SYDNEY RACING NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22109, 15 May 1935, Page 9

SYDNEY RACING NEWS

PETER PAN'S LATEST WIN TRIUMPH IN JUBILEE CUP FORM OF NEW ZEALAND HORSES [fkom oub own correspondent] SYDNEY, May 10 Peter Pan's latest success in the Jubilee Cup at Ranthvick on Monday had revived comparisons of to-day's champion with Phar Lap. Such com-, parisons are futile, but opinions are strangely divided. Peter Pan is undoubtedly better this season than ever, and better in the autumn than in the spring. However, ho has always been intensely trained for his races, whoreas Phar Lap performed all his big feats up to two miles and a-quarter on the lightest of light preparations. Ho was a gelding and Peter Pan is an entire. In disposition they are different, too, for Phar Lap was very generous, while not the same could be said about Peter Pan on more than one occasion. To revert to Peter Pan's latest triumph, he carried 9.7 on a very heavy track and could have won from the first furlong to the end of the milo and a-half. ■ He was pulling Pike out of the saddle to the turn, and then Pike hunted the cheßtnut right away to win by five lengths from the Sydney Cup winner Akuna, who had only 7.4. Outside of Peter Pan, the Jubilee Cup was an uninteresting affair, Akuna showed that her Sydney Cup victory was no fluke by her second place She was up forcing the pace with Peter Pan at the turn, but the champion dropped her astern when required. P. Riddle's charge, Satmoth, aided by his light weight of 7.4, gained third place, although totally unsuited by the gointt. Journal, who looked very light, ran moderately, and Rogilla, formerly a good mud horee at Randwick, failed completely, D. Munro easing him up in the straight. Silver King was another to fail hopelessly, the long-striding Limyria slipped about everywhere and Blixten either would not or could not gailop. Peter Pan has a long way to go to equal Phar Lap's earnings, the figures being £31,910 10s against £70,141. Jamleson's Luck Changes J. T. Jamieson, who for the past few months has had a run of ill-luck with his team, had a double success with Persian during the week-end. which went some distance toward balancing the budget. About two months ago Persian was just coming on nicely, when he picked up a nail, a poisoned foot resulting, which necessitated careful treatment. It was not until the middle of last month that he could be raced, but at Warwick Farm on Saturday, with 8.1 in a mile and a-quarter event, ha was adjudged ready. In » very fast-run race be had a good position in behind the lenders to the turn. Taking charge from that point, he stalled off Le Legion to win going away. Penalised 61b. in a mile and a-quarter event again in the mud of the Jubilee meeting at Randwick on Monday, lie had only 8.2 in a very similar class of field. On this occasion he hopped to the front at the start, staved there and won going away. Latharna. who also carries Major P. Kerr-Smiley's colours, was exnected to win the two-year-old race on Monday, but. could not handle the going at all. Te almost slipped over at the start and did not settle down afterwards He has developed into a fine colt and something better should como from him. He may be among the topliners in the spring. Silver Jubilee's Success Silver Jubilee has come good with _ a vengeance in Sydney with two wins in four starts, his second success at Knndwick on Saturday being a very convincing effort. He was one of the few horses to come from behind in the mud and win. Ridden by J. Pike, he was not hnrried for a furlong and dropned back ta last. Commencing then to stride along, ho overtook his field until he wis practically first into the straight and then went on and won like a good one. Possihlv hp had just a trifle more luck than Cerrello. wbA f-id to co wide round the turn, whereaa Silver Jubilee bad tlie inside runnine As there was only three-quarter® of a. length between thorn at the finish. th» luck at the turn may have made some The Gainscourt—Desert Gold filly Treasnr« Trove