RACING NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21649, 20 May 1932, Page 11

RACING NEWS

By Sentinel.

The going was heavy at Wingatui yesterday morning as a result of [ a '“ ( J ve , r o ' night. A new strip of ground next to the plough has been opened tor ast work, and amongst those allotted fairly solid tasks were Princess Argosy, Colonel Cygnus, Wealth, Clearner, Lord Buchan, Attractive Lady, Salmo Salar, Ba !. Gold Dress, Academy, Bulolo, Blue Metal, Bellbird, Worship, Traylavfch, Colonel Quex, Matu. Irish Lancer, Bold Brigand, Reitui, Morena, Red Racer, Bitractor, Dressy, Granado, and Kerbside. u Umtali was schooled over the brush double twice yesterday morning, and put plenty of dash into his work. He had, M. M'Donald, a Southland rider, in the to Boy (W. M'Ewao) acted as schoolmaster for Royal Limoni (RBeale) over three flights of hurdles yea terday morning. P°y Cim nd at the first two. but shaped bettei wlien y hunted into the third jump, Cantain’s Gift and Rameses were schooledoven hurdles yesterday morn--ID?fhe first race at the Ashburton meetBg »*» »< “SiS-mar. Accra ha. joined the the South Canterbury two winning efforts at Imercarg , Le ß?d et lSer 'gadloped yesterday morning with Bitractor, and shaped as it he coming back to his beat form, • •Morena was. amongst those worked at Wingatui yesterday morning, a nd he bowled along as if he could handle him self in soft going. Aliddin The Hunting Song gelding has been nominated-for the V.R.C. Grand National Hurdles and Steeplechase.^ D. O’Connor has left for, the nortn to ride at the Waikato meeting, and will remain for the Auckland winter meeting Weatherly and Dunraven were re snonsible for a good gallop oyer seven furlpnga at Riccarton on Tuesday morn--ID|on Jose was respbnsible for onmof the best gallops put up at.Riccarton oier six furlongs on Tuesday morning. . Mr JV M- Samson Has three-year-olds in work ■ that look and shape, promisingly,but they may not be produced until ■ next, spring. _ t P Tarquinius is showing, an improvement in his schooling oyer ■vvell when jumped with Galhvanter dur ing the early part.of the. week. ■ Umtali is coming on nicely, and should soon be ready to race. He scored one win last season, and now seems I'kely to add to it when the company is not too St ßoyal JSaxon chancbd .the stand hurdle when- being r*chooled in the parly part Week and unseated R. Beile. Royal- Saxon did. not fall, but charged through, the hurdle. • • J. W. Sheehan, an apprentice rider, waK admitted to hospital in Christchurch yesteirday' morning with injuries', to -the head' and knee, '.the result of Don, Jose falling at Riccarton through colliding withi Tarquinius. Don Jose was knocked about and may not start at Ashburton. It;js interesting to learn (says, bir Mbdied”). that, had it not? been for the efe-W* granted by; the' Government,. the Boutnfand Racing Club winter meeting have returned a .loss-.of, about £130.. . . Concentrate andb- Oratorian will in future be trained .for Mr R. J. Murphy by C. Emerson at Riccarton. Both horses arrived in -Riccarton this week. A train will leave Timaru at 5.50 p.m. for Wingatui at the conclusion ot the racing, and will be available for horses engaged at the meeting,.and Canterbury horses coming south for the Dunedin win* . te Granado 8 strode along nicely enough in strong work with Kerbside yesterday morning, but he shaped very disappointingly wheri fancied for his race at-In-vercargill. Perhaps he is one of those that are better in private than in public. Palace, who is well known at Kiccarton, where he was trained, for his early racing by H. Nurse, has resumed work at Takanini as a member of J. L. £ team. When he first went north he develpped a. splint, but be is <ijl ngbt now. after being Blistered and spelled. . Nukumai was a, trifle sore after hif racing at Hawera and he was allowefl to drop out of his engagements at Wanganui. He is going along all right however, and M. Conway states he_ wul all going well, run in the G r ® a * Northern Hurdles. This means that R. Miles will not be available for Easterly. Nothing further has been heard of th< recent American offer for Bronze Eagie The Brazen • colt is still enjoying a sped. No hurry is being made to give him another preparation, and in all probability it will be another couple of months Defore he resumes work. Mr F. M'Manemm, handicapper to the Auckland Racing Club, has decided not to rehandicap Easterly, Copey, Little Doubt, Fernden or Princess Elizabeth, who are engaged at the Great Northern meeting, and were winners at Wanganui 18 The 6 Waikato jumpers, Wiltshire and Cruachan. are reported to be in good order. They have not done much since they raced at the Egmont but they have racing condition to help t.nem, and they should perform well in engagements near at hand. Both horses will be in action at the Waikato meeting. The South Canterbury Jockey Club has been granted permission to include an open steeplechase on its June programme, instead of a hack and hunters steeplechase. The prospects of securing a good race appear to be brighter in tne open class just at present. ' •,. Two more additions to the team of Cutts Brothers are due at Riccarton .from the Stonyhurst Stud. One of them is Grouse, a yearling colt by Day Comet from the brilliant Autumnus mare, Moorfowl, dam of Moorbird. The other is the two-year-old. Doirah, by Winning Hit from the Antagonist mare, Brave Deed. Doiran did some work last year, but he has been spedding for a few months. According to reports few horses at Ellerslie are doing better than Vandyke, and he will strip a very fit horse for his Cornwall Handicap engagement next month. To date his best performances have been registered over distances ranging from six to eight furlongs, but (says an exchange), judged by the impressive manner in which he came from the rear ot the field and won over a mile at Avondale, he should, see out a longer journey., lie carried 8.7 on that occasion, and with a stone less in the Cornwall Handicap he may prove the pick of the light-weight division. . The death occurred in Melbourne early this month of Mrs Thomas Hales, at the age of 67 years. She was the widow of one of the most famous jockeys Australia has produced. He was at the peak of his success at the Victoria Racing Club’s autumn meeting in 1888, when he had 15 mounts in four days, winning 11 races, including nearly all the most important event's on the programme. . After retiring from the saddle he was interested in a sheep station in New South Wales. ! hut the venture was a failure, owing to drought and bush fires, whjle lu 6 later operations as a breeder of horses also proved financially disastrous. At was Torn Hales on Ensign who beat Bob Derrett in the V.R.C. Derby. ... , . , Lord Buchan has furnished and thickened out pleasingly during his spell, and looks a much better horse now than when formerly in training. Unfortunately hs will require track and atmospheric conditions in his favour when racing, but may do better under unfavourable circumstances than is generally anticipated. . George Price recently had a win with ’ sn English-bred horse named. Kichaka at

