RACING NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22197, 26 February 1934, Page 13

RACING NEWS

By Sentinel.

Nominations for the Wellington Racing Club’s .meeting are due to-day. _ : • At Wingatui on Saturdaj morning Palmary gave Half Note and Double Shot a start and a beating over six furlongs in Imin 21 2,-ssec. , ; Vcntrac wan given easy work at Wingatul on Saturday morning. He is to be nominated for the Wellington meeting. F. Shaw’s team for the Cromwell meeting will be Tippling, Double Shot, and -Morena. . • , , Ramescs was among 'those worked at Wingatui'on Saturday morning. He was sent over four of the steeplechase fences. Nominations will be taken up till_next Friday for -the Great Easter and Great Autumn .Handicaps, to-be run at the Canterbury Jockey Club's autumn meet-

Most of- Rosener’s stock are slick beginners, but Osculate, (who races in the colours once carried with sbmej'distinc- • tion by My. Lawyer) is an exception. He has -so far been unable to go with the .. leaders, in the early stages of his races, but. lie finishes well and. should not/ go much'longer without a win. . 5 ’ The New Zealander Gaine Carrington ’has developed trouble in a ligament, and will not be able to fulfil'antumn engagements in Australia. This is unfortunate for his connections, as J. E. Pike, who ■> -rode him when he won the Caulfield Cup, . ?- snd again whan he won the Williamstown ■‘Stakes last; month, stated that -he bad ■ never known a horse to make such rapid improvement. : : _ , ■ ■: Ruling;tight is engaged in Newmarket which will be run ’.next Satur;*&e price paid for. First r Money when . he-leftdß. E. M'Lellan’s stable in Inver- ■{ cargilb to go to Melbourne was 75 • 'guineas. •'' : , ' G.Gieseler has returned Sungem, which he held on lease, to her owner. The ‘ Paper Money marc hag not\ fulfilled the promise ahe gave two or ,'turee':,months •Tego. ’ * 1 J. ?•«Great Shot,, jrho : went amiss; after winnihg four races last autumn, is rapidly getting into racing shape, and it should not be long before he rewards F. W. Ellis with something better than his second in the concluding event at Gore. . ’“'The three-year-bld - Golden Hair has J. been galloping very well at Hawera and she should be at her best next month, when she is engaged in the North Island Challenge Stakes. After that she may go -to Auckland for the Great Northern Oaks and St. teger. - . . , . r - In bygone, years. Tasmania produced ■ high-class racehorses,, but the breeding industry long ago languished in the island State and; ceased . to. possess any import* 7 ance.r' The reinstatement of bookmakers has' caused a big revival in Tasmanian racing,-and it is’now hoped that breeding there will regain :it 8 lost ground. t . Rebel , Chief, who is, engaged in the -j MotukararaJuvenile-Stakes next Saturiday, has not yet started in a race. He is a well bred three-year-old by Robespierre from Yerintia, by Solferino.from Rapier s . c dam, Anitca, so he may make a: useful <, horse, with prospects of staying. .... Versant, the three-year-old brother to On Top, by Surveyor: from Te Mon, . placed himself in the limelight in the , spring, when he paid a senstational. dividend at Avondale. He is again in work, after a spell, and he is being ticked off to show useful form before the end of the season. .... , ~ . . One of the latest additions to the Jumping brigade at Ellerslie is’Ruling King, who is now undergoing a course of schooling to fit him for hurdle contests. He wad-given a trial over a couple of hurdles last week, his display being very satisfactory for a beginner. Ruling King is, la half-brother to Mery . Bruee,-winner _of 'the Great Northern Steeplechase in 1923, and when he has Had the necessary exI perience should develop into a payable proposition as a jumper. . There was a lot of money in the Novice Handicap at Gore for Lucky Pal, an aged Paladin-r-Mazabrika marc. Lucky Pal bad just previously been _the star P® r^°r ™ er . at a noh-totalisator fixture at Fortrose, ‘ but that class is a long way below the "atandard required to win on main courses. ' 1 The Banks Peninsula Racing Club has ’’secured an excellent list of acceptances ."for the meeting to be held at Motukarara next -Saturday. The fields are likely to be above the average in size, the smallest ’numbering seven, in the Kmlock Hanai- • cap, in which Rebel Song will make his reappearance, after being off the scene since he went Wrong in the spring. There are nine horses in the Peninsula Cup, including Ramo.-tbe' winner in the two previous years, also Shatter, who filled second placew yearwgo. •; . -■ •' ; ■ Every once in a while somebody bobs dp with a fantaistic idea concerning racking- The latest example is the device ot a radiologist ‘ to enable a - racecourse judge to state with certainty what horse wins, a race, no matter how ‘narrow the margin. Invisible rays are -to': pass between two selenium cells (says the Titoaru Herald). As soon m- anything touches the; ray the. electrical circuit is-broken.” The radiologist believes he has solved the problem of determining at exactly which point the ray is broken, ind' that the judge will, merely - have to Watch’ the' relative positions—inside .or outside—as the horses pass the post, and check his observation with an automatx•cally recorded graph in his box. Ihe . radiologist appears; to overlook that the judge is: called upon to decide more than which horse won. He has to place four .horses, and the invisible ray would not find this remaining three. The idea has 'no more to commend: it than the noary graphy. A photo is instantaneous only in the taking; ,: There is, no such thing as instantaneous development, risk of disfortibn cannot'be avoided, and no colours can be .shown. ': A; photograph is. not accepted as evidence: in a court, and it would be no more reliable in a racecourse. In any . case a judge: who waited for develop; meiit of a picture would be making an admission of indecision,, and would ira-

mediately forfeit the confidence of the crowd, who expect the man in the box to identify and place four horses, translate them into numbers and have the numbers hoisted in 10 to 15 seconds. > Any judge unable to do this would be incapable of deciding which horse cut off the invisible ray, and it is safe to_ assert that more errors would occur with the radiologist contrivance than without it.