RACING NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25503, 5 April 1944, Page 3

RACING NEWS

By Sentinel Nominations for the Southland Racing Club’s winter meeting are due to-day. Sister Sal is the ruling favourite-for the Riverton Cup, and Monetary for the Aparima Handicap. Sal’s Pal and Inscrutable share the honour for 4he Visitors’ Hack Handicap. There is a rumour that Sister Sal may start in the Aparima Handicap in preference to the Riverton Cup, in which the stable has Bashful Lady engaged. The Cup stake is double that attached to the sprint. According to advice received from Wellington the Dunedin Jockey Club will be able to race on May 27 and June 3 and 5. The card for June 5 will be in aid of the Patriotic Funds. Tara King won the New Zealand Derby under difficulties with 8.10 in 2min 32 4-ssec. Caithness won the Oaks Stakes with 8.10 in 2min 33 2-ssec. In the Great Autumn Handicap Tara King is giving Caithness 171 b. Palora has been made favourite for the Great Easter Handicap, with Lord Advocate and Tara King next in favour. Palfrey is favourite for the Great Autumn Handicap, with Tara King, Caithness and Foxleap linked as next best. The figures for the Russley Handicap form a weight-adjuster’s tip for the Champagne Stakes. Colais was top-weight in the Russley Handicap with 9.4. giving over a stone to some of those engaged in the Champagne Stakes. Several of those in the Champagne Stakes field appear to have been left in by an oversight. The fields for the first card of the C.J.C. autumn meeting remain well up to "their original strength, and would no doubt have been stronger if transportation coula have been obtained. Those who failed to survive the second payment for the Great Easter Handicap were Hearth, Arctic Dawn, Daljarrock, Sham Boy, and Home Rule. Arctic Dawn is engaged in the Sockburn Handicap, from which the only withdrawal was Night Pal, who remains in the Great Easter. Good fields are engaged in the balance of the card, which should crowd the stands and enclosures at Riccarton. According to the conditions attached to the Great Autumn Handicap, the winner of the Great Easter cannot be rehandicapped beyond 71b. This does not apply to the Sockburn Handicap, and there is no restriction on what the winner of this event may be rehandicapped for the Great Autumn. There should be a limit placed on all rehandicaps. Almost all the horses in the Sockburn Handicap are engaged in the Great Autumn Handicap, and the result of the Sockburn may supply a better line to the Autumn than the result of the Last year Lord Advocate won the Great Easter with 7.1 iin lmin 24 2-ssec. In the Templeton Handicap, run on the second day. Mauretania 7.22 beat Lord Advocate 8.0 by half a length in lmin 10 3-ssec. This season Lord Advocate 312 dead-heated with Compeer 8.10 at Timaru. His next placed performance was a third with 8.3 to Theolateral 7.10 and Grilse 7.7 in the Stewards’ Handicap. He won the Publicans’ Handicap with 8.3 and followed with a third at Wyndham. Unplaced performances followed in the Invercargill Cup and the James Hazlett Gold Cup. and in his last race he was unplaced with 8.11 behind Gulf Stream 7.1. Arctic Dawn 7.12, and Rex Maitland 7.0 over seven furlongs at the Banks Peninsula meeting held at Riccarton.