THE TURF

Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 200, 25 July 1931, Page 3 (Supplement)

THE TURF

Topics From Overseas

(By “Binocular.”)

Simba’s Trainer. It is understood that when Simba resumes work, he will be trained by G. Young at Randwick. Stake Winners. There were three New Zealand-bred winners at the Goodwood, Western Australia, meeting on July 4. Garvary, by Sutala from Eyelid, accounted for the hurdle race, Appian Way, by Tractor from Jada, won the Winter Handicap, and Valpre, by Chief Ruler from Valerie, the Final Handicap. A Success. Hon. George Lambton, who resumed training Lord Derby’s horses some months ago, had his first win of this season for that owner when Bute won the Hambleton Plate at York on May 20'. As the season commenced about two months previously, Mr Lambton was slow off the mark, and it does not appear as if he has the material with which to carrv Lord Derby’s winnings to last year’s total of £37.219. Coeerleon last week won for Lord Derby the Eclipse Stakes at Sandown, but a sensation was caused by an inquiry into the horse’s running compared with a previous effort. Out of the Common. Lieutenant-Colonel C. W. Birkin, owner of the English Oaks _ winner Brulette, holds a very high opinion of his filly, whom he believes is something out of the common. Brulette is a French-bred filly by Bruleur from Seaweed, by Spearmint, and like her brother, Hotweed, she is a' genuine stayer. Brulette did her previous racing in France and was taken across to England only a few days before the Oaks contest.

Great Trotting Matron. Goldsmith Maid, several times holder of the world’s record and the world’s greatest stake-winner (£72,000), was the grand-dam of Boodle, who sired Elsie Downs, the dam of First Voyage. The name of First Voyage is well-known throughout New Zealand as the sire of many first-class trotters in this country, a few that have won good races being Grand Voy-, age, Tradesman, Kean John, Surprise Journey, Western Voyage, and Sir Voyage. English Sire Fees.

A statement was recently made jn a section of the American Press that Blandford (sire of the Derby winners Trigo and Blenheim) was “the highest fee stallion at the stud in the British Isles.” Blandford’s fee is 400 guineas, and his list is full for 1931 and 1932. Solario, however, is standing at 500 guineas, and his list is full for 1931 and 1932. Tetratema is also standing at 500 guineas. Trigo is at 400 guineas, and others whose fees are 400 guineas are Buchan, Hotweed (French Derby winner), Gay Crusader, Grand Parade (Derby winner), and Pommern. Son-in-Law (premier sire in 1924 and 1930) is at 300 guineas. 'The highest fee sire announced in America is Black Toney, £IOOO. One or two are at £6OO, and quite a number at from £3OO to £4OO. “Triple Crown” Winners.

In view of th© possibility* evep probability, that another “triple crown” winner will b© added to English records this year in Cameronian, already winner of‘the Two Thousand Guineas and the it is interesting to note what horses have to date had their names so enrolled. First on the list comes West Australian (by Melbourne),. who won distinction in 1853, and at an internal of twelve years came the series of victories on the part of the French-bred colt Gladiateur, by Monarque, who carried the colours of Count de Lagrange. Eleven other horses have subsequently won the treble, these being: —Lord Lyon (by Stockwell). in 1866; Ormonde (by Bend Or), in 1886; Common (by Isonomy), in 1891; Galtee More (by Kendal) in 1897; Flying Fox (by Orme), in 1899; Diamond Jubilee (by St. Simon), in

Horses And Performances

1900; Rock Sand (by. Sainfoin), in 1903; Pommern (by Polymelus), in 1915; Gay Crusader (by Bayardo), in 1917; and Gainsborough (by Bayardo), in 1918.

A Good-Looker. The South Australian owner, Mr E. E. Jolly, has not yet started his Limond —Full Swing colt J , Fulmond. This colt is held to be the best-look-ing youngster in training in South Australia, and is destined to contest the Derbies in the spring. Mr Jolly is particularly pleased with the way his relative to Nightmarch has developed. He will not be the only Limond colt to appear in the spring as a maiden, as the full relative to Cylinder in the colt Cypress from Cymene, who might contest the Australian Derbies, is a novice performer. The Full Swing colt cost 1500 guineas at the Trentham sales. Cymene, who was purchased at the Kinloch dispersal sale for 2250 guineas, with Cylinder at foot, was then carrying Cypress, as she was sold as in foal to Limond.

Once Bitten. Brisbane bookmakers will not be so graciously liberal with their odds the next time a well-dressed lady sweetly asks the price of an outsider, in the accents of a five-shilling punter (writes “Vedette,” in the Sydney Referee). Recently two such helped to give them one of their worst wallops for a long time. There was a lady in blue and a lady in red, and they canvassed the better known bookmakers around the ring for Sweet Bint in the two-year-old. One bookmaker laid the lady in red twelve ponies, and the lady in blue secured her wagers mostly in fivers at odds of from 12’s to 10’s. In all they must have won £IOOO between them when the grey ’filly took the lead early, and stopped there. And afterwards they compared notes with a couple of gentlemen friends within the precincts of the ring, wdiere they will be well-known the next time they ask the price of a horse.

