SPORTING

Southland Times, Issue 19896, 15 June 1926, Page 3

SPORTING

NOTES BY SIR MODRED. Downcast paced fast at Ashburton—--430 3-5. Napier Park Racing Club acceptances due to-night. Loughrea is engaged in the Melbourne Cup (two miles.) Waitaki Girl is unlikely to race at Auckland T.C. meeting. Carnot may race at the Wellington R.C.’s Winter gathering. Nukumai may be raced at the Napier Park R.C. Winter fixture. Sayonara and Bonomel may race at Wellington Winter meeting. Entries for Wellington Racing Club Winter meeting close on Monday next. Wyndham-owned pacer, Away, is in work again at Addington. Prince Pointer recently struck a knee and may not go to Auckland. Auckland jumper Llewellyn, has been well treated in VJLC. handicaps. Sydney Cup winner, Murray King, is entered for Caulfield and Melbourne Cups. The winner of the N.Z. Sapling Stakes was Richore, not Richmore, as telegraphed. Landbird is reported to have recovered from his G.N. Hurdle Race limb mishaps. It is stated that the trouble with the erack jumper. Eerie, is in the near foreleg. The jumper Gaze is still in a bad way and he may not race again this winter. Napier Park Racing Club Winter meeting takes place on Friday and Saturday next. The Dunedin Jockey Club’s classic entries of last week must constitute a record. The entries for the Australian Jockey Club’s Derby of 1927 number out to 616. Southland and Otago owners appear to have put up a record with regard to the number of yearlings they have nominated for Dunedin J.C. classic events of 1926-27. The three-year-old gelding Hypnotic, who won a race on the final day of the Otaki meeting is well-bred, as he is by Absurd— Salvette, by Demosthenes—Bon Espoir, by Boniform—Ringdove (imp.) Steve Donoghue, the famous jockey, whose win on Manna last year was his sixth in the Derby, including four out of the last five, did not have a mount when Coronach scored recently. The sum of £16.200 was distributed in stakes at the Auckland R.C. Winter meeting, the leading winners being: W. A. Fuller. £1,500; J. A. Macfarlane, £1,400; H. A. Swaffied, £900; E. W. Simpson £7OO. He may not go to Melbourne, but Llewellyn has been nicely weighted at the V.R.C. Grand National meeting, with 9.9 in the Hurdle Race and 10.4 in the Steeplechase. On the final day of the Dunedin J.C. Winter meeting four out of the five flat races on the card were won by apprentices— L. J. Ellis, W. Brown, N. C. Dwyer, and C. Eastwood. Greekson, who recently won between the flags at Ellerslie for his veteran owner, Mr. T. Sheenan, may be counted among the antiques, as he enters upon his eleventh year on August 1 next. One hurdle horseman, who rode in the four jumping events on the first day of the A.R.C. Winter meeting, and completed the course on each occasion, worked it out that he rode 8} miles and crossed 41 fences during the day. It has been stated in various northern papers that Ecuador was recently in the market at £5O, but it was better than that. His owner offered to take £25 for him one morning on the S.R.C. tracks, and those who know Mr. Stone will realise that he would have kept his word had anybody present risen to the occasion. During the past few years the local owner has passed something like 27 horses through his hands and some of them proved to be rare bargains. Entries for the Australian Jockey Club Derby of 1927 number 616, for the St. Leger 577, for the Champagne Stakes next season 577, and for the Sires’ Produce Stakes 536. Of these, in above order, there are New Zealand entries numbering 55, 41, 31. and 30 respectively. Stanley Wootton, the Australian trainer who has been so successful in England, has purchased for £35,000 the freehold rights for training gallops at Six Mile Hill on the Epsom Downs. He is also leasing the rights for gallops at Middle Hill. These two transactions give him control of all the galloping ground on Epsom Downs. One of the fancied maidens at the Otaki meeting, says a Palmerston North