RACING AND TROTTING

Southland Times, Issue 23183, 26 April 1937, Page 10

RACING AND TROTTING

News—Prospects—Results

Racing April 26—Marlborough Racing Club. April 29, May I—Oamaru Jockey Club. April 30, May I—Dannevlrke Racing Club (at Woodville) May B—Amberley Racing Club May 8. 12—Hawke’s Bay Jockey Club. May 12, 15—Egmont Racing Club. May 12—Ashburton County Racing Club. May 12—Bay of Islands Racing Club (at Pukekohe) May 12—Southland Racing Club. May 12, 15—Otaki Maori Racing Club. May 15—Waipa Racing Club. May 15—Birchwood Hunt Club at Invercargill. May 20. 22—South Canterbury Jockey Club. May 22—Carterton Racing Club. May 22. 24—Waikato Racing Club. May 29—Foxton lacing Club. June 5, 9. 12—Auckland Racing Club. Trotting April 27—Marlborough T.C. May I—Kaikoura T.C. May B—Waikato8 —Waikato T.C. May B—Oamaru T.C. May 12. 15—Forbury Park T.C. May 29—Canterbury Park T.C. June 12—Ashburton T.C. June 19. 23—Auckland T.C. (By The Curragh) The Marlborough Racing Club’s meeting will be continued today. Entries for the Oamaru Trotting Club’s meeting are due today. Acceptances for the Oamaru Jockey Club’s meeting close at 8 p.m. today. Nominations for the Southland Racing Club’s winter meeting close next Friday. Nominations for the Forbury Park Trotting Club’s winter meeting close at 5 o’clock today. Taumau is the latest recruit to hurdling at Awapuni. Schooled oyer five fences at Awahuri on Tuesday morning he jumped slowly but safely. Gay Talkie is gradually being eased off in preparation for his trip to India. May 12 has been, fixed as his sailing date and he will be shipped via Singapore. ’ Few hurdle races have been run south of Wingatui in recent years, but one worth £155 is included in the Coronation Day programme of the Southland Racing Club. True Shaft has returned to Awapuni after a period under F. Carmonts charge at Foxton. The former trial companion to Nightmarch during the latter’s heyday will be given a further chance to make good as a hurdler. Dusky Sound, one of R. Townley’s team, is a three-year-old by Happy Voyage from Hector’s Own, who was a well-known race mare on southern tracks some time ago. Dusky Sound should develop into a useful pacer. The Koatanui youngsters which recently joined up with W. Raynor s team have been named. Chief Ranger s halfbrother will race as Rehearsal, Veilmond’s sister as Fabric, and the Motley filly as Minga. A New Zealand-bred three-year-old showing promise in Sydney is Kawakia, trained by J. T. Jamieson. -Ie is. a three-year-old half-brother to Clarion Call by Chief Ruler, and is owned by Mr W. S. Glenn, who raced In The Shade and several other smart performers. While the state of racing in New South Wales is causing concern, there is a boom in Victoria. The Caulfield authorities are about to spend another £50,000 in improvements, and the Mentone Club is installing a Julius totalizator of the most up-to-date kind at its course in the suburbs. Among the novice jumpers in training at Ellerslie is a six-year-old halfbrother hy Whirlwind to the Great Northern Steeplechase winner Glendowie. His name is Whakarerehau, and when he commences to race more than one punter is likely to find the nomenclature a tongue twister. It is intended to give Black Marlin some schooling over the steeplechase fences at Ellerslie at an early date. This horse has proved himself a good jumper over hurdles, and with a bit of experience he should be quite capable of negotiating the big fences at Ellerslie. Woodville is gradually gaining popularity as a training centre and the Waipukurau mentor B. McKay is now there with Gaelic Song, Hunting Tartan, Marjory Daw and the hunter Given. The Avondale owner-trainer M. Lane is still at Woodville with Colleen Gain and Solaria. It is nrobable that Don Erma will miss the Egmont Steeplechase in favour of the Te Awamutu meeting on the same date. He is to be nominated for both fixtures. The New Plymouth jumper has never looked better than at present and his immediate prospects are bright.

The right of racing clubs to remove from race-courses any person who has not complied with a request to leave has been established in Australia by a judgment of the High Court, which ruled that no charge of assault can be brought by an “undesirable” so ejected.

The Takanini trained Romani is to leave for Sydney on May 12, where he is to go into the stables of F. McGrath. Owned by Mr W. H. Whitmore, Romani is a rising three-year-old by Paladin from Gold Lily and hails from a family which has produced many good performers, including Master Delavel, Miss Delavel and Killboy.

R. Coveney, who rode The Sandwichman in both his successes at the Nelson meeting, was riding for the first time since he was seriously injured in a fall, at the C.J.C. Easter meeting of 1933. Coveney, who is now training a small team at Blenheim, handled his mounts with vigour, and the crowd was not slow in showing its appreciation of his comeback.

Last winter the Acre gelding Manawatu graduated from hurdling ranks to take his place and perform well against the best of the cross-country horses, and Mrs A. W. McDonald’s charge has returned to racing an allround better horse, having built up generally since last winter, writes “Moturoa,” in The Manawatu Standard. Besides Manawatu, this stable has the hunter Tribesman, as well as Taumau and Lacoste, to polish up for the winter meetings.

