Wanganui Jockey Club and the Eginont-Wanganui Hunt Club must be in by 8 o’clock this evening. Manton acceptances ar© lue to-morrow (Tuesday), and Dannevirke entries on Friday next.

The natuje of the going at Ellerslie on Saturday may be guessed from the fact that a smart mudlark like Delightment took 1.261 to cover six furlongs on it. while another in King Lu finished three lengths behind him. Even on a sticky course at Trentham, King Lu got to the end of the same distance in 1 204. Nukutere, 1 who won the Greenmount Steeples last Saturday, is a five-year-old gelding by Quin Abbev from Glenopal. He is owned and trained by R. Hannon, of Cambridge, who usually has one or two good maiden jumpers that are recruited from the hunting field.

Fair Abbey, winner of the Httntters’ Hurdle Race on Saturday, is another of the Quin Abbey tribe. Though onw seven years old. she has a very poor record against her name, with no previous win in it. In the Hunt Club Hurdles at the A.R.C. Winter Meeting she ran a very poor third to Just John and Ramblin’ Kid, who both cam© to grief on Saturday.

There is at least oi(e person strongly in favour of recognition of bookmakers in this country, savs* the Dunedin “Times.” He landed a bet of 800 to 1 over the Grand National treble

The Wanganui Guineas is the first of the season’s classics to come up for decision, and is to be run on September Bth. Those likely to figure in the field for the mil© event include Thaw. Covent Garden. Silvermine, Ruanui. Melissa. Gascony, and Talisker. “ • « Inferno, whose name had been removed from the “schooling list,” suffered severely from internal trouble after racing at the Wellington Winter Meeting. For several davs he wag in a bad way. and it will be some time before he is fit to race again. • • •

Before Saturday’s meeting there were favourable press reports of Automne’s doings on the training tracks, and in his race he was only just beaten a neck by King Lu for second place. Though it would not do. under th© conditions prevailing, to deduce over much from this, it may yet indicate a possible return ere long to the Autumn gelding’s earlier form.

Clarinda and Piuthair w'ere duly shipped from Wellington for Svdncv on Friday last and. as expected. 11. E. Manson accompanied them to do the riding when weights suit. T. Llovd. who is taking the two mares to Sydney is said to be rerv pleased with their condition, and he stated that they kad both done really well at Woodville before leaving for Wellington . Mr* R. A. McKenzie, their owner, leaves for Sydney on 2nd September. All being well. Piuthair and Clarinda will make their first appearance at Sydney Tattersall’s Meeting at Randwick on 10th September.

Takarunga. who won the mile hack race at Ellerslie on Saturday is a seven-year-old gelding by Thurnham —Lady Floss, belonging to Mr R. W. Dudcr. He has done very little racing. and that with no great success, and has been off the scene since runing unsuccessfully at the Bav of Islands Meeting last January. in spite of this poor record, he was allowed io pay oulv a quite modest dividend on Salurdnv thus showing th© poor estimnlion in which the field ften©rally wav hold.

The Australian blood stock dealer. Mr Henry, returned 1 to Melbourne from the Bluff by the Manuka last week. He expects to be back in New Zealand next month. According to the “Southland Times,” the visitor was not impressed with the class of steeplechasers seen out at Riqparton last week, that is. taking them as a whole, contending that too many of them are in the sere and yellow stage or unsound. It is not said wheher Mr Henry made any further purchases durin- his visit, but he regarded prices asked for anything worth while as being too high, and apparently the negotiations for Indian Sage and Nadarino came to nothing

Mr H. Friedlander’s bav gelding. Dumblane (Leighton—Flora McDonald). winner of the first division of the Two-vcr-okl Parade at Ellerslie on Saturday, is a full brother to the now three-year-old Exalted, who had three starts last season, his onlv placing being second to Creation in the ’Trial Stakes at Whangarei last April. His dam is bv Boniform — Lady Lochiel. by Formosan—Miss Locniel, bv Lochiel —Miss Russlev. bv Grand Flaneur —Sudden Thoug’it (imp.), by Lord Clifden. Though she has been mated with five differ, ent stallions, otherwise successful, none .of her stock has raced nrominently. Dumblane is engaged in the Avondale Stakes, to be -un next month.

