RACING NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23331, 25 October 1937, Page 10

RACING NEWS

By Sentinel

Half-brother to Namakia Suleiman is a three-year-old halfbrother by Acre to Namakia, and he is owned by Mr A. R. Kay, of Te Awamutu, who bought him from his breeder, Dr C. Blundell. His dam, Quinkama, is a Quin Abbey mare, and it is worthy of note that both Acre and Quin Abbey are sires who got a wide range of solid and consistently useful horses. Meetings To-day The meetings set down for to-day are Wellington, Gore, North Canterbury, Waverley, Waikato Hunt, Waipawa County. A Thrilling Finish Five horses flashed across the line in the Herbert Power Handicap at Caulfield with half heads between them. The judge, contrary to general opinion, decided in favour of the 20 to 1 chance, International, against his stablemate (says a Melbourne paper.'. On the same day Charles Fox upse! the D. J. Price stable calculations when he defeated his stablemate, John Wilkes, in the Caulfield Stakes’. Black Thread

Though there might have been an element of luck in Thursday’s success, Black Thread is the makings of a class sprinter.. Last season he drew attention to his future with a couple of placings at the New Zealand Cup meeting at his first appearances for the term, and later he won races at Awapuni, Feilding (beating Dungarvan and Ben Braggie), Gisborne and Woodville, and was second in open class at Ellerslie. His record to date comprises eight wins and 10 minor placings in 29 starts for £1260 in stakes. He is engaged in next month’s Stewards’ Handicap, in which his original impost is 7.6. Consistent

The Bigot has now been successful at his only three starts this season, and he also won at his last outing last season, but Thursday’s was his first victory at a mile. A four-year-old . bay horse, he is a half-brother by Baralong (a grandson of Sunstar) to last year’s A.J.C. Metropolitan winer Young Crusader; but, though Australian-bred, he has a near Dominion maternal pedigree, his dam, Bonnie Lady, being by Boniform from Portland Lass, who belongs to the same branch of the Mermaid family as produced Peter Pan, whose grand-dam, Formaliter, was half-sister to Portland Lass. He was bred at the Kia Ora Stud, N.S.W.

Gay Son A brown colt out of that good Lord Quex —Lady Ball mare La Moderne, still record-holder for a mile and threequarters in the Dominion, a performance she registered in winning the New Zealand St. Leger Stakes, Gay Son is of the true Beau Here stamp, of rich colour and well coupled conformation over plenty of bone and without superfluous flesh. He is the first offspring of his dam, who, in addition to her own excellent race record, is a full-sister to the crack two-year-old of her year, Gay Ballerina, and he races in the colours of his breeder, Mr A. F. M. Symes, of Hastings. Shy'

Now six years old, Shy is a chestnut son of Valkyrian and the Limond — Tivoli mare Stage Fright, and as Tivoli was by Absurd from imported Roscommon, by the Isonomy horse Common, there are very stout lines in the pedigree, with a close cross of St. Simon through Valkyrian and Limond, sons respectively of the St. Simon horses William the Third and Desmond. He was bred by the late Mr S. G. Holmes, and was secured as a youngster by his present ownertrainer R. W. A. Lewis, who also races Billy Boy, under an arrangement that he should be treated as a gift unless he won races, whereupon a contingency should become operative. Shy has now won seven times and been placed seven times in 37 starts, and he has earned £1735 in stakes. He will not race again till the Auckland Cup, when R. Horne will have another opportunity of showing that he can get the best out of him. Caulfield Cup Winner

The Trump was favourite for the Caulfield Cup several weeks ago, but subsequently drifted out among the 33 to 1 division. Then his win in the Toorak Handicap brought him back to the head of the quotations. There were very many changes in the betting in this year’s Caulfield Cup. When the weights were declared Promise was elected favourite, .but after his retirement seven or eight hoises were favoured in turn. Until The Trump came back into popularity a short price was offered against the Westralian horse Balkan Prince, who did not get to the post. Floodtide, Silver Standard, Stevenage and, of course. Talking, were others which were at one time or other in prime favour.

Taurangi Beau Pere’s remarkable run of success as a sire was continued when Taurangi outpointed her opposition in the Taita Handicap at Trentham, and gave the Son-in-Law horse his fifth winner in the first two months his stock have been racing. The other runners have been Amigo, Sudan, Arvakur, and Gay Son, the last-named also scoring later on in the day in the Wellesley Stakes. Taurangi was having her first race, as so many winners of this event have done in the past including Kindheart and Counterblast the previous two years. She ran like an experienced performer, however, settling down fifth in the early running and then coming through to take charge from Rakahanga shortly alter entering the straight, and running on to score decisively by nearly two lengths. This filly brought second top price for her sex at the January sales, Mr W. McA. Duncan paying 525 guineas for her. She is a bay daughter of the Top Gallant—Columbia mare Barbacan, who won a couple of races in a short career tvfore going to the stud and who might have gone much further if she had been easier to train. Columbia was also dam ot the useful British Columbia, who was bought in Sydney by the northern owner Mr W. H. Maria, and of the V.R.C. Oaks winner Barbette, so it is a very successful family. Taurangi is an exception to the marked Beau Pere stamp, particularly in her colour, but the conformation is nevertheless something after the style of the others who have raced.