The veteran ’chaser Billy Boy is standing up to his work in good style and looks as bright as ever. It is not intended to give him any schooling over the fences at Ellerslie for some weeks yet, as he is a finished jumper and knows every inch of the steeplechase course. Despite his age. Billy Boy paid his way handsomely last season and more money is likely to come his way in cross-country events before the present jumping season is over.

Winitangi may be a prospect in her engagements at Woodville. A two-year-old daughter of Tractor and Ecila, she showed promise in running third to Felicitation and Airini at Waipukurau. As she was rather backward the race should have improved her considerably.

Something new in the way of colours has been introduced in England by a young enthusiast, the Duchess of Bedford, whose horses will carry a black jacket with a large Mickey Mouse pattern in black and white on both back and front. The cap is white. The Duchess hails from a well-known family of amateur riders and is at present represented by the two-year-old Scampi, but she has also some otherpromising stock which has’ not yet raced.

One of the imported Australian yearlings that has gone into H. B. Lorigan’s stable at Trentham is a bay colt by Barralong from Circus Star, by Spearhead from Circus Queen. He was bred at the famous Kia Ora Stud, and is related to Hot Night, who was second in the English Derby and St. Leger, beaten by Call Boy and Book Law respectively. Barralong was a good winner in England, and one of his progeny in The Bigot has already won several races in New Zealand.

When trained by A. E. Neale at Bulls, Diatomous showed a great deal of speed, but he was subsequently sold for stud purposes in the north. He was brought back to racing recently this season and displayed signs of returning to his best form when he was prominent for a good portion of the way in events at Te Aroha, Pukekohe, and Avondale. He was produced in the Stewards’ Handicap on the first day of the Whangarei meeting and, hitting the front smartly, led the field to the straight, weakening a shade in the run home to finish third. On the second day he and Crooning were the pilots all the way, the latter holding on just a little too well for him. On this form Diatomus may still have a race concealed in him, but his weight is not getting any less.

There are several interesting entrants for the maiden events at _ the Woodville fixture, some prominent families being represented by more or less unknown talent. The unnamed gelding by Sky Blue from Markful is a half-brother to the New Zealand Cup winner Spearful, and also to that useful hurdler Full Mark; Anubis is a full brother to Sergia and a half-brother to Karl, being by Lord Quex from Sunny Hours. Although a six-year-old, he has not yet raced; Aria is a two-year-old hy Hunting Song from Paonui, being a half-sister to Royal Parade, Wahine Nui and Childstudy (which won several good races in South Australia); Rahatai is a three-year-old half-brother by Lackham to Manawatu; and Captain Furst, which was thought good enough to be nominated for the last New Zealand Cup,- is a three-year-old full brother to Geira and half-brother to Werohia,

Russian buyers have made practically a clean sweep of the pick of this season’s English thoroughbred young stallions to re-equip the Cossacks. _ This was the surprise ilote of the judging of English thoroughbred stallions at the Royal Agricultural Hall. _ln consequence, many of the premium money awards went to veteran 15 and 20-year-old thoroughbred stallions. The judging ring fully demonstrated the extent of the serious loss such a largescale export of young breeding stock will mean to British light-horse breeding this coming season (says a show authority). There was such a dearth of high-quality young stallions for the judges to handle that very few reserve awards could be made at all. Russian Government buyers have been buying up the best of our young blood-stock in order to re-establish their one-time famous Cossack cavalry regiments. They have paid several thousands of pounds for the British light-horse breeders’ most promising youngsters. OTAUTAU RACES MEETING ABANDONED The annual meeting of the Otautau Racing Club, which was postponed from last month because of bad weather and was to be held on Saturday, has been abandoned. Heavy rain during Friday night and Saturday morning left the club little choice hut to postpone the meeting until Monday. The weather did not improve, however, and the course was flooded yesterday. It was then decided to abandon the meeting in the meantime. LAWN TENNIS McGRATH SUFFERS THUMB INJURY (Received April 25, 6.30 p.m.) MEXICO CITY, April 24. V. B. McGrath’s right thumb is under the care of a Canadian, Dr Herman Colo, who is undecided whether it should be lanced. The manager of the Australian Davis Cup team (Mr C. E. Sproule) is hopeful that the abcess will disappear without an operation. “We are not worried as far as Mexico is concerned,” he said. “We will know some time next week whether the abcess will affect McGrath’s playing against the United States at Forest Hills. It might suddenly get better and he might even be able to play here.” A. K. Quist is still bothered by the high bounce caused by the sandstone courts and the altitude. Mr Sproule said that he would probably pick the team next Wednesday for the first round game against Mexico. GERMANY’S DAVIS CUP TEAM BERLIN, April 24. Germany’s Davis Cup team will be G. von Cramm, H. Henkel and Dettmer. AUSTIN DEFEATS BOUSSUS LONDON, April 24. The finals of the Brighton tennis tournament resulted: H. W. Austin defeated C. Boussus (France) 7—5, 6—3. Senorita Anita Lizana (Chile) defeated Miss D. E. Round o—6, 6—-2, 6—2. J. Brugnon and Boussus (France) defeated A. C. Stedman and C. E. Malfroy (New Zealand) B—6, o—6, 6—4.