SPORTING.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20012, 1 February 1927, Page 14

SPORTING.

RACING AND TROTTING. FIXTURES. Feb. 2—Tapaoui R.C Annual. Feb. 2, s—Egraonts—Egraont R.C. Summer. Feb! e! s—Gisborne R.C. Summer. Feb. s*—Cheviot Trotting. Feb. 5, 7—Te Kuiti R.C. Annual. Feb. 10, 12—Dunedin J.C. Autumn. Feb. 10 12—Taranaki J.C. Autumn. Fe. 10, 12—Poverty Bay Turf Club Summer Feb. 12, 14—Rotorua R.C. Annual. Feb! 12 —N.Z. Metropolitan Trot tins. Feb. 16 —Clifdcn R.C. Fob. 17 —Tolaga Bay R.C. Feb. 17, 19 —Wanganui J.C. Feb. 23, 24—Gore R.C. Feb. 25, 24, 2b—Nelson J.C. Annual. Feb 24—Waiapu R.C. Annual. Feb. 25—Kaikoura Trotting. Feb. 25, 26 —Woodyille J.C. March 2, 3 —Danuevirkc R.C. Autumn. March 3, 5 —Marlborough R.C. Summer. March 4—Marlborough .'rotting. March 4, 5 —lnvercargill Trotting meeting. March s—Matamata5 —Matamata R.C. March s—Banks5 —Banks Peninsula R.C. The Forbury Park track was much faster at the tail of the meeting than during the earlier part of the programme, and when making a comparison between what the winners accomplished the fact should not be overlooked. Some Australian visitors who were amongst the guests of the Forbury Park Trotting Club at last week’s race meeting were greatly impressed with the sport, the excellent appointments, and the great hospitality which they received. At the present time Mr G. D. Greenwood has seven youngsters engaged in the D.J.C. Champagne Stakes and bis list includes Agrinn and Eulalie who are, however, both regarded as doubtful starters. A payment- is flue on February 4 for the D.J.C. Champagne Stakes. those enga.ged are Ark Royal, Sudden Storm, Starflighi, Ternbrnney, Don Jose, Silver Coot, Jericho, Agrion, Eulalie, felony, Arrowy. Zelanian. Strnngbow, and Scrambler. Acceptances for the first day of the Dunedin Cup meeting are duo on Friday, February 4. Footfall and Circulation are regarded as the. best at, the figure? in the Dunedin Cup. From January 1 up to October 30 of last year, Man o’ War s progeny had won 43 of the 224 races in which they had started, and had credited him with £71,725. That put Hurry On’s English rocerd of lair, year completely in the shade. Hie English-bred North Star HI (a son of Sunstar) also did wonderfully well for the same period. 43 of his progeny starting in 513 races, and winning 106, of the total value of £70,400. North Star Ill’s classic winners of last season included Bubbling Over (Kentucky Derby) and Boot to BOOJ, (Ohio State Derby and American Derby). Runnymede has been engaged in the Sydney Cun and apparently hopes are entertained that he will return to form. Count Cavonr, Limerick, Battlement, and Tanadees figure amongst the nominations for the Sydney Cup, of OOOOsovs. Several of the yearlings sold at the Wellington sales have already been handled since going into some of the Auckland stables. Paperchaso may rot bo seen out again Until the Great Autumn meeting. The well-known North Island sportsman Mr R. A. M’Kcnzie is at present on a visit to Dunedin. Although Hurry On headed last year's list of winning English sires with oyer £59,000 to his credit, he owed his position to one horse —Coronach, £38.624. His other principal winners were the two-year-olds Applccross, £4969: Cresta Run, £4880; Call Boy, £4377, arid Grand Vitesse, £l9Ol. Of his other nine winners only Sereth got as high as £690. Fhalaris came out much better than Hurry On, though his total was only a little in excess of £42,000. His greatest winner was Colorado, with £10,610, but of his other 16 winners nine won amounts ranging from £5602 down to £1297. That left him with only six winners below the four-fignres mark. Fhalaris had nine two-year-olds in his winners, and, of his older representatives, the four-year-old Warden of the Marches was best. “There are some great horses in England, and on the average they arc superior to the Australian thoroughbred. However, we