RACING & TROTTING

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18614, 9 July 1930, Page 12

RACING & TROTTING

On and Off the Track. A BUDGET OF NEWS AND VIEWS FIXTURES. Racing;: July 10, 12—Wellington R.C. July 19—Waimate District Hunt Club. July 24, 26 —Gisborne R.C. July 26—South Canterbury Hunt Clud July 31— Manawatu R.C.

The Wellington meeting will be continued to-morrow. Nominations for the South Canterbury Hunt meeting are due on Friday. The Otago Hunt Club has applied for September 13th as the date for its annual race meeting. The stakes allotted total £IOOO. L. Dulieu steered King’s Guard in last year’s Wellington Steeplechase, and H. Dulieu won yesterday on Mangani. Bookmakers applying for licenses in Victoria next season will be required to arrange for a fidelity bond before being allowed to operate at Flemington. Barrington has been rehandicapped Tor both hunters’ steeplechases at Waimate. but is not liable to a penalty in the Hunters’ Plate. Evening is racing consistently, but without much luck. A win for the Dunedin mare is overdue, and will be popular when it comes. In last year’s Wellington Steeplechase, King’s Guard defeated Fabriano by half a head, the same margin as separated Mangani and Aurora Borealis in yesterday’s race. Tunamoe was so seriously injured when he w&s struck by a motor-car on the night of the Ashburton meeting that he is not likely to race again for some time. The Metropolitan Trotting Club has deleted the mile saddle race from the first day’s programme at its winter meeting, and has substituted therefor a 2.56 mile and a quarter for four-year-olds. Author Franz credited C. S. Donald with his 37th win of the season by annexing the saddle trot at Oamaru. Earlier in the day Author Franz had been short-headed out of first place in a harness event. Mr A. D. Mclvor did some rapid work at the barrier at Oamaru on Saturday. Weather conditions were good, and most of the horses were ridden bystrong horsemen, and the fields were despatched with a minimum of delay. This is Conference Week in Wellington. The Trotting Conference, the Country Racing Clubs’ Association, and the Hunts’ Association are to meet today, and the session of the Racing Conference is convened for Friday. Corinax hurt himself while playing in a paddock recently, and his projected trip to Sydney has been cancelled. The venture was not at any time a promising one, as one-eyed horses are barred in Australia. High Gear, who hurt himself when winning at Wingatui on Boxing Day, made a reappearance at Oamaru. He had not been long in work, and with an apprentice on top, did not showup, but should soon race intp winning shape. Lady Cavendish, an Auckland Champagne winner, will be mated with Lord Warden next season. Lady Cavendish, who is by Absurd from Bonnie Portland, was a very smart sprinter, and w'on several short distance w.f.a. events. The Wellington Steeplechase winner. Mangani, is by Day Comet, from a Maniapoto mare. Maniapoto, who is by Soult, was a brilliant racer, and •won an A.J.C. Metropolitan. Mangani won the Autumn Steeplechase at the Auckland winter meeting last year, and won the Grand National Hurdles at the beginning of the current season. 2YA last year broadcasted the information that King’s Guard drew away at the finish of the Wellington Steeplechase to win by half a head. After yesterday’s race the station solemnly announced that “Aurora Borealis was in front five yards from the post. Mangani was tiring, and Aurora Borealis failed to get up by half a head.” Punchestown’s win at Ashburton over ten furlongs was achieved in a falserun race, and on that account has been regarded as being of a fluky nature. Some of his work on the training tracks does not support this view, and Punchestowm may not disgrace himself if he starts later in this week at Trentham. An improvement was noticeable at Oamaru in the frame for displaying the numbers over the judge’s box. For a long time a wooden framework was used, the sides of which obscured parts of double numbers when viewed from an angle. An iron carrier has been substituted, with much more satisfactory results. Carinthia had been working attractively at Washdyke before he left for Trentham, and he ran a good race in the principal hurdle race yesterday. Carinthia is a good stayer, and over the longer journey in the Winter Hurdles on Saturday he should reverse places with Amorist, who narrowly defeated him for second money and dividend yesterday. “The departure of so many New Zealanders to Australia is causing concern,” says a Wellington correspondent of the Sydney “Referee.” It is really doing nothing of the kind. Ninety per cent, of the horses which have gone or are about to go across the Tasman will be back in time for the spring meetings. They can be trusted to bring back a good share of Australian gold or its equivalent in currency. Some of those which do not return will be sold to Australians for more than they are worth. J. T. Lippiatt, a prominent Westralian trainer, who had the New Zealander Prince Paladin on lease when that horse was the champion of the West, is in the Dominion on the look out for suitable purchases. So far he has j bought the Riccarton gelding Garvary. I the three-year-old filly Valpre (Chief Ruler-Valerie) from Mr G. F. Moore, and a three-vear-old by Grandcourt from Tall Talk, and an AcreMelodise mare from Mr G. Shannon, of Palmerston North. It was generally understood that after the winter meeting Torpedo Huon and Mignonne were to be sent south to join J. Bryce’s team. These plans were altered, and Mignonne remains in Auckland. Torpedo Huon was sent south, as it is thought he will race better on the dirt track at Addington than on the grass at Auckland. He will need to if he is to earn what he has cost his present owner. Mr E. Cuck’sey, owner of Evelyn Locanda, intended sending that mare down to be trained by J. Bryce, but now that the programme has been drawn up for the relief meeting he has altered his plans and will keep the mare in Auckland. An Australian writer waxes facetious over the wins of New Zealand gallopers in Australia: “If we go to war with New Zealand—and that is likely if Limerick, Nightmarch or any other New Zealander wins the Epsom or Metropolitan—the best way to make them surrender is to instruct the A.J.C. and V.R.C. handicappers to commence their weights for the important handicaps with a New Zealander at 12 stone. The clubs could also insist that their owners shall ride them. Then one oi our horses might win a nice stake at Randwick. It seems as if it is their only chance.”

