RACING NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21612, 6 April 1932, Page 5

RACING NEWS

By Sentinel. ailver Ring has established a claim io be considered the best two-year-old of the Nominations for the South Canterbury Jockey Club’s meeting are due to-day. There will be more, than usual interest attached to the'Maiiawatu autumn meeting ds several of the best horses in- commission are engaged. • . It is worthy of more than passing .note that Veilmond won t}ie A.J.C. Pi ate > two miles and a-quarter, in 3ram olisqc. His dam is an Absurd mare. Lochlaggan has always had speed ana recent form shows that she can stayover more ground that was generally believed. If some horses were deprived.of showing less brilliancy on the training track they would be more successful under silk. A horse should be trained for a trial and if it proves satisfactory any more fast work should be avoided except to the extent of keeping the horse fit and well. The watch hail proved the rum of many a good horse.!- • " V Nightmarch: has .won around 30,800sqvs in stakes. He dimmed the lustre of his fame as a racehorse when he apparently ran a bad race in the A.J.C. Plate, but the fact remains that he has won in faster time over the same distance. 4 word of congratulation is extended, to W. M'Dbnald', who has been saddling up Rational ft ,as a winner. Some -years ago he occupied the position as private trainer, to the late Sir George M bean and has always proved that' when he had a , horse worth training could produce winners. , The cold facts of common sense knowledge of racing and trotting must recognise that the existence of both branches of sport are totally dependent on betting through the medium of the totalisator. At the' same time the largest bets ill connection with either game do not reach the totalisator. That is a fact beyond dispute. Hence we have starting price merchants —waxing rich on racing and trotting who do not contribute a .penny towards the support of either game. Ignoring -facts leads to destruction and that is the position in which racing and trotting stand to-day. It has been claimed that the legalisation of bookmakers would seriously interfere with the revenue of clubs and in reply to that it may be said that the biggest bettors in the country take all sorts of care, that their bets do not reach the totalisator. That is the position as it stands to-day and as it has been for several years past. In the interest of- owners a better market should be established in their favour and unless something is done in that respect the tendency to exploit Australia will increase. At the present time we have our most successful trainers going to Australia and others would go if they could finance a campaign. These men would, with good reason, be satisfied to stay in New Zealand if a market existed that favoured the man who has to bear the brunt of supporting a team of horses. At the present time we legalise the 'totalisator, and so-called art unions and allow a. real river of revenue ,of wealth to? miss a logical contribution'to racing and. trotting and a most acceptable .fattening’ to' the Government Treasury coffers. When facts are accepted as facts ive will then have racing and trotting on a sensible plane in this country, with the dominating factor that those who exploit racing and trotting would be forced to contribute to their support. - It is interesting to read that an linglish writer has expressed astonishment that Night Raid got such a - phenomenal horse as Phar Rap. It is equally astonishing that such shallow opinions should.be cabled out to this country. The opinion is, however, outweighed by facts, and there is no reason to express Surprise that a really well-bred stallion should sire a real racehorse. Many instances could be quoted where a successful strain has been, dormant for a generation or two and then suddenly' regained successful vitality. Doncaster left nothing of any great note except Bend Or, whose breeding has always been a matter of doubt, and lie had to survive a challenge of wrongtui

description before being finally awarded the stakes attached to the Derby. Bene Or sired Ormonde, whose fame as a sire is dependent on Orme. Bend Ui also got Radium, who marked a successful linking up of Stockwell and Galopm, and proved to be , his best staying son. Kadium got Night Raid, who is a tan male descendant of Stockwell, through the most successful line of the tribe. Radium is out of a mare by Donovan, one ottne best winners, on . the English turf. Taia, - the dam of Rddium, wafe got by Kisber, ah Austrian-bred horse that won tne Derby. Kisber was got by Buccaneer, the sire of Formosa, the dam of Pulclira, to whom we owe Multiform, Uniform, Cruciform, and Co. Breeze, the fourth dam of Radium,; was got by king iom, who also got the dam oh St. Simon. On the dam’s side Night Raid inherits a wealth of successful strains, bentiment, the dam of Night Raid, was got mint, who restored the Musket Carbine line to prominence both by winning the Derby and Grand Prix de Paris *nd proving himself highly successful at the stud. Flair, the second dam of blight Raid, belongs to one of the most successful taproots in the English Stud Book. She was got by St. Frusquin, one of St. Simons most successful sons on the turf and at the stud, from Glare, by Ayrshire, a Derby winner and son of Hampton, who sired three Derby winners, tootlight, the fourth dam of Night Raid, was got by Cremotne, who won the Derby, Brand Prix de Paris, and Ascot Gold Cup. Night Raid belongs to the Blair Athol-Parathn taproot which made Lord Rosebery s stud world famous, and its offshoots have proved of immense value in founding o'ther studs in different parts of the world. It has also been said that Night Raid was possibly mixed up .with another horse sent out on the same boat, but that has been denied by those most competent to express an opinion on the point. In any case Phar Lap was bred in South Canter* bury, and got by, the horse now wel.l known as his sire. The horse that got Phar Lap has a pedigree brimful of the most successful strains in the Stud Book —strains forming a combination, that has spelt success.