RABBI CAR GALLOP

Taranaki Daily News, 6 December 1929, Page 5

RABBI CAR GALLOP

PROMISING CUP HORSE

FOUR-YEAR-OLD IS CONSISTENT.

•GOOD WINNER IN TWO SEASONS.

BEST HAS NOT BEEN SEEN OF HIM

Now that Chide is to leave us arid Nightmarch is unlikely to race in New Zealand this season, we must look around for a promising candidate for cup honours. . The Paladin colt, Rabbi, is the most elegible for inspection. Possessing all the staunch characteristics of his blood relation, Chide, Rabbi has done all that has been asked of him, and in two seasons on the Turf has been seen in winning vein from six furlongs to a mile and a half. To be able to win on sprint and distance courses at once imparts the knowledge that he is brilliant —a. trait that is shown only in high-class thoroughbreds.' From, his first,public outing he showed

himself a colt of exceptional:.merit and

quality, though it was not until his third start'that lie. began to contribute, towards his keep. The next time out.he showed the way homo in the Apprentices’ Handicap at Riccarton, and created a favour-, able impression. -'. - ' ; . • ; •

During The' summer months he went off colour and it was not until the autumn that lie came into the limelight again by winning a six-furlong race at Marlborough. Going back to the North

Island., he missed in the Silverstream Handicap at Wellington, and then chased Goodwill homo in the Muritai Handicap, beating Zippor, Stanchion, Roi de Vai, Rory Mor and a big field. From that race he began to show re-

markable consistency and has paid a dividend in his last twelve starts. A brace of hack races at Wairarapa saw him barely out of a canter, and he completed the hat-trick with a win in the Nelson Cup, beating Black Mint, Goosestep, Rameses and quite a good field over ten furlongs. Four starts around' those parts yielded two firsts, two seconds and £432 in stake-money to conclude the season with.

Bright and fresh from five months' spell, Rabbi opened the 1929-30 season with a slashing victory in the Masterton Handicap, coming from last over the final half-furlong to win hands down from Piuthair, Rouex, Star Area, Tres-

ham, Speanniss, Royal Game and others. It was his best effort to date, but the manner in which he accomplished his task set the shrewd followers agog, and when the machine closed on the Wellington Handicap only one horse was better fancied. It was a big jump from the class he had been racing against, but he justified the confidence that was placed in him, and just went under by a head to that arch-surprise packet, In The Shade.

Next time under silk saw Rabbi win his best race, the Metropolitan Handicap at the New Zealand Cup meeting. He simply toyed with Spearmiss, Concentrate, Vertigern, Tajisker,- Cashier, Seatown, Count Cavour, Prodice and Co., and won by three lengths. How Panther beat him x on the concluding day of the Cup gathering is impossible to explain, but form proves that it was only the merest of flukes that the Kilbroney gelding passed the post a neck to the good of the fast-finishing Rabbi.

The tables were turned in the Feilding Jubilee Cup, where Rabbi gave public a taste of his mettle. In light of his quick rise to fame, Owner J. J. Corry must be regretting that he has not entered Rabbi for the Auckland Cup, but this good sportsman from sunny Marlborough seems certain to pick up some good races during the holidays and then produce his fine colt in the autumn. Bred by his owner in 1925, Rabbi is now four years old. Ho boasts of a splendid pedigree on his dam’s side, which embraces the best strains in the Dominion, while his sire, Paladin, gave us that great and consistent galloper, Chide. The following are Rabbi’s breeding lines:—

- Sire. —Paladin (imp.) by Polymelus— Ccstus by St. Amant—Abbott’s Anne by Rrghtaway—Sister Lumley by St.. Honorat—Lady Lumley by See Saw-Lady Alice Hawthorne by Newminster—Lady Hawthorne by Windhound. Dam.—Rachel by Kilbroney (imp.) — Rebekah by Benzonian—Snowstell by Clanranald—Safeguard by Maxim —Theredo by Apremont—Nautilus by Traducer—Waterwitch by Camden—Mermaid by King Tom. The following is the complete list of Rabbi’s performances:— At Three Years. Unplaced Teratahi Handicap, Carterton — Unplaced Rimutuka Handi~cap, Wellington — 3rd Spring Trial, Wellington 20 Ist Apprentices’ Handicap, Christchurch 175 Unplaced, Randolp Handicap — Unplaced Stonyhurst Handicap — 3rd Porangahau Handicap, Waipukarau — Unplaced, Apprentices’, Handicap Manawatu .... —; Unplaced Douro Hack Cup — Unplaced Kelburn Handicap — Ist Pelorus Handicap, Marl-

borough .., 77 3rd President’s Handicap .. 17 Unplaced Silvcrstream Handicap, Wellington .... — 2nd Muritai Handicap .... 40 Ist Mokai Handicap, Wairarapa 110 Ist Rototawai Handicap ... 110 Ist Nelson Cup 200 2nd Redwood Memorial .... 40 Ist Waterlea Cup, Marlborough 160 2nd Flaxbourne Handicap .. 32 £OOO 5 At Four Years. Ist Masterton Handicap ... 200 2nd Wellington Handicap .. ICO Ist Metropolitan Handicap, Christchurch .......... 700 2nd Fendalton Handicap >., 120 Ist Feilding Cup ....... 455 £1575 Grand Total £3581