RACING NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21688, 5 July 1932, Page 3

RACING NEWS

By Sentinel. Shatter is again in work after a briet Sl f- G . Ware will be about again towards the latter end of the. week. A backer at the Folkestone chases went home with t-h e whole of the tote double pool—£ll3 Bs. He coupled the winners, and held the only winning ticket. Polygonum, who won this years Grand National Hurdles at Flemington, was got by Buckwheat from Chatenay by lredennis —Eoche Noir, by Fowling Piece. A reminder of the antiquity of the Chester racecourse was given to those who took notice of the towels in use in the members’ enclosure. In clear marking ink is the inscription, “ Grand Stand, .Chester, 1878.” It is remarkable (says an English paper) that towels first used over 50 years ago should still be in service. Last week the committee of the Oamaru Jockey Club decided to instruct its delegate to the Racing Conference to support the following proposals:—For the licensing of bookmakers, for the payment of three dividends in fields of nine or over, and for the payment of two dividends in fields of five or over.- .. ((’hey still go racing in England. The receipts for the three days of the Chester ’ meeting this year were £21,762, compared with £24,975 last year. ' The attendance this season amounted to 87,180 for the three days, as against 110,905 12 months ago. The city of Chester will receive approximately £2250. The state of the going at Oamaru can be gathered from the excellent times recorded The plough track on the outside of the course was dust-dry, and the locallytrained horses had a good deal in their favour.

Mr H. B. Smith, the new owner of Traylavah, leaves for Wellington to-day. He will see his horse run on the first two days at Trentham, and then leave for Sydney. TraylaVah will, all going well, run at the early spring meetings. For the coming season at Flemington 92 bookmakers have been licensed to bet in the paddock reserve, as against 113 last year. Licenses to bet on the Hill totalled 133, the same as last year, and 150 will operate on the flat, a decrease of 17 on last year’s total. The Sarchedon gelding High Pitch, who is growing into favour as a hurdler, was' bred by the late Mr W. G. Stead. Shrill, the dam of High Pitch, was got by Llangwm from Valve, by Velasquez—Gas, by Ayrshire—llluminata. High Pitch is getting on in years, as he was foaled in 1923. F. P. Claridge, who has announced his retirement from training, was ‘once a well-known gentleman rider on the flat and over fences. . He rode against such men as Mr George Murray-Aynsley, T. Sheenan, C. Wynn-Williams, A. G. Cox, T. Lyford, F. Cochrane, and others who were amongst the leading horsemen of the day. At one time F. P. Claridge acted as private trainer for the late Mr St. John Buckley at Oamaru. . The Auckland contingent for the hurdle races at Trentham will include Neil. He is a young jumper of whom good things are expected, and' he will nave considerable support from the north in his engagements on the present trip.

Thh hurdle rider, H. Duliefi, has made a good recovery from the injuries he received when Advance Camp fell in the' Great Northern Hurdles. He expects to be riding again in the near future, and he has been engaged for Town Beauty at Trentham. The Auckland trainer J. T. Jamieson won the second division of the Two-year-old Handicap, four furlongs and a-half, at Menangle Park, Sydney, last week with the colt Persian, owned by Major P. Kerr-Smiley, ' Persian is by Spelthorne or Legionaire from Pura, and before going, to Australia raced only once,-when he ran unplaced in the Nursery Handicap at Avondale in April. Fast Passage and Rocket, who will represent Sir Charles Clifford at the Wellington meeting this month (says “Argus”), are working along steadily at Riccarton. Fast Passage has shown that she can act in soft ground, and though Trentham provides different winter conditions from those ruling at Wingatui, she can be expected to race well. Rocket has had no experience of racing on soft tracks, so it is impossible to say how he will act at Trentham. Grumpy, who, was second each day at Napier Park, is a three-year-old filly by Luqullus. from Unreasonable, by Absurd from Fairy Gold. This is a good galloping gamily, Fairy Gold being the dam of Maioha, whose successes included the Wellington Cup, and Grumpy may reach good company early next season. April the Fifth came into favour for the Derby very quickly as a result of his form, following on his Two Thousand Guineas failure. On May 14 he won the Marlborough Plate, one mile, in a canter. A week later, in the Derby Trial Sweepstakes, one mile and a-half, at Lingfield, he scored a convincing victory over two other Derby candidates, Firdouissi and Spfenser. These successes sent him up to sixth favourite for the Derby. It has become customary for Auckland to have good representation at winter meetings at Trentham, and it seems certain from the 20 entries made that this year will be no exception, even though the cost of travelling is still high and stakes have fallen considerably (says the New Zealand Herald). Auckland horses have had a remarkably good run in the Wellington Steeplechase in recent year, four having won in the past five years, and with horses of the calibre of Billy Boy, Claremore. Master Lu and Wiltshire engaged, the province will again be worthily represented if they all run. It is reported that the three-year-old Gibraltar was brought in recently and is in splendid condition. He was still growing during this season, but is now thickening out and bears a more solidlooking appearance. He will be raced at the end of August, and will be prepared for ihe Mitchelson Cup, an event that his owner won twice with Te Monanui.

