RODEUR BACK TO HER BEST

Southland Times, Issue 23442, 24 February 1938, Page 10

RODEUR BACK TO HER BEST

Paper Slipper Not For Sale PREPARATIONS FOR GORE A Press Association message states that Tiger Gain and Cuddle have been withdrawn from the Wanganui Cup. Coupled Guste and Astral Flash will be bracketed if both start in the Novice Handicap at Gore. Omitted From List Mazir, who won the Vercoe Handicap at the Waikato meeting on Monday, was omitted from the list of acceptances telegraphed from Hamilton and his name was not included in the official race card published on the day of the meeting. Hurdling Recruit Polar Star has not been produced since the Dunedin meeting as he slightly injured a knee when raced over hurdles. He raced well enough to suggest that he will make a success of the jumping game. Back to Form

When Rodeur raced in Canterbury and when she returned to Southland her form was too bad to be true but she has now returned to form well. Her success at Winton was her first in open company and the Robespierre mare has only to hold her condition to win an important sprint handicap. As a three-year-old last season she compiled a very fine record.

Riders For Gore At Gore tomorrow the Wingatui apprentice, P. Spratt has been engaged to ride Astaire, Lumiere, Rodeur, and Daring Deed. W. Jenkins will ride Nightwlngs. Withdrawn From Sale

At the beginning of last week Sir Charles Clifford named the price which he was prepared to accept for Paper Slipper. If the sale had taken place it was thought he would leave the Dominion, but the deal has fallen through

and the horse has now been withdrawn, from sale and will remain in his present quarters at Riccarton. It is probable he will make his next appearance at the autumn meeting at Trentham next month and may again contest the North Island Challenge Stakes, in which he was narrowly beaten by Royal Chief last autumn.

Wingatui Tracks Conditions were pleasant at Wingatui on Tuesday morning for training operations, and some of the local horses for the Gore meeting this week were galloped. All the fast work took place on the sand plough. About 16 horses will be making the trip south, reports The Otago Daily Times. Janet Gaynor, who is standing up well to her racing, jumped away ahead of Combat at the five furlongs, but waited on her mate, and they finished together. Neither was extended. Combat’s time was Imin 5 l-ssec.

Oliver jumped away just after entering the plough. He was timed to run his last six- furlongs in lmin 23sec. Pink Robe and Delrain started at the finishing post on the plough and went a complete round. The distance is a little over nine furlongs, and clocked for the last six of this journey they showed lmin 21 2-ssec. It was a good working gallop, with both finishing on well. Delrain shaped pleasingly for a hurdle horse. Lumiere and Pink Del began at the six furlongs. They were kept up to it most of the way, and were ridden right out at the finish, where they were practically on terms. They covered the distance in lmin 17 2-ssec. Spanish Lad and Wyn went over the same ground in lmin 18 3-ssec. The former, who had the inside running, appeared to be going easily at the finish. Wyn also showed up well after covering extra ground during the gallop. Astaire, who bears a bright appearance, was sprinted, and others on the tracks included Epic and Slayer, who were worked on the outside of the course proper, New Note, Hanlon, Daring Deed, High Glee, Norseman, Nightwings, Gay Vixen, Quick Return, Great Pal, Jimmy’s Gift, Peacock, Tupai, and Poetic.

Best Southern Juvenile Defaulter is booked for another trip to Trentham next month, when he will be matched against the best horses in the North Island Challenge Stakes. This event, run over seven furlongs, will provide a test of stamina for the two-year-olds, and as they will also meet

some of the good older horses, the contest should solve another problem, by showing the real class of this season s juveniles. A week after Trentham, Defaulter is to race at Awapuni, in the Manawatu Sires’ Produce Stakes, and the seven furlong event. The colt will then return to Riccarton, to wind up the season in the Canterbury Champagne Stakes and Challenge Stakes. Defaulter has earned £675 in his three wins, with £5O for his third at Riccarton in the spring, so his total to date is £725, a good return for the 170gns which Mr H. D. Greenwood paid for him as a yearling. He has ’been given every chance, and as a result of careful handland has grown into a solid colt. He has improved steadily and now takes the eye as likely to go on to good class, especially as he has given decided evidence of stamina. It need be no surprise if he stays, as his dam Expense by Paper Money, is from Lady Jean 11, an imported mare which produced Scion, one of the few horses to win the New Zealand and Auckland Cups, both races being secured in the same season.

Steeplechase Riders The shortage of steeplechase and hurdle race riders at the present time is restricting the number of owners who would otherwise patronize this attractive side of the sport, and but for this factor the fields in jumping races would be larger. Riders of jumpers complain that they receive little encouragement nowadays to remain in the game owing to the limited number of clubs that include jumping races on their programme. They also complain that they are often asked to school and. educate jumpers, risking life and limbs, often without receiving any monetary recompense, and quite frequently are not given the mount in races when the horses they have schooled are started. With a view to remedying this, and encouraging riders to remain in the game, .the Wairio Jockey Club has framed a remit to be considered at the next meeting of delegates to the Racing Conference, which, if adopted, will provide for the payment of not less than five shillings to riders each time they school horses over one or more hurdles or steeplechase fences, states The Evening Star, Dunedin. Some owners and trainers already have arrangements with riders who do the schooling of their horses, and this remit does not intend to apply to them, but to encourage the free-lance riders who in the past have been obliging trainers in this dangerous work. Recently one well-known Otago owner, who in the past has been a good patron of jumping races, announced that because of the difficulty in securing capable jockeys he was seriously considering going out of the game. Hurdle races and steeplechases, particularly the latter, are a great draw to a meeting, and if more clubs included these classes of races on their programmes they would attract larger attendances. There are plenty of horses at present racing on the flat that would have a much better chance of winning money over fences, and if the clubs would provide races for them the encouragement offered would soon increase the ranks of horsemen.

