Sporting TRING FANCIED AT WINGATUI

Southland Times, Issue 25488, 7 October 1944, Page 7

Sporting TRING FANCIED AT WINGATUI

Dunedin Meeting Today Speculation in most of the events at the Dunedin Jockey Club’s meeting at Wingatui today will cover a wide range. The fields are on the big side and many of the horses racing will be just getting into shape for spring racing. Investors will have the advantage, however, of having seen many of them in action at the Otago Hunt meeting last Saturday and in some of the races they will be guided by that form. The McLean Stakes, for two-year-olds, finds probably the best field ever to contest the race - on hand, and with so many likely-looking youngsters available it may not be easy to select the winner. Last week in the parade half-a-dozen or more shaped well and. they will probably dispute favouritism. Southlanders will rely on Psalm, Victory Flight, and perhaps Loyal Lady and Te Anau Lady, to repeat the performances of Winning Flight, Invulnerable and Lyndal, Southland-trained horses who have won the event in the last three years. In the Guineas, form has been disclosed to a certain extent, there being several winners in the field. Southland’s main hope is Bonny Flight, who won convincingly last Saturday and looks like carrying on the good work of the Francolin breed. Her greatest opposition will probably come from Air Ace and Piccolo, the two horses which finished within half a head of each other in the John Grigg Stakes at Ashburton. The Ranfurly Handicap has produced a fine field. Tring was a winner last Saturday and is certain to carry a lot of support and Sal’s Pal, Kevin and Sir Saladin may be expected to race well. There are nine events on the programme, but the first, a maiden event, will not be a “totalizator” race. It is timed to start at 11 a.m. ’The following horses may be fancied: NOVICE HANDICAP (non-totalizator)— Listen In, Red Prize, Brightform. WAKARI HURDLES—Prince Dolomite, Albino, Jack o' Lantern. KAIKORAI HANDICAP—Good Cast, Crinkle, Grand Forest. RANFURLY HANDICAP—Tring, Sal’s Pal, Sir Saladin.

DUNEDIN GUINEAS—Air Ace, Bonny Flight, Piccolo. TAIERI STEEPLE—Safe Light, Timber Topper. McLEAN STAKES—PsaIm, Racilla, Victory Flight. TELEGRAPH HANDICAP—High Play, John Gay, Aurora Australis. CLARENDON HANDICAP—SaIary, Steward, Lance Wing.

The fields are: — NOVICE HANDICAP, £250. Seven furlongs.—Listen In 8.12, Red Prize 8.7, St. Nattar, Salabond 8.6, Palpitate 8.1, Brightform 7.12, Bath Slipper, Gold Lance, Into Win, Joy Rosa, Lisheen, Mister John, Lord Dundonald, Royal Donald, Pride of Mossburn, Night Wink, Plutocrat, Signal Officer, Wondrous, Sumra, Tikoura, Robot, Minstrel Light 7.10. 11.42

WAKARI HURDLES, £250. One mile and a-half—Nightcalm 11.6, Boloyna 10.9, Albino, Kilcato 10.8, Night Pal, Swordstick 9.7, Prince Dolomite 9.4, Big Joe 9.2, Astros, Jack o’ Lantern 9.0. 12.24

KAIKORAI HANDICAP, £250. Seven furlongs.—Crinkle 9.5, Good Cast 9.3, Lady Nuffield 9.0, Benbecula 8.13,. Royal Brief 8.6, Dash o’ Dublin 8.3, Grand Forest 8.1, Bowmore 8.0, Lyndon Lea, Prize Ring, Listen In 7.12, Dearo 7.8, Lex, Girl Friend, Wild Cry, Battle Robe, Chicago, On Silver, Pink Gauntlet 7.7. 1.6 -

RANFURLY HANDICAP, £5OO. One mile, two furlongs and a-half.—Royal Lancer 9.13, Kevin 8.11. Fair Trail 8.10. Platform 8.8, Tring 8.2, Hearth 8.13, Sal’s Pal 7.9, Arabian Night 7.6, Arctic Dawn 7.2, Sir z-Saladin, Doubleack, Kohara 7.0. 1.48

