BROUGHTON DOING WELL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 230, 27 August 1935, Page 12

BROUGHTON DOING WELL.

KING MARCH IN EASY WORK.

(By “Binocular.”) Reports from Christchurch state that W. Broughton, who broke a leg below the knee at the Grand National meeting, is making good progress. Hie John Griggs Stakes will figure on the spring programme of the Ashburton Club for the first occasion. 'That promising 'chaser, Royal Buck, may not be seen out for some time, owing to a ligament giving signs of weakness. The- Tiger, who has been recommissioned in Taranaki, is stated to have .done exceptionally well during his spell from tho active ranks. Among tlie most forward of the two-year-okls in work at Hastings is stated to be tho ltoydon—Starmist gelding, who was bred by Mr A. Louisson, of Christchurch. The amount of stake money distributed by . the Australian Jockey Club during the past season was £81,850. At Warwick Farm the distribution was £15,135. The four-year-old Paper Money—Ebba mare of Mr N. Blackrnore, has boon purchased by a patron of A. McAulay’s Riccarton stable. Awapuni stables furnish 16 nominations for the Wanganui meeting, being represented in every event with the exception of tho Marangi Handicap on the opening day. * Three additional horses come in on the second day. Tho racing days of Aladdin arc definitely over, for after the Christchurch Hunt meeting his owner gave him away to a nephew and Aladdin is now doing hack duty on a farm in North Otago. L. Knapp took two horses to the Pakuranga Hunt meeting and he had tho satisfaction of leading in one winner—the raking Gainsborough—Soutra gelding Gainsay. Miss Pango, however, failed in the cross country event While Marigold i 6 under a cloud mean- , time, her stable companion King March is being put through an easy preparation at Ellorslic. He may not bo quite forward enough for the Avondalo meeting. To dato 7SO owners have registered their ; colours, leaving about 2250 more to come. 1 Yalpeen and Prince Yal have returned to Matamata from Riccarton, after an absence of seven weeks, a period it took to take in .the Wellington and Grand National meetings. Prince Val has a bruised shoulder that will keep him off the scone for some lime, and the National j winner will now enjoy a well-earned spell. In Calcutta there are trainers with very ! large teams? In tho list given in the Calcutta Racing Calendar for July, W. Hayhoo had 39 homes in his care, Captain J. W. Becdham and E. S. Godfrey 30 each, M. All Asker 29, Dr S. K. Pillay 24, and several others with more than 20. 1

They are still training young two-year-olds to see how fast they can go over two or three furlongs, writes “Sentinel.” They are searching for speed instead of making the condition and courage to carry speed. Tho best trainers condition a horse and givo it a trial when ready, some trainers appear to train horses on trials, and the owner fails to stand tho trial. The northern owner, Mr A. D. Potter, has purchased a yearling colt by Cambria Park from Tovvyn. The youngster is very closely related to the good performer Kiltowyn, who is by Kilbroney from Towyn. Cambria Park is an unraced horse by Kilbroney from Tact, dam of Tactful and Exactly, who raced with a fair amount of success in Auckland some years ago. Racegoers at Agua Caliente and Tanforan (San Francisco) evidently like variety. At both courses in May the programmes included races for girl jockeys. Some time ago there was an agitation on the’part of some women for similar procedure in England, but nothing came of it. Of late several horse have been purchased for racing purposes in Fiji. The latest acquired by sportsmen for that purposo are Polar Star and a full-sister to Versant. Although Fleeting Glance was accorded a nomination for the Grand National meeting, she was not required to race, but will bo ready to contest hurdle events at the early spring meetings. She is in great condition at present, and should be well fitted for next month’s engagements, when sho will open her season’s racing. In New Zealand tho secretary of the Racing Conference has boen notified by the secretary of tho Victoria Racing Club that most of the horses arriving in Melbourne from tho Dominion are insufficiently branded, comments an Australian exchange. Tho

hair of tlio horse lias been merely singed, with the idea of complying with Victorian regulations. This will have to bo remedied, the V.R..0. stating that if horses are not adequately and permanently branded .registration will be refused. Presumably, it will bo the same in Sydney. Moro money goes through the place totalisutor than the straight-out bet because tlio risk with tlio former is considerably less. If place bets are paid on fields of eight and a punter backs two horses the risk is very much reduced to that going for a hit-or-miss bet. The less the risk the greater the business on the totalisator; the practical profit made by the punter is another matter. in other words, the punter for places punts for the plcasui'o of punting, but with not much liope of profit except at big meetings. Tlio pleasure of punting for places at iticearton or Trentham consists in tho tact that tho investor muy show a small profit even when u defeated favourite gets amongst the money.