DIVOTS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 159, 21 June 1935, Page 2

DIVOTS

(Dug by ‘‘The Delver.”) Don’t forget that by 8 o’clock this (Friday) evening acceptances must be in for the Levin special meeting, also nominations for all events, including the Trial Plate, at the Wellington winter fixture. «■ . fc # Nominations for the Grand National Steeplechase, the Grand National Hurdle Race, the Winter Cup, the Beaufort and Lincoln Steeplechases, and the Sydenham Hurdle Race will close oil Friday of next week. * * * Hystride, the seven-year-old gelding by Hymestra —Missmaid, trained at Washdyke, died on Tuesday following an injury he received when schooling earlier in the week, Hystride was to have raced in the hurdle event at. Ashburton, to-morrow. * if -X 1 Metro!, who won tho June Handicap one mile, at the Mentone (Vic.) meeting on Wednesday last, is a four-year-old gelding by Chief Ruler from the Kilbroncy mare Kilteel, dam also of Mr. T. H. Lowry’s Iliad colt Plato. * ' * -xTurf Boy, who scored his fifth con secutive win when ridden by K. Voitre at the Williamstown meeting, is a three-year-old gelding by Gay Lothario from Saucy Sue. He is owned by the Caulfield trainer M. T. McGrath. * * * Rebel Lad, who won the Temuka Hack Handicap at Timaru on Saturday, is a three-year-old colt by Robiespierre from Keel Row, a mare who traced back to that great stud matron Ouida, who was imported from .Australia 50 years ago by Mr. R. J. Matthews, New Plymouth, and later went into the Wellington Park (Auckland.) stud. This family has given the New Zealand turf great performers in Hilda, Star Stranger, and Star Lady. # # * A.R.C. ‘‘Classics.” The Auckland Racing Club on Friday last received 925 entries for coming “classic” events as against 907 last year. They were as follows: Welcome Stakes (1935) ...... 67 G.N. Foal Stakes (1935-36) ... 104 Royal Stakes (1935-36) 113 G.N. Champagne Stakes (1936) 114 G.N. Guineas (1936) 140 G.N. Derby (1936-37) 170 G.N. Oaks (1937) 81 G.N. St. Leger (1937) 136 925 E. D. Jones’s Youngsters. Of the five yearlings in the team of F. D. Jones at Riccarton (states a Christchurch writer), two are owned by Mr. C. N. Draper. Cerne Abbas, by Lord Warden from Monoxide, is a sister to Custodian, while Custo is a colt by the same sire from Matata. Mr. H. D. Greenwood owns the other three. They are Document, a filly by Paper Money from La Paix; Pelian, a filly t>y Iliad from Goldspar and Kowtow, a colt by Liinond from Homage. They are a fine batch of youngsters, though Custo and Kowtow are not so foryard at present as the other three, who have shown a deal of promise in short sprints.

Two of Mr. Kemball’s. Mr. W. R. Kemball’s private trainer, W. McConkey, usually has a big team of youngsters at Tieiitliain at this period of tho season, but with the departure of tho Australian lot he is left with only two. One is Ivy Dene, a chestnut filly by Iliad from the Aus-trlian-bred Valais — Lady Capertee mare Valeni, whom Mr. Kemball bought two years ago, and she is a much more robust type than last year’s representative of the same breeding, Golden Anne, who was acquired early in the year for the Curragh Stud without being raced. The other is Lady’s Gold, a brown filly by Lord Quex from the Lucullus—Recoup mare Missgold, a useful performer, who at the stud has already left Ben Hur, Cape Gold and Carpathia, all winners. Both are goodlooking fillies, and they are already at the stage when they can be indulged in short sprints. ■X -X -X Profitable Plater. Doreen Jane, the winner of the valuable Ascot Stakes on Tuesday, was a selling plater only a couple of months ago. She won her first success in the Long Distance (jelling Handicap, 1 mile 51 furlongs, at Sandown Park on April 26, when she was owned by ti e Newmarket trainer T. R. Leader, and she was bought after the race by H. L. Cottrill for 360gns. on behalf of his patron, Sir Abe Bailey. As the Ascot Stakes is worth nearly £2OOO to the winner the investment has quickly proved a most profitable one. Duncan Grav, the sire of the winner, is a grey son of Pommern. Grey horses have been achieving unusual success in England so far this year, prompting one writer to remark that followers of the colour should be keeping well on the right side of their ledgers.

Home-bred Winners. Peter Pan and Hall Mark, the two most noteworthy winners bn the Australian turf this season, have both considerably increased their totals under the heading of privately-bred horses, and the first-named is now in second position to Limerick. Pollowing are the six leading winners privately bred in New Zealand and Australia: £ Limerick, bred by Mr. H. A. Knight, New Zealand .. 38,729} Peter Pan, bred by Mr. R. A. Hangar, New South Wales 31,910} Trivalve, bred by Mr. E. E. D. Clarke, Victoria 28,375 Poitrel, bred by Messrs. W. and I l ’. A. Moses, New South Wales 26,885 Rampion, bred by Messrs. J. E. and C. H. Brien, New South Wales 26,484 Hall Mark, bred by Mr. C. B. Kellow, Victoria 2(1,459 * * * Half-bred Oaks Winner.

Quashed, winner of this year’s Eng lisa Oaks, was one of the outsiders of the race, starting at a very long price. She beat Aukaret by a short head, with the Preach bred and owned Mesa, winner of the Thousand Guineas, who started favourite at almost level money, in third place. The race has been non by many fillies of superlative blood lines, but Quashed has probably made history, for she is ineligible for the General Stud -Book, being a daughter of Verdict, each of whose parents was accepted as half-breds. Verdict, however, was one of the greatest fillies of her year. As a two-ycar-old she was unbeaten, and the following year she won several good races, most outstanding of which was her defeat of the French colt Epinard in the Cambridgeshire, running the nine furlongs in 1.52, which was considered phenomenally fast time. The next year Verdict won the Coronation Cup—run over the Derby course—and beat many good horses, including Parth, Poisoned Arrow, Brownhylda, and Chosroes, who later demonstrated the excellence of the. form by winning the Manchester Cup.