RACING & TROTTING

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 18 June 1924, Page 7

RACING & TROTTING

On and 0,7 the Track.

A BUDGET OF NEWS AND VIEWS

FIXTURES Racing.

June 20, 21—Ashburton Racing Club. June 20, 21 —Napier Park Racing Club. June 25, 26—Hawke’s Bay Jockey Club July 9, 12—Wellington Racing Club. July 19—South Canterbury hunt. July 24 —Waimate Hunt. July 24, 26—Gisborne Racing Club. August 12, 14, 16—C.J.C. Grand National.

Ashburton meeting on Friday and Saturday. Anxious Moments broke a leg at Ellerslie and had to be destroyed. The amount won this season by Don Wild, £3202, constitutes an Australasian record for the trotting sport.' The Napier Park, winter meeting will be held on Friday and Saturday, and the Hawke’s Ray fixture on Wednesday and Thursday of next week. On Friday and Saturday the morning train for Ashburton will leave Timaru at 7.50. Tire first race is timed to commence at 11.30 a.m.

It is reported that Black Art, who had been ticked olf as likely to win a big steeplechase this year, fractured Ins pelvis in the Great Northern Steeplechase. yMo failed to win a race this seaton, but she finished in second places half a dozen times, and her gross earnings for the year were not much short ol four figures. During the height of the rainstorm at ELlerslic last Saturday week, the birdcage was knee-deep in water, and a good portion of the lawn was submerged. The winterless north! A “berth” has been booked foi Gloaming on the Ulimaroa, which is to leave ‘Wellington for Sydney on June 27th. This''will be the champion’s fourteenth jaunt across the Tasman Sea

The Dunedin Jockey Club subscribed £IOO to the fund being raised for the dependents of the late T. W. O'Connell. Two stipendiary stewards at the meeting on the last day collected £6O, the racecourse inspector £4O, and “Sentinel” of ' the “Otago Witness” ’ over £IOO.

A southern writer is responsible for tho statement that Kipling’s win at .Wingatui was the lirM of his career. It fvas his first success as a ’chaser, but the disappointing half , brother ot Bobrikoff won three races on the flat, and one race over hurdles before he was tried over big fences. Geranial’s win in Sydney last Saturday would not return J. McCombe very much in stake money, but the Iliccarron owner-trainer is a courageous better, and it probably will be found that he netted enough over the race to put him on velvet for his next sortie on the ringmen’s bags, Some scribes have fallen into tho error of crediting Onyx with establishing a Dominion, grass track record, v, hen she wen the principal event at Ashburton. Her 4.26 4-5 was a record tor her sex, but Admiral Wood and other horses haVe stepped much faster on grass than the New Brighton mare. A. McKay, who sustained a fracture of the skull when Wapping fell on the final day of the Dunedin meeting, trains the horse, and only rode him because no suitable horseman was available. McKay was at one time pretty well known in South Canterbury as the rider of Lupulite,. a brilliant sprinter of a dozen 'years ago. . One of reeyafnendluents proposed by the president at the request of tho stipendiary Stewards’. Committee, and to be considered.at next meeting of the Racing Conference, is.: “No licensed tr ainer shall be appointed liandicappei by the stewards or committee of any ■ .fab, nor shall any paid official of tho club other than the handicapper frame handicaps for such club.”,

A northern writer states that Firstborn was a very sick horse on the second day of the Auckland meeting. He was taken to teh course, but was not fit to race, and was withdrawn from his engagements. Had there not been a postponement of tho final day’s races the Tliurnham ’gelding would again have been an absentee. As it was ho was sent out favourite, but repeated bis earlier performance and unshipped his rider.

A proposal will be submitted to the Racing Conference next month by tho Rangitikei Racing Club making it no cessary for anyone acting as liandi capper, clerk of scales, starter, judge, or assistant judge, to be licensed annually by the Racing Conference. It is now proposed that no two offices shall be held by onei person unless by special permission, though, in cases of emergency, the stewards may, during a meeting, appoint an unlicensed substitute to fill any of the offices named fox that meeting only. Farceur, who lias won twice over a mile and a quarter in Sydney, stays better than the great majority of Absurd’s stock, but probably he intcrits what stamina ho possesses from liis dam, Our Lady. This mare, earlier, produced Bronze, winner of a ‘Wanganui Cup and a Great Autumn. Our Lady, however, has endowed most of her offspring with speed qualities rather than stamina. One of her sons, Beau Soult, is the siro of Beauford, and one of her daughters, Cowl, has given the turf soma brilliant sprinters in Rational, Tho Monk and Veil;

In the Selma Trot Handicap at the Asiiounon County Racing Club's meeting, Winsome Melody mis been penalised a-l.vds and Royal Arcade lavus.

As an extra permit was available, it has uccn gran led to tne Wellington Racing Club lor an additional uay at its winter meeting. Tins will now be held on July 8, lu and 12. The New Zealand Cup this year will be run on Saturday, November 8, and the meeting at Ellersiie will not clash with the Riccarton carnival fixture.

Sir Roseberry’s steeplechase winnings this winter have returned his owner a little over £2OOO, ten times the amount Mr Garrett paid for him at the beginning of the jumping season. Delusion, the All Black geldmg, whoso career ended with a broken fetlock at Randwick, holds the Australian record for two miles over hurdles, 3.384, much faster than many bygone champions took to win the Melbourne Cup. Quiniro, who won a good hurdle race at Randwick, has been olf the scene so long that many people had forgotten him. He is an Anckiand-bred son ot Queen Abbey and Kotinpo, and if ho remains sound should win again before long When Mary Bruce won the Great Northern Steeples in 19zj, her success was generally regarded as a nuke, but she demonstrated that she is bcttei than moderate by annexing the Winter Steeplechase over the same country last week. 4

Tne proudest man at Ellerslie during the Great Northern meeting, would be T Siieenan, wno pulled on a double with breekson. Tne son ol Heorew Maid had not saluted tne judge since he won a hack race at boraiunie nearly lour years ago. Grey Star, who won the lightweight point-to-point last week, is said to oo identical with the winner ol tne Waikato Hunt Cup in lyill. Oakieigh, the dual Grand National winner, nnished behind Urey Star m tins race, but lost ground by taking the wrong course. Master Refer is not likely to be seen in public before tho National meeting, and may have to be put by until next jumping season rolls round. He sustained a wrench during his unlucky trip to Wanganui, and his trainer fears that it is uiisaie to go on with him m tho meantime.

