RACING NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22133, 11 December 1933, Page 13

RACING NEWS

By. Sentinel.

Nominations for the Waikouaiti and Oairiaru meetings are duetto-day at 9

Rairio wag omitted' from the list of weights for the Hororata Cup, in which he has 8.1. ' 1-

If is understood that Palantua will not be produced again until the Dunedin Cup meeting: v : • Moreno and Polling Day were schooled over two flights of . hurdles at Wingatui on Saturday morning. . A. ‘fairly .large number of . Riccarton horses were booked to race at the West Coast meetings taking place during the holiday The nominations for the Dunedin Hahdicaj> for two-year-oldg are a bit disappointing considering that the, second day’s race attracted, three’ more. Master Anomaly has been sold to a _ patron of A. S..M‘Kay , s stable,' which'con- ' tiriues to grow in strength. Acceptances for.-the Hororata meeting are due to-day. Several horses; likely tobe seen out at Riccarton have been en-gaged-at the Dunedin summer meeting. Southdown galloped six furlongs .with Great Star last week at Riccarton, and from- all accounts, did not shape well when acting the reverse way, - I As a good horsemanisnecessary to take advantage of a handicap, an early move to secure. good - riders.; for the - holiday meetings is a- matter of. urgent importance.- ' .. Rocket, Cricket Bat, - Copyist/ , and Horn’s Reef will-be, faced ,at the Auck- • land Cup meeting,, and others from the same stable "in High -Rank, Heather Glow,, and Silly Owl at tbe,Manawatu meeting., / The. absence of Pojydora from the Auckland Cup field will put; a different complexion on the? face. ’ The absence, of Palantua and Polydora; will; bring .Rocket into favour. , . v ‘ T. Hobfae has transferred his_ team from„ Waimate -to Oamaru.. He did well at Wainiate when training . Mount Boa and Silver Streak., but has. now shifted to a more central course to facilitate travelling, _ . , A. new stewards’ stand is to be built "on the. Oamaru racecourse.. It will be partially.. constructed. from material obtained "from the old stand at the back of the course. The building of ■ the new 'stand will, incur, an expenditure of about £I6OO. V-' .- The nominations - for’ the Dunedin summer. '.meeting mark ; quite" a satisfactory response 'from owners./ The fields engaged are fairly equal in quality' and-' strong' enough in numbers to make interesting racing., , ~, t, ■ Handicaps for the first day of the -Dunedin summer jneeting are due on the loth inst. •Mr A; -L. Qanter- will attend. the Hororata meeting to be held at Riccarton in order tp .be .conversant with the latest form • before declaring the weights .for *■ Wingatui. , • .... There ‘ will be racing and trotting galore for patrons of each branch ox ‘ sport during ; the holiday ‘meetings, ana it-is pleasingto note that Wirigatuinow I standsd lh; an excellent position to supply a good card for . each day of ! the Christ-

