BANKSTOCK A NEWCOMER

Southland Times, Issue 23767, 15 March 1939, Page 10

BANKSTOCK A NEWCOMER

VINOLA’S WYNDHAM CUP CHANCE WILD DEMONSTRATION AT TIMARU The first race at Wyndham on Saturday will start at 12.30 p.m. Omitted In the list of acceptances for the Wyndham meeting Bright Voyage was omitted from the President’s Handicap and Loyal Sun from the Edendale Handicap. Nell Volo’s Progress Nell Volo is shaping satisfactorily in her work at Takanini, and a good deal of interest is being taken in her displays. She was mated with Cloverdale earlier in the season, and hope? are held out that she will prove in foal to the Abbedale horse. At Wyndham Starting times at the Wyndham meeting on Saturday are as follows: 12.30 p.m., Ferry Handicap; 1.40 p.m., Trial Handicap; 1.50 p.m., President’s Handicap; 2.30 p.m., Wyndham Cup; 3.10 p.m., Juvenile Stakes; 3.50 p.m., Menzies Handicap; 4.30 p.m., Edendale Handicap; 5.10 p.m., Final Handicap. A Newcomer Bankstock, who is to make his first appearance in a race at Wyndham, is a three-year-old gelding by Worthy Bond from Love Match, the dam of Gold Bank, also by Worthy Bond. With Debenture, Gold Bank and Sydney Grand, this maternal line has been much in evidence in Southland this season, and Bankstock is also considered capable of holding his own. He is trained by W. A. Thomas. Cromwell Winner Waterloo Direct, who was returned a winner the second day at Cromwell, is a good type of pacer by Wellington Direct from Trixie Bell. He is trained by F. Langford at Winton and while he does not stay on too well in his races, the recent racing he has had has improved him in this direction.

Wild Demonstration There was a wild demonstration after the Wai-iti Handicap at Timaru on Saturday. In a close finish between three horses the judge placed Evora, Loyal Avis and Gay Lady in that order,, but after the return of the judge to the birdcage, where the position was discussed with the officials, the numbers were altered, Gay Lady being placed first, comments a Christchurch writer. Loyal Avis was second and Evora third. Our Fay, Devotion and Tinker were the early leaders, with Gay Lady and Stylish Boy next. Evora moved up at the end of a mile. Evora, Tinker, Our Fay and Gay Lady were the leaders when the straight was reached. Our Fay and Tinker failed in the run home, while Loyal Avis came on the scene late to assist in a good finish with Gay Lady and Evora. A Fiasco The New Zealand Trotting Stakes, for the third year of its existence, was a fiasco. There were six starters, but only one of them trotted smoothly. This was Invigorator, a big colt by Sonoma Harvester from a Drusus mare. In the hands of his Rangiora trainer, G. H. Murfitt, he went off well and trotted without a mistake, winning by 100 yards. Ocean Belle, who was second, is by Wrack from a Bon Patch mare, a good trotting pedigree. She broke several times, but trotted well in patches. So did Sealand, a Wrack colt, who showed speed after going off badly. Douglas McElwyn went off all right, but broke more than once. Gallant Amazon and Shirley Temple settled their chances at the start, and did not show much speed later.

Wyndham Cup Field The Wyndham Trotting Cup Handicap to be run on Saturday has drawn one flf the strongest fields ever to contest a race of this class in Southland. Vinola, who was narrowly beaten by Gentleman Joe in the Southland Handicap, will be given a chance to make amends, although the opposition on Saturday will be much stronger. The merit of Vinola’s second placing can be gauged from the fact that it was one of the fastest-run two-mile events in Southland in recent seasons. Night Voyage should be held safely by Vinola as also should Tritoma, College Boy and Embark. Coherto is quite capable of making a race of it as he retains all the speed he showed as a three-year-old but an inclination to break in his races makes it impossible to recommend him. The square trotter Parrish Guide is set rather a difficult task but Gay Lady, a winner at Timaru on Saturday, as well as at Invercargill the previous week, is almost certain to be one of the favourites. The manner in which she finished on at the end of a mile and five furlongs when she beat Kid Wolf by half a head points to her seeing out a solidly run two miles. She is a brilliant mare and in her present form must be one of the favourites. Two other Canterbury representatives in King Potts and Mazaire will be favoured. King Potts has shown himself to be a young pacer above the average and well up to the opposition he will meet here. Mazaire has some useful performances to his credit but will require to improve on anything he showed at the last Forbury meeting. Sydney Grand has the best credentials of the handicap lot. He won the Winton Cup in decisive style and off 12yds in this field should be one of the hardest to beat as he is an out-and-out stayer. Gay Avon was a good fourth in the Southland Handicap but Vinola should beat her again. Vinola and Sydney Grand read as the best of the Southlanders but they will be well tried by Gay Lady and King Potts, and this quartet is likely to be given most consideration at this stage.