RACING NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22563, 6 May 1935, Page 23

RACING NEWS

By BttmHH.

The First Rac« The first race at Winjcatui to-day will ■tart at noon. \ Too Late The nominations for Rasouli and Inflation for the Great Northern meeting were received too late for acceptance. ' A Sporting Gesture, Mr A.. C. Hanlon, president of the Dunedin Jockey Club, and several of bis hrother stewards were amongst the guests of the Forbury Park Trotting Club on It Saturday.' ' '.• ■ ■'-... '■ '.■}' i , -Non-starter It is reported that Royal Buck will be a non-starter at Wingatui. He jias not completely recovered from the effects ot his fall at Riyertom » Resembles Nightly ' "Pilot," the Night Raid —Vqlicare. gelding, The Raider, who was a good winner at the recent., A.J.U meeting, greatly resembles Nightly, and the veteran -critic tips him to make a jiood stayer. "* A True Stayer Mr Graham M'Cromick has a fine yearling filly from Arbitration by -the, ri Son? in-law horse Siegfried, whoiil Mr M-Cor-mick is going to name Mother-m-Law because he thinks she will .make a good stayer* ■; ■ ■ .-■ , ■■.■>:: i Trained in Private Black Duke, Trivet, Mary. Pratt, Darien. Surge, Hiila Belle, Em Tin Tin, and Monevgran, who are engaged at Wingatui. are all trained on a private . -track. '■' ;,''■.■'..." Hogan's Horses . Vocal and Wonderful were galloped six furlongs at Wingatui on Saturday morning. They ran along, together and covered the distance in lmin 29see. Hie trestles were about as wide as they could be placed. , , Showing Improvement Mayam- went freely in* gallop on Saturday with Chhota. Thermit up lmin 28sec for six furlongs,' with Mayam shaping thY better of the two. The Tea Tray gelding appears to. have improved since the Riverton meeting. A Chance on Paper Lyoidas has been getting through good, useful work, and in the May Hurdle Handicap meets Palmary on 81b better terras than when they were handicapped for the first day of the C.J.C. meeting. A Mudlarks' Meeting N . The WingatuiHrack was. on the soft side prior to the heavy rain which set,in on Saturday afternoon. The . heavy fall of snow which fell during the night will mean that the going will be heavy and \ make it a mudlarks' meeting: - From Timaru Nightform and Sunward put in strong work at "Wingatui on Saturday over about » mile. Both strode out freely in .the soft going. Nightform has come into favour for the King's Jubilee Handicap. Showing the Odds . A dividend indicator showing at a glance the odds for both a win and a place will be in use at Wingatui to-day. It has been a great success at Trentham, and a glance at the illustration the machine in, the D.J.C. racebook will show how to reid the figures. . Galloping Well ' Kem'al Pasha continues to> put; plenty of dash info his work and galloped freely oveY seven furlongs on Saturday morning in company with Rarao. Kemal Pasha also shaped very well on - the -previous morning in a gallop with Tizzy. /.■'.* A Contradiction The Invercargill scribe "Sir Modred," contradicts the writer's statement that Royal Limond : was a particularly hard horse to ride at Riverton. x Apparently "Sir Modred" <Jid not see,Royal Limond being hunted along in bis races.^ An Improved Hurdler ; Palmary-hag improved considerably in his hurdling. 'He was schooled over two flights on Saturday morning with Umtah and shaped very well. Palmary has benefited by his races over hurdles at Riccarton. Umtali was afterwaMs sent over . the brush double in front of the stand. Betting an Election Issue Betting is an issue in the New South Wales State election campaign now in progress. The Premier (Mr Stevens) has announced that if* his Government is re-elected legislation will be passed to put . the professional tipsters! out of business. Mr Lang promises that if Labour gets into office it will legalise betting shops, and also raise the limit of prizes for lotteries to £25,000. Not Retiring Mr 1 E.D.* Clarke, who recently dis-posed-of his Melton Stud, where Gloaming and other great horses were brSd,. does no*t intend to retire from racing. The veteran ff. Scobie was at Randwick for the Easter racing, -and he said that he had eight of Mr Clarke's horses, m "his stable. • ' ' ' Aintree Fancies , In commenting'on the Liverpool Grand National a, writer in the London ' Sporting Chronicle" wrote that though it was iSaid the Aintree fences were not as severe as they were, he doubted whether there wals the slightest alteration. He went on to say that though the fences may not have been quite so hard to negotiate at the autumn meeting, they wjere-well builtup for the Grand National. , Burying the Hatchet Six English horses have been entered for the German Derby, which/is presumably for all ages, to be run at Munich on August 4, They are last year's Royal Hunt Cup winner, Mr H. E. Crum Ewing's Cavmanas, H.H. Aga Khan's,,, Alibhah. Badruddin and Vermeil 11, Mrs Harmsworth'sJVfaster Vere and Stanley Wootton's Millroek. Entries have also been received from Poland. France and Italy. High Prospects in England A very optimistic note was struck by the majority of English papers regarding the opening of the present flat racing season. "The promise of the new flat racing season is distinctly good; in fact, it should start much better than usual." That is the view of ,Gordon Richards, the champion jockey, given the Daily r Mail. It is a view shared ~bj> the gresat majority of those in close touch with all matters connected with the turf, whose well-beini? is one of the most sensitive indications of the economic life of'the counter. The improved prices at the seasonal bloodstock sales, the quality of the two-year-olds of 1934, the better weather conditions in which training preparations have been carried out, with their promise of bigger fields, are all factors in this •pirit of reasoned optimism with which everyone approached the opening of;the new season at Lincoln. . • v The Trainer's Decision There were all sorts of rumours about Golden Miller after his failure in the Grand National, but a veterinary examination revealed nothing wfong. Miss Paget appears to have been unfortunate in the interview that she had with her trainer, A. Bv Briscoe. The cablegram which announced that Golden Miller had left Briscoe's stable, did not make it clear that it was Briscoe who told her to take her horses away. Reports now arriving by mail show *hat this was the case, and, moreover, that she rather unwillingly complied with the trainer's decision. This is not surprising, as it ! was due to Briscoe that Miss Paget became posessed of Golden Miller, and as he had always had hinv in his charge, and had won the National the previous year, .it was rather unfair that she should act upon a suggestion that the horse was overtrained for this year's race. However, a woman in her position would no doubt have plenty of advisers, and from the reports it is clear that the sympathy of the best English racing people was with Briscoe. Business in Betting , During February of the orescut vear the clubs racing on . the' Rand (South Africa) handled £ 73,354 on the totalisator. an increase of £4085 over the figures for the corresponding meetings of last year, when the same number of fixtures were held, states the Rand Daily Mail, Most of the increased turnover emanated from the Saturday club?, as the'--figures lor the Wednesday meet'ngs in February of this year were only £IOO 10g better than in February. 1034. How- * *ver.'the total pools in the individual races showed an improvement of only