mag meeting.' - * - - ' . ... 1 -• Three; unnamed u horser-. figure- in taenominations 1 for ".the ; Dunedin summer meeting;. One is * a gelding :by -Adjudge from Beneficence, and the-tw.o words suggest Sympathy or Judicare. The geld- ■; ine by Paladin—AU Style would not have a misfit if named Parade, and. the hunting Sohg—Miss. Lore .youngster might race well under the name' of Vocal, With the approach of the holiday meetings the Wingatui-trained .horses be petting , through increasingly. solid; tasics. ; Amongst tho^e: in active commission for racing in the near . Mobile. Elying_Amy, Amr Jptown.Tnntrac. Grand Finale, Master Anomaly Queen : Of Song, Daring -Deed. Oliver, Worship,; Reminder,, Kamel ■Pasha, Jacobin, . Salmo Salar, GolJPaper, Ballance. Raineses, Gessler. the Hun ting Song-—Miss Lore colt, Chhota, Tippling, Polhr- Star, the Paladin—All Style geld-ing,-Shock, Fair, Weather, Meadow Lark, Jaunt, Morena, Polling DayrLook^Smart,. Irish Lancer; Bold , Brigand,. - Tizzy, , Dressy, Last Link, Roland, ■ M Nab, and others that have hot been raced. .In addition several horses arc trained at MosSi F. P D." Jones has - nominated Control. for some of the two-year-old handicaps at the Auckland meeting. anP he “ay accompany Shatter and Nightly on the nO Mr- er W. tr ß* Kemhall’a three-year-old filly Melisande (Limond—-Joanfax L is Ao be returned to Trentham from Melbourne by this week’s boat. She will _ come over in charge .of G. Jones s hcad lad, J Mulvihill, who will go back; with a .fresh batch of young horses. , - Letters to friends m Gisborne from C Morse, the well-known New Zealand horse trainer, who formerly had his establishment .at Gisborne, indicate that he will return to New: Zealand on December 28; He will leave San Francisco on December 12, and during.his trip to the Dominion -the horses Pillow Fight and •Tea, Trader, in charge oL which he went to the United States, will enjoy spell •in California. . .. It is; likely, that Morse ’ ’will resume operations m. California late !iti* March. ■ * .’>.■» ■ ''c .Air . Golledge Leader, a member of a noted turf- family, will .replace the Hon. George Lambton as trainer for Bord Derby, who now explains that there was no .trouble between Lambton and himself, hut he considered that the control of ms large stable might - prove an undue strain on Lambton’s health. - Leader, who nas formerly trainer for the late Earl of Harewood, is a strict churchgoer, and he insists on his stable boys going to church OI VhIBBS, ’ when the , South Australian Jockey. Club- held its Cup meeting at Flemingtori, the ■ totalisatqr ad well as bookmakers,, had been banished from the State but the totalizator /was. legalised again not long afterwards. Since then bookmakers ha ve not- been ' allo wed to operate . in, South Australia, but . illegal betting has become so rife,. especially.in the last few veare, that- r it has presented am insoluble problem to the police, who, without the assistance of those who patronised .illegal bookmakers, .have .had tor. confess themselves entirely incapable of ■. suppressing bookipaking. ;N°w , the Government has decided, that the best tiling to do is to legalise, bookmakers. The whole problem of betting, both on and off the racecourse, . was ■ by , a Royal Commission m Adelaide.toward the end of, last year, and it was on the report of the commission, that the Betting Bill was introduced' and brought into law. T. Lloyd has a . southern trip in view during the holidays, with, four of Dr M. G Louisson’s-horses, but ; the exact constitution of the team (says' Argus ) will depend" on how they during thp next week or two- 1 Tout le Monde, seems to have got over the efie o f 1 8 n °/^ 11 | i / ver and he is working along well, as is SinCr jest' a promising, back, while the two-year-old, Invoice, is also in gpod health. The doubtful member at present is The MnVnuerader; This three-year-old has Masqueiaae worry f or some time nast as he: has not realised early expectations He over-reached and struck him-. selfTfew days ago. The foot'has been under.treatment for several days, but, unfortunately, he hit it again■ yesterday, L a S more days of rest will be necessary/ Lloyd hopes, however, that he will be ■ able to race' at the Dunedin ineetin o , probably with Waikouaiti and Oamaru Follow. Gay Crest, the veteran of the stable,, has been working lately, but in saving one leg, on aeeount of tendon, be has developed troubk Am_a joint in another leg. It l°°ks therefor ‘as if his racing career was atan end. A two-year-old has just been taken in hand. He is by Hunting Song from Cytola. an Australian-bred - mare by Cyklon from Tola/ by Prince Foote,

