CHIEF EVENT AT GORE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27523, 18 October 1950, Page 5

CHIEF EVENT AT GORE

SPORTING

JAMELL SHOULD BE HARD HORSE TO BEAT

By the Sporting Editor

The interest of southern racegoers on Saturday and Monday will be centred largely in the Gore Racing Club’s meeting, and if good acceptances mean anything the club should have a very successful meeting. Particularly pleasing is the nomination of 16 for the principal event, the Members’ Handicap, and the field includes several horses who have recent winning or placed form to recommend them. Jamell, a winner over a mile at the Otago Hunt Club’s meeting and placed over six and seven furlongs at the Dunedin meeting, has the steadier of 9.13, but he is a fine weight carrier and the distance will suit him.

Night Owl won the Ranfurly Handicap at Wingatui with 8.7 and he appears to have his full share of weight in being allotted 9.2. He is, however, very well at present. St. Bruno ran third at Wyndham on Saturday, but he does not appear to have recovered his best form yet. His stablemate, Welcome Guest, who finished in front of him at Wyndham, will meet him on the same terms next Saturday. Duvaals is also engaged in the Flying Handicap and may be reserved for that race, and Baygundi was not impressive at Wyndham.

Dark Chief, who has 7.11, is not without prospects, but he, too, is engaged in the Flying Handicap. He won over six furlongs at the Geraldine meeting last month, Flying Orders and Trinidad being in the places. Goldstrike, now in F. Trilford’s stable, has won two of his three races this season, the more recent of them being in the President’s Handicap, of one mile and a-quarter, at the Geraldine meeting, in which he carried 8.1 and won easily. He has 41b less to carry at Gore against a much stronger field.

Thornbridge, the surprise winner of the Grandstand Handicap at Wingatui last month, has been raised 101 b, and Billy Mac, who finished second to him, has gone up 31b on what he carried. It is an open race, the early favourites for which are Jamell, Goldstrike and Night Owl.

Answer to Correspondent “Horse,” Ophir.—No, the horse cannot be registered.

The Two Cups The Caulfield Cup will be run on Saturday and the Melbourne Cup on November 7. Poseidon (1906), The Trump (1937) and Rivette (1939) are the only horses who have won the Caulfield-Melbourne Cup double in the same season. At Wingatui

Among the best track workers at Wingatui is Roving Robin, and yesterday morning he ran six furlongs on the outside of the course proper in lmin 22sec. The Christopher Robin gelding is engaged at Gore on Saturday and should race prominently. Another of the few interesting gallops yesterday morning was that between Jamell and St. Columba, over seven furlongs, in lmin 36 3-ssec. Jamell broke away about two lengths clear, but St. Columba was with him at the finish. Owner’s Fine Gesture

It is of interest to record something showing that the winning of races does not always monopolise the thoughts of owners. Such a case has come under notice at Riccarton. Last January after consulting F. D. Jones, his trainer, Mr A. Louisson bought the yearling filly by Balloch from imported Tolls Kiddie, for 1000 guineas, at the Trentham sales. In due course she went into Jones’s stable to be educated. She was named Infanta, and a few weeks ago she showed, a fine burst of speed 'to win the McLean Stakes at the Dunedin Jockey Club’s meeting. It transpires now that while she will do her racing for Mr Louisson, she will then pass into the ownership of F. D. Jones, as Mr Louisson has made all the necessary arangements for the transfer of the filly to her trainer at the end of her racing career. The horse breeding industry is a bit of a lottery, but Infanta is bred well enough to encourage the hope that she may produce many successful foals, so that Mr Louisson’s action represents a valuable gift.