Surf Notes

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 673, 27 May 1929, Page 12

Surf Notes

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"EARLY BIRD"

Busy Week-End I In addition to the Great Xorthern i meeting at Ellerslie next Saturday, Monday and Wednesday, there will be racing at Wingatui, Dunedin, on the j same three days, Otaki races on Sat- | urday and Monday. Ellerslie Schooling i It is expected that there will be a good deal of schooling, both over the ! hurdles and the bigegr fences, at | Ellerslie tomorrow morning. Among ! those billed to go over the sticks is | Beau Cavalier, winner of the Great ; Northern Hurdles 12 months ago. The Big Hurdles Apparently the Great Xorthern Hurdles on Saturday next is to be fought out between the Awapuni pair. Mister Gamp and lied Fuchsia, for that is how the market lies just at present The fine showings made by Mister Gamp in his schooling last week have elevated him to favouritism. However, fled Fuchsia, on his public showings to date, is a better' jumper than Mister Gamp, and if he shows this in his schooling this week, then he may run the chestnut close on the daj\ With Awapuni stables “mopping up” nine out of every ten hurdle races in the middle part of the Xorth Island, this summing-up of Mister Gamp and Red F uchsia for Saturday’s race appears to be but a natural sequel. Great Northern Steeples i Should Red Fuchsia win the Great j Xorthern Hurdles on Saturday, there j is more than a chance that he will succeed in the big steeplechase on j Monday. He is a natural jumper, and at Wanganui a fortnight ago he did well when put over the brush fences and hencoop there. Probably Red Fuchsia will be schooled over the steeplechase course, or part of it, on Thursday morning, as a wind-up to his preparation for the Great Xorthern double. At present Wiltshire is a good favourite fox* the Steeplechase, but it must not be forgotten that he is also in the G.X. Hurdles. He may go close to following Beau Cavalier’s perfoi'mance last season, when the latter won the hurdle race at the "Waikato autumn meeting, and at his next start scox*ed in the big hurdles at Ellerslie. Wiltshire won the same race at Te Rapa last month, scoring impressively, so history has a good chance of repeating itself. Kawini’s Part Ha win i was to have been brought in to school over the hurdles at Ellerslie on Saturday morning, but the very bad weather caused the idea to be abandoned. Probably he will fulfil the programme tomorrow morning. Kawini, with Wiltshire, appear to be the most likely of the local provincial representatives to capture both Hux'dles and Steeplechase next week-end, with Red Fuchsia the main hope of the outsiders. Of course, the stumbling-block in the Hurdles is Mister Gamp, who is not engaged in the big Steeplechase. Plenty of Jumping Tomorrow Among the horses that are expected to be schooled over the hurdles (erected on the outside of the course proper) at Ellerslie tomorrow morning are Mrs. A. McDonalds’ pair, Red Fuchsia and Locarno. The latter is engaged on the second and third days of the meeting. Kawini is also expected to school tomorrow, as well as several others.

Definitely Retired Trivalve, winner of the A.J.C. and V.R.C. Derbies, has gone to the stud. Before Trivalve had won the Melbourne Cup, Walter Hickenbotham, one of the greatest trainers who ever sent out candidates for the principal races of the Australian Turf, remarked that Trivalve was Carbine reaincarnated except for his coat colour. That is about the highest commendation that could be meted to a colt, and coming from the man who trained Carbine in his greatest years it is hall-marked with the stamp of thorough knowledge. Donohue and the Derby

S. Donohue has ridden six winners of the English Derby, and this year he may increase that total. He is retained for Sir Victor Sasson’s Gay Day for the race on Wednesday vreek, who is expected to shine as a stayer. As GayDay started at long odds for the Two Thousand Guineas, in which he ran third, he evidently did better than anticipated in that race, and if he is better at a mile and a-half than at a mile, his Epsom prospects must be bright. For Dunedin

Apart from a few bruises on his legs as a result of contesting the Wanganui Steeplechase, Wharncliffe suffered no ill-effects from his effort and is to go to Dunedin.

Honeycomb was associated -with Countersign during his seven-furlong gallops on the grass at Riccarton the other morning, but the Paper Money mare was of little use to the imported horse, who ran home an easy winner in the fast time of 1.2 S 3-5. It is not often that time is equalled at this period of the year, and the effort certainly reveals that Honeycomb is an improved and improving horse. He will leave for Wingatui on Tuesday next to fulfil engagements at the Dunedin Jockey Club’s winter meeting. Aberfeldy lightened up as a result of his trip to Wanganui, and is to be given an easy time for a few days. He is to fulfil his engagements at the Dunedin meeting.

Tresham as a Jumper More than one racing man has had his eye on Tresham as a likely good winner over hurdles, and his first attempt at Otaki will be followed with interest. At 10.12, considering his form on the flat and his 8.6 in the Raukawa Cup. he is not at all badly treated in the hurdle event. Providing he clears the fences reasonably well he should make a good showing. The Otaki hurdles are not of the stiffness of some courses, and it is a good place for a new- jumper to be tried. He has a

tough antagonist in Red Bank, who is a first-class fencer, but on the flat it would be difficult to bring them together. Tresham may not be asked to win a big hurdle race in his first season. although some people appear to consider him capable of doing so. At the same time he should pay his way. Beau Geste for Dunedin

Beau Geste was allowed to forgo his engagement in the Autumn Handicap at Ashburton on Saturday, but he was given a run in the Farewell Handicap. F. P. Claridge intends to take the Boniform gelding to Wingatuj for the approaching meeting of the Dunedin Jockey Club, and his special mission at that fixture will be the Birthday Handicap, run on the opening day. Beau Geste looks oxtremely well just now, and with his race on Saturday to sharpen him up he should he capable of a fine effort in the big Wingatui Handicap. F. Voight has been engaged to pilot him in his Dunedin engagements.

