SPORTING

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7249, 31 August 1933, Page 4

SPORTING

HADIN'Or DATES. Sept. 2: Taranaki Hunt Club. Sept. 2: Otago Hunt Club. Sept. 13: Marton J.O. Sept. 16: Ashburton C.li.C. Sept. 21, 23: Wanganui J.C. Sept. 21, 23: Geraldine Racing Club. Sept. 30: Napier Park E.C. Sept. 30.—Foxton E.C. Sept. 30: Kurow J.C. October 5, 7. —Dunedin J.C. October 6, 7. —Otako Maori E.C. October 1-I.—Master-ton E.C. October 14. —South Canterbury J.C. October 14, 16.—Avondale J.C. October 10, 21, 23.—Wellington E.C. October 21, 23.—Gore R.C. October 23.—Waverley E.C. October 23.—Waipawa County E.C. October 23. —North Canterbury E.C. October 23.—Waikato Hunt Club. October 26, £8. —Poverty Bay T.C. October 28. —Banks Peninsula R.C. GREAT SPRINTER RETIRES GBEENLINE’S WINNING TOTAI £16,365. An Australian message states that Greeuline, the great stake-winning sprinter, is to retire from the turf because his owner does not want to see him demean his brilliant record with further poor form in his waning years. Six furlongs was really his limit as a champion but he stood up to hard racing from two to nine years and he con tested most of the Commonwealth’s hardest sprint races and he won £16,365 in stakes, £4732 of thi3 total at five years.

BIG OFFER TURNED DOWN

An offer of 150,000 dollars (£30,000 at paT) was made by Mr Clandenning Ryan for the five-year-old stallion, Mate, who twice defoated Twenty Grand as a three-year-old, but thts was turned down by Mr A. C. Rostock, whoso refusal to part -with the horse came as a sarpriso to many Americans for Mate, beaten by a couple of moderates during June, appeared to have slipped a long way down the racing ladder.

EXPENSIVE COLT

The highest price realised at the French yearling sales at Deauville it 1931 was 510,000 francs for a colt by Pharos from Saiato Uusule,

Known as San Marco, the colt did not raco until this season, and at his second attempt won a small raco at Chantilly. He then showed his class by winning the Prix le Marois, ono mile and aquarter, an important throe-year-old race at Le Tremblay on June 2S. The event was worth over £IOOO to tho winner, so there is a good chance of San Marco proving worth the big sum gives for him as a yearling. Ho was one of the first two thoroughbreds purchased by the famous perfume manufacturer, Mr Francois Coty, who afterwards handed him over to his son, Roland.

LIGHTER WITH AGE.

J. Pike can go to scale lighter than a couple of years ago, and in England the ex-Australian, B. Gairelake, is now able to do 8.5, whereas it would have troubled him to Tcduce to that eight or nine year 3 ago. English writers, in mentioning that Carslake rode Cresset at 8.5 in a Welter Handicap Plate at Lingfield on duly 8, nay he was very properly repaid, as that gelding won. When C-arslako won the Doncaster Handicap on Famous at Sandwich 28 years ago. that horse carried 9st. It is said of Carslake that no jockey in England makes a closer study of getting a horso balanced before he asks it to gallop in earnest.

AfxA KHAN WINS A DERBY

The South African jockey, C. Buckham, who, it was cabled, was killed in a motor accident less than a fortnight later, won the Welsh Derby, of £B9O, on tho Aga Khan's Shamsuddin on July 8. It is a race iu which thcro are allowances, and Shamsuddin had 7,7 against the 8.0 of Interlace (second) and S.lO, of Montrose (third).

racing- pests.

Sydney police did racegoers a good turn when by their vigilance they got rid of the tricksters and other undesirables who used to infest tho provincial race trains (states the Sydney Referee). Followers of these meetings consider that the work could now be carried a step further by the dropping of a hint to the crowds of hangers-on who wait at the Central Station for the trains to return from the races. Provincial patrons have to run the gauntlet of dozens of these people, who are waiting outside tho platforms in the hope of getting a few shillings. It is not pleas■ant when refusal is often met by offensive TCmarks.

BOOKMAKERS’ PETITION

Two weeks ago bookmakers operating at the former A.E.C. courses signed a petition for racos on all metropolitan courses to be divided on the tops and bottoms principle, instead of odds and evens, and later the A.J.C. bookmakers attached their names to a similar request. They contend that the betting would take a wider range than it does at present, when sometimes only half-a-dozen horses near the top of the weights look to have a chance in au acceptance of 20, and they arc then scattered over the two divisions.

SILVER SCORN’S FORM

SURPRISING.

