RACING NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21987, 23 June 1933, Page 4

RACING NEWS

By -SERTIHTt. : /? .Nominations are .due to-day for the Wellington winter .meeting. • V // Nominations are due ...to-day for the ■Y principal events to be riin at the Grand, 7/ National meeting, , . ■. 7. .-Silver' Sight has been getting through useful work since' racing at the Timaru • meeting/ V .. , • ■' . Gustavo is credited with beating Pnn- ■ cess. Argosy" over six furlongs in Imm .’/• 15 3-ssec -oh Tuesday at Riccarton. <;• . Drumfire is well, and with ,V- the sting out or . the going should shape • "weirat Ashburton. . Gold Trail has rejoined J. M. Cameron s stable, and may be taken over for the T- Sydney spring meetings., _ , " i , . j’rincc of .Grangers again in work at -Ellerslie, after a" brief spell necessitated by... 'his ■ /fall'; in the- Great -Northern Hurdles,, . . . ... , v. Cricket Bat has been kept fairly busy ■ 7 for., .his engagement •at Ashburton. He V went.welV oyer five furlongs on Tuesday. y'J: ' Ramo appears to have been smartened > lip by his race at Timaru, as he has been . shaping well.on. the track.-, . The Night ‘Raid—Bbntade, mare Push • won 'the June Handicap,' one mile and a- \ quarter, 1 with 9.0 up in 2min 9 3-jaec, at Canning Park (W.A.) on June 10. Mr-,J. P. M'Quilkin, who lost Deportvl ment at" Timaru last week, has a three;V year-old half-brother to him by Polazel : ready to. go into training. Rdid two-year-old Rightly i:i appears to be smartening up,, as be beat Imperial-‘Spear over four furlongs in > 49 3-ssee at Riccarton during the early V pjart'/bf the week. ' .. , , ~ . It is reported from Christchurch that :/ Polydora is a doubtful starter at Ash5. burton. It probably depends on the state ■I of the going*’ as-she," was a doubtful starter at both Wingatni and Timaru. Valycs is td be nominated for the Welj- lington. winter -meeting. He was with- • drawn from Ms Timaru engagement with r the object of him up after ■ 7 his racer at " Wingatui. • C. Eastwood-was a" visitor to Riccarton. 'f eafiy^in.tthe - week, pis ./fijst appearance .- since he''«uffe?ed V* 'broken deg *on;Easter '/ 3ilonday.-v He;iopcfl). to .discard crutches this week,; but - will not 'be 'able to fide :1 s again {of a few weeks. •v Mr 0 F.- Yallance, whose death oc- ■■ euitiedP?. lagt weel?J. ,: owned Chimera, who fi. glia red the honours with- The Hawk by rfcr s»x furTonga, Chimera', his' nbt produced anythng'bf note •it the stud. - ' ' # .. According to the Australasian, Fans ran a - goM race when he' was third in the Brush Steeplechase at-Epsom on June 13. Paris'was , always fairly close up end gave 341 b to the winner and loin to the i second 7 horse.. ; ' .At the West /Australian Turf .Club s meeting this' month, the Roe Stakes, for maiden horses, six- furlongs, was won by • Grand Oration (Grandcourt— Tall Talk). Grand 1 -. Oration was bred by Mr 1. H. Lowry,- who sold. *M* dam, covered by - Psychology, to Australia in 1928. He is . «-brctW to,Grand Talk. _ . , Riding engagements , for^the Ashburton .races? include the following:—A. Messer* veyjvHigh Tor, Tea Garden. L. J.-Ellis. Merry Peel,' Gilpit. A. H Eastwood. HelehTlMd, StfverSight. G. Humphries; Radio, 'lmperial Spear, S’ Ludlow: Gustavo, ; Double Shot. A h. . Ellis:'. -Cricket Bat, Drumfire. M. Kir* ? wan: Kiri; - Verden. .H.. Turner: -Don Jose, Dan-. Russell., D. O’Connor: Gaj , ; Jim, RaneTagh.". S ..... ' ' The writer does not subscribe to tpe ‘opinion that', because .Zeebrugge failed , over a mile and- a-quartcr at Timaru he should be’discounted as a stayer, There was no pace on in the early, stages 01 the Prince Edward Handicap run m 2min 9-2-ssec A well-timed run at the finish .of a stow run rice helped to decide 7 the result'. 