FROM TRACK AND STABLE

Taranaki Daily News, 23 April 1932, Page 8

FROM TRACK AND STABLE

i&DOO MONEY FOR WINHEfiS BASTES TIME MEETS MISFORTUNE AUCKLAND’S CHANGE OF DATES. (By “Hurry On.”) Easter Time ■went a really good race in. the Prince of Wales Handicap at Awapuni on Wednesday, and with , a • little luck at the home turn might .have won. Unfortunately for his y owner he received a very nasty injury to his ear in his stall on Thursday morning and had to be scratched. It is.to. be hoped that the injury will not prove serious as the three-year-old is evidently coming to his best. Al Jolson with 8.1 appears nicely handicapped in the Doncaster Handicap at , the South Canterbury meeting to-day gnd may add to his recent successes. Limerick’s brother Dunraven if . caught in * galloping humour may prove his most dangerous opponent. J. M. Cameron is having, no luck on his present trip to Sydney. . Gold Trail / and Lotus Lily ran well enough at the Randwick carnival to suggest .that they would not be long in winning, but both have been solidly backed and beaten in weaker company since then. Nea Lap has also proved an-expensive mare to followers of the stable of the Hastings mentor. It is said that Cameron contemplates an early return to the Dominion. ' • ■ l .\ ■■„ Phar Lap’s death has so affected H. R. Telford, one of his- part owners, that he : intends to sell every horse, he possesses, states an Australian report. He has already commissioned a firm of Mel- ■ bourne bloodstock salesmen to sell the lot. . That smart hack The Quorn figure® as an acceptor for the Smithfield Hack Handicap at Timaru to-day, and though burdened with 9.5 is sure to be sent . out a good favourite. This three-year-old son of Hunting Song is confidently expected to.be able to more than hold his own among the open sprinters next season. ..■••. .■ Lancer has been put into work again e.t Riccartori byH. Nurse after a spell, with a view.-.fo.- .winter racing. The Greyspear, gelding has .-some useful- hur- , die. performances to his credit .and if tried as a steeplechaser he may further improve his repord. He was secbnd to Callamart in last year’s Grand National . Hurdles. ” ■ • • • * Y : . ..Better handled Shatter might easily have reversed positions with Ramo in the Great Autumn Handicap at Ricearton on Easter Tuesday. As this son. of-Shambles has 8.4 in the -Teschemaker Handicap at Jimaru to-day, the services of a strong horseman should be available and he may make amends; He certainly- appears, a very' promising stayer, who should l win-good races nbxt Beason'.' , ’ The Taranaki jockey J. M. Pine will be riding at the South Canterbury meeting to-day. His mounts will include Don Jose and Pixie Gold. ' ■ ■ A, couple of yearlings -'have been, broken in by H. Rama, and/they are nbw in daily attendance at’ Ellerslie. They.are a gelding by Acre from -County picture and a filly byLucullus from Country Air. An anuqual feature about the gelding is that, he is a chesthut, and he is believed ,to-be the first horse, of that colour sired by Acre. \ ■ . After holding its spring meeting for a- few years in October, the Auckland Racing Club contemplates reverting to later dates and will apply for Novembers and £ for next season. This will mean the renewal of a . regrettable Clash .with the Canterbury Jockey Club’s meeting.. 1 The Riccarton fixture may suffer from the absence of a number of North-Island horses. Am Auckland argument in favour of the change ». that th© October dates followed too closely, after, Avondale. •.. ; v . A Nigh tin id Failure, , As most people know, Nightraid, sire of Phar Lap and. Nigntmarch, was any-, thing but a success at the stud in Australia, none of his progeny there making fame for him. How “finis” was written to the career of . one of them is thus set out by a Melbourne writer in connection with the steeplechase event at a Williamstown meeting r “The race ended the career of. the cranky Silver Billy. Ridden by his trainer, A. Barnes, he was left a furlong and a'half at the start, but Barnes decided to give him run. After completing a- round, the < elding stumbled while going along the ack of the course and , fractured his near shoulder. He was destroyed by Mr. S. 0, Wood. Silver Billy was one of the few of the first season get of Nightraid. He was bred in, New South -/Wales.ln the year (1924) that Silver Billy ./was foaled, Nightraid had begun This career in New Zealand, among his first crop there being Nightmarch and Fortune’s Wheel, the. full sister to Phar Lap. Tn his second New Zealand season ’Nightraid got Phar Lap,” 'Ammon Ra’s Condition. ' , According .to, a. ..recent report from •Auckland, Ammon Ra looks the picture •'.of health .and'there is no evidence of harm, from his recent strenuous racing campaign in Australia. Closing Time and Prolyxo,-who returned home dtlthe same time, have freshened up a lot and will be further benefited by the spell. Although Ammon Ra is booked to make another appearance in Australia, it is understood he will remain at Takanini ‘for some time after Jamieson’s depart- ; ure, and if it is later decided to send •the two-year-olds across the- Tasman again, this trio will not make the trip till some time after Jamieson settles in Sydney. A colt by Limond from Mirabelle 11. will also go across at the same time. Food for Thought. Though the amount of money that is going through the totalisators continues. to decline, the layers state that . when a horse or a double is backed there is no shortage of hard cash, which rolls in from every direction. When this • h&pppns the labelled horse comes home • with: almost monotonous regularity, and . - it! is/ sai<L that certain parties in the know are making racing, pay very niceJly. In quite a number of cases even the-owner of the winning; horse gets a surprise when he sees his. representative gent out a great deal better backed than its - form warrants, but in these hard times a win is a win, and he knows that the less he says the better it will be for him. It is hard to believe that the stipendiary stewards are quite ignorant of this state of affairs, but if they are doing anything, to check it they are keeping things-very .dark. Of course it- may be that there-are some very keen judges around at present or ■ that - the' successes of these well-backed runners are merely coincidences, but many people have their - doubts. In these times of financial stringency, when one horse,, and one horse, only, ia backed as though, there were 1 boom times again one cannot be blamed for 1 stopping ■ to do'a little hard thinking. . / -=—===