GENERAL NOTES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 257, 13 October 1932, Page 2

GENERAL NOTES

Acceptances for the first day of the Wellington Racing Club’s Spring Meeting, also for,the Harcourt Cup (second day)( close at 8 o’clock on Friday evening. General entries for the Auckland Racing Club’s Spring Meeting, and forfeits for the Great Northern Guineas and Welcome Stakes, close at 5 p.m. next Friday. At the same time nominations are due for the Auckland Cup, Railway Handicap, Summer Cup Racing Club Handicap, Grandstand Handicap, King’s Plate, and Clifford Plate, to be decided at the summei meeting.

* • • Race meetings will be held this week by the Masterton, South Canterbury, and Avondale Clubs. The first two meetings are one-day fixtures on Saturday, and the Avondale Meeting opens on Saturday and concludes on Monday. The only trotting will be two events on the South Canterbury programme. The second and final day of the V.A.T.C. Spring Meeting at Caulfield will be held on Saturday, when the principal event decided will be the fifty-fifth Caulfield Cup, of £5OOO, 1$ mile. There is no weight-for-age event on the day’s programme, but there are two two-year-old events, the Mona Nursery, for fillies, and the Gwyn Nursery for colts and geMings. » • • 'Three more New Zealand Cup horses succeeded in placing their names on the season’s winning list last week. They were Oratorian, Shatter, and Pahu. » • • At the monthly meeting of the Franklin R.C.’s committee Mr F. J. Macmanemin was appointed handicapper for the season, Mr A. Tronson judge, and Mr A. Vincent starter. W ;• « Jaloux is reported from Riccarton to be making good progress in his preparation for the New Zealand Cup and other events to be decided at the Metropolitan Meeting next month. He has not been sent any record-breaking gallops, but he has done welJ on the useful tasks allotted him. It is the treatment that suits him best. » • • The racing ab Wingatui last week did not throw any fresh light on the New Zealand Cup problem, except in a purely negative sense, says the southern critic, "Sundridge.” Viewed in this waw all the runners at the meeting may be wiped off the state as November possibilities. • • • The brOod mare Danae, by Catmint from Marabout, is reported to have a fine yearling colt by the imported sire Whirlwind. She lost her foal to the same horse this season and has been mated with Tea Tray. Danae won the Great Northern Oaks in 1926, and is now owned by Mr A. E. Watkins, who purchased her at the Auckland Stud Company’s dispersal sale in 1929. » * « News of the racehorses Karapoti and Heremia, who were sold last March and wore transported to India, has been received in Auckland. Racing at Poona

toward thv eml of August, Heremiu won one race and ran second in another, and Karapoti was twice unplaced. On 20th August Heremia (Bst 51'b) was second to Cryptogram (Bst 91b) m the Egerton Handicap, one mile and a quarter, for Class IV horses. There was a field of nine, and Cryptogram won by two lengths, his time being 2min lUsec. Heremia was third favourite. The second prize was 700 rupees (£52 10/- at par). On 27th August Heremia won the second division of the Rufford Ptate, one mile and a quarter, for which he was favourite. He carried Bst 121 b, and, ridden by the Australian jockey, Reynolds, won by a short head from Sailor’s- Knot (9st) and Essex Brook (Bst 91b). His time was 2min llsec. The first prize was 2000 rupees (£l5O at par). The races in which Karapoti ran unplaced were the Sandhurst Ptate, six furlongs, for Class I. horses, won by Flourish, and the Harris Plate, one mile, won by Bruy Beau, with the Aga Khan’s Buland second and Pandora's Box third. Karapoti was the top-weight on each occasion, and m the Harris Plate was joint second favourite.

Sea Ruler opened his three-year-old career at Ellerslie in August by winning the Sylvia Park Handicap, seven furlongs, at the Papakura Hunt meeting, beating two well-performed hacks in L’Allegro and Royal Gallant. On that occasion Sea Ruler was in receipt of 141 b. from L’Allegro and 61b. from Royal Gallant. At Avondale on Saturday in the Champion Hack Plate (set weights) Sea Ruler is in receipt of 111 b. from both of them and he should again be hard to beat. • • • Lordly Knight, who has been paid up for in the Champion Hack Plate at Avondale, is owned in Gisborne. He is a four-year-old gelding by Paladin from Bloodshed, and comes from the same family as Orloff. He won four races last season, his last success being in the Flying Handicap, six furlongs, at the Gisborne winter meotiqg, in which he beat several good sprinters, including White Fang, Moa Bird, Teller, Orby’s Choice and Head Serang. He also ran second to Imperial Fume over seven furlongs, and if he is produced at his best he should be in the picture next Saturday. Illuminagh, who claims an engagement in the High-weight Handicap at Avondale shojved useful form in similar events last season. He ran second to Alloy in the Borough High-weight Handicap at Thames and occupied a similar position to Hit The Deck on the second day. He would only need to have improved on that form to have a chance in his next outings. it * • Most interest in track work at Te Rapa on Tuesday morning centred in a mile gallop by Baroscope, ridden by L. F. Faulkner, who will pilot him in the Avondale Cup. Pelting and Princess Bede assisted him over the first six furlongs, run in 1.16 3-5, and Valuation the last half mile. Baroscope, who had the outside running, covered the first seven furlongs in 1.30, and the full trip in 1.44, doing it comfortably. He is in great heart. Te Hoia was restricted to a working gallop, but has also done well in all recent trials. He is sure to run a good race in the Avondale Cup. si * * As a two-year-old Plateau showed great promise, F. Tilley expressing the view that the brother to Crown Area was the best Acre he had ever had. At Otaki, Plateau showed good form for a second and a win, and he will probably soon add to his winning account. He is engaged at Trentham.