Nightcap recently . credited his sire, Night Raid, with his first winner of a jumping race in the Dominion, but Nightcap is not the first Night Raid horse to - win a hurdle race. On June 11 Night Jester, by Night Raid from the Kilbroney mare Killalea, won the hurdle race, two miles, at the Canning Park (Perth) meeting, and on the following Saturday, when Nightcap won at South Canterbury, Night Jester won again at Goodwood (Perth), the distance again being two miles. Night Jester is a five-year-old gelding, and the recent performances of the Night Raids suggest that his stock show big improvement with age. Exciting incidents were associated with some of the racing Mr L. L. Raymond, managing director of Automatic Totalisators, witnessed during a sojourn in America, supervising the installation of the Australian Julius machine. One day he saw a horse winning “by a street falter, and fall dead on the winning line. There might have been argument about whether he was actually the winner, but others saved the situation by passing him just as he staggered to his death. Another day Mr Raymond saw a horse bolt a round of the course, line up for the start, and win his race, and then bolt another two rounds before he could be stopped. The stall start, he says, is not a, success. Ten minutes’ delay at every start occurred in getting the horses into their boxes. And one afternoon a horse jumped out the wrong end, and racing in the opposite direction met the field headon in front of the stands! Fortunately a collision was avoided. Brulette, winner of the English Oaks last year, enhanced her reputation as a stayer bv taking the Prix do Gadran, two miles and a-half. at Longchamps, France, recently. Bruledur was second, being beaten bv a neck. Brulette is full of staying blood. She is a bay mare, bred by Lieutenant-colonel C. W. Birkin, in

