MASTERTON RACING CLUB

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 74, 9 March 1933, Page 2

MASTERTON RACING CLUB

REVIEW OF THE FIELDS. The acceptances received for this meeting are on the small side, and it appears as if there will be three dividends in only two events. Cuddle is the only local horse engaged. Novice Stakes, 5| furlongs : On paper not a very flash lot. Snowball failed in the two-year-old races at Woodville. Quietly, another two-year-old, showed promising form in the early spring. Rene Bell has failed in tiiis class of race, but enjoys a reputation. Bay Area and Sage have no form- Grand Blow ran third on both days at Woodville. Quebec, the half-brother to Gay Court by Lady Quex, is said to be showing promising form in private. Chaste, Secrecy, Ramanu, Invite, and Valdarado have yet to show up. Rhea was a good second to Takakua at Woodville. Rhea, Grand Blow and Quietly may be the favourites. Lawn Handicap, 1 mile; On this big roomy track Chock Say should be able to show her true form. In the Jumpers’ Flats at Woodville Vitaphone disappointed. Cardinal Moon won at Wellington, and the Night Raid colt is held in high esteem by his connections. Chile has but one race to his credit. Kalniuk is an outside possibility. Shootist has no form. The favourites may be Chock Say, Cardinal Moon and Kalmuk.

Highweight Handicap, 1 mile: Gay Court is a very fair sort. Full Mark always runs well in highweights; he was third recently to La Poupee and Brambletorn in the big race at Woodville. Palace is a lair sort. Cape Fair and Golden Horn (the bracket) both gallop well. The three bottom weights have not won for some time. Full Mark, Cay Court and the Kemball Bracket may find ready support. Masterton Cup, 1J mile: Spearful won the last Manawatu Cup, and as he races well on the Opaki track must be given consideration to-morrow. Arrow Lad was second to Brambletorn on the second day at Woodville. If present arrangements are carried out, Chopin is to race to-day at Waikato and travel all to-iuglit to be at Masterton to race to-morrow, so therefore the little fellow may feel more like a sleep instead of racing. Aiholspear, in a galloping mood, would make it interesting for the best engaged. First Acre failed at Wanganui. Gay Court if back to spring form would with eight- pounds above the minimum, cause interest to be taken in his chances. La Poupee won well at Woodville, but she doos not always give of her best. She is in the same stable as Arrow Lad but is not owned by the same party. Grand Jury has been very disappointing this season. Capetown has not fulfilled handicap promise of last season. Spcariul, Aiholspear and Arrow Lad may be the favourite order.

Grandstand Handicap, 7 furlongs; Normandy is a great galloper in private, but disappoints too olten in public. All who saw Takakua race last week will favour the Royal Divorce gelding over this extra iuriong. Ben Hur is one that is apt to hop away and never afterwards headed, and that is how he wins his races, which are few and far between, though. Purse was third in the Douro Cup. White Squall won at Ashhurst in very poor company. Aroma is well overdue. The favourites may be Purse, Takakua and Normandy, Flymg Handicap, G furlongs; Hunt the Slipper should just be about right by now. Arajean goes fast enough to be a serious consideration. Sir Pombal won at Levin m open company. Foreign Queen should be all the better now for those two races at Woodville. In this small field Foreign Queen, Hunt the Slipper and Sir Pombal may be the favourites.

Lansdown Handicap, 6 furlongs; Cuddle is not as forward as when she won at Hastings on account of having to be eased up aud treated for lameness, but with a race into her might be ever so much a better mare on Saturday. Palace, if reserved for this would, on Taranaki summer form, be a big consideration. Acron is in form. Late Jest is reported to be a very unlikely starter at the meeting. Lady Ronald is fair. Purse, if started here, will not lack support. Lackston has a maiden to his credit, but otherwise has no credentials. Movietone has yet to show up. The favourites may be Acron, Lady Ronald and Cuddle. BRONZE HAWK OVERBOARD THOUGHT TO BE UNINJURED Melbourne, Mar. 8. While being transhipped to the steamer Westralia, the racehorse Bronze Hawk fell into the river. He swam to the centre of the stream, but was rescued. It is thought that he was not injured, but he was returned to his stable. GENERAL NOTES Acceptances for the opening day cf the Wellington autumn meetin, to be held on Friday and Saturday, 17th and 18th inst,, must be in to-morrow (Friday) by 8 p.m. « • • Tatyoon, who was a firm favourite on both machines in the Bombay Handicap at Pukekohe on Saturday, dislodged his rider at the start and took no part in the race. « r • After a good long interval, the Hawke’s Bay-bred gelding Psychologist returned to the winning list on Saturday by taking the Onewhero Handicap at ths Franklin meeting. It was only by tiie narrow margin of a head that he heat Ornamentation, who had nono the best of luck in the running. However. the Psychology gelding, well ridden by Foster, is said to have hung on well and may go on to further successes. ♦ « • The English horse, Tippler, who is 'at the stud in Australia, has been responsible for the midi lion of a number of alcoholic terms to the list of racehorse names. These include Closing 'lime, Drinker. Bacchante, Havaspot, Rum, Wet, Hi" Doctor’s Orders, Toper, and Have Another. Tippler, who is by I’olymclus, apparently got Ins name from his dam, the Swynford mare Sippet. Another of her progeny was named Sherbet. • ♦ « The Southern framer, W. Stone, who recently received a permit from the A.J.C. Committee to train at Randwiek, arrived hack at Wellington this I week and went on to Christchurch. Ilis visit is a short one. He expects to take back two or three horses to Australia with him. He states that he i was impressed with the possibilities I ay Sydney. He had obtained stabling •t Randwick and intended to settle 1