'With a mile .and a-halt over hurdles run in 2min 42 3-oaec and six furlongs cut out in Imin 13 4-osec, the going .could not; be ■ considered slow with the eight stone minimum in use.'The Egmont Racing Club has decided ' Pot to go on with its proposal to use the Egmont-Wanganui Hunt CM> s abandoned permit, ' The Egmont Racing Club applied ' for July- 29/ as the .'date on, which, to use • the ' permit, but .as this was the day . : following the,-' Hunt -J^ubj ■ meeting, -an objection was lodged and UP held As no other date, about that period rjfia suitable,’the stewards decided to drop the idea of; hplding an extra meetmg. Foxhunter, the , winner, of Ascot Gold "CUp; last wee V-is a balf-brother to Trimdon, who won the Ascot Gold UiP • - in 1931, and dam,’the .William the Third mare, Trimes- - tral. belonged to the third Earl of-Dur-ham, and after -his. death ; in J l92B was gold to Lbrd St.'Davids for 1000 guineas. She was it theHime carrying Foxl^ nt ® r r ’ who as . a yearling, was purchased by Mr Edward Esmond for 2700 guineas. Last year Foxhilhtfcr scored an-easy win 111 the Doncaster Cup;' '? . , -p:. Mr G. P. Moore has advised tne Kiccarton studmaster, Mr A. S, Higgs, that Lady Cavendish (dam of ; Golden Hair) ■•has slipped twins to' his Philamor. This mare;was originally booked to Limbna iforthe coming season, but her owner has now decided to mate her with - another of Mr G, M. Currie’s stallions, Posterity,.by Son-in-Law from Hemlock. Posterjtyvis a beautifully bred horse and a fine individual who should be an ideal // mate for ;-Lady Cavendish, daughter of Absiird and Bbnpy Portland, For the last nionth the Melbourne Sporting Globe: has conducted a naming competition for'a colt owned by Mr C. B. Kel-

low, by Heroic from Green' Peach. /More than 5600, readers submitted names, some sending in as many as 100, and_ more titan 70,000 were forwarded, including several from New Zealand. The choice ,pf the' selectors, >yas fined! down, until it;C£timc to seeking the approval'of the Registrar ot Racehorses in Sydney. Eventually - the name of Chelandric was awarded the, prize of £5 offered- by Mr K/ellow. The ~name was chosen by the winner in a desire to perpetuate the memory of Heroic’s granddam, Chelandry. , __ .. , In the Hawke’s Bay. Steeplechase last Saturday Red /Bank opened up a big gap in the first circuit, and for some time on the final round looked like holding this advantage. Luna Lux, ridden hard, caught him at the second last fence, where Bed Bank/ put in a quicker jump and-drew away again. Luna Lux was up on,berms again at the last fence,: where Red Bank fell oh landing, leaving Luna Lux'to win ■hollowly from Revel, the,only other runner to complete the course. After an interval Red Bank .was remounted and completed the course for third money. Lochaby fell, and all the others ran off. Luna Lpx put up.a.good pprforfnance; Red BankAvas a tired horse when, he fell. Both gave,very fine jumping exhibitions. Luna Lux, by King Soult. has had five races over/fences this / season, four of them over .country, and hhs won them all. / - . : Two-year-old winners in England last, month have interesting histones. Muscatel, who won the'Manton Plate at bury for his breeder, Mrs H. E. Morns, whose husband won the Derby / with Manna, was such a tiny foal that he looked a hopeless proposition. After being fed on a thyroid preparation he and grew and now has plenty of size, as well as being a good-looking colt,. He is by Manna (Aon of Phalans). from Marqhita. by Golden Myth from Joyous, by Gay Crusader from Lady Josephine, dam, of Mumtaz Mahal. Maid of Essex, who won the Wilbraham Stakes at-'New-market. is described as “a fare > nice filly, with a lot of, the characteristics both Felstead and Spion Kop, especially so the latter.” Maid of Essex is by Eel-, stead (son of Spion Kop) from Ff en nn Maid, by Hainault (son ..of bwynford) from Panne, by Polymelus' from Chiffon, daih of the Sydney Cup winner Lily veil, by Persimmon. M a 'd of Essex >was a twin, but the colt which accompanied her into the 'world was destroyed. / ■ . Mr G D. Beatson, president of the Hawke’s Bay Trotting Club, won ./three faces at the club’s-. winter , with horses owned and'trained by bun, namely, Asterisca,, Gold . Ruler,, /and 'Luna / Lux. Asterisca is 'a thfee-yeat-old filly* by Acre frpm Asterina. a mare also bred by Mr Beatson, by Merry Moment: from Asteroid, by Apremoht., Gold Ruler) a six-year-old gelding, by Chief Ruler from Tigeroy, therefore • a full-brother to - Royal Bengal and a half-brother to.Tigerism, won two races last season, and in one of them he was ridden by Mr, Beatson's son, Mr G. G. Beatson. The Hawke's Bay Steeplechase victor Luna‘/Luk has, now won all five jumping races ' in which he started, and his: future is- regarded as bright. Mr Beatson was; the 6wner;qf Parisian Diamond, who won the Easter, Handicap at Ellerslie in 1918, carrying 7.11, and the York Handicap in June of the same year, carrying 11.12. 1 ; / ■ • According to medical _ opinion, W. Duncan, the premier Yictorid jockey, who was injured by a fall off Rose Yalais at WilJiamstown on June 10, will be confined.to his bed for at least three months, and it may be some time after that before be ds able 'to ’ride again. At this : juncture it is-/feared that, thfe fall baa / caused / a recurrence of an old injury to the spinal column, sustained in aniaccident at Epsom in November,-, 1929. At Williamstown, Duncan rode;the favourite* Rose,Valais, who /was under pressure a, furlong from home) when' she seemed to slip down behind. Before the filly,could regain balance she was struck ,by another., horse, and pitched forward. On November, 23, 1929. .Duncan sustained a very serious accident while, riding Reward at Epsom. A vertebrae of Ms neck yvas. misplaced, and the>irijpry did not mqnd tp the-, satisfaction of surgeon specialists,, Mho/were disto/the': view that he should not ride again in races, ‘ -// v . ,

There are always; discussions going on about "the granting of dates for the var ious trace meetings "and Sometimes a club objects' to another 'clashing in' order to avoid "results. It would be interesting to know what : would happen if.' the Canterbury'Jockey Club objected to the Metropolitan Trotting Club dovetailing its, August fixture with the Grand National, dates;; The Grand National meeting was -establishedlong before the Metrbpolitati Trotting Club came into existence, and the latter materially gained strength by linking’ up with the principal fixtures at Ricearton. - In : fact,, the Metropolitan Trotting Club gets l some of the cream that should go to Riccarton by holding., a day’s,, racing bn the eye of the Riccarton. racing. A similar clashbetween two racing clubs would not be allowed and as it certainly does not assist success at Riccarton it is rather strange that some protest has not been lodged against what might - be termed the intrusion. of the trotting club. The National week of three days’ racing and three days’ trotting has been established now for .many years and is accepted without any apparent question, but it would be ■ interesting to know the result if the Canterbury Jockey Club decided to cut the painter with the object of severing the connection with Addington. It might be said that union is strength and so contributes' to the general success, but at the same time it means tWo.