RACING NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22504, 23 February 1935, Page 21

RACING NEWS

By Sentinel,

A Run of Luck . J. A. Rowlands had a successful time at Gore with Enwood, Pompax, and partly . so' with Rowlands, - >, Improvement ' i M’Nab ■ has always shown speed but failed to stay on. He-did much better than usual at Gore, and. has improved in stamina. , , Impala’a Form . Intpala, the half-sister •to Palantua, foy Paladin, is said to be much, better m ■private than in a race, but more age and \ time to furnish may remedy the detect. Last Link . r/ East Link has been looking fit/and well, hut his racing fails to come up to expectations. He ran fair races at Gore, but not good enough to. get amongst the money. , , Stai Eligible . Grecian Prince behaved himself when at the barrier, but recent events have ‘taken the steel out of his stride for the time being. He is not to be placed on the schooling list". „ -'-J A Sportsman ' r .v-/..-; It is understood that the present owner of Nightly places all the profits made-by the sou of Night Raid into a fund for the benefit of the children of his brother, who first owned the horse. ■ Milford Improving S> The Anomaly gelding Miltord is an ,improving sort, and may'be found winning over more than a middle distance before the season s end. He stays on fairly well andi when more seasoned 'should .do/better ; in that respect. ;'•••' ; ‘ • A Chance on (Paper : ’ p. Vintage has a good pull in the weights v,. for the Essendon Stakes to be run at weight-for-age on March 2. He is entitled to an allowance •of 141 b as a resuit’ of his wins not including one at the r?.’;/ scale of the value, of SOOsovs. :His o'ril'y win at weight-for-age was the Clifford’. 'Stakes worth 250sovs. fA Suspension •. ■;-i .• :Braw Lad is a stargazer and runs - with his head in the air. This ; fault 7; stops him from staying, and when tiring at Gore , got his rider into trouble, vln 7 other words .it was probably the hotse s[§‘ and not the rider that caused the trouble v which led to Shand’s suspension, - V •; Becked Like n Certainty Ray Biddy was backed like a certaintyfor the filial event at Gore, but she failed, :• and was stopping at the finish when ■ Mayam beat her for third place. An that she met with just before the meeting was probably responsible for ■ her failure/ to stand up to two races at 7. the meeting. * i-'; Ob»tinale at the Barrier Steeton continues to be very mulish and obstinate at the barrier ana a great s'- trial to a starter’s patience. She holds .^5 up a field when sent to'the post and mulishly declines to face the barrier, ■ and take s a lot of coaxing to get her off mark ' 'i.j-' Spssdy Sorts i ■1 Ballad showy’ speed at Gore by;helping Lgto pilot the fi .ULujfthie Novice Handicap ■ up to the home turn. He had the ass,3iance of Dissemble, but they both petered T-v out. Ballad is a three-year-old brother to Meadow Lark, and Dissemble was got by Valkyrian from Dismantle. Registration of Horses When owner's of horses desire to regie-".'lv-Ster’a horse they should see to it that they ■ y--write legibly. For instance, Mr 6. J. 73--Barton’s Gold Fox (Paper. Money—Artis..tic) should not bear that name. His name should be. Gold Tax. Then there would ■■ ' some explanation for the nomenclature. : ..\, . A Big . Dividend Gold Fox paid a good price when he won at Gore, but prior to his success -■.had not sfyown anything in public to war* /v* rant support. He travelled well in his race at Tapanui, . and now that he has found his way to the front mav win again. 7 -.Gold Fox was got 1 by-Paper Money % from 77 Artistic, by Leighton froi'n Statuette, a winner of the Auckland Railway Handicap and the Wellington IVletfraph Han.‘.7 dicap, . jv. ? , 7 y Good' Under Light Weights Venite- the winner 'of the G.R.O. Han-dicap',-made the jesti of the. .field go all the way. She shapes well under a light- . 7- weight, and was capably handled by J. ‘‘if’ Taylor, a novice rider attached'to h. *V. ’ Ellis’s stable. Venite was got by Tractor ’•“' from Andante,' by Glarenceux—Chantr.es?, •yv- by Birkenhead, and belongs to the same , taproot as Tauratnai, the winner of the, .-7 Dunedin, Cup. . 7.-.. . ; • May-Benefitby Spell One race seemed enough for. Galleon. a| ’'' Gorp. When he eame out for the second day Galleon was backed to a short price, •, but, he did not fun up to expectations and would probably benefit, by a spell todet him strengthen and furnish. On the first day. his running did not please Mr N. M’Leau, the stipendiary steward, but it transpired that the saddle had slipped during the race. 1 ’ ■' ■ A H.rd T..k / . Thornton had four hard races at Goie ", add did remarkably well to finish with a win. She began by winning the-High- - .-weight Handicap on the first day, but failed when saddled up for the final event on the card. On the second day she ran a close third in the High-weight Handicap‘after covering a good deal of ground V, bn the .outside of the field-over .the best ’: paft.lof. the final half-mile. Saddled up again in the last face of the meeting she ran along in front with Rowlands, and just whe« the latter looked a winner 50 . yards from the post L. J. Ellis, who had been holding “a little up his sleeve.” made a final and vigorous call on his mount to win by a head on the post. Thornton won comfortably on the first day, biit horsemanship won for her on the second. Thornton has not been too solid in the past, but one could not wish to see better stamina than she did at ‘ Gore! ' ' , ‘ '77 -

