ON THE TURF

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 7 October 1936, Page 10

ON THE TURF

DUNEDIN .MEETING OPENS TO-MORROW THE FIELDS REVIEWED GUINEAS ON SATURDAY (By “Cuddle”) The Dunedin Jockey Club will hold its Spring Meeting at the Dunedin (Wingatui) course on Thursday and Saturday next, Bth and 10th October The acceptances are fair, and good even fields should provide exciting races. Racing enthusiasts will be following Dunedin form with an eye to the New Zealand Cup meeting early in November. VITAFHONE IN SPRING HURDLES Polydora heads the field in the opening event, the Spring Hurdles of one mile and a half, and is a very fit horse. Santoft. Wexford Bridge. Redolent and Vitaphone are the form horses, and the vote is for Vitaphone over Santoft. On the weights Vita- 1 phone is the bet of the day. as last season he broke the course record for H miles carrying nearly one stone extra weight. TRIAL SIX The Trial Handicap of six furlongs has drawn the largest field of the day. Thermidor, Autumn Wind and Last Dance look like fighting it out. with perhaps Darien the surprise packet. MILE EVENT ..... . ! Poniard will like the distance in the Maungatua Mile Handicap, and might just hold off Jack Ahoy and Braw Lad. WILD CAREER’S CHANCES 1 In the Electric Hack cif six furlongs ' there are only seven acceptors, but j they are all speedsters. Bay Duke is ! the form horse, but may need the j race. Greek Gold and Capital are I both well, and Pelmet is a flyer but \ seems to stop at five furlongs. Wild 1 Career is the good promoted hack and will fly over this journey with only j 7.7. on his back. Wild Career will probably head off Paper Slipper near- I ing the judge. TRAVENNA FAVOURED Travenna should not have much | difficulty in accounting for the other six in the open mile and 2J furlongs, i but will find Golden King, Queen j Dorothy and The Surgeon worthy op- | ponents. ’ ;

McLEAN STAKES The McLean Stakes of four furlongs for two-year-olds has twelve acceptors. Sir Chas. Clifford’s Card Player is likely to be favourite, after Li is good second to Guinea Fowl in Ihe .lohn Grigg Stakes, and will be a better horse here. Atalanta Lass has been working well, while Lazybones (stablemate of Card Player) and Heidelberg have also impressed. OCTOBER MILE

Queen Dorothy should find the October Mile to her liking. Viking will need the race, and this leaves Double Shot to make a race of it. THE FINAL -EVENT The Dunedin Guineas on the second day has eight acceptors. It must be a disappointment to the Dunedin Joc-

key Club officials this year to have such a poor field, not so much numerically. but in regards to class, which is conspicuous by its absence. Sir Chas. Clifford is relying on Top Notch, a double winner at Blenheim last autumn, and this looks the right way. Stolen, March. Epic and Sir Hugh, should dispute the places. GENERALNQTES

Apparently Airing is to be one of the mudlarks of the future, for on the steadily softening track on Saturday at Otaki he completely spreadeagled his ooposition in the Katihiku Hack Handicap. He kept opening his break till he was six lengths clear entering the straight, and he won by very nearly that margin. Airing, it will be recalled, was twice second on one day at the Rangitikei Hunt Meeting in the rain in July, and then he went on to win his maiden race in the mud at New Plymouth last month. Subsequently he failed on better going at. ( Wanganui, Foxton, and Marton, but jat the last-named fixture he ran a fourth on easy going. Though he did not have his first start till early this vear. he is already six years old; but he was small as a youngster, when, as the Cocknit—Mori colt, he was bought at the sales by his present owner, Mr I F. Bristol, of Wanganui, for only 20 | guineas. His da m(Mori) is a full-sis-j ter lo Refresher and Tea Ball. Though i there was no race for first place, there j was an interesting subsidiary struggle j for second dividend, and Rustem sucI needed in getting there after having : come from near the rear. Patagonia. : second nearly all the way, was onlv a neck back third, with Terry finishing on a close fourth. The favourite F.x- , nort dropped out of the running on the i home turn.' after a little earlier havj ing checked Cricket, who was going ■"'ell alongside Patagonia at the time, i Revival went a fair race first up for the season. j Since he won first up at Carterton !in May following a soell. West Tor i has raced without, much luck, but he j bad the wind behind him in the Ling i Memorial Stakes on Saturday. Enter--Img the straight, on the rail behind Round Score. Gay Boy, Sunee. and Lapel, he did not. appear to have ; much hone of getting a run through, but when Lapel fell iust in front of him he received the first stage of an opening, and then when Round Score hung out from the fence he drove up into the gap and won going away by nearly a length. West Tor has had several previous successes at Otaki. but they were early in his career. His only success anywhere during the last year was the win at Carterton, but he was possibly unlucky in-being brought down bv Spiral at Wanganui. Lord Moutoa ushered in his promotion to open company with an attractive win in the Tuari Handicap. On reaching the straight he began to move up on the outer of the leader. Royal Routine, who hung right over on him and carried him out on to the centre of the track, but once Royal Routine was in alignment again he came easily past the leader and beat Fulojoy to the post by two lengths. Lord Moutoa has won at both his starts this season, and is obviously improved. He is a six-year-old bay

son of Acre, and his dam, Moutoo Ivanova, who earlier left the useful Paper Money mare Moutoo Treasury, is a full-sister to the Melbourne and New Zealand Cup winner Sasanof. Moutoa Ivanova ran some good races herself when in training, though, of course, she was not in the same class as her brother. She was raced by Mr F. S. Easton, whose colours Lord Moutoa now carries.