SPORTING

Southland Times, Issue 20043, 3 December 1926, Page 3

SPORTING

NOTES BY SIR MODRED.

Dunedin Jockey Club Summer entries to-night.

Methven Racing Club’s annual meeting to-morrow.

Auckland Racing Chib’s general entries due to-night.

Entries far Gore Trotting Club’s annual fixture close to-night.

Wellington Trotting Chib’s Summer acceptances are due to-night.

John Bradbury will face a ten furlong task at Methven meeting.

New Moon was not supported by his con nections at Takapuna races.

Reported that another South Island gal loping club goes over to trotting.

Sir G. Clifford’s team may race at Dun edin at Christmas time.

It is noticeable that Sunny Loch is galloping weH at Riccarton.

Booster is to be tested over extended distances during the holidays.

White Fang ic said to have been unlucky when beaten in Sydney recently.

It will be instructive to see how Ri*l Wink shapes at Meth ven to-morrow.

Melbourne penciller, Manny Lyons, won £20,000 over Spearfelt in Melbourne Cup.

Veteran Lilypond will carry 10.1 if started in the valuable Perth Cup.

The Bisogne gelding, Monaghan, is almost certain to win in open company.

Mountain Rose, by Markhope, is reported to be in G. Delaney’s Melbourne team.

Roy Berry drove a masterly race when he won with Colehill at Forbury Park.

Canterbury bred fifly, Zarisce, shaped well in her first gallop on the Trent ham tracks.

Aucklanders have hopes that Laughing Prince will presently beat the flying Cimabue.

Follower?* of hurdle racing will keep an eye on Gunease for his approaching engagements.

He may not produce his best form in public, but Nincompoop’s track work is very good.

Takapuna winner, Arch Queen, is handled by R. Hall, who prepares trotters and gallopers cleverly.

E. Scoullar may race Countersign, Gold Brick and Royal Head at the Southland R.C. gathering.

Scrip, half sister to Solzia and Zelanian, is galloping smartly on the Riccarton tracks at present.

It is on the cards that the Auckland Trotting Club's Summer fixture will produce record fields and results.

The meeting of Solrose. Precious and Gold Mint in the Electric Hack Handicap at Meth ven to-morrow may be interest -

The Colenut—Ashill pacing gelding, Colehill, has been extensively engaged at the Auoklan'i T.C.’s Summer meeting.

Valais headed the Australian winning sires' list last season from Magpie and this year history promises to repeat itself.

Backers who follow the fortunes of horses raced in hopples will be keen to note that American Jack Potts is working well •gain.

Victorian owner, Mr Sol Green, states that he has never given less than 1,000 guineas for any of the 25 horses he has imported from England.

At Caulfield tracks one morning recently ex-Southlander. Mountain Rose, ran the best six furlongs of the day, her time being 1 min. 19 sec.

A well-informed Melbourne writer thinks that Limerick will improve and develop into a high-class handicap and w.f.a. performer.

When last heard from in England, S. Wootton had won 69 races for the season, of which 50 were secured by horses owned by the ex-Australian.

Fortune does not appear to favour cxNew Zealander, R. O’Donnell, in Sydney with his pupils. His recent good thing, White Fang, lost by a head to a rank outrider.

The veteran Victorian mentor, James Scobie, holds a great record in connection with the Bendigo Cup, as he has prepared seven winners of the goldfields event.

During the past season in England the Victorian jockey, Frank Dempsey, won 40 races. He was due to leave for Melbourne last week and may not return to the Old Country.

Claimed to be the smartest two-year-old filly in England last season, Cresta Run was sired by Hurry On from a mare who traces back to Carbine through his son, Spearmint.

Of the nineteen youngsters engaged in the English Derby, of 1928, by the Aga Khan, one of the number is a colt by Hurry On from Escurie, for whom he gave 17,000 guineas as a yearling.

The Auckland R.C.’s weight adjuster must have been impressed with Beacon light when the Boniform—Simper horse raced in the north, as 8.12, hfe Auckland Cup portion, appears to be a full load.

