FACING NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22284, 9 June 1934, Page 19

FACING NEWS

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"'• " Acceptances--for; the' South Canterbury; ;'Jo6key-Ciub'B-winter; meeting' : 'are due on;, Tuesday night.i ~ -...-■.■ ' ft-' Shatter iw ' again rin work at Riccarton 4l'fter: aSwelkdeserved; spell from-continu-ous racing for; about, four years. . , ;' ■ It- f»- reported-that Manetho continues; "to stand up ,to the .work Ltbat hag been i •Hotted to him since resuming training. % Cultivator has. been. taken back to; , Timaruf: and. A.. J. t Peart remain i.-"feer«-^with- > hia:vcharge.r;until:''tnes';GrAiid' i ; Rational meeting. ; „,.■ 4 . . :' : 4- report'cornea Melbourne that Roy Reed-intends deserting: NewiZealand invfavour of Australia as a result;of the. Bawera incident. ~.. _' '■' \ •;'? \Only* on* trainer-in'Fred Dawson has trained" four Derby l winners. . He saddled n 0: Captain Guttle, \ and i Cameronian when they, won the Epsom -.classic;--'; '• '.■'•'{-;•', :: .yy v r •''-'"'-'■-t' •■' A . According v to'Hawer a track watchers, Chief'Cine ia better than Sta"nchiori?i»ja; pifivate . ttial. over • hurdles, but be > ; is, a long time proving.it' in public; where his form is ntpat disappointing. ■/.>'_■. ,\ Th* Ellerslie horseman,vL.. Dulieu, has,] received an offer to go to •Melbourne■ : to sride th« Auckland jumper, ;Royaj Visitor, initheGrjand National. at Ftanmgtoimn'; July,-and wjiH' l«» v * for Australia by the.A«rangii::oifc^M6%d*y,:;r!■• .^y.^.'. •/ •;:--'• '■.' ; rejoined; the; active Jut, at Riccarton, and may ;be seen outiat Timaru next week: It is reported that he has been kept in easy-jexercise, and appears to-'hare:thrown 'Off'the .lameness ;which •tie: developed' after Running rat the Dun-. edin 'Gup -meeting. '■■ -_;" .■ ■-' Mr J. P. Herliby, theowner of ventrac and Dismiss,-has purchased the- imported ' stallion Paladin, and intends, to stand the Bon^Polvnielus:at VlfcstvTaieri, during, -thei-wmihg^easbni' £* the sire of. Cbidfe, ; Meprisanfcv Batrap, Siwal, Don Quixote, Prmce Paladin; and other winners, , Paladin should' receive plenty of patrohaM. ",: -■ ' T .'-."''.- -".ThevA*ouit6n County Racing Club mas "circulated- the , programme ;for'. the .;rneetirig to be r heldrbil Saturday, June 23. It consists of the <usual seven events, but on this c*casioh- they include-' a hurdle race ' and a steeplechase. . . . . • <• A -new- pool. has-been ;by: .the Racecourse - Betting Control there are seven or more Starters.BO:per-cent.-'of-the pool is to be allocated to Backers of the Manning horse and 20 :per-cent:'each to: the: second and third. -If there are^nveior %•: allocation;/wilkbe 70 per,cent: to the dinner> a*a-30:per'ceht; t 0,%, runner-up. The pool will not be operated /when there are fewer, than-five: runners. Tickets -will ' The^famouilJem-Robinson v/aa. the only iocW 'tc^rldesix winnerSr 4« dh 1927, Cadland Uh 1828; in 1838;*.Archer* -rede;five -winners-trSUvip, Ben«t-Gr> Iroquois, Melton,s Doholßuifehas:ridden: four the Ep'sonW 'ever >? ridden the ■• winner' of the f Epsom Derby three years ;in,-S*u«essron. ane presents tampion, Gordon R>ehar.d«,vbas notfyeV ►won the:-Derby*:,' -,. >v.>C.-' ■', ?TThe/Il|adis-Daridn«f Doll fniy^red^and owned '>m-W 4^ veir: favourable, 4mprefßion- r when.she^arr *IW?-a*''RiecaTton -to ..join ;Pi. v M Gratlia :She : has been broken sand handled aV Elderslie, > and ■:■ isiin- nice border Uo.fo on ; with her preparation. The,; filly will race the name of Penelope, a celebrjted* priftcesjsl of-; Greece, abqufei^rtiom Various beep, .expressed by different 1 authors."',»l,fc is to be-hppedvonly one opinion arise about the-daugbter of KHiadv'and'' o * Dolly -and ;that ; is with her Dancing DdU vproduced La Polipee and; Cupbearer a*d*w*s^gotvhy -theVSt^rLeger, winner BlickJester-r-My Dollyi >y S^ndridge— (wihrier:;of /theV-Oak»)V >by r Aesculua could have been . purchased cheaply from Mr Lowxy Muring i recent mbriths,*but-: nobody ■ wanted; him, and he has- now-shown better .form, than at stage hU cuius is a well-bred gelding, being by Night-Raid. fromvTinihanKa; a mare by * Absurd -"from formless, who was:'*; .naitisister.bj to-the, Derby winner Ron R«ve and from the ■ ■ame^f family ,as ' St dam of ■ Nightfall, Noctuij term, *iid Midhight;Sun. should stay;Well;-and, althougli it to be much .to his hkirllr'and:: the' quality':#' the; opposition moderate; he.n\ay-beTjust-: coming to bis

