RACING & TROTTING

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18650, 20 August 1930, Page 10

RACING & TROTTING

On and Off the Track. A BUDGET OF NEWS AND VIEWS FIXTURES. Racing: Aug. 23—Pakuranga Hunt Club. Aug. 23 —Hawke’s Bay Hunt Club. Aug. 27—Dannevirke R.C. Aug. 28 —Dannevirke Hunt Club. Aug. 30—Taranaki Hunt Club. Sept. 6 —Marton J.C. Sept. 11, 13 —Wanganui J.C. Sept. 13 —Otago Hunt Club. Sept. 20—Ashburton R.C. Sept. 20, 22—Avondale J.C. Sept. 25, 27 —Geraldine R.C. Sept. 27—Hawke’s Bay J.C. Oct. 4—Napier Park R.C. Oct. 4—Kurow J.C. Oct. 4, 6 —Auckland R.C. Oct. 9, 11—Dunedin J.C. Oct. 10, 11—Otaki-Maori R.C. Oct. 16, 18 —South Canterbury J.C. Trotting: Sept. 6—New Brighton T.C. Oct. 4—Methven T.C. Oct. 11—Waikato T.C. Oct. 18—Northland T.C. Oct. 25, 27—Greymouth T.C. Oct. 27—Oamaru T.C. There will be no racing or trotting in the South Island this week. Fixtures in the North Island are the Pakuranga Hunt meeting (at Ellerslie) and the Hawke’s Bay Hunt meeting. Imprint failed to win a race at the Metropolitan meeting, but the Nelson pacer finished second in the big race each day, and credited his owner with £6OO.

Two years ago Carinthia won the Styx Hurdles at the National meeting, and last year Aurora Borealis won the same race. How far will Gay Fashion go?

Onyx, one-time queen of the pacing business, was started in the Speedway j Handicap at Addington, but has not | retained sufficient pace to be able to | 'oot it w ;h the younger division, i The success of Aurora Borealis and

others of the stock of Day Comet, may result in the Dunedin mare Evening being tried over hurdles. Evening is | running pretty consistently on the flat, but just fails to get into the dividends. It is not intended to throw Carinthia out of work. He becomes very gross with idleness, and takes a lot of work to get him back to racing condition. He will probably be kept in training until the spring meeting at Riccarton. Mrs Sweetapple, of Auckland, won the largest amount at the Metropolitan meeting, with £1375. Mr C. L. Kettle £9OO, Mr W. McDonald £7OO. Mr W. J. Gudsell £6OO and Mr T. B. Louisson £6OO. were the other principal winners. Some of the judge’s boxes now being constructed are just as much too far from the course as the old-time ones were too close. Had there been a fog at Riccarton as dense as that which swathed the Addington course, it would have been impossible to distinguish the horses from the box. Only Mrtu (who finished second to Wiltshire), of last year’s Grand National field took part in last week’s j contest. Mangani and Mister Gamp ! were the only representatives of the 1 1929 Grand National Hurdles candidates who were on hand on Thursday, j It was reported that one trainer was : pulled up at Addington on Friday for attempting to use toe weights on a trotter after having raced without them on earlier days of the meeting. It was rumoured also that another trainer added toe-weights on the third day and escaped official notice. No horse registered Trotting Cup time on the first two days at Addington, though King Pointer won off a mark that will ensure him being handicapped on 4.26 or better. On the third day, Neeoro and Grandlight registered 4.24 2-5 and 4.26, the fastest figures at the meeting. F. Holmes won a double in saddle at the first meeting of the Metropolitan Trotting Club, and N. L. Price rode the third horse in the first race run by the Club. Both were seen in the sulky at last week’s meeting. The late M. B. Edwards scored three wins on the Metropolitan Club’s opening day, and two of his sons were driving at the fixture just concluded. Carinthia won his recent races by his jumping and his ability to stay. His sire, Lucullus, who was imported from France, is by Ard Patrick. His dam, Minsk, has a double strain of Musket blood. She is by Martian from Stephanie. by Stepniak (grandson of Musket) from Fanna, by Maxim (son of Musket) from a granddaughter of Traducer.

Washdyke horses won four of the six hurdle races at the Grand National meeting, Carinthia winning twice and Gay Fashion and Barrington once. Membo, who has wintered at Washdyke, won one of the others, but was placed second for an alleged cross. West Dome, another horse which was educated at Washdyke, won the hurdlers’ flat race, and was second in a hurdle race.

The fog which blanketed the Addington course before the last race of the National meeting was particularly dense, and nobody present could remember a similar experience during the 31 years the Club has raced at Addington. There was a meeting at Ashburton some years ago at which fog blotted out nearly all the races, but it was not nearly so bad as the Addington visitation.

F. G. Holmes’s team won four races at Addington, and F. Gallacher was credited with three wins by John Mauritius. Trainers with two winners were C. R. Hadfield. A. Hendriksen, J. S. Shaw, D. Bennett and C. S. Donald. J. S. Shaw drove five winners during the three days, one of them for F. G. Holmes, who had scored three times before he was - injured. W. J. Tomkinson missed with his own string, but won three races behind John Mauritius. M. Holmes, C. S. Donald and A. Hendriksen each drove two winners.

