RACING NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22325, 27 July 1934, Page 4

RACING NEWS

By Sentinel.

Tudor will not be raced at the Grand National meeting. Mr W. T. Hazlett,_ the Southland owner, has left on a visit to Melbourne. Weights for the Christchurch Hunt Club’s fixture are due on Monday. At the Otago Hunt Club’s meeting on June 1 the win-and-place totalieators will be operated. The appropriate name of Wardress has been bestowed on the filly by Lord Warden from Clink.

Winners at the Hunt meetings this week will not be rehandicapped for the Grand National, Grand National Hurdles, or Winter Cup. Waterpower’s trainer is not dissatisfied with her Winter Cujj weight and the the Waehdyke mare is to be reserved for the big mile (says the Timaru Herald).

First acceptances for the Grand Nationals and the Winter Cup and nominations for minor events at the C.J.C. August meeting are due at 8 o’clock tonight.

Mr C. T. Keeble’s horses left for Sydney on Wednesday from Wellington.. They were six—Golden Wings, Golden Chance, Golden Treasure, Jayson, Lack, and Red Rufus.

Parasang had his first race when he contested the Hunt Cup at Waimate yesterday. He is a seven-year-old gelding by Tractor from Rucna, by Solferino from Ruenalf’s Daughter, and carries the colours of Mr L. C. Hazlett.

Curie is expected to take his place in the Winter Cup field, and he will be ridden by A. E. Ellis. Curie has a good weight, bfit he is a great winter horse, and his form at Trentham leaves him with a chance.

The horses that Quinopal beat early last month at the Dunedin meeting were below’ Grand National standard, but his form there was outstanding, and he will have to be, taken seriously into account at Riccarton. r

The first important move in the betting market on the big spring events in Australia was made last week, when Silver Scorn and Peter Pan were coupled for a substantial amount for the Caulfield and Melbourne Cup double. As a result they are now sound favourites.

The Awapuni trainer, Mrs A. W. M'Donald, has been very ill since the recent meeting at Trentham, but she is now recovering, so she may be expected at Riccarton with her team next month. Another Awapuni trainer, G. W. New, is getting over the effects of an operation, having been in bed for a, month.

The appearance of Banjuke in the Hawke’s Bay .Hunt Cup brought back memories of other days. Banjuke is just oh his thirteenth birthday and it is nearly five years since he raced, winning the same event in 1927 in the colours of Mr Eric Riddiford, president of the Wellington Racing Club. Banjuke on Saturday carried the colours of Mr R. H. Lowry, He did not go very far, running off early in the race.

F. Davis usually has a good young horse in his stable and he has several now going through their early paces. They are the colts Heritage (Posterity ■ —Homage), a half-brother to Honour and closely related to Epigram, Bumble (Captain Buneby—Tame Duck), a half-brother to Admiral Drake; Maestro Musical Moment), and the filliee Sergia (Lord Quex —Sunny Hours) and Arunette (Arausio —Lucinette). There should be some stake money from this lot before Christmas.

Passion Fruit’s return to form at Hastings has ensured him a trip to the Grand National meeting. He may be accomr panied by Emotion, who at Trentham ran much below hie earlier . form over hurdles. As Passion Fruit showed that the going and not the horse was the trouble at the Wellington races, no doubt Emotion will make out a similar ease.

Gold Trail, who recently joined up again with J. M. Cameron's active team, ran down the straight at Hastings on Saturday with some of the younger horses in training there. Gold Trail looks bright and well and she does not look as if it will take her long to get ready to race, though it is unlikely that she will be asked to carry silk until the spring. So far there is no sign of the recurrence of the dry cough that troubled her last season.

R. W. King left Lyttelton on Wednesday night on his way to Sydney with Silver Ring and Royal Amphora under his care. Silver Ring, after being a disappointment as a three-year-old, came back to hie best form in the second half of this season, during which he registered some exceptionally fine efforts. His recent track gallops have shown that he is very well, and in spite of big weights he will be a force to reckon with in important events in Australia in the spring. Royal Amphora, though not in the same class, is a smart sprinter, who should have no difficulty in winning races if properly placed. Great Shot will not fulfil his engagement in the Winter Cup. Subsequent to his winning the Provincial Handicap on the first daji of the Dunedin winter meeting, Great Shot was attacked by some kind of trouble which was attended by intense feverishness, and for a time his qwner-trainer, F. W. Ellis, was afraid he might lose him. The Last Dart gelding, however, is back to normal health again, but his trouble was responsible for the Grand National trip being called off, .nd he will not be seen out again until the early spring meetings. At his best, Great Shot would have had more than an outside chance in the Winter Cup.