RACING AND TROTTING

Southland Times, Issue 22934, 6 July 1936, Page 10

RACING AND TROTTING

News —Prospects—Results

Racing. July 7. 9 ll—Wellington R.C. . July 18—Hawkes Bay Hunt Club. , July 18—Waimate District H.C. July 25—South Canterbury H.C. July 25— Manawatu R.C. August I—Christchurch Hunt Club. August 11, 13. 15—Canterbury J C. (Grand National) September s—Otago Hunt Club. Trotting. ' August 8, 12, 14—N.Z. Metropolitan T.C. August 15—Cambridge T.C / August 29—Auckland T.C September s—New Brighton T.C. September 12—Wellington T.C. October 3—Methven T.C. (By Sir Modred.) The opening event of the Wellington R.C. meeting to-morrow is due at 11.30 a.m. The V.R.C. Grand National fixture will be opened at Flemington on Tuesday. His connections have issued a warning that Gold Rod may not run in the Melbourne Cup. The Otaki Trotting Club will register and make application for a racing permit. Entered for flat and hurdle races at Trentham Lord Vai is a winter racer. The annual meeting of the N.Z. Trotting Conference will be held on Wednesday. J. Bryce, jun., heads the list of winning reinsmen with 43 wins, F. J. Smith has 39. The annual meeting of the N.Z. Racing Conference will take place on Friday. It is hoped to have Aucklander Allegretto ready for the Grand National meeting. Prospects are now for the usual heavy going for the Wellington winter meeting. Royal Songster fell twice in the recent Dannevirke Hunt Club Steeplechase on Wednesday. Backed and beaten in Melbourne recently, Counterflight (N.Z.) may' do better very soon. With the going holding at Trentham, Silk Arrow should be dangerous this week. The Otaki and Wanganui winner, Hazoor, is in the W.R.C. Parliamentary Handicap (ljm.). Reports from Te Rapa state that Blackman has been schooling well over battens. Lyn Dhu may be short of condition for Trentham, but he is a great jumper. The Hastings galloper, Happy Landing is to be tried out in view of a Sydney trip. With the track holding, youthful Pakanui may not race at Trentham on Tuesday. J. Bryce, jun., is leading N.Z. reinsman for the first time; J. Bryce sen., was six times on top. The well-known Riccarton flat race horseman, M. Kirwan was married last week. It is satisfactory to note that A. S. Ellis is getting on well with the training ? of the jumper Nocturnus. The Sandwichman, who is engaged at Wellington, is in charge of ex-jockey R. E. Coveny. One Whetu is not quoted in the Caulleld Cup market, but he may appear in the near future. Valpeen is steadily preparing at Matamata for an attempt to win his third G.N. Steeplechase. The New Plymouth trainer, H. Dulieu, may produce Hunting Maid as a good hack at Trentham. Many Southlanders would like to see V. Langford riding Miss Winston in the Wellington Steeplechase. Postponed owing to rain, the V.R.C. G.N. meeting will now be held on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. The Wellington R.C’s. Winter fixture at Trentham is due on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. The fact that Diamond is Trenthamtrained has given him special mention for to-morrow. Despite a track defeat by Boomerang, Shy may prove himself a useful horse at the W.R.C. meeting. Vinco is a novice hurdler who has been giving encouraging schooling displays at Trentham. Dunmure was narrowly beaten by Valpeen and Ruby Meteor in the Wellington Steeplechase last year. The Te Rapa horseman N. McKenzie, will pilot Adalene in her W.R.C. engagements. Signaller may have jumped carefully at Riccarton last week, but he will give of his best when his fighting blood is up at Trentham. As Counterflight and Valarth are trained in Melbourne by J. Butler, A. E. Didham, the Fred Archer of Maoriland, may be riding the pair. The Wanganui J.C’s. Winter meeting carried £lOOO extra in stakes, and is said to have yielded a profit of at leas? £3OO. After meeting with serious injuries, R. E. Coveny handed in his jockey’s licence many months ago, but mayride again next season. The Te Rapa juvenile gelding, Young Paddon, related to White Comet, Paddon, Chang and Grand Score, is exhibiting galloping ability. It is reported that Tooley Street and Horowhenua may be on hand for the second and third days of the W.R.C. meetings. North Island Pressmen hint that the stakes for the time-honoured Wanganui Cup are likely to be increased next season. Very heavy rain fell at Trentham on Thursday night and on Friday showers and a cold southerly change were experienced. It is officially notified that Vocal (Whyte Handicap) and Lycidas (Winter Hurdles) were accepted in error, and have been withdrawn from those engagements at the W.R.C. meeting. “The Watcher” states in The Dominion:—“There are signs that Prince Acre will be well backed again for the Stewards’ Handicap to-morrow, a race . he won last year when favourite.” 1

