RACING NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25011, 3 September 1942, Page 6

RACING NEWS

By Sentinel Nineteen different sires are represented by the 32 two-year-olds engaged in the McLean Stakes. J. W. Jennings will have the mount on Doubleack and W. F. Ellis will be on Symbol and Gnohill on Saturday. Mr D. M. Tweedie should appear as the trainer of Gold Flight and Winning Flight in the Otago Hunt Club’s race book. Although the Irish Lancer gelding Royal Lancer dropped out of his engagement at the Otago Hunt Club’s meeting, he is training on satisfactorily for the spring meetings. A. Leach, who has been successfully associated with Prince Flaneur in the saddle, will have the mount again on the Rosenor gelding. The three-year-old filly Macedoine, who is galloping well at Invercargill, was got by Salmagundi from Honest Maid, by Paladin—Honesty, by Martian, and so lacks nothing on the score of breeding. Real Glad, the dame of High Glee and Norseman, has foaled a lusty colt to Irish Lancer. If the foal inherits the robust constitution of his sire, he will, with ordinary luck, be a real racehorse. Gold Flight 7.6 won the Oamaru Cup in 2min 7 l-ssec when the unplaced lot included Cherokee, who earned 7.0. Cherokee 7.12 afterwards won the Birthday Handicap, when Gold Flight 8.9 was unplaced. The Nigger Minstrel mare Susie, who is engaged in the Sea View Hurdles and the Hunt Club Cup, has not raced since the Winton meeting of 1941. At Invercargill in January of the same season he finished third to Araboa and Superex m the Avenal Hurdles, a length and a-half away from the winner In 2mln 45sec. The distance attached to the Sea View Hurdles will suit Donadea who won at Timaru last season with 10.8 in 2mm 46 4-ssec. He was second at the South Can terbury Hunt meeting, third in the Trial Hurdles to Authoress and Malacca, and fourth in the Spreydon Hurdles to Heidelberg, Native Song and Rockery. In tne Sea View Hurdles Donadea rnee if Vl H wfi r berg on 71b and Rockery on 31b better terms over a quarter of’ a mile and 50 yards less ground. The Paper Money gelding Invoice, who is engaged in the Tally Ho Handicap, has not raced since the 1938-39 season, during which he started four times. His best performance was a second to Valmarch at the Vincent meeting. In 19J< 38 Invoice was second with 7.85 to Triune 8.12 in the Avon Handicap, beaten by a head in Imin 12sec. Later at Ashbuiton Invoice was separated from GreyHonour and Top Row by heads in Imin 11 2 ’ s ® e - c ; Invoice was foaled in 1931, and is a brothei to Francolin, the dam of Night Wings, Orty, Dark Flight. Gold Flight, and Winning Flight. The Otago Hunt Club's annual race meeting has grown from a very small beginning up to what is now a well-en dowed programme attracting patronage from stables at Riccarton and Riverton, and from intermediate training centre--.. This year’s programme came m for very favourable comment by owneis “J® Grand National meeting. The first Otago Hunt Club’s race meeting was held on September 14. 1912. with a prize list garnered by subscription. The Hunt Club => Steeples was endowed with a trophy valued at 12 guineas for the winner, and another one valued at four guineas for second place. The biggest cash prize was £lO and £2 10s was the stake for the Open Hack. A trophy valued at seven guineas went to the winner of the Hunters’ Hurdles, and one of five guineas to the Ladies’ Bracelet. Sweeps and some surreptitious betting supplied the financial interest in results, but nevertheless, even without the totalisator, the card provided some enjoyable sport. The late Mr Harry Divers, by his energy and enthusiasm, sowed the seed of what has grown year by year until it has become a notable fixture on the Racing Calendar. The form displayed at Wingatul on Saturday may supply a good line to events to be decided later in the season.