RACING NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25017, 10 September 1942, Page 6

RACING NEWS

By Sentinel Twenty-two remain in the Novice Handicap, to be run at Ashburton. The safety number is 25. The Musket line horse Spearfelt had more winners last season than any other sire in Australia. He had 38 winning representatives. The £37,590 10s put through the totalisator at the Otago Hunt Club’s meeting exceeded the total at the Dunedin Cup meeting, which amounted to £31,674 10s. Mr J. D. Simpson, who bought Willow Wood, found a good deal of the purchase price by having £1 each way on the Cricket Bat gelding. The each-way bet produced well over a century. Beau Pere was at the head of the list of winning sires in Australia for the past season with 21 winners of 41J races worth £23,410. The Spion Kop horse The Buzzard is second with 28 winners of ,57 races worth £19,595. The New Zealand-bred Veilmond is third with 29 winners of 63J races worth £18,956. Atreus won with 7.4 J at Hawke's Bay over a mile and a-quarter in 2min lOsec. He failed under 8.13 in the Manawalu Winter Cup, under 8.11 on the second day of the meeting, and under 8.6 in the Whyte Handicap. He has been unplaced in both his races this season, and is in at 8.3 in the Ashburton Handicap, or 1211 b more than when scoring his last win. Atreus looked particularly well when produced at the Grand National meeting, and may go better on a firm track. The Cricket Bat filly Straight Bat, who is engaged at Ashburton, started six times as a two-year-old. After failing to finish in a place in her first three starts she ran second to Egyptian Rose in the Middle Park Plate. In her next race she won the Dunedin Champagne Stakes from Wedding Ring, Foxhaven, and four others, and in her final race ol the season finished second to King Herod In the Canterbury Champagne Stakes. Straight Bat is a chestnut filly whose dam. Winsome Hind, was got by The Ace —Wild Hind, by Autumnus —Kirriemuir, by ClanranDon't Forget, who remains top-weight in the Ashburton Spring Handicap, won four times in 19 starts last season. He was also second in two starts and third in two other attempts. He won the Teschemaker Handicap with 8.1 in 2mm 6sec, the President’s Handicap at Oamaru with 8.2 in heavy going, the Timaru Cup with 7.123 from Good Scout 7.2 J, Palfrey 7.8 and 11 others in 2min 4 l-ssec, and the Ashburton Handicap with 9.0 in heavy going from The Raker 8.7, Cherokee (carried 7.6), and five others. He finished the season by being unplaced in the Oamaru Cup with 9.2 behind Gold Flight 7.6, Tissue 7.1, The Raker 8.1, and Spanlsn Lad 8.12, who were the first four past the post. Don’t Forget has not been placed in his three starts this season.