- hands instead of one ‘ dipping into the depleted public purse. If Addington became satisfied with' two days instead of three the position would not be so’serious, but a day on August 5 does not contribute to the strength of the attendance at Riccarton on August 12. Two or three seasons ago W. (Togo) Johnstone was one of the 'most successful ,of the Sydney- jockeys, but (says “ Chiron ”) he was not regarded.as being equal to Pike, or the elder Munro when he was at his best. Johnstone tried his ' luck in India, and then went to France, where he is now the most successful jockey. On May 23 he was at the head of the list of winning jockeys in- France, he .having ridden 20 .winners up - ' to that time. R. Brethes, who- rode Rbdosto to victory in the Two Thousand Guineas in England,: was second to .him, with’l3 winners. Sibritt, who, like Johpstone, is ah Australian, had ridden only nine winners- up, ;to that time. At St. Cloud, on May 18, Johnstone won three races, and one of them was achieved under difficulties. . He rode the 2-to-l-on favourite,-Trop Presse, in a race for three-year-olds and upwards, over a mile and ajialf. To the consternation of the layers of odds, it was seen . soon, after: the start 'that the colt’s, saddle-girths had given way,- and that Johnstone was without irons, he hanging on to the saddle ; and. the colt’s mane with, his left hand and holding, the reins with-the ...right. He quickly dropped back to last,' but, accomplishing a wonderful balancing feat, he gradually made up, ground to score in a strCnuous finish by tbreCiquarters of a length ' .from Emprise, the property of the iMaisons-Lnffitte trainer Rene Robert. On returning to scale on the son of Massine ’the- Australian : jockey-, received a tremendous ovation, for nine- out of 10 jockeys who found themselves in a similar predicament would .have pulled up their mount.- ’ .... , . One of the most amusing episodes in the turf. career of the late Harry, Rayner was the Winning of the Rnndwick Plate with Wycombe in 1888. There was .great rivalry" at the time between The Australian Peer and Abcreorn. Rayner’s team was in great-, heart at ■ that spring meeting. Tn.the Spring Stakes The Australian Peer defentefi Abercorn by three-quarters of a length, and the handsome chestnut was placed 1 third in the Great Metropolitan Stakes; won by Lamdnd, with Arsenal second. There were four starters for the Randwick Plate —Larnond (J. Fielder), favourite. Abercorn (T. Hales), The Australian Peer-: CE..; Power), and Wycombe (M. -Dunhey). Mr • Janies White, gave Hales most, explicit orders to stav with. The. Australian Peer, no matter If they walked. Taking advantage of

that fact, Mr Gannon and his shrewd trainer , planned to win the race with Wycombe. At that time (says the Australasian) there was a big rise jn the middle of the. old track. In the original plan it was called “Constitution Hill.” It was a vantage ground for flatites to see a race. The crowd hid from view horses on the six furlongs’ side from anyone near the eight-furlongs’ post. As they moved off the riders took a firm hold of the three favourites. Dunhey on Wycombe, at three-quarter pace, gradually stole away. The others settled down to little better than a walk. ■So they went on. x, Harry. Rawner had stationed himself in the crowd on top of the hill. The second time round the cracks were still dawdling, and Dunhey was still allowing his mount to creep along at thre® quarter pace. ’ Directly he was liicldep from the sight of Hales, who was alongside The Australian Peer, Rayner gave Dunhey the signal to slip away, which he did at his best pace. When Hales topped the hill, he was astounded. There was .Wycombe flying away with a lead of nearly a furlong. The “grand horseman” realised he had been trapped. .Abercorn stretched out at his top. but four lengths was the closest he could get to Wycombe. The only, satisfaction to Mr J. White was the defeat of The. Australian Peer and a Cheque for £IOO. The time for the three miles—fimin 4735 e the tale, of the race. From that time until the end of •his racing career Mr James White did not give Hales orders again.