SPORTING

Southland Times, Issue 21853, 2 November 1932, Page 10

SPORTING

NOTES BY

SIR MODRED.

Forbury Park Trotting Club Spring meeting entries are due to-morrow evening.

Four entrants dropped out of each race—N.Z. Cup and the Stewards Handicap.

The sum of £2250 will be distributed in stakes at Forbury Park, on Nov. 24 and 26.

It is pleasing to learn that Night March is being patronized by observant breeders.

Colonial-bred sires, Windbag, Manfred and Heroic, are proving successful in Australia.

North Islanders may be strong for Korokio in N.Z. Cup, but there are good southern horses.

Shatter, Fast Passage and Minerval are three promising South Island N.Z. Cup eligiblcs.

Owners appear to have overlooked a chance in Winton J.C.’s Tradesmen’s Handicap (7f.).

Retract, Merry Peel, Colonel Cygnus, and Fullmark dropped out of New Zealand Cup.

Trouble in the land appears to have affected the entries for Winton light harness races.

Royal Routine, Palermo, Belvoir and Ganpat withdrew from C.J.C. Stewards’ Handicap.

The acceptance lists point to Auckland Racing Club's Spring meeting opening well on Saturday next.

The Victoria Racing Club's Spring meeting continues at Flemington tomorrow and on Saturday.

The first event of N.Z. Cup day on Saturday next will be the Spring Hurdles (13m.), at 12.20 p.m.

Provided she retains early promise, there are juvenile classic honours ahead for filly Silver Scorn.

Good Australian-bred gelding, Gay Crest, will find 9.5 a burden in the New Zealand Cup contest.

C. B. Fisher Plate, £lOOO, w.f.a., (I’sin.), should be a good race at the V.R.C. meeting on Saturday next.

An attractive field of youngsters will contest Auckland Welcome Stakes at Ellerslie at Saturday’s meeting.

A large number of apprentice jockeys figured at the Waipawa meeting on October 24 and performed well.

Youthful horseman J. Green, who wo;* two races at Waipawa. R.C. meeting, has attracted some notice.

A field of seventeen runners for the New Zealand Cup on Saturday should be very satisfactory.

Set to carry 8.10, Concentrate, at his best, would be a very tough proposition in the N.Z. Cup contest.

Jockey Harold Young, now in the veteran stage, showed his more youthful rivals barrier points at Waipawa.

The four topweights in the C.J.C. Stewards’ Handicap stand their ground to run the Riccarton straight six furlongs.

Headliners Cadland (9.5), Autopay (9.2), Great Star (8.10), and Silver Ring (8.1), read well in the Stewards.

South Islander Great Star has come through a useful preparation for sprinting or middle distances.

Winton J.C. Trial Stakes features a big field and a number of novices bred in the purple for any track.

Classed as a good horse, Antique will find 9.12 difficult to carry over twelve furlongs in Mitchelson Cup.

Despite adverse criticism of his ability, Red Sun is to represent experienced J. Lowe in the N.Z. Cup race.

Two miles may prove beyond Red Sun in N.Z. Cup, but there are other events at Riccarton to suit him.

Jerome Fandor, the gelding winner of Lincolnshire Handicap (Eng.), this season, died on the voyage to India.

Hamilton mentor, Frank Tutchen, won two races on Labour Day—SubEditor at Cambridge, and High Commissioner at Waverley. .

Harold Logan may rule as leading fancy for the N.Z. Trotting Cup, but Royal Silk and Rollo will trouble him on Nov. 8.

Ex-crack cross-country horseman, J. T. Tutchen, is training a promising hurdler called Sub-Editor, by Surveyor —Bounty.

On jockey W. Cook leaving for India, N. H. McLachlan took his place in W. Booth’s Sydney stable and did not come to N.Z. with C. Emerson.

Red Manfred's sire, Manfred, an erratic racer, was left a furlong in the A.J.C. Derby, and then gathered his field and won the classic.

While his brilliant sire, Manfred, had peculiar manners as a racehorse, Red Manfred appears to be well-behaved and very promising.

The entry lists for several events at the Winton J.C. Annual meeting are below expectations, but the acceptances will be more satisfactory.

The win of Peter Pan in Melbourne Cup with Victoria’s crack horseman (W. Duncan), in the saddle, would be a disastrous one for the bookmakers.

At the N.Z. Cup meeting on Saturday, L. J. Ellis will ride Shatter, Merry Peel, Southdown, Tout le Monde, lan’s March, and the Otago-owned Tippling.

The Chokebore Lodge filly, Fracas, is reported to have improved since W.R.C. meeting in view of her Welcome Stakes engagement on Saturday next.

