RACING NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21775, 14 October 1932, Page 4

RACING NEWS

By Sentinel.

The course proper at Wingatui was open yesterday morning for horses engaged at the Timaru meeting* Taking ad' vantage of the opportunity, Tippling and Blue were coupled over six furlongs, and the latter finished best when concluding the task in Imin 21sec. This was a good gallop with the trestles making the horses travel mid-way on the track. Fair Weather was going better than Bold Brigand on the inside grass at the end of half a mile in 51sec. Palantua and Hula Belle were about a match when concluding half a mile on the course in 52 l-sscc. Worship required 53sec to cover the same ground as Palantua and Hula Belle. Witch of. Air and Halo took 39 3-ssec to cover three furlongs on the inside grass. Halo is a three-year-old pony by Silverado from Star Mist. * . ■ The course proper at' Wingatui waa open for fast work yesterday morning, and supplied excellent going. The track was restricted to horses engaged ,at Timaru, but some of the trainers with horses engaged at the Gore meeting womd have liked to participate in a gallop, but were afraid to do so because of the possibility of incurring the displeasure of the Track Committee. It would tend to popularise Wingatui (now with the possibility of opposition) if every facility for fast work was offered to trainers at our Ideal headquarters. Acceptances for the Gore spring meeting are due on Monday next._ Acceptances for the Wellington spring meeting are due to-day. ■ Nominations for the Auckland Cup meeting are due to-day. Nominations for , the Auckland spring meeting are due to-day. . .. J. W. Jennings will ride Kamo in the Timaru Cup. M. Kirwin will have the mount on Shatter in the Timaru Cup and Belvoir in the Flying Handicap, Royal Routine is reported to have won in very impressive style at Otaki. . ■ Drumfire is showing improvement mms track work at Riccarton. ••, S. 6. Ware has secured a lease or Silver Piper, and the Paper Money gelding will come to Wingatui in a day or Hounslow was schooled with Punchestown over four flights of hurdles at Riccarton, and shaped well. It is reported that Spearful did not look very forward in condition when produced at Otaki, and will have to make good progress to he fit and ready for the New Zealand Cup. Prior to galloping him. S. G, Ware intends to treat Gold Tinge to swimming exercise with the. object of cleaning him up in order to minimise the possibility of a recurrence of bleeding troubles. Sir Charles Clifford has sold the tbree-year-old colt Rocket, by Day Comet from Top Score, to his sister, Mrs H. B Douglas, of Glenesk, Seargill, and he will race in the interests of his new owner at' the South Canterbury meeting on Saturday. . A light rain fell in Timaru during the early part of the week and will make the track in good order for the South Canterbury Jockey Club's spring meeting t<\ be held to-morrow, E. Feilding has a good sort of a three-year-old gelding in Last Link, who was got by Last Dart from Lady Links, by King Mark—Links, by St. Andrew— Sabra, by St. George—Miss Flat, by Peter Flatt—Mountain Nymph. A great deal of interest is being taken in the change of ownership in connection with Mosgiel Park. Possibly it will mean that a lot of horses trained at Wingatui may do their work on the private course and so deprive ’headquarters of a lot of interest in training operations. A two-year-old colt, by Night Raid from Pride of Martian is to join S. G. Ware’s stable under offer to a patron of the stable. Pride of Martian was got by Martian —Pride o’ Clutha, by Kelburn— Flower of Clutha, by Trump Card—Stock, flower, by Saunterer —Stock Rose, by Tom King—Rosemary, by Stockwell. This is a good but'somewhat unfashionable pedigree that may produce good results principally because the dam of the colt was got by Martian. The two-year-old filly, Fracas, has made a good recovery from the slight mishap which prevented. her from racing at the Dunedin meeting, and it is probable that she will he sent to Trentham next week. H. Nurse has recently taken in hand a four-year-old gelding, by Hunting Song from a Martian —Samisen mare, dam of Lockard, and also a two-year-old filly, by Rosenor from Ch'nrmilla, dam of Malmsey, Charmeuse, and Verden. The Te Aroha correspondent of the Auckland Star remarks: —“Local sportsmen were surprised at the non-acceptance of Antique in the New Zealand Cup. Evi-. dently his owner considers he may race better nearer home, as he would have to be somewhat hurried in his preparation to run out a solid two miles.’’

The Quorn has been suffering from a capped elbow, but he had the pace on for half a mile at Hiccarton on a recent morniug. Provided he keeps all right in the next few days, he will be a member of the team which T. Lloyd will take to Trentham next week. ,Gay Crest and Silvox will be other members. Lloyd will probably leave on Tuesday. Two of Mr H. A. Knight’s brood mares have foaled to the imported horse, British Empire, by Sunstar from British' First, by Sywnford. Currency, by Paper Money from Kilroy, has a filly, while Belcaire, by Treclare from Bhanavar, has a colt. They will be rested this season, as Mr Knight has adopted the policy of breeding from his mares only in alternate years. Windshield (Tractor—Kilbreeze) and Zaragoza (Nassau—Madrid) _ have been mated with Philamor, by Sou-sn-Law from Love Oil. ■

