RACING NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22366, 13 September 1934, Page 5

RACING NEWS

By Sentinel.

- Winners at Ashburton are liable,to be rehandicappcd for the Geraldine meeting.

Nominations for, the Dunedin Jockey Club’s spring meeting are due to-morrow at 5 p.m.

Two hurdle races will figure_ on the Wellington Racing Club’s spring programme.

Some people are_ claiming that the win and place system is a good cure ‘for the -punting habit.

It is reported that Arcade ha s developed' lameness and -will be treated to a compulsory spell. The five-furlong race on the Ashburton programme is : a' novice stakes and not a handicap;

Fracas failed to show up at the Grand National meeting, , but : is not overburdened in the Spring Handicap at Ashburton.

The margin of 81b covering the field in the Longbeach Hack Handicap is about as small as could be made in a fairly big field.

Davplo figures as an acceptor for' the Ashburton Handicap with 9.9, or 3lb more, than when he won the Islington in 2min Ssec. Rin Tin Tin is one of;the latest recruits to hurdling, and. shaped fairly well when schooled a. couple of days ago. . The Kllbroney mare Free Air, who finished third in the Grand . National Hurdles, is amongst those engaged in the Longbeach Hack Handicap to he run at Ashburton. '

. Red Sun shaped well; in; a school at Wanganui over five hurdles with Emotion. Apparently Red Sun is on the improve, and with his pace should make a good hurdler.

J. Munrp is to have the mount on Silver. Ring in the Epsom Handicap. R., Reed will have the . mount on The Masquerader in the same race and" on Nightly in the Metropolitan. The excellent acceptances received for the Ashburton spring meeting supply an indication that the fields for. .the early will at least have a good numerical strength. ■ Some candidates for the Dunedin .Guineas are-.likely -to be seen out at the, Aehburtpn and. Geraldine meetings, • and the fact will lend extra interest to ; the form they display.

Eleven of the.most.successful sires in New.Zealand,and Australia are tail male descendants; of Galopin and his son,. St. Simon. This shows that if the. line has faded in England, it has flourished 'in other 1 parts of the world. -

The* Novice- Stakes on the Ashburton programme will be run in two'divisions, 'tltu is" rather interesting to, bote that some ‘of the field Will/be starting on almost . even terms ‘withv horses that would be cap. . • ; ■ ~

• Graf toe, by Galopin, had a great career ; a« asire. ; in Australia, hut few of .his sons were successful as sires. Cetigne, who won'the A.J.C. Derby of 1915, was popularly regarded as likely to distinguish himself- at'.the stud, but when he died recently his record was very disappointing.

The prospects for a successful season in the. South Island .read bright through the nominations for the Ashburton and Geraldine, meetings. They show that a large number of horses is in training, and a similar response for the Dunedin spring meeting would make it an assured success. Nominations for the Wingatui meeting are due to-morrow.

The importance of avoiding a clash between -the Auckland Racing Club’s spring meeting can be gathered from a fiance at the northern club’s programme, t includes the Great Northern Guineas, •of ' 600sovs, the Mitchelson Cup, of 700sbv«. the Welcome Stakes, of SOOsovs, and other well-endowed races in which a horse could run and then come south to participate in the New Zealand Cup meeting;

It is understood that the programme for the Takapuna Jockey Club’s spring meeting, to ( be held at Ellerslie late in November, 'will include a steeplechase each day. As the Auckland Racing Club will provide a cross-country event on each day of the spring meeting, there will be plenty of inducement for owners to keep horses in work for the steeplechases at the summer. meeting.

Shu, a two-year-old by Hunting Song from Hatbor, is reported to be shaping well in his work at Hastings, and may make his . first appearance in the Debutante Stakes at- Wanganui, Shu is a full-brother to Hest, who has been racing with a fair amount of success recently. They are an appropriatelynamed pair, as Hathor in mythology is stated to have had two children—Hest, a daughter, and Shu, a son. A northern report states thaLSolarium, carrying top. weight, was unlucky to be beaten in a hack race of nearly nine furlongs at Marton, and he looks a likely sort for open events over a distance before the season is much further advanced. He is a. five-year-old by Limond from Sunbar, an Australian bred mare by Cooltrim fropi Sibar, by-Bardolph from The Siren, by The Vice-admiral from The Charmer, dam of The Victory, who won the .Melbourne Cup and later-was sent to England. The pedigree of Solarium is full of good staying blood; ’ ,

