DIVOTS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 160, 22 June 1935, Page 2

DIVOTS

(Dug by “The Delver.”)

The “Okawa” (H. 8. bred Grandcourt gelding Courtyard is amongst the latest recruits to hurdling being schooled at Riccarton.

_ The Hunting Song horse Gaine Carrington is now located at the St. Albans Stud, Geelong (Victoria), so that he looks to have a fine chance of making good as a sire.

Hounslow is reported to be schooling well, and acted as schoolmaster to Radiant Rose over six flights of hurdles. Hounslow’s display suggests that he is coming back to the term that enabled him to win the Grand National Hurdle Race two years age.

Baanya, who is to be ridden in V.R.C. Grand National Hurdles by Aucklander L. Dulieu, started favourite last year with 11.2 anti finished fourth. This season he has 11.3. Prior to his defeat last year he won the Leamington Hurdles at Caulfield with 11.13.

The Grand National Steeplechase winner Royal Limond had a tew days’ rest after lie returned from Auckland, but D. O’Cpnuor has him in. work again in preparation for a trip to Trentham next month. He has made so much improvement in. his jumping, as a result of his recent racing, that he will have to be reckoned with in other events during the winter.

Those who look on the thoroughbred as a beautiful but very expensive toy, remarks a. well-known authority, are apt to overlook the fact that centuries of racing have toughened tho breed until they can actually stand more hardship than any other make of horse, and can improve any breed, even for draught work.

Craball for Trantham. The southern jumper Graball suf. fered no ill-effects from his three hard races at the Dunedin winter meeting, and it is intended to race him at the Wellington meeting next month, where ho will contest the Wellington Steeplechase. The dispute about his ownership has been amicably settled, and Graball is definitely the sole property of Mr W. E. Hazlett. * * * At Levin Next Week. Tho Te Rapa-trained gelding Grand Score is expected to have his next outing at the Levin meeting on June 29, says an Auckland writer. He ran a very creditable third at the To Kuiti meeting last month and his form was very encouraging in view of the fact that he was not at his best after a length}' spell. Like his half-brothers, Paddon and Chang, he revels in heavy going. «- * fl Anyone Want a Racecourse? At Blenheim last Saturday, the Marlborough Racing Club's racecourse was put up for disposal under tho instructions of the mortgagees, and under conduct of tho Supreme Court. A final bid of £lOOO was received, but the property was passed in. Tho mortgage is for £.5000, and it is understood that a further £2OOO is owing as accumulated interest and rates. fl * «- Up-to-Date. This year Belmont Park racecourse (New York) has a most up-to-date horse hospital, a prominent New York veterinary surgeon being in charge. An operating-room, an X-ray room, and box stalls for ailing horses are provided. As nearly 1000 horses are stabled at Belmont Park, right throughout a meeting, the hospital will bo well patronised. Touching on stabling requirements at that track, the Brookmeade Stable alone sent 51 horses for last month’s meeting. fl fl fl Broken Neck Mended. At the Liverpool spring meeting this year, a racehorse named Henri’s Choice fell during a hurdle race and broke his neck. Most owners would have sent for the humane killer, but Henri’s Choice had an unusual owner. Ho sent the horse to a Liverpool veterinary hospital, where the broken neck was set in plaster and equipped with a special frame to keep it straight while the broken bones knitted. After seven weeks, the horse was discharged as fit again, and he will he turned out for the rest of the summer preparatory to going into training again. fl fl fl Mixed the Colours. Racegoers find frequent occasion for comment on the similarity between tho racing jackets of different owners. At times it is difficult to distinguish between horses during the running of a race, with tho colours they carry so nearly alike. There was a case of this nature in the Soiithburn Hack Handicap at Washclvke last Saturday. The colours of Mr W. A. Land, owner of Me Heath, are “Cerise, blue spots,” and Pompeii, another contestant, is owned by Mr J. M. Samson, whose jacket is “Cerise, royal blue armbands.” McHeath won, and as evidence of the similarity of the colours, the totalizator staff worked out and nosted the dividend on Pompeii. This is a branch of racing control that is in need of greater supervision.

Cold Cure's Ownership, In a recent note, says a Wellington writer, it was stated that Gold Cure is now owned by Mr J. R. McDonald, but a Feiiding correspondent points out that Mr McDonald holds the horse only on lease and that his owner is still his breeder, Mr C. F. Jonnsten, of Feiiding, who raced him before he broke down some years ago. Tho correspondent adds: “Mr Johnston let tile Awapuni trainer Mrs A. McDonald have Gold Cure for show purposes and hunting, and has now given a lease to Mr J. R. McDonald, of Dannevirke, on tho condition that should the horse show any signs of breaking down again he is to lie immediately returned to the owner.”

Fox's Classic Tally. F. Fox, who was on Bahram in the Derby, and also rode him in the Two Thousand Guineas, which he won on Diolite in 1930, won the 1931 Derby on Camcronian, and was second on Walter Gay in 1928. Fox’s first win in ono of tho important three-year-old races was on Mr J. A. Rothschild’s Atmah in the One Thousand Guineas in. 1911. Fox won the St. Leger on tho Aga Khan's Firdaussi in 1932, so that he now needs only the Oaks to join the jockeys who have won the five. Gordon Richards requires the Derby, One Thousand, and Two Thousand to give him the five. He won the Oaks on Rose of England and the St. Leger on Singapore. Easton, who was second to Windsor Lad last year, is Richards's only Derby place-getter. fl * * Poor Fellow! Mr Robert Jansen, leader of the ring in Victoria tor many years, does not intend to renew his license at Fleming--ton for the bookmakers’ sccisou which begins on July 1. Ho will, however, continue to operate at all other metropolitan courses, Mr Jansen stated that the principal reason why ije did not intend to bet again at Flemington was because of the heavy taxation, and, furthermore, that results for a considerable time had conclusively shown that the bookmaker had little or no hope of winning there. He said he had lost a huge amount of money during the last two years at Flemington. He added: “You can only lay the favourites in almost any race, but you cannot lay the outsiders.” ‘fl fl fl Grand National Winner—Perhaps. Adult winner of the hurdle race at Washdyke on Saturday, was bred by Mr G. D. Greenwood for whom he failed to win a race. He has, however, notes a Southern writer, done fairly well for his present owner, but has suffered from persistent knee trouble, which comes against him after any strenuous work. He is therefore a difficult horse to keep right, otherwise he would have occupied a more prominent place in the hurdling honours list. Provided he can be kept right and can get tho required preparation ho makes strong appeal as a Grand National candidate. Adult is by Arrowsmith, his dam, Adour, being by Danube from Perle d’Or, by Multiform from Aura. It is a great racing line which was in evidence also in- Hawke's Bay last week, Leggy Defoe, the Maiden Plate winner at Hastings, being from a halfsister to Adult’s dam.