NOTES FROM ELLERSLIE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19412, 21 August 1926, Page 16

NOTES FROM ELLERSLIE.

GOSSIP OF THE TRACKS. BY ARCHER. The work at Ellerslie yesterday morning was uninteresting, as most of the horses were kept at steady pacing. The work was almost wholly confined to the sand track. Rahenoto pleased better than Quiuvardia over a round in 2m 6b. Ring Potoa sprinted four furlongs in 54 l-ss. Mangapiko was going stronger than Bahadur. at the end of sis furlongs, the last five of which took lin 11 2-ss. W. Ryan has ridden the winner of the Jellicoe Handicap for two years in succession, having won on Musketoon in 1924 and m 1 assionate last year. Can he complete " the hat trick" on Tresham to-day? , ■A. large number of country candidates for the Pakuransa Hunt meeting reached Ellerslie on Thursday and were out working yesterday. Those to arrive included Hoariri, Ladv Lois, Titaness. Gold Rain, King Lu. King Arch. Ring Potoa, Flying Juliet, and Bahadur. J. Mcßae's mounts to-day will include Cui Bono, Desert Glow, Beau Cavalier, and Phaola. J. Barry will be on Ring Potoa and Flying Juliet, and E. Keesing will ride King Lu. King Arch, Gold Rain, and Quinvardia The Wcodville trainer R. S. Bacby, who also holds a iockev's license, is coming north to ride Eden Hall, Zircon, and Royal Form at Ellerslie to-day. King Lu has never looked better than at present. His form at Trentham last month was good and he is nicely placed to extend his record to-dav. As he will be bracketed with Oueen Arch, who raced well at Ellerslie in -Tune, it will not be surprising to find the combination at the head of the betting on the Dunedin Handicap.It should not bo for lack of condition if Lomint fails to race prominently m the Jeilicoo Handicap. She has had a sound preparation and has come through it well. She has not yet won beyond a mile, but there is reason to believe she will get 10 furlong 3 successfully. Through her sire. Catmint, she receives a strong infusion of staving blood, while her dam, Loloma, won a Cornwall Handicap _ and was n-lyo pqual to running second in an Avondale Cup. The way ho worked yesterday indicates that Bahadur is backward, for he was tiring at the end of a sis-furlong gallop with Maneapiko. Still he looks bright and may be assisted to-day by his safe jumping. The two gallops Rahepoto has had at Ellerslie this week have been recorded in good style and have gained linn some friends. His condition is good and lie should majte a solid showing in the Sylvia Park Handicap to-day. Sir Roaeberry has been infusing plenty of vim into his work and has pleased m each of his recent track ' efforts. Trie crack jumper rail a good second to Nmpy over a mile and three furlongs at Whangarei in the autumn, and on that form must be given a chance in the Jellicoe Handicap. The Cambridge trainer T. Morriss usually has a decent hunter in his team, and the elect of his pair. Waahi. and Memsabib, may have a following in the Hunters Hurdle Race to-day. Waahi is a haltbrother to Cantoris and Irish Jig and has plenty of size. Master Boon has disappointed .on numerous occasions, but has _ been sprinting well and should race prominently m the Dun; edin Handicap to-day if he repeats his track form. At Trentham he was a good second to King Lu in the Members Hj an r dicap and meets that horse a good deal better to-day. Lupineel is a goodt clean lumper and looks' a decent sort. His appearance suggests that he has had a solid preparation, and it is likely that he will go well in the Pakuranga Hunt Cup under his light weight. • STUD NOTES. THE CARBINE LINE. BY PHAETON. An English-bred descendant of Carbine in the shape of the appropriately-lamed Pistol, who is at the stud in. South* Australia and who has proved, a marked success, continues to keep the name of his illustrious parent in a good place even at an advanced age. Last season descendants of Pistol captured stakes to the value of £11,428, which raises the total down to the credit of the Carbine horse to £205.642. Considering that for. several years Pistol's stock were racing for comparatively small stakes, the amount of their captures shows up the sdn of Carbine in a most favourable light. Another horse tracing to Carbine included among sires located in Australia who ranks as a grandson to the celebrated Musket horse that bids fair to keep up the family name is Cyklon (son of Spearmint), whose descendants captured stake-money to the extent of £17,425 in Australia during last season. A particular interest attaches to Cyklon's career, for in a sense he can bo regarded as a capture from the Germans. When the war-gong sounded in 1914 Cyklon, who was owned by the German Government, was located in England, and he was in due course seized by the British Government and sold. The son of Spearmint made- the ocean voyage from England to Australia while the German submarines wore active, but the steamer by which Cyklon made the trip got through with safety, and long before the conclusion of the war he was making turf history in Australia by recording victories in weight-for-age ' contests in three States of the Commonwealth.