Great Northern Double No less than a dozen horses figure in the Great northern Hurdles and Greath Northern Steeplechase at Ellerslie on -Saturday and Monday respectively. They are: Red Fuchsia, Comical, Wiltshire, Kawini, Mangani, Pouri, Clockwork, Maunga, Zircon, Kamehameha, Kilburn and Roman Abbey. For Westmere Mr. John Donald informed “Kestrel” the other day that his newly-purchased three-year-old colt, Captain Bunsby, by the Derby winner, Captain Cuttle, out of Wet Kiss, dam of Coronach, a Derby winner, has been shipped to New Zealand and is expected to arrive in the Dominion about the end of June. Mr. Donald appears to have secured a bargain at the 100 guineas that the colt was sold for. Captain Bunsby will not serve any outside mares in his first season at the stud in this country.. By the way, Mr. Donald priced Sickle eighteen months ago and was quoted 20,000- guineas. Needless to state that Sickle did not change hands. An Attractive-looking Youngster One of the finest yearling colts at Riccarton is a youngster in J. B.

Pearson's stable, who claims as his parents imported Royal Divorce and Orellana, by Aberbrothock—Austerlitz, by Soult. The colt, who has been broken in pnd ridden about the roads, is a very fine looking juvenile, well grown and possessing plenty of substance. He was purchased at the Trentham sales in January last by the Oamaru sportsman, Mr. H. M. Preston, for the small outlay of 50 guineas, and at that figure he may ultimately prove a cheap racehorse. Royal Divorce, his sire, has yet to prove his ability to produce swift gallopers, but with such a stout pedigree, being by King’s Proctor—Jessamine, by John o’ Gaunt, the English horse should not fail as a sire. As a racehorse Royal Divorce was a high-class performer. Not Wanted

The ex-Australian, E. O’Sullivan, who has been training in England for a few years, and who quite recently secured a portion of downs country near Devizes, on which to prepare his horses, may again have to change his quarters. Some of his horses were injured by bottles and tins left by picnickers, and he eventually wired the gallops. H© warned off a man named Wheeler, and the latter came out of the ensuing fight with a broken jaw. Subsequently O’Sullivan was committed for trial at Salisbury Assizes for causing grievous bodily harm. A strong set was made against O’Sullivan. Bottles, tins and rusty nails were thrown on the gallops, speeches were made against him on public platforms, accusing him of filching the rights of the public, a thousand people signed a petition demanding free use of the downs, and he alleged he was jeered at and insulted everywhere he went in the neighbourhood. All this led Sullivan to believe he would not get fair play at Salisbury, and, through counsel, he applied to the King’s Bench to be tried in London at the Old Bailey. His application was granted. Whichever way the case results, it looks as if matters will continue to be made so unpleasant for O’Sullivan that he will be forced to leave Devizes. A Big Sale

The Hinemoa Stud of thoroughbred horses, the property of Mr. W. C. King and Dr. W. C. King, which is to be sold at auction at the Te Rapa (Hamilton) racecourse next Friday, comprises a very select collection of 15 New Zea-land-bred brood mares, all coming from particularly successful and stout families. With the exception of Blackeyed Susan, sister to that cast-iron horse Hipo, all the mares are descended from Black Watch and Modesty, both sired by that great racehorse Tasman (No. 3) and representing wonderfully successful winning families. BlackWatch is the dam of no fewer than 11 winners, including Potoa. Besides the brood mares, most of which have foal at foot by Valkyrian or Potoa, and have been stinted since to the same sires, the two sires themselves are to be offered. Valkyrian was imported from England, being foaled in 1917. He is by William the Third —Valkyr, by Eager—St. Natalia, by Common, thus coming from the same branch of the No. 9 Family as Rapine (the great American racehorse and sire), Fair Play, and Sir Eagea. His dam, like Gloaming, is a daughter of Eager, who is also maternal grandsire of the successful sire, Paper Money. He started four times in England, winning the Sandown Park Indoor Plate; but shortly after his arrival in the Dominion met with an accident and could not be trained here. Potoa was bred by Mr. King, being foaled in 3 909. He is a descendant of Musket, his dam, Black Watch, being by Tasman from a mare by Nelson, a great Cup winner. On his retirement to the stud he was used very sparingly owing to his close relationship with many of the mares retained, being mated with as few mares as five in a season. His offspring include Te Monanui. Poteen. Hipo, Ring Potoa, Ihapotoa, Rafa and Ohinemuri. In addition to these three horses in training—Taurua (own brother to Te Monanui), Book Out (half-sister to Day Guard, by Valkyrian), and an unnamed yearling by Valkyrian—Black-eyed Susan—three unbroken fillies will be offered. Stifling

A certain sergeant-major was accustomed to use the most unceremonious language to recruits. At last his C.O. came to hear of it and ordered the offender to be more moderate. The S.-M. tried manfully to obey, but one day. being driven to the limits of exasperation by the rookies, he gave way to a purple burst of vituperation when, suddenly observing the colonel with the tail of his eye, he said unctuously. ‘ Words fail me. They stick in me throat”