TOPICS of the TURF

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 149, 25 June 1937, Page 10

TOPICS of the TURF

Awapuni Track Notes

GOING MUCH IMPROVED TOR YESTERDAY'S PROGRAMME. The weather was fine and overcast for track work at Awapuni yesterday morning, and the going, which was perfect, was firmer than for some time past. The flags were against the outer fence and the horses were required to cover quite a hit of extra ground in their gallops. As on Tuesday, chief interest centred in the work of the candidates for the Dannovirke Hunt meeting, and their efforts were satisfactory. One of the first gallops on the course proper was that in which Dawning Light (C. Howe) and Gay Boy (W. J. Broughton) figured, and it was ovei seven furlongs. Gay Boy appeared to be going to get the better of the start but Broughton steadied him and Dawning Light, beginning smartly, set the pace to the half mile. The first furlong was run in even time, two furlongs in 28 3-5 and the first half mile in 55 3-5. They were together at the three and they broke 1.10 for five furlongs. Dawning Light was not permitted to loaf in the home stretch and he finished . a shade in front, the full distance taking them 1.36 2-5. There is a chance that Dawning Light will be tried over a middle distance. Riotous (W. J. McDowell) and Tangled (M. Stewart) were put over two of the brush fences and the post and rails, and they gave a faultless exhibition, jumping very smoothly. They were then given strong pace work on the plough. Sporting Gift (S. Anderson), an acceptor for the hack sprint at Danne* virke, was sprinted five furlongs, going resolutely throughout to complete the distance in 1.9 1-5. He is only a little chap but he a very nice mover. Aurora's Love (J. Gallagher) was sent along over four of the schooling fences, giving a fine display for a novice. Rangemore, a rising three-year-old by Nightmarch out of Note, owned by Mr B. G. Montague, of Christchurch, was clocked to run three furlongs in a little better than even time. Ho is in George New's stable and he is a likely-looking sort. Catalogue (A. McDonald) hopped away short of the five and after break- 1 ing 15 for the first furlong, he came home the last half mile in 55 secs, moving attractively throughout. Lady Ina (C. W. France) was part- : nered with Corroboree (R. Chisholm) : over six furlongs and they were clocked to run the first two furlongs in 26, three furlongs in 39 4-5, and they required 1.23 2-5 for the full distance, Lady Ina finishing a shade in front. Happy Haunting (Broughton) was 3 worked over a mile, maintaining even j time for six furlongs and cutting out the last two furlongs in 27 I*s. Manawatu (A. McDonald) was gal- , loped with Old Surrey (Broughton) over j a mile, but the pace was not on at any stage. They broke 1.30 for the last six furlongs, and came home from the three in 43 3-5. After a slow beginning, Sir Mount (J. , Chaplin) sprinted three furlongs in 43 , 3-5-AN INTEKJBSTINO PAKADE i 1 At Kceneland (Lexington) on April , 21 there was a parade of retired geld- ( ings that had greatly distinguished i themselves in their day in America. They were: Sarazen, 16 years, 27wins, , £45,000; Mike Hall, 12 years, 19 wins, , £42,700; Osmand, 12 years, 23 wins, i £31,595; Jolly Roger, 14 years, 18 wins, « £28,648; Clyde Van Dusen, 11 years, 12 ] wins, £24,422; and Cherry Pie, 17 years, ] 21 wins, £14,550. Mike Hall and Cherry ; Pie are bays, and the other four chest- { nuts. < NO AVENUE OF PROFIT OVERLOOKED From a breeding viewpoint, success in one of the English classics goes further than enchaneing the values of ' the winner’s sire and dam. Thus, as 1 a result of Le Ksar’s win in the Two t Thousand Guineas, the stud fee of Hot- < weed will be increased from 98 guineas « to 148 guineas next season. Ilotweed, t on the material side of his pedigree, Is e not related to Lo Ksar, but, like the latter’s sire, Ksar, is a son of Bruleur. 1 MADE WEIGHT AFTER ROLL IN < FLOUR ( { The last-minute wasting indulged in 1 by P. Maher before he rode the win- i ner of the recent Chester Cup recalled » to the mind of an English writer the 1 methods adopted by C. Trigg to get jdown to 6.6 to pilot Vendale, winner of f the corresponding race in 1903. There were no Turkish baths in Ches- I ter at that time, and although Trigg be i gan starving his small frame, this did < not seem likely to be effective. A * friend then conceived the idea of steam- * ing the bathroom of a local hotel by f turning on all the hot water taps and 1 blocking up the doors and windows. ' Smothered in sweaters, the jockey had 1 to exercise in the bathroom, perspiring 1 like a bull. When he could stand the steam no longer, Trigg had to keep running round the corridors of the house. He did the weight after being rolled bodily in ' flower, and had the satisfaction of winning the race by a length from the favourite, Throwaway. RIDERS FOR WAIPA. * 1 Additional riding engagements for 1 Waipa are:—B. Sullivan, Erination, Cbang; N. R. McKenzie, Stormy Weather, Enge; J. Muir, Xinkle, Windsor 1 Lad, Boughal; O. Mclnally, Sunny Downs, Johnny Walls, Maufigakowhai; R. Horne, General Riske, Hutana, Gay * Rose, Tonnerre; J. Day, Superior Guard, Killadar; J. Mcßae, Valpai; C. G. 1 Goulsbro, Sweet Rose, Ngakaru, Besiege, Bonny Gay. 1 MANAWATU ACCEPTANCES. t Acceptances for the Manawatu meeting aro due next Monday.

