RACING NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22515, 8 March 1935, Page 13

RACING NEWS

By Sentinel. Wellington Acceptance* Acceptances for the first day of the Wellington Racing Club’s autumn meeting arc. due next Monday evening. Oamaru Nominations In the nominations for the Pukeuri Handicap at the Oamaru meeting Hot Tea should have read Hot Stuff. Amberley’s Application The Amberley Racing Club is applying for permission to transfer its meeting from May 11 to May 6, the date of the King’s silver jubilee. A Consistent Galloper Imperial Spear, who returned to the winners’, list at Motukarara last Saturday, has been a most consistent horse this season. His 13 starts have resulted: 0,2, 1,3, 0,0, 1,1, 2,2, 3,2, 1. Not in Trentham Form Sunny Maid’s form at Trentham in January, when she beat Emissary, Brown Betty and others, sent her out favourite for the Esk Handicap at Napier, but she did not look really well on the day and ran indifferently, finishing a poor fifth. There is no doubt she wag not at her best. The Floating Permit With the abandonment of the Kurow meeting the permit became available for clubs in Otago, and the stewards of the Dunedin Jockey Club have promptly lodged an application for the permit. The club proposes to hold a meeting on May 6, which hag been set down ag a holiday in connection with the King’s jubilee celebrations. Cherry King Injured While being ridden to the Marton racecourse on Friday morning Mr M. Shaw’s Cherry Kinf; fell on the metalled road, seriously injuring both knees. The injuries received will probably end his racing career. A trip to Australia was contemplated, Cherry King being booked for a .passage on the Wanganella on March 5, but there is very little chance now of the trip eventuating. California’s New Track On the first 11 days at the Los Angeles track, Santa Anita —where the £20,000 handicap is run this week—the totalisator turnover aggregated £367,733, attendances varying from' 6000 on off days to 25,000 on Saturdays and holidays. It was reckoned that the daily average had to he £30,000 to enable the club to break even. Most of those who patronise Santa Anita have to pay, the management having decided against a liberal/issue of free passes.

Colombo’s Failure Colombo faded out in the final stage of the Ahuriri Hack Handicap on Saturday after being one of the leaders to the straight. Hie failure need not be taken too seriously, however, as he did not have much fast, work on the eve bt the meeting, and probably he was a trilie short oh his beet form. There, was plenty of speed in his latest' effort, ""il bis finishing run when he won at Eiccarton was enough to suggest tiuit u.s owner will not-have to wait much longer lor another stake. English Sire for Waikato

Another English sire is on his way to Xew, Zealand, the five-year-old horse Foxbridge having been secured for Mr L. S. Otway’s Trelawney Stud, Cambridge. He is to arrive in April. A member of the No. 14 family, Foxbridge is by Foxlaw (by Son-in-Law), from Bridgemount (by Bridge from Adula, sister to Pretty Polly and half-sister to Veneration 11, dam of Craganour) d Cresta Run, by Hurry On from Bridgemount, won the One Thousand Guineas in 1927. As a three-year-old Foxbridge won the Atlantic Cup of £2500, one mile and a-quarter, at Liverpool, and ran third to leaningdale and Firdau&si in the Eclipse Stakes, one mile and a-quartcr.

An Interesting History Rulanut, who won the Bailey Memorial at Rangitikei, has a rather interesting hietory. He is by Chief Ruler from Cocoanut. Mr W. R. Kemball paid 375 guineas for him ag a yearling, and after winning a two-year-old handicap with him at Awapuni and a good race at Caulfield, sold him for 1275 guineas. The purchaser Was unable to race the horse, the Y.R.C. refusing his entry, and thougn a resale was ostensibly made by auction, the ban was not removed. Mr Alexander then secured Rujanut cheaply, with the idea of using him as a sire, but decided to race him first. In being awarded only 7.13 at Rangitikei it seemed that Ru&nut’s Australian performance had not been given its full value.

The Rangitikei Cup The Rangitikei Cup was at one time a race which attracted considerable interest, and it has been won by some useful performers. It dates back 61 yfears, since it was won by Fair Ellen, who was led to the course behind a spring trap. The 1897 winner was Montana, who a year earlier had annexed the Timaru Cup and later won the Wellington Cup and the C.J.C. Handicap (now New Zealand Cup). A horse named Foxton won the Rangitikei Cup three times in succession. A high-class winner at Bulls was Nonette, winner of the Auckland Guineas, Easter Handicap, Century Stakes, Wanganui and Avondale Gups. He was second in an Auckland Cup as a three-year-old, and won the Summer Handicap with 9.0 and the Racing Club Handicap with 9.4. When Marguerite won in 1906 in 2min 6_ 3-ssec, she established a record for New Zealand for a mile and a-quarter, but those figures look slow compared with the present record.

Thompson Handicap The weight of 9.12 allotted Silver Efng for the Thompson Handicap is not prohibitive. When Waiuku won tbe race for the third successive year, he had 10.3, and other horses who have won under good weights are Boreas, Sasauof and Arrowsmith 9.9, Reremoana 9.8, Gay Crest and Autopay 9.4. However, it is understood that Silver Ring’s particular mission at Trentham is the North Island Challenge Stakes. Nightly won so well on the second day at Dunedin that he is sure to he in request. The danger to the Canterbury cracks seems to be Gay Blonde, who is in receipt of a stone from Silver Ring. She is rated higher than the other three-year-olds, Red Manfred and Sporting Blood. Although (he goodclass horses at the top have depressed the scale, none of the light-weights, excepting Mis s Hushabye, appeals as being particularly well placed. This marc won the Douro Cup impressively, and has won since then, so she may well be a menace to the better-performed runners.

Stipendiary in Calcutta Mr J. Higgins, the Australian who Is stipendiary to the Royal Calcutta Turf Club, appears to have been busy lately. Some time ago the trainer Byramjee Rustomjee, jun., jockeys W. M'Carthy, J. M’Carthy, R. D. Alford, W. T. Evans, A. K. Obaid, T. Hill, and A. Clarke were warned off for an offence under rule 149 of the R.C.T.C. on December 20, 1934. Now W. Dillon, the “Gordon Richards” of India, has been disqualified, Mr Begmahomed has been informed that his entries will be refused, and thq Maharajah of Idar has been similarly notified. Mr Higgins was stipendiary to the A.J.C. when F. D. Jones and M. M’Carten were disqualified in connection with the running of. Royal Despatch, a sentence that wag never regarded ag warranted by New Zealanders.

War Knight’s Prospects War Knight, though seveu years old, had not had a race.pripr to Saturday, when he was started twice at Motukarara. He was unlucky in the Ahuriri Hack Handicap, as he failed to jump out with the field, and he never had a chance. Saddled up again for the Forsyth Hack Handicap, he began well and showed sufficient speed to be one of the leaders to the home turn. Then he dropped out, but the performance was good enough to suggest that with a little more experience he will win more than one race. War Knight, by Paladin from Wartone, by Solferino from Warstep, ig a halfbrother to Silver Step, who did some racing earlier in the season for Mr B. G. Dalgety, who may be recompensed shortly for his disappointments in the spring.