THE TURF

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 223, 7 September 1929, Page 3 (Supplement)

THE TURF

OVERSEA NOTES Limerick's Lameness. Limerick has been taken out of his engagement at to-day’s Canterbury Park meeting, but we are told by cable that the lameness that affected him after his last Saturday's successful- effort at Warwick Farm has disappeared. At the same time, its occurrence cannot but arouse some little misgiving when we recall the serious developments that have previously followed on like symptoms. However, his trainer is said to be satisfied with present appearances, and it is to he sincerely hoped his judgment will bo fully justified during the next two or three weeks’ heavy undertakings set for Mr. Knight's champion * » * Cay Ballerina Tipped.

It is more than likely that a good deal of money was lost over Gay Ballerina's failure in the Hobartvdle Stakes at Warwick Farm (Sydney) last Saturday, for press tipsters weie greatly favou. ing her < fiances. “Form revealed at Rosehill last Saturday, wrote one of them, “makes it patent that Gay Ballerina is going to be one of the hardest to beat in the llobartr ville Stakes next Saturday. Certainly there does not appear very much prospect of those whom she met in the Three and Four Years Old Handicap finishing ahead of her, foi a glance through the handicaps carried on Saturday and the set weights for Warwick Farm reveals -hat Gay Ballerina meets the pick of her last Saturday’s opponents on very much better terms. Apart from the actual weights, the manner in which the race at Rosahill was run must be considered, and if any strengthening were needed for Gay Bellerina’s claims it is given by her fourth after starting from the outside of a field of 25, and making the pace for nearly half a mile, am] then meeting with a check through the winner, Ticino, at the top of the straight.” As we know, the N.Z. filly finished in fourth place at ‘the Farm” and, as it happened, none of the placed horses was in the field she met at Rosehill.

* * The Pruning Hook.

The cable has told us that the Victorian G&vermnent has submitted a Bill to Parliament designed to reduce very greatly the volume of racing in that State of the Commonwealth. Apparently some like movement is on foot in Queensland, where a Royal Commission has been appointed to inquire into the control and management of horse racing in Brisbane and Ipswich, and the encompassed area five miles on either side of the con -necting railway line. The commission will investigate the nature of the tenure of courses, the appointment and qualifications of committees of management, the destination of receipts, and membership. The commission will also ascertain how race days are allotted, and whether the number should be reduced or confined to Saturdays and public holidays. It will also inquire whether the number of clubs and courses hould be decreased, and if it is desirable to restrict or prohibit horse racing Other inquiries with which the commission has been charged concerns the pavment and control of stipendiary stewards, and safety of racecourses and their suitability for the purpose to which they are put. High-priced Sires. Argentinian breeders are prepared to go to higher figures to get English performers than Australians will give. Th**.y went as high as £53.000 for the St. Leger winner. Tracery and recently gave the Aga Khan £20.000 and half tho Eclipse Stakes ('which, however, he did not win) for tho Phalaris horse. Parwiz, a full brother to the Derby winner, Manna Uarwiz was a 10,000 guineas yearling Mr. Percy Miller recently purchased for Kia Ora another brother to a Derb/ winner, Caledon, brother to Coronach The price he gave was not disclosed, but it may be doubted whether he had to pay anything nearly so much as Mr. Julian Far sky de Dada had to for Parwiz, # * * Leading English Sire. When half the English fiat-racing season bad been completed the grey stallion Tetra tenia (nu Jetiarcii — Scotch Gift) had an unassailable lead in the winning stallions’ list. Scotch Minstrel (Eclipse Stakes) and Mr. Jinks (Two Thousand Guineas) were his principal winners, but 11 others had contributed to the total of £49,751. Blandford, sire of the Derby winner Trigo. came next with £22,070. When The Tetrarch won the premiership in 1919 his total was £27.976 Tetra tenia is the first of his sons to top the performance, and his total is quite likely to create a new record. Tho best figures are credited to Flurry On, who sired the winners of £59,109 in 1926. * * * Odds and Ends. It is not ften that each of two jockey rides three winners at one day’s racing. That, however, was the record put up between them at Victoria Park (Sydney) last week by L Sharpe and E. Mills, tho latter .lilting up his treble in tho three ‘dot on

The New Zealand bred Penman, who broke down badly in the Maiden Hurdle at HosehiU a fortnight back, may not sport silk again, sa-« a Sydney writer. He is to bo given a spoil. Penman showed promise as a hurdler, and if he can be trained again should win over the jumps. He started a very short priced favourite for the race mentioned and led for the greater part of the journey. * * »

Ono of tho most fancied candidates for the A.J.O. Metropolitan Handicap is Windbag’s four-year-old full sister Loquacious, who is weighted at 8.11. At Rosehill last Saturday week she was just as great an outsider in the second division of the seven-furlong Dundas Handicap as tho winner. Lord Eudorus, whom she ran to a neck, finishing also half a length in front of Aussie. Loquacious is owned by Mr. R. Miller and trained by W. Kelso at Randwick.

The cabled word that Victoria’s crack light-weight W. Duncan has been secured to ride Tidal in the Metropolitan Handicap is a fair indication as to how highly his trainer, Geo. Price, estimates the chance of the Auckland-owned French-bred gelding in the big Randwick distance event. Nor does Duncan accept a mount for the sake of merely earning a losing rider’s fee.

“The most comical-looking but one of the best horses on the A.R C. tracks,” is how a Sydney writer speaks of the New Zealand bred Greyspear—Sweet Smile gelding Lighthearted. The comicality of his looks is to be found in his peculiar facial markings. He has been out for a short spell, but is likely to be heard of again before long.