SALE OF ENGLISH SIRE FOR 8700 GUINEAS BIDDING DUEL BETWEEN N.Z. AND N.S.W. At Messrs. Win. Inglis and Son's dispersal sale of Mr. Harry Taylor's Macquarie Stud at Wellington, N.S.W., on June 10, the spirited competition for imported Melfort resolved itself into a ‘duel between N.S.W. and New Zealand. The first bid, 2000gns., came from Mr. Haley, whose valuable sire, Bullhead, comes of the same great sire-line. Then Mr. W. T. Hazlett, the well-known New Zealand sportsman, took a hand and the bidding quickly went to 5000gns., when Mr. Haley retired. After a while, Mr. Herbert Thompson began to bid. In 100-guinea rises the bidding reached 8600, Mr. Hazlett's call. Mr. Thompson went on, and became the owner of Melfort at 8700gns. With one exception this was the highest price paid at auction for a sire since, at the dispersal sale of Arrowfield stud, the Thompson family paid 14,000 guineas for Valais. The next highest was £9500 paid by Mr. James Foster (Cullengoral) for Rossendale at the Kingsfield dispersal sale in Messrs. Briens' time. At the same sale Mr. Percy Miller paid £7500 for Pantheon. Carbine was sold (but not at auction) for £13,500 to go to England. Melfort is in his seventh year. He is the only son of the great horse, Colorado, at the stud in Australia, and, considering his tremendous possibilities as a sire, the price paid could not be regarded as out of the way. The horse's fee is to be 100 guineas but only a limited number of outside mares are to be taken. FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. One Whetu ricked a back joint while working at Hawera on Sunday morning and the Sandstar gelding has been placed on the easy list. It is unfortunate for his connections that the big gelding should go wrong at this stage as he appeared to be coming back to his best form. He will not be a starter at Waipa on Saturday. The Te Rapa trainer, M. J. Carroll, provided the winners of the two jumping races at Tauranga on Saturday, taking the Bay of Plenty Steeplechase with Lucidus and the Otara Hurdles with Boughal. Both horses scored very comfortably and are in excellent racing condition. Lucidus and Boughal are engaged at Te Awamutu and should again race well, although the latter st.ill chances his fences and is likely to meet trouble anywhere the obstacles are formidable. It was only by a narrow margin that Johnny Walls was beaten in the Farewell Handicap at the Opotiki meeting If his rider had not gone round on the outside of the pacemakers as early as he did, the chances are that he would have won. Luck has not favoured Johnny Walls in his latest races, but he is fit and should give a good account of himself if started at Te Awamutu. OUT FOR THREE MONTHS.

SUSPENSION OF W. BOWDEN. Suspended for one month, from June , under Rule 289 of the Rules of lacing, W. J. Bowden will have to wait ill early in September before he can btain a license to do further riding, s the Wanganui District Committee his week increased the penalty to uspension for three months. Bowden was the rider of Riotous in he Grandstand Steeplechase on tho pening day of the Wanganui Jockey !lub's winter meeting, and as a result f an incident between the last two ences, when Royal Banquet, tho evenual winner, was seriously interfered ritli, Bowden was suspended for a aonth by the judicial committee of the Vanganui Jockey Club. But for the increase in Bowden's uspension ordered by tho Wanganui district Committee, the rider in quosion would have been able to accept counts for the Wellington Racing Hub's winter meeting, starting on r uly 6, the only local meetings missed icing the second day of tho Wanganui Lxturo, and the Napier Park, Hawke's lay, Dannevirke and Manawatu meetngs. Now, in addition to the Trenttam fixtures, Bowden will bo unable to ide at the Grand National meeting at fciecarton in August. ENGLISH RACING rRENCII-BRED HORSE WINS NORTHUMBERLAND PLATE LONDON, June 23. On the second day of tho Newcastle -nd High Gosford summer meeting, ollowing was tho result of the NORTHUMBERLAND PLATE, a handicap of £1500; second £l5O, third £75; 2 miles. TECTAIt 11. (Sir Edmund ch.h., by Hobneck—Chouia, by Saint Just, 4yrs. .. 1 lignature (Marshall Field), b.h., by Gainsborough—lnscription, 4yrs. 2 Yeathervane (Sir Abo Bailey), b.m., by Son-in-Law—Buchaness, 4yrs. 3 Eleven started. Short head; three Bngths. Winner bred in France and rained by F. Armstrong, Middleton, rorkshire. Nectar 11. ia a French-bred horse

ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS. L.F.P. (Feilding): (1) Schmeling was champion of tho world. When Gene Tunney retired, in 1930, it was decided that the new champion would be named after a series of elimination bouts, and Max Schmeling won the title on a foul from Jack Sharkey in the fourth round at New York. (2) In 1931 Max Schmeling beat Young Bill Stribling. From memory, this fight was in Cleveland, and, as you suggest, the “Black Uhlan" remorselessly punched Stribling into a state of ineffectiveness. In 1932 Jack Sharkey beat Sohmeling on points in a title fight and, according to ringside experts, Sharkey was lucky to get the decision, This information appeared in “The Times" on Tuesday last.

and showed good form last season as a three-year-old. He was purchased by a Mr. Goldsmith out of a selling plate in France for £6OO and was sold privately to Sir Edmund Bushby. ter running fourth in his first stan in England; he won three races on end, the Campsie Plate at Hamilton Park, on August 29, the Ripley Plate a. Ripon, on September 12, and the Harewood Plate at Pontefract, a little later the same month. So far as the records show, he had only one other start to date, at Haydock Park iaßt month. The Northumberland Plate is popularly known as the “Pitman’s Derby." DANNEVIRKE HUNT HAWKE'S BAY HORSES WITH ENGAGEMENTS NOTES AND COMMENTS HASTINGS, June 24. Ia all probability Hastings and Greenmoadows will be represented by the following horses at the Dannevirke Hunt meeting on Saturday next: Blue Tiger, Mercian Prince, Sibyl Song, En Vidette, Agog, Lady Wessex, Tommy Atkins, Dozie, Cotsfield, Buster Brown, Le Toquet, Mesurina, Cletrac, First Chapter and Salon. Blue Tiger is engaged in two races, the hurdles and ten-furlong hack, but it will be tho latter race that ho will in all probability contest. At Hastings he faa a fair third in the hurdles, and after, racing at Dannevirke he will go on to Manawatu and then to Trentham. Mercian Prince has not yet raced over hurdles, but in his schooling shows fair promise. Recent racing appears to have had a beneficial effect on the big bay gelding. Iddo, winner of the Hawke’s Bay hurdles, was also nominated in two oveuts, hurdles and middle-distance hack, but Mr. Woods, his owner-trainer, told tho writer that he was definitely starting m the llat race and would then go on to Trentham for hurdle racing. Sibyl Song ran poorly at Napier Parle earlier in the month when her stable companion, En Videtto, did not com peto. The latter has won on the flat and is also a brilliant fencer. Agog, who has been disappointing on the. flat, inasmuch as he has raced much below track work, is down to compete in tho hurdles. On Monday morning he was given his first schooling lesson and with N. Trillo in the saddle shaped promisingly. The few Cape Horn’s that have been put to jumping have shown leaping ability, including Lilock, one of tho favourites for the forthcoming V.R.C. National Steeplechase. Lady Wessex, when first schooled, did not shape so badly, but has not improved as would be expected with the experience. She comes from a family that have all been able to jump, so may lack confidence in herself at present. C.J.C. NOMINATIONS. Nominations for the principal events at tho C.J.C. Grand National meeting close at 5 p.m. to-day. RACING FIXTURES. June 26—Ashburton C.R.C. June 26—Dannevirko Hunt. June 26—Waipa R.C. July 3—Manawatu R.C. July 3 —Oamaru R.C. July 6,8, 10—Wellington R.C. July 17—Hawke’s Bay Hunt. July 17—Waimate Hunt. July 24—Hangitikei Hunt. July 24 —South Canterbury Hunt. July 29, 31—Poverty Bay T.C. July 31—Christchurch Hunt. August 10, 12, 14—Canterbury J.C. In Australia. June 26—A.J.C. June 26—Moonee Valley R.C.