RACING NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21668, 11 June 1932, Page 7

RACING NEWS

a By Sentinel. Haze has been schooling well over hurdles. Town Beauty, who won two minor ■teeplechases at the Auckland meeting, cost his owner, C. Wallace, of Ellershe, only £25. Acceptances for the South Canterbury Jockey Club’s meeting are due on Monday next. Sir Charles Clifford has- sent the three-year-old gelding, Morepork, by The Ace from Brown Owl, back to Cutts Brothel s at Riccarton. He was in work last year but has been spelling for , some time at Stonyhurst. , ' . T , The committee of the Wanganui Jockey Club has decided against running the Wanganui Guineas at the spring meeting, and also has cut the Jackson Stakes out of the autumn programme. J. W. Love has returned from Sydney and brought back. With him a yearling § elding by Australian Sun from Bunee, y Earlston —Birada, by Wallace. ' Porlock, the three-year-old filly by The Ace from Red Hind, has again changed hands. F. P. Claridge, who purchased her recently from Sir Charles Clifford, has in turn sold her, and she will go into the stable of the Cheviot trainer, E. Redmond. Claridge has now only Metal Bird in work. . The thoroughbred sale at Ellershe on Monday attracted a large crowd of nngeiders. but there was little bidding, and only four lots changed hands, including Te Hoia at 40 guineas. Among those passed were High Comedy, Royal Artist, Helium, True Blood, Topstar, Sir Mond, and Cynthia N„ while Tea Trader was not offered. Sir Mond was later sold to go to Western Australia. George Jones has taken quarters at Glenhuntly, in Melbourne, which means that the training ground for his horses will be Caulfield. Former New Zealanders already training at that course include D J. Price, M. T. and P. M’Grath, and. S. W. Reid. According to the Melbourne Sporting Globe, Mr W. R. Kemball, for whom Jones trains, will go to Melbourne in August with the intention of remaining there until April. . . . Under the penalty conditions attached to the V.R.C. Grand National - Hurdles and Grand National- Steeplechase, Landmark and Copey have both, earned 71b increases on their original weights in the Hurdles and Steeples respectively. Landmark’s weight in the Hurdles is now 11.1, but he has incurred no penalty in the Steeples. .Copey’s weight goes up to 9.13 in the Steeples. Other New Zealand winners during the recent holiday racing who are engaged in the Y.R.C. events have not incurred penalties. Lucese and Captain’s - Gift have both been winners over hurdles, but the distance of the events they won was less than two miles and a-half. ' ; Few more popular appointments have been made in Sydney than that which promoted Mr G. T. Rowe to the secretaryship of the A.J.C. in succession to thej.ate Mr C. W. Cropper (says an Australian paper). Mr Rowe, who comes from a racing family, rose from the ranks of office lad to his present position. He entered the employ of the A.J.C. in 1900, and in 1919 was appointed assistant secretary. In the intervening years Mr Rowe attended to much administrative work, and when Mr Cropper visited England in _ 1927 he was actingsecretary, and carried out hia duties in , that capacity to the satisfaction of everybody. , _ . Reports from the north state that hull Mark was badly cut on one of his legs in the Great Northern Hurdles, and he will require a spell. His connections are puzzled as to how the mishap occurred, the only possibilities being that it was the result of contact with a sharp timber end from a broken hurdle, or that when Easterly fell she flung her legs skywards and one of her plated roofs caught Full Mark’s leg. The injury may heal in time for the Wellington meeting, six weeks off, but it is doubtful. The association between Mr J. J. Corry and his trainer, T. R. George, has been a remarkably successful one, and in just over two years the trainer has established what must be something like a" recordTwo years ago (says an exchange) last January George took over the training of Mr Corry’s horses, and, although he has, only saddled up eight horses ior the Blenheim sportsman, they have won no: fewer than 87 races. With three horses sired by Surveyor he has won over 40 races, and this season alone he has saddled up 41 winners. .. ... Many horses have their peculiarities, and Copey is certainly one of them. A copd breakfast makes no appeal to him, and he begins the day with a large bottle of stout. He eats little during the day, but makes'up for it with a sdlid evening meal. His preparation practically includes no galloping. A lot of trotting and cantering on the roads and strong pace work on the track is_the method Fryer employs with him. He was bred by Mr Arthur Copestake, of Ohmewai, and is held on lease by Fryer, A seven-year-old gelding by Marble Arch from a St. Amans mare, he is a half-brother to Archibald, runner-up in the Great JNorthern Hurdles of 1927, Copey had a season’s hunting experience before he started racing. . . ~ The recent victory of Lady Dons in the A.J;C Hurdle Race at Randwick is of no small interest to New Zealanders _ (says jin exchange), as. apart from racing in the interests of Mr E. J. Watt, her dam. Lady Muskerry, and grand-dam, Muskerry, were both bred at Mr att’s Longlands Stud, near Hastings. Muskerry was by Merriwee from Mousqueterie, and produced Lady Muskerry to All Black in 191 fi. both being shipped to Australia 'in 1918. when the complete «tnd. including AH Black, sire'of Lady Doris, were removed to Mr Watt’s present stud established at Melone. New South Wales. April the Fifth was not one of the first four home in the Two Thousand Guineas, one mile, won by Orwell at New market on April 27. There were 11 starters, and Mr Tom Walls’s colt was the outsider of the field. Mr Richard Wootton. of Sydney, has a rear older half-brother to April the Fifth named Birthday Present, who has already shown promise as a galloper. Birthday Present is by Yencedor. and he was brought in company with Stanly’s Gift from Eng land by Mr Wootton’s son. Stanley, the gift being made on the occasion of the father’s birthday. Hence the names. Birthday Present is the first foal of his dam, Sold Again. Anril the Fifth being the second. The Derby win puts a greatly increased value on to the hitherto little known’Sydney-owned galloper, and it will be interesting to see how be fares in the future. , . Mostrooper will again run well in the Grand National Steeplechase this vear, the gelding being in great buckle, according to “Musket” in the Melbourne Snorting Globe The task that confronts Mosstrooper in the hurdle race may-prove beyond him. The gelding has been in work for several weeks, laying the foundation for the strenuous part of his prepara tion. He has had a few outings on the fiat, but ha« not rneed over jumps since the National Steeplechase last year Mosstrooner has registered a romarkab'e record in connection with the Grand Kationa’s. He has started in the steeplechase three times for a win, a second, and a fall, and in the hurd’e race twice for a win and a third. When be ran Beyond in the steeplechase in 1929 the geMinf had only 9.5. He won the hurdles th- following vear with 19,7. and scored in the steenlechase with 11.10 Last year he was third in the hurd'es with 2.3 and was going well in the steeplechase ■wh"n he came to grief at one of the late f—ces. He had 12.7 on that occasion. The chestnut also won the Australian Hurdle Race twice and the Australian gtooplpf-hasp once. Renlies from the Prime Minister (Mr G W. Forbes) and the Minister of Finance (Mr W. Downie Stewart) have received to the resolution forwarded bv the Christchurch Presbytery, protesting .against the action of the Government in reducing educational facilities in the 'primary schools, while at the same time

