RACING NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23202, 28 May 1937, Page 13

RACING NEWS

By Sentinel Vocal Vocal is still eligible for hack races. He has won £355 in stakes. ' Training Fees The Canterbury Jockey Club received £364 12s in training fees during the past season. Only Two There are only two races on the Dunedin winter programme that will be decided over less than seven furlongs., ' . ~,".,: ". Cost of Racing • The Canterbury Jockey Club gave £29.350 in stakes last season, and the expenses in running the various meetings amounted to over £32,000. Grampian The Robespierre gelding Grampian has been placed in P. M'Grath's stable Grampian is to be tried over hurdles. Assets , . The Canterbury Jockey Club holds assets valued at £91.878 0s 7d. The grand stands and buildings at Riccarton are valued at £71,814 17s Id. Counterflight The Iliad gelding" Counterflight has thickened out a good deal since he was last seen in public. He wore winkers when working yesterday morning. Alma r The Paper Money filly Alma was amongst those worked at Wingatui -esterday morning and looks none the worse for her recent races in public. Travcnna Travenna has been schooled over hurdles in private and from all accounts shapes well. He looks the beau ideal sort to make a jumper. A Long Week < The Auckland Racing Club's winter, meeting is spread over a week for three days' racing. The off days help a horse' to • recuperate and if unable to win he can at least run up the owner's expenses. The Spider Spirit The Otautau Racing Club will be making a third try to get off its annual meeting with the card for tomorrow at Invercargill. The try, try, try again spirit of the spider inspired King JBruce to success. May Meet Again Streamline, Hunting Go, Nocturnus, Santoft, Burglar, Snowy Dawn, Bonny Buff and Sunward, who raced over fences at Timaru, will have a chance to meet again at the Dunedin winter meeting.

Impudence, or Ignorance/ It is a rather remarkable fact that, despite the close and expert supervision of racing and trotting in Australia, suspensions and disqualifications keep on cropping, up. Apparently the evil continues to exist, but the right cure has yet to be found. Still there are. some who would try to rob a bank even if it was surrounded by a regiment of police.

Allegretto Allegretto's recent success recalls the facit that he won over fences three times out of three starts last season. He won at the Waikato meeting, and followed with a win in the Greenlane Steeples, and again in the Tamaki Steeples. In the season of 1933-34 Allegretto was awarded the Carbine Plate won by Hunting Jaj', who was disqualified owing to being ineligible. C'ack of the North Cock of the North's belated appearance on a racecourse is said to be due to being a buckjumper that required more than average ability in a horseman to stay in the saddle. Cock of the North is a big, massive gelding who has a placed performance over the Riccarton Country, but fell at the first jump when brought down for the Otago Hunt Club's meeting. He was then purchased by F. Shaw and treated to a lengthy spell. Cock of the North has done well since being replaced in training. G". Price

The well-known Sydney trainer G. Price is expected in New Zealand shortly with two brood mares. He will visit Palmerston North to secure the Beau Pere—Helen colt, The Squire, who'brought top price at the Westmere sale, where he was sold to a Sydney purchaser for 1500 guineas and has since been receiving his early education at the hands of Mrs A. W. M'Donald. Price recently experienced a serious illness, but is now recovered. Birthday Boy The New Zealand-bred three-year-old Birthday Boy has resumed training at Randwick, in charge of J. T. Jamieson. As a colt, he was rather wayward, so was gelded and turned put for a spell, which appears to have improved his temperament, as he was on his best behaviour when exercising on the tan track this morning. He is own brother to that good but most unlucky horse Limarch. and is by Limond (imp.) from Queen March. At Elderslie It is reported that the latest booking to the Elderslie stallion Solicitorgeneral is the imported mare Spionetta, owned by Messrs Harper and Cornfoot. of Feilding. This mare, who was',-sold as a' yearling in England for 1600 guineas, is bred in the purple, for "she Is by the English Derby winner Spion Kop from Flash of Steel, by Royal Realm, and is descended from Amphora, as is Cymene. who is also going to the same stallion this season Primage A few years ago a number of Eng-lish-bred horses raced on the Australian turf, but very few are now included. This is explained by the fact that primage duty is now imposed on horses if they are raced in Australia. Stud horses are exempt from primage charges, provided they are not raced. It is 1 argued that the payment of primage after paying anything up to 5000 guineas.. for a yearling at Doncaster would make- the horse far 100 costly i for the venture to become a payable one-, At Wingatui The weather was line at Wingatui yesterday morning, and the rain which fell in Dunedin did not reach the course. A fairly large number of horses were- worked on the inside grass, where the going is heavy as a result of the very unusual amount of rain that has fallen. A few horses were allowed to stride along the back of the track, but only over a short distance. The Surgeon (H. Anderton) was sent over'the pony hurdle and followed with a school over the flight in front of the stand. The Shambles gelding shaped well enough to suggest that he may develop into a useful hurdler. Cock of the North (W. Cooper; and Octane (J. Richards) were schooled in company. They began at the sod wall. followed on over the double and fence at the six-furlong post. The jump near the five-furlong post was missed and then they crossed the water jump. Cock of the North was then pulled off, but Octane came on to cross the sod wall and* double again.. Both horses shaped well, but Cock, of the North i gave the more attractive display of I the two,