SPARKLE BACK IN WORK

Southland Times, Issue 24166, 1 July 1940, Page 8

SPARKLE BACK IN WORK

Three Horses Sent To

Washdyke CHANGE OF STABLES FOR BOSWELL Acceptances for the Oamaru meeting close today. Named

A rising two-year-old filly by Mans Pal from Monoxide has been named Stainless. She ranks as half-sister to Custodian and Cerne Abbas, New Zealand Cup winner. Good Winners Native Song, winner of 10 races this season, has aggregated less than £lOOO. Beaulivre’s nine wins have been worth £4540, and Beau Vite with eight successes collected £5015. Not Mudlarks The announcement that Padishah is unlikely to start in the Wellington Steeplechase if the going is heavy is not surprising for he has never, been at home on a soft track. A similar state of affairs holds true for Clarion Call, and it is rather remarkable that two such good representatives of breeds so much at home in the mud, the Chief Rulers and the Hunting Songs, should lack this facility. A Disappointment Cottingham has been a great disappointment as a steeplechaser. In nine starts over fences he has fallen or lost his rider five times. His best effort in this department was his second with 10.6 to Padishah in the Homeby Steeplechase at Riccarton. South Island Owners Messrs J. S. and W. E. Hazlett, of Invercargill, have been the most successful South Island owners this season, their team having won prizemoney totalling £3145. Mr H. J. Riddle, of Riverton, is third among South Islanders with £2050, second place being occupied by D. P. Wilson, of Mosgiel, with £2461/10/-. Reduced Contingents To what extent the war situation will affect the usual exodus of New Zealand horses to Australia for spring racing can only at present be conjectured, but because of transport difficulties and possible additional hazards of ocean travel, the number

proceeding oversea is expected to be much smaller than usual. Trentham Prospect The manner in which Hessketoon won the Orakau Hurdles at Waipa was pleasing, and there is no doubt that he has developed into a very capable hurdler. It was his third victory in succession, and he might carry . the sequence further, as he scored with a little in hand and seems to be improv-

ing with every race. As, he is a solid stayer and acts well in heavy going, Hessketoon should have prospects if brought to Wellington next month. Racing Curtailed The Commonwealth Government has decided to curtail greyhound and horse racing. There has long been an opinion in Australia that this should have been done long ago, war or no war, and that racing should be confined to Saturdays, Wednesdays and holidays, except in the case of the big spring and autumn meetings, comments a northern writer. Racing and dog racing is carried on every day of the week in and around Sydney and Melbourne, and there has grown up an army of professional touts, tipsters, guessers and gangsters who batten on the sporting public. New Quarters

It is understood that Boswell has joined D. P. Wilson's Mosgiei team. The Balboa stallion has been a difficult horse to keep sound and his trouble has been diagnosed as being one of rheumatics. His career so far has been a restricted one, but in the racing he has done he has demonstrated that he is an outstanding galloper and one who promises to make a great name for himself as a stayer. When he first raced as a two-year-old Boswell was tranied by Wilson and if he can be produced fit and well he will be heard from in leading handicaps.

Well-Bred Youngsters F. W. Ellis has kept the rising three-year-old filly by Nigger Minstrel from Cough in steady work and it is likely that she will be kept going for next season’s racing. She is on the small side, but is a good type of youngster, Her dam was a great race mare and holds the Southland mile and a-quarter record of 2min 4 2-ssec when she won the Wyndhafh Cup. This filly is Cough’s first foal. It is intended to recommission two other rising three-year-olds by Nigger Minstrel next month. One is a filly from Steeton and the other a colt from Thornton. The Steeton filly has been named Melodist. Both were worked earlier in the year and shaped well. Sent North Royal Lancer and Spendthrift were sent to Timaru yesterday, while Waitoru was also to have made the trip. All three will remain in the north until after the Grand National meeting, and they will be raced at other Canterbury fixtures. Although the tracks at Invercargill have not permitted any fast work for some weeks all three have been kept in steady exercise and with better tracks available at Washdyke they will not require much tuning up. Spendthrift has had a solid season’s racing, but he has come through it well and is in excellent order. Waitoru failed at Wingatui, but has been given a chance to freshen up since. R. E. McLellan has also Cintilla and Wild Coon for coming meetings.

Man’s Pa> Filly For Sydney The Sydney owner, Mr F. W. Hughes, who has a big team ‘of youngsters in work at Randwick and who secured four yearlings at the National Sales, is particularly pleased with the filly by Man’s Pal from Palestrina and considers she shows promise of being a Gimcrack Stakes proposition. The first crop of rising 'two-year-olds by Man’s Pal looks likely to make an early name. Another filly by him, from Monoxide, the dam of Cerne Abbas, which was reserved at the National Sales, was recently leased to a patron of George Price’s stables and is being shipped across to Sydney immediately. For the next two seasons Man’s Pal is to stand at Messrs Timpany Brothers’ stud farm at Woodlands in Southland. Battle Song, the Irish St. Legei* .winner, now being imported on behalf of Mr G. A. Kain, will take his place at the latter’s Gladstone Park stud at Orari. Though Battle Song is by Carbine’s grandson, Spion Kop, winner of the Derby and sire of the Derby winner, Felstead, he

is from the same maternal line as Man’s Pal, both descending from Illuminata.

Sparkle Resumes Sparkle has been placed back in work. During her absence from the tracks she has put on a lot of condition. Sparkle went amiss before the Easter racing when she was being prepared to contest the Great Autumn Handicap at Riccarton. The trouble was not serious—it was in the kidneys —and it was decided to put her out of training. The Colonel Cygnus mare stamped herself as an outstanding stayer and in 13 starts she won on four occasions and was six times placed—a wonderful record for consistency. When she won the Dunedin Cup Sparkle outclassed a high-class field and she should play a prominent part in important spring handicaps. If she reaches top form she will be a worthy New Zealand Cup candidate in November. Mr W. E. Hazlett also has a four-year-old mare by Colonel Cygnus from Stronglight in work and she greatly resembles Sparkle in appearance. Her dam was a sister to Lambent (the dam of Sparkle), both being by Trastor from Dazzling Light, by Kilbroney.

One Mating The great English sire Son-in-Law was mated with only one mare in England last season, and the result was a fine colt. The Newmarket trainer R. Day has a two-year-old by Son-in-Law (who is 28 years old) and in the belief that it was the last of the line he prematurely named it Last Son.

Lady Tinkle Lady Tinkle finished very strongly when beating everything except the outsider Nereus at Otaki and her future prospects look highly promising. On the first day of the Wellington meeting she has been nominated for the Whyte Handicap in preference to her older half-sister Mittie, who is listed instead in the open sprint.