RACING NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26556, 3 September 1947, Page 8

RACING NEWS

By Eclipse September 6 .. .. Otago H.C. September 6 .. .. Wanganui J.C. September 6 and 13 Avondale J.C. September 13 .. .. Ashburton R.C. ANSWER TO CORRESPONDENT •' Duality,” Dunedin.—Awaiting a reply from the secretary of the club. Jottings Nominations for the Geraldine meeting are due to-morrow. Nominations for the Dunedin spring meeting are due on Friday of next week. Dark Morning and Balintore. winners at New Plymouth on Saturday, were both got by Baffles. . Nominations for the Geraldine Racing Club’s meeting on September 20. will ctose with the secretary (Mr L. D. McKenzie) to-morrow night. Parade of youngsters The parade of two-year-olds at Wingatui on Saturday will be held immediately after the hurdle race and trainers with horses engaged in it must have them ready to go straight on to the track. Versatile Betterman had his 170th start at New Plymouth on Saturday and added another minor placing to his long list when he finished third in the Halcombe Memorial Handicap. Hunters’ Steeples Carnival, one of S. McKay’s bracket of three in the Hunters’ Seteples, is by Nightly from Grey Wells, by Greyspear from Oil Wells. Back Chat is by Rousseau from Converse, by Polazel from Controversy, by Gay Lad from Parable (Dunedin Cup winner m 1912), by Merriwee from Palaver, by Apremont from Flatter, by St. George from Flattery, by Traducer. Cost of Training In England it is estimated that the average cost of keeping a horse In training is approximately £7OO, and it has a tendency to increase. In 1946 the stakes won by owners amounted to £1.039. /yu, and when that is divided among the horses in training that year, the average return to owners was approximately £zuu per horse. Improvement Likely Money Bird's last placed performance was in the Pourakino Handicap, of one mile, at the Riverton meeting at Easter, when he finished second to Black Light At the Southland meeting in April he was started in the Pukemaori Hurdles, but after being prominent to the home turn he faded out. The Paper Money gelding should be an improved horse at the Hunt meeting on Saturday. On the Minimum Loyal Lady, who is on the minimum in the Tally-ho Handicap, had three starts last season for two wins and a fourtn placing. She won the Benmore Handicap, of nine furlongs, at the Winton meeting, and followed this up with a win in the Eastern Hack Handicap, of a mile and a distance, at the Gore meeting. Loyal Lady is a five-year-old by Man’s Pal from Broken Rule. Kept Busy All Quality was kept busy last season, being saddled up for 20 races, and she scored three wins and seven placings. Her most recent success was in the Waitaki Handicap at the Oamaru meeting in March. Carrying 8.8, she had a very easy win from Lady Melrose 7.13 and Pandemonium 9.5. All Quality, who is a five-year-old mare by Leighon from Iceni (Last Dart—Boadicea). is on the minimum in the Tally-ho Handicap. Brackets for Saturday Brackets at Wingatui on Saturday are as follows:—Seaview Hurdles, Kosciusko and Dark Warrior; Brockville Trot — Arawa Lad and Plausible, Chatton Queen and Islaburn Lass, Prince Hall and Esto Fidelis, Robert Bruce and Saga, Sir Peterson and All Ashore, Squire Dillon and Sunny Hall, Supplement and Teviot Maid: Cup Steeples. Irish Wit and Ballyaggan: President’s Handicap—Pestee and Royal Anne, Silver Spray and Jan, Royal Anne and Vainly; Wingatui Trot —Brooksby Hall, Harold Jinks and Great Show, Captain Sandy, Dance Hall, and Our Babe, Grattan Wave and Lucky Fellow; Hunters' Steeplechase—Powys, Carnival, and Backchat. Son of Royal Chief The former New Zealand horse Royal Raider is undergoing veterinary treatment at Randwick, so his new owner will have to wait for a return of the 4100gns he paid for him at the dispersal sale of Mr Alqc Higgins’s horses last spring. The san of Royal Chief has been persistently lame, and he is to have a general overhaul. Bred by Mr H. W. S. Faulks, of Wanaka, who has Royal Chief standing at his stud, Royal Raider was from the Night Raid—Aspiring mare Moonraider, the granddam being a half-sister to Wanaka (the dam of Prince Shad), and to Silver, Paper, winner of 12 races, including tyre Dunedin Guineas, C.J.C. Challenge Stakes, Hawke's Bay Ormond Memorial, etc.