DUNEDIN GUINEAS, £4OO. One mile.— Air Ace, Chicago, Debater, Desert Trek, Irish Pal, Joygiver, Pensacola. Piccolo, Real Chase. Wild Cry 8.10, Bonny Flight, Cinderalla, Dark Diana, Lalla Meer 8.5. 2.30

TAIERI STEEPLECHASE, £4OO. About two miles and a-half.—Whirr 11.7, Timber Topper 11.2. Shadow Boy 11.1, La Boca 10.12, Safe Light 10.9, Donadea 9.13, Sir Percy 9.5. 3.12

McLEAN STAKES, £4OO. Four furlongs.— Amicus, Deep Harmony, Douglas Haig, Erin’s Pal, Hansel. Knight Crusader, Loyal Pal, Major Argosy, Superlative, Victory Flight, Western Front. Gold Spur 8.5, Belle Leonne, Derene, Eudora, Loyal Lady, Montezuma, Patmos, Penfold, Princess Anne, Psalm, Racilla, Sword Dancer, Te Anau Lady 8.0. 3.54

TELEGRAPH HANDICAP. £350. Six furlongs.—John Gay 9.4, Lord Nuffield 9.2, High Play 8.8, Sister Sal 8.7, John o’ London 8.6, Hearth 7.13, Royal Chorus 7.12, Aurora Australis, Silver Lily 7.11, Crinkle 7.3, Winning Flight, Lyndal, Night Lancer, Latest Song 7.0. 4.36

CLARENDON HANDICAP, £3OO. One mile, two furlongs and a-half. —Lance Wing 9.0, Salary 8.13, Gay Thread 8.8, Pay Book, Jack o’ Lantern, True Way 8.5, Night Robe 8.1, Maharajah, Steward, Kiloney 7.13, Vafort, Royoney 7.12, Eastern Coin 7.9, Olga’s Choice 7.8, Pride of Mossburn, Brightform, Alpin-; 7.7.

WORK AT WINGATUI Majority Have Eight Tasks (Special) DUNEDIN, October 6. The majority of the horses on the tracks at Wingatui this morning were given light tasks. The course was covered with heavy dew and the going on the outside of the main track was inclined to lift a bit. Aurora Australis gave Sal’s Pal and St. Nattar two lengths start at the half-mile, but came along on the outside near the finish of the gallop to be just in front of Sal’s Pal, with St. Nattar, who had been in front halfway down the straight, close up. The time was 52 2-ssec. Aurora Australis finished with a lot in hand. Benbecula and Signal Officer shaped well over the same ground in 52 4-5. Trueway, going easily, recorded 56 l-ssec for the final four of eight furlongs. John Gay was not extended to run three furlongs in 39 3-ssec. The two-year-olds were again allowed to work on the rails. Western Front came home from two furlongs in 26 3-ssec. Eudora and Superlative, the former going smoothly in front, knocked off the fraction over the same ground. Princess Anne and Montezuma after a slow start, ran from the four to the two furlongs in 2545ec., and were then eased up and cantered down the straight. F. D. Jones and F. Roberts are on the scene with their teams. The former has brought Trueway, Pricess Anne and Montezuma, and the latter John Gay, Debater and Lalla Meer. Riders are: B. Langford, Plutocrat, Winning Flight, Arabian Night, Maharajah; W. F. Ellis, Psalm; K. Wilson, Royal Lancer. Crinkle will probably start in the Kaikorai Handicap in preference to the Telegraph Handicap. Superlative and Eudora and Montezuma and Princess Anne are coupled in the McLean Stakes. PACER GOLD FLIGHT DEAD (P.A.) WELLINGTON, October 6. The death has occurred of the pacer Gold Flight, which was owned and trained by Mr D. G. Nyman, of Petone. He took ill at the weekend and died 24 hours later.