RACING NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21394, 23 July 1931, Page 5

RACING NEWS

I By Sentinel.

Fresh Breeze is reported to have improved as the result of his recent racing. The brush fences on the steeplechase course at Eiccarton are now being built, in preparation for the Grand National meeting, . The Grand National Hurdle candidates Overhaul and Camisader are amongst the acceptors for the South Canterbury Hunt meeting. Acceptors for the Grand National Steeplechase, Grand National Hurdles, and Winter Cup are due to-morrow. General nominations for the meeting fall due at the same time. The South Canterbury Hunt Club has received an excellent list of acceptances for its annual steeplechase meeting to be held on Saturday next. Tuki, Snowfall, Eadiac, Fabriano. Tunamoe, Sea Boy, and Diamond Jack, who are amongst the acceptors at the South Canterbury Hunt meeting, are engaged in the Grand National Steeplechase. Owlfiflight is booked for an engagement at the South Canterbury Hunt meeting oil Saturday. He has done a lot of useful work lately, and he should be ready to show good form very soon. In addition to his own horses, E. M'Lennan has taken in hand a yearling sister to True Shaft, by Arrowsraith from Thea. She will be broken in and- got ready to carry the colours of Mr F. Amor next season. It is reported that Eascal and Starshooter, two members of S. Barr’s team, are due to compete in the Claremont Handicap at South Canterbury on Saturday. They are in good fettle. Eascal having done well on his trip to Trentham. Lord Derby is the owner of Caerleon, the winner of the Eclipse Stakes, whose running was challenged after the race. It is rather surprising to find a horse s form questioned jyhen there is an interval of over a fortnight between Die two races under review. After a gallop last week the three-year-old Ventala, by Sutala from St. Leaven, broke a blood vessel and bled to death. The gelding, who had not raced, but had shown promise as a hurdler in his three or four essays, was trained by F. Christmas for Mr J. H. James, the owner and breeder of the horse. It is four years since the Advance gelding, En Eoute, was on a racecourse, but (says the Sun) he was immediately recognised by old hands when he recently appeared at Eiccarton. _ He is entered for a jumpers’ race at Timaru. En Eoute apparently has done a good deal of work lately in the Amberley district, where he is now quartered, but as he is now rising 14 years, he is not expected to be a great racing proposition. . , •, The name Voyager has been registered for the rising two-year-old colt by Caravel from Vanga who forms one of the team that J. T. Jamieson has in Sydney for the spring racing campaign in Australia. Voyager is an attractive youngster, who displ;vved promise in the work he accomplished before leaving for Sydney. Winter Cup candidates in Eoyal Saxon, Charmeuee, Eoyal Love, Eascal, Eanelagh, Starshooter, On Top, First Eaid, Pakitere, Sharp Thorn, Topere, and Shortly figure amongst the acceptors for the South Canterbury Hunt meeting. In fact, almost the entire field engaged in the,Claremont Handicap is composed of Winter Cup candidates. ... , n , Brulette, the winner of this year e Oaks Stakes, was got by Bruleur, a son of Chonberski, who sired four French Derby winners in Ksar, Pot au Feu, Madrigal, and Hotweed. Brulette is a sister to Hotweed, who also won the Grand Prix de Paris, the Prix Hocquart, and the Prix Lupin. Seaweed, the dam of Brulette, was got by Spearmint (sire of Cast Dart) from Seadune, by Ayrshire from Seadown, by Orvieto. Seadune is a sister to Downshire, a horse imported to iNew Zealand by the late Mr J. B. Keid. Heroic’s progeny have not won any oi the really important two-year-old races of this season in Australia, so that, though up to the end of June they had totalled 18 wins, the races were worth only about £7500. The winners were; —Galantic wf, Heroic Prince (2). Gloriole (3), Lady Heroic (1), High Romance (1). La Joconde (2), Herolage (1) , Pacific Flight (1), Dangerous (1), and Illustrious (3). The two-year-old filly Eose of Orange, by Arausio from Eose of Athens, was held on lease by the late Mr D. Campbell, and on his death she reverted to her owners, Messrs J. W. and L. W. Storry, who have placed her with C. Emerson. She has shown ability to go fast, and she will be raced at the Grand National meeting, her prospects of picking up a stake early in the season being Zealand-bred Waterline is one of the early short-priced candidates for tne l.ig spring handicaps at Eandwick. Vt him "Pilot” of the Sydney Referee writes:—On form Waterline looked a good thing for the last Doncaster Handicap with 9.2, and Mr G. F. Wilson is evidently of opinion that if he had kept right he would have gone close to winning. He has given him 9.9, while Casque d’Or, who ran third, has only gone up 7ib. Another thing is that the handicapper now regards him as a better sprinter than stayer. In the Sydney Cup Waterline had 8.11, but though the Metropolitan is run at three furlongs shorter, he has gone up 21b less in that than in the Epsom. The probabilities are that the Metropolitan or Caulfield Cup will be chosen for him in preference to the Epsom, and in the Cant ala he has 51b less thanmthe latter. At present he does not read like a good horse with which to commence an Epsom and Metropolitan double. The American three-year-old Mate, who won the Preakness, and ran third in t “® Kentucky Derby, is likely to. be raced in England. As be represents nearly top form in his own country, it will be interesting to note how he fares. It will be remembered that a couple of years ag another American crack, in Eeigh Count, was not regarded very seriously after Ins first run or two in England, but before he returned to America he proved himself good in Old Country company by wanning the Coronation _ Stakes at Epsom, and running second in the Ascot Ooicl Cup. It takes only about six days to reach England from America, compared with the long voyage from Australia ana New Zealand, and therefore horses do not take as long to recover or to acclimatise. Manfred’s half-brother, Night Porter (by The Night'Patrol), was among the runners for the Rosehill (Sydney) Ihree-Year-Old Handicap a week or two back. Though he had only 6.13 to carry, he did not show up. after losing ground through jumping back at the start. _He appears to have grown considerably since he raced last spring (says a Sydney writer), but has not thickened to any marked extent. He may win races, but he is unlikely ever to he in Manfred’s class. Manfred himself has not, as a sire, made good as quickly as Heroic, but he can still claim a few winners among his first crop. The latest reported was Amy Manfred, who won the Two-Year-Old Handicap, five furlongs and a-half, at the recent Brisbane Amateur Turf Club meeting. The Winter King, an English-bred sire, was responsible for Barneveklt, this year’s winner of the Grand Prix de Pans, the richest event run for on the French turl. The Winter King, who was bred by the