It is reported from Christchurch that M. B. Edwards has the Southland-bred pacer, Black Admiral, a proved performer, well , forward for the Wellington Trotting Club’s approaching fixture.

Prince Pointer’s next public appearance will be made at the Wellington Trotting Club’s meeting next week, when he will oppose Great Bingen, Native Chief and other cracks on the concluding day.

That good old slave, Deucalion, has rejoined D. Campbell’s team at Riccarton and an attempt will be made to get him ready for Autumn racing. The son of Demosthenes is certainly an enduring racehorses

*• At the last meeting of the Ashburton County Racing Club a letter was, received from the New Zealand Racing Conference stating that the club’s application to bold the second day of its spring meeting on January 15 had been granted. The Ashburton Trotting Club wrote offering to provide the stakes for one of the trotting events at the meeting. The offwt was accepted, anad a hearty vote of thanßs was passed to the Trotting Club.

An experienced northern trainer, F. T. Quinlivan, was a visitor to the Southland R.C.’s tracks on Thursday morning and took keen interest in his surroundings and the working oroceedings. Descended from a well-known Hawke’s Bay racing family, he has handled some very useful horses in his time. He was the first mentor to produce a winner for Lady Jellicoe in New Zealand, in the shape of Gartmore, and be trained succesful gallopers for many noted North Island sportsmen, including Mr F.

Earl, of Auckland, and Dr. Murphy, also of the Far North, whose colours are at present being borne with credit in Australia by Cherry Ripe. The northern trainer may elect to settle down in Southland, and in the meantime he is weighing up the prospects of gaining the necessary support to enable him to do so. Quinlivan has managed a leading stud, handled many youngsters and trained quite a lengthy list of winners during his turf career.

A loose dog on the course at Takapuna on Saturday almost caused trouble in the Takapuna Hate. Ruffles, when in the lead at the turn, just missed him with his forelegs, and hit him with his hind ones. The dog then became mixed up with the hoofs of Delightment, Ned Kelly, Tinakoa and True Blood, and it was a marvel that one of these horses did not come to grief. From appearances it looked as if that particular dog will cause little further trouble, but it behoves racecourse officials to keep a very watchful eye on stray dogs. Jockeys nowadays appear to have a hazardous enough life without adding to the possibilities of trouble.

Country meetings in South Australia have provided some sensational races lately. At the Swan Reach meeting there were only four runners in the Hurdle Race. At the first jump the well backed Sir Esam ran off, and the other three runners went well until the third obstacle, when they all ran off. Telarnak was the first to be brought back, but after clearing the third hurdle he baulked at the fourth, and. at that point Isle of lownit ran off the course into the scrub. Meanwhile, the favourite, Black Spot, was brought back and given another chance, and, going on, he scored by nearly a mile from Telarnak, • who eventually scrambled round the course to run second. None of the others made another attempt, and it was the most farcical hurdle race that has been staged in South Australia for many a long day. The denouement occurred after the horses returned to scale, when the rider of Telarnak entered a protest against the winner, which was dismissed.

It was hard to understand how the trainer of Nippy w r as permitted to withdraw his representative from the Alisoh Cup on the opening day of the Takapuna J.C. fixture after the gelding had been given his preliminary canter, but some light has been thrown on the matter by a northern scribe, who states that the stipendiary steward on duty explained to the Press that this was on account of the going. On further inquiry from the secretary on the following day it was ascertained that written notice had been given by the owner to the secretary, half an hour before the time appointed to start (which was in compliance with the Rules of Racing), of his intention to withdraw the horse, but had not informed the trainer. Consequently Nippy did his preliminary, only he had not gone to the post and was not therefore in the hands of the starter.

