RACING NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25561, 14 June 1944, Page 2

RACING NEWS

By Sentinel

Acceptances for the South Canterbury Jockey Club’s meeting are due on Monday.

Mr J. B. Nicoll will shortly resume the secretaryship of the Ashburton Racing Club and the Ashburton Trotting Club after three and a-half years of military service. The Paper Slitfper— Cetchela rising two-year-old colt has been placed in W. McEwan’s stable. The colt is a halfbrother to Sir Saladin and Bonnie Chela. The stakes for the Otago Hunt Club's meeting, to be held on September 2, will be £2500, an increase of £2BO on last year. Nomination fees have been reduced to 10s, and acceptances to 1 per cent, of the stakes.

Since the conclus’on of the racing at Wingatui freauent expressions of appreciation have been heard concerning the prompt manner in which the card was got oIT on each day. In ordinary times the meeting would have been an ou'standins success. . , It takes about six tons of coal to run a train from Dunedin to Christchurch, and in view of the fact that racing has been a liberal con'ributor to the patriotic funds the Railways Department should contribute a few bags to the transport of racehorses. In the event of the safety number being exceeded at the Grand National meeting, elimination in open handicaps will be carried out by ballot ns follows:—(a) Horses eligible for hack flat races, (b) horses handicapped on the minimum, (c) horses handicapped within 71b of the minimum. In hack handicaps and the Cashmere Plate the elimination by sectional ballot will be the same as that adopted by the Wellington Racing Club. Theio, an imported son of Tetratema, will stand the season in South Canterbury He represents in tail male a line that once ranked as the most dominant strain in the southern hemisphere. Thcio is a direct descendant of Herod, whose progeny became particularly prominent through Fisherman in Australia and Traducer in New Zealand. Fisherman won 69 out cf 119 races and sired no end of winners, including Angler. Sea Gull, and My Dream, winners of the Victoria Derbv; Lady Heron, Sea Gull, Sylvia, and My Dream, winners of the Victoria Oaks: and Angler, Fishhook, and G-.sworker. winners of the Victoria St. Leger. Gasworks also won the Australian Cup. Fishermen sired four consecutive winners of the Aseotvale Stakes. Fishhook also won the Sydney Cup, the A.J.C. St. Leger, and the Champagne Stakes. Fisherman had a very marked and particularly beneficial influence on the bloodstock of Australia. He lives on to-day through his daughters. Traducer was on the fringe of classic form in England, end at the stud proved a remarkable success, considering that he did not serve more than 65 Stud Book mares. He sired such great winners as Sir Modred. Danebury, Libeller. Welc-me Jack, Le Loup, Vanguard, Chancellor. Trump Card, Natator, Cheviot, Calumny, Siesta. Lurlino. Templeton, and others who won great distinction on the turf or at the stud. Traducer sirrd no fewer than nine winners of the New Zealand Derby and the winners of eight Canterbury Cups. Unfortunately, the best of his progeny went abroad or were partially neglected. Tire line now lives on through his daughters. In England " the lost line of Herod ” regained great prominence through The Tetrarch, one of the most phenomenally successful horses ever raced in England. It would be very interesting if Theio raised the line to its former prominence. H ; s pedigree shows @ combination r{ the dominant lines represented by St. Simon. Hampton, and Stoekwell through their most successful descendants. Theio should thus command all the patronage necessary to enhance his' reputation as a sire.