there. He thought that the New Zealand administration could show many points to what he had seen of the Australian, but he was equally convinced that Australia offered a better chance to the owner of making his racing pay. # « e One of the results of the recent tariff reprisals by England on Ireland was the imposition of 20 per cent, ad valorem duty on horses going into England from Ireland, and this duty was disastrous for the recent yearling sales in Dublin. Many lots were passed in, and others were disposed of at ridiculously low prices. Of the eight year, lings sold on account of the National Stud, only two reached 200 guineas, their sires being respectively Gay Cru. sader and Warden of the Marches, the fee of each being 200 guineas. A colt by Manna made only 170 guineas, against his sire’s fee of 400 guineas, and two colts by Diophon were sold respectively for 51 guineas and 50 guineas. Diophon’s fee is 300 guineas. • • ♦ With £22,450 to be distributed in stakes at Randwick at the A.J.C. autumn meeting, the premier club has maintained its standard of last year. The three “classic” races, the bt. Leger, Sires’ Produce Stakes, and Champagne Stakes, have been reduced by an aggregate of £3OOO compared with last year, when the prizes were at pre-depression standard due to the early closing of entries. This year tiie Doncaster Handicap carries a £l5OO prize and the Sydney Cup is a rich event, still at £4OOO. For s-jarters in the mile there will be a sweetstakes of £2O, and for the Cup one of £3O. The senior club has suspended the rule regarding sweepstakes and fcr most of the minor races it will be cheaper ty £1 to start, while in some instances the prize-money is increased, bred in the country.” * o u The ex-New Zealand trainer H. R. Telford, who had such a great run of successes with Phar Lap, has had anything but good luck since that champion passed out so mysteriously iu Mexico. Telford spent quite a goodly proportion of his Phar Lap winnings in the purchase of yearlings, three or four from the Dominion, but with none of them has he met with any great success. It is therefore gratifying to hear of him leading in a winner at Flemington yesterday. Break-up, who placed a division of the Carmichael Staices to Telford’s credit is not one of his New Zealand purchases, but is an Australian bred filly by Dignity from Lido Lady. Trainer J. T. Jamieson, who may just now be said to be in a state of transition between Auckland and Sydney, was in good form at Flemington yesterday, scoring a couple of wins. The first was gained by the three-year-old Panjandrum, by Chief Ruler from the imported mare Podoklcs and so a full brother to.Polyxena and Chief Joy. He is doing good service for the Takanini trainer, having three firsts out of four starts as his record. Jamieson’s other success came in a division of the Juvenile event by the aid of Miramond, who was bred at Mr. G. M. Currie’s Koatanui stud and is by Limond from Mirabelle, a mare bred in Belgium, but, of course, of English blood.

The Limond —Veil horse Veilmond, also bred by Mr. Currie and now in his fifth year, is evidently in great w.f.a. form just now. On Saturday last he accounted for the Essendon Stakes, if mile, and yesterday the King’s Plate, lj mile, fell to him. When our last Australian mail left Sydney it was fully expected that notwithstanding the welter-weight of 9st. 91b. he would have to carry, Veilmond would be a starter in the Australian Cup next Saturday. However, his name is. not in the cabled acceptance list, and it is anything but a flattering commentary on the joint staying and weight-carrying capacity of presentday Australian horses that the topweight in the list is only Bst. 61b.