The fact that High Speed schooled well at Riccarton on Thursday over a round of the steeplechase fences in company with Nocturnus is a recommendation for Trentham, as the latter is a fine jumper. The opinion that win and place betting in New Zealand had come to stay was recently expressed by Mr C. L. Orbell, well-known as Master of. the South Canterbury Hunt. It was recently pointed out by H.H. Aga Khan that, many of the greatest sires, including St. Simon and Blandford, were not raced after they were classed as three years of age. An impression prevails in the North Island that The Smuggler is a particularly good mover in “mud,” but southern people acquainted with the big Balboa gelding vail hardly bear out this contention. If Signaller, a close relative to The Smuggler, was placed in the effective heavy going galloping brigade, the classing would be deemed more accurate in this part of the world—the conformation of Signaller suggests that he is less liable to slip about and tire than the long-striding gelding, The Smuggler. Riders engaged and probable riders for the acceptors in the Wellington Steeplechase to-morrow are as follow :— Billy Boy—W. Rennie. Forest. Glow—C. Thomson. Windsor Lad—J. Muir. Diamond—R. K. Smith. Pahu—G. Ridgway. Dunmure—V. Langford. Royal Banquet--R. Miles. Emancipation—F. E. Baker. Gascille—A. Gilmer. Urntali—W. Cooper. Manawatu —A. McDonald. Miss Winston —H. Turner. There were two novices at the Dannevirke Hunt Club meeting (remarks The Dominion) who rather impressed in their first racing essays. Great Hope, who was runner-up in the Takapau Novice Stakes, is Mr T. A. Duncan’s three-year-old chestnut gelding, by Laughing Prince from Enthusiasm, thus a half-brother to Hunting Queen and Entheos. Great Hope is a Trial Plate candidate at Trentham on the second day. Silent Acre, who was considered unlucky not to win the amateur riders’ event, is a five-year-old brother to Manawatu, and is trained for his breeder, Mr F. S. Easton, by Mrs A. McDonald at Awapuni. Silent Acre, is a well-grown, promising gelding.

The fact that J. Bryce jun. heads the list of winning reinsmen for the current season in New Zealand, recalls the performance of his father, J. Bryce sen., who accomplished this feat for six seasons, and likewise topped the trainers’ score. It will also be borne in mind that Bryce senior trained the winner of the New Zealand Trotting Cup on six occasions, his successful pupils ranking as Ahouriri (twice), Cathedral Chimes, Great Hope, Kohara, and Red Shadow'. He also turned out four winners of the Auckland Trotting Cup. Young “Jimmy” will travel far on the track and live long before he can approach the records of his sire on the racing path and m the training stable.

With the V.R.C. Winter, meeting postponed from Saturday until to-mor-row (Tuesday) owing to heavy rains and floods, q different complexion may be put on the prospects of the nine acceptors for the Grand National Hurdle Race. In the event of a heavy track obtaining at Flemington, Full Charge (11.6), Sixteen Annas (11.5) and Pooley Bridge (11.3), the three jumpers heading the list, will have their difficulties increased, and the promising performer Brilliant Son (10.6) may dominate the situation, and the New Zealander, King Colossus (10.3) may possess more than an extreme outside chance—he was supported some lime ago for the race to win £30,000, but money does not always make the mare go. Brilliant Son, a four-year-old stallion, has of late proved himself one of the most improved hurdle racers in Victoria.

The cabled announcement that the Invercargill-bred colt, Prendergast, finished second in his division of the Juvenile Handicap, £l5O, for two-year-olds (five and a-half furlongs), at the Kensington Racing Club meeting in Sydney on Saturday, will arouse some interest in the home province, as he was bred by “Mr Mantell” at Waikiwi, and sent across to Randwick to be trained there by James Barden, who in his more youthful days figured as one of the leading horsemen in Australia. Prendergast is by Lord Warden (imp.) from Machaela, by Rokeby (imp.) from Jessie Lewars, by Stepniak from Merisette, by Medallion from Huguenot, by Apremont (imp.) from Martyr. The progeny of Michaela have all proved useful gallopers, viz.; Don Jose (Archery), Nedda (Paper Money, and winner of the V.R.C. Sires’ Produce Stakes in 1929, and raced by Mr B. S. Irwin, of Dunedin), Elvira (Solferino), and Moneta (Paper Money filly). A patient policy has been pursued with Prendergast, a colt of commanding size, in the hope that he would furnish into a valuable performer of his age for the 193637 season to contest the A.J.C. Derby and other valuable classic events. When first placed under the care of his Randwick mentor the Lord Warden colt was not inclined to bestir himself in an encouraging fashion on the tracks, but with the passing of time he improved steadily in this respect and when last heard of he was pleasing his connections and promising to develop into a good three-year-old for the back end of the incoming turf term. The youngster is bred the right way to gallop fast and far, and on looks he should be able to produce the goods when James Barden is satisfied that he has finished growing and seasoned to the same degree as more precocious thoroughbreds of similar age. AMATEUR ATHLETICS LOVELOCK RUNS GOOD MILE. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) (Rec. 6.30 p.m.) London, July 4. At White City J. E. Lovelock, the New Zealand athlete, assisted the Achilles Club to retain the Victory trophy in the four-mile relay, which was run in 17min 31.2 sec. Lovelock exhibited a glimpse of his real form, running the first mile in 4min 18sec and securing a lead of 80 yards, which his team-mates increased to 100, beating the Southgate Club. The Victory Trophy ranks as the British relay championship. BOXING RICHARDS KNOCKS OUT HOUGH. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) (Rec. 6.30 p.m.) Brisbane, July 5. In a boxing contest Ron Richards (11.9) knocked out the American Mark Hough (11.10) in the 13th round of a thrilling fight