RACING NEWS

Northern Advocate, 4 July 1939, Page 9

RACING NEWS

Sporting

i Amiss. ’ | Wexford Bridge and Dividend are j both amiss, and will not race at the i Wellington meeting. f A Now Juniper. | Mr H. Elworthy has purchased the I Tidal gelding Fundy Bay, and placed him in F. Trilford’s stable. For Later Days. i The recent mishap to Aurora’s Star is not serious, and she will most likely' be produced on the second or third day of the Trentham meeting. A Natural Jumper. Arabca, who is engaged in the I hurdle races at Trentham, has not done j much schooling, but, like all of Balboa's

progeny, shows a natural aptitude for jumping.

Another Change. Shortly after his arrival in Melbourne, Mr G. J. Barton shifted his horses from J. Fryer’s stables, where they' had been located since the late S. G. Ware's death.

Not His First,

Mr J. R. McKenzie, well-known as the owner of trotting horses, has given two or three young horses to F. D. Jones to train. Mr McKenzie is not having his first venture into the galloping game. He raced one of the first of the 1 Paper Money stock in Money Order, a very fast horse who was unlucky not to win a C.J.C. Stewards’ Handicap.

An Interesting- Record. When Green Cape won the V.R.C. Grand National Hurdles last Saturday he created an interesting record, for he was the first Grand National Steeplechase winner to win the Grand National Hurdles. More than one horse has won the Grand National Steeples after winning the Grand National Hurdles, as it seems the natural thing for a horse to go from hurdles to fences, but it is not often that they come bade from fences to hurdles.

Indication of Strength. Only twice in the last 10 years, since the adoption of the 12.7 maximum for the Wellington Steeplechase, has Mr Coyle availed himself of it, giving it to Billy Boy in 1933, and Tudor in 1937. In starting to-day’s handicap with 11.5, he expressed n decided opinion about the moderate class of the present-day steeplechaser, and furthermore, only two were allotted 11 stone, and only four more over 10 stone, while half the field, except three, was put on the minimum.

, Will Be Remembered, Sir Thomas Wilford, who died re- [ cently in Wellington, will always be remembered on the turf as the breeder of Sasanof. Sasanofs dam, Ukraine, was a sister to All Red and Munjeet, but was not in their class as a racehorse. Mated with Martian, however, j she produced Sasanof, who brought 400 guinaes as a yearling and proved one of the best racehorses of all time. He won the Chelmsford Stakes, j Melbourne Cup, and Great Northern Derby as a three-year-old, and the New Zealand Cup as a five-year-old. I Gloaming won the Derby at this meetj ing (1918), and later, in the Stead Cup, j was unexpectedly beaten by Sasanof, I Sasanof carrying 9.0 to Gloaming’s j 7.10. Later successes of Sasanof inI eluded the Great Autumn Handicap, I under 9.13, the Trentham Gold Cup, | and the Awapuni Gold Cup. Three i years before Sasanof was successful in ! the Great Autumn, that is, in 1917, he j lost the Great Easter by a head to j Nystad, and one of the greatest atj tempted coups in New Zealand came i undone, as his stablemate, Kilboy, duly j won the Great' Autumn. They were j a wonderful pair of three-year-olds for 1 one stable to have in the same year.