RACING NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23083, 8 January 1937, Page 4

RACING NEWS

By Sentinel D.J.C. Meeting After paying all standing/charges the D.J.C. meeting resulted in a profit of about, £IOO. -- -• Rlverton Meeting The programme for the River ton Racing Club's annual meeting at Easter has. been issued. , The Rivarton Cup is worth £6OO this year and the Great Western Steeplechase, £SOO. JUL the stakes have been increased on the figures of last year. Perth Cup Winner ' The Perth. Cup,' which is included with the. limited number of races in Australia decided over, two miles, saw a horse, Manolive, triumph on New Year's Day whose sire, Manfred, and dam, Sister .Olivc.are included .with winners' of important cup races. Manfred won the Caulfield Cup m 1926, and Sister Olive led the field home in the Melbourne Cup in 1921. Winner in India The New Zealand-bred \gelding Kahapa, who Was sent to India about U months .ago,, was a winner at the Calcutta November meeting. Kahapa was the medium of a plunge and won going away. He was, ridden by the Australian jockejf N, Percival, who had arrived only the'previous day. Percival also rode 'another winner the same day. Champion Limond Colt Lynch Law started at odds on in the December Stakes at Sydney on Boxing Day and won' easily. Rain poured down, making the track very heavy. At the Stud Sister Radius, her daughter ' Compression, and her granddaughter Saxophone have all been put to Gustavo this season. The Wrong Ticket Many punters when they receive a ticket at the totalisator on another horse than that which they wished to back take the error as an omen and accept the ticket. Sometimes the luck is with them, and probably more often it is not. The owner of a horse in the Visitors' Hifh-weight Handicap at the Wyndham meeting found after he had left the machine.that the £2 he had intended to put on- his own horse was on another horse. He was much perturbed over the error,. and protested at a machine window, without redress. He-was told, however, that an endeavour would be made to sell the two £1 tickets to .punters who might desire to back : this particular horse. Just before ,the machine jilosed the two wrong tickets were sold, and the owner was enabled to transfer his £2 to his own horse. The wrong tickets were on Smoko, sixth and ftrtn favourite, and the owner's horse was unplaced. . -.•"■." ";.'"'" Dungarvan

Dungarvan failed In the Manawatu Cup, where many considered that his rider showed an error of judgment in hanging on to him and fighting with him during the slow pace in the first five or six furlongs. On the second day, with L. G. Morris u& he just managed to dead-heat with Bona Bay, after having the race won a funong from home, but he took the Marton Cup fairly decisively from the Manawatu Cup winner, Spiral. Both the latter races were over a mile and anuarter, and, while he may have been above himself in condition for the Manawatu Cup, there remains-an element of doubt whether he will be capable of running out a mile and a-nau in company like he will meet in the Wellington CUp, A Good Jumper

A really promising young hurdler in Rua King was seen out on the Taranaki circuit during the holidays. Second the first day at New Plymouth, he then won three in a row, including the two jumping events at Stratford. He is a six-year-old gelding by Ruapapa from a Fotoa mare, and on each clay at Stratford he outclassed his opponents. He is owned by Mr W. Scholium, Auckland, and is trained by H. Gpscomb, Auckland. Dead Heat for First .

Last: year's Western Australian Derby winner, Yaringa, a daughter of Iliad, and Panto were the best-backed horses for the weight-for-age Perth Stakes, which: was a muddling run race. The pace was.very slow in the early stages, and AVBrown,- on Sipal, made an attempt io steal the race. After a battle with Panto, he drew away, but Yaringa, who had been last most of the way, got up' to make a dead heat. What the Camera Showed 4 f H ;

The Sydney Summer Cup result raised a storm of discussion on account of the stewards dismissing a protest lodged by.the connections of El Senorita against the winner, £>ir Ross. Just after entering the straight Sir Ross ran past El Senorita, and when well clear crossed to the rails. He held his place in front in spite of a late challenge by El Senorita, who came again. A protest was entered, but not for crossing, the rider of El Senorita, R. Heather, stating that A. Knox, with his whip in his right hand, leaned across and knocked Heather's whip out of his hand. Heather stuck to this statement, but pictures of the finish showed the whip clearly in Knox's left hand, a usual procedure with him. Deeming it a frivolous protest, a £5 fine was imposed. The storm of criticism was bitter that the stewards issued a statement In reply. This was a unique action on the part of the officials, who until now have not defended themselves, no matter how bitterly and often unjustly assailed.