OVERSEA NOTES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 137, 24 May 1928, Page 2

OVERSEA NOTES

Deroy Sweep Money. According to a Sydney “Sun” cable message from London, in the huge Stock Exchange Derby sweep the chief prizes will be £125,000, £60,000, £30,000, and £20,000, every other horse nominated (numbering 339) each £500; also, 91 consolation prizes. Charities will take £50,000. N.Z. Death Noted. Mr. Sydney Nettlefold, who died a few days ago in New Zealand, notes a Sydney exchange, was formerly well known as an owner. About 10 years ago, in partnership with D. Price, he raced Beresina, Pink ’Un, Machine Gun, and other horses in New Zealand and Australia No Return. Mr. L. K. S. McKinnon, a V.H.C. committeeman, had the misfortune to lose recently, through blood poisoning, the imported horse Blaven, for which he had paid some 1700 guineas in England, without getting a return of any kind. Lochella Solus, The only entry from New Zealand appearing in the lists for the V.R.C. Grand National events is the ancient Lochella, whose name is there for both Hurdles and Steeplechase. The New Zealand-bred and Sydney-owned Absurd mare Absurdee is among the nominations for the cross-country event. The Haw,k. Australians have evidently got a very soft place in their hearts for The Hawk. Sydney papers to hand note with pleasure the cordial reception given to “Jack” Cameron’s gallant, old Martian gelding when ho came so near winning the Ormond Memorial Cup at Hastings last month. “What might it have been had ho won?” says one writer.

More of Tipperary Tim. English files continue to be' full of tales about Tipperary Tim, the sensational winner of the latest Liverpool Grand National. He himself, we are told, was once sold for £5O. His sire, Cipango, after an inconspicuous career on the turf, was sold for 13gns., and his stud fee in Ireland was only three guineas. Yet Cipango was a well-bred horse, as his breeding by a son of St. Simon out of a mare by Rosicrucian, was identical with that of the classic winners Volodyovski (Derby), Doricles (St. Leger) and Vedas (Two Thousand Guineas). The National winner is said to have one peculiarity, a parrot mouth, and he cannot eat grass. Further, he is a tubed horse, his wind' having been affected since last year. Where Most Stopped. Most of the trouble in the Grand National Steeplechase was caused by Easter Hero, for whom Captain Lowenstein, of Belgium, gave £lOOO a few days before the vace, Easter Hero, who carried 12.5, was caught on the thorn fence, which is sft. high and 3ft. 3in wide, and while he was astride it, and struggling to free himself, .20 other horses were stopped. Koko (12.2), who had also been bought at a high figure a few days before the race, fell at the Becher’s Brook fence and plunged head first into the ditch. Rones had to be requisitioned to pull him out. Split in the Camp. The news that Mr. Ben Chaffey has taken his horses away from trainer Harry McCalman, says the Sydney writer “Poseidon,” will cause one of. the biggest sensations the Australian turf has had for many a day. For the last few days the Victorian owner thought the sun shone out of McCalman in a racing sense, and he would not move hand or foot without the trainer. It was not always thus. Mr. Chaffev had owned horses for many years, and was notoriously non- . successful. The change came when Mr. Chaffey made McCalman his trainer, and got hold of the M oorak colt, Whittier. McCalman, having suffered severely from asthma, transferred his quarters to Bendigo, and it was there that Whittier, as a three-year-old, did the mile t and a quarter trial which led to liis boing hacked for £30,000 in the Caulfield Cup, which be won. That was the beginning of a most lucrative association Whittier, who had cost only 250gns., won £26.566 10/- in stakes. With his brother. Accarak, an Australian Cup and other good races were won. Then came the sensational Manfred, who cost 1400gns., and won £28,830.