writer, was the English mare Bonny Dawn, by Greenback—Lupercalia. a black four-year-old of generous build, which had to surrender first-place in the last race of the meeting to Red Glow. On the Thursday, she had finished in the middle of the field. After another race or two the public may be able to assess her true worth. At Caulfield recently an apprentice named Ford in D. J. Price’s stable had a remarkable escape from serious injury. He was exercising the hurdle racer Heke, and was travelling at a fast rate, when the horse got too close to a picket fence, and the boy’s foot was caught in the pickets. He was dragged from the saddle and thrown over the fence on to the steeplechase track. Fortunately he escaped injury. Heke had much skin nibbed off through contact with the pickets, and will be eased in his work for a few days. When Tuki fell during a schooling task prior to the Great Northern Steeplechase contest, he injured a knee, but he ran a great race in the big cross-country event later, finishing up fourth. He was lame after the race and could not start on the final day of the fixture. Within a few days Tuki was himself again and he will probably be a competitor at the Wellington R.C.’s Winter meeting, with a trip to Ricc art on in view to follow. It was bad luck for W. Bowden, says ‘ Achilles” in the Wanganui Herald, that Landbird could not fulfil his engagement in the Great Northern Steeplechase, as that rider had been laid £5OO to nothing against the double win by Mr. MacFarlane, owner of the Great Northern Hurdles winner. However, Bowden did not do so badly as his fee for the hurdles ride was. £126, and it is said that in addition there was a fair bit on for him for the single event. A new starting barrier (reports the N.Z. Sporting Review ) was tried at the mile post at Ellerslie. More than one jockey expressed his disappointment of the new experiment. Mr. C. O’Connor, the ablest starter in New Zealand does not like it at all. The new appliance has six strands of rope and according to our best despatcher has three faults. It is slow, noisy, and dangerous. Dangerous in the fact that if a horse breaks through the jockey may be pulled off. It was recently stated erroneously .by a Sydney writer that Maorilander Moifaa won the Liverpool Grand National Steeplechase for King Edward, hence the story of the New Zealander as compiled in short by ‘The

Delver,” of Hawke’s Bay Tribune, is interesting:—“lt is just a quarter of a century since the five-year-old Natator—Denbigh gelding Moifaa, then owned by the late Mrs A. EUingham, of Hastings, won the Great Northern Steeplechase. Mr Spencer Gollan, then of Mangatarata, HB., took a great fancy to Moifaa and purchased the gelding. Subsequently he took the horse to England and had him prepared for the Liverpool Grand National; and the New Zealander did not disappoint, but won the race in great style. The horse was then sold to King Edward, but proved a bad proposition when carrying the Royal colours.” The New Zealand Sapling Stakes, the only race of its class for two-year-old light harness performers in Maoriland, decided at the Ashburton Trotting Club’s Winter meeting on Saturday, was won by a smart youngster called Richore, who is expected to develop into a swift horse with increasing age. The chestnut gelding Richore, was sired by Rey de Oro, the best son of C-opa de Oro (139) both horses being imported to New Zealand in turn from California. Rey de Oro was imported to Canterbury by the well-known owner-breeder Mr. F. G. Holmes, and he will have a source of deep satisfaction in knowing that his American sire can claim the first, second, and fourth youngsters in the Sapling Stakes as his descendants—Richore, Haydock, and Rey Logan—a truly great record. While Richore is well-bred on the sire’s side, he is also produced from winning strains where his dam, Lady Superior (dam of Cardinal Logan) is concerned, as she was got by General Mac—Lady Criterion, a Southland-bred