RACING NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21828, 15 December 1932, Page 3

RACING NEWS

By Sentinel. L. J. Ellis will ride Red Heckle at Riccarton on Saturday. Silver Sight beat Starshooter over six furlongs on Tuesday in Imin 16 4-ssec. Night Flyer is reported to have beaten Rarao and Weatherley over a mile in linin 42sec. Shatter is still regarded as a doubtful starter in the Auckland Cup.

Concentrate is the ruling favourite for the Auckland Cup on “ the scene of battle.’ --

A payment for the Auckland Cup and Railway Handicap is due to-morrow.

TV, J. Broughton has been engaged to ride Joie de Val in the Manawatu Cup.

Nominations for the Southland Racing Club’s meeting are due to-morrow. Acceptances for the first day of the Dunedin summer meeting are due to-mor-row.

Handicaps for the Waibouaiti, Oamarn, and Wyndham meetings arm due to-mor-row.

Jaloux and Azalea were galloped nine furlongs on Tuesday and put up Imin 59 4-ssec —the last mile in Imin 46 l-ssec. The charges for admission to the Banks Peninsula meeting to be held at.lliccarton on Saturday will be 2s 6d and Is.

Silver Scorn and Berate continue to do good work for engagements at the Auckland Cup meeting. Silver Ring is being kept at middledistance work, getting him, no doubt, to add stamina to his speed.' Tout le Monde is reported to be striding out better than Gay Crest in their work, and beat the latter over a mile on Tuesday in Imin 43 3-ssec.

Red Heckle was responsible for a smart gallop on Tuesday by covering seven furlongs in Imin 28 l-ssec. Track conditions were fast.

Fast Passage galloped a mile on Tuesday in Imin 40 2-ssec, and pulled up well. Cricket Bat ran the same distance in Imin 40 4-ssec.

It is generally anticipated that good nominations will be received for the Invercargill meeting. Owners have it in their favour that there is plenty of room for a horse to stretch out on the track.

Concentrate went well when galloped a mile and a-quarter on Tuesday. Martian Chief carried him along over the final half-mile, but the Kilbroney gelding beat him and ran the full distance in 2min 10 l-ssec.

The Invercargill Cup of SoOsovs and the Southland Handicap of 250sovs are the principal events on the Southland Itacing Club’s programme, for which nominations are due to-morrow.

The rain showers in evidence during the past week or so are proving beneficial to "the Wingatui track, which promises to be in excellent order for the summer meeting. The'inside half of . the track has a fine sole of grass that keeps the sting out of the going. Dole, Pegged Exchange, and Epigram, who are booked for Auckland, are sprinting, the reverse way. They recently ran six in Imin 16isec, the first half in 494-sec. When saddled at Auckland Silver Scorn will race in the colours of the Randwick trainer, F. T. Cush, on behalf of whom notification of the change of ownership has now been made. The, purchaser of the unbeaten filly is thus apparently Mr Cush himself.

A sale Ims recently been effected by Mr J. J. Corry. Frimsel, a two-year-old filly by Grand Knight from Rachel, dam of Rabbi and Kozan, was sold to Mr W. J. Corry, of Sydney, and shipped to Australia.

