RACING NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22779, 15 January 1936, Page 11

RACING NEWS

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Voitre’» Harvest \ K. Yoitre has won 27 races this season in Australia worth £23,801 7s 4d. Tapanui Nominations for'the Tapanui Racing Club’s annual meeting are due to-day. The Yearlings The tenth annual sale of yearlings will be held on Thursday of next week. The Wellington Cup The Wellington Cup meeting will start on Wednesday of nest week. The New Barrier The six-strand barrier is being erected at Trentham for use at the Wellington Cup meeting. Cuddle Cuddle has been responsible for some good work since her return to Trentham. She is reported to be very fit and well.

Riposte ■'The Rapier—Warlove gelding Riposte displayed form at the West Coast meetin*? that much more success is being predicted to come his way. Collecting a Team H. B. Lorigan is getting a team together at Trentham. The latest addition to his Stable is the two-year-old filly Wistful by Colossus from Sangumana.

Favourites Cuddle, Silver Ring, Kinnoull, Sweet Agnes and Great Star are fancied m the north for the Wellington Cup and Knockfin. Silver Streak, Rebel Chief, and Dialomous for the Telegraph Handicap.

_On Paper * On paper Kinnoull should beat Cuddle in the Wellington Cup, Lowenberg on Derby form should beat Kinnoull, Silver King should beat Cuddle on Metropolitan Handicap form, and Argentic must improve to have a chance. This is what creates problems for punters. Winner*

The ex-New Zealander T. Robertson has trained winners of £19,328 13s 4d during the first five months of the current season. S. G. Ware saddled winners of £1791 13s 4d and George .Pones winners of £2123 6s Bd. Robertson trained pacers and trotters in New Zealand.

Variant ’• Variant has been an unlucky performer this season and up-to-date she hag been ■ close to success but not close enough to score a win. In the Telegraph Handicap Variant comes in on lib worse terms than when Bon Tray finished in front of her in the C.J.C. 1 Members’ Handicap. Silver Streak, the winner, is met on 51b better terms. Knoekfin, the winner of the Stewards’ Handicap, is met by Variant on 91b better terms. Returned Prosperity v Apparently racing in Western Australia is coming into its own again, for on Cup Day 15,055 people'were present at the ' W.A.T.C. course, which is the best crowd since-1930. The total attendance for the four days was 32,828* On Cup Day £20,953 was invested on the totalisator, which is the best total since 1931. The total for the four days was £50,395, while in both reserves 52 bookmakers did good r business. The meeting was well carried out, and racing was the best seen for ' some time past. -G. Richards • ; Gordon Richards has once again led the “jockey’s race,” and for the third year cin succession he rode over 200 winners in the season. It is a remarkable feat for bin! to be the leading jockey for the ninth time in 11 years, a record only eclipsed -■ by Archer, Donoghue, and Fordbam. Blandford again headed the winning sires' list, and it was a tragedy that this sire of four Derby and other classic winners died during the year, a sire of winners of over £200,000. Onkaparinga’* Profit * As a result of the 1935 Easter Monday "meeting, the Onkaparinga Racing Club increased the credit balance by £lll4 to £18.312. Admission fees amounted to = £3492, while £4433 came from totalisator commission, bookmakers’ fees and turnover ' tax. For next Easter Monday’s (April ' 13) meeting, the stake money has been increased to £5125. Last year it was '£3975. The Great Eastern Steeplechase, worth £3OOO, will be the richest jumping race in Australia. Victoria will be 'strongly represented. Bred to Stay The two-year-old colt Riddle, winner of a two-year-old event of £2OO at Mentone (Melbourne) on December 28, is, according to a'Melbourne writer, a big, ' ’well-developed colt by Baralong (son of ’Galloper Light) from Wilhelmina, by. Grosvenor (son of Cicero from Willaisa, by Willonyx (son of William the Third) from Thaisa, by Cyllene from St. Pelagia, by St. Simon from Penitent, by Hermit. He was bred at Kia Ora by "Mr Percy Miller, and sold as a yearling tp P. Riddle for the New Zealand owner, .Mr G. J. Barton, for 180 guineas. He promises to do well over a distance later on, as he is bred to stay and looks the part. Nelson