"'HIGHLY-BRED STEEPLECHASER. • Minterno, who won the Australian Steeplechase at Caulfield last Saturday, is another cross-country performer that can boast of quite a blue-blooded pedigree, the leading lines .of which read as follow: Sire: Spearhead, by Spearmint (son of Carbine and grandson of Musket) from Baroness La Pleche, by Ladas (son of Hampton) from La Fleche. by St. Simon 'son of Galopin) from Quiver, by Toxophilite (son of Longbow). Dam: Fisher Lass, by Positano (son ot St. Simon . and grandson of Galopin) from Lady Fishor, by Cuirassier (son of Musket) from Lady Emmeline. by Somnus (son of Traducer) from Fanny ' Fisher, by Fisherman (son of Heron). SHORT TURF CAREERS. The comparatively modern practice ot retiring our best racehorses at the end of their Becond or third years on the turf, and often after a limited number of races, is finding increasing favour with owners (says an English writer). The reason is obvious. The estimate recently hazarded that Solario's market value as a sire is round about .£IOO,OOO i 3 probably not exaggerated, When the Duke of Portland t gave £13,000 for Carbine—an amount which included transportation and all other expenses incidental to bringing the horse from Australia to Wolbeck—he created a nine-days' racing wonder. Yet that sum has been made to appear insignificant by the prices paid in later years foT Tracery (£53,000), Princp Palatine (£40.000), Flying Fox (£39.375), Cyllene (£31,500). Diamond Jubilee (£31,500), Ormonde (£31,500), and Rock Sand (£25,000). None of those horses can be said to have been raced either lons or often, like. Solario, who is to be retired at the end of this season, after having been raced only 11 times in all up to now. His open-market value is probably £50,000: yet the mighty Gladiateur was sold for 7500rrns, then 5000gns, and finally for 12,5002118 ■ for stud duty. Stockwell, ever a name to conjure with, ran 14 times as a three-year-old alone and was not considered too " big" to run in £IOO sweepstakes or to challenge for " the Whip," which he won in his .final effort on the tu,rf. REMARKABLE INCIDENT. " Audax.*' o;f the Horse and Hound, London, relates an extraordinary incident in foaling in England this year; OakTwig, a six-vear-old mare by Argosy from Elm Twig, slipped a foal to Hunting Song on January 16, and went to Mr. Heaid's Horeham Court Stud to be covered by Firework. Shortly after she arrived it was discovered quite bv chance that the mare was still in foal, and the youngster duly arrived —on May 18. with no one in attendance. Within three days the mare had no milk, and she was covered some days after foaling. She kicked at the foal and refused to acknowledge it in any way whatsoever, so the youngster, who is the image of its sire. Hunting Song—a son of unbeatenHurry On—is now being bottle-fed by a hospital nurse, and is very flourishing. It is obvious that .the foal was one of twins, one of which came away in January, and .the other followed four months later. SIRES OF THE SEASON, Mr. J. P. Sinclair notifies that the stallion Chesterfield will again this season be at the service of bresders at the Takanini estate Chesterfield is a horse of commanding physique, and on both sides of his pedigree he traces to great winning families. Got t)v Wairiki (son of Soult) the St, Simon strain comes to him through a verjf noteworthy channel, and is baeked by a strain of Musket through Nordenfeldt. His dam. Mantle, is a daughter of Tasman (son qf St. Albans), one of the most noteworthy stavers that has figured _on the New Zealand turf, and altogether it can. be said that Chesterfijsld is well entitled to a place among flue® ol the ee&son.