FROM TRACK AND STABLE

Taranaki Daily News, 13 June 1932, Page 3

FROM TRACK AND STABLE

RISING TWO-YEAR-OLDS

SURVEYOR’S STUD SUCCESSES. \ ■ T. R. GEORGE'S REMARKABLE RUN. (By “Hurry On.”) There was no racing in the Dominion on Saturday, but next Saturday the South Canterbury and Hawke’s Bay Club’s will be holding meetings, and then will follow early next month the big gathering at Trentham, with its attendant annual meeting of the Racing Conference. During the spring the Te Awamutu. stable presided over by A. Cook was regarded as one of the most powerful in the Dominion, but recently has had no luck whatever. However, it is a long lane that has no turning and its turn will come, even though Pegaways, Karapotis and Tankards do not appear every day. A. Davey has made another start with Compris at Ricearton. At present he is being hacked about the. roads, but ho will commence track work soon, as it is hoped to have him ready for a race at the. Grand National meeting in August. Another Australian trip in the spring is possible. The Hunting Song three-year-old Cottesmore, who pulled up sore after winning the Novice Stakes at the Wairarapa meeting on New Year’s Day, and had to be turned out for a spell, was returned to his box in T. Young’s stable at Trentham on Monday. He looks to have made a satisfactory recovery, but full certainty about this cannot be known till he has been sprinted again on the tracks. It is his trainees intention to progress very slowly with him during the next couple of months or so, in order that he may have every chance.

The committee of the Wanganui Jockey Club has decided against running the Wanganui Guineas at the spring meeting and also has cut the Jackson Stakes out of the autumn programme. It is to be regretted that force,of circumstances has compelled the club to abandon these races in the meantime, but no doubt they will be reinstated as soon as the economic position improves. The Ricearton trainer A. McAulay has another spring trip to Australia in contemplation and as a preliminary he has nominated Nightmarch and -True Shaft for the principal handicaps, while the Hunting Song—Martianette yearling colt has been put in the early two-year-old events.

The ex-New Zealand jockey George Young, who is now training in Sydney, had his colours carried for the first time at Menangle about a fortnight ago by the two-year-old Top Jig. He has shown quite a pardonably sentimental leaning in his selection of yellow and red stripes, with a black cap to distinguish the jacket from Mr. G. D. Greenwood’s livery, in which Young scored so many notable successes, especially on Gloaming. He led in a jvinner in Havaspot at Randwick on Saturday. The association between Mr. J. J. Corry and his trainer, T. R. George, has been a remarkably successful one, and in just over two yeans the trainer has established what must be something like a record. Two years ago last January George took over the training of Mr. Corry’s horsez, and although he has only saddled up eight horses for the Blenheim sportsman they have won no fewer than 87 races. With three horses sired by Surveyor he has won over 40 races, and this season alone he has saddled up 41 winners. So far there are only two rising two-year-olds in training on the New Plymouth track. No Doubt, as his name suggests, is a half-brother to Little Doubt, being by Chief Ruler from Lady Pat. He has been in work some time now and should be ready for early spring engagements. He has powerfullooking hindquarters and gives indications that he will know how to gallop. The other is a half-brother by Potoa to Merry Jest and will race under the name of Bold Bid. He has only very recently been put into work, and it will be November before he will be ready to race. He made his first appearance on the track last week and is a niefely proportioned, well-mannered colt. The will of Eleanor, Lady Torrington, a well-known figure on English racecourses, who committed suicide in December, reveals that shortly before her death she cancelled a legacy to Steve Donoghue, the jockey to whom she had left land proved at a value 01 £lO,OOO (states an English exchange). Other legacies included a piece of land to Kathleen Donoghue, and an oil painting to “Dear Pat Donoghue.” The Chester vase won on Lone Knight, which had been willed to Steve, was also the subject of revocation. The residuary property in the estate was willed to Donoghue for life, and thereafter to his children, Kathleen, Pat and Stevie.

Related to Derby Winner. There was one man to whom the result of the English Derby came as a pleasant surprise, and that was Richard Wootton, of Sydney, for he owns a year-older half-brother to the winner, April the Fifth. This is Birthday Present, who has already revealed himself as a promising galloper. Birthday Present, who is by Vencedor, was brought in company with Stanley’s Gift from England by Mr. Wootton’s son, Stanley, the gift being made on the occasion of the father’s birthday. Hence the names. Birthday Present is the first foal of his dam, Sold Again, April the Fifth being the second. The Derby win puts a greatly increased' value on the hitherto little-known Sydney-owned galloper, and it will be interesting to see how he fares in the future. Surveyor As a Sire. The recent successes of Landmark, Make Up and Full Measure have brought the Nassau stallion Surveyor well into the limelight as a sire of jumpers. He is quite young as sires go and the oldest of his stock are now only five years. These three are probably the only ones that have been tried at the leaping game, and their success is certain to encourage all who have any of the stock in training to give them a trial over the small fences. The three-year-old Croupier is also proving a fine advertisement for the New Zealand-bred sire. Croupier has been freely entered for the big events in Australia in the spring and it would appear that his owners are contemplating joining in the big migration across the Tasman, where the stakes at the big meetings are still good and the facilities for betting per medium of the bookmakers are appreciated. A Varied Career.

Nassock, who won the Green Lane Steeplechase on the opening day at Ellerslie, but fell next day in the Great Northern Steeplechase when possessing a chance, has had a varied career. He is an eight-year-old gelding by Nassau from the Australian-bred .are Cassock, dam of The Monk and Almoner, two smart performers by Boniform. Nassock was bred by Mr. G. L. Stead and was sold by Mr. T. Impey, who raced him with little success. After having failed at a North Auckland meeting he was sold for a few pounds to Mr. Stanaway,

the secretary of the Dargaville Racing Club, who bought the horse for his son. Nassock was later taken . Ellerslie and was responsible for a big surprise when he won the Autumn Handicap .at an Easter meeting. Changing hands again, he was bought by Mr. W. j. McLean, in whose colours he won the Green Lane Steeplechase.