NOTES BY PHAETON

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21520, 17 June 1933, Page 9

NOTES BY PHAETON

THE MELBOURNE CUP PETER PAN'S ENGAGEMENT QUESTION OF HIS WEIGHT Peter Pan is stated to be the mostdiscussed horse for the Melbourne Cup in November, and much, curiosity is evinced ns to the weight he will be awarded. There is a conflict of opinion 011 the point whether ho was as good in the autumn as in the spring of his three-year-old career, and to that may bo ascribed in part the keen interest with which the assessment is being awaited. Peter Pan's victory in last year's Melbourne Cujf was achieved in the manner of. ft champion, for ho was hampered at a critical stage and was under pressure a good way from homo. The doubt whether his form in the autumn was up to the standard of his spring performances is based on the facts that after he caught Oro in tho A.J.C. St. Lege* ho had to bo hard ridden to shake him off. that Johnnie Jason kept him going nearly all the way in the Cumberland Plate, and that he had to bo ridden right out to defeat Lough Nengli by a neck in tho A.J.C. Plato. That Peter Pun will bo awarded an impost in excess of weight-for-ago may be regarded as very likely. A review of weights issued for tho Melbourne Cup in previous years shows that notablu four-year-olds have beau weighted as follows:—Carbine 10.0, "Wallace 10.0. Poseidon 10.0. Phar Lap 9.12, Rivoli 9.7, "Winalot 9.5, Windbag 9.2 and Nightniarch 9.2. "Windbag, Nightmarch and Phar Lap won and Carbine and Rivoli ran second. A HARD-WORKED COLT KUVEiU'S CONSISTENT FORM The New South "Wales colt Kuvora, who at Flemington on June 5 concluded his three-year-old career with a victory in the Kite's Cup, carrying lib. in excess of weight-for-age and beating a field of 20. demonstrated very clearly that 110 is of hardy constitution. After a strenuous time at two years old ho was called upon for an early race at three years, and altogether this season has contested 13 races, in nearly every instance being submitted to a strenuous task. No fewer than eight times he has filled second place, and his efforts in endeavouring to defeat Peter Pan in the A.J.d. Derby and A.J.C. St. Leger and Winooka in tho Caultield Futurity Stakes were especially searching ordeals for him. Kuvera has now contested a total of 31 races and his record is as follows: UnFirst Second Third placed At 2yrs . • 6* 0 3 4 At 3yrs .. 5 S '2 3 11 S 5 7 "Including a dead-heat. Kuvera was included in the collection of yearlings sent up to auction at Randwick in tho autumn of 1930. when he was bought cheaply for 270 guineas 011 account of the partners who race under the assumed narjo of "Mr. J. Smithden." At two years old Kuvera captured prize-money to the amount of ±'11,542, and, with JMGSO as tlio result of his efforts this season, ho has proved a great bargain. { On the sire's side Kuvera traces io the Bend Or line. The leading lines in his pedigree are as follows: — Sire: Brazen, by Phalaris. son of Polymelus and grandson of Cyllene, from South "Wales, by Llangibby. son of Wildfowler. from Southern Belle, by Ayrshire, son of Hampton. Dam: Vartn. Mozzle. by Linacre, Bon of Wolf's Crag and grandson of Barcaldine, from Grafton Lass, by Grafton, son of Galopin. from Miss Melos, by Melos. son of Goldsbrougli. THE YEARLING LOTTERY HIGH-PRICED DOMINANT t "When a yearling chestnut colt by Saltasli from The Welkin mare Weltea was offered at auction in New South Wales in tho autumn of 1928 a number of keen men forced tho bidding and the final figure waa 6750 guineas. Tho purchase was made by a syndicate of four, and the colt was subsequently named Dominant. At the conclusion of hifl four-year-old career he had only one minor handicap to his credit, and, although in the following season he captured four races, he was still only a moderate, with a limit up to a mile. At a recent sale in Melbourne Dominant was sold for 170 guineas. STUD ITEMS CALLAMART'S BREEDING In these days many horses engaged in hurdle races and steeplechases trace to celebrated families whose names adorn the pages of the Stud Book. Callamart. who had his namo enrolled this yeaf among winners of tho Great Northern Steeplechase, can boast of double strains of both Bend Or and St. Simon, and the blood of the latter comes to him through tho same channel. Desmond. It will, therefore, bo gathered that thero is much to rivet attention in his pedigree, tho leading lines of which are as follows: — Sire: Callaghan, by Fairy King, son of Desmond and grandson of St. Simon, from Penny Forfeit, by Forfnrshire. son of Royal Hamptoa. from Pennywise. by Westminster, eon of Bend Or. Dam: Martial Dawn, by Martian, son of Martagon and grandson of Bend Or. from Torquato. by Sir Archibald, son of Desmond, from Aminta. by Tasso. Callaghan sire of Callamart, was imported from England by Mr. W. Higgins. of Wellington. He ccntested several flat races in the Dominion and scored victories in minor events. RECORD OP COLONIAL SIRES It is safe to conclude that the Australianbred sires Windbag and Heroic will this year occupy first and second places respectively 011 the winning sires' list in Australia. At the close of tho third quartor Windbag's total was computed at X'22.G3C and Heroic's at £20.219. Since then Heroic's total has received an important addition as the result of Herolage's success in tho Brisbane CUP, and, with several others of his progeny scoring wins, his winning total now probably exceeds that of Windbag. QUEENSLAND CLASSIC W INNER The Queensland St. Leger. the last classic event of the season in Australia, was won by the gelding Brown Paddy, a son of Magpie and the Bernard mare Bern Maid At two years old Brown Paddy won the Queensland Sires' Produce Stakes. death of brodo mare PILLOW FIGHT'S HALF-SISTER The Dunedin owner Mr. F. Thomson had tho misfortune to lose his well-bred I'ounj, brood maro Evening last week, folic * as * )y Day Comet from imported Vveelt End. therefore a half-sister to P. low F.?ht. she was only eight years old. Evenin„ tiau oeen mated with British Empire this season. . RACING FIXTURES June 17- Ilawke's Bay Jockey Club. June 17—South Canterbury Jockey Club, tune 22 21—Napier Pork Racing Club June 24—Aehburton Cotiulj Rw»B C »b. Juno 28 —Manawatu Hunt Club (at AwaJuly Pl t~Oaniaru Jockey Club. j„|v B—Waimate District Racing Club. July 11. W- 15— -Wellington Racing Club. JIIIV 22—Auckland Racing Club. Julv 22—Ilawke's Bay Hunt Club. .Tnlv 22—South Canterbury Racing flub. Julv 27. 20- Gisborne Racing flub. Tnlv *>9- Rotorua-Bay of Plenty Hunt Club '(at Rotorua). July 29—Chi'iatchurcli Hunt Club.