On the opening day of the N.Z. Cup fixture A. H. Eastwood will act as jockey to Fast Passage, Silver Scorn, The Quorn, Drumfire and the youngster Fracas.

The connections of Fracas are in Hopes that Sir Charles Clifford’s filly, Fracas, will prove equal to extending or beating Red Manfred in the Welcome Stakes.

North Island trainer-jockey L. G. Morris is at Riccarton in charge of the Stewards’ Stakes entrant, Cadland, but will pilot other horses at the Canterbury J.C. meeting. ,

The Riverton apprentice horseman, G. Barclay, has been retained to ride Red Sun in the New Zealand Cup, and will be in demand for other- mounts at the C.J.C. meeting.

It is stated that when Harold Logan won the N.Z. Cup Trial at

the Wellington T.C.’s meeting on Saturday, the champion paced home over the last half in 59sec.

All the Wingatui-trained horses engaged at the Canterbury Jockey Club’s Spring meeting which opens on Saturday, will leave for the north to-day.

Dunedin Star reports that Colonel Cygnus has been turned out for a spell, a necessity unfortunate for the owner of a good galloper.

Accommodation booked at Riccarton has been cancelled, the result being that. Mr W. R. Kemball will not be represented at the N.Z. Cup gathering.

Night Effort, by Night Raid from Effort (reports Dunedin Star), who has been spelling for some time past, has joined F. Beale’s stable at Wingatui.

The Jockey Club Cup, a valuable race over two miles and two furlongs, at Newmarket on Oct. 26, resulted in Lord Woolavington’s filly, Brulette, being granted a walk-over.

When outsiders named Floria Zel and Rock Point won the second and third races in an event at the Blue Bonnets track at Montreal they returned to E. Levinson of Montreal £7OO on an investment of eight shillings. Levinson held the only ticket grouping these two horses in the combination event. The dividend set a new record for Canada.

Christchurch Times reports that A. E. Ellis was discharged from hospital a few days ago and he was a visitor to the tracks at Riccarton on Saturday, though only as a spectator. He has his right arm in a sling, but he is hopeful that he will be ready to resume race riding before the end of the year.

Blixten, runner-up to Rapsona in the Maribyrnong Plate, at the V.R.C. meeting on Saturday, was bred at Mr G. A. Kain’s Gladstone Park Stud, at Orari, and is by Night Raid from Receipt, by Paper Money from Satisfaction. He was sold at Trentham for 320 guineas to G. Price, acting for the colt’s present owners, for whom Price trains.

The light harness expert of Christchurch Times writes as follows:—“In September when Taxpayer just played with a field of all ages and won with the greatest ease over a mile and a quarter at Wellington, he was heralded as the winner of the New Zealand Derby Stakes. His name has been yelled from the house-tops as certain to wear the blue riband. But after Indianapolis flew" home at the head of a field over a mile and a half on Saturday there was a decided swing in the pendulum regarding the Derby Stakes. Indianapolis undoubtedly is a high-class colt, and if nothing happens him he has a big future. He is a big, raking three-year-old, and Taxpayer is of the compact order. Taxpayer will not have an opportunity of appearing before the public until the contest for classic honours at Addington next week for which Indianapolis is now a staunch favourite.” The Canterbury Pressman might also have informed his readers that prior to the N.Z. Sapling Stakes at Ashburton the names of two youthful pacers were being “yelled from the housetops” as the elect, then an unknown quantity called Taxpayer, driven by a disregarded Victorian, arrived upon the scene to account for the rich stake and return a substantial price.

A retiring Invercargill owner, who races in a modest fashion as a deeply interested student of the turf, propounds a solution of a problem that has confronted local nominators and trainers for some years past. He points out that the interval between the Gore R.C. and Winton J.C. early fixtures does not give southern people an equitable opportunity of racing their horses under reasonable financial outlay. Then he emphasizes the fact that even worse conditions prevail where the gap has to be bridged linking the Winton J.C. meeting in November and the Wyndham R.C. reunion on New Year’s Day. To overcome the obstacles mentioned, and at the same time provide sport for the public and owners alike, he suggests that a fixture might be arranged for a Saturday early in December to take place on what he describes with truth as the leading or second best summer course in the South Island, which lies unused from a public point of view almost throughout the season. Also that in the event of the Riverton Racing Club being unable to adopt the proposal its members might be induced to assist a country club in the Western District, Clifden R.C., for example, to promote a fixture at the seaside resort—the proposer jocularly remarked that the Riverton R.C. might at least get the price of a few tins of paint out of a meeting held on its property. In support of a proposal of this character, the writer would like to add that it would meet with approval from many quarters, while it would cater for galloping and trotting adherents with important gatherings looming up during the regular summer holida season, and the co-operation of the Railway Department and the sanction of the Government might be secured without difficulty. To harassed trainers with many maiden horses on their hands and heavy expenses to be faced and anxious horsemen suffering from reduced pecuniary means, a meeting such as that suggested would prove a boon indeed.

