FROM TRACK AND STABLE

Taranaki Daily News, 23 March 1932, Page 10

FROM TRACK AND STABLE

GOOD THREE-YEAR-OLDS

PAEROA’S SUCCESSFUL MEETING.

CARINTHIA TO RESUME WORK.

(By

“Hurry On.”)

The Ohinemuri Jockey Club, following the lead of Aroha, kept its stakes up and reaped the reward of its courageous policy, the totalisator turnover showing only a small decrease. The favourite division had one of the worst runs it has had for years. On the first day not a single favourite paid a dividend, and on the second only two were first past the post, and one of these was in the last race. In view of this the club did remarkably well. Great Emblem was reported to have been tender in front after winning the Hack Cup at Paeroa on Saturday. It is to be hoped that the trouble is not serious as it would be very hard luck for his owner to lose the services of this improving sort with the Easter meetings just coming on. A circular has been sent to the Trentham jockeys regarding attendance at the tracks. Trentham is poorly off for resident jockeys and their laxity, imposes a severe handicap on trainers who work their horses on the Wellington Racing Club’s track. The New Zealand-bred mare Battle Scene, who won the Great Easter Handicap of 1923, was represented by a winner at Rosehill recently in Agincourt, a four-year-old mare by Spearhead. Battle Scene is one of the best bred Martian mares in the Stud Book, as her dam, Edna May, was got by Multiform—Helen Faucit, by Castor from Cissy, a sister to Trenton. Although Black Duke and Red Racer had their Great Autumn engagements continued, it is by no means certain that they will be at Riccarton. They are acceptors for the Riverton Cup, in which their' prospects look much brighter than at the Canterbury Jockey Club’s meeting. ( The imported colt Irish Lancer, who is owned by Mr. A. H. Fisher, Dunedin, has been given every chance to ■ become acclimatised, and is now commencing tp show promise of reward for the patience bestowed on him. He is a handsome colt and shapes well in his work at Wingatui, but requires racing experience. The real bargain of the sale of Mr. G. J. Barton’s stock may prove to be Worship, says the Dunedin writer “Sentinel.” He has grown into fine looking youngster, showing size and substance requiring time for him to' develop, and he .may not strike form until next season. The wise policy of giving him time in his first season should bear good fruit, and next season he should fill the eye as one likely to prove not the least dis-; tinguished of a very successful family. Worship remains in S. G. Ware s stable, and is now owned by a comparatively newcomer into the racing world. The South Canterbury jumper Carinthia was fired and blistered after racing in the spring and he is still running out in a good paddock. It is intended to bring him in soon, to be prepared for winter racing. . Though no definite plans have been made, there -is a possibility that he will be tried out over country. He is a bold jumper over hurdles and he can stay, so he should make a good ■steeplechaser, if only he takes kindly to brush fences. Carinthia won the Wellington and Grand National hurdle races two years ago. Cricket Bat’s win in the Challenge Stakes at Trentham on Saturday stamps him as a really good three-year-old, for it was a classy field that he led home on that occasion, and the time shows ■that there-was no loafing on the journey. The season 1 —J been weak in two-year-olds, but the three-year-old division have more than held their own. Bronze Eagle, Peter Jackson, Cricket Bat, Golden Wings, Gibraltar, King Colossus and Fiji have all won in open company, and look like winning more, and Peter Jackson, Gibraltar and King Colossus are shaping like stayers. This is very encouraging, and it would appear that some of the big handicaps next season are going to be nard to win. When an owner and rider are disqualified for alleged corrupt practices, the penalty bears hardest on the jockey in more ways than one. The owner can continue his ordinary avocation, while the rider has to seek some other means of livelihood. , When the term of disqualification expires, the owner can buy a horse next day and race it. . The rider has to wait for reissue of his license, and if the Licensing Committee does not meet soon may have to wait a couple of months. If a horse is pulled, and owner and rider are both implicated, it. is reasonable to assume that the owner is the instigator and the more culpable. Yet the penalty is considerably greater on the rider. It seems, says the Timaru Herald, that justice would be tempered with mercy if the conference office had power to hand back the ticket at the expiration of the sentence, provided a favourable report was forthcoming from a stipendiary steward or racecourse detective concerning the applicant’s conduct during his term “outside. A disqualification in the case of an owner means six months; in the case of a rider the same nominal term may mean seven or eight months. J. Fryer’s trip to Paeroa with Airtight and Attentive was not successful, and his want of luck extended beyond the actual meeting. Early on Monday morning Airtight and another steeplechaser, Slump, were missed from their stalls at the racecourse. Advice was received that two horses had been seen being ridden toward Te Aroha. on Sunday evening. Upon a search being made, the two horses were recovered several miles from Paeroa on the old Te Aroha Road. Airtight, who is owned by Fryer, was badly cut about, and Slump, who is owned by Mr. T. A. Short, of Matamata, appeared to have been galloped and harshly treated.