RACING NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22368, 15 September 1934, Page 20

RACING NEWS

By Sentinel.

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. The first race at. Ashburton to-day is limed td start at 12.45* KnoCkfin Sprinted half a mile up the back of the course; at Riccarton on Thursday in 48 3-ssec.

Vintage, who. had just recovered from a' bruised foot, is. reported to be troubled , by an abcess on the jaw.

Acceptances fdir the first day of the Geraldine meeting are due at 8 p.m, on Monday.

Waltzing Lily, the best mare in Vic-, toria* who beat Hall -Mark at Caulfield* was knocked down as a yearling for 40 guineas.

General Latour (sire of Te KaraVand Karapoti) who died last week, was once •old at auction for 21 guineas. On the same day Te Kara, then, a yearling, brought only 41 guineas, but he won an Auckland Cup and a Brisbane Cup, and £12,260 in prize money.

To justify the penal taxation on racing, its opponents often say that it is a business, not a sport. If it were taxed on the basis of a business nobody would complain, but the taxes have to be paid whether tt profit or a loss is made. A club may have to pay £50,000 in taxation on a meeting, and yet suffer a lose of thousafadS.

There will he plenty of rUcihg for the' best horses in Australia to-day. At Rosehill, the programme Will include the Guineas fdr three-year-olds and the Hill Stakes, a mile event for the weight-for-age cracks. In Melbourne the sport will he provided at Mconee Valley, where there will be a rich race for three-year-olds, also a mile and a-quarter handicap.

The Dunedin Jockey Club has received * very pleasing list of, nominations for its spring meeting. The fact that 17 of the Guineas candidates have been nominated at the meeting augurS well for the success of the classic, While the nomination of 15 in the Dominion Handicap is a guarantee that the MT/san Stakes wfll be contested by a fine field of two-vear-plds. The LimOnd colt* Sir John, has not struck form yet in New South Wales, but G, Price has other smart three-year-olds in his stable in Gladswood and Thco, two other New Zeal adders. Gladswood (Limond —Curtain) beat all of his own age id. the Chelmsford Stakes, and Theo has been backed by. the ( stable for, the Caulfield Cup. Curtain, Gladswood’a dam,, is a half-sister to Rational* The Monk, Mask* and Veil (dam of VeilmOnd).

! Sydney has a fine Weight-carrying hurdler just now in Greensea* si Green-' stead gelding in the Silver Scorn stable. At his last two starts he has won with 13.2 and 13.7, add- even if NeW ; South Wales hurdlers generally are moderate, Hlefe is a lot of merit in a win on soft going under 13.7, The biggest load cVer carried' into a place at a totalisator hurdle-race in New Zealand was 35.7, • under which Arlington finished third at Reef ton after winning ''with 13.13 at Greymouth, ; Arlington was not a/champion, however, as 12.6 pulled him up badly when he came across to Ashburton. Gladswood’s third in the Chelmsford Stake! at Tattetsall’s meeting last Saturday read! like valuable .form in a Derby connection, for he at least effectively disposed of the’ only, three-year-olds in the race. Gladswood is a New Zealand colt* one of the breeding of Mr 6. M, Currie, At the 1633 Trentham yearling sale! Air John Brunton.gave 400 guineas for this cOlt. Mrs John # Spencer Brunton is, however,; his nominator for the classic races and the two cups. Gladswood had 7.4 in the Caulfield Cup and 7.0 in the Melbourne, but he has been scratched for Caulfield. He is trained by George Price; upd is by Limond from Curtain, by Thespian from Cowl, by King RufuS from Our Lady, by Simmer from Lady Agnes, by Ncckersgat. Gladswood is thus closely related to Veilmond, and cdmcß from a family , that has produced many notable horses, including Beau Soult. the site of Beauford.

Shadow Mhg/was' given'-.a great reception after lip Bad Won thff August Handicap at Williatlistowu Oh August 25. Immediately his number was hoisted there was cheering from all parts of the course, pqd it .coptiAagd until :hid Tidejr Bad ,tlis- f mounted -to nVeigh Til. ■ N6W' a veteran. Shadow King has proved himself, one of the hardiest and gamest horses in Melbourne .for years;,- His record of folir minor places in ike Melbourne Cup is hardly likely to be broken,, and if he trains on he should again put up a great race in the Centenary Melbourne Cup this year, ib Which he has 8.10. His performance at WilliamstoWn was lus best yet for so early in the. season. He is now nine yeats old, ana he is owned by Messrs F* B. Shillaheer and S. E. Bailey, the partnership having been formed after Mr Sllillabeer had raced him alone until he was five years old.

Windsor Lad’s- Win in the St. Leger Stakes in time equalling the record vindicated the judgment of hie purchaser at £50,000, Air AI. H. Benson, who until a couple of years ago, Was managing director of the famous bookmaking firm of Douglas Stuart, Ltd. Mr Bfenson stated after the purchase of the colt that he Would go straight- to his racing hadquarters, and presumably he is to be Used for stud duty in the new year. Hig owner announced that his primary object in securing Windsor Lad was to ha ve . a sire of hie own, as it was increasingly difficult to secure the services of high-class stallions, in England except by long-established breeders. He considered that at £40,000 Windsor Lad was a business proposition, and the extra £IO,OOO which he was forced to pay to meet the lowest figure of the Maharajah of Rajpipla' was the only speculative element in the deal. .In addition to making fame for himself as dual Winner 01 the Derby and Stv Leger,.Windsor Lad will add further to the reputation of hie sire, Blahdfbfd. The Second /horse, Tiberius, and the third horse, Lo Zingaro, should be among the best of the four-year-olds liext year. Many valuable stakes, are to be won at Ascot and Oisewhere by really good young horses.;