The one five furlong and two six furlong races on the programme of the Banks Peninsula Racing Club’s meeting at Riccarton on Saturday next will be started from the existing barriers, and not from round the turn, as at the recent North Canterbury fixture. In addition to riding Jaloux in the Auckland Cup, A. H. Eastwood will be on Exaggeration in the Railway Handicap. She is a four-year-old by Lucullug from Holymond, trained by F. Smith at Takanini, and in four starts this season she has been credited with a win, a second, and a third. V A noticeable feature of the Southland Racin" Club’s programme consists in the fact that the principal event is run over a mile and a-quarter each day. On the majority of programmes the distance on the second day is shorter than on the first. The Invercargill idea gives an oWner a chance to run a horse over the same distance each day, and not, after defeat, have to take on speedier horses over a shorter journey. Red Sun will be a runner in the Te Awamutu Cup on Saturday. K. Voitre has been engaged for him there, but no definite arrangement has yet been made in regard to the mount in the Auckland Cup. Red Sun continues to work the reverse way at Trentham, and on Saturday morning ran seven furlongs in Imin 2£tisec on the trial grass. The veteran jockey, Steve Donoghue, celebrated his forty-eighth birthday in October. For nine years Donoghue was at the head of the winning list in England. He won the English Derby; six times. A wonderful little man, he is as popular as ever. .He has accepted a retainer to ride again as first jockey for Sir Victor Sassoon next year. From latest advice Concentrate is a firmer favourite than Fast Passage for the Auckland Cup, and this pair are closely followed by Jaloux,. Tout, le Monde, and Gold Trail, who are evenly placed. In a group next are Gay Crest, Antique, Great Star, Shatter, and Grand Jury. For the Railway Handicap, Cadland, Golden Wings, and Tea Trader are equal favourites, and_ are followed by Lady Quex, Silver Ring, Midinette, and The Quorn. The Napier Park Racing Club has received a special permit for a race meeting to be held on Saturday, January 28, in connection with carnival week, the permit having been granted owing to a one-day permit _ usually allotted to the Dannevirke Racing Club not having been used. The Napier Park Club had intended putting on a programme of six gallops and two trotting events, in order to give owners of trotters a chance of picking up a stake, and at the same time giving their trotters an outing in public. It was found, however, that owing to some regulation requiring the addition of trotting events to a racing programme having to be notified to the annual meeting of the Racing Conference, a permit for the inclusion of trotting events could not be given, so the programme will now comprise seven events for gallopers. .

The death of Samuel Loates in England last week revives recollections of the sensational dead heat in the Derby of 1884 between St. Gallon, ridden by C. Woods, and Harvester, ridden by Loates. The betting was very heavy, Queen Adelaide, a beautiful daughter of Hermit, who carried the colours of Sir John Willoughby, bcin" favourite at 5 to 2. Sir John Willoughby, who had bought the Sterling colt Harvester tor 5000 guineas at the dispersal sale of Lord Falmouth's horses in training, also started him in the Derby, merely on the off chance, for he was voted inferior to' Queen Adelaide, and was quite out of favour. However. Harvester proved better than his heavily-backed stable companion, and, fighting out every inch of the ground in a gruelling finish with St. Gatien, he made a dead heat of il. It has often been said that “Sam” Loates rode the best raec of his life that day. hi 1805 ho steered Lord Rosebery's call Sir Visto to victory in the Derby i ml St. Legcr.

The Executive Committee of the New Zealand .Racing Conference will shortly be called upon to deal with the most important matter coming under its control and that is the appointment of the chief stipendiary steward. The Racing Conference annually makes or amends the rules as necessity arises, but that is a comparatively easy task to the appointment of a stipendiary steward whose duty it is to see the rules and, furthermore, the spirit of sport obeyed to the last degree. Many members of the Racing Conference may be perfect adepts at framing a rule, but, perhaps, not quite so capable of noting if the spirit of racing law is obeyed in a manner calculated to elevate the sport to the highest possible plane, At times it happens that a race meeting takes place without a member of the Executive Committee or even an ordinary member of the Racing Conference being present, and the capability of the acting stipendiary steward may not receive the knowledgable attention for either present or future requirements. It is of paramount importance that a'stipendiary steward should have a thoroughly practical knowledge of racihg and riding. Knowledge of racing law is, of course, essential, but rules are very much easier to interpret than what is taking place in a race and the atmosphere surrounding it. Hence practical knowledge must come first, and the law of the game stand as a secondary consideration. The very first consideration must be to see that owners and the sporting public obtain a fair run in a race, and mere knowledge of the rules cannot supply the horse-sense required to carry out that most important duty. There may be such a thing as showing too much knowledge—the sort of knowledge that would keep the honorary stewards on the run from one end of a card to_ another. It has been said that the_ position of a stipendiary steward is difficult to fulfil. That is not so in the writer’s opinion, and it may be taken as a foregone conclusion that if riders and others inclined to use their own rules are convinced that the stipendiary steward is thoroughly well versed in the business of race control they would not dare to insult his intelligence. This necessary racing intelligence can only be acquired by a thoroughly practical knowledge .and not by theory or ability to place a finger promptly on a rule of racing.