NIGHTWINGS IN FAVOUR

Southland Times, Issue 24104, 18 April 1940, Page 10

NIGHTWINGS IN FAVOUR

R. E. McLellan’s Good Season WINNERS OF £2BlO PRODUCED Several improving hacks are: downi to clash at the Otautau meeting on batuiday. Reply To Correspondent “Punter,” Awarua—£l/5/-. Half And Half Half and Half, who won at Oamani „ Qnhirdav is to make his Inst ap hurdler al <>» Tim.™ meeting next week. Hurdling Recruit The British Empire mare, Alms, has been schooled privately and she s credited with having shaped well. Jumping Riders T. J. Boyle will ride Guste at the Otautau meeting on Saturday and L. 1. Low will be on Scotsden.

As A Sprinter Waitoru, who is top-weight in tie open sprint on Saturday, won °Pen snrint race over seven fuilongs at Riverton 12 months ago. First Winner The apprentice V. Sellars gained his first win when he got Night Pal home by half a head in the Gardnci Memorial at Oamaru. Sudden Rise

His treble success at B1VLrto1 ? sa Waitoru raised from the bottom to the top of the weights in middle distance end sprint events in Southland. Another Attempt

Wild Career will attempt to win his second Otautau Cup on Saturday. He won this race two years ago under B.J in 2min 8 2-ssec. He has 8.10 in Saturday’s race. Wild Coon

The two-year-old Wild Coon, who has been placed in his only start to date, has done particularly well since placed back in work. There are few youngsters about with better prospects than the Nigger Minstrel-Miss Reaowa gelding. Otautau Cup Nightwings is likely to be installed a good early favourite for the Otautau Cup. She won over 10/ furlongs at the Vincent meeting and as she can handle any conditions she is nicely placed with 8.3. Good Recovery Pandine has apparently made a good recovery from the injuries he sufieied before 'the Riverton meeting In his last start he conceded Ballybnt 71b and ran a great race in being beaten by only a length by the Great Western winnei. Wen Race Four Times F. W. Ellis, who will be represented in the Otautau Cup on Saturday by Mona's Song, has won this race with Tommy Dodd (1926), Bilbo (1928), Red Sea (1930) and Foxlove (1939). A Handsome Profit It is estimated that the Vincent meeting held at Wingatui showed a surplus to the club of about £BOO. This will leave a handsome profit on the year s working, as the fixture held at Omakau last January resulted in a lose of about £4OO. Washdkye Jumpers

A few weeks ago there was a prospect of Washdyke having three good ’chasers to represent it during the winter campaign, but the outlook is not now so promising, remarks The Timaru Herald. Survey had to be thrown out _,f work when being prepared for the Great Western. Santoft got o Riverton, but did not reach the starting post, and Slayer is the only survivor of the trio.

Nightcalm Nightcalm will in future be trained at Orari by his owner, Mr F. C. Christie. When trained by C. Emerson he was a good winner, but also a rather unlucky horse. As a three-year-old Nightcalm won four times and was placed twice in 10 starts. Last season Nightcalm won six times, was six times second, and once third in 19 starts. The seconds included one to Trench Fight in the Jockey Club Handicap and to Paper Slipper in the Templeton Handicap. This season up to date Nightcalm has scored one win and run into a place four times.

R. E. McLellan’s Success For some seasons R. E. McLellan has been consistently turning out good winners and again this year he has been well represented on the winning list. So far this term he has produced 14 winners for £2BlO in stakes. Waitoru's treble success at Riverton brought his total for the season up to four wins for £B5O and he appears capable of adding to +his total. Doubleack, whose successes included the Wyndham Cup, won four races for £BlO in stakes before he had to be put aside. Sailing Lady has won on three occasions, including the Southland Cup, for £495 while Boswell has won twice for £325. At the present time McLellan’s team includes a number of young horses and he should continue his good record in the next few seasons. This stable has had a particularly good run of successes with descendants of Morse Signal, the dam of Trebleack, Doubleack, Waitoru and Ackemma, all of which have won races for McLellan. The individual winnings of the stable so far this season are as fc’lows: £ Waitoru 850 Doubleack 810 Sailing Lady 495 Boswell 325 Ackemma 120 Strathalbyn 90 Sir Denis 85 Wild Coon 15 Jedburgh 10 Remembo 10 TOTAL 2810

A Well-bred Filly Homing, who finished second to Big Joe in the Novice Stakes at Oamaru on Saturday, is a lightly-framed three-year-old filly by Nightraid from Homedale, and is owned by Mr E. Steele. Homedale, by Rossendale from Hasten Home, won several good races in Australia, including the Moonee Cup, and belongs to the same family as Quantock, Son-in-Law, Hermit, Reputation, and Bobadil. Homedale’s next foal, by Solicitor General, realized 650gns. at the 1939 national yearling sales. Homing raced four times unplaced as a two-year-old,' and on Saturday was having her seventh start this season. She scored a second and a third at the Cromwell meeting last month. In Saturday’s race she was one of those caught flat-footed

in a snap start, and with Escort and Swift Course, the slowest to begin. She put in a good finishing run to score second money, and is engaged in a seven furlong race at Waimate on Saturday.

Sydney Yearlings A New Zealander, who has just returned from Australia, says that many racing men attended the Easter sales ir Sydney in the belief that yearlings would sell fairly cheaply. Factors leading them to this conclusion were the lower averages obtained at the New Zealand and the Victorian sales, the drought, the war, industrial trouble, and the prospect of increased taxation. However, the sale was not long in progress before the idea was dispelled, and at the end of the three days of selling it was found that the average was higher than last mar’s and that the aggregate (more than 100,000 guineas) was the greatest for 10 years or more He said there were many beautiful yearlings paraded. He was much interested, of course, in the Beau Peres. These colts and fillies looked exceptionally good and captivated Australians, w'ho competed spiritedly for them. The Bonita colt for which Mr Alan Cooper paid 3500 guineas is a striking individual, and everyone hoped he would justify Mr Cooper’s outlay. A colt which might be equally good is by Beau Pere from Grey Port. This yearling has gone into George Price’s stable. Some of the by Spearfelt, Piccadilly, Pantheon, Double Remove, Brueghel, and The Buzzard were very attractive. On the whole, however, he preferred the appearance of the yearlings to be seen at the national sale at Trentham, and is confident New Zealand has no equal in this part of the globe as a thoroughberd nursery.