matron by King Harold—Culloval, by Pinole Patchen (imp.) Thus the King Harold blood triumphs again, a family that has done a very great deal to place Southland on the map as one of the leading provinces in New Zealand where the production of brilliant and stout light harness racehorses is concerned. Richore is owned by the well-known Christchurch trotting ownertrainer, R. W. Franks, and he was driven to victory by F. Holmes, junr., eldest son of the owner of the successful youngster’s sire. It has also to be noted that Richore established a time record for the race (3.31) as the best previous figures for the one mile and a-half over which the event is decided were those of Kohara 3.32 1/5 in 1924. The N.Z. Sapling Stakes, established in 1919, has provided quite a number of stirring contests, but that of Saturday last is claimed to be the keenest and most exciting on record. The Hawk (reports the Hawke’s Bay correspondent of the N.Z. Sporting Review) is back again in toil on the tracks at Hastings, the locality of his first appearance on 3 training track. It was there that Luke Wilson first taught him the way to use himself. He looks bright and hearty, and the indications are that he will successfully cope with the ordeal of further trying out. Riccarton trainer R. Alexander (says the Lyttelton Times) is devoting a good deal of attention to a two-year-old filly by Gay Lad from Coronata. She is a sister of Lady Gay and Bachelor Gay. Probably she will be raced in the maiden events at the Christchurch Hunt and Grand National meetings. A New Zealand Sporting Review scribe furnishes some very interesting details as to the history of Landbird, the* recent winner of the A.R.C.’s Great Northern Hurdle Race, as follows:—“It was hard luck for Mr. J. A. MacFarlane to lose the opportunity of completing the double with Landbird, whom lameness prevented from running in the big steeplechase. Judging by the manner in which the Finland gelding recovered from the clout he gave the second hurdle in the GJ4. Hurdles and then staved off Kawini, he is a very solid customer. After seeing Landbird at Wanganui I gained the impression that he would not be quite wound up for Ellerslie. In that assumption I was at fault, as Collelo’s charge forcibly demonstrated. I would like to have seen this fine jumper take his place in the steeplechase. Mr. J. A. MacFarlane is a comparative newcomer to racing in the active sense. V. H. Collelo, who has a reputation and record as a successful mentor of jumpers, told me that Mr. MacFarlane commissioned him to buy a horse up to one thousand pounds. Seven hundred and fifty was Landbird’s price. Collelo made the deal. A few weeks later Landbird won the Wanganui Steeplechase. Infirmities subsequently prevented his charge showing his undoubted worth, but in spite of our conclusion formed at Wanganui the Hawke's Bay jumper won the G.N. Hurdles like a champion.” It would appear that Mr. H. F. Nicoll, of Ashburton, parted with the winner of the principal event of the Ashburton T.C.’s Winter meeting on Saturday, viz., Sea Pearl, all too soon, as it is only about a week since he turned her over to Mr. G. McMillan, of Auckland, for whom she was finally trained and driven by the ex-Southland galloping and trotting mentor, R. B. Berry. Coming from Mr. Nicolls stud, it is hardly necessary to say that Sea Pearl is well-bred, but she is a daughter of imported American sire Nelson Bingen from Pearlchild, by Rothschild— Verity, by Vancleve (son of Harold) from ; Bar. When Sea Pearl won the Ashburton County Handicap (two miles) on Saturday she paced to her best mark, as she recorded 434 2/5 and caused the Invercargill-owned Downcast to step to a tight class, as he had to pace 430 3/5 to get within a neck of her, while Event, who filled third berth, put up superior time to both, as the son of Brent Locanda—Evelyn (from a great racing strain and sister to Emmeline) placed 438 4/5 to his account. While it was unfortunate for his owner that Downcast should reduce his two-mile time to 4.30 3/5 in pacing into second place, there is compensation in the fact that he has been going away from the starting-point correctly of late and he has won his way into the tight classes where the best money is available • for proved and speedy stayers.