France, and raced by Mr H. L. Birkin. She is by the great stayer Bruleur, from Seaweed, by Spearmint (Carbine —Maid of tile Mint), from Seadune, by Ayrshire (Hampton—Atalanta) from Scadown, by Orvieto (son of Bend Or). Bruleur, who lias sired many noted horses, is by Chouborski a son of Gardefeu), and was foaled in 1910. Among his sons is Ksar, the greatest stake-winner in France, and now a successful sire. Ksar headed the winning sires’ list in France last season, having 37 races to his credit, including the Derby, through Tourbillon. In the race Bruledur (by Bruleur) was second, and Barneveldt (winner’ of the Grand Prix) was third. When Landmark, Make Up, Appledore, and Copey made their appearance on the Caulfield tracks the Age sporting writer had the following;—lt can readily be understood that the visitors were subjected to the closest of inspection by track habitues. The impression of them was expressed by one of these, who remarked, “ They are not much to look at, but they wouldn’t have sent them all the way from New Zealand—a costly business—unless they are better than they look.” They are certainly far from handsome, for which the rough trip they experienced in coming across may be partly responsible, but the record of horses from New Zealand, and the performances of three of the four are sufficient to show that tTieir chances in events in which they start while in Melbourne must be respected. The world’s largest lottery—the Irish Hospitals Sweepstake on the Derby—closed after an exciting day, in which the receiving depots of Hospitals Trust, Ltd., here were besieged by thousands of subscribers. An official of the trust stated that it was not improbable that the prize fund would reach the total of £2,500,000, compared with £2,239,447 for the Grand National. Almost 80 per cent, of the crowd that surged around the depots were British men and women. Sums ranging from £IOO to £15,000 were handed over. A staff of almost 5000, the largest ever employed by Hospitals Trust, Ltd., was on duty, and, working at full pressure, was barely able to cope with the tremendous inrush of last-minute subscriptions. Captain Spencer Freeman, technical adviser, said: “A notable feature of the present sweepstake is the tremendous increase in the number of syndicates taking part.” One effect of the Victoria Racing Club’s decision to withhold the licenses of several, paddock bookmakers who previously made books at Fleraington will be the necessity for many other bookmakers to find new guarantors. In the flat at Flemington a bookmaker must be guaranteed financially by a hill or paddock bookmaker (says the Australasian), a hill bookmaker must be guaranteed by a man holding a license to bet in the paddock, and a paddock bookmaker must be guaranteed.by another paddock operator unless guaranteed by an insurance plan instituted two years ago. This plan provides that bookmakers shall take out fidelity bonds with an insurance company for the amount necessary for guarantees. * A small premium is charged, and the guarantee holds good for the Victoria Racing Club, Amateur Turf Club, Moonee Valley Racing Club, and the Williarnstown Racing Club. In consequence, unless any further applications made by the men whose licenses have been withheld are successful, their usefulness as guarantors will be at an end, despite their strong financial position. Although the Victorian Amateur Turf Club and the Moonee Valley Racing Club do not necessarily follow the V.R.C._ in withholding licenses, these clubs _ insist that a guarantor shall hold a license with the V.R.C. Consequently those men who were guaranteed by the bookmakers concerned were informed on Friday of last week by the V.A.T.C, that they should find new guarantors before they would be allowed to bet at Caulfield on Saturday. It is a tribute to the strength of the ring in Melbourne that not one man who wished to bet at Caulfield failed to find a new guarantor. . ‘ Refusal of the Wellington Racing Club to. accept nomination is the latest development in the Croupier case. Croupier was entered for events at the club’s winter meeting, and his name appeared in the nomination list, but he was not handicapped, and the secretary of the club now announces (says the Wellington Post) that bis entry has been refused on the alleged ground that it is not in order under the Rules of Racing. The action has been taken under rule 116, which states, inter alia: —Rule 116: (1) The horses mentioned in sub-clause (2) of this rule are hereby—(a) Prohibited from being trained upon any racecourse or training track owned or occupied by, or in any way under the jurisdiction of, any racing club; (b) declared to be ineligible to be entered for or to _ start in any race. Any such horse which is entered for or starts in any race shall be disqualified for that race. (2) The horses that shall be subject to the disabilities of sub-clause (1) of this rule are the following:—(a) Any horse affected by any unregistered joint interest. Apparently Messrs John and James Paterson have entered Croupier for races under the impression that the recent judgment in the Supreme Court dissolving the registered partnership between them on the one hand and Mr J. J. Corny on the other hand automatically resolved the joint interest registered with the New Zealand Racing Conference into one as between them (Messrs J. and_ JPaterson) .alone. The Rules of Racing make no provision for such a case, and it would seem that the Messrs Paterson should have applied under rule 137 for registration of the new joint interest now existing solely as between themselves. They have not done this, and so the Wellington Racing Club bas refused he entry. The composition of the Lotteries Roya! Commission was announced in the House of Commons on May 26. It was appointed with the following terms of reference:—“To inquire into the existing law, and the practice thereunder, relating to lotteries, betting, gambling, and cognate matters, and to report what changes, if any, are desirable and practicable.” The personnel of the commission is:—Sir Sidney Rowlatt, the chairman of the commission. is the former High Court judge; Lady Emmott, a social worker associated with the National Council of Women and with tbe Council for Social Welfare of Girls in London; Mrs J. L. Stocks, who was a member of the Committee on Habitual Offenders which has just presented its report; Sir Sydney Skinner, chairman of John Barker and Co., and Mr R. F, Graham Campbell, the metropolitan magistrate; Mr W. Lionel Hichens, chairman of Cammed Laird and Co., Ltd., and a director of the L.M.S. Railway; Sir F. S. Jackson, formerly Governor of Bengal, and a famous cricketer; Sir James Leishman, formerly chairman of the National Health Insurance - Commission for Scotland; Mr A. Maitland, K.C., is the second Scottish representative; Sir David John Owen, general manager of the Port of London Authority: Mr C. T. Cramp and Mr Arthur Shaw are the trade union leaders.