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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23829, 3 December 1940, Page 5

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HAMILTON WINNERS M. STEWART DOES WELL ! PROGENY OF BERTHA BELLE BY ABAYDO3 By driving Nawton Junior and Crucible. to victory and sharing first place behind Modest Maid with Worthy Worker, M. Stewart was the leading reinsmwn at the Waikato Trotting Club's Spring Meeting at ClfUidelands on Saturday. J. A. Gerrard, with Short Wave and First Call, and E. N. Kennerley with Slar Guide and Musketeer were the < nly other horsemen to score more than one success. The racing was of a high standard, with ' the course in splendid order, good times were recorded in several races. A pleasing feature ; was the increase of i:'J lIS shown in the I investments on the totalizator over the re.- | turn for tho corresponding meeting last. year. I mid given a fine day again on Saturday, there i should he another large pool. Honours in tiie sires list were well distrihuted, only one. Jack i'otts, securing ; more than one winning representative. Jack I Potts was represented by Crucible and First Call, both of whom gave Attractive displays. ; An interesting feature is that three winners, through their sires, are linked with the great mare Bertha Belle, one of the most successful producers in the Dominion. Their First Success The winners In this line wero Nawton Junior, Durato and Star Guide. The firstnamed is by Nawton Parrish, whose sire, Great Parrish, is by Guy Parrish from Bertha Belle. Durato is by Kingtrue. a son of Travis Axworthy and Bertha Belle, while Peter Bingen, sire of Star Guide, is from the same darn, his sire being Nelson Bingen. i Nawton Junior, Durato and First Call each registered their initial although they | had been previously placed. Nawton Parrish, I sire of Nawton Junior, was a very fine per- ' former, but little is known of his dam, who I never raced, and is by Triumph Junior, a . sou of The Triumph, from Emma Grattan. Durato's dam, Intaglio, represents a higlii class pedigree. By Logan Pointer from Cameos Iby Galendo from the mighty producer, ! Thelma, she is a full sister to Onvx, 3.13. j Intaglio is the dam of Free Advice, a fine ! performer who produced the very useful Horse ; Power. Star Guide also boasts Logan Pointer blood I on the maternal side, his dam, Guiding Star, | being by the Star Pointer horse from Marie I C'orelli by Wildwood from Thelma, On both 1 sides, Durato and Star Guide are closelyrelated. Crucible in Form Inality, dam of First. Call, was a, good pacer by Denver Huoa from Ladj Superior by General Mao from Lady Criterion, by King Harold. Lady Superior to Logan Pointer produced Cardinal Logan, one of the best pacers racing a few seasons ago. First Call should improve with racing. Crucible is from tho Great Audubon mare Antelope, and is a young pacer of rare promise. As a three-year-old she ran second to Bonniedene in the Great Northern Derby, later winning the Devonport Handicap at Epsom and the Tamahere Handicap at Hamilton in May, which was her last start prior j to her success in the Kaipaki Handicap on Saturday. Bronze Queen, a daughter of Key de Oro I and the Logan Pointer mare, Logan Queen, is oue of the most consistent pacers in the province, and her win in the K. T. Reid Memorial Handicap, which was well deserved, was very popular. Last season she registered one wjjn and six placings, and it is a coincidence that, her success was also at Claudelands, the race being the Wanganui Centennial Handicap of two miles. Musketeer, by Jewel Pointer from Harvest Home-is a full brother to Great Jewel, who t last season headed the winning list of horses In the Dominion with £3OOO. A few seasons ago Musketeer won good races for F. J. Smith at two miles, but later suffered loss of form. Musketeer's last success prior to his win on Saturday was in the President's Handicap at the Waikato Summer Meeting in 1937. Solid Trotters Short Wave, who in winning the "Rnknhia Handicap gave one of the finest trotting displays seen at Claudelands, is bv Travis Axworthy from Security, by Worthy Bond from Ladv'Haldane. As a three-year-old Security revealed fine speed, but an injury checked her I racing career. Short Wave was a failure as a i pacer, but since being converted by J. A. Gerrard. lie- has made good, his record being five ! firsts and a third in seven races as a trotter. I Short Wave has not yet reached the limit of i his capabilities. Modest Maid, in running a dead heat with Worthy Worker in the Introductory Handicap, | showed a lot of improvement on her previous j displays, and now that she has developed j solidness, should