TURF TOPICS TERSELY TOLD

Taranaki Daily News, 12 August 1930, Page 5

TURF TOPICS TERSELY TOLD

Hopwoodu’t at Awapuuii 0 # ' ’«■ * Night marches off to Australia again. 0 « 0 « J. McCartin’s Best Friend let him down at Awapuni. # *■ * Racing clubs may be short of capital, but they still have their fractions. # Day Comets shine most in winter months.

(Newspaper caption: ‘’Drought in America.” Have the bootleggers gone out of •business ?

Names claimed: “Amy Johnson” and “Bradman.” The first may be a flier, but Bradman is sure to make a hit.

The Kilbroney-Lady Louisa mare Henna recently won a mile race at Ballarat. Henna is now in the aged division.

Silver for races at the MartonJockey Club’s spring meeting have 'been donated by Messrs. T. A. Duncan (Hunter villa a lid A. T. Gat veil (Marton).

The Carbine horse, defunct Campfire, is still flickering. Last season his progeny scored a first and twenty placings, and won £713 in stakes.

Roy Syme has won the last two jGrand National Steeplechases on Wiltshire. He rides Matu this time, and our Cockney adviser says it will be a case of “Syme again.”

Which fence in the Grand National brings about the downfall of most horses? Cutts’ fence, rising to sft. accounts for many, but the one most feared by horsemen is the big brush at the bottom of the straight. Being the first obstacle, and giving the horses hardly time to get settled on their feet, its 4ft. 4in. trips many a horse that would make light of it if it were placed at any other stage of the long, trying journey.

Bradman FOUR ever. « <= * * T. Green will ride Pride in the Winter Cup. * # * • Most racing clubs intend running uncomplimentary meetings this season. #. « * John Bradbury is now producing quidlets in Westraiia. # * * * In the Shade appears to be very much in the limelight in Sydney at present. # « • * R. Coveney will be on the Clifford team'at Riccarton. 0 0 * * Commendation’s half-brother by Pom-bai-Eulogy, will race as Esteem. Hope ■he'il always keep his steam up # *■ * # New Zealand’s premier horseman, •Hector Gray, has ridden C 59 winners since he first appeared in a race in 1903. 0 0 0 0 The office boy reckons that if this paper was printed in luminous ink there would 'be less electric light used at nights. Mister Gamp, in the early part of his races, seems to be’ too slow to come in • out of the wet, but he is always handy at the finish. $ Testimonial given to a jockey who expressed the intention of giving up riding for beer-pulling: “Should be a champion. (He's the best puller I ever knew.”

“Enquirer,” Westown. —The Hawk, then a two-year-old, carried 7.11 in the Manawatu Stakes in 1921, and Silver Link, a five-year-old, carried 9.8. Absurdum (third), Raceful and Soldier’s

H. E. Gray’s application for a riding license, which this season went through the Auckland District committee, has been granted “without a tag” in lieu of his conditional license last season. J. L. Gray, his son. hats been granted a trainer’s license.

Grand National Dav. “Choose-day!”' * # * * Chief Ruler. New Zealand’s chief sire. # 0 * * The King’s yacht won her 200th. race at Cowes. Britannia rules the waves. 0 * * * Most of our jockeys know the- meaning of the “lean period." 0 * # *

Hunting Cry has nothing to cry about. lie won nearly £-5000 in stakes last season. 0 0 * *

Sports and spiritualists are alike, in that they both hope to get the right Doyle.

Each fence on the Riccarton course has to be jumped twice, the first being known as the Carriage Paddock fence, about two furlongs before passing the stands.

Slab of humour from the Marton racing conference: —Chairman: “If Marton can get a good announcer, it (local broadcasting) will make a good impression.” Mr. O’Neill (Wanganui delegate)- “What about the .stipendiary steward doing it? It would cut down expenses!” (Loud laughter). One for Henna.

The Levin sportsman, Mr. R. T. McDonald, produced the six-year-old mare Henna, by Klbroney—Lady Louisa, at the Ballarat (Aus.) meeting on July 23, and she was -well supported in each of her starts that afternoon, finishing second in her first run, and winning later on. When she scored she carried 7.5, was backed down to odds-on, and just got home by a head.