DUNEDIN JOCKEY CLUB. ENTRIES FOR DUNEDIN GUINEAS. SOUTHERN OWNERS ENTER FREELY. (Special to the Times.) Dunedin, June 13. The following entries of new yearlings have been received for the leading three-year-old event of the Dunedin Jockey Club’s Spring meeting of 1927: — DUNEDIN GUINEAS (1927) of £750. Second £l5O, third £75. For three-year-olds. Penalty conditions. One mile. L. C. Hazlett’s ch g Traction (Tractor— Drodd). L. C. Hazlett’s b g by Tractor—Bon Maid. G. Gould’s b c Jericho (Archery—Judith). G. Gould’s ch f Lum in ant (Thurnham— Sunglow). E. G. McCullough’s b g by Paladin— Waterspray. H. A. Knight’s b g by Thurnham—Madrid. J. A. Ainge’s b f El Nido (Kilbroney— Filigree). A. H. Fisher’s ch g by Thurnham—Matata. A. H. Fisher’s b g by Kilbroney—Temba. J. Grigg’s b g by Gay Lad—Snapshot. J. Grigg’s b g by Gay Lad—Trebelli. J. Grigg’s ch g by Gay Lad—Sopra. J. Grigg’s b g by Gay Lad—Truthful. J. McCombe’s blk c Court Jester (Comedy King—Kuningada). J. McCombe’s blk or gr g Despot (Gov-ernor-General—Venusia). J. McCombe’s br g Amorist (Baveretock —Amicitia). F. A. and V. N. Price’s br g Arrowy (Archery—Miss Signal). G. Gerard’s br g Don Jose (Archery— Michaela). G. Gerard’s br g Fair Exchange (Paper Money—Fair Fight. G. Gerard’s br g Silver Coot (Paper Money—Fulica.) G. Gerard’s br f Money Mart (Paper Money—Martia). F. Trail and W. McKay’s b f Some Rose (Some Boy ll—Rose de Vai).,

F. Trail and W. McKay’s f by Marco Bello—Red Gift. W. T. Hazlett’s b g by Thurnham—Moulin Rouge. W. T. Hazlett’s b f by Thurnham —Wild Colleen. W. T. Hazlett’s b g by Paper Money— Illume. W. T. Hazlett’s b f by Paper Money— Simper. N. Rutherford’s ch f by Paper Money— Bonny Helen. R. Longley’s b c by Thurnham—High Heels. W. H. Broad’s b g by Kilbroney—Zia. Sir James Carroll’s b c by Cynic—Tatau Tatau. Sir James Carroll’s b f by Cynic—Te Uru. Dr. M. G. Louisson’s br g by Kilbroney— Mazurka. H. G. Mclntosh’s b c Glengassy (Gasbag —Glenross). R. M. Greenslade’s b g Rotor (Tractor— Aphaea). R. M. Greenslade’s b f by Archery—Killala. R. M. Greenslade’s ch f by Tractor— Constant. E. J. Burn’s b f Saxairini (Saxby—Miss Airini). J. F. Buchanan’s b c Marsham (Martian —Polymnia). J. M. Samson’s br c by Paper Money— Peirene. J. M. Samson’s b c by Paper Money— Martifors. W. Quirk’s br g by Kilbroney—Potpourri. R. Acton Adams’ br f Honey (Kilbroney —Halina). T. E. Wilkins’ br g by Tractor—Jada. J. Porter’s b c by Martian—Per Arma. J, Porter’s ch f by Paladin —-Flower of the West. / J. Porter’s ch fby Paladin—Madam Frisco. G. D. Greenwood’s blk c Phillipic (Demosthenes—Ednaver). G. D. Greenwood’s b c Wayward (Sutala —Egotism). G. D. Greenwood’s br c Rameses (Sutala I —Roden). ; G. D. Greenwood’s b c Agrion (Limond— I Waterwings). [ G. D. Greenwood’s b f Eulalie (Absurd — . Eulogy). G. D. Greenwood’s blk f Sleepless (Sutala —Yawn). G. D. Greenwood’s ch f Shalimar (Sutala —Ardour). Sir G. Clifford’s ch f French Leave (Autumnus —Flitaway). Sir G. Clifford’s ch f Sudden Storm (Autumnus—Helter Skelter.) i Sir G, Clifford’s b c Broadmoor (Pan- '• mure —Heatherbrae). i Sir G. Clifford’s b f.Scrambler (Panmure : —Scrimmage). ■ Sir G. Clifford’s ch f Skyquest (Autumnus • —Telescope). Sir G. Clifford’s ch c Tearaway (Panmure—Brambletye). Sir G. Clifford’s br f by Panmure or Autumnus —Sailor’s Hope. J. J. Corry’s b f by Paladin—Zany. W. Payne’s b c by Solferino —Angele. I H. Couser’s bc by Songbird—Camieau. | H. Co user’s br c by Songbird—Black i and Red mare. I B. S. Irwin’s b f Killaine (Kilbroney— I Helaine). ! R. B. Stiven’s br f Attractive Lady (Trac- | tor —Lady Sentinel). I G. H. Grigg’s b fby Martian—Love-a- -; duck. j