was started at both Warwick Farm and Randwick during the week-end, but failed each time. At Warwick Farm she was a hot favourite but ran badly. She is a long way below the class of her dam. Although the McGrath stable took much of the i?Tmlicht with Peter Pan's victorv in the Jubilee Cup. financiallv t the success of King Charles in a mile novice handican was more profitable. The three-year-old bv Greenstead was backed for a small fortune and did not leave tlie issue in doubt. Whnt is more to the point, the track conditions did not worrv the stable, for the connections voted him ft certainty under any circumstances. . „ _ Mr F *'oss expected Two No Trumps to run well aeninot Kine Charles, and the New Zealand gelding was decidedlv second best S'nce his arrival in Svdnev the three-year-old by The Ace from Rose Willonvr hns been ins' a moderate, but ho appears to he improving. Mr. J J. Leahy, owner of SiJveTado. is hav'ni? a mn of luck. Tn addition to Aknns in ' th® Bvdnev Cun. he hns wop races wit* two three-year-olds. Sine C«rn and P-'lver Mom. S-'tie Cera won at. Warwick Farm nnd was third at Rhndwirk on Monday with a 71b. nenaHv He is the making" of a good horse Silver Morn won at Mennmrle. nnd. as she was really heayilv backed and won like a good one. she, too. may go a lone wav. Gallant Knight Beaten Viceroy (Limond—Jewel of Asia) is one of the disanpo'nling two-year-olds of the season to date. He has shown only one fla°h of form. hut. "8 he is a looßelv-made colt and is still growing, he might do better with a hit of age. Onl'ant Knight, t>e stable mate o* Silver Jnhilee. was produced at Ascot on Wednesday. carrving tonwei"ht. 8.9. in the sevenfurlongs nnd Four-venr-old Handicap. Fnirly well nlnced throuehout. he was henten in a tight finish by a neck by a country performer. Booniee Gnllnnt Knj?rnt had been beaten at 'Merinngle "+ his previous ntprt. nnd. nlthouih he drifted in tlie betting on the course, he wns the suhiect. of a starting-nrice comr"|«sion. is a more shanelv horse than Silver Jubilee, hut cert Airily not so pood Norman Cononest was <vne of the henten hri"nde in « wei»V Vlvm* Handicap field at Ascot, running below his winning form at Kensington a week earlier. WAIKATO TROTTING CLUB NOMINATIONS ON FRIDAY Nominations for the Waikato Trotting Club's Winter Show meeting, to be he'd on June 1. close at 5 p.m. on Friday with Messrs. Blomfield nnd Comnany. Auckland, or the secretary Mr. W. H. Allen, Hamilton. THREE-YEAR-OLD PACERS AUSTRALIAN PERFORMERS The Victorian trainer W. McKay, who visited New Zealand with Auburn Lad, continues to win races with his three-vear-old pacer Tennessee Wood. Tennessee Wood has a three-year-old rival in Western Australia, Donald Winwood, who also holds an unbeaten record" having won his six races this season. Donald Winwood is bred on both sides to Ribbonwood, who some 30 years ago took u mile record of 2.9 Tho Western Australian champion colt is by Alfred Donald, son of Ribbonwood, from Lady Winwood, whose dam was by a Ribbonwood horse. Lady Winwood, who is 16 years old, is in foal to Sheik, an Australian horse who some years ago raced very successfully in New Zealand for P. Riddle, winning among other good races, a New Zealand and an Otnhuhu Trotting Cup. Ribbonwood was bred in New Brighton and was by Wild wood, who had a double (strain of Hambletoninn 10 blood, from Dolly, grandson of Irvington, also u sou of Hambletonian 10. Tennessee Wood, on tho maternal side is also descended from Wildwood, his dam Firewood being an unraced mare by Admiral Wood, who won the 1916 Auckland Trotting Cup when driven by A. J. Julian Admiral Wood was by Wildwood, while Tracey Al f o sire of Firewood's dam, was also New Zealand-bred The three year olds will 'meet to decide tho season's supremacy, and F. G. Holmes, ti'ainer of the fine New Zealand three-year-old Graham Direct, has stated his intention of visiting Australia to race the winner. TROTTING FIXTURES .Tunc 1 —Waikato Trotting Club, 'one 1, 3 Canterbury Park Trotting Club June B—Ashburton Trotting Club,