a remission of £.35,000 in totalisator taxes was made to racing clubs. The resolution was passed at the last meeting of the presbytery, and the replies to the mem-' hers described as iniquitous. The Minister of Finance pointed out in his reply that, so far as the remission of taxes to racing clubs wag concerned, he thought the presbytery had overlooked the fact that the remission was granted only in order to prevent a greater loss of revenue, since, if the clubs stopped racing (as many of them were so embarrassed that they might do so), there would be still less money available for education and for general purposes. The remission was worth while from a Treasury point of view, in the hope of gaining a larger sum. The letter received from the Prime Minister acknowledged receipt of the resolution, and stated that the matter had been referred to the Minister of Finance. In replies received from Messrs E.’ T. Howard and H. Holland, M.P.’s, agreement was expressed with the terms of the resolution. Mr Howard offered to give an address to the young people connected with the Church on the subject of taxation. The jumps in the Hack and Hunters Steeplechase at the Oamaru Jockey Clubs meeting on July 2 are brush fences only. The distance is two miles, and tha stakes £115.:. The stakes to be given by the Oamaru Jockey Club at its winter meeting on July 2 amount to ,£755, the same as for the corresponding meeting a year ago. The club has been able to do this in spite of an anticipated drop on the totalisator turnover. The 1 per cent, reduction in the totalisator tax, granted as a measure of relief to racing clubs, has enabled the club to offset the lose of revenue due to a shrinkage of the totalisator figures. Owners and trainers will no doubt appreciate this action of the club, and will support the coming meeting. The programme is of seven races, including two trots. Nominations close on Tuesday next.