RACING NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25174, 15 March 1943, Page 4

RACING NEWS

By Sentinel

Nominations are due to-day for the Waimate meeting. Acceptances for the Oamaru Jockey Club's meeting are due to-day. Moneybird is in bright, healthy condition, and gradually fining down into racing shape. The minimum charge for training a horse at the Melbourne tracks is £3 10s, and some trainers charge £4. Lord Nuffield has been getting through easy exercise and now sports a quite' aldermanic middlepiece. Unless a big shrinkage takes place in the original strength of the fields the Oamaru Jockey Club's programme contains sufficient material to make the meeting a record success. A proposal is on foot to hold a patriotic race meeting at Invercargill on May 22, at which all the racing and trotting clubs in Southland will be asked to co-operate. The richly-endowed programme issued by the Waikato Racing Club will attract widespread patronage. A steeplechase worth £IOOO, hurdles of £6OO, and a Hat race of £750 are the features of the card. Since she last appeared in public at the Dunedin spring meeting of last season, Silver Lily has filled out and grown a great deal as the result of a long and beneficial spell. Taramoa, who won over 13 furlongs at Mentone last month, is said to be the best horse owned by Mr W. T. Hazlett in Australia since Sir Simper raced nine years ago. In America an apprentice weighed out for a well-backed favourite, but the stewards considered that the rider could not do justice to his mount and replaced him with an experienced rider. The St. Leger gelding Waiuku put up a good record when he won the Thompson Handicap in three consecutive years witn 7.5,, 8.13, and 10.3. The weight-carrying record for the race is held by Silver Ring, who won with 10.6. Drastic curtailments in stakes in England last season made a tremendous difference to the amount won by the King s horses. He topped the list of winning owners with £10,535 15s for 10 races, which in normal times would be worth about £50,000. The best horse racing m Italy at tne present time is Niccolo del Arco, a four-year-old colt got by Coronach. His dam was got bv Haversac 11, a son of the St. Simon horse Rabelais. He won seven important races as a three-year-old, including the Italian Derby. Niccolo del Arco also won in Berlin, where he beat the best three-vear-olds over a mile and a-half. Apparently mares with St. Simon blood should be'selected for Coronach.