Nelson established a record that makes him one of the most remarkable performers ever raced in New Zealand. He did not win as a two-year-old, but won four races, including the Great Northern Darby in bis second season. As a four-year-old Nelson won three races, and the following year began the first of three wins in the Auckland Cup. He won the Auckland Cup, A.R.C. Handicap, the Island Bay Park Cup, the Wellington Cup, the Dunedin Cup, Marshall Memorial Stakes, the Australian Jockey Club’s Autumn Stakes, the Place Handicap, second in the A.J.C, Plate, and third in the Cumberland Stakes. On return he carried 9-10 second to Spade Guinea 6.10 in the New Zealand Cup. Then came his second win in the Auckland Cup. the Members’ Purse, and Auckland Plate. On his next trip to Australia Nelson won the Essendon Stakes and All-aged Stakes and ran Trident to a short head in the Australian Cup. On return he scored his third success in the Auckland Cup under 9.12, and then added the Auckland Plate to his list of wins. Nelson ran 68 times for 23 wins, 18 seconds, and eight thirds. Penalties

- It is rather unfortunate (says “ Chiron ”) that the penalty clause in the Newmarket Handicap conditions should make the winner of any flat race liable to a penalty. The winner of a £lO trial stakes or novice handicap after the declaration of the weights can have an extra 101 b added to its weight. That appears to be carrying the protective policy too far. Surely the winners of poor-class races should be exempt from penalties in the Newmarket Handicap when the weights are declared so near the day of the race. It is a different matter when the weights are declared months before the race, as is the case with the Melbourne and Caulfield Cups, and the form of many young horses is S ractically unknown. The stakes for the ewmarket Handicap and the Australian Cup remain as they were last year, the Newmarket Handicap being worth £2500 and the Australian Cup £SOOO and a trophy valued at £IOO.

An Exclusive Claim

It transpires that the Port Adelaide Racing Club portion of the expenses incurred by Keith • Voitre’s visit to Adelaide. The club advertised the fact that he would be riding at the meeting, and profited by the increased attendance attracted to the course. Yoitre undoubtedly was a drawcard. Yoitre was engaged by C. H. Wood to ride Mellion in the Port Adelaide Cup. He accepted a mount on Holies Bergere in an earlier race, and Wood objected, contending that as h 5 was Voitre’s employer he should have been consulted before the engagement was accepted. He said that after Yoitre had ridden Mellion he was free to take other mounts. The stewards decided that as Yoitre was not an apprentice he was at liberty to take other mounts, especially in view of the fact that the club was directly concerned financially with his engagement. If Yoitre had been unable to ride Mellion through injury in an earlier race, and that gelding had been defeated under another jockey, could the owner-trainer (Wood) have had a claim on the prize money? His contention might have been that with Yoitre up Mellion would have won, but that after having engaged the New Zealander (and incurred certain obligations connected with the jockey’s trip from Melbourne) the owner-trainer had been deprived of his valuable services by the action of the stewards.

English Racing While the French colt Ahjer, who showed some good form in the autumn, is being discussed in connection with the Derby, three English colts have attracted a lot of attention, as likely to be in the classic considerations this season. They are Bala Hissar, Monument, and Boswell, all of whom wound up with attractive performances as two-year-olds. Bala Hissar is owned bv the Aga Khan. He is a bay colt,, a half-brother to Theft, being by the Swynford horse Blandford from Voleuse, by -Volta from Sun Worship (dam of Solario), by Sundridge from Doctrine, by Ayrshire from Axiom, by Peter (son of Hermit). Axiom was a half-sister to Bill of Portland, who brought the St. Simon line into prominence in Australia. Doctrine was the dam of Document, whose son, Ornamentation, is at the stud in New South Wales. Monument is owned by the Duke of Marlborough. He is a bay colt by the Derby winner Sansovino (also a son of Swynford) from Queen of the Hills, by Tetratema (The Tetrarch— Scotch Gift) from Bettyhill, by Sunstar from Ballymany, by the Derby winner Volodyovski, and tracing to Vampire, the dam of Flying Fox. Volodyovski was by Florizel II (brother to Persimmon and Diamond Jubilee) from La Reine, by Rosiorueian from Hue and Cry, by Wild Dayrell. Boswell, who carries the colours of the American owner Mr W. Woodward, is by the Son-in-Law horse Bosworth from Flying Gal 11, by Sir Galahad 111 (Teddy—Plucky Liege, by Spearmint), a French-bred horse who has been a great stud success in America. Bosworth ran Trigo to a head in the St. Leger at Doncaster, and as a four-year-old he took the stay nig honours by winning the Ascot Gold Cup. Boswell had only three races last season. It is expected that he will make up into a three-year-old of real class, and on his breeding he should not be troubled by any distance. v