SOUTH CANTERBURY MEETING.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 July 1929, Page 7

SOUTH CANTERBURY MEETING.

DECLARATION OF HANDICAPS. By Telegraph.—Press Association.

Wellington, Last Night. Handicaps for the South Canterbury Jockey Club’s meeting have been declared by Mr. J. E. Henrys, They are: . PUKAKI HANDICAP HURDLES, of 130 sovs. One mile and a-half. —Overhaul 11.13, Elysianor, Craigmore 10.13, Lancer 10.12, Troilus 10.6, Projector 10.4, Gala Day, Carinthia 9.13, Uleaborg 9.11, Nine of Spades 9.6, Heisler 9.3, Paris 9.2, Beauty Light 9.1, Apache, Membo, Zeuxis, Gold Town, Antrim Boy, Blue Peter, Gaybird, Shut Eye, Clarcnson 9.0.

NOVICE HANDICAP, of 100 sovs. Five furlongs.—El Boa, Airplane 9.5, Broadfield, Full Flight 9.3, Bon Waif, El Nido, Blue Ray, Mount Boa, Dundalk, Morian, Kate Kelly, Pleasant Rose. Huntley, Petcrette, Lieutenant Ulm. Haulage 9.0. PRINCE EDWARD HANDICAP, 7 of 200 sovs. About one mile. —Royal Saxon, Black Duke 11.1, King Balboa 10.11, Fairy Herald 10.6, Taboo 10.1, Wingatui *lO.O, Town Bank 9.13, Circulation 9.12, Overhaul 9.11, Evening 9.10, First Raid, Wa terlow 9.1, Front Rank. Martis. Equerry 9.0. WAI-ITI STEEPLECHASE, of 200 sovs. About two miles and a-half. — King’s Guard 11.9, Fabriano 10.13, Lord Ranald 10.5, Mainspring 10.3. Oriflamb 10.1, Handy 9.13, Greenstone, Radiac. Terehu 9.3, Mataipuke 9.0.

TEMUKA HACK, of 120 sovs. Six furlongs.—Red Boa 10.6, Sweet Refrain, Night Effort, Filosei, Grand Acre 10.3, Phastar 9.12, Miss Marco 9.9, Dumblane 9.6, Martian Spear, El Boa, Broadfield, Felony, Elindo, Mount Boa, Morian 9.0.

CRAIGMORE • HACK STEEPLECHASE, of 150 sovs. About two miles. —King’s Guard 12.13, Kapuna, Oriflamb 11.9, Radiac, Terehu 10.9, Taramoa 10.7, Hyperion 9.13, Royal Land, Silver Light 9.11, Soldier’s Drcam 9.10, Exide, Valves 9.9, Te Haunui 9.5, Master Garland, Fairness, Sea Boy 9.2, Krasnoi 9.0.

BEACONSFIELD HACK, of 140 sovs. One mile and a quarter. —Membo, Haze 10.8, Filosei 10.5, Phastar 9.13, Carinthia, Miss Marco 9.6, Felony, Wrigley, Ripdale, Barrington, Clarcnson, Peterette, Commenter 9.0. SEADOWN HANDICAP, of 150 sovs. Six furlongs.—Blacks Duke 11.9, Royal Saxon 11.5, Taboo 10.8, Wingatui 10.4, Solferite 10.1, Royal Tractor 9.11, First Raid 9.9, Arch Arrow, Wayward, Waterlow 9.5, Rascal 9.2, Pangolin, Martis 9.0. TURF TOPICS. (By “Moturoa.”) Saturday was a bad day for some of the sporting fraternity. For years Mr. “John Baron,” millionaire coal king, and owner and breeder of racehorses, would not allow his colours to be carried on proprietary tracks. With Overhaul, Elysianor and others who raced prominently at Wellington engaged at the South Canterbury meeting, th© gathering will hold a special interest in view of the Grand National meeting, which opens on August 13. The Waimate Hunt meeting is the only fixture this week. Gisborne opens the following Thursday and concludes on Saturday, July 27. The South Canterbury fixture takes place on Thursday week and the Hunt meeting, on the same course, on the Saturday. The handicaps for the Grand National Hurdles and Steeplechase and the Winter Cup are due to make their appearance to-morrow, and first acceptances for those races will be called on Friday. Until Friday, at least, the punters will be in a peaceful frame of mind.

In spite of his two defeats at Wellington, Mister Gamp continues to be the most discussed candidate for the National Hurdles and, though the writer does not consider he is built on the lines carry big weights, he will be meeting his Wellington conqueror on much better terms at Riccarton.

Reports from several quarters state that Mr. J. Fredric intends shipping Seatown to Sydney next Friday. Tommy Green, who has been booked to ride Honour and any two-year-olds accompanying the New Zealand hope in the A.J.C. Derby, has been engaged to ride Seatown, and the New Zealand jockster should have any amount of rides on the trip. Roy Reed, who has ridden Nightmarch in most of his successes, will have the mount on the Nightraid colt in Australia. Yoma is to accompany Seatown. Overhaul impressed the writer when he raced at Wanganui in May, but it was hard to realise that this new chum would make good so rapidly. Last season he won the Wyndham Cup, ran second in the Southland Cup and won the Awarua Handicap, all three races being run over ten furlongs, but he was not called upon to race until at the Dunedin February meeting this season. Since the Wanganui meeting he has won the Panmure, Trentham and Winter Hurdles, the last two being in open com pany against Mister Gamp, Elysianor, Comical, Red Fuchsia and Co. Although Overhaul is improving with every gallop, “Moturoa” considers Mister Gamp will offer more opposition if they meet in the National Hurdles.

Limerick would not have to win many of the forthcoming weight-for-age races In Australia to overhaul Gloaming’s record in stake money, and southern scribes are unanimous in the opinion that the son of Limond and Medley is as well as he has been at any stage of his career. To date, Limerick’s winnings total £37,973, just £5127 short of Gloaming’s figures. During the season just closing Limerick, as a five-year-old. won £6308, Gloaming winning £5630 at the same age. As a six-year-old Gloaming collected £5865, at seven years £4238 and at eight years £2205, in all £43,100. The writer does not consider Limerick will last as well as the old Maoriland champion, but this year should see Gloaming’s great record in jeopardy. Winning at Randwick and Warwick Farm, however, proved such a difficult proposition with horses which were literally eating their heads off much of their time that this conservative owner changed his views. The expected’success did not follow immediately, so when Mr. “John Baron’s” Adrian’s March showed the way home in a division of the Trial Stakes at Canterbury yesterday, heads were scratched in efforts to remember if the same owner had won a race on the same course before. Adrian’s March’s effort was very impressive. With half a mile to go the colt was last of a strung-out field, and it was a remarkable dash in the straight which enabled him to beat Mr. Whiz by a length and a-half.