TRACK AND STABLE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19803, 3 December 1938, Page 11

TRACK AND STABLE

ARCTIC KING’S PLANS TO RACE AT WAIPA SALE OF SCUFFLE By “Trenton” The New Zealand Cup winner Arctic King will race at the Waipa meeting in preference to Woodville, as a preliminary to tire Auckland Cup. He has not previously raced

the reverse way round, but lie is a good honest horse in any conditions and lias done well since winning the New Zealand Cup. For Auckland Peerless will make the trip to Auckland,, but she .is not likely to race till

the Derby on New Year’s D:s>\ as tin King’s Plate, of one mile, on the sec ond day, will be much too short foi her. Sold for Australia The three-year-old iilly Scuffle, bj Winning Hit from Scrimmage, ha: been sold by the trustees of tiie lab Sir Charles Clifford’s estate to C. McCarthy, who purchased her for shipment to Australia. Scuffle lias showr her ability "to gallop on the tracks, bu has managed to win only one race, ; maiden event in Amberley. Jonathan’s Winnings It is not often that an old horse wiic has had to be patched up comes back but Jonathan is a notable exception and his stake record now amounts t.c £5278 10s. His best, season was al four years, when his successes included the Easter Handicap, and as <- six-year-old he won the Railwaj

Handicap. He is now in his nintl year. “Best Filly,” Says Owner “I do not think there can be an}' doubt, now as to whiph is the best three-year-old,” declared the owner, Sir Hugo Cunliffe-Owen, after his great filly, Rockfel, won the Champion Stakes at Newmarket last month. Rockfel further clinched her claim by winning the Aintree Derby a few weeks later. Some may say that Rockfel is not

clearly superior to the Derby winner, Bois Roussel, but he has only run once in England, and she has had seven races this season and won live of them from one mile up to a mile and five furlongs, says the London Sporting Chronicle. And in the longest of these races she gave 61b., not including sex allowance, to Magic Circle, and beat him by six lengths, shortly before lie finished fourth in the St. Lcger, a little more than four lengths behind the winner, Scottish Union. She won both the One Thousand Guineas and the Oaks in faster time than was taken for the same courses by the winners of the Two Thousand Guineas and the Derby. “Books” Harmful Mr. H. Barnes, the owner of Logan Derby, is emphatic that the licensing of bookmakers in New Zealand would have a very harmful effect on the conduct of the sport here. After having mature experience of the system of-licensed bookmakers in Australia, lie considers that their exclusion is much preferable. Keener support is accorded trotting here than in Australia and the meetings are better controlled, he continued. The administration of the racing in the Dominion was indeed an eye-opener to him. In addition owners and trainers worked in harmony, while in Australia they were always up in arms against one another. Many of the officials, too, in Australia gave their services only for personal reasons. Then the stakes in New Zealand were greater. Another factor that he considered contributed towards the success of trotting in .the Dominion was the lively interest that men with money took in the sport, not only from a betting viewpoint but also in the ownership of horses. Trotting here was botli a rich man’s pleasure and a middleman’s sport. Courses with such superlative facilities as Addington and Forbury Park were far and above anything that existed in Australia.