RACING NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26289, 22 October 1946, Page 7

RACING NEWS

By Sentinel October 26 .. .. Stratford R.C. October 26 .. .. Banks Peninsula R.C. October 26 .. .. Poverty Bay T.C October 26, 28 .. Wellington R.C October 26, 28 .. Gore Racing Club. October 28 .. .. Nth. Canterbury R.C. October 28 .... Waverley R.C October 28 .... Waikato H.C. Jottings The time record for the Caulfield Cup s 2min 27Jsec, put up by Palfresco in 1935 when carrying 7.1. ' The record for most wins in any one season is shared by Ajax, Phar Lap and Desert Gold with 14 each. Gloaming had The safety number for five furlongs at Awapuni is 24 and there are 36 left in the Wellesley Stakes. One of the biggest fields that has ever gone to the post was the Grand National Steeplechase at Liverpool In 1929 There were 66 starters. In Carbine’s Melbourne Cup in 1890 there were 39 starters. Piccolo’s win at Geraldine on Saturday was his first since he won the Wellington Handicap last year. Kol Ragi has been retired from racing and sent to the stud. A seven-year-old by Arauslo from Silver Strand, Kol Ragi won 12 races and £3065 in stakes. Grand Forest’s performance in running second to Piccolo In the Stewards’ Handicap at Geraldine was a good one as he was behind the field when the barrier went up. The Yorkshire Insurance Co., Ltd., 119 Rattray street, Dunedin, specialises in r. s i’ r ?? ce 01 bloodstock and trotters.— TAdvt.] Bay of Plenty Winner Sylls, the winner of the Opotiki Handicap at the Bay of Plenty meeting, is a four-year-old brown gelding by Baffles from Sarid-drift. His record last season was two wins, two seconds and a third in 12 starts. In Northern Satble Petty Cash is now in W. P. Hogan’s stable. Last season, when trained at Wingatul by D. J. McDonald, the Te Monanui gelding won the Trial Stakes at Oamaru, and his only other placed performance in 11 starts was third at the Kurow meeting. Debut Over Hurdles A. G. Waddell, who made a successful debut as a rider of jumpers when he won on Thunderhead at Otaki, gained his experience over battens through schooling Red Glare, who will be one of his mounts at the Wellington meeting at the week-end. Waddell rode Don Quex into third place in the New Zealand Cup of 1943 when Classforni, Representative, Don Quex and Palfrey went across the line with margins of half a head, half a head, and a r.eck between them. Promising Hurdler Lost Art the winner of the hurdles at Timaru and Geraldine, is from Nectar, by the New Zealand Derby winner, Black Ronald, from Constants, by Lucuilus from Eivonla, a half-sister to Merinvonia. Black ®pnald ? a^so tbe sire of Hulomee, dam of the champion Jumper, Brookby Song. Ellerslie Winner White Blaze, the winner of the Flying Handicap at Ellerslie, went through last season without a win, her record being a second, a third, and five fourths in 14 starts. White Blaze is by Foxbridge from Rippling Waters, by Chief Ruler from Boynette, the dam of Master Brierly. Majesty’s Breeding In some quarters Majesty is not accepted as a stayer, but he has yet to be tested beyond a mile. He is by the Son-in-law horse Foxbridge from Molten, by Paper Money from Lava, by Solferin'o from Formless, by Multiform from Dreamer, Mortyn from the Treston mare Moorooroo. From this family have come Wakeful Noctinform, Midnight Sun, Nightfall, Commotion, and others, whose names embellish the record of leading events in Australia and New Zealand.