NEWS FROM RICCARTON.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20563, 14 May 1930, Page 9

NEWS FROM RICCARTON.

TRAINING OF JUMPERS.

RADIATE LEASED TO TRAINER.

[BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] CHRISTCIIUECU, Tuesday.

Pangolin, ridden by E. Shaw, was responsible for a finished exhibition in negotiating four fences at Riccarton to*day. lie lias como to hand very satisfactorily, and should bo in good order for his Duuedin engagements.

Mr. M. O'Brien's Polycrates yearling has been handed to R. W. King to bo broken in to receive his early education.

Gala Day (I. Tilson) was allotted another round of the steeplechqso country to-day, jumping carefully. lie would bo all tho better for company, but owing to the hard tracks other steeplechase candidates are not being schooled.

Zeuxis, with G-. Salt in tho saddle, negotiated two hurdles to-day at a fast pace. In both Ills recent essays lie has given encouraging displays, and shows promise of doing well during tho winter. J. Beban lias nominated Audience and Sapient for tho Otaki meeting oil June ■> and 4, and tho pair also figure in the list for tho Dunedin meeting. The opinions of the handicappers concerned will decide their programme.

After Ten will fulfil his engagements at tho Marlborough meeting this week, but Mime, tho only other Riccarton candidato nominated, will not make the trip. . Kadiato has been leased for 12 months from Mr. G. L. Rutherford by his trainer, D. Campbell. ' Unfortunately this efficient steeplechaser suffers from unsoundness, and it has been doomed inadvisable to school him or to givo him. much serious work on the prevailing hard tracks. Unless a change in tho weather takes place shortly ho avill thus be at a disadvantage in fulfilling hia engagements at the Dunedin meeting.

SYDNEY CUr WINNER.

GWILLIAN G'S BREEDING.

NOT SIRED BY . NIGHT RAID.

The unexpected stamina revealed by tho Sydney Cup winner Gwillian G. in Iter last tliroo races has prompted statements that the maro is by Night Raid, sire of Phar Lap and Nightmarch, and not by Coin so, a son of The Welkin, whoso progeny were not noted for their staying powers, says the Sydney Morning Herald. Colugo and Night Raid each did stud duty at Wagga. Mr. A. P. Wade, studmaster at Borambola Park, Wagga, denied emphatically that Gwillian G. was by Night Raid. The horse, ho added, was not at his stud until tho 1923 season, the year that Gwillian G. was foaled.

Night Raid was imported to Australia by tho Randwick trainer P. Keith, and the records show tha£ the horse carried his colours on October 14, 1922. After that raco Mr. Wado made overtures for tho purchase of tho horse from Keith. hi 3 reaßon for securing him being that he required .a horso in. training n3 a galloping partner for Radiant Light. In selecting Night Raid Mr. Wade was also influenced by tho fact that the imported horso would probably bo of valuo for tho stud when his racing days were over. Tho parties could not come to agreement for a few days, and in tho meantime Keith paid up for Night Raid for two races at Canterbury Park on October 21. The horso was regarded highly by his owner for each race, bait Mr. Wado finally came to Keith's terms, at the Canterbury Park meeting beforo tho first race of tho day, and tho horse was withdrawn from both races. Mr. Wade took delivery of Night Raid two days later, and tho horso was'given to tho New Zealand trainer, G. Jones, who then ' had Radiant. Light; to train, Night Raid and Radiant Light .were ,-Btabled at Randwick for a few weeks,, and. wero kept in training. In December, 1022, Night Raid dead-heated with Tremolo in' tho Chelmsford Handicap at Tattersali'a meeting, and the same day Radiant Light won tho Denmau Stakes. The horses also competed at Randwick in January, and were then taken to Melbourne for tho autumn carnivals, Radiant Light being the more heavily backed of the pair for tho Australian Cup, won by Prince Cox. Radiant Light met with- a mishap on the Tuesday beforo tho race, and Night Raid broke down two days later. Tho horses wero taken back to Sydney by their trainer, and about tho end of July they wero sent to tho stud, Radiant Light that season being mated with Colugo. Gwillian G. was foaled on September 0, 1023. Night Raid's oldest progeny are, Mr. Wade said, Urunaway and Silver Billy. RACING BEFORE LAW. SIR A. KNOX'S PREFERENCE.

During ail interval in the raring at tho Murrumbidgee Turf Club's Cup Meeting at Wagga Mr. J. J. Scott, chairman of tho club, extended a welcome to Sir Adrian Knox, who,. accompanied by Lady Knox and their daughters, spent the day at the races. Tho chairman said that Sir Adrian Knox's association with the High Court and with Australian Jockey Club racing showed him to be a man of splendid attributes. His return to tho turf as a breeder and owner would be an influence for groat good. Sir Adrian Knox'said that for 10 years he had been in a game ho did not like; now he had,returned to a game he loved. He would never onen a law book again in his life. Tho oely hook ho would study was tho stud book. Ho congratulated the Murrumbidgee Turf Club on tho high standard maintained in its race meeting. When he was associated with the A.J.C. committee that body always relied upon the Wagga Club as tho leading racing body in the southern districts of tho State.

AUSSIE'S POOR FORM.

COMING DOWN IN WEIGHTS.

It is almost a snfo wager nowadays to nominate Aussio to run last—a. bad last, at that—in any of tho races in which lie starts, a Sydney paper says. How long this will continue remains to be seen, but if his form shown in races is his best the bookmaker A. J. Matthews made a bud bargain when he secured the gelding. What, a difference there is in (lie estimation of the handicappors, who last spring' were called on to deal witli the conqueror .of Limerick at a mile. So much impressed was the A.J.O. handioapper (Mr. Fred Wilson) that he gave Aussie ~9st 5)11) in the Epsom Handicap, won by Nightmarch, and a littlo later 9st 13lb in Hie Dunham Court Handicap, run at Warwick Farm. That he was not far from the mark in his assessment was demonstrated in the raeo, for Aussie ran a very good second, all tho conditions considered, finishing less than a length behind Killarncy, to whom he conceded lllb. That was Aussie's best, race in Australia and sinco then he has iiteadily lost form, and, by the same token, has lost weight from his back. It is quite recently that students of form saw High Disdain regain the pace that earned him big weights curlier in his career, and. with a decided advantago in the handicaps, win ■handsomely for his stable. The chances of Aussio repeating the performance are perhaps not quite so bright, but the level may bo reached some day, and the gelding will show some return to form.

RETURN FROM SYDNEY.

Tho Ellerslie trainer J. Williamson returned from Sydney by the Ulirnaroa yesterday. Ho brought with him three horses, a yearling gelding by Troclaire, a two-year-old gelding by Bernard, and Moonfleet, a two-year-old gelding by Silverado. Dr. W. C. Iting also returned and brought with him a yearling colt by Brazen. Tho jockey Roy Reed was also a passenger by tho Uliruaroa.