At Riccarton on Tuesday morning several horses engaged at Timaru were sent along in their work. Belvoir, joined by Juniper at five furlongs, ran_ six furlongs in Imin ,18 l-ssoc, gnd finished in front. Belvoir went well. Shatter and Craigavon galloped seven furlongs comfortably in Imm 33sec, the first half in 52 2-ssec. They finished abreast, but the former was not 'called upon over the last furlong. He will be ridden on'Saturday by M. Kirwan._ Cricket Bat assisted over the last half-mile by Dorian took Imin 34sec to run,seven furlongs, the former finishing in front. Ramo and Xightflyer occupied Imin 49sec for a mile, taking Imin 35sec for the last seven furlongs. Lady Zephyr took Imin 8 3-ssec to run five furlongs, hut she was not fully extended. Night Recital covered seven furlongs in Imin 33sec. Rational II and Ranelagh were on terms at the end of five furlongs run in Imin 6 l-ssec. Minerval and Red Heckle were well matched while taking 51 3-ssee for half a mile—a useful effort.

The Jeßicoe Handicap winner Te Hoia is to make his next appearance in the Avondale Cup. E. Ludlow, who rode him at Ellerslie in August, is going from Riccarton to pilot Te- Hoia in his Avondale engagement. Although he will have BJlb more to carry next Saturday than he won with at Ellerslie, Te Hoia has made such marked improvement in the interval that 8.1 is not going to be, a prohibitive impost at his next start. The best is not always seen of him in his track gallops at Te Rapa, as he is inclined to loaf unless he has the services of a strong boy and company to go with. In a race the half-brother to Te Kara is a different horse, and Ludlow showed at Ellerslie that he could handle him efficiently. Te Hpia’s connections are confident that he will be well in the firing line on Saturday.

News of the racehorses Karapoti and Heremia, who were sold last March and were transported to India, has been received in Auckland. Racing at Poona toward the end of August, Heremai won one race and ran second in another, while Karapoti was 'twice unplaced. On August 20 Heremia (8.5) was second to Cryptogram (8.9) in the Egerton Handicap, one mile and a-quarter, for. Class IV horses. There was a field of nine, and Cryptogram won by two lengths, his time being 2min lOsec. Heremia was third favourite. The second prize was 700 rupees (£52 10s at par). On August 27 Heremia won the second division of the Rufford Plate, one mile and a-quarter, for which he was favourite. He carried 8.12, and, ridden by the Australian jockey Reynolds, won by a short head from Sailor’s Knot (9.0) and Essex Brook (8.9). Hig time was 2min llsec. The first prize' was 2000 rupees (£l5O at par). The races in which Karapoti ran unplaced were the Sandhurst Plate, six furlongs, for Class 1 horses, won by Flourish, and the Harris Plate, one mile, won by Bray Beau, with the Aga Khan's Buland second and Pandora’s Box third; Karapoti wag the top weight on each occasion, and in the Harris Plate was joint seconH favourite. H. Thompson, who was disqualified tor. five years by the stipendiary stewards in Melbourne recently, is a New Zealander, but he has been living in Melbourne for many years. At one time, he was a good amateur boxer, and he has been in the forefront of cross-country horsemen in Australia for a long time. Although now somewhat of a veteran as a jockey, he had been riding very successfully this year. He won ; the V.A.T.C. Australian Hurdles on August 6, and was successful in* the event in 1929 on Mosstrooper. He won the Australian Steeplechase on Ungala in 1916, on Minterne in 1926, and on Mosstrooper in 1929. Thompson rode Berrinbo to victory in the V.R.C. Grand National Hurdles in 1923 and won the, V.R.C. Grand National Steeplechase on lolaus in 1920. Mr F. ,E. Shillabeer, the owner, and; E. Fisher, the trainer of Walter Scott, the horse over whose riding the trouble arose, were entirely exonerated. Mr Shillabeer is chairman of the Victorian Club, and a committeeman of racing clubs. Fisher is a wellknown Flemington trainer, whose team includes the much-fancied Melbourne Cup candidate, Middle Watch. The time has come when racing offers more encouraging prospects for owners. There has been an undoubted drop in the price of horses, as we have seen at recent sales, and trainers are more modest in their charges, realising that it pays best to have their stables full. Besides, trainers recognise that they cannot expect in these times the same handsome presents from owners as they received a few years ago whenever they got home a winner. We are now to enter on the nursery season and (says an English writer), though backers are inclined to fight shy of the youngsters, I often think that races in which they take part are the most reliable, inasmuch as usually it is only the overworked horses which turn cunning. Again, a good two-year-old is not troubled greatly by having to carry a few more pounds, and it is often safe to follow one who shows form'. Gordon Richards, the crack jockey, is very successful in this class of race, and I think it is largely on this account that he bases his hope that he may break his record this season. In 1927 he rode 184 winners, and now he has 116 successes to his credit, Richards, who never has to .waste or worry about his diet to keep his 'weight down, has'more mounts than any, other jockey, and he has ridden in great style this season. At the recent Gatwi’ck meeting he got home on three horses from the Beckhampton stable, and was only beaten by a head on the fourth.- He has a big retainer from Beckhampton, and his income is estimated at £15,000 a year. Other jockeys have, perhaps, made more, but it is doubtful whether any of hie rivals have ever made such good use of their money. Richards is credited with the ambition to have a six-figure * hank balance when he retires.