C. G. Dalgety’s blk g Starflight (Archery j —Stardancer.) j C. G. Dalgety’s br g Thurville (Thurni ham—Nantville). ■ G. J. Barton’s b c Ark Royal (Kilbroney I —Lady Violet). ; G. J. Barton’s b f Canal (Kilbroney— Panama). G. J. Barton’s blk f Shepherd’s Warning j (Paladin —Rainbow Gold). j G. J. Barton’s b f Hobson’s Choice (Tractor —Crossan’s Choice). P. H. Campbell’s ch c Vinegrove (Tractor—Watercourse). A. B. Armour’s ch f by Tractor—Thistledown. A. B. Armour’s b or br g by Balboa—i Queen Ruth. i A. Murdoch’s ch c by Boniform—Black- ' mail. j T. H. Lowry’s b c Brampton (Lord Quex | —Symbolism). i T. H. Lowry’s b g Great Charter (King I John—En Parole). ! T. H. Lowry’s gr f Silver Grey (Grey Monk—Chlorite). T. McAvinue’s br c Record Mixture (Heather Mixture —Lady Sykes). G. Murray Aynsley’s ch c Scoff (Paladin —Disdainful). F. S. Easton’s b g by Boniform—Believe. T. Kelsher’s b f by Solferino—Ruenalf’s Daughter. C. James’ b c Severn (Sutala—St. Leaven). J. Ellis’ b f My Fancy (Adjudge—Rosa Chamberlain). J. S. Barrett’s blk g Satrap (Paladin— Persian Lilac). H. Ive’s b c Monanui (Songbird—Goldfire). J. F. Reid’s b f by Kilbroney—Elysium. W. H. Ballinger’s b c Fallow (Royal Stag—Rose Pink). C. G. Dalgety’s br g Amor (Archer—Warlove).

A MAORILANDER ABROAD, A CANADIAN TURF PICTURE. W. HOLMES IN BRITISH COLUMBIA. THE RICCARTON MENTOR’S NEW HOME. The ex-Riccarton trainer, W. Holmes, who is now in charge of a team in British Columbia for Mr. F. Beban, formerly a resident of the West Coast, continues to write entertainingly concerning his new j home for which the Canterbury horsemanE. Ludlow, is now on the water to join him. In a letter to a Christchurch friend, dated May 12 (reports the Christchurch Star), he states that everything seems quite different to New Zealand conditions. The horses are quartered on the race track grounds, there being 500 loose boxes on the Brighouse track (Vancouver), where he resides. The horses are saddled in their own boxes and are taken straight to the track and worked. Half or three-quarter pace work is never heard of, just trot and canter and gallop. They call trotting and cantering a gallop, while what is known as a gallop in New Zealand is a breeze or fast pace. Holmes does not think the horses there would §tand the work they do in New Zealand. They do not look so solid, though those he has are good feeders and look well. Hie trainers do not believe in the paddock, but Holmes has had some yards built and turns his horses out very often. On the morning he breezes them, they are brought back to the boxes, if it is warm enough, and are washed well in warm water, then scraped and rubbed over with a wash. A cooling blanket is then thrown over them and they are led round for half an hour. He thinks it is a good idea, as it freshens a horse up well. The horses do a lot of work on the lead, and they are often seen going a good pace on a long rope breeze. Horses appear to be raced there until old age creeps on them and some of them have such dreadful looking legs that it is surprising they can walk, let alone gallop. It is a great place for firing and very few horses seem to miss it. He had recently inspected a team of horses who had been racing at Ti Juana, in Mexico, where they have 120 days’ racing. Their appearance told of the hard time they had been through. A boy named William Munden rode over a hundred winners on the circuit, while an English colt named Calaris won the Derby and the Crawford Handicap, valued at 75,000 dollars. The Brighouse track is a mile round and there are no training tracks. The horses are worked on the course proper, a dirt track, but, as it rains fairly often, it is nice going. The starting barriers are placed twenty yards behind ■ the posts, which accounts for the fast times. Lansdowne track, which is about half a-mile away, is also a mile. The races start there on July 1. Holmes expects to have some horses racing there, also right through the circuit.

