RACING NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22295, 22 June 1934, Page 13

RACING NEWS

Bv Sentinel

. The Otago Racing season will eud with the Oamaru Jockey Club's meeting, which takes place on'June 30', ■ Father a Choice, who won at Hawke's . Bay, As a two-year-old -brother' to Cleaiier. The veteran Archery gelding Starshooter is again' in work. is rising nine-years old.' Lutia Lux is t>n the doubtful list, and will:require a nursing preparation to jjet post. .'. ';/.' '. \ .•■-'•'_ .'• Nominations, for-the,principal events to lie<decide<J at'the priiiid'National meeting W.ili fall'due':,dn Fuiday.o'f ilext week. .".; #;heri raced. at Ximaru;, and had au''.iriaia'iiied;ljeg:_f6r:.a i couple of days after the meeting^ ■■■■■--... v '..- ,:';CranfQi*d ,'haa. rejoihed ~T. H. Gillett's stable and- is reported: to. be \iti robust i-onditicn 'was-'arib'thetipreparatiori.'. ■■■■■, 'hack/conippny, arid will have to join a higher, class" after'the Ash burton meeting. . ■' Ladysmith, the grand dam of Heliotype, is a half-sister to Mutiny, who won the Grand National Steeplechase in 1895 and 1896. ; '•■■;.■ : :- .'■'.

Nominations are due to-night for the Wellington Racing Club's winter meeting, to be held on July 10, 12,'and 14. ; The committee' of the Oamaru Jockey Club lias decided on a"7.7 minimum for "the Winter 'Hack Handicap and the Farewell Hack Handicap. ;':..'''/. .-'i At Ashßurton Cleaner meets Grand Review ,at;>6lb worse terms/ at a. higher ■scale of -.weights than ;wheu they. met. at Tiniaru. : • •

. Although Rational II is engaged in the Hurdle/Race at Ashburton he has been doing His latest seUooling over fences. < Martian" Chief may be better suited furlongs at 'Ashburton than he wdajwheii, racing over a . furlong, less ogruuMia at'Timaiu, .-',. :;-, li. MTfay, who had a training stable at Wingatui soiric years ago,- has decided to return to pur racing headquarters with a team of horses. r.

It has been found .necessary to. put Aladdin out of traming'. He promised to make a champion hurdler, but he now seems to be' too unsound, to stand training.', •. T.';' '., :'■'•, ... '•.;■■ '• 'v : ,\ ■ ' • The Mns(]uerater has been going on the right way since being reeommissipned and all "o.Wwell will join Nightly and Custodian 'i'li their Australian campaign. ; War Knight, who is engaged at Ash- \ burton; is a rnkinsfbig gelding by Paladin from War tone by golfer ino frorii the chainpion/inaie Warstep. He is trained by Mis J; Campbell for Mr B. G. Dalgetyi•"i On Irs best form of laet season Monastic is not badly treated at Asliburton. Last iVutumn Monastic was handicapped to.giye .Giand Review 191 b over six furlongs. •