Mr H. Calder’s brown fillv Valour, who headed the Held in the second division of the Parade, is bv Dr. W C. Ring’s imported William the Third horse Valkyrian. whose i.ame was brought into -"ecial prominence bv Inst season's performances of bis three-year-old son Valkon, for whom a would-be Svdnev buyer offered a big price His dam. Glutenora is not honoured with a place in the Stud Book, nor have anv of her progeny brought it much before the public eye. Prohablv. under the track conditions that obtained on Saturday no <n-eat importance need I’e given to the results in either of the scatters that the youngsters had. Said to be the last of the Martians, the yearling colt iroiu Kildee was included among the horses auctioned at Trentham last January, lhe bidding went to 900 guineas, and he was passed in. Latei it was announced that Mr. Jolly, a wellknown Adelaide sportsman, had secured him at 2,000 guineas. Recently word was received in Auckland that the colt had died. It is a big loss to his owner, quite apart from the price he paid for the colt.

The New Zealand Cup, which will be run on Saturday, November sth, is worth 1750 sovs., which stake includes a gold cup valued at 100 sovs, the owner of the second horse to receive 350 sovs., and the owner of the third horse 170 sovs, A condition of the race states that 'the winner, alter declaration of weights, of any race of the value of 300 sovs, or of any race or races of the value of 500 sovs., may be rehandicapped, provided that no horse be handicapped above 9st 61b, or be rehandicapped to carry over weight-for-age. a • *

Although Sunny Loch gave a faildisplay over hurdles at R.iccarton, it is rather much to expect him to stand up to much racing on hard tracks, says the Christchurch “Star." He has a joint on his off foreleg nearly double the natural size.

Private advice has been received in New Zealand of the death in Victoria of the Absurd—Cowl mare Lady Isinglass (in foal to Royal Divorce), who was sent recently to Australia on a visit to Top Gallant. Lady Isinglass, who was in her sixth year, did well as a two-year-old, when she won three races and was twice placed second. Later on, however, she developed a fractiousness at the post that stood badly in the way of maintaining her good record.

There is an interesting little story, writes “Archer” in the Auckland “Herald,’’ as to how the Grand National Hurdles winner found his way to the South Island. The late Mr. John Grigg was anxious to procure a horse by thurnham, and he requested the late C. Coleman to purchase one for him. This was about two or three years ago, and the Ellerslie trainer selected Wharncliffe, who was duly purchased and sent to Southland. Ou arrival in the South Wharncliffe did not show much promise when tried, and he was passed on to Mr. J. J. Lewis, for whom he has turned out a really good horse. Wharncliffe was in work at Ellerslie as a youngster, but exhibited no pace. A mishap to one of his hips necessitated being thrown out of work, and he was not put into work again until he went to the South Island.

F. Tilley has nothing engaged at the Marton Meeting, but is said to bo getting a team ready for the Wanganui fixture. Though Laughing Prince is not engaged in the Wanganui Guineas, he may be a runner in the New Zealand Eclipse Stakes. The Australian-bred colt is in steady work at Fordell. Limited has not been up long, but he is one that does not take much to get him into racing form, and he may be a starter at Wanganui. He is likely to prove himself one of the most brilliant sprinters of the new season. Mundane was put into work recently after a good spell, and will probably be taken to Christchurch in November for the big race.

Although quite a number of the iumpers made mistakes at Riccarton last week, says “Vedette,” it is a debatable point whether the riders would not have held their mounts up in a number of cases had they been riding with a reasonably long stirrupleather. The Sloan seat over fences may lie very well so long as the horses jump perfectly, but it was shown over and over again last week that a slight stumble nearly always sees the parting of the ways of horse and rider. As one of the steeplechase Helds last week paraded in the birdcage the riders were scanned, and with one exception the stirrup-

leathers were ridiculously short- In the race the expected happened. The stipendiary stewards have attended to this matter but with little result. They order jockeys to let down their stirrups, but so soon as the enclosures are left behind and the riders are out of range of the official eye, up go the irons again to the monkey-on-the-stick posture. As no penalty appears to be provided for this wilful disobedience, apparently it will go on to the end of time.

ml * * * The only casualty reported as the result of numerous falls at the Pafcnranga Meeting last Saturday is an apparently rather serious head injury sustained by H. F. Gilmer when Ramblin’ Kid came down with him :n the Hunters’ Hurdle Race. The stewards imposed a penalty of a month’s suspension on T Chaplin on the ground of careless riding in the Hunt Club Steeplechase.

New Zealand horses have not had a monopoly of hostile receptions in Australia recently, which leads a Sydney writer to inquire, “are we bad losers?” The Thorn, Kawhetu, and Affirm were roundly hooted when returned winners, yet unbiassed persons would have no hesitation in vouching for the honesty of their owners’ intentions. Aussie horses have beeu similarly treated, and the only conclusion is that punters have let their betting talk loudest, forgetting that horses are not mechanical toys, and have their good days and their bad ones, just like humans, and the turf was always noted for its uncertainty.