late Lord Eosebery, is by Son-in-Law, his dam, Signoriuetta, being by Chaleureux. Signoriuetta won the Derby in 1908 under the colours of the Italian sportsman, Chevalier Ginistrelli, and a few years after recording her sensational victory she was bought by Lord Eosebery for 10,000 guineas. The Winter King was sold for 200 guineas in 1929. The late Sir D. Campbell, the wellknown owner-trainer, who died at Eiccarton recently, bequeathed his team of horses to E. M'Lennan, who had been his right-hand man during the last few years. The horses affected are Battle Hero, the two-year-old brother to Battle Colours, and Satisfy, by Solferino from Satisfaction; Night Eecital, three-year-old by Nightraid from Elocution, and a two-ycar-old filly by Solferino from Firestick. Another animal is affected in the legacy. Mr Campbell disposed of Satisfy, after her racing career, to her_ breeder, Mr G. A. Kain, at whose stud in South Canterbury she was mated last spring with Lord Warden. In terms of the sale (says “Argus”), the first foal was to go to Mr Campbell, and now it will become the property of M'Lennan. The latter is a capable man with horses, having had a lot of experience, and he should do well at Eiccarton with the start he has received. He has leased Battle Hero to Mr J. Adamson, and the youngster, who has shown speed, though touched in the wind, should pay his way on the West Coast. Night Eecital and the Firestick filly will be gone on with, and they should give their new owner-trainer a good start.