INVERCARGILL TRACKS

Southland Times, Issue 23379, 10 December 1937, Page 10

INVERCARGILL TRACKS

Paladino Doing Good Work WATER CART IN USE Bright sunshine favoured training operations at the Southland Racing Club’s tracks yesterday morning when all the work was carried out on the plough, on which the water cart had been used earlier in the week. Great Shot (E. Baker) and Amelita (Preston) slipped over half a mile: in 53sec finishing together. Great Shot, who comes to hand quickly, has made pleasing progress in his work since returning after a long spell. Sea Lady (C. Low) ran four furlongs on her own in 53 2-ssec. The sister to Sailing Lady is a big three-year-old and has gone on the right way since the Invercargill meeting. Sailing Lady (G. Barclay) ran six furlongs in lmin 26sec, the last four in 52 l-ssec. The Lord Warden mare has been kept up to her work since her success last month and will lack nothing on the score of condition for her holiday engagements. , Baltriun (Strathem) and Grey Seal (R Humphries) ran seven furlongs m lmin 35 4-ssec, the last six in lmm 22sec and the last half in 54sec. Baltruin who is a real Balboa on the tracks —a lazy worker —had to be stirred up to be on terms with Grey Seal (a half-brother to Western Song) at the P °6cean Singer (Barclay) and Paladino (Jennings) ran a mile in lmin 52sec, the last half in 54 l-ssec. Paladino was doing the better at the finish but Ocean Singer rarely gives his best on the tracks. Paladino is one who promises to race well during the holidays. Boswell and Silver Choir ran half a mile in 52sec. Boswell had to be hurried to be on terms with his mate over the final section. Silver Choir hit out well. Trebleack (Jennings) and Milford (Barclay) ran a mile in lmin 54 2-ssec, the last half in 56sec. The pair could have done much better but the effort was an encouraging one as both have freshened up after recent strenuous efforts.

Coxcomb and the Last Dart mare in W. E. Hazlett’s team were schooled over a hurdle in the plumpton area. The Last Dart mare, who has settled down since being brought in a few days ago, took the fence in her stride. Coxcomb was not very keen on .the task but he accomplished the essay without incident. Galleon is being restricted to light work. He lost a lot of condition after a race or two earlier in the season but is building up again. NEW RACING LAWS THE POSITION IN SYDNEY (By SIR MODRED) If, as anticipated, new racing laws come into force on January 1, it can be taken for granted that the death knell of proprietary racing has been sounded in the most populous centre of Australia. Apart from the Australian Jockey Club’s courses of Randwick, Warwick Farm and Rosehill, and several lesser turf centres, the racecourses in and around Sydney are controlled in the interests of shareholders in companies or syndicates, and as a result the stakes offered in the interests of breeders, owners, trainers, jockeys and other active participants in the pastime are very much lower than the sporting community has a right to expect. The new laws proposed by the Government of New South Wales will abolish proprietary racing, and set the turf on a somewhat similar foundation to that in Melbourne.

One effect of the proposed legislation will be the reduction of the Government totalizator tax giving racing clubs an additional 5 per cent, from investments with which to increase stakes. The interests of the ring are also to be safeguarded and an interesting provision is that which stipulates that if a fielder is unable to attend the racecourse through illness, it is proposed that he be allowed a substitute to field for him. Totalizator wagering will be on a five-shilling bases, as is the case in Victoria and it is to be hoped that New Zealand racing and trotting clubs will take heart and move along similar lines in the Dominion. New Zealanders who have studied the position in Sydney will echo the hopes of thousands of Australian sportsmen. WINNER IN SYDNEY GLENORA BOY’S SOUTHLAND CONNECTION (By SIR MODRED) The success of Glenora Boy at Warwick Farm last week was of more than passing interest in this part of New Zealand and some other South Island districts. Trained by J. T. Jamieson, of Randwick (Sydney) for an Auckland owner, he is a three-year-old colt of the highest lineage and is returned as having been bred by Mr G. Kain at Gladston Park Stud, Orari. At the N.Z. National Yearling Sales of 1936, J. T. Jamieson, acting as agent, secured the South Canterbury youngster at 250 guineas. It is reported from Sydney that Glenora Boy is a very promising galloper and that his connections did not hesitate to support him stoutly at Warwick Farm.

Glenora Boy is a son of Lord Warden, by Hurry On, from Hythe, by Chaucer (descendant of St. Simon) from Miss Gunning. This, in short, conveys the valuable blood strains of Lord Warden, but it is more particularly with the breeding of the colt on the maternal side that southern interest comes into play, and to which the attention of studmasters throughout New Zealand will turn. Jamieson’s pupil claims as his dam the beautifully-bred mare Full Swing, by Nassau (imp., and son of William the Third) from Marsa (dam of that great racehorse Nightmarch, and the lesser lights Brightling and Solmar), by Martian (imp., and great sire of stayers) from Nantes, by Stepniak (of the Musket tribe, good racehorse, and famous sire of brood mares) from Huguenot, by Apremont (imp. and one of New Zealand’s loading taproot sires of stamina, brilliance, and soundness) from Martyr, by Daniel O’Rourke from Raupo, a mare descended from a famous matron called Flora Mclvor.

In her racing days, Full Swing was a worthy half-sister to Nightmarch, as she won the Southland Cup, Riverton Easter Handicap, the Dunedin J.C. Birthday Handicap (twice), the Gore R.C. Handicap, and a number of other events. When the position is summed up it will be admitted that Lord Warden has a good son of exceptional breeding each way to uphold his prestige as a New Zealand sire in Australia.