A story is related that when Sir Simper was foaled at Mr J. Donald’s Weetmcre stud. Simper, took mammitis and was unable to rear the colt. Illume, the -eldest daughter of Simper, had at the same time a foal to Chief Ruler, born dead. The • stud groom took Simper’s foal, and smoking it to disguise the smell, gave it to, Illume.' The colt’s half-sister at once took to the colt, and she became an excellent, foster-mother. So Sir Simper, who may. yet prove. the best of his famous family, was. saved for racing, and he has already won, for his owner, Mr W. T. Hazlett, a very large sum.. The well-known Southland owner, Mr W. T. Hazlett, is a.gain; ; sending several of his mares to the Elderslie' Stud this season to he mated with Night Raid. He has the backing of previous experience,/which .apparently'has. satiafied him. Included .in his Australian.- team is -the four-year-old Dazzling Raid ■ (Night Raid —Dazzling Light),- who- has been spoken of, as a, Melbourne Gup possibility, while the Night Raidr-Razzle Dazzle ...filly is said to- be an exceptionally \ promising two-year-old. • Mr •T. H. '.Lbwfy, or Hawke’s Bay, is another studmaster who is patronising the Elderslie airea this season. Some of his mares are. to be mated with Night Raid, while others will, go. to Iliad.

Radiant Star, who won his- first- race in Australia in Melbourne last week, was bred by his present owner, Mr A. S. Higgs, and. is a half-brother to Argentic and Silver Beam, : both of. whom were bred and sold-as yearlings -by Mr Higgs. Spotlight wa£ bred, by Mr C. G, Dalgety, and is a 14-year-old- mate by -Nassau from Stardancer,' by Martian; from StepdanCer, a -family that-bias produced, many winner's; Radiant Star- was catalogued for the 1933 yearling; sales, but was not offered, and later an arrangement. was made by Mr Higgs by which, the youngster entered the stable'of J. Fryer, at Hawera. He won athisonly Start last season, and showed, such encouraging form that his owner decided to transfer the lease of the stallion Philamor to Mr J. J. M'Grath, - and to move his quarters to-‘Melbourne. The trip has certainly opened auspiciously, and his recent win would indicate further and more important successes for the wellbred gelding, who is in the' A.J.C. Derbyand other classics. Spotlight, still owned; by Mr Higgs, is due to foal this season to Posterity. ■ . There is at least one man in America; who regards the Derby hero. Cavalcade, as a better horse than Equipoise. In making, the weights for the Arlington 10,000-dol-lar, 10 furlongs . race, the handieapper classed Cavalcade as 21b better than Equipoise. under the weight-for-age scale. Cavalcade is a son of Lancegaye, son of Sywnford, sire of Blaudford. Writing about the three-year-olds, the Blood Horse says; “ The charge, of inconsistency which has been brought against every crop of three-year-olds since Gallant Fox closed the 1930 season with only one defeat in 10 starts cannot be laid against this year’s three-year-olds; for most of the rich stakes in this class have been almost alike. The Chesapeake Stakes, Kentucky Derby, American Derby, and Detroit Derby have seen Mrs Isabel, Dodge Sloane’s great Cavalcade draw away from all opposition, and the Pfeakness found only a stablemate leading the Bfookmeadc racer. Four times Agrarian has been in second or third position; four times Discovery has been in the money. And again, 6h July 14, running his most impressive race, Cavalcade made a show of the best the thrce-ycar-old division could offer in the sixth running of- the Arlington' Classic ’ Stakes (35,000 dollars added, three-year-olds, one mile and a-quarter), and won, pulling up, only one-fifth of n second _ short of the record time for the event whiclrMate hung up in 1931. The race was always at the mercy of the Lahoegaye colt, which moved up effortlessly when ready, shook off his opposition going into the stretch, and won by four lengths, with jockey Garner looking back.” The dam of _ Lancegaye is Flying Spear, by Spearmint. Hastily (dam of Cavalcade) is by Hurry On (great-grandson of Barcaldine) out of Henley, by Junior out of Helenora. by Bayardo, sire of Gainsborough. Junior was by Symington, a son of Ayrshire. Up to the end of July, Cavalcade had won upwards of £25,000 in 18 starts for eight wins, four seconds, and three thirds.