Nelson’s Victory began fast in the October Handicap at Wellington (remarks Christchurch Times) and was in third place when two furlongs were covered. O. E. Hooper kept him in that position until a mile and a half was completed, where he allowed him to dash into the lead and open up a gap of two lengths from the field. He was pacing strongly at the bend, but when within a hundred yards of home he stopped quickly and was just beaten for first honours. Nelson’s Victory has a torrent of speed, but he is not a dyed-in-the-wool stayer. This he amply demonstrated by the easy manner in which he disposed of his field in the Electric Handicap, run over a mile and a quarter. It was a mere jog for him.

Although the hypocritical laws of Maoriland, which legalize the totalisator and debar mention being made of its dividend returns, can be accepted as the reason for no indication being given of the place in the wagering market occupied at starting-time yesterday by the Melbourne Cup winner, Peter Pan, it is safe to say that he started an easy first selection and that his victory was a sore one for the bookmakers straightout and in combinations. As winner of the A.J.C. Derby in Sydney and Melbourne Stakes on Saturday last, coupled with the fact that he carried Melbourne’s idolized jockey W. Duncan, while good judges from various States were in agreement as to his staying capabilities, the N.S.W. representative would be seized upon by the general public as first fancy—his defeat in the Caulfield Cup recently would be overlooked, as it was agreed on all sides that he raced greenlv when called upon for the first time to gallop for keeps left-handed as against his right-handed career in his home State. I. would also be taken into account that as a somewhat inexperienced performer the Caulfield Cup track bends would hamper a longstriding three-year-old, as compared with the long stretches to be encountered at Flemington. Peter Pan’s win in the world’s great two-mile handicap events is the second put down to his trainer,. F. McGrath, of Sydney, who previously won with Prince Foote, an-

other juvenile, in 1909. In breeding circles the win of Mr Dangar’s colt would also be welcomed as that of an Australian staying product, and it would be recalled that his English sire, Pantheon, proved himself a good racehorse in the land of his adoption, and, in addition to winning stakes, finished third in Melbourne and Australian Cups respectively under severe weight tests. Peter Pan was only raced once as a two-year-old, when he ran unplaced. and he had then to be laid aside as the outcome of picking up a nail. As a youthful juvenile ho next appeared in public in August last, when he dead-heated with Babili in a Novice Handicap at Warwick Farm (Syd.), putting in a great run over the final stage of the contest. A little later on he came into public notice with a bound, when he won the Hill Stakes at wf.a. at Rosehill, defeating Night March, Johnnie Jason and Veilmond. His performance brought him into favour for the A.J.C. Derby and it is now turf history how he prevailed, as second selection, over Oro and Kuvera, with the favourite, the Maorilander, Gaine Carrington, unplaced. He was then taken to Melbourne to bo beaten in the Caulfield Cup as already recorded, and, as he had not been entered for the V.R.C. Derby the path was made easy for the local colt, and Peter Pan went on the same day to win the Melbourne Stakes, at w.f.a. (11m.), in a field of nine, with Rogilla and Middle Watch (Melb. Cup favourite) in the places. Thus the juvenilo son of Pantheon would be in high favour yesterday with the crowd.

The breeding of the Melbourne Cup winner is interesting and instructive, as it relates to New Zealand in some degree and he is a son of the imported sire Pantheon, the eldest of whose stock in Australia are now racing as three-year-olds. Pantheon was imported to Australia as a three-year-old with a record of successful performances as a two and three-year-old in England in the best of company. He was raced in Australia, defeating at weight-for-age the best horses of the day, including Limerick, Spearfelt. Rapine, etc., and was unlucky to be beaten into third place in the Melbourne Cup under 9.3, when Spearfelt (9.3) prevailed. He is a son of Tracery (Rocksand) from Scotch Rose, by Your Majesty (Persimmion) from Rose of Ayrshire. The Melbourne Cup and A.J.C. Derby winner is out of Alwina, by St. Alwyne (son of St. Frusquin) from Formaliter, by Boniform from Waitemata, by Eiridspord from Aorere, by Chester (great sire of stayers). His dam, Alwina, was also by a sire of stout horses, as St. Alwyn’s sons, Poitrel and Night Watch, were Melbourne Cup winners. It can thus be seen at a glance that Peter Pan is of New Zealand origin on the female side and also that his ancestor, Boniform, by Multiform—Otterden, has to be put down as a half-brother to Martian. Peter Pan’s sire, Pantheon, was got by Tracery, who was disposed of in England for over £50,000 to a South American stud.