PHAR LAP’S RECORD

Taranaki Daily News, 25 September 1930, Page 4

PHAR LAP’S RECORD

STAKES REACH NEARLY £30,000. Twelve months ago. the: Chelmsford." Stakes was worth £lO9l- to the winner and £507 was the portion allotted to. the. winner of the Roseliill Stakes. Assuming that these totals were practically the same this season, Phar Lap has won approximately £28,759 in prizemoney. The following is a record of his performances to date; — ■ At two years: " Stakes. £ Unplaced first division Rosehill Nursery, 6.11, 5J furlongs . — Unplaced Hawkesbury Two-year-old Handicap, 7.3, 5" furlongs — Unplaced first division Roseliill Nursery Handicap, 6.7, 6 fur- , longs • Unplaced A.J.C. Easter Stakes, .7.6, 7 furlongs — Won Rosehill Maiden Juvenile Handicap, 7.9, 6 furlongs 182 At three years: Unplaced Warwick Farm Denham Point Handicap, 7.2, 6 furlongs — Unplaced Rosehill Three-year-old Handicap, 7.13, 7 furlongs — Unplaced Rosehill Three and hour-year-old Handicap, 7.6, 7. furlongs ~ ~~ Unplaced Warwick Stakes; 7.6, 8 furlongs ' Second Chelmsford Stakes, 7.6, 9 furlongs . x 29 0 Won Rosehill Guineas, 8.5, 9 furlongs ®73 Won A.J.C. Derby, S.lO, 12 furlongs Won Craven Plate, 7.8, 10 furlongs 2205 Won Victoria Derby, 8.10, 12 furlongs i 4456 Third Melbourne Cup, 7.6, 16 furlongs 7000 Third V.A.T.C. St. George Stakes; 8.10, 9 furlongs 75 Won V.R.C. St. Leger Stakes, 8.10, 14 furlongs 1 7691 Won Governor’s Plate, 7.13, 12 • furlongs Won King’s Plate, 7.11, 16 furlongs 7712 Won Chipping Norton Stakes, 10 furlongs 747 Won A.J.C. St. Leger Stakes, 8.10, 14 furlongs 2353 Won A.J.C. Cumberland Stakes, S.l, 14 furlongs 7457 Won A.J.C. Plate, 7.13, 18 furlongs 7451 Won S.A.J.C. Elder Stakes, 8.4, 9 furlongs 345 Won King’s Cup, 9.5, •12 furlongs sw At four years: Second Warwick Stakes, 1 mile 200 Won Chelmsford Stakes, 9 furlongs 7091 Won Rosehill Stakes, 1 mile 597 1888 13 firsts, 2 seconds, 2 thirds and 8 times unplaced £28,759. A Happy Hunting Ground. Whether th© track formation and subsoil at Otaki is akin to that of the Fordell private training track, can only bo guessed, but the fact remains that Fordell horses invariably run best at Otaki, and interest therefore will be taken in the large team which Trainer L. G. Morris has nominated for the forthcoming Otaki spring meeting. They include Consent, Freehold, Ruanui, High Falutin’ and Limited. The last-named figures in both hack hurdle races, and may prove another Avro. “Snowy” likes a jumper or two in his stable, and has the ability to teach them to fly the fences. Morris has done remarkably well since taking over Fred Tilley’s big team and deserves success, for there is no harder worker with horses, and his all-round knowledge of thoroughbreds is rarely surpassed.

Not Understood. There are few better, judges <rf pace than Roy Reed, afid .few havp a .letter knowledge of ' how a horse is, going “under him.” Reed has made mistakes —all jockeys do—but he makes fewer than the average,.- and 0n..-;£hat_ account has the-esteem and-ci?nfid«me of ownert and trainers. But Reed is a humane horseman, and. does , not belief m thrashing a beaten horse; hence ino- of the .game and genuine Nightmarch when tackled and beaten, by Phar Lap recently. - „, Sydney stewards, however, ever .on the ‘ look out to fault" a New iockev, have severely censured Reed ioi not belting Nightmarch to impossible—to beat the freak T and their reasoning is very hard to follow “glather-and-whack” methods appear to be the recognised ones across tlrfe Tasman, and they do not sqejn to realise that a horseman of Reed s abili tv can get the best out of a £bei like Nightmarch without waving the flail and tearing and. rl PP in ® Wl\Snntil the horse’S'.sides resemble a butcii ei-’s shop- But Reed will ?do” New Zealanders WC know him gr a straight and finished horseman. He is sure <r O od riding on this side of , Xnfl should not risk his brief elsewhere. A False Price. Probably on account of his indecisive win at Canterbury Park, (Thurnham —Madrid) was only thli Somite at the Sydney TatVsmeetmg when he won the Spring H Acre and Eaglet were the favonntes, and finished sixth and s ® ven tivelv Gay Crest, who ran Paquito to a 21. atartd «• ! 6 s > “ d r “” narrowlv missed, h big win. . First Sight (Gay Lad-Snapshot) was taX va"”.e«r ta 1 the finish. Dr. E. H. B. Milsom’s Sargon (Catmint-Hukupapa), . who won the race started at a double-figure PV S’ the Belmont Park races on September 13 Constellation (Day Comet lia won the Belmont -Plate on 'September. 13. Autobiography, who second favourite, wop very « onx f“ l &- "At Brisbane, on Bfld won the -Park Blate ■ py fonoHift among . those unplaced being Eden Hall. Budgefigah is by Seremond from the N6w, Zealand-bred mare. Som“iSg Q uex not much good m New Zealand, b2i« South ™- 2. P S<U Quality, the nnnlaced division was Hot Spring. cSor (St. Alwyne-Pomard), who ra ced J in New Zealand last season as CoSuror 11, won the Hurdles at Sandown Park on September 10. He was second favourite and won easily. At t“. B a»0 meeting The Swell l&Wg™ —Tangimoana) was equal first favour ite for the Sandown Plate, but ran unplaced. Thrown Away?

Supremacy is alleged to have teen a aood thing beaten in the Flying. *t Avondale on Saturday, and the riding of the jockey concerned was so crude that, acting on the advice of the chiei stipendiary steward, die handed m nifi license. This news will set the public, <‘on its toes,” and Supremacy s next start, probably in the Shorts Handicap at Ellerslie, will be watched with considerable interest. Awareres backers at Avondale were lucky to collect a nne first dividend, but such things are all m the game, and their judgment was probably more influenced by a good horseman; H. Goldfinch, than by Awarerea recent form. £-•