RACING NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22832, 17 March 1936, Page 15

RACING NEWS

By Sentinel.

South Canterbury Entries Entries for the South Canterbury Jockey Club’s autumn races will close at fi'bun. to-day. Easter and Autumn Weights for the Great Easter and Great Autumn Handicaps are due on Monday next. No Place Betting According to a pamphlet which is at present- being ' circulated, those who indulge in transactions through illegal channels will have to confine their efforts to betting for a win. Whip for Winning Rider ; A prominent business ‘man, a supporter of the Waimate Racing Club, has promised to give the winning rider in the Waimate Cup race on Saturday, April 4, a handsome gold-mounted riding whip. Sydney’s Yearling Sales ' A total of 618 yearlings will be submitted, to auction by William Ingh fi and Son,, Ltd. at the annual sale in Sydney thib year." This is a record number for one firm. The sales will be held on April 14, 16, and 17, beginning at 9.45.

Slipping - Gay Sheila’s descent is evidenced by her win under 6.12 in a £4O event at the Geelong (Victoria) meeting last week. One would prefer’to see the good horses :of -other years resting on their past laurels. ,

. Australian Courses . The Filemington racecourse measures one mile three furlongs and 111 yards in circumference, with a straight of ji furlongs* Caulfield is miles and 66 ■ yards round, with a very short straight of one furlong and 140 yards. Randwick ;is one mile three furlongs round, and the ■ straight ia two furlongs and two yards. The Awapuni Cup Silver Ring will be one of the attrac- ' tions at the Manawatu Racing Club’s meeting, where he Will be the public fancy i for the Awapuni Cup, a race he has won in the two previous seasons. Present in- , dications make Greek Shepherd look his ‘,, most dangerous opponent. At present Silver Ring shares with Sasanof and Nightmarch the credit of having won this race twice, but if he succeeds again this week he will equal the record of ' . Desert I Gold —three wins in succession.

Reynoldstown Favouril* According to a recent cable message to Australian newspapers. Reynoldstown was the ruling for the Grand National Steeplechase, with Golden Miller the second favourite. The best-fancied of the others were Avenger, Castle Irwell, and Belted Hero. The reason given for the extended price offered against Golden Miller was that he had, refused to jump, and had thrown' bis j’oekey during a steeplechase at Newbury the previous week. His Cheltenham success last week will possibly have rehabilitated him as favourite. F. D. Jones’* Team •' f -' The "Lord’ Warden 1 two-year-old Gustos *' will go on to Awapuni to contest the "' Manawatu Sires’ Produce Stakes. When ' he returns home, Jones will prepare to race another two-year-old, the Philamor — Egotism colt, Coxcomb, for a few more r .,i races in the autumn. These arc the only horses he has in preparation for racing . this season. Coxcomb hag shown no special promise yet, but Gustos should keep the stable prominent up till Easter, when he : is .due to contest the Champagne Stakes and Challenge Stakes.

Juvenile Team Sir Charles Clifford has four horses in work at present in preparation for autumn two-(year-old events. Wild Chase and Top Notch are ■ at Trentham. and the latter may race at Awapuni before she returns home. She is a promising filly 1 by Day Comet, not many of whose progeny have done much good at two years. The other two are at home. Silver Paper, whose knees have given trouble, is sound ...at present, and he.,will play big part well if ho stands a preparation. Impersonator lias enough speed to be an early winner, though his inclination to bore out is a handicap on turning tracks. Wellington’s Extra Day The extra day’s, racing each year that the Wellington Racing Club received from the Masterton Racing Club two seasons ago has been utilised at different times each season since it became available, but after the splendid response that was received from owners when entries were called for the autumn meeting at present in progress it is very nrobable that the .club will settle the additional day for the ■autumn in future years. If special occasions arise, as they did last season, then the club could take the extra day for a special meeting; but even that might not lie necessary in future, for such special occasion would undoubtedly _ carry the grant of a still further day with the permission to hold the meeting. Making a Habit of It Silver Streak and Silver; ..Ring . are 'making a habit of winning doubles. They commenced by capturing the Metropolitan and Membeis’ Handicaps on the final day of the New Zealand Cup meeting. On the second day of the Wellington summer fixture Silver Ring won the Racing Club Handicap and Silver Streak the sprint; They accounted for the Cup and Publicans’ double at Whigatui, and on Saturday won the Thompson and Telegraph at Trentham. j ■ - v ■ , Epris.

Epris is bowling along nicely in bis ■work on the Orari tracks, but needs a race to sharpen him up alter his long spell. The Shambles gelding has not won a race since his victory in the Winter Cup at lliccarton last August.- He may saddle up for one of the events at the forthcoming autumn meeting of the Oamaru Jockey Club. The connections of the horse ■have not nominated him for either of the principal events at the Canterbury Jockey Club’s Easter meeting, but it is more than probable that he will contest some of the niinor events if the weights suit.

Thompson Winners The two best all-round performances by a Thompson Handicap winner were those of Sasanof, Irain 38see, with 9.9. and ? of Reremoana, Imin '37lsec, with 9.8. Wainku certainly won with 10.3, but took Imin 43 4-ssec, and weight is not such an encumbrance at that speed, Sasanof was a really great liorsc, and Reremoana was a top-rank miler —he won also an Auckland Easter Handicap with 9.11 in Imin 37 3-ssec, and Ellershe is a slower track than Trentham. These facts gave some indication of the'magnitude of buyer Ring’s achievement in winning the

Thompson with 10.6 in Imin 39sec on a fairly dead track, and it is permissible to wonder whether New Zealand ever had a better miler than the Silverado gelding is to-day.