have a few —Manfred. Heroic, Windbag—which I think, says Frank Dempsey, would hold their own in the best of company in England. In conclusion, I would like to say that, so far as my experience goes since my return, races in Melbourne are very cleanly run as compared with a few years ago. Certainly I struck trouble in the Bagot Handicap, but that was through being forced hack by a beaten horse, and is one of those incidents that are unavoidable in racing. When I was here previously races were very rough, but perhaps that was just one of those bad patches that come sometimes. ’ The betting tax is playing havoc with some of the starting price firms in England, bearing on which a London exchange says that in the first month one well-known firm did only one-tenth of its pro-Novem-ber business, .nil had reduced its trunk telephone charges alone by £IOO a week. Another firm stated its business had been reduced by 56 per cent., and yet another by 80 per cent., with the consequent diminution of telephone rentals and telegraphic charges. . . A recent innovation in Adelaide, which seems to have a good deal to recommend it, is the appointment of Mr Sid. Ferry, a racing man of much experience, who. in his youthful days, was a jockey himself, to coach young apprentices. According to jockey E. W. Simmons, who saw racing in the States last year, American owners and trainers are obsessed with a craze for feather-weight riders, with the result that, just as a boy is reaping the gam of experience, he becomes a light-weight, and is practically forced out of (he game. That, on a rough estimate, incompetent jockeys tossed away more than 20,000,000 dollars (£4,000,000) in the past season in the United States is an assertion made in a recent issue of the Chicago sporting newspaper CoHycrs Eye, which adds: “This sum may appear at first glance to he. a trifle excessive, but one has only to appreciate fully the amount wagered on the metropolitan tracks to realise that it is a conservative estimate. Probably the amount was even double, taking other tracks into consideration.'’ Hue loading rider, “Pony’.’ M'Atce. retired for a rest before the season closed, and admitted frankly that his reason was his poor form in the saddle. “Those who hack my mounts are burning in their money,’ said M’Atce. "I am trying my best, but don t seem able to do the right thing. I pace tossed off race after race for the M hitnejstable, which I should have won easily. Recently the Victorian jockey, Irani Dempsey, returned from a sojourn in England, and, interviewed by a member of Ihe Sporting Globe staff, lie had the following to say of his experiences:— ‘•Chalk is nothing like cheese, yet there is even a greater difference in the riding methods in England and Australia, if I rode in England in the same manner as i do here I would be looked upon as someone suddenly 'one mad. Here it is all rush and bustle—really it meaim riding a good start.’ Over there it is just the opposite. You have to exercise great patience Miss the start here, and you have little chance. But that doesn't matter much at Home. The lay-out of (he courses ha? a great deal to do with it. Now at Newmarket, the last, nine furlongs of a long race is a straight run in. Nearly everv course has a. straight run o. ton? or five furlongs at the end ot raiddlodistance races, and. of course, a rider has to' use great judgment. Courses are not granted licenses now unless they nave a straight mile. More skill is required there than in Australia, for you have to know—or try to find out —just bow muru tn« other fellow’s? horse has left in him lor the run home. It's a cat and mouse game. I found the strangeness of the courses a great drawback. Hero we ride over the same ground day after day. and we know the courses to an inch. Do you know there are many racecourses in England that J have never seen? Then, again, meetings are held on most courses at