have a bright future. She is ibv Wrack from Belle Axworthy, a speedy ; mare by Travis Axworthy from Belie Bingen, I a daughter of Bertha Belle. | .Worthy Worker also represents the AxI worthy strain, his sire being Worthy Bond ! and his dam a Harold Dillon mare. Although lie has been several times in the money, ! Worthv Worker only won one race previously, i capturing the introductory Handicap at the Waikato winter meeting in 1939. A brilliant I beginner, Worthy Worker should have further ; prospects. Had ?he not made a bad lapse two and aha I f furlongs from home. Vera Worthy, who | won very attractively at Thames, would have ' added interest to the keen finish. She was a i little unlucky in missing third place, easing i just near the post to be shaded by Flash Bye Vera Worthy is by Travis Axworthy from Vera Logan by Logan Pointer. SUCCESSOR TO AJAX HIGH HOPES FOR MURMURING The 2000 guineas purchase of Mr. ,T. Wren, Murmuring, was not prepared for spring racing, but lie is expected to make his debut in the autumn. The colt is named after Murmur, who won the ('.oilfield Cup for Mr. Wren in loot, and is being prepared at Canllield by F. Musgrave. The same course is being adopted with him as that which served so well in the case of A.iax and regular attenders at the track are already selecting him as the successor to the Australian champion. Bred at Hastings by Mr. A. W. Meikle, Murmuring is by Bulandshar from Tea Tattle, hy Tea Tray from Bouvardia. by Marble Arcli, and members of the same family are Chevnl de Voice. Royal Doulton. Record lieign. Bronze Moth, Suleiman and Teacony, the last-named, who won at Levin recently, being a half-brother. RECORD OF MARES NEW ZEALAND CUP WINS In the last decade mares have had a wonderful record in the New Zealand Cup, and the Hastiugs-owned Serenata, winner of the to to Cup, followed the lead set by Fast Passage, I'alantna, Steeton and Cuddle, who won in tiie successive years from 193- to 1035. Before them Oratrix (19'Jsi), Oratress (IM'JOi, Warstep (till I), Lady Lucy (1909), Tortulla (1901), ideal (1900), and Lady Zetland (1*90), were other mares to achieve victory since the race was designated the New Zealand Cup in 1S8". It can thus be seen that marcs have had a remarkable run of successes in the race and their percentage of wins is far greater than the records of the Melbourne Cup and other big spring events reveal over that period. In fact, mares were to the fore in the toto New Zealand Cup, filling all three places, Serenata being followed home by Taurangi, with Capricious placed third after Little Robin's disqualification. DEATH OF MR. J. 15. JOEL VERY SUCCESSFUL OWNER Tt has been the luck of few men to win so many important races and be able to upend so much money in search of winners as Mr. j. B. Joel, whose death occurred in England on November 13. Willi large holdings in diamond and gold mines of South Africa, Mr. Joel could afford to spend fortunes on tho Turf. He paid thousands of pounds for horses that took his fancy, and thousands in establishing his stud, but his wins are too many to enumerate. His most important were the Derby with Simstar ami Humorist, the Oaks with Our Lassie, Class Doll, Jest and Princess Dorrie. the St. Beyer with Black .Tester and Your Majesty, and the One Thousand Guineas with Jest and Princess Dorrie. t-iunslar also won the Two Thousand (lumens. Mr. Joel was concerned in many spectacular Turf dealings It is on record that Gay Crusader, who was then established at the Mud at a fee of 100 guineas, had been taken over by Mr. A. T!. Cox. Mr. Joel made an offer of Cioo.ooo for the horse, but Mr. Cox held out tor il'-'O.ooo, and the deal fell through. Mr. Joel paid iMO.OOO for Prince Palatine, ami the (lay after Solario had won the Coronation Cup Mr. Joel instructed an agent to offer C 75,000 for the colt, but Solario was not then for sale at any price. Some years later he was put up for auction, and Air. Joel was a member of Lord dandy's syndicate that paid 17.000 guineas for him. Although he had won the Derby earlier with Sunstar, Mr. Joel probably derived most pleasure out of ,'lie Derby win of Humorist, for he bred Humorist from his great mare. Jest. The colt suffered a bleeding attack, and less than a week alter his great triumph he was found dead in his box. Charles Morton, who trained Humorist, and most of Mr. Joel's other big winners, revealed in his book, "My Sixty Years on the Turf," that Mr. Joel gave him ITiOOO for winning the Derby with Humorist and gave Steve Donoghue, who rode the colt. C'jooo. the stake that year was only CG4SO. Jest was a sister to Absurd and the dam of Chief Ruler. Glass Doll is tho ancestress of Cymene, dam of Cylinder.