Racing News and Notes

Northern Advocate, 29 July 1939, Page 11

Racing News and Notes

Racing at Manawatu. Cld Surrey will go south after the Manawatu meeting to-day. Arctic King Back. Arctic King is back in work at Trentham, after a short respite owing to shoulder trouble. Tone of the Market. There have boon indications during the past few days that Padishah is expected to win the Grand National double , this year. Still on Easy List. Happy Heels, who ricked himself while contesting the highweight event on the second day of the recent Wellington meeting, is still on the easy list.

Epsom Winner Destroyed. The well-known Sydney racehorse King's Head,. who won the A.J.C. Handicap last spring, broke a leg while running in a paddock on Iris owner’s property at Bathurst on Wednesday, and he was destroyed.

Amateur Steeplechase Riders. The only amateur horseman ever to have brought home a horse to victory in the New Zealand Grand National Steeplechase is Mr Martelli, of Timaru, who rode the first winner, Royalty. Two other amateurs, Messrs. Nicholson and O’Brien, had mounts in that race.

Another Preparation For Wotan. The Smith Brothers have decided to have Wotan prepared for another season’s racing, and the Melbourne Cup winner of 1936 is now an inmate of H. W. Johnston’s stable, where his fullsister, Kriemhild, is also quartered. Wotan has been spelled since the Wanganui Cup meeting, and he looks healthy and well after his holiday.

Black Banner’s Injury. Black Banner was so seriously injured when he fell at Washdyke last Saturday that it is almost certain he will never race again, and his trainer, P. J. Boyle, has stated that , there is a possibility that he will have to be destroyed. With Black Banner out of action and the veteran Quinopal amiss, Boyle will be without a representative for the National meeting.

Unorthodox Training Method. W. Burke, who trains Green Cape and Giant Killer, the winners of the big double at the recent V.R.C. Grand National meeting, -has (unorthodox ideas about preparing jumpers, believing in hill work rather than track work as a means of developing solidity, Members of his team start out from the stable and canter down a steep hill. After rounding some tends, they are required to gallop up the hill home, and are liable to be called upon to do this three or four times a day.

No Trouble With Tc Hero. Te Hero is expected to make his Australian debut next month, when it will be seen whether he is coming back 10 his best or not. D. Lewis, who now trains Te Hero at Randwick, is a great believer in salt water exorcise, and several days a week he takes the coll (o the benches and indulges him in swimming treatment. This is said to have worked a great deal of improvement in his temperament. Lewis also states that he has never had the slightest trouble with the Heroic coil since ho took him in hand, and he is confident that he will shortly prove himself in the best company.