RACING AND TROTTING

Southland Times, Issue 22917, 16 June 1936, Page 10

RACING AND TROTTING

News — Prospects—Results

Racing. June 20. 23, 24—Dunedin J.C. June 20. 23—Wanganui J.C. June 20. 23—Napier Park R.C June 23—Opotiki J.C. June 27—Oatnaru J.C. July I—Dannevirke Hunt Club. July 7, 9. 11—Wellington R.C. Trotting. lune 20, 23—Auckland T.C. (Notes by Sir Modred.) Nominations for the Oamaru Jockey Club’s Winter meeting are due this evening. It is claimed that a soft track at Wingatui would favour J. Shaws Sea Fox. The Manawatu Racing Club has Issued the programme for its Winter meeting on July 25. Riccarton trainer J. S. Shaw is awaiting a weather report to select a team tor the D.J.C. races. Blenheim, who defeated Iliad in the Epsom Derby, is now at the stud in France. Aucklander Greek Gold (at Riccarton) is in the same ownership as useful Royal Gallant. The South Canterbury Hunt will hold its point-to-point meeting on the King’s Birthday. The Riccarton trainer, D. O’Connor, expects to have five pupils at the D.J.C. meeting. It is reported from Riccarton that Fair Weather is in rare shape to race at Wingatui. Nominations for the Wellington Racing Club’s Winter fixture are due on Friday.

R. Beale left Christchurch for Dunedin on Saturday to enjoy a weeks relaxation.

Kinnoull has been entered for the Melbourne Cup, Caulfield Cup and other events.

The pacer Impromptu has joined J. S. Shaw’s trotting stable for next season's racing.

Wall Street, by Llewellyn, is a juvenile filly trained by R. Berry at Sockburn.

The N.Z. Trotting Cup winner, Red Shadow (1933) is now trained by R. Motz.

Of 115 entries for the Auckland Trotting Club’s Winter meeting, only 12 failed to make acceptance.

For the Opotiki J.C.’s meeting at Tauranga, on June 23, there are 104 payments for 76 horses.

The acceptance list shows 15 horses eligible to contest the Opotiki Cup £l6O (11m.), on June 23.

R. Bromby left for Wingatui yesterday with his pupils, Royal Dart and Paia Melba, for the D.J.C. races.

King Mestor broke down completely while contesting the Orakei Hurdles at Ellerslie.

Second and third in A.R.C. hack hurdle races recently Teddy Boy may be in the picture at Wanganui.

T-nst. season Chile won four hurdle races. He has recently won across the flat, but will leap at Wanganui.

Trained by R. Berry, Christchurch, the N.Z. Sapling Stakes winner, Parisienne, was educated at Takanini.

It is anticipated in Auckland that Diamond will race well at Wanganui, if started over the big country.

When Mahmoud won the Derby he was sixth fancy, while the Oaks winner, Lovely Rose, was an outsider.

Mr G. J. Barton has Jack Horner engaged in the Caulfield Cup (IJm.) and Melbourne Cup.

If present intentions are adhered to. Signaller and Parasang will leave Invercargill for Wingatui to-morrow.

Juvenile gelding Master Cyklon, a winner at the H.B.J.C. meeting, is another Hunting Song.

Local trainer F. W. Ellis will probably take Amelita to Wingatui on Friday next.

The Te Aroha J.C. will provide up-to-date loose boxes to replace those demolished by the March storm.

The hurdler Kanapa is expected to open his winning account at the Opotiki races on June 23.

Reported to be at the top of her form, Modem Maid will be fancied shortly for another hurdle race.

The 1936 Great Northern meeting will be spoken of for years for the sensations and records it provided.

The Auckland province has set the ball rolling in providing an Owners, Breeders and Trainers’ Association.

Allegretto, by Day Comet, is looked upon as a likely prospect for the Wellington Steeplechase in July.

Modem Maid is said to have been quite the best of the second-class hurdlers at the A.R.C. Winter meeting.

Emotion ran fairly well on the flat at Carterton and should be ready for hurdle races very shortly.

Now a well seasoned ’chaser, Forest Glow will be followed in approaching cross-country events.

Billy Boy was very sore after his second race at Auckland recently, but may recover quickly.

Debut, by Diacquenod—Avola, may perform well in his initial hurdle race fixed for Wanganui.

Hunting Mars had the Carbine Plate, at Ellerslie, won when he broke down at the half-distance.

The juvenile galloper Pakanui (10.0) put up a great effort when beaten by Pladie (9.6) in the Final Handicap (6f.) at Hastings on Saturday.

The novice ’chaser, Larry Resta, was sore after his tumble on Saturday on the S.R.C. track, but did not suffer serious damage.

Admirers of Valpeen were satisfied with his display at Auckland and anticipated that he will be on hand to attempt a third National win.

Last week-end Poinard, under the c'are of W. Shand, and Money Mine (H. Morton) left Winton for Wingatui. At next week’s Dunedin meeting J. Morton will ride Tautau Maid and Money Mine.

The filly by Paper Money from Stage Fright claiming an engagement in the John Grigg Stakes, for two-year-olds, at Ashburton early in the spring, is well related. She is a half-sister to Shy, winner of the Carbine Plate at Auckland, and will race in the same interests as Shy and Billy Boy.

The inspection of racing establishments during the year contributed £l3B 15/6 to the expenses of administration by the Racing Conference. The stipendiary stewards’ account shows expenditure £3317 1/11 (salaries £2324 11/8), and the racecourse inspectors’ account £3591 3/11 (salaries £2826 5/-). Travelling expenses in both accounts amounted to £ll7B 7/11.

