NEWMARKET STAKES

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 978, 22 May 1930, Page 14

NEWMARKET STAKES

MIDDLE DISTANCE CLASSIC FIRST THREE IN DERBY LONDON, Wednesday. 1 On the second day of the second s.pring meeting at Newmarket, the j principal event resulted as follows: — I NEWMARKET STAKES A Sweepstake of £3O each, with £I.OOO added: second horse £IOO. third £SO. For three-year-old colts (9.01 and nl- { lies and geldings (S.ll); 1£ miles. 1 THE SCOUT II (W. Woodward), b c, by Sir Gallahad lII.—La Rablee, 9.0 1 UT MAJEI'R <H. H. the Aga Khan). b e, by Ksar—Uganda, 9.0 Z SEA ROVER (A. R. Cox), br c. by Pomme-de-terre—Gay Laura, 9.0 C i Seven out of the original 119 entrants ; started. Won by half a length, third : horse four lengths away. Last year this race was worth j £2,091. On that occasion, in a desper- j ate head-and-head finish, Lord Derby’s Hunter’s Moon won from Mr. Jinks (the Two Thousand Guineas winner, and a failure in the Derby through lack of stamina), and Midlothian. Brienz was one of the also starteds. but this colt was the only one of the Newmarket Stakes field to finish in a place in the Derby, third being his portion, while Hunter’s Moon was fourth. The Newmarket Stakes, with the distance two furlongs less than the Derby, is still regarded as a test for the Epsom classic. All three of yesterday’s placed horses are engaged in the Derby. In addition to TJt Majeur, the Aga Khan has Motiwala, Rustom Pasha and Blenheim in the Derby, but after the Ksar colt’s bold showing yesterday this one may represent this strong stable on the day. The winning horse, The Scout 11., is trained in . . .. One of the most interesting sidelights on this race is the breeding of Sea Rover, who is a half-brother, by Pomme-de-terre (Polymelus-—Home-stead, by Minstead) to the triple crown winner of 1917, Gay Crusader. THE PENALTY ACCEPTED MONEY FROM ANOTHER JOCKEY OUT FOR SIX MONTHS J. Finch, a jockey registered with the A.J.C., who was riding in Queensland early in the year, was disqualified the other day for six months from May I, following upon a charge by the Q.T.O. committee that he had accepted £25 from another jockey, K. Jeffers, in respect of a race at Albion Park. on January 4. Finch rode the favqurite, Pretty j Joey, and was beaten into third place j by Jicky. Jeffers was stated to have j told Finch that he had a man backing Jicky. A registered metropolitan bookmaker, J. Sullivan, was fined £ls for an alleged breach of the betting regulations in punting on Jicky. He said he did it in ignorance of the Q.T.C. regulations about employing men to back horses. JOCKEY’S LAPSE CLERK LOST LIBERTY ON j LAST RACE RACING ALWAYS TO BLAME Whenever any person is charged with theft, or embezzlement on a large scale, the cause is always laid to the lure of racing. The Turf is always fair game for the Treasury and defending counsel. Here is the latest case, but the result is in many respects quite new. It happened in Perth, Western Australia: “If a jockey had not weighed in 71b light, Cyril Clifford Henry might have escaped the two years’ gaol sentence he got today for stealing £1,155 from an oil company. “Henry’s counsed said in court that at one time Henry plunged heavily at the races. On one occasion he tried to recover £9OO he had stolent from the firm. “At the last race he was within £4O of the amount he required, and accepted a bet of £IOO to £4O on Sir W addy. “The horse won and Henry breathed a heartfelt prayer of thankfulness that his worries were over at last, and he had a few pounds over. “The jockey, however, weighed in 71b light, and Sir Waddy was disqualified. “Henry never got near the surface again.” PONJOLA SCRATCHED GREAT NORTHERN HURDLES Ponjola was taken out of the Great Northern Hurdles at 10.25 a.m. today. The Egmont and Wanganui Steeplechases’ winner is still 'engaged in the Great Northern Steeplechase. Mangani was scratched for the Great Northern Hurdles at 9 a.m. yesterday. A BIG STUD 157 BROOD MARES TO BE SOLD Some idea of the extent of the late John Brown's stud in New South Wales may be gathered from the fact that on June 4, 157 brood mares will be offered for sale at Gundagai by order of the executors of the estate. Sires of these mares include Challenger, Richmond Main, Wallace Isinglass, Air Balloon, Fowling Piece. March Along, Brakespear, Martagon Crosse, Duke Foote, Tarka, Lord Foote, Flavus, Simka, Simile. lan. Smart Foote, Sunstar. Night Hawk and Arizona. Some of the mares are only five years old. WINALOT’S FUTURE TO TAKE UP STUD DUTIES It is possible Winalot will be given a chance as a sire at one of New South Wales’s fairly big studs. He was offered as a stallion at auction a month ago, but though the reserve was believed to have been only 500 guineas, the highest bid was 150 guineas; and he was passed in. Since then, however, negotiations have been entered into, and though no finality has been reached, it is understood that Winalot will shortly be leased for stud duty. If he ultimately produces good horses it will be a severe blow to those stud- ; masters who would not consider him, | principally because he was Australian i bred. An imported stallion with the [actual racing performances of Winalot, would have commanded a high figure 1 at auction.