Moorefield. .Kichaka is regarded as one of the most promising young .horses seen out for some time. He was got in England, and foaled in Victoria at Mr S. Green’s stud. Kichaka is only two and ahalf years old. and was:got byVSalvo from Gay Nymph. . . ( 1 ■ When news camp bycable that /Miracle had, won the Newmarket Stakes it was thought that the colt had been very happily named. The nomenclature seemed obvious, but an English writer states that the colt obtained.his name from the fact that it was considered a miracle he stood •training. Miracle’s dam, Broderick Bay, was got by Swynford—Kothesay Bay, a half-sister to Scapa Flow—the dam of Pharos. ,

The South Australian Sf. Leger Stakes, run on May 7, was- won by Inybni, by Amalfi from Spasette, with Vermonious (Verbius —Harmonious) second, and Fulmond (Limond —Full Swing) third. Invoni was ridden by Ashley Reed, and beat Vermonious by a length, with Fulmond a neck away. The mile and threequarters was covered in 3min 21 sec, a race record. The Australian and Lew Zealand record for the distance is 2min established by First Acre at Fiemington. The English stallion Moabite died at the property of his owner, Mr Herbert S. Thompson, at Tanvyn Park. New South Wales, on May 7. A couple of ■ weeks previously an operation was performed on the skull of Moabite. At first it was believed to be a success, but later the horse became worse. On the turf Moabite won more than £BOOO in stakes, but it was as a sire that he made his mark. His oldest progeny are only Tour-year-olds, and the success achieved by some of his stock suggested that it would’not be long before he became one of New South Wales’s outstanding sires. Chemosh (A.J.C. Champagne Stakes). Semitis (Gibson Carmichael Stakes), Kafta (V.A.T.C. Debutante Stakes). Sanballat (V.R.C. Maribyrnong Trial), and Precious Gift (A.J.C. Gimcrack Stakes) were some of his classic winners. Moabite was imported to Australia in 1924 by Sir Samuel Hordern, but proved difficult to train, and was later sold for the stud to Messrs A. W. and H. S. Thompson. His sire. Phalaris, js one of England’s outstanding stud, horses. ( . At a charity race meeting recently held by the V.A.T.C. at Caulfield W. Broughton rode two winners in successive races. In the Two-year-old Handicap, five furlongs and. a-half, he rode Multudo, bay colt by Moabite, and in the Benevolent, Handicap, six furlongs, he rodeTemoin, I a five-year-old bay horse by Drake, owned by Mr H. L. Spry. Broughton is doing .well in Melbourne. “Veritas,” the Melbourne correspondent of the Sydney Referee, recently wrote: —“ W. Broughton, a Nexv Zealand light-weight rider at present stationed in Melbourne, displayed rare genius in winning on Timsbury at Mentone, for, after winning the start and noting that several of his rivals sought the lead. Broughton dropped his hands on Timsbury and let them go on. "Timsbury then earner along though he had just . joined in the race.- Rarely-an a sprint ■ race is such patience displayed, «Veritas ” is a particularly close friend of that well-known trainer, C. T. Godby. bo hia good opinion may prove useful to Broughton in Melbourne. J. T. Jamieson discovered something that he did not know when he recently arrived in Sydney. This was that Mr C. C.. Sheath was contemplating a trip to America with Ammon Ra. Ini spite' of Phar Lap’s unfortunate end, the “red terror" appears to have set the,fashion. Mr Sheath gave a. newspaper .an extensive i story of what he thought about hia prospects, and evidently is enamoured of the idea. Jamieson. however, is not so sanguine about it. and (says the Sydney correspondent of the Auckland Herald) stated that even if the horse goes it is doubtful if he can spare the time and leave the rest of his large team. According to Mr Sheath, Ammon Ra will stay in New Zealand until late in the year, come to Australia tor, the early autumn meetings in Melbourne, and then go to America. However, one can hardly believe that: Ammon Ra : will ffie allowed to miss the half-dozen short-dis-tance weight-for-age races in Sydney, and Melbourne in . ihe spring, which would suit him so admirably. Comparing Ammon Ra with Phar Lap as a traveller is the crux of the trip. Phar Lap was always one of the contented type who thrived anywhere, Ammon Ra, on the contrary, has been a, continual worry to Jamieson. A dainty feeder, he has had to be coaxed to eat, and was upset by changes. He may improve a little t in this, respect, but. it is a considerable i doubt. It is more probable that after a long sea journey through the tropics he would arrive only. “ half a horse, ana hopeless as a racing proposition. H- 1 ® peculiar temperament was the cause ot more than one of his defeats, and in the autumn enforced carefulness probably cost him at least one of , the St. Legers. Jamieson was unable to give him the searching preparation necessary for a long journey.