NAMING OF HORSES

Taranaki Daily News, 16 January 1935, Page 4

NAMING OF HORSES

SIMPLE ONES BEST BURNISH’S BRIGHT PROSPECTS. GAINE CARRINGTON RESUMES. (By “Hurry On.”) The New Plymouth trainer R. Johnson is taking Courtega, Lalla Quex and Aussie Ra to Ashhurst where they will race next Tuesday. If they shape satisfactorily they will probably be taken on to Trentham for the last two days of the meeting there. Johnson stated yesterday that at Ashhurst the trio would be ridden by his own apprentice, L. Pell. Bracketed Horses in India. In Calcutta horses the property of the same owner or owners running in a race are bracketed together, and sold as one horse on the win tote, but on the place tote, the daily double, or treble events, they are treated as if they were in separate interests. Burnish Improving. Wanganui reports credit Burnish with displaying more dash in her track work of late. The Pombal filly is to take her place in the field for the Wellington Stakes at Trentham on Tuesday when she is expected to put up a bold showing. Should be Prominent. Revision ran a capital race into third place at Stratford on the second day, finishing on very solidly. On this form she would have a great chance in the Highweight at Trentham if a capable rider can be secured. Gaine Carrington in Work. Gaine Carrington, who is in regular work at Caulfield, is reported to have furnished into a fine horse, but it is not yet certain he will stand, states the Sydney Referee.. The owner, Mr. J. A. Phillips, when recently at Sydney, said: “Whenever I get a ring on the phone at night I’m always afraid it will be the br •’ news, ‘He's gone again . If Gaine Carrington should get through a preparation, he will be a welcome addition to the weight-for-age ranks. In handicaps he may now get sufficient to stop him. Nearly Won the Double. Kennaquhair, who died last week, was one of the few horses that went close to winning the Melbourne Cup .when carrying 10lb penalty for success in the Metropolitan. Starting favourite, he easily won the last-mentioned race with 8.4 from Marella, writes Pilot in the Sydney Referee. His penalty increased his Melbourne Cup weight to 9.0, and he put up a good fight against the lightlyweighted Night Watch (6.9). being defeated by only half a length, with Gadabout in third place. Seventeen months later Kennaquhair won the Sydney Cup with 9.5. Clever riding on the part of A. Wood enabled him to gain a substantial lead at the straight entrance, and Poitrel (9.9) failed to wipe it out by a neck. W. Stringer, who trained Kennaquhair, died last year. Commonsense Names. When a horse has a name somewhat out of the common, it is a stumblingblock for many bookmakers and other racegoers. In connection with this, Mr. E. Dorling, when proposing the health, of the Aga Khan, at the Gimcrack club dinner at York, struck a humorous vein. During the course of his speech Mr. Dorling said he would utter a heartfelt appeal to their guest with regard to a matter which was of interest to a large number of followers of racing. “We English,” he continued, “are a tongue-tied folic. Most of us know no language of

our own. Some of us know very little of that, and I believe that if the Aga Khan realised the agonies of uncertainty into which the ring and the men in the street were thrown when confronted with a mystic-sounding name of Oriental origin, he would have compassion on our linguistic disabilities. Speaking for some thousand of racegoers, I would rather acclaim a Derby winner with the nice homely name of Blenheim than see our great guest lead in at Epsom a three-year-old burdened with, a name that did not run trippingly oft the tongue.” Evidently those Indian names the Aga Khan bestows upon so many of his horses get English racegoers somewhat tangled when they endeavour to pronounce them. Made Blandford Famous. In the Manchester Sporting Chronicle, the well-known writer, “Mankato,” takes exception to the statement, in another paper, that the early patronage of the Aga Khan had a lot to do with the success attained by Blandford. Blandford went to the stud in 1924. The Aga Khan did not send a mare to him until 1926, and the filly which resulted, won one race in France. No Blandford colt or filly bred by the Aga Khan won in 1930, and in 1931 his only winner by the son of Swynford was Rooz (out of Roshun), winner of one race, £525. ■ All the Aga Khan, as a breeder, did to advance the prospects of Blandford during the first five years the horse’s stock was running under Jockey Club Rules and in Ireland, was to send out one winner of one race of £525. Against this sum, other breeders advertised Blandford to the tangible extent of 31 individual winners of 831 races, £74,521, in his first five years of stud effort. The Derby and St. Leger winner, Trigo and the Derby winner, Blenheim, were two of these 31 winners. The breeders principally instrumental in firmly establishing Blandford were Mr. W. Barnett, the Cloghran Stud (Messrs. Dawson), and Lord Carnarvon. Vicomte de Fontarce also was an early and regular supporter of the horse.