Silver Scorn's poor showing in the Warwick Stakes, of ono mile, at Warwick Farm, last Saturday, and her subsequent withdrawal from important engagements, must have come as a great surprise to New Zealand racing \enthusiasts, for tho “Flying Filly'.' gave

a display of real speed in a work-out at Randwick on the Tuesday morning. She was ono of the earliest workers on the course proper and although the flags were -10 feet out, she put up the remarkably good time of 1.291 for seven furlongs, moving perfectly throughout and having a lot in reserve at the finish. UNUSUAL TOTS. The Goodwood authorities had something novel for the public when the totalisator was used for the flrst time at that course at the July meeting. Difficulty in finding space for ono building was overcome by setting it into a hillside, and using the roof as a stand for tho public.

GTACtO hunt club,

ACCEPTANCES' RECEIVED,

The following are the acceptances for the Otago Hunt Club’s meeting on September 2, at 'Wingatui:— SEA VIEW HURDLE of SO sovs.; 11 miles.

KEITH VOITRE ON EASY LIST

When King March fell with him after passing the. post in tho Jellieoa Handicap at the Pakuranga meeting, the leading horseman, Keith Voitre, sustained an injury to a knee which has kept him out of the saddle ever since. He was unable to ride at the Hawke’s Bay meeting last week, and will not attend the Taranaki Hunt meeting nest Saturday. HECTOR GRAY’S APPEAL An appeal against ■ the decision of the now defunct licensing committee o£ the New Zealand Racing Conference refusing to grant his application for a trainer’s license for the 1933-31 season has been lodged by 11. E. (Hector) Gray, the former well-known jockey and subsequently for a short period training at Takauini. Tho appeal is made under rule 10" of the Rules of Racing, which was revoked at the last annual meeting of the conference, but which still applies to decisions of the old licensing committee. Tho rule is:— Any district committee, or any person aggrieved at any decision, order, direction, or determination of tho licensing committee with respect to licences or certificates, may appear to the conference, and the provisions of part XV. hereof shall, with the necessary modifications, apply in respect of every such appeal. Tho time and place for hearing tho appeal will be fixed later.

MB KEMBALL’S ILL LUCK

A stroke of- ill fortune was experienced by Mr W. R. Kemball on Tuesday when one of his January purchases had to be destroyed as a result of injuries (states “Rangatira” iu the Post). The youngster was tho two-year-old Night Raid—Sweet Charity colt Abundant, a half-brother to Netley and Knight-like, and he had cost 160 guineas in the ring. The accident

AWAPUNI COLT LEAVES TOR AUSTRALIA INFLATION SAILS TO-DAY Mr H. E. Edmund's four-year-old colt, Inflation, left Awapuni for Wellington by the Auckland mail this morning and he will leave for Sydney by the Wanganella to-day. Alan McDonald is in charge of the colt, and Tommy Green, who will rido him in his engagements, made up the party. Inflation demonstrated at Wanganui that ho will not take long to reach top form, and if all goes well with him during his final preparation, he should be capable of picking up a stake or two.

occurred simjfly while tho colt was in playful mood. He attempted to jump the fence of his enclosure, and, catching Ms rug in tho wire, fell and broke one of his forelegs. He was being trained by W. Hawthorne, and, although ho was not as forward as some of Mr Kemball’s other youngsters, he had given promise of developing into a really fine type of racehorse.

Quinonal H 4 Ilystride 0 0 0 >E Polling Day 10. 9 Blue Metal a Katiuna 10 1 Ecclefechan 9 OTAGO HUNT CUP STEEPLECHA. HANDICifP, of 110 sovs.; 2i miles. Unitali 11 3 Willow Glen 10 o Diamond Jack 9 10 Broadficld 0 31 Graball 9 I 0 0 Sir Bichard 9 11 Mavora 9 Mill. Mavora 0 .0 Burglar 9 PRESIDENT’S HANDICAP, oi GO sovs.; 5 furlongs. Arden's Beauty S 11 Gold Dres3 7 13 Cherry Queen 7 13 Tracsono 7 11 Molten 7 7 Daring Deed 7 t 'Dissemble 7 7 Half Note Pink Draft Last Pink Witch of Erin 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 Dimpy Chota Scctu 7 7 7 7 7 7 TALLY ILO HANDICAP, of 90 sovs.; .1 mile. .Salmo Salar 0 0 Water Power 8 13 Ngt. Recital Lochard 7 7 9 9 Gallant Pox S 2 Kakara 7 7 7 Cliarmaino 7 9 Reminder 7 HUNTERS’ PLAT HANDICAP, of GO sovs.; .1 miles. Pharaoh 10 0 Broadlield 9 3 Sonio Aero 0 13 Ecclefcchan 9 0 Urn tali 9 0 . Towiug 9 0 YAUXIIALL HANDICAP, of 00 sovs.; (5 furlongs.

Blazon 0 3 Gold Dress 7 9 High Speed 8 10 Tracsono 7 7 Arden's Roland 7 7

Beauty ■ 8 7 Gold Boy 7 7 Grand Finale S 4 Colonel Shock 8 3 Craivford 7 7 Pink Paper ' 8 2 JDimpy 7 7