BING CROSBY’S BEHAVIOUR

Southland Times, Issue 23394, 29 December 1937, Page 10

BING CROSBY’S BEHAVIOUR

SHOULD BE SUBJECT OF NOTICE WILLOW WAVE’S CUP SUCCESS The first race at Winton today will start at 12.30 p.m. Happy Locanda who made a good showing at Gore on Monday won a double at Cattle Flat yesterday. Horsepower, who won the Champion Stakes' on Monday, won . last season’s first two-year-old race when he won the North Island Challenge Stakes. Horsepower is another of the Jack Potts tribe. Bing Crosby’s correct mark in the Winton Cup today is 60 yards behind and not 48 yards as inadvertently stated yesterday. Blue Logan failed to begin correctly in his races at Gore but when on the journey he showed more speed than anything else. Parrish Guide who is engaged at Winton today was placed at Ashburton on Monday in good time. He is "a member of R. Townley’s team. A veterinary examination of Two’s Loose on Monday disclosed that his death was due to the bursting of a blood vessel. There are a few newcomers engaged at Winton today and one of these is Foremost Junr., a novice by Logan Sun from Baker Girl. When Irish Aggie was placed at Gore on Monday she was giving away time to start and unless she wins at Winton today her Gore placing will have been expensive. The American-bred horse Bing Crosby won the Gore Cup in the manner of a true racehorse, but he is a long way from the finished article and a repetition of his behaviour on Monday and that given at Forbury last month will find him qualifying for a pace on the schooling list. While he finally began correctly in the. Gore Cup he was a menace to the field for a time and his unruliness caused some concern among drivers. That Bing Crosby should be inclined to waywardness is unfortunate but until he can behave much more soberly than he did at Forbury and in the Gore Cup his case should be the subject of some official notice. The success of Willow Wave in the Auckland Cut yesterday would come as great news to Southlanders and the Waverley gelding was bred in these parts and races in the livery of the Gore sportsman, Mr D. Windle. Willow Wave is a genuine stayer but throughout his career he has been inclined to waywardness at the start of his races and this has cost him repeated winning chances. Yesterday he clinched the most important success of his career, as this year’s Auckland Cup,not only carried a stake of £1450, but jt is the tightest two mile race yet decided in New Zealand. The field was one of the strongest assembled for- some time as not only did it include two New Zealand Cup winners in Lucky Jack and the treble winner Indianapolis, but Lawi. Derby, the champion of Australia was also a starter. Willow Wave has always been regarded as a stayer of the first water and his success yesterday would bear out the contention of his trainer, O. E. Hooper, that he was the equal of Satin Kling, doubtless the greatest pacer ever bred in Southland. Satin King had few equals as stayer and his world record of 4.16 bore this out. Willow Wave does not boast a pedigree expected of a champion ana despite repeated efforts to trace his maternal line no further information than that he is out of a hack mare can be obtained.- His sire Waverley was a colonial-bred horse, who with limited opportunities, left a number of useful winners. Waverley was got by Galindo (McKinney blood) from Thelma, the dam of Wildwood Junior, Authoress, Lady Sybil, Cameos, Adonis and others who were good winners and above all bred on with remarkable success. REHANDICAPS FOR WYNDHAM (United Press Association) DUNEDIN, December 28. The following rehandicaps have been made for the Wyndham meeting on New Year’s Day: Wyndham Cup.—Davolo 9.8; High Glee 7.10. President’s Handicap.—Gold Boa 10.2, Top Row 9.1, Double Gift 7.9. Mimihau Hack Handicap.—Night Wings 8.1.