such long intervals that a visting jockey has little chance to heroine accustomed to them. There are only two meetings a year at Epsom—one at Ascot and one at Goodwood.” An Australian who made good alter Jeaiing ins own country was Mr E. De. Mestre. After an absence of 24 years he is on a visit to Sydney. On leaving here he went to South Africa, and. after remaining there eight years, determined to try England. It is' not easy sailing in England for any strong w. but. like Mr R. M notion, ne was not long there before 1m demonstrated his ability as a trainer. Of course, that meant a demand for his services, and he did particularly well for Mr Mol Joel, for whom he was still training when 1 was in England in 1924. That year he turned out winners ot £29,933, the staple s best representative being Polyphonies, whose wins included the Sandowu Eclipse Stakes of £11,460. In 1921 horses in his care won £32,778. Newmarket, however, did not agree with him, and he rs-

signed as Mr Joel’s trainer at the end of the year, buying a place for himself in another part of the country. 111-health, necessitating a couple of severe operations, kept him very ouiet in 1925, but he got going again last season, when he raced his own horses. At the close of the yearhe sold his property to Sir C. Hyde (N. Scobie’s patron), and bought another at Winchester. He will commence the coming flat season with 23 horses of his own, and Lovely Naples, a filly he sold to Sir Abe Hailey after she had shown good winning form'. Mr He Mestre is of opinion (says the Sydney ’Referee) that the betting tax in its present form will hit racing so hard in England that, unless there is modification, he, as well as many others, will go out of the game. He is remaining here for another week then going to New Zealand for some trout fishing, and returning to England via America. It is unnecessary to remind old-timers of the fact, but to many racing men of the present day it will be of interest that he is a son of the late Etienne Ho Mestre, who owned and trained Archer, winner of the first two Melbourne Cups. TAKAPUNA JOCKEY CLUB. SUMMER MEETING CONCLUDED. BIG RACE TO DESERT GLOW. (Pee United Peess Association.) AUCKLAND, January 31. The Takapuna Jockey Club’s summer meeting was concluded to-day. The weather was fine, and there was a good attendance. The totalisator handled £39,100, compared with £53.962 10a on the corresponding day of last year, making a grand total for the meeting of £97,313, compared with £116,689 10s last year. Results: MOANA HANDICAP, Of 250sovs, Seven furlongs. 2 —Cantab, 7.12 (H. Lee) .. 1 4 Alonsoa, 7.12 2 5 King Arch, 7.9 3 Also started: 1 King Emerald 8.6. 6 Wyoming 7.10. 9 Bright Comet 7.10 3 Daytaro 7,9. 10 Clockwork 7.9, 7 Abbey Day 7.9, 12 Miss Astron 7.7. 8 Salamander 7.7, 11 Queen Abbey 7.7. Won by threequarters of a length, with a length between second and third. Daytaro was fourth. Time, Imin 28 2-ssec. WAIWERA HIGH-WEIGHT HANDICAP. Of 275sovs. One mile three furlongs and 40 yards. —Kamehameha, 9.6 (Carmont) 1 s—Ngarara,s—Ngarara, 9 11 2 2—Uralla, 10.1 3 Also started: 2 Royal Fame 11.3 (coupled with Uralla), 4 Hangawera 9.13. I Rangatahi 9.10, 8 Dead Sweet 9.a. , Praiseworthy 9.0. 9 Sea Comet 9.0, 6 Day Bell 9.0. Won by a neck, with a head between second and third. Hangawera was fourth. Time, 2min 27seo. DEVONPORT HANDICAP, Of 250sovs. Seven furlongs. 5 Bright Dawn, 8.0 . (Keesmg) 1 2—Macroom, 8.8 2 6 Judge’s Box, 7.13 .. •• 3 Also started: 1 War Officer 7.8, 4 Lady Robinson 7.7, 8 Rina Mangu 7.7, 3 Lad,. Cintra 7.7, 7 Mervette 7.7. Won by a neck, with two lengths and a-half between second and third. SUBURBAN HANDICAP. Of 430sovs. Six furlongs. 11 —Aurumavis. 7.7 (Goldsboro) 1 1— Tea Bell. 8.8 2 0 — Aussie, 9.0 3 Also started: 6 Day Guard 8.10, 9 King Merv 8.7, 8 York Abbey 8.6, 13 Archeen 7.13, 5 Chairman 7.13, 2 Flying Juhet 7.12, 7 Delightment 7.10, 3 Ned Kelly 7 7 14 Lady Lois 7.0, 10 Dan Quin 7.0, II Archeno 7.0. 