The class for the saddle trot at the South Canterbury Hunt meeting is 3.40. Rin Tin Tin has been purchased by Mr J. Richardson, of Dunedin. It is understood that the Oamaru meeting last week will show a profit of about £BS. It is reported that the brilliant pacer Padlock is unlikely to stand another preparation. H. Gray’s win on Best Friend in the Whyte Handicap yesterday increased his lead over A. E. Ellis to two points. A half-sister to Queen Balboa and King Balboa has joined F. W. Ellis’s team at Invercargill. It is reported that the Oamaru Jockey Club is making a strong bid to get back its old summer dates of January 2 and 3. At this time last winter there were about twenty rising two-year-olds being handled at Wingatui. At the present time there are only eight—not a good outlook for tl>e early two-year-old races next season. For some years, Canterbury horses have cleaned up nearly all the big races at Auckland trotting meetings. This season the home-trained contingent have been more successful, and have accounted for eight of the eleven big races at Epsom. Mr A. Cambridge has sent a couple of young ones to C. Emerson at Riccarton to prepare for him. They are Standard Rose, by Rosenor from The Kiss, by Boniform, and Royal Sceptre, by Rosenor from Bonnie Olive, by Adjudge. J. Ross has two horses in his stable at Oamaru which are related to good performers. These are Little Duchess (sister to Taboo), and Rosewood (halfsister to Sun Up). So far neither of the pair has shown signs of emulating the deeds of their relative. Bobrikoff. one of the best horses the Dominion has seen, is still alive at the age of 25. Bobrikoff was not a stayer, but he won an Auckland Cup, and for a time was nearly invincible over middle distances. He cost Mr T. H. Lowry only £SO, and was one of the bargains of the turf. The Te Aro Handicap at Wellington was popularly regarded as a racecourse certainty for The Warden, but P. T. Hogan sprang a surprise with the Central Otago gelding Town Major, ridden by W. Hogan. Town Major has previously paid big dividends. He won twice at Dunedin last winter, and on each occasion his backers collected a return a long way into double figures. Town Major was bred in Hawke’s Bay, l and is at his best in mud. : Racing men at Wagga Wrgga are ; very much concerned with the omis- | sion from the list of fastest times pubi lished in the racebooks for the Aus- ' tralian Jockey Club's winter meeting of that credited to Bawn-na-glas in winning the Gold Cup at the Murrumbidgee Turf Club’s meeting on May 7, says the “Sydney Morning Herald.’’ Timed, it is understood, with an ordinary stop watch, Bawn-na-glas ran the mile and a quarter in 2min 3 l-ssec, which equals the record standing to the credit of Winning Hit at Christchurch, New Zealand, and is a fraction faster than the time put up by Beauford at Randwick and by Parsee at Flemington. The omission of the performance from the records is regarded as an intimation that the Australian Jockey Club does not intend to recognise it. A meeting of delegates from racing clubs in the Wanganui district was held last week, to consider proposals for reducing costs of running meetings. The principal topics of discussion were the issue of complimentary tickets and of lunch tickets to visitors, and it is probable that in future these privileges will be drastically curtailed. A Marton delegate stated that returns showed that in some cases where the attendance was 5000, only half this number paid for admission. An Ashhurst official said that at one meeting there 3000 people paid a flat rate of 2/to obtain admission to the course, but the receipts from the lawn gates showed that about 1000 men secured free entry to the stands. When luncheon tickets were being discussed, it was stated that at one Wanganui meeting a trainer had secured eleven, and one owner had asked for five. It was unanimously decided to recommend that complimentary tickets be not issued, except to owners with horses at the meeting, and that the issue of luncheon tK s by stewards be discontinued. .iners will not be affected if the clubs adopt these recommendations. The Auckland Trotting Club committee is seeking to protect the club against a possible loss over the relief meeting. The club is willing to do all j possible to assist the unemployed, but I it is claimed that there is no reason why it should be called upon to stand for any loss that may be brought about by bad weather. It will be surprising if its attitude is approved by the bureaucrats in Wellington. At the invitation of the Government of the day, the Forbury Park Trotting Club ran a meeting for the entertainment of the American Fleet visitors and lost several hundred pounds. Full taxation on the fixture had nevertheless to be paid. This was not complained of. as any profit that might have accrued would I have been retained by the Club. The Club ran a risk of making another loss when it decided to promote a meeting with the object of raising funds for the relief of unemployment. It received notice from the Minister of Internal Affairs that the totalisator permit had been granted, and that the taxes would be remitted, but hotfoot on this came forms from the Stamp Duties Office requiring the usual tax returns to be filled in. and a notification that the imposts were to be paid in the usual way. An inquiry elicited ,the information that the taxes could be remitted only by Parliament, by means of a vote on the Supplementary Estimates. As it • would be several months before the re- ; mission could be granted in this way, the unemployed would have had to wait a long time for any relief. The upshot was that the Government, not the Club, was to refund half the taxation to the City Council and half to the Charitable Aid Board, out of unj authorised expenditure. When the fix- , ture was over, however, the Club took the bull by the horns, and handed the | whole profits, taxes and all, over to the I bodies which were to act for the beneficiaries.