FROM TRACK AND STABLE

Taranaki Daily News, 10 June 1932, Page 4

FROM TRACK AND STABLE

croupier working well PILLOW FIGHT’S PROGRAMME. CAPTAIN'S GIFT FOR MELBOURNE (By “Hurry On.”), The Chief Ruler five-year-old Seneschal was a most consistent performer at the recent Ellerslie. meeting. After running second in a division of the Jervois Handicap on the opening day he won hack mile events on both of the remaining days. He will have to do his future racing in open company, but should be well able to hold his own during the winter months as he is at his best on a Heavy track. . . There was-a quiet tip for Icimint, from the stable that shelters Royal Boulton and Pure Moth, for the Carbine Plate, and he went a good race. On this showing it should not be long before a hack race will come his way. He has been working well in private. Croupier was responsible for a good five furlongs at Ellerslie during the week and is rapidly getting into racing trim. It is said that he is to be entered at Trentham, and it will be interesting to see what weight the handicapper allots this brilliant son of Surveyor. It was said on the eve of the Great Northern meeting that Make Up was not looking as bright as when he arrived at Ellerslie, and from his showing in the hurdles on Wednesday it would seem that the races he had in the two Northerns had got to the bottom of him. If this is so it might be inadvisable to send him to Melbourne as he would not have much time to freshen up before being required to contest the bio- races across the Tasman. Though Rational 11. did not win a race at the Dunedin meeting last week, he showed good form. He was second on Friday and again on Saturday, beaten on each occasion by Fast Passage, these two efforts providing further evidence of his consistency. Evidently Protomint does best under a light .weight, as after his fine showing in the Cornwall Handicap he appeared sure to win a race at Ellerslie. But with the raising of the minimum he failed in the York Handicap and only just managed to get second in the Carbine Plate. However, there will be plenty of races on heavy tracks in the sprinv where he will ha - i an impost that lie can handle. Udaipur, who credited the Aga Khan with his first success in the Oaks last week, was not raced as a two-year-old. Will o’ the Wisp, who filled second place, started only once last season, running second to Holmwood in the Rous Memorial Stakes at Goodwood. The.third filly, Giudecca, ran five times last season, ivinding up with a win in & nursery handicap at Liverpool. That speedy filly Midinette has rejoined W. Rayner’s team at Wanganui. The youngster improved wonderfully in the autumn and was probably, up to six furlongs, the best two-year-old of the season. It was only by heads that Gaine Carrington and Inflation beat her over the seven furlong journeys of the Champagne Stakes at Ellerslie. Doubtless she will make her re-appearance in the Wanganui Guineas, an event that her owner-breeder, Mr. G. M. Currie, is always keen, on winning. Few more popular appointments have been made in Sydney than that which promoted Mr. G. T. Rowe to the secretaryship of the A.J.C., in succession to the late .Mr. C. W-. Cropper, says the Sporting Globe. Mr. Rowe, whq comes from a racing family, rose from the ranks of office lad to his present position. 1 He entered the employ of the A.J.C. in 1900, and in 1919 was appointed assistant secretary. In the intervening years Mr. Rowe attended to much administrative work, and when Mr. Cropper visited England in 1927 he was acting secretary, and carried out his duties in that capacity to the satisfaction of everybody. It would seem that New Zealand is going to be strongly represented at the Melbourne Grand National meeting rfext month as in addition to Mr. Corry’s team and Copey the southern trainer D. P. Wilson intends to make the trip with Captain’s Gift. This hurdler is a fine fencer, and bred as he is should be able to stay all day. He lias an advantage over the other Dominion fencers in that his preparation has been easier and he has had no hard races like the Northerns. Derby Favouritism.

A day or so before the Derby April the Fifth was fifth in the order of favouritism at half the odds that he had started at in the Two Thousand Guineas, so it would seem that the stable had supported him to some extent. Orwell was a red-hot favourite, witlj.. a good drop to Miracle, and Cockpen and Dastur a few points further back. Then came April the Fifth. He was the only representative of'his sire, Crag an Eran, iu the race. Besides Orwell, Gainsborough was represented by Sunnyborough and Leighon. Solario, the sire of the second horse, Dastur, was also represented by Andrea. Injury to Full Mark.

Advice received from Auckland states that Full Mark was badly cut about in the Great Northern Hurdles and will not race again for a while. His connections are puzzled as to how it occurred, the only possibilities being that it was the result of contact with a sharp timber end from a broken hurdle, or that when Easterly fell she flung her legs skywards and one of her plated hoofs, caught Full Mark’s leg. The injury may heal in time for the Wellington meeting, six weeks off, but it is doubtful. Pillow Fight Doing Well.

Owing to the fact that geldings are not eligible Pillow Fight will not be able to take his place in the A.J.C. Derby field, but the son of Nightraid is being prepared for the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups. He is doing exceptionally well under the charge of Luke Wilson at Hastings and recently ran six furlongs in the great time of Imin. 15 sec. For a youngster who is not nearly wound up this was a wonderful effort, and he will only have to go the right way to keep the opposition doing its best when next ho faces a barrier, pillow Fight was hailed as a world beater early in the season, but after winning two races his form was disappointing and he was given a spell. As he was a rather big unwieldy youngster there is every reason to expect that he will do better with a little more age upon him, and during the coming spring he may fulfil the good opinions held concerning him. Death of Glentruin.

Glcntruin, whoso death is reported from Southland, was an English-bred mare bv Sunflower 11. from Castelhne, by Cyllene. She was imported to the Dominion by a Southland sportsman, Mr. A. Chisholm, in whose colours she did all her racing. She was a mare who showed fine quality,. allied with frreat power. Her early racing was done Fn Southland, and in her first season she won three races and was three times second, in six starts. When a six-Tear-old she joined F. D. Jones’ team

at Riccarton, and while in his charge she developed into a high-class sprinter. She won the Stewards’ Handicap at Riccarton twice, carrying 9.6 on the second occasion, while her other successes included the Taranaki Stakes, the Avondale All-Aged Stakes and the Hawke’s Bay Stakes. On being retired to the stud, she produced Lochlaggan to Woodend. So far this filly, though speedy, has not been a great success. Mr. Chisholm also has a yearling sister to Lochlaggan at his stud.