A SUCCESSFUL TRIP.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20725, 19 November 1930, Page 9

A SUCCESSFUL TRIP.

WEBSTER BACK FROM SYDNEY INCIDENT IN MELBOURNE CUP. FIRST ACRE'S JOCKEY HURT. [BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] WELLINGTON. Tuesday. The trainer A. D. Webster, accompanied by Mrs. Webster, and his son, the iockev. T. Webster, arrived back from Sydnev bv tho Marama to-day. He brought back First Acre, Movie Star. Hunt tho Slipoer and I'm Alone.

Webs!or hnd probably the most successful trip financially of all tho New Zoalanders who tried their luck on tho other aide this spring. First Acre won in Sydnev and Melbourne, while Movio Star landed a bier coup for his connections when he scored ill tho A.J.C. Breeders' Plate. Hunt the Slipper was also a winner at tho Melbourne Cup Meeting, where First Acre established an Australian and New Zealand record for a mile and three-auarters.

Webster maintains that First Aero should have been second in tho Melbourne Cud. or at least placed, ne hold a good position in tho running until T. Webster was hit in tho eye by a flying clod. It was a very painful injury and prevented him from doins his mount justice afterwards. Good odds for a place were obtained about him in the big two miles event.

T. Webster made the return trip from Melbourne to Sydney by aeroplane and is not anxious to repeat the ride. All. including tho horses, landed back in the best of health. W r ebster and his son will bo at the Levin Meeting on Saturday. According to present plans ho will rekirn to Sydney with his team in tho autumn. Tho horses left for Olaki by motor-float after landing. NEW PLYMOUTH NOTES. LADY QUEX'S BRILLIANCE. [BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] NEW PLYMOUTH, Tuesday. Owing to the wet weather the Now Plymouth track has not been available to trainers for fast work during tho last week, but it was in perfect order this morning and some interesting work took place. The Swell and Belle Star went a mile and a-quarter at a good half-paco. sprinting down the straight. Both put a lot of dash into their work.

Tangiroa was a neck in front of Green Patch, with Te Atiawa two lengths away, at tho conclusion of three furlongs in 40Js.

Orapai hopped off at the eix-furlong pes and, picking up G braltar at tho half-mile, beat the two-year-old horue comfortably in 1.23. He "took 2Ss for the first two and 549 for the half-mile. Although the time was not out of the ordinary, the three-year-old did his task well. The two-year-olds Easter Time and Hinepuni took 2Sa for two furlongs. Hinepuni ran about a bit in the straight. Lady Quox hopped of! at the five furlongs. She took 12is for tho first furlong. 21 4-5s for two, 36 3-5s for three, and, not ridden out, completed the distance in 1.4 4-5. It was a brilliant piece of work, showing that tho brown mare is n3 well as she has ever boon. Royal Financo took 27s for two furlongs, and Lady Lulu, going very easily, 23s for the same distance. SALE OF SUBDIVISION. TO RACE ON WEST COAST. [BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN' CORRESPONDENT. 1 CHRISTCHURCH. Tuesday. The Surveyor gelding Subdivision has been disposed of to a patron of .T, Stewart's stable at Grcymouth, and will hf.ve his next racing ftt the "West Coast holiday meetings, at which he should bo seen to advantage. RATIONAL II AND RASOULI. RACING AT SYDNEY MEETINGS. [BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] WELLINGTON. Tuesday. Mr. C. Boyle, of Wellington, whites from Randwick to say that Rational IT. and Rasouli have improved since arrival there from Melbourne, but Rasouli docs not look as well as ho did when he left New Zealand. They were to race at Mcnangle today, and will probably contest events at Warwick Farm and Moorefield before returning at the end of tho month. Mr. Boyle thinks that Pilar Lap is good enough to win the Mclboumo Cup again nest year. TRUE BLOOD'S GOOD RECORD. WINNER OF NEARLY £SOOO. For a horse who has been affected at various stapes of his career by unsoundness True Blood, who accounted for tho two leading handicaps at tho Waikato meeting for the second yoar in succession, has been a remarkably good performer.. Purchased at auction by Mr. W. Scholium as a yearling for 350 guineas in January, 1925, he commenced racing the following spring and, in tho meantime, ho has won £4759 in stakes, besides two gold cups. True Blood won three races as a two-year-old, and as a tbree-yoar-old he notched one win, three seconds and two thirds. As a four-year-old ho did somo racing in Sydney, where he annexed the Suburban Handicap at Randwick. The samo season he afterwards had four races in New Zealand without success, and it was about this tiuio tliat ho became unsound. Tho following term ho only had ono race, but last season ho did well by winning four times. This season ho has two wins and a second to his credit and i 3 right at the top of his form at present. True Blood haß always had a partiality for soft going and has usually shown his best form on roomy tracks, having raced particularly well at Elleralio. Trentham and To Riipa. For To Rapa he oootns to havo a great liking and has three doublo wins to his credit there, tho first when ho waß a two-year-old, another last season, and tho latest this year. DEAD-HEATS IN ENGLAND. RUN-OFF RULE ABOLISHED. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] I LONDON, Oct. 17. Proposals made hv Lord Hamilton of Dalzell to abolish tho ruti-ofT of dead-heats were adopted by tho Jockey Club to-dav. Under rule 114, "when horses run a deadheat, tho dead-heat ahull not ho run off." Th'o question of whether each horse that divides a prizo for first place in a deadheat shall. for the purposo of calculating weight for future ratos be deemed to havo won tho raco outright, will bo li e Bubiect of further discussion. NEW OWNER FOR SHORTLY. [BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] PALMERSTON NORTH, Tuesday. Shortly was not brought back home from Riccarton with Mr. W. R. Kemball's other horsos, tho Hymoetra golding having found a new owner. Tho possessor of a good turn of speed, Shortly has beon particularly unlucky with the colours up.