; - From '.ill accounts Red Bank gave a splendid display of hurdling at Hawke's and incidentally gave the apprentice. iCVCairbil, an opportunity to display very [promising horsemanship, fe The Chokcbore Lodge stables has very seldom been interested in jumpers, but ;i H. and A. Cutts is. schooling the Day I'omet mare Pleasant Memory. ."■; Harry. 'Cutts;.>was temporarily in. charge;'.'.- : ofCoalition/whcn he won a Gland National Steeplechase. ' '.'.-V' , - . : r ■• ' ; A new/sire came injto the field when Heliotype won at Hawke's Bay. Heliortype'wnvgot by the imported grey horse lloyal Picture, a son of.Polygnotiifi and ■King's picture by' RoJ.,Herode.. 3'olyj?jiotds iWas gof by Pojyinejujsj-Ornaniental 1 ' . • . , . ■'!&.;■ Kvery-. season there' ia said to be, .a dearth of juinpera abbut.'but it ia they come,from when the good: stakes appear On the calender. It "W< safe to predict good nominations itor ■'the -'Wellington winter, meeting' when;the .jjsts are. publiahed.' -.-■.,.■ -• A northern report • states that J. H. Jeff erd • is .t*raining for Mr <Tv > H;' Lowry ft-rising two-year.-old; colt .by Lord Quex froirt Desert Gold's sister. D'Oro. He is a. ehes/.ut,with a white blaze :;and markjhgA. ami. .'except that." lie*maybe a bit abort in .the back,.he,is very hard to fault, and is : also,. ;iii what" little he "Las- et> far done, a good mover. "V y . The following riding engagements have b.» h madeYfor the Aahburton meeting:— X;. H. Eastwood—Doiran, Star Raider, ind ' <Jnictly;' D;. O'Connor, Fleeting Glance and Thurina; H. Turner. Verden iViid Punchestowij: A. Russell, Sibella. and Great Star- H. Mackinnon, Jolly Beggar; A, Messenx Hostile; G. H. Humphries, Martian Chief; G; Salt, Rational II; E. A. Lefkiel Top Rank; A, E. Ellis, Cleaner 1 ah<rß«U Dance. - ■:'.'■'. :•>;.'.«/ '.-■"■. .':\f - •'•: C'i Leader, who at '• the ' end of; I ast season succeeded the : Hon. George Lambtonaa 1 private' traine* to, : Lord Derby, saddled up his first \\\ihner inhis new post at. Newmarket on May 3. .This was Hyperion, . Ayho won the March Stakes, one mile ; andj-a-quafter. Hyper ion., 0.12, swerved* near' home, but won by a neck from the Solario four-year-old Angehco, B:6,'with H.H. Aga Khan's Felicitation, :».6. third, three.lengths away. , • , •Among those who were held up by the failure of the Mbnowai to leave lastweek were the sVictorian trainer. M. M'Gvath, and; Mrs M'Grath. also R. Reed and Mrs Rood and Master Reed, and the Im;ercar. giil'trainer- J A.TRowlands, who was on a holiday visit. Rowlands, was: alee, takinir. oVer'his , apprentice jockey, C. 1. Wilsoii, under engagement to do the light riding for -Mr W. T. Hazlett's , team. Wilson will remain in Australia until after, the Melbourne Cup meeting. a ' Since the necessity arose ■ for ■ reduced stakes throughout the Dominion, it .haa been proved that the limits of winnings to elevate•> a horse from hack to open company, based on ficures of the good years, have, been too large, with the reBhlt that a great majority.of gallopers arc still hacka; while the open suffered by restricted promotions. The existing rule on the subject provides that br-rses have to win a race of the value of £2fsoito;thewiniier, or races of the aggregate value of or more to the winner. The Canterbury Jockey Club's delegates will move at next month's racing j Con J ferenoe that "these amounts be -reduce;! to £2OO. and £4OO respectively, while, the South Canterbury Jockey Club intends to; "O a sten further by making the amounts ' £l5O and £3OO respectively. The Canter-, bury Jocl-pv Club's motion is on the same lines as that nut forward by the Hub at last yeorV conference, when it was negatived bv 25 votes to 21. . . ■ , Two of the most interesting winners at the Hawke'* Bay meeting were the three, vear-olds Bav Tree and. Cyclonic. They represent eood class, and this factor.was a big asset to them in very close-finishes, and enabled them to?overcpmeJ.he r lack of really seasoned condition. Bay tree was having his > first race since September last, in. Sydney. It will be^ remembered that following, upon successful form at the Grand National meeting, he was taken over with a view to contesting the A J.Ci Derby; but.. after competing at meetings prior- to. the big .carnival, he went «bre, and was unable to fulfil any engagements at Randwick, and retumeU to New Zealand. Cyclonic did not accompany Bay-Tree to Australia, but he did not-race after the Grand National fixture, so ie really has had a longer spell. He has also been in much shorter time in work; but, as he is a. bold goer as azainst Bay- Tree, Who is.a lazy worker, he has, in the fashion of' the, Hunting Songs, come to .hand; very quickly. Both horses should improve from now on (says ";The Watcher >') , and they will be .nddeu in their future engagements, when weights permit, by B. H. Morris, who rode them on Saturday., , , , . , ~ In the Liverpool Grand National the gentlemen riders are. always in the field. In this 'country our amateurs dc-not seem to be as ambitious (says the. Melbourne Globe), especiallv in recent, years. One reason ia that the authorities. frown on amateur ridew, cdmpctin e againet professionals byreason of .the fact, that it is takincr the means of livelihood from the paid riders. However, owners are permitted td:ride -their own horses. It is take part in the Grand National Steep echnse at Flemingtori next month. The bat amateur to ride the winner of th«

National wa s Mr Claude .Grice, who, alter a great battle, got Pleetstone home from Haoma U; Sing) in .1924. Trior to that J. S. Edge won on Fearless 11 and W. S: Cox on Redleap when they were entitled to'put "Mr " before, their names. When Edge cored another victory_ on Trojon a few years later he had-joined the ranks of the professionals. Cox also changed over. Many others among our more famous amateurs went into the professional clase, and held their ,' own Among them were, the Allan brothers, J. J. and D. H„ and Georce Brewer; The result of the Derby, won by Windsor Ltkl, fulfils the prophecy of Gipsy Lee, former Queen of the Gipsies, who foretold after the win of Bluer. Gown ,iu 1868 that no Derby winner's'name would include a'W" until the year, after her ■death. This was borne out;that during that -period, /which "included the defeats of. such'"certainties" as Orwell' and William the .Fourth, Gipsy Lee died last year.; thus lifting her .prophetic ban. Ned Brooks, the furnace worker,' who sold half his Irish sweep ticket on Colombo to Lord Glanely for £6000; sat in his garden during the race and refused to listen to the broadcast. . When told that, Colombo's third would bring him an additional. £SOOO, Brooks said: "That's enough for any man to have."' The totahsators took f26,*814 on the Derby. The winninn. tote dividend on Windsor Lad worked out at. just under double figures, Surprisingly,-the place tote paid a better dividend on Colombo than on "either Windsor Lad or Eastoii. A .young elephant garlanded in the Maharajah of Bajpipla's colours (purple and cream), appeared, rising from the. floor, at the Maharajah's party at the Savoy Hotel Oh Derby night. * It made an obeisance "opposite the .table, and then marched oil amid cheers.- ■■.-•■'