RACING NEWS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 210, 4 August 1934, Page 10

RACING NEWS

FROM STABLE AND COURSE,

(By “Binocular.”)

Adult was lamo after racing at Timaru and will probably require a spell. The report that the Arrowsinith filly Aro Arc had been sold is contrary 1o fact. Arcade is the first winner trained by J. Tomkinson, a son of the late W. J. Tomkinson. It was popularly received in the south. Air John Hole, president of.iho Timaru Trotting Club, has hold the position for 20 years.

It is anticipated that Niggerhoad will be improved by his recent racing and prove to be a better horse at the Grand National meeting. C. Broughton has been displaying plenty of promise in the role of hurdle rider, and he nearly brought homo a big dividend winner in Kinross at Awapuni. Huntique narrowly beat Manawatu at Foxton and ho then went on to win in the mud at Trentham. Manawatu failed tb repeat the effort at Awapuni, so presumably the track conditions diitered. Golden Chant was taken to the Great Northern and also to the Wellington meetings only to be greeted with heavy tracks which she failed to handle to advantage. As the going at Awapuni was heavy the Arausio mare was not produced. Granado was well backod at Timaru as a result of the good race he ran at Waimate. However, ho did not reproduce that form, and ran according to his reputation. Thirty-four horses remain in the Winter Cup after the declaration of the acceptances, so there is ample room for a further shrinkage without reducing the interest in the race. Parasang, who gave a good display of jumping at Timaru, was got by Tractor from llucna, by Solferino. liuena is a sister to Taboo, who won quite a number of races, being a champion in heavy going. The Polazel gelding Potingham, who registered a runaway victory in the hurdle contest at Timaru, is from Sweet Beauty,

a mare by Greyspcar from Sweet Smile, the dam of Polydora, who was also got by Polazel. The success of Cheap Money at Washdyke last week brought the total wins of the Riccarton trainer, S. Barr, to 36, and he concluded the season in second place. It is probably tho highest total credited a Riccarton mentor for some years. It is reported from the south that Calla- ' mart has been backed for the Grand National double and a writer says : — u His admirers are entitled to very long odds, as the feat has not yet bean accomplished, and it is a thousand to one that it never will be." However, Callamart did not happen to be a double acceptor. Morepork proved a very costly favourite at Timaru, where ho looked a winner up to a mile, but then collapsed to a canter. It is understood, remarks an exchange, that he was short of work -as the result of a mishap. The consolation will no doubt tempt some to recover the lost cash when he next appears on the scene. Coll, for some years past raced on the West Coast with success, is now being trained at Ashburton by J. J. Lewis for Mr P. Galligan, of Christchurch, and has had a good deal of schooling. He is a rising eight-year-old gelding by Lord Quex from Holywell, dam of other winners in Eisteddof and Llandudno. Several of Lord Quex's progeny have shown an aptitude for hurdling, and as Coll is of the solid order, and quite sound, he should make good under his new colours. The veteran steeplechaser St. Warrigal was well backed in the Hunt Club Steeples at Rotorua, but he never looked a winner at any stage of the race. The • winner, Golden England, set up a fast pace from the start, and although St. Warrigal fenced safely he was a beaten horse before the last half-mile was covered. As a jumper St. Warrigal can hold his own with the best, but he lacks stamina, and being an unsound horse his future prospects do not look over bright. Both M. Holmes and J. Bryce, junr., who occupy second place to the Auckland reinsman, F. J. Smith, must thank their early training in galloping stables for the success they have enjoyed during the season. Holmes is a light-weight in the trotting sport (says an exchange), but like his brother, F. G. Holmes, he put on weight in his early youth which militated against much success where the seven stone minimum reigns. Holmes served an apprenticeship under his father, and, like R. B. Berry, who was in the same stable, learned all there was to be known about horses under the veteran's care. Maurice Holmes very early in life showed his ability in the saddle with the hoppled pacer, and he rode Bonny Logan to a record of 2min 9 l-ssec for a mile in 1929. He has many important races to his credit, the number including the New Zealand Cup, Auckland Cup, New Zealand and Groat Northern Derbies, New Zealand Sapling Stakes, and apparently the one big race that he has to win on the NewZealand trotting calendar is the Free-for-All. His handling of the crack pacer, Harold Logan, in the invitation match races, has shown the value of his. experience, and much of tho gelding's success can be attributed to his expert roinsmanship. Holmes trains a small team of horses at Yaldhurst, but most of his success this season has been attained with horses from outside stables.