The announcement was made when the result of the Cesarewitch Stakes came to hand from London last month that the victory of Myra Gray was a sensational surprise. London papers now to hand furnish the story attaching to the race for the long distance handicap at Newmarket. The following is clipped from the Daily Express:—Mr Jack Davis, a Shrewsbury bookmaker, carried off one of the greatest prizes of the turf, which millionaire racehorse owners had thought was within their grasp, when he won the Cesarewitch with Myra Gray, who started a rank outsider. The man who scored this unexpected success over owners who have spent fortunes in bloodstock owns but four horses, and has been racing only twelve months. He backed Myra Gray at 100 to 1. and has won thousands of pounds. One of the greatest racing crowds that ever gathered on Newmarket Heath had been staggered into silence when Myra Gray galloped home a winner. Everybody was asking, “Who is Mr J. Davis, the owner? Who is Mr J. Scott, the trainer? And who is Len Read, the apprentice jockey?” Myra Gray was bought last year by Mr Dans for £231. SOUTH CANTERBURY JOCKEY CLUB. ACCEPTANCES FOR FRIDAY. (Per United Press Association.) Timaru, December 2. The following are the acceptances for the first day of the South Canterbury Jockey Club’s Summer meeting on December 10 and 11:

DARGAVILL£ RACING CLUB. HANDICAPS DECLARED. Dargaville, December 2. The following handicaps have been declared for the Dargaville Racing Club’s meeting on December 16 and 18:-

MAIDEN HANDICAP, £6O. 6f._Wee Marble 9.0, St. Lucas 9.0, Queen Rewa 8.10, Alonsoa 8.10, Tapuhi 8.10, Master Arch 8.10, Takuranga 8.10, Waiau Lad 8.10, Bright Dawn 8.10, Corinax B.lo’ Edifice 8.10, Creation 8.10, Stella Tour 8.5. TOKATOKA HANDICAP, £65. 6f —Passionate 9.6, Namutere 9.4, Thursby 8.6, Festina Lente 8.2, Illingar 7.6, Arch Queen 7.4, Adjuster 7.1, Shortland 7.0, Tapuhi 7.0, Lady Spalpeen 7.0, Marble Mount 7.0, Quaestor 7.0. AWAKING HACK HANDICAP, £6O. About 7f.—Golden Krist 9.10, Festina Lente 9.4, Clockwork 8.1, Marble Mount 8.1, Scot Free 7.5, Wee Marble 7.4, Alonsoa 7.0, Corinkx 7.0, Bright Dawn 7.0, Edifice 7.0, Queen Rewa ,7.0, Creation 7.0.

HOBSON HANDICAP, £6O. Im.—Passion ate 9.13, Just Quietly 8.9, Illingar 7.13, Comet King 7.13, Mahgoloire 7.13, Maniahera 7.6, Dead Sweet 7.6, Scottish Knight 7.6, Shortland 7.6, Thurnrosae 7.3, Waning Light 7.0, Turn 7.0, I.*ady Arch 7.0.

KAIHU HACK HURDLES, £l2O. Im. sf.—idahgoloire 10.10, Ngahinepouri 10.4 Karamu 10.4, Scottish Knight 9.10, Queen Emerald 9.4, Comet King 9.4, Clockwork 9.0, Star Comet 9.0, Turn 9.0, Tapuhi, 9.0, Waiau Lad 9.0, Scot Free 9.0, Dead Sweet 9.0. DARGAVILLE CUP. £2OO. l}m.-Prin-cess Ronnie 9.4, Archibald 8.9, Passionate 8.8, Defightment 8.6, Right and Left 8.1, Queen Arch 7.10, Golden Krist 7.8, Thursby 7.6, Festina Lente 7.2, Thurnrosae 7.0.

AVOCA HANDICAP, £lOO. 6f._Hoariri 9.0 Archibald 8.12, Passionate 8.9, Delightment 8.9, Namutere 8.8, Queen Arch 8.3, White Bird 7.13, Lady Lois 7.9, King Multified 7.0, Arch Queen 7.0, Miss Lucullus 7.0. SETTLERS’ HANDICAP, £6O. sf.—Lady Lois 9.13, Just Quietly 9.13, Scrap o’ Paper 9.10, Illingar 9.3, Adjuster 8.12, King Multified 8.11, Trepsor 8.11, Waning Light 7.9, Miss Lucullus 7.8, St. Lucas 7.4, Double Mint 7.0, Adjure 7.0, Tapuhi 7.0, Sunny Morn 7.0.

