RACING NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22260, 12 May 1934, Page 18

RACING NEWS

By Sentinel. Henry of Navarre has resumed work at Awapuni, after a spell. He is a good hurdler when at his best, ancf he may be ready to resume winning before the winter campaign i« far advanced. Red Manfred was operated on for a minor foot ailment a while back and i> now out in a paddock. He is making good progress and is to residue training in about six weeks’ time. Probably, he will be taken to Australia for the •pring racing. ... B. Sullivan is to ride Emancipation in the Great Northern, C. Thomson will be on Callamart, F. M'Hugh on Consent, and R. C. Mile* on High Commissioner. H, N. Wiggins is to ride Lord Val, W, E. pine Prince Colossus, and either G. J. Jones or K. Voitre will have the mount on Lack. Great Star is an unlucky horse. He had been working well of late, but on Thursday morning, when being ridden on the No. 1 grass track at Riccarton, he ricked himself and returned with halting step to Lis stall. This may prove senou 3 enough to qount him out of. winter racing. Good news is to hand concerning Vint. ■ age, who in a few days lost all trace? of the soreness that caused him to be thrown out of work. He is being hacked •about at home for a few days prior to returning to Mr* J. Campbells stable, if he continue* to do well he will be one of. the star attractions in the Winter Cup abd other good races at the Grand National meeting. Since racing at the Avondale meeting last month Imamint has trained on satisfactorily, and by the time the Grand Northern meeting arrives her condition should be perfect. This mare registered a sterling' performance when she finished second to Jonathan in the Easter Handicap and wa* unlucky to meet that horse at the peak of his form. She is nicely placed in the Cornwall Handicap, in , which she is weighted at 7.6, and if her owner elects to start her in the mile and a-quarter race she can be depended on to put up a creditable showing. She is also entered for the principal events at the Te Kuiti meeting and if started at that fixture a better guide will be obtained regarding her prospects at the Great Northern meeting. . Boudoir, a recent hack winner in the North Island, i s being spoken of as likely to go on to much better form. She is a three-year-old filly, by Lord Quex from the All Black mare. Oddity, whose dam, Conceit, was by Boniform from the imported mare, Lady Wayward 11, by Ladas from Vane. This is a line that has done well in the Dominion. Lady Wayward IF made her name first as the dam of Eraperador, a big winner for the late Mr G. D. Greenwood. While Oddity has not earned great distinction prior to producing Boudoir, Conceit has another daughter who- has been a consistent success #t the stud. This is the Demonthenes mare. Egotism. In five seasons on end, aa a result of matings with Sutala, she produced Autobiography, Wayward, Pride, vjalonx,.: andj Hkley, all winners, some 6f- them in good class, while to Agrfon she threw Importance, a useful stayer. R. Inkson, Australia’s leading crosscountry jockey, who was severely injured at Flemington last August, has been granted permission by the surgeon to the Victoria Racing- Club to school horses over hurdles, and last week he made , a start by schooling his old favourite Red-/ ditch. Redditch hag not started in a race since he came to grief with Inkson in the August Steeplechase... •Pahu, who is acclaimed to have been a ‘ particularly unlucky hurdler, is ex--pected to figure prominently this winter. He is hy.;Whrplahe, a son of Martian, and should stay on that account, His. dam, Cinnamon, brings added reference as a jumper. She is by Sarto, the sire, of many good jumpers, out of Caiiella, the dam of the Wellington Steeplechase winner, Birkinella. v . Australian stipendiary stewards do not vent all their displeasure on the small fry among jockeys and trainers., Darby Munro, who was suspended last week in Sydney, is one of the best .riders in New South Wales. At once, time it was alleged that social or commercial ’ eminence of owners protected the jockeys and' trainers they employed, but that day seems to have gone. Australian stipendiaries, who ar# invested with top, much power, make miitakes, buF they seem to make ' them without fear or favour.

At the end of every season, the leading English hanjjicapper compiles weights for a s?rec Handicap, to be run by-three-at the feoramencement of the next raeitig year. The handicap is based on two-year-old form, and naturally there are often striking reversals. This season! the Free Handicap figures have worked out well, as Colombo, top-weight in it, ha» won the Two Thousand Guineas, and Campanula, rated as the best of the fillies, accounted for the One Thousand. The Aga Khan made a happy commencement in England this season. At Lincoln on March 20 his colt Vermeil 11, won the Brocklesby Stakes, the first important two-year-old race of the spring. Vermeil 11, who is by Blenheim from Versatile, won' by a head from Cartolina (by Papyrus) in Imin 4 l'-ssec for five furlongs on a slow track. Blenheim won the 1930 English Derby for the Aga Khan, and Vermeil ; II is one of his first season's progeny. It was announced some time ago that the Aga Khan had decided not to retain any jockey this season, and would, trust toTuck in securing good riders for his horses. R. Perryman, who was fifth in the winning list last year, was on Vermeil 11.

By his success in the Dixie Handicap tt Baltimore on Saturday, Equipoise is credited with passing Phar Lap on the world’s winning list of racehorses, and being second only to Sun Beau, another American. The total of Equipoise is now £66,593. According to American lists, Phar Lap won £66,450, but the Australian authority. “Miller’a Guide,” makes the total of Phar Lop £66.738, which leaves him still ahead of Eanipoise. Other lists credit him with £70,161. Sun Beau, who won 33 of his 74 races, is generally credited with £75,348. Some lists, however. credit him with winning £78,488. Equipoise is by Penn ant;-son of Peter Pan (U.SA..). from the English mare Royal Rose, by Royal Hampton.