RACING NEWS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21241, 23 January 1931, Page 11

RACING NEWS.

By Sentinel. Nominations for the Dunedin Jockey Club’s Cup meeting are now due on Monday. For the Farewell Handicap at the Tapanui Racing Club’s meeting Francolin is not eligible to start, having won the sum of £75 in the Russly Plate as a two-year-old. A foreign buyer was operating at the Trenthara yearling sales on Wednesday. This was Senor Meyer Braun, a visitor from Valparaiso, Chili. He made number of purchases, all fillies, giving the impression that he was interested in New Zealand stock chiefly from the breeding side. Chief Ruler, Grand Knight, Thespian, Grandcourt, and Psychology were among the sires he patronised. South Island horses hqve a great record in the Telegraph Handicap, the chief sprint event at Trentham. When Palermo won on Tuesday he made the fifth successive winner from the South. Booster won in 1927, and he was followed by Paperchase. after whom Meadow Lark won twice. A. H. Eastwood rode Paperchase, also Meadow Lark in his first success, while he was on Palermo this week. The Dunedin owner, Mr J. M. Samson, has been looking round ever since he returned from his world trip for a useful horse to carry his colours. He has been negotiating for several without success, but he purchased one on Wednesday, securing the four-year-old Admiral Drake, by Chief Ruler—Tame Duck, from his breeder, Mr F. Armstrong, of Hawke s Bay. Admiral Drake has gone into the care of the Orari trainer, R. C. Keeper. The Anniversary Handicap at Trentham on Tuesday provided the unusual spectacle of father and son fighting out the finish. Mr K. M‘K Duncan won with Llandudno, beating Cadland, carrying the colours of his father, Mr T. A. Duncan. Llandudno was obtained very cheaply by his present owner, who .has done exceptionally well with gift horses. Risk was one he had given to him, and he won early over country. Otairi was another who was a present and, apart from the fact that he has won several races on the flat and over hurdles, he looks a great prospect for winter hurdle races. Ammon Ra, by his win in the Wellington Stakes, left no doubt that he is the best two-year-old this season. He was slow out of the barrier, but he finished with great determination under his penalty. He gives the impression that he will stay even better than his halfsister, Prodice. Fitzquex, the winner of the Ruapehu Handicap, is a three-year-old half-brother to Bonatic, who is well known on South Island tracks. Fitzquex has a fine turn ot speed, and he should do a lot more winning before long. . Hunt the Slipper is a very speedy two-year-old, but he found five furlongs ■just a trifle too far in the Wellington Stakes. He should run that distance out, however, on firm ground. , Llandudno was responsible for an attractive performance when he won the Anniversary Handicap. He was P. ur ’ chased some time ago with the object of converting him into a steeplechaser, and he is now a very cheap horse, as he has had two starts this season, winning on each occasion. Fedora, the winner of the Fitzherbert Handicap, is a stablemate of Ammon Ra, being a member of J. T.' Jamieson 6 Auckland team, which is exceptionally strong in two-year-olds this season. Fedora is by Chief Ruler from Minsk, dam of the crack hurdler Carinthia, This was her first success, but her brilliancy makes her look a good one to keep in mind again for later races. The Southland gelding Palermo gave a brilliant exhibition of speed in the Telegraph Handicap, in which he was always near the front, and shot out in the last furlong to win easily. It was a smart performance. Palmero has been a very consistent galloper in the south, where he won four times, and was placed in six other races last season. He ran himself out of hack company recently, winning the open sprint on the second day of the Invercargill meeting, He is likely to go on to further successes in sprint events. Stanchion, the winner of the Wellington Cup, was bred by his owner, the veteran Wairarapa stportsman, Mr VV. E. Bidwill, who is not in good health at present. Stanchion is by Limond from Termination, by Kilbroney from Culmination, by San Francisco from the great brood mare Stepfeldt. so he has a great staying pedigree. He showed useful form when he won the Wairarapa Cup on New Year’s Day, and in his latest elicit his undoubted stamina pulled him through. He is a very bad-tempered horse at the barrier, and be caused a lot of trouble to the rest of the field before the starter got them off.