which includes five tracks, with a total of forty-four days’ racing. His team consists of a chestnut gelding Barburre, 4yrs, by Sir Martin; chestnut gelding Pat Mawbey, syrs, by Balemore; chestnut filly, Little Ron, 4yra, by Leith; bay mare Ogalena, syre, by Rapid Water; black horse, Liberty Loan, aged, by Dick Finnell; and brown colt Summers Hen, 2yrs, by Will Summers. Liberty Loan was a high-class performer as a three-year-old, his successes including the Kentucky Derby. Holmes also has the three Quin Abbeys purchased in New Zealand. They have been broken in and are doing slow work. They have all done well since their arrival in Canada. Holmes mentions that he has not seen any chaff since he has been there. It is never heard of, but the oats are good white ones. He got some hay from Eastern Washington and it was as good as any he had seen in New Zealand. The New Zealander met with a slight accident a few days before he wrote. He had a fall from one of his young ones and received a cut above the right eye, which required four stitches, but he is all right again. The Brighouse track is about ten miles out of Vancouver, but there is a tram every hour. The weather is pleasant —cold nights, but lovely days. The two-year-old in his stable was bred by the Prince of Wales at his ranch in Canada. He is a nice colt, well grown and well mannered. He is by the English horse Will Summers, who is at the ranch. Holmes mentions that horses were well catered for when travelling on the train. He had to go to a place called Calgary, through the Rocky Mountains, to get a colt. It was a thirty-six hours’ run on the mail train. The space in the waggon was five feet by twelve, and there was room for two more horses, each with the same space. This colt was loose and lay down each night. When he arrived at Vancouver he was conveyed to the track by motor waggon, a mode of travel that was very popular. RUGBY. MAORI TEAM’S TOUR. SOUTH ISLAND v. SOUTH CANTERBURY. The South Island Maoris will play a match against South Canterbury at Timaru on Saturday next. The following players will represent the Maori team: — Full-back, McDonald (Marlborough); three-quarters, T. Robinson (Canterbury), W. Reid (Nelson), H. Phillips (Marlborough) ; five-eighths, R. Bell, captain (Southland), J. Scott (Otago) ; half-back, Te Tau (Otago); rover, Morete (Otago); forwards —Stewart (Otago), McDonald (Marlborough), C. Black (Otago), Manihera (Canterbury), Manning (South Canterbury), Smith (Marlborough), R. Ellison (Otago). The team will assemble at Timaru on Thursday evening, the Otago and Southland players travelling by the express. The players will be under the charge of Mr W. Stead, the ex-All Black. Other officials connected with Maori football in the South Island who will also be in Timaru to discuss matters in connection with the tour to France are: Messrs D. Ellison (Otago), W. Mihaka (Temuka), W. Barrett and G. Pitama (Kaiapoi), J. Karetai (Banks Peninsula), and J. McDonald (Marlborough), THE WELSH INCIDENT. RESOLUTION WITHDRAWN. Gisborne, June 14. A resolution passed recently by the Poverty Bay Rugby Union scathingly criticising the Welsh Rugby Union for refusing to recognise the New Zealand Maori team as international and because of that refusing to accept responsibility for any club games against the Maoris came up for discussion at a Rugby Union meeting this evening. After a statement by the chairman, Mr Parker, that the Press cable was not intended as a reflection on the Maori race, the resolution was rescinded and ordered to be expunged from the minute book.

GOLF. BOGEY MATCH AT GORE. The following is the draw for the fourball bogey match to be played this week—• Royds and Fisher play Hawke and J. A. S. Aitken. Young and A. S. Fleming play Ritchie and Piller. Perry and H. C. Mac Gibbon play Inder and Gresham. Shelton and Fitzgerald play Richards and Green. James Boyne and Barrett play Scott and A. H. W. Aitken. Houston and Paterson play Dolamore and R. L. Grant. Finlayson and Cowan play Poppelwell and Conolly. Christie and McDonald play Hamilton and Deaker. BOXING. PURDY DEFEATS HAY. (Per United Press Association.) Auckland, June 14. A boxing match between Artie Hay, of Hastings, and Charlie Purdy, of Auckland, resulted in a win for Purdy on points after a close contest going the full fifteen rounds. ATHLETICS. ROSE A CHAMPION. London, June 13. The Daily Mail describes Rose as a stylish, strong runner, possessing the real champion’s gift of apparently effortless pace. TENNIS. CHAMPIONSHIP MIXED DOUBLES. (Rec. 5.5 p.m.) Paris, June 13. In the semi-final of the championships mixed doubles Mdlle. Lenglen and Brugnon beat Godfree and Mrs Godfree 6—3, 6—3. A. and N.Z.