Death of Famous Stallion. The death occurred last month at the Straffan Station. Kildare, Ireland, of the famous stallion Roi Herode, sire of The Tetrarch and many other good winners. Roi Herode. who was 27 years old, was bred in France, being by Le Samaritain from Roxelane, and after he broke down in the 1909 Doncaster Cup the late Mr Edward Kennedy bought him for £9OO. Roi Herode was an immediate success at the stud and his first crop of foals included The Tetrarch.. who won £ll,336 as a two-year-old.

English-bred. Twenty Grand, winner of the Kentucky (U.S.A.) Derbv, is almost wholly “British bred.” He was one of the three best, two-year-olds in America last season, the others being Jamestown! and Equipoise. The Kentucky Derby is run over ten furlongs, and Twenty Grand made a new record for the track—2min 1 4-ssec, which may be compared with Phar Lap’s mile and a quarter in 2.3 at Randwick. The Kentucky Derby is. the greatest of America’s races, and is worth £lO,000.

Form Erratic. History repeated itself in the English Oaks, when two-year-old form was upset. Four Course,, one of the best two-year-olds of last season, won the One Thousand Guineas a few weeks ago, but in the Oaks she had to strike her colours to Brulette, a French-bred filly, who did no racing last season. Links Tor, who filled third place, failed to gain a place last season in three starts. Brulette’s sire, Bruleur, won the great French three-.year-old race, the Grand Prix de Paris, in 1913. He was a high-class racehorse who has sired a number of good performers.

Triton Among Minnows. The Czecho-Slovakian horse, Gyi Lovam! who fell when he ran in the recent Liverpool Grand National, in England, made amends immediately after his return to his own country by winning a steeplechase of nearly two and a-half miles at Prague. There is evidently a great difference between a champion where horses are indifferent and where they are high class. They go much faster on the flat and over the jumps in England than they do in Central Europe, and Gyi Lovam ! was quite outclassed in the few races he contested on foreign soil. Ireland’s Lastest Idea. According to the. Dublin correspondent of the London Daily Express, every person holding a winning ticket in the Irish Hospitals Sweep on the Manchester November Handicap will have to spend 5 per cent, of his winnings on goods made and sold in Ireland. At latest report the scheme had been definitely adopted by the Irish Hospitals Trust, although the sanction of the Minister of Justice was required before it could be carried into effect. Under this scheme the winner of a £30,000 prize would receive £28.500 in cash and a voucher entitling him to £ISOO worth of goods manufactured in Ireland and sold by an Irish firm. The prize fund in the Manchester November Handicap is expected to be £2.500,000. If it does reach that, £125,000" of the winners’ money will go back info' Irish industry. Even the winner of a modest “fiver” will have to expend 5 per cent, on Irish goods

A “PERFECT MODEL.” SECRET OF PHAR LAP’S SUCCESS. LIES IN THE LENGTH FROM STIFLES TO HOOFS. If you study the skeleton of Carbine, one of Australia’s equine wonders, you will notice that the formation of the hind legs, including the stifle and round bone, are distinctly different from that of most racehorses.

Then, with this knowledge to help vou, take a good look at Phar Lap. Now proceed to examine this latest freak animal from head to heels, writes “R.A.,” in the Globe.

Phar Lap’s head is rather small, and is set upon a long neck. There is just a small tendency to what is known as “ewe neck.” The ears are fine and generally pricked forward when the horse is not running.

The muscles of the neck downward from the roots of the ears are well developed, and stand well back from the windpipe, leaving ample room for the working of the main arteries to the head. The eyes are full and intelligent looking, and show a good fighting quality. The neck is well set into the body. There is no great height of the withers, and the scapulas are long and flat, coming to the chest with an easy fall. The upper forelegs are well developed and taper nicely to the knees, and the cannon bones are straight with good strong back tendons.

The upper pasterns are long and the lower ones fit perfectly into wellshaped hoofs. From the withers to back of the forelegs the body allows for great lung capacity. The back is not too Jiollow from the withers to the tail, and there is not too much goose rump. From the girth to the crutch there is a good sweep.

It is to the hind legs, hoWvver, that we must look for the secret of diar Lap’s speed. Like old Carbine, the drop from the stifles to the hocks is remarkably long, and the same perfect formation of the lower portion of the legs is similar to that of the forelegs. There is a perfect curve from the tail to the hocks.

Now the reason for Phar Lap’s speed is this: The length of his hind legs from stifles to hoofs makes his stride much longer than that of most racehorses. At full gallop his hind feet are level with (and on the outside) of his forefeet as the latter rest briefly on the course. The hind legs being so placed enables the horse to lift, well, and throw his forefeet well out in front, thus making the stride particularly long. The whole build of Phar Lap is symmetrical from a veterinary point of view, and as a racer he is a perfect model.