OTAKI EVENTS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23839, 14 December 1940, Page 9

OTAKI EVENTS

SUMMER PROGRAMME THE PROBABLE FAVOURITES OPPORTUNITY FOR MEA MEA The Otnki Maori Hacmg Club's Summer .Meeting will be held to-dav, when the chief events will be tho Here Nekitini .Memorial Stakes and the Waiorongomai Handicap. The betting will be under the win and place system. Telegraphing last evening, the Ilnuin's correspondent staled that in three races there would be only two place dividends, and ia two others one scratching would also reduce them to two. The track was firm ami fast. The following horses were likely to be j well supported:Puketoi Hurdles. -Great Quex, Dorado. Pnkekarak.i Handicap.—Blue Border, Talrut a. Rere Nekifini Memorial Handicap.—Mea-mea. Sigiow, Little Robin. Manuao Maiden Plate.-.-Wildfire, Swell Chance, King's Mark. Otnki Handicap. -■-Tan-urn. Sanction. \\ niorontroinni Ilnndic.'tp,—Sir Crusoe Whifp Rajah. Rahui Handicap.——City Song, I,ast Acre. Royal Vision. Reke Poke Handicap. Valiant Lady, Teneoiiy. Distress Signal. Acceptances: l-.o PFKFTOr HURDLES, of ,c Ito |V, miles. Good San, il.il; Dorado li io" Chat. 10.11; Great Quex. 10. H; Hvderabad' 0.7; Etruscan, Royal Stuart, Prinihia, Lualh. I.ftenn, 0.0. 12.tr. —PCKFKARAKA HACK HANDICAP. of .11' Jo, (i fur. Mine Border, S.<l; Arabic, Talentn, B.'J; Taiho, s.O; Conversion, 7.!); Triple Crown. Debretts. 7.7. 1.10 -RERE NEK IT IXI MEMORIAL STAKES, of i'o.">o, 1' 4 miles.—Little Robin, ■S.I; Meamea, 7.112; Aurora's Star. 7.12; Raaiia, 7.0; Sigiow, 7.".; Hasten, Gay Fox, Titter, 7.0. '-Mil MANIT AO MAIDEN PLATE of floo, i; fur. Thorama, Hunting {-Squire, Fan vet te. Swell Chance, Klminola, The Monarch. Tristan. Wildfire. Haughty Rival. Ked Dash, Ramillie.s, King's Mark, Princess Venus. 5.7. 2..V> OTAKI HACK HANDICAP, of I'l 20. 7 lur. Sigiow, 0.7; Doctor Defoe, Sa ncl ion, 5..1; Tan Cm. s. 1 ; Social Credit, 8.0, Bide-a-Wee. Namesake, 7.7. 1.10 WAIORONOO.MAI HANDICAP, of £'2oo, 7 fur. Sir Crusoe, 0,.">; Catalogue, 0.2; Night Eruption. Marina, s.O; Race Call, 7.1; While liajah, Sunee, 7.0. 1-2". HA 111* I HACK HANDICAP, of £'llo. o fur. Young Charles. 0,1; Last Acre, it.2; Doctor Defoe, s.I; Arabic, 7.12; Acrobat, 7.0; City Song, 7.5; Royal Vision, Little Margot, 7.7. o.io RKKERF.KK HACK HANDICAP, of £l2O, r, fur. -Aulolite, 10.1; Valiant Lady, 5.1,1; Tea cony, s;.it ; Distress Signal, 5.4; Coronado, 7.11; Conversion, flt. Gniee. First. Round, "Wakarara, 7.0: Army Giri, Hunting Squire, Tristan, Aberdovey, 7.7. OBJECTION TO PENALTY POSITION OF VAIN LAD Another instance of the anomalies that ran creep into the handicapping system, as laid down by the Handicapping Committee of the New Zealand Trotting Association, is featured in the respective penalties awarded the trotters Short Wave and Vain Lad. who won at Ihe recent Waikato meetings. Short Wave won tlie Kukuhia Handicap, limit 1..">2, off 12yds. receiving £llO and ifiyds penalty. Vain Lad won the Claudelands Handicap, limit -1..V2, off lUyds. receiving £llO and ISyds penalty. Vain Lad failed to do better than fourth in the race won by Short Wave, who was in receipt of 2-lyds. Short Wave did not start in the Claudelands Handicap, and as the result of his win and penalty. Vain Lad is now set to give Short Wave 10yds. The connections of Vain Lad have lodged an objection to the penalty, and the trotter was not- paid up for in the Howe Memorial Handicap, to be run on the first day of the Auckland summer meeting SUCCESS OF BETTY BOOP NICELY PLACED AT EPSOM After winning the Olmupo Handicap at. Claudelands last Saturday in 1.10 I -."> off 1.10. the smart four-year-old Jack Potts mare Betty Boop must be considered very nicely placed on the 'imil of the 1.2S Grandstand Handicap on the first day of the Auckland Trotting Club's Summer Meeting on December 27 B"tty Boop defeated a useful field in hollow fashion, and Bedford. Belfast Jack and Princess Linnett, who had no chance of conceding her 12 yards starl at Hamilton will require to show a lot of improvement to go with her at even terms. Betty Boop may strike more serious opposition at Epsom, but there is little doubt about her being high class.

BROTHER TO SERENATA i. 0 I- NIGHTWARD IN HIGH REGARD t, y .v During an interval between rare"! each n day at WoodviKe, Mr. W. H. Caisford's colt, n brother to Serenata and Russian Ballet, was a sprinted down the straight. The coll. who • has been named Nisrhtward, is by Nighti- march from the Limond mare Praise, and in f I looks, conformation and action, he is a typi(l ial Limond. Praise, of course, is sister to Com- " ! mendaiion. one of the greatest horses ever sired by Limond, and with whom Mr. Gais--11 foril won so many good races. No doubt this '' was what inspired the purchase of Night- ' ward, who cost 025gns at the last national sales. j NO RACING IN ENGLAND DECISION OF JOCKEY CLUB (Received December I,'!, r,."> p.m.) LONDON", Dec. 11 The Jockey Club has cancelled all race fixtures for 1011 because it is unable to carrv out the meetings. 1 Tho flat racing season in England normally i begins in March at Lincoln. ! TO CORRESPONDENTS i "Inquirer." Auckland.- Nelson contested | two Auckland Cups in one year. He won the : i Clip, then run over two and a-quarler miles j on New Year's Day, |sss, and on the same day lie had a walk-over in the Auckland Plate, weight-for-age, two miles. The next ( up was run on Boxing Day of that year and was won by Lochiel, Nelson being fourth