RACING

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 561, 14 January 1929, Page 13

RACING

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Leaders of the English Turf

lORD DERBY’S GREAT SEASON With only two more days unlmportracing to complete the flat racin.7 season, a review o£ it can be made « taout fear of statements being c.ontroverted by tag-end results, wrote a T ondon correspondent last month. Racing has been wonderfully good, though attendances, apart from the principal meetings, have been pjpor. *We hive seen some fine horses, and none |[ Hve been more interesting than the three-year-olds. It remains a question as to which of Fairway. Toboggan, and Felstead was the best. The question, as between Toboggan and the other two. will never be answered, for after winning the TnrkeV Club Stakes, Toboggan broke down and was retired to the' stud. Betw- en Fairway and Felstead. the question may be settled next year, but orobably not until 1930, though, on the other hand, neither might be on the r ce track then. Of the two-year-olds non© stands out as the prospective Derby winner of next year. Honours to Filly Titfin, a filly, is universally regarded as the best of her age*, C’ostaki Piishh and Mr. Jinks art* placed next to her. The latter is unlikely to be anything but a sprinter. Costaki Pasha is the D rby winner favourite,” but Ghy DiV, owned by Sir Victor Sassoon, is highly regarded. Many good judges j, aV e set him aside for the premier classic, although lie Ims only contested i couple of races this season. More likely the Derby winner is among the youngsters who were not produced on a racecourse this year or were there merely for education. Lord Derby has had a wonderfully successful season. He topped the winning owners’ list last year with £40.000. This year he is in a similar position, with a sum of over £65,000 — ne arly three times the amount won by .Mr. S. B. Joel, who is second, and elose to him are Hugo Cun 1 iffeOwen. Mr. J. B. Joel, the Aga Khan and Lord Dewar. Each of these owners is a multi-millionaire. Big Winners The chief contributors to Lord Derby's winnings were Fairway and Toboggan, who between them won five of the richest races. If Fairway’s boils liad not prevented him from starting in the Two Thousand Guineas, and if the

Derby Day crowd had not frightened all the racing ability out of him, there is now fair evidence that he would have added those two rich prizes to Lord Derby's list. In partnership with an American, Mr. J. Ogden Mills, Lord Derby is near the top of the winning owners’ list in France. His winnings iu the two countries amount to more than £ 100,00 u. Yet that vast sum will return him only a small percentage of profit, for he has more than £1,000,000 invested in his horses, training establishment. and stud. As Lord Derby breeds nearly all the horses he races, it goes without savins: that he also tons the list of breeders. and bis stallion Phalaris, thanks mainly to Fairway, is nearly £IO,OOO ahead of the next on the list, Tetratema. Lord Dewar, whose chief stallion. Abbot’s Trace, is fourth on the sires’ iist, comes next to Lord Derby, hut his total is only a quarter of vhe latter's. Lord Astor’s stud and racehorses have both had a lean year, and he and his chief stallion. Buchan, occupy lowly positions in their respective lists. Wootton’s Ninety Winners Frank Butters, Lord Derby’s trainer, is naturally a long way ahead* of his nearest rival, Fred Darling, in the trainers’ statistics, but Stanley Wootton, although occupying an unimportant position in the amount of stakes w on. has the honour of training the most winners—more than 90. many of "hic-h have been media of betting plunges. He had no important winner, hut next year ther*> might be a differ*nt talo to tell. Two of his patrons, Lord Beaverbrook and Sir Alfred Butt, have some fine young stock for him to handle, and one of Sir Alfred’s two-Jear-olds. Beachcomber, is likely to nave a good Derby chance. Two other Australian- trainers have had considerable success—O. Bell, who has turned out many winners, besides Felfor Sir Hugo Cunliffe-Owen and J-Scobie. private trainer to Sir Charles hyae, whose chief successes have been jv«th Baytown, winner of the Irish Derby Leading Horsemen Gordon Richards heads the winning jockeys* list with over 150 winners, thus his feat of 1925 and 1927. , chards's chief assets are smartness at the* barrier and vigorous powers in * mush. j. Munro would be his near- • , Australian prototype. Other Jockeys who have done well are 11. , F. Fox. J. Dines, T. Weston *“5 R Perryman. bteve Donoghue has had a mixed lift n ’ and during one period he had Hft ,! nounts without riding a winner. . ® bad financial embarrassments. o. but through the generosity of _ ‘encls be has escaped bankrupt res ult is that for the first time ' many years he %as accepted a re‘•ner. mention must be a tribute 7*r narc l Carslake. the Australian. It , last season as a jockey, • increasing weight has decided him .or sake the saddle for the role of ,' K , r * He has left his old career in of slory, as it is generally ad,b'_ e d that nothing has been finer •mar. ® vigour of his finishes and the ‘ Lty of hi s judgment this year.

trotting fixtures

jyelUneton T.C.—January 39. Mtiury Park T.C.—January 24. 26. V y SO ? r —February 1,2. T.C.—Feb. 9. k’*ju gton t *LL—February 16. T.C. —February 23. Inv uhu T.C.-—February 23, 27. ST2? argill T.C.—February 27, 28. \v£7 orou » h T.C.—'March 1. Ti£ kato T -C—-March 2 . T 'C—March 9. M™ dham T.C.—March 13. New o a , tu TC.—March 13. cw Brighton T.C.—March 16. r>® es T.C.—March 23. T,w u ot T -C.—March 25. ‘»kaka T.C.— March 30. y T.C.— March 30. April 1. • " c - Metropolitan T.C —March 30. r April 3. ar knaki T.G.—April 6.