I According to Dr Stewart MTvay, the stayer’s heart is of recent development and discovery. Apparently Nelson did not have'a stayer’s heart, as such a, thing did not exist in his day, but the appearance of the weights for the Auckland Gup and a glance through the records suggest that the. son of 1 King Cole . was . one of the best, stayers that ever, graced the turf in this or any other day. Not only that,'but he was also recogniseed as one of the most .handsome horses that ever carried a saddle in either New Zealand or Australia. When he appeared at Fleraington he was in point of quality and conformation' recognised as “ the greatest Roman of' them all.” His deeds on the turf proved conclusively that-all his goods were not in the shop window, but also that he had a stayer’s heart, sound lungs, and muscular development that enabled him to carry big weights over any distance, In fact, it is said that-he had to be worked twice- a day to keep him fined down to racing fitness. Nelson was bred in Victoria, and, although ranking as a winner of the Great Northern Derby, did not really develop form until -five years old. As a five-year-qld- Nelson won the Auckland Cup, two riiiles and a-quarter, in the fastest time then on record. He also won the, A.R.C. Handicap (one mile and .three-quarters)the Island Bay Cup (one mile and a-half), the .Wellington Cup (two miles), the Dunedin Gup, (two miles and a distance). He was then taken to Sydney, and won the Autumn Stakes, w.f.a., one mile.-and a-half, beating two Melbourne Cup winners in Malua and Sheet Anchor, and others, and also the Place .Handicap.. He .also ran secind to Matchlock in the A.J.O. Plate, of three miles. On returning hohie he gave Spade Guinea 421b' in the New Zealand Cup and ran her, .to a length when carrying 9.10. Then came another win in the Auckland Cup and other races. Returning to Australia Nelson won the V.RX. Essendon Stakes,, and All-Aged Stakes «nd ran Trident to, a fhort head in. the - Australian Cup/,; a verdict that might have been reversed if W. Brown had not lost his whip during the race. As a seveh-year-old Nelson ran: second to a great cqjt.in Maxfln in the Canterbudy. Cup and then won the Auckland Gup with 9.12 and the Auckland Plate ■at weight-fof-age. ; He then went to, the stud but came back at eight years old to win the Flying; Stakes at Auckland. It is more than doubtful if there is a horse in training to-day; in either Australia or. New Zealand who could equal Nelson’s deeds on the turf. . Some might say that the times put up by Nelson did not equal those of present day champions, but he went fast enough to create records in his day and to defeat; some of . the best of jiis rivals. In comparing, past with present prowess on the turf times is not a factor to be taken into'consideration. The races in the past were run under totally different conditions- from what obtains to-day and anyone making a comparison the idea of gauging the quality of say'St. Simon or Ormonde and Phaf Lap is merely making a confession, of ignorance. It is rather interesting, to take a glance at Nelsop’a pedigree as.it shows that the old pioneers of the stud and turf were on the right track. King Cole, the sire of Nelson, was got by King .Torn' (the sire of St, Simon’s dam) from Qui,Vive,, a ‘ sister to Vedette, the grand--sire of .'St; Simon. Bred the reverse way King Tom, was almost a brother in blood to St. Simon, admittedly one of the greatest racehorses, and sires, the world has ever known. It "need not then create surprise,that Nelson was the great racehorse' suggested- by bis performances. My Idea, the dam of Nelson, was got by the great'Yattendon from Lady Bird by Bo.iar'do, ahalLbrother to Longbow, the grandsire of. Musket. Here is an tional,reason why Nelson ranked as an outstanding racehorse and probably without a peer in training to-day. . Yet laterday critics' salute the, rising sun- and say; that the' present is better- than the past in speed and stamina and-claim, that evolution stands responsible , fttr the superior merit. of to-day. If, merit depended on the growing age, of .the-worhl early history could' not have produced 1 Alexander thg. Great, who sighed'for more worlds to conquer, Hannibal, Napoleon, Horatio Nelson, Shakespeare, Rembrandt, Wellington, St. Simon, Carbine, Ormonde, of Pbar Lap. , , In: other words outstanding superiority is not. the' sole right of any age, past or present, but merely a gesture from Nature , when she .is or has been in the mood to produce something distinct to make imperishable fame in history. , „ . “ Rapier,” in the, Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, writes .that a, leading English veterinary surgeon has given him an explanation of the cause of .“roaringin racehorses and-the opera- ’ tion' necessary for its cure. Following is the /veterinary advice:—“ Roaring in the horse, results from paralysis of. the larynx, or to be more precise, paralysis of one or more musejes which are_re.sponsible for the movement of variohs cartilages and other .structures comprising the larynx. The opening arid closing of the glottis is the . particular movement concerned in a very high proportion of eases, 90 per, cent, or more, it- is the left side of the larynx only that is affected;, and since the nerve on .this side that is responsible for the muscular moveinefit. has a markedly different disposition in the body to its fellow of the right side: it seems, only reasonable .to assume that this i peculiar| disposition of it must have much to do in determining that the left side only is affected is such a high, proportion of The , result of the paralysis in a typical case in which the left side only is affected is that the arytenoid; cartilage and the attached vocal chord ,of this "side is imperfectly swung. outwards during the opening of the glottis' when inspiration is taking place. Owing to this incomplete, or, in advanced cases, suspended, movements, the opening into the ventricle, a small pouchlike cavity one on each.side of the larynx just above and" in front of the vocal chord, is not properly closed and part of the inspired air is passing into tile top of the windpipe enters arid distends the' ventricle, and by so doing lessens the lumen of'the larynx and interferes with the free passing- of air down the windpipe. In ndtdit’pi to this interference with the free supply, of air to the lower boundary of the opening.; into the ventricle, by reason of its not being held taut on the side of the larynx, vibrates and so combines to give rise to the noise which is known as ‘ whistling’ or ‘roaring,’ according to the degree of its intensity. The operation which is now extensively practised in England is in reality a plastic operation and consists of the complete removal of the membrane lining the ventricle. This removal causes adhesion of the, vocal chord and the arytenoid cartilage to the side of the larynx, leaving the lumen of the larynx unimpaired. The operation was .first practised by the Gunthers in Hanover in the latter half of the nineteenth century. It was revived by Williams in America early in .the twentieth century, and introduced Jiy him into England, where it was .extensively practised by Hobday,; who improved upon Williams’s technique. Brayley Reynolds, the well-known Newmarket veterinary surgeon, as a result of some experiments carried out during the war, further improved the technique, and, by resecting a portion of the vocal chord, in addition to stripping the whole of the membrane lining the ventricle, has obtained a higher percentage of results in which there is an entire absence of noise following the operation. Although the paralysis that is responsible fop roaring is, ns has been ■said, confined'to' the- loft side, in the ’ ma'iorltyof '.cases it:-, is customary to operate on both -sides of the larynx.”