Nothing is told us in to-dav’s cahle message as to which of the halfdozen Maorilanders entered for the Hosehill (Sydney) meeting last Saturday actually started. The only one of whom mention is made is Merry Mint, one of J. M- Cameron’s team, who a week earlier had scored at the first time of asking in Australia, The best he could do, carrying 8.11, was to get third in the Three-Year-Old Handicap of 7 furlongs, the winner carrying 8.9 and the second horse 9.0. This does not, on the face of it. look much like Derby form, but more details will be required before any judgment on his classic prospects can be formed. » » *

Another Australian writer. “Pilot,” has also something to say on the same subject: “'Melbourne had its ‘reversal of form’ demonstration at Caulfield two Saturdays ago. Affirm, who ran nowhere at Mooney Valley a week earlier, won the Malakoff Stakes, for which be was one of the 10 to 1 division. Then the public said rude things, and, as is customary, requested the stewards to do all sorts of things. These constantly-recurring demonstrations make one wonder whether Australian racegoers, as a whole, are becoming bad losers. If any man who professes to know something about racing backs a horse, watches how it runs, and sees nothing to find fault with at the time it is beaten, it is somewhat absurd that he should raise his voice in protest when it wins, say, a week later. He noticed nothing amiss at the time of its defeat, and yet. in effect, says: “I didn’t see anythin*’ wrong, but I lost my money on it, and it must have been dead.’ That is the line of reasoning adopted by many racegoers, and, while it is excusable from those who do not regularly follow racing, it is ridiculous from men who rarely miss a meeting, and flatter themselves they possess a deep knowledge of the business. If they knew* as much as they reckoned, they would lie on the. ‘dead ’un’ when it won, instead of relieving their feelings by denouncing it because of its success-’’

• • • The first important fixture at which the best New Zealand horses in Sydney will be engaged will be the A.J.C. Warwick Farm meeting on September 3. In addition to the Hohartville Stakes for three-year-olds and the w.f.a. Warwick Stakes, there are two handicaps, the Campbelltown (six furlongs), and the Warwick Farm Spring Handicap (11 furlongs). In the six-furlong event Valicare is top weight with 9.13.

Commendation has been given 9.9, one pound below Gothic and Boaster, so that it will be seen he has been rated as practically the equal of Australia’s best sprinters. White Fang has 8.8, and Merry Mint 7.5- In the Farm Handicap, Pantheon (9.13) is top, then come The Banker (9.6), Commendation (9.5), Count Cavour (9.3), and Piuthair 9-2). Battlement has 8.5, Merry Mint 7.2, and Drawbridge 6.13- Both Commendation and Piuthair have been better treated in the Caulfield,Cup than in any other published handicaps in Australia.

By covering a mile and one-six-teenth in Imin. 4.6 sec. The Mask, the bay gelding which Mr. Frank Beban took from New Zealand to America as a two-year-old in Feburary, 1926, established a record for the Lansdowne Park track (Vancouver). W. Holmes,, now returned, went from New Zealand with the gelding, who is by Quin Abbey from Culross, and had not raced in the Dominion.

An American who was crossing the Atlantic struck up an acquaintance with an Englishman. They had a common interest in the turf. The American was at some pains to explain that in his country horse races were run at a much faster speed than in England. When the boat was berthing at Liverpool docks the Yankee, as he was bidding his friend good-bye. said: “Say, tell me this—where’s the best spot to see this Grand National of yours?’’ The Englishman took his chance. “Just stay where you are on deck,’’ he advised, pointing to the estuary of the Mersey; “this is the water jump.’’

Our American friends keep British manufactures and Colonial produce out of their country as much as possible by high tariff. Apparently their “sportsmen’’ want to apply this to racehorses. Imported horses have been selling and doing too well in America to please some of that country's breeders. The Baltimore National Turf Digest says that the diversion of good American dollars into the pockets of foreigners has so upset many Kentucky breeders that they are casting about for the best means to stop the importation and sale of foreign bloodstock. The paper quoted then continues: “Some of the Kentuckians, whose injury to their pocket-books lias clouded their judgment, seem to think this is an affair of national importance, and that Congress should be petitioned to pass a law prohibiting the importation of foreign yearlings for a period of years. The fallacy of such a course is immediately apparent to all sober minded thinkers, but it provides a first-cltss indication of the fact that the market-breeders of Kentucky are moved to the core, and view with jaundiced eyes all bloodstock bearing a foreign label. The three little letters, imp., are to them as a red rag fo a bull, and they will put forth every effort to render more difficult, if not actually prevent the importation of foreign "earlings for sale purposes ”