RACING NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 175, 25 June 1926, Page 9

RACING NEWS.

FROM STABLE AND COURSE,

(By “Binocular.”)

June 26.—Hawke’s Bay J.C. (second day). July 6, a, 10. —Wellington. R.C. July 22. —Waimate District Hunt. July 22, 24.—Gisborne R.C. July 24.—South Canterbury Hunt. July 31.—Christchurch Hunt.

Hawke’s Bay meeting concludes tomorrow.

The Auckland horses Cawnpore, Quaker Oats, Bright Light and Subdivision, who were shipped to Sydney last week, will be trained on the other side by It. O’Donnell.

The three weeks’ spell ,to which Civility has been treated is reported to have done her good, and she is to be put into work again with a view to making the Winter Cup her next mission.

’Frisco Mail and Captain Sarto, who are both trained in South Canterbury, are booked for a trip to Trentham next month to compete among the hurdlers. The pair are probably the best the south can produce at the present time.

The price paid for Subjection is reported to have been 200 guineas, and at that figure the Martian horse should prove a payable proposition for his new owner, who is a patron of E. Murtagh’s stable.

All Wind, who went amiss during the Wanganui meeting, is now spoken of as being unlikely, to race again.

Limerick and Young Lochnivar were sprinted four furlongs at Riccarton on Tuesday morning, both moving freely.

Commendation, with L. G. Morris up, w'as cantered once round the Napier Park course last Friday during an interval between the races.- He is reported to have thickened out considerably.

Runnymede has been engaged in the leading spring events in New South Wales and Victoria. His ex-owner and breeder, Mr J. S. McLeod, has four youngsters in the Australian classics.

Insurrection, -who figures among the nominations for the spring events at the Trentham meeting, ran in a couple of races early *in the season, but prior to that he had not raced for two years. _

D’Oro, the full sister to Desert Gold, has, states an exchange, so far contributed three performers to the race track, viz., Moorland, Orofino and Orozino, all of whom were got by Finland. In 1923 D’Oro was mated with Lucullus and the result was a bay filly for whom the appropriate name of Doree has been claimed.

Royal Tea will, it is reported, remain in Australia in the hope that he will prove equal to the Derby test. Another New Zealander in Kiosk may also be found figuring therein.

The entries received by the Canterbury Jockey Club for its classic events total 964. an increase of 267 on last season’s figures.

The entries for the Melbourne Cup, to be run next November, _total 328 as compared with 353 in 1925 and 351 in 1924.

The totalisator house on the Southland Racing Club’s course is being moved back to make room for additional lawn enclosure.

We understand that further shipments of the coloured racing prints issued in connection with “Three Castles)” and' “Capstan Cigarettes” are now to hand and are available as advertised.

It is remarkable, states “The Watcher,” how horses in the sale list win races. Mr A. B. Williams placed Tuahine, My Hobby, Mali Jong and Gauntlet under offer prior to the Napier Park and Hastings meetings, and the three which have started have all won.

Rapine is reported to be going along nicely at Ngatarawa in view of racing in the spring. Joy King is also wintering well and in steady exercise. The trip to Australia lias, however, not yet 'been decided upon.

Comedy Prince sustained a bad knock in the Ahuriri Hurdles on the first day at Napier Park and did not figure on the programme the day.

Ecuador is a busy horse in the south at present, states an Invercargill scribe, it being the intention of his connections to take the Santa Rosa gelding to the Trentham and Grand National fixtures. ..

The Ellerslie trainer, T. George, arrived back from Sydney earlier in the week with the two-year-old Baby Bun which won at her second start in the ponies. George has put the imported mare White Bird into work again.

As was predicted by “Binocular” after the Otaki meeting, F. Tilley will take Glenross and Kilia to Trentham, not Shining Armour and Kilia. The pair may go on to Riccarton.

It is never safe to conclude because a horse has failed in racing that lie will also prove a non success as a sire, writes “Phaeton,” and the case of St. Leger can be cited as an illustration in that respect. When tested as' a racehorse the son of Doncaster and Atlantis was regarded as so inferior that he was cast out of training without much ceremony. The records show that St. Leger proved a marked success as a sire, and his dccendants fdaced their parent at the head of the ist in this Dominion in a number of years.

C. Gieseler, with thirty-six wins, has such a long lead from the next most successful trainer (F. W. Ellis, twenty-five and a-lialf) in the Dominion this season that it now looks assured that he will finish up the season in the premier position. Last season F. W. Ellis, with twenty-six and a-lialf wins, headed the list, and Gieseler was tenth with eighteen wins.

In the decision of the Second Nursery Handicap at the Australian Jockey Club’s winter meeting on the 12th instant King Val, a descendant of Valais, was responsible for a big surprise when he romped home in front of his opponents. King Val, who ran in the nomination of Mr F. Travena and Miss Ruby Jacques, cost 900gns when bought as a yearling.

Recent • winners at Sydney pony meetings included Good Leg (Balboa — Luresome), Arctic (Finland —Note), and Leading Lady (Limond —Cintra). The last-named is a half-sister to Foolish and Para, and was bred by Mr Geo. Currie at Ivoatanui.

At a sale of bloodstock at Hastings yesterday on behalf of Mr A. B. Williams. Gauntlet was sold to Hon. K. S. Williams for 400gns; Tuahine to Mr D. O. Rutherford (Culverden) for 250gns; and Mali Jong to Mr C. R. Stanfield (Dannevirke) for 150gns. My Hobby was not offered owing to having met with a slight • accident. Amongst other lots put up, Killoch went to Mr W. Pine (Hawera) for 50 gns. Megan, who won two Raukawa Cups at Otaki and ran second in the same event on June 3, was passed in at 20gns. RACING IN ENGLAND. LONDON, June 23. The Northumberland Plate resulted : Foxlaw 1, Tournesol 2, Templesto'we 3. Six started. Won by a short head.—Reuter. RACE CLUB HARD UP. LOCAL PEOPLE STAY AWAY. SVDNEY, June 16. The Juneo Race Club is in a serious financial position. The balance-sheet for the last race-meeting shows a loss of £66, making the overdraft approximately £550. The club has only 34 members. Most Riverina race and trotting meetings are failures financially. .Tunee’s troubles are due to lack of local public support. Four committeemen at the last race meeting promised to give £lO each towards the prize-money for the next meeting.