Head Lady has been sent to Waver ley to be turned out for a while, as her form bo far has not been up to expectations. If the spell does her good W. H. Dwyer should pick up some money with the Chief Ruler filly in the autumn. w , Widden is the only member of Mr. Geo. Currie’s team engaged at Trentham. The son of Moabite—Pennon is in the Wellesley Stakes on the first day, and the Roseneath Handicap ou the second day. He is an improving youngster, and when properly tuned up he is likely to show that he knows how to gallop.' On returning from Avondale, Bayner will take Widden to Tren tham. He will probably have only one race there, and then be got ready for the Welcome Stakes at Ellerslie. # • •

Sargon has been scratched for the Avondale Cup.

The “added money”jwon at the A.J.C. spring meeting b'y'horses owned in New Zealand are as follows:— Limareh £7OO, Movie Star £350, Historic £320, Oratorian £2BO, Havering £2BO, Gaine Carrington £205, Manawhenua £l6O, Nightmarch £lOO, Silver Ring £lOO, Peter Jackson £lOO, True Shaft £BO, and Autopay £5O. To the first moneys included in the above list have to be added the sweepstakes for which ,in each case, the conditions of the race provide.

Lough Neagh, winner of the A.J.C. Plate on Saturday, hails from Queensland, where he had a good record last season, starting fourteen times for four wins and two second placiugs. His victories included the Queensland T.C.’s Derby Stakes of 2000 sovs., and the Queensland Guineas, and he ran second in the Queensland T.C.’s St. Leger Stakes.

Southdown, the winning two-yeur-old at Wingatui on Saturday, is one of the first of Rampion’s stock to race, and the first to win, notes a Southern exchange. There was’ a fairly keen demand at the Sydney sales in April for his first representatives, and Mr. J. M. Samson paid 200 guineas for this youngster, liampion, who beat Limerick in the A.J.C. Derby of 1926 and won the Breeders’ Plate, Victorian Derby, Caulfield Guineas, and other big races, is Australian bred, being by imported Rossendale from Royal Pet, also imported, while Down Isouth, dam of Southdown, is by Carbine’s son Wallace (A.J.C. St. Leger, Sydney Cup, Melbourne Cup, V.R.C. Derby, Caulfield Guineas, etc.) from Australia, by Gossoon. Southdown can thus boast of the best of blood and on appearances and by his natural action in galloping he has every credential to attain high honours. Mr. Samson derived much pleasure from winning both juvenile events at Wingatui, but has reason to bemoan the loss for the Melbourne carnival of his eolt Garter Knight, by Limond from Anklet, who received injuries on the journey across to Sydney. In all the sprints which the trio had in the course of their education Garter Knight always showed the most pace; in fact, it was stated by one rider who figured in the work-outs that the other

pair wore of no use to the Limond youngster, who cost Mr. Samson 150 guineas at Trentham.

• • # Silver Scorn, says the same writer, created a mild sensation by the convincing manner in which she outclassed those opposed to her in the Dunedin Guineas on Saturday, and the general opinion seemed to be that she is the best filly produced in the South Island for many years, and is probabjy the most promising in the Dominion since the days of Desert Gold. She has won the three races she has contested and in each has not been called upon for a serious effort. When she and her mate, Berate, Chide’s half-sister, were first tried on the track as two-year-olds, it was considered that Silver Scorn would be the sprinter and Berate the stayer, but on Saturday’s form Silver Scorn gave every indication of combining stamina and brilliance. She finished on so strongly that another half-mile was not likely to trouble her and her presence in the Derby and Oaks next month would lend much interest to those classics. In this regard, it is safe to suggest that there is no threo-year-old of either sex at present in sight in the South Island likely to test her superiority. She is another great advertisement for Silverado, whose services unfortunately have been lost to New Zealand. Silver Scorn’s breeder, owner, and trainer, G. Murray Aynsley, had an idea of sending her dam, Contempt, and also Reproachful and Orange Blossom to Australia to revisit Silverado, but transport arrangements were deemed to be difficult, and they were sent to Polazel, who, like Silverado, is by Polymelus. A two-year-old filly by Polazel from Reproachful is at present in work at Riccarton and the fact that her owner has a high opinion of her probably also encouraged him in selecting Polazel, who is now at Stonyhurst.