£976, the balance of the increase, namely, £3109, having accrued from tht doubles. Now Zealanders The New Zealand-bred Wakatipu. now four vears old, made a bold show to win the March Handicap, one mile, au meet- < ing in South Africa on March 1 last, but j he failed by over a length to pull back the lightly-weighted six-year-old. horse ! Matador, .who was in receipt of 301 b,, from him. Matador assisted in all the running, and, racing clear in the straight, ne < easily held off Wakatipu's challenge in | the last furlong. Sir Joseph B. Robrn- [ son's latest New Zealadd purchase, Ihe Khedive, was due to arrive in South Africa on April 15 last. He was travelling on the same ship (Nestor) as took Wakatipu, The Haka and- Eureka to South Africa three years ago. | Keith Voitre i Keith Voitre, who * has become the i jockey of the hour, will never have cause j to regret his departure from New Zealand, says an Australian paper. Since j his arrival Voitre has taken the racing j world by storm, and in winning the Newmarket Handicap on Count Ito and the Doncaster Handicap on Hall Mark in the shout period he has been here he has set a unique for an "imported jockey. Prior to v his being legged into the saddle on Hall Mark Mr C.,8. Kellow, owner of the horse, laid him a considerable sum in the 'event of winning the race, Voitre'a original Doncaster mount was Silver Jubilee, but when that horse | cut such an abject failure at Warwick Farm, and his connections later an- ■ noii'hced that the New Zealand gelding would be withdrawn from the Doncaster, Voitre was left without a mojint. Then overtures were made to him to take the mount on the then, favourite. Sarcherie. Voitre believed that \he had been definitely engaged for the mare, and later, , when news was conveyed to him that he was not required for Sarcherie, he did jiot hide his disappointment.' After the Sarcherie -negotiations had fallen through Jack Holt secured him for Hall Mark. Voitre was elated at the Melbourne home's success. In a talk after the race he said that he had a 'wonderful: run throughout, and expressed the opinion that Hall Mark would have won easily but for lugging in the last furlong*. Voitre, added to his reputation at Randwick when, in a tight finish, he landed Silver Jubilee winner of- the La Perouse Handicap.