15 Pagoda 7.0. Won by a neck, with the same distance between second and third. York Abbey was fourth. Time, Imin 13 l-ssec. TAKAPUNA HANDICAP. Of SOOsovs. One mile three furlongs and 40 yards. 2 Desert Glow, 8 .'7 . (M Tavish) 1 3 Transformer, B.’ (Lee) .. 2 s—Spoony,s—Spoony, 7.13 (Driscoll) •• 3 Also started: 1 Eden Hall 9 0 2 Town Bank 8.3. 6 Barometer ,7.8 and Qumcoma 7 0 (bracketed), 8 Lord, Star 7.3, 7 Papatu 7.0. Won by a neck, tvith the same distance between second and third. Eden Hall was fourth. Time, 2mm 24sec. HOBSON HANDICAP. Of SOOsovs. Six furlongs. o_p agane lli, 0.10 (Keesing) 1 1 — In the Shade, 7.13 .. •• - 3 Speechless, 7.5 3^ Also started: 4 Auriculas 7.6, 8 King Willonyx 7.4, 5 Exalted 7.3. Won by a long head, with a length and a-half between second and third. Exalted uas fourth. Time. Imin 14sec. RANGITOTO HANDICAP. Of 325sovs. Nine furlongs. 2 Golden Krist, 9.4 (G. Holland) t 4 Kamehameha, 7.9 . (E. Keesmg) t 3 Wenday, 9.7 ® Also started; 1 Te Koroke 9.9, 6 Rahenote 9.2. 5 Mavcelish 8.1, 8 Arch Queen 8.0, 7 Marble Mount 7.10, 9 Star Comet 7 7 Wendav was a length and a-nali away, with Sea Comet fourth. lime, Imm 56 i-ssec. ANNIVERSAE / HANDICAP. Of 245sovs. Seven furlongs. 5 Scat, 7.12 (T. Green) .. 1 4 Pelham, 8.6 " —Ring the Bell, 8.4 .. •• 3 Also started: 8 Charlady 8.4, 3 Merry Damon 8.3, 2 Aurumavis 8,2, 10 Miss Vera 7.12, 7 Hydo Park 7.11, 12 Mnscan 77, 14 Gold Fern 7.7, 13 'Tinniti /.7, 9 Antrim Boy 7.7, 11 Claims 7.7, 8 Nucleus 7 7 Won by halt a length, with threequarters of a leiv'th between second and third. Miss Vera was fourth, lime, Imm 27 2-sscc. IE KUITI HANDICAPS. (Pee United Press Association.) AUCKLAND. January 31. The following handicaps have been declared for the 'Jo Kmti Racing Clubs anriTi.'il mooting; * r , . Maiden Handicap, of lOOsovs. &cven furlongs.—Town Guard 9.0, .Lady Spalpeen bl2 Fair Abbey 8.10, Delysian, Lady Cintra 8.7, Day Lass'B.6 Captain Colhain, Lord Penury White Light 8.5, Velma Day 8-3 IcUmnnga. Lady Faye, Catapult, Day j ■ , Miss S'phinx, Redmnr. Acushla, Catela is, \li«s Comet, Romak, Bnllachulish, V\ hetuiiine Orbit, Glad Abbey, Elmestra 8.0. Te Kuiti Gup, of SlOsovs. One. mile and a-quarter.—Desert Glow 8.9 Transformer 8 3 Day Guard 8.5, Spoony 8.3, Gold Jacket, R2 Rinc the Bell 7.10, Charlady 7E Lor 1 Star ML? Vera, Merry Damon 7.0, Hyde Park 7.3, Royal Form 7.L Rarnngi, Clam?, Kamebamoba, Macroom rO. Puketutu Handicap, of 125?0v5. Seven furlongs.—York Abbey 9,10. Pcgaway 9.9, Ring the Bell 9.5. 'J he Author 9.0, Miss Egypt. 8.12. To Koroke 8.8, Peter Rosa, Pepin 8.0. Awakino Handicap, of 156?0v5. bix mr-(m-cs —York Abbey 9.0. Dave 8,12. Plying Juliet 8.5. Mis? Egypt 8.0. Letter of Credit 7.9, Te Koroke 7.8, lllingar. Clams i.O Otorohanga Handicap, of llOsovs, six furlong?.—N>d Kelly 9,7, Dobbin 8.13. Ra-rane-i 8 9 Macroom 3.5, Abbess 8.1, Llandudno"7.l3. Subdivision 7.10, Bracken Abbey 7.10, Value 7.7, Winsome Bov 7.6 Some Ladv. Judge's Box 7.5, Cold Clip 7.3, town Guard, Rose Marie. Starfield, Bright Comet, 7.1, Reopai, Delysian. Miss Sphinx. Lady Faye Miss Joyce, Arch Rose, Abbey Queen, Lucy Glitters, Venus Abbey 7.0. Stewards’ Handicap, of 200sovs. Six furlongs.—Dave 9.0, Pelham 8.12, Chairman 8 9 Flying Juliet 87, Ned Kelly 8.1, Arch Opal 7.13. Letter of Credit T.l 1, Quinetto V. 6, Tinniti 70, To Knmi HaHr Handicap, of HOsovs. tine mile. -Te Koroke 10.0. N'garara 9.1, Hangawera 8.11,' Llandudno 8.10, Mavee lisb, Air (-'llOOll 8.7. ’Popping 8.6, Atheniy 8.4. Light wood 8.3. Sailor Boy 8.2. Day Lass, Bizarre, Lady Cintra. Plain Pearl, Wbeftihine Hauma, Glen Marce, 8.0. Hack Hurdles, of 125sovs. Cine mile anti three-quarters.--Daddy's Girl 10.7, Shrimp 10.6, Gold Rep 10.5, Pcndennis 10.4, West Abbey 10,2, Uralla 10.0. Powiri 9.10, Star of the East 9.4. s 'own Hall 9.3, Day Comet, gelding, Blago 9.2, Zarna. Lady Spalpeen, Ahihere 9.0.