The Camera Eye So far the efforts of a few people to have the “magic eye” camera installed on Melbourne racecourses have not been successful, nor are they likely to be. It is apparently not giving satisfaction in tire countries where it has been introduced. Its introduction to the Durban courses was recently suggested, but the chairman of the Durban Turf Club stated a few weeks ago that “the club had written to America and France, where the camera has been in use for some time, for information regarding its effectiveness and reliability, and the replies from both countries were far from encouraging.” TE AROHA R.C. FIELDS FOR OPENING DAY (United Press Association) AUCKLAND, February 22. Following are the acceptances for the opening of the Te Aroha meeting on Saturday:— 11.50 a .in.

RUAKAKA HURDLES, £300. About one mile and a-half. Erinatlon 11 7 Racewhip 9 4 Master Musk 10 5 Siwell 9 0 Englishman 10 5 Dialogue 9 0 Mungacre 10 0 My Money 9 0 Sandrift 9 13 Professional 9 0 Simint 9 13 Survalyon 9 0 Holly Lu 9 7 Celtic Lad 9 0 12.35 p.m. WAITOA HANDICAP. Sweepstakes of £3 each, with £250 > added. Six furlongs. Gay Egypt 9 0 Aynho 8 0 Windcress 8 10 Mon Acre 7 11 Thala 8 8 Sen Acre 7 11 Galloping Acre 8 7 Attack 7 11 Free Advice 8 7 Trevace 7 11 Lapidarian 8. 0 Australian Star 7 11 Gay Papa 8 0 Devon 7 11 1.20 p.m. JUVENILE HANDICAP, £300. Two-year-olds. Five furlongs. Arvakur 9 0 Jayola 7 0 Rarotonga 8 10 Noitaro 7 0 Calorie 8 8 First Gold Kathbella 8 4 Money 7 0 Miss Brierly 7 8 Miss Tidal 7 0 Spinning Kingcraft 7 0 Wheel 7 3 Philcourt 7 0 First Flutter 7 0 Pocket Venus 7 0 2.5 p.m. HERBIES MEMORIAL CUP, £1000 and cup valued at £50. One mile and three furlongs. King Rey 8 8 Rona Bay 7 7 Kelly 8 3 Mazir 7 7 Master Brierly 8 1 Scotland 7 6 Stretto 8 1 Kilonsa 7 6 Round Up 8 0 King Musk 7 0 Knight of AusJewelled tralia 8 0 Girdle 7 0 Jonathan 8 0 Sinking Fund 7 0 Gay Rose 7 12 Day Wind 7 0 2.55 p.m. SHAFTESBURY HACK HANDICAP. Sweepstake of £3 each, with £275 added. Six furlongs. Anion 8 10 Cappy 7 10 Te Monowai 8 9 Huntmgmore 7 7 Huntette 8 6 Jan Ridd 7 7 Llangollen 8 6 Lady Meath 7 7 Fleetwind 8 4 Forest Acre 7 3 Miss Te Koura 8 4 Copy Cat 7 2 Lady Montana 8 1 High Delight 7 1

3.40 p.m. HOT SPRINGS HANDICAP, £300. One mile. Trilliarch 8 8 Surella 7 3 Valamito 8 3 Prince Rangi 7 2 Lornacre 8 0 Bonny Gay 7 0 Star Artist 8 0 Sir Abb 7 0 Paso Robles , 8 0 Grand City 7 0 Rolette 7 10 Respectful 7 0 Alby High Tea Marie's Acre 7 10 Whakapara 7 0 7 8 Land Girl 7 4 7 0 4.25 p.m. CHAMPION HACK HANDICAP, £350 mile and a-quarter. . One Melvanul 9 0 Privy Seal 7 9 Silver River 8 12 Dutch Girl 7 9 Kena 8 12 Bonnie Song 7 7 Black Musk 8 10 Barrister 7 2 Loombination 8 10 Ivy Willonyx 7 1 Gay Streak 8 9 Sockettes 7 0 Brown' Lap Glen Abb 8 7 Cometarium 8 0 7 0 5.10 p.m. WAIHOU HANDICAP, £500. Six furlongs. Courtcraft 9 6 Rereatu 7 9 Whirling 8 12 Royal Bachelor 7 8 Golden Sheila 8 8 Palustre 7 3 Suleiman 8 2 Maori Song 7 1 Tosh Tray Bit 8 1 Bachelor King 7 12 7 0