CRICKET.

OTAGO v. SOUTHLAND. ALTERATION IN HOME SIDE. R. Blunt, having advised the Selection Committee that he is not available to -play against Southland, S. Duncan has been selected to take his place?

OTAIO HURDLES, £150. One mile and a-half. st lb st lb . . 10 9 King Abbey . 9 5 Dubious ... 10 9 Kaihahu . . 9 3 Sunny Loch . 10 6 All Colours . 9 0 Guncase ... 9 8 Rangi Chiel . 9 0 SPRING STAKES £120. ' Two-year-olds nad upwards, not having won lat race exceeding £75 in value at starting. Five furlongs. All Colours . 8 8 Bloodshed . . 8 5 Moratorium . 8 8 Lady Motor Smash 8 8 Dilatory 8 5 Royal Queen’s Bounty 8 5 Despatch 8 8 Violet n. . . 8 5 Tholomon . . 8 8 Marco Polo . 7 9 Thorndale . . 8 8 Money Peer . 7 9 Couleur Zelanian . . 7 9 de Rose 8 5 TESCHEMAKER HANDICAP, £400 One mile and a-quarter. Baldowa . . 8 9 Pink Terrace 7 6 Battlement . 8 5 Set Sail . . . 7 6 Rapier ... 8 5 Heather Lad 7 2 Vaward ... 7 9 Front Rank . 7 0 Mountain Margaret Lion 7 6 Birney 7 0 TYCHO HACK HANDICAP, £130. Six furlongs. Celerity II. . 9 3 Some Abbey 7 5 Precious ... 8 11 Gay Sonnett 7 2 Solrose ... 8 11 Solfello . . . 7 0 Mime .... 8 5 Gay Bird . . 7 0 Sagaltarius . 8 5 Assurance . . 7 0 Serotina ... 8 5 Bockart . . 7 0 Beau Geste . 7 6 Chivalry . . 7 0 PRESIDENTS HANDICAP, £2-00. One mile. Fmk Note . . 9 3 Corn Rigs . 8 2 Mountain Monoxide . . 7 12 Lion 8 13 Gold Brick . 7 11 Economist . 8 13 Gay Juliet 7 10 Warhaven 7 . 8 11 Sweet Melody 7 10 John .Gold Town . 7 7 Bradbury 8 5 Ophir .... 7 7 Receipt ... 8 3 Sartolite . . 7 MAIDEN PLATE, £120. For three-year-olds and upwards not having won a flat race at starting. Six furlongs. Battle Colours 8 10 Pleasant Rose 8 10 Chivalry . . 8 10 Princess Clarenson . . 8 10 Mafalda 8 10 Couleur Prophet’s de Rose 8 10 Mark 8 10 Credit ... 8 10 Royal Saxon 8 10 C'rossbow . . 8 10 Spearman . . 8 10 Gay Jim . . 8 10 St. Nicholas . 8 10 Master Takaka . . x 8 10 Clarence 8 10 The Atom . . 8 10 KERRYTOWN HACK HANDICAP, £140. Seven furlongs. Mime ... 8 13 Flaming Ray 7 12 Gold Mint . 8 10 Lancer . . . 7 12 Coch-y-bondhu 8 10 Prophet’s Overhaul . . 8 8 Mark 7 12 Sir Roy . . 8 6 Royal Head . 7 11 Gay Queen . 8 6 Kilbox . . . 7 11 Shandre ... 7 13 Clarenson . . 7 11 Waterlow . . 7 12 Markby . . 7 11 Fairy Tidings 7 12 Saxette . . . 7 11 FLYING HANDICAP, £230. Six furlongs. Baldowa ... 9 0 Eaton Bells . 7 11 Boaster ... 8 11 Clontarf . . 7 9 Nincompoop 8 11 Finora . . . 7 8 Corn Money . 8 9 Dancing Days 7 3 Moorland . . 8 8 Paperchase . 7 3 Volant ... 8 7 Receipt . . . 7 2 Arpent ... 8 5 Bloom . . . 7 0 Lava .... 8 4 Arrowmir . . 7 0