Sir JLtos-eoerry is one of the best ’chasers seen out for some time. He won the Green Lane Stecplecnaso on the opening day of the A.R.C. meeting, made no race of the Great Northern Steeplechase, and was only beaten in the last couple of furlongs in tho Winter Steeplechase. Tho country clubs in Auckland province which were allowed to race on city courses last season, experienced a big drop in totalisator revenue when called upon to return to their own territoryi The Opotiki Club at iillerslio put through £44,(36, but this year at Opotiki tlie 'turnovor Darcruvilio shrank from £60,747 to £7Bll, and Bay of islands rrom £42,460 to £7775. It is understood that £IOOO was refused for the Otalu triple winner, Wassail, who should soon graduate into open company; .Wassail, who cost his owner less tnan £4O, is a three-year-old bv iiivsuin —Merry Dale, his dam being"a, daughter of tne Victorian-bred mare Happy Valley, who traces back to Happy Lundj by Musket—Atlantis, nappy Land was'the ctam of Hova, and ana half sister to Bt. Leger. Bompey, who won two of the good fiat races' at the. Great Northern fixture, runs in tho interests of Mr Hugo FnedJanaer. Bompey scored in tne Avondale Guineas in the spring, but his subsequent form was so moderate that .uost people came to regard that victory’ as a fluky one. His best races have been run in heavy going, and it is possible that it was the hard tracks wnicb accounted tor his failures during the summer.

Provided he is not overtaken by misfortune, Valais should not be long in returning Thompson Brothers something more than the 14,400 guineas they paid for the Englishman at the dispersal of the Arrowtiolcl salo a few weeks ago. Already his owners hare booked twenty outside mares to him at 500 guineas each, which brings 10,000 guineas of the purchase money in sight. If they decide to accept thirty they will soon hare the horse for nothing, Mr J. L, Jopp, whose death was announced last week, was well known in South Canterbury, and particularly in the Point district, where he resided for some time. The late Mr Jopp was keenly interested in the trotting sport, and at the recent Forbury meeting hi 3 colours were carried to victory by Lottie Direct. Another unhoppled horse lie had racing at the time of his death was St. Antnony. Ho always had a predilection for the straight-out trot•ter, possibly because he owned Itevenue at tiic time that gelding established a record for a trotter in saddle of 2.11 4-5, which has not been beaten for 14 years. At last week’s meeting of tho Canterbury District Committee, the following recommendations for trainer’s licenses were made: P. T. Hogan, ii. C. Keeper, E. Malone, J. Tlnstleton, S. Trilford. Ono other application from youth Canterbury was not recommended. The issue of jockeys’ licenses to tlic following were recommpudcd : —W. Podding, P: E. Jones, J. McOiiesney. Conditional on obtaining permanent employment —L; G. King, A. J. Peart, E. J. "Shaw, P. H. Kaan. Conditional —J. T. Humphris. Apprentices’ licenses were recommended lor L. G. Keeper, P: Lloyd, D. O’Connor, E. J; Shaw, J. E. Siiaw, G. E. Talbot. Cremona must bo one of tho unluckiest hunters in tho country, and seems destined to bump against misfortune. In the past she has encountered buriicicut reverses to last ono animal ii lifetime, but she is still following an unlucky star. At it airlic she struck herself in the race and prejudiced a good chance of winning, and at Waiiawa last week, she was taken about three feet outside one ol tho Hags, and (inhered disqualification. Had this been the extent of her misfortune, it would not hare mattered, but after jumping tho obstacle she became entangled in some barbed wire: which had been cut and doubled back, and sustained some u<>ly flesh wounds which caused her to lotii apparently gallons of blood. At one stage of her career the half sister to Roval and Jack Symons was accounted a bit of a jade, but no horse could hare shown more gameness than was displayed by Cremona last Saturday. Had" she pulled up sound, it was intended to hand her over to S. Trilford to prepare: for tho hunt meetings, but it is improbable that she will be fit for work again this winter. Tho lightweight event at last Saturday’s point-to-point meeting was one of the best races of its kind ever run in South Canterbury. Four of the horses refused at a simple rail early in the proceedings, apparently because their riders approached it at an angle instead of squaring up and taking it straight on, but a mile from home seven of the eight starters were in the same field, and the finish was a fine one for such a long race. 'Hie winner, Grey Star, carries tho Vaimutc huntsman in meets in that district, and is a fine type of hunter, but possibly ho was a little lucky in defeating Cremona. Persuader ran "another consistent race, and of the “outsiders,” the grey, Snowstorm, was responsible for a good performance. The hoavvwoight contest looked to bo a good thing tor Six Cylinder, but the Waimato champion had a closo call, losing his rider three fences from home and being called Jfpon to do his best to overhaul the Ttairho maro Mabel, who had boon allowed, purely bn sutfcr£mcc to £ioconipfl.uy lutti up to that point.' TD) Farmers’ race appeared—with a stand up—to bo u certainty for Bill Turpin, but lie also made a mistake on the trip) and did not score so cusih as had been anticipated.