To win £5OO events on successive Saturdays at Flemington and Moonee Valley, on the part of Jack Horner, is a much better performance than is generally realized in this country. At the V.R.C. fixture the son of Captain Bunsby (imp. and by Captain Cuttie, a Derby winner) scored over a mile and a quarter, and at Moonee Valley the distance was one mile and three furlongs.

The general account of the New Zealand Racing Conference shows a credit balance for the year of £Bll 4/10. The general trust (accident) fund account shows that the expenditure exceeded income by £lBO4 4/3. Nearly £5OOO was expended in settling claims, and that amount is increased to £5621 4/4 when provision is made for outstanding claims. Accident fees brought in £2352 and licence fees a further £1321. The accumulated funds in this account now amount to £10,643 14/1.

“Moturoa” writes in The Taranaki Herald, as follows: —“Hurdle races at the Great Northeim meeting were won in times which were taken to win flat races twenty or thirty years ago. and reflection on that point leaves us with the impression that the present day hurdler cannot be so far behind giants in the jumping world in former years. They may not be such polished fencers, for they race over their obstacles nowadays, but Clarion Call, Jolly Beggar, Prince of Orange, Vai Watch, and The Smuggler are comparable with the best. In fact, the class all round among the hurdlers at Ellerslie during the carnival ranked considerably higher than for some years.”

The acceptances listed last evening for the first day of the Dunedin Jockey Club’s Winter meeting, which opens on Saturday next, must be admitted to exceed the most sanguine anticipations. Tbe truth of this statement is borne out by the fact that Umtali and Ecclefechan (dead) are the only defections from the Otago Steeplechase, while the full field of thirteen nominated for the leading flat race, Provincial Handicap (IJm.), have to be classed as acceptors. The story is the same throughout, with the exception of the June Hurdle Handicap, and here there are good reasons for The Smuggler (heavily taxed of late), Streamline (hardly ready) and Arctic Star dropping out. The acceptance statement is an exceptional one.

The somewhat headstrong but bold galloper, Whaddon Chase, was jumped over the schooling hurdles on the S.R.C. course yesterday morning, when he gave a very satisfactory display with the little lightweight indentured rider R. Phillips in the saddle. Ranking as a five-year-old gelding, T. E. Pankhurst’s pupil by Hunting Song—Marsurd promises .to develop into a useful jumper when he becomes experienced. He has not had many lessons as yet in crossing the sticks, but takes off confidently and makes his getaways smartly. It may be in the course of time that he will aspire to cross-coun-try company, and if so he should do well, as he is of the necessary type to succeed as a steeplechaser. Little Phillips handles the long black gelding well at the hurdles and rides him well in flat work, as he is not the easiest of mounts to control, but the jumping business is inducing him to settle down to routine exercise.

Bred at the Elderslie Stud, the two-year-old colt Omarere, who won the juvenile Stakes at the Rosehill R.C.’s meeting in Sydney on Saturday, an event for gallopers of his age, is possessed of an interesting pedigree and one well worth perusing. He is a son of the imported English horse Iliad (beaten a length in the Derby of 1930 by Blenheim) from Gesture, by Chiei Ruler (imp.) from Nottava, by Solferino (imp.) from Stepka, by St. Leger from Stepfeldt (sister to Stepniak), by Nordenfeldt (Musket). The colt’s dam, Gesture, is a half-sister to Miss Nottava, a mare highly assessed in Sydney, while his grand-dam, Nottava, is a halfsister to Anitea (dam of that good horse Rapier) and Zany (dam of Solzia, a gelding not unknown in Southland). Omarere is the first foal and his dam (Gesture) was unbeaten as a two-year-old, winning eight races, while she trained on to score again later, one of her successes being achieved in a D.J.C. Flying Handicap. Under the circumstances detailed, the descendant of Iliad may blossom into a dangerous candidate for the A.J.C. Derby and other classic contests of the 1936 season, as he is certainly bred to stay on and gallop fast if necessary.

Southlanders interested in the turf and the allied pastime of trotting will appreciate the remarks of a Christchurch Star-Sun light harness scribe, as follows:—“When trotting events were first incorporated in racing clubs’ programmes, strong exception was taken by supporters of the thoroughbred to what was considered an" encroachment by the trotting sport on racing clubs’ territory. The project was sponsored by certain racing clubs with a view to assisting their finance, which was necessary on account of the lack of interest and support accorded them by admirers of the galloping sport. Thus the trotting authorities were invited to provide trotting events on racing club programmes. This arrangement was welcomed by those associated with trotting because it furnished a inuchdesired opportunity to provide more races for novice pacers, and mixed programmes eventually became popular, and the two branches of sport have become strongly dovetailed, to their mutual advantage. The North Island delegates to the Racing Conference are not in sympathy with light-harness racing, and a move has been made to eliminate trotting events from racing club programmes. Officials of the North Island clubs do not realize the importance of trotting contests being included in many racing clubs’ schedules, and they should not be allowed to over-rule long-established conditions in the South Island. The president of the Racing Conference has expressed himself as against the inclusion of lightharness events on racing programmes, but it is pretty certain that he would review his decision if he were better acquainted with the conditions obtaining in the South Island. If the racing clubs concerned are alive to their own interests they will support the hunt clubs in tiie efforts to restore the trotters’ races when deemed necessary to strengthen a programme. Failing the support suggested it may come about that trotting events will be deleted from racing clubs’ cards next

season. A move in this direction is likely to be made at the conference of delegates from racing clubs to be held at Wellington next month.”