A Certainty Beaten it is sometimes, said that a certainty does not exist in racing, (put that is tar from being correct. It ever a certaiuty existed on paper it . was Osculate when he went out tor the Racing Club Handicap. As a result of the handicaps being issued prior to the Dunedin Cup meeting Osculate had a stone or more the best of it on paper with the rest of, the field. Ho had a good winning chance when coming to the home turn, but was taken out from the rails, and when Signaller, Steeton, and Last Link moved up to make their final run Osculate was sent wide into a hopeless position. He paid a big price on the second day because he went out looking very light and tucked up, but when his rider got at him Osculate finished gamely, under punishment and got up to beat First Song. Osculate rolled in a bit at the finish . and required straightening, but be. stuck on to win. He now requires building back to strength, and should win again before the season ends if he trains on.

“ Broken-winded ” There still seetnes to be some doubt whether Nightly is “gone in the wind” of not, but not to anyone whose auricular ,'powqj- ‘is: normal or who has any knowledge on - the question. It is diffidult or impossible to tell .whether a horse is broken-winded. during the ' running of a ','race because the noise of the pounding ; hoofs of a field prevent one from bearinf q horse showing the trouble. It is a different, . matter when a horse gallops during the comparitive quietness of training operations. When Nightly went out to work; on the eve..of the Dunedin Cup meeting his task was to canter once ro'und and to a second circuit at a stronger pace. He could be heard,/two furlongs away when turning for Home in' the first round, and with more pace, the noise wag even more pronounced and unmistakeably proclaimed the unpleasing fact that Nightly was gone beyond ' recall. There are different sorts of noise made by a horse .when galloping or at half-pace, work. In 'slow work some horses make a noise called “high, blowing,” due to a loose flange in thc.nostrils/ but when galloping they are quite clear in the wind.- Others .whistle!”/’ ahd appear to be developing trouble in. the respiratory /organs, but •never get beyond the slight wheeziness. Black Duke,, who has been racing . for years, whistles a bit; and appeared to be going in the wind , some five or six seasons ago' when- trained at Wingatui, but it never got beyond that stage. Some horses, are thickr-winded,” ahd require a lot of work to t clean them up, but ’even so, make a bit of, a noise. There is, however* Bo mistaking 7. the dry wheeziness made by a really brokeuwinded horse. In that 'case the ‘noise occurs because a horse has lost the muscular power to inhale and exhale in a natural and ordinary mariner. The lungs and. muscles of _ the throat cannot eontfol- the rapid breathing caused by galloping. The inhalation and exhalation find the lungs of a broken-winded horse still normal, but the muscles of the throat cannot expel the air in the lungs rapidly enough, and a meeting between inhaling, and exhaling air creates, the noise known as broken-windednese. A broken-winded horse may a mile or -a' little, more, but it is a physical impossibility for them to stay a journey without artificial aid. They really choke because the air taken into the lungs cannot be fully expelled -.exhalation.'{ ’’ Etfery' veterinary- book of note deals more or less exhaustively with the subject, but none so.thoroughly as Professor Robertson did many year's ago in the course of special articles published' by the now defunct London Sportsman. He dealt with the subject from every point of view, including the question of the trouble being hereditary. There are at times no doubt that-the trouble is,, hereditary, and for that reason Prince Charlie, Ormonde, Grafton, and Bill o’ Portland were sold to go out of England. l Big horses are more 1 apt to contract the trouble than medium-sized horses, because the strain on tlm throat muscles is greater than in short-necked or small horses. It is said that there has never been a case of a pony going in the wind. Care should be taken that in training big horses they should never be galloped until really ready for the. task. Their diet should also be regulated, and some hold the opinion that hay should be given in very limited pronortione, and one particular point is that a horse should never be galloped or raced until thoroughly empty and clean inside. Atmospheric conditions should also be taken into consideration.