■' The- win and place system, is evidently in favour with. Dunedin racegoew. and the elubis not likely to make any change while ''-it'- produces the, Rood results which have /attendedv the clutts. season jUst closed. Mr X- C: Hanlon, K.G., president of;the club,'is a-.keen--.supporterof the system* au4 ■in ;hif opJßioh many, of ;tlie cfilbeA whichhave reverted .ito.two' dmdends will return to win and place, during the forthcoming season; He considers the ariUtion against the latter systein emanates mainly; from the *o-called-big .specn-■'.Kt6t*?-(WB.-the>?rjeßs)vtot;figurw,taken at recent meetings have shown that this class represents v] ess than; 10 per -cent; of ■■«fa-'.*etl*B« s "ito^i^^^ltx^?V.Y t ''* e reasonable to expect clubetp make changes 't©" ; ' suit.'-'..: a '••':'very small • minority*, and ;•» deprive 90 pe* cent; of racegoers of facilitieV which have pjfoved. unquestionably popular with the small: bettor and profit•W*:#'*»e:;d?nß cbncepjed, .'- v." • It i« to "be hdfied "that i when -the r«cihg secretaries meet in conference in Wellingtab they;>w»ll urge (the abandonment of the practice ofJ&aving;weights declared it-fipan.' *hd' acceptances at;? jMri. bygone years .the acceptance* for the Riccarton" meetings did not close until:;11 P4bwand -it-iweimajiy- years before, -that ages of racing, was aMMOned; 'Tfainelra in /those days had to returnivto Riccarton without seeing the •ceepUnce# if they wished to catch the list car- from itbwn.. Trainers are still forced to waste the beat part of, a night because acceptances do not close until 9 pjn* which means with -some clubs that they *xe not;Available',:until about 9.30. Half an hour i# ample time..to consider tho'.:wig^t«:iß'vTe*aiW : In the winter months, handicaps should be declared at 7.30 at the latest,'as.clubs are compelled to ran the last race on a card about 4 p.m. ;\4cceptances ; could then be This would, save an un"Bjscepiiaryv,: waste of time by. owners, trainers, and riders, and also on the part of pressmen. It should not be overlooked thw acceptances have) Id be .'telegraphed to other partiiof ..New Zealand, and as the principal papire go to plress much earlier than formerly, putting- them on the .i»ires abdutlO pjn/br later does not bis*ow;mHeh:CbMideration on the newspapers to which racing is indebted for publicity; : -In7addition, the sporting pressmenhave'to put on their, thinking ' ■ «"ia"«iW;ge J ";■ vWoravhlas beeri> received from Sydney that the two colts purchased by the-Rand-wiek triiper. J; VW. Cook, for Sir Hngb DenisoD. at ; the last National, yearling are to be-kept in po£ tering work ■at -Elderslie until;. July. One? is a- chestnut colt by; Limond from Jewel

"of Asia.-therefore a brother to Sir John, one of ■ the best tw6-year-61d3 in Austrahii, and the other a brown by the young Son-in-Law sire Siegfried from Polonaise, ■an Australian-bred mare-by Rossendale from Nadrilla, by Malt King. One of the ■best horses Cook ever had in his staple was ; ■ Winalot, who was bred on similar ; to Polonaise,' being dale from a Malt King mare.- Probably 'this : influenced Cook in his purchase |-of the Siegfried colt.". When these-:colts.- go ; to;Sydney (says "•Argus") they will be accompanied by other youngsters who have been broken in at Eldershe and .are now doing light!work. Among them ris a first" by Iliad from the Queensland Cup and. Sires' Produce Stakes winner, Koyal Flavour. She, is a big, upstanding bay filly, s A chestnut filly by Iliad trom the. flying Epitaph is the counterpart, of her dam. -Another highlyrbred Iliad ally is frbih the .imported riiare Sunkissed, whose first three maternal grandsires, Sunstar;' Gay Crusader, and Melton, are ' English Derby winners., An additional attraction . about the breeding of the Sunkisssed filly is that she -has a double cross of Pilgrimage,:like so many of .Lord Derby's good winners.