The chief two-mile races at Addington were not truly run, and the cracks took the big prizes without putting up the best exhibitions. On the first day the £IOOO race, the August Handicap, was won in 4.31 3-5, and in the Queen Mary Handicap (ssec slower class), Neeoro made exactly the same time. Native Prince won the King George Handicap (£IOOO, 4.29) in 4.30 2-5, while Harold Logan hung up 4.29 1-5 in the Canterbury Handicap (4.35 class). In the National Cup (£IOOO, 4.27 class) King Pointer scored in 4.29 4-5, while Invader had to step 4.27 2-5 to score in the 4.35 division.

Royal S Ik was not the only horse which was associated with apparent inconsistency in betting figures at Addington. Invader jumped from 920 in a pool of 10,800 in the Canterbury Handicap, to 1480 in a pool of 11,050 on the next day. Nelson de Oro was backed to the extent of 580 in a total of 9870 on Wednesday, and showed 1890 out of 11,470 on Friday. Both horses, however, had run solid races for fourth place before they were accorded the added support. Home Voyage, after finishing fourth on the first day, was entrusted with nearly three times as much money on the secohd, while White Batin jumped from 394 to 1645.

Haze is to be tried out over hurdles. Radiate was only a shadow of his old self when produced at the National meeting.

There were four falls at Addington, and the Holmes family was involved in three of them.

The Forbury Park Trotting Club commenced last season with an overdraft of £3655, and reduced it to £IOB4. Mangani won the Grand National Hurdles a year ago, but he has fallen in his last three starts over the battens.

Sweet Refrain, who broke her pelvis during a gallop at Riccarton last month, has been destroyed. Her owner has sent a half-sister to Sweet Refrain (by Nightraid) to be trained by A. E. Wormald.

Trainers who supplied the winner of more than one race at Riccarton last week were: F R. Waller, F. Trilford, E. J. Ellis and F. J. McKay, with two wins each. A. E. Ellis. H. Dulieu, F. Thompson, H. Goldfinch and G. Dempster, two apiece, were the only jockeys to steer more than a single winner. H. Gray’s reappearance at Riccarton after an absence of five or six years, was expensive to his followers. He had nine mounts at the National meeting, and the horses he rode carried a total of £11,300 on the machine. Seconds on Air Laddie and Arikinui were the only returns he was able to make.

When H. Dulieu was injured by Mangani falling in the Sydenham Hurdles, a new rider had to be sought to steer Aurora Borealis in the Lincoln Steeplechaoe. F. Thompson was sought for, but he was taking a horse back to its stable and could not be found in time. As a result W. Bowden got a profitable ride.

Aurora Borealis won £l7lO at the Grand National meeting and placed her owner, Mr F. R. Waller, at the top of the owners’ payments for the week. Carinthia won £ll9O for Messrs W. H. and C. L. Orbell. The other principal winners were Mr Q. F. Vallance £605, Mr F. Ormond £525. Mr W. T. Hazlett £5lO, and Mr J. A. Gaffaney £350. There were three outstanding performers at the Grand National meeting—Aurora Borealis, Carinthia and Toxeuma. Toxeuma was seen out only once, but he established a weight-car-rying record in the Winter Cup with ridiculous ease, and is likely to win more good races. Aurora Borealis won the National, was second in the National Hurdles, and won again in the Lincoln carrying only a pound short of 12st, and giving a stone and a half to her nearest rival in the weights. Wiltshire is probably the only ’chaser in the country who. fit and well, could beat the pony. Carinthia followed his National Hurdles win by demonstrating in the Sydenham Hurdles that he was a stone better than the next best hurdler at the meeting. It is reported that Lord Glanely. one of the outstanding owners on the English turf, is going to sell out his English racing interests and proceed to Australia, where he will remain for some time. For many years this Welsh peer has occupied a very high position among English breeders and owners, while he is one of the most fearless buyers of bloodstock. His filly. Rose of England (by Teddy-Perce Neige) won the Oaks recently. Lord Glanely was never afraid to dig deep into his pocket in order to become possessed of a horse that appealed to him. Some years ago he gave 11,500 guineas for Westward Ho (Swynford-Blue Tit). That was the then record for a yearling, but 12 months later he beat this by giving 14.500 guineas for Blue Ensign, a halfbrother by The Tetrarch to Westward Ho. The only time Blue Ensign appeared on a racecourse he reared and fell when the starting barrier went up. On another occasion Lord Glanely gave 12.500 guineas for a colt by Gainsborough from Tetrabbazia, but he secured Rose of England for 3500 guineas. In 1928 he received the freedom of the city of Cardiff in recognition of the services he rendered the community. The total of his benefactions ran well into six figures. In 1917 Mr Musker sold his big stud and Lord Glanely gave 2500 guineas for the celebrated mare Sceptre and her foal. He owned and raced Grand Parade, Derby winner and stud success. During the past five years Lord Glanely has bred winners of over £40,000 in stakes.

Dealing with broadcasting and racing, the Sydney “Referee” says: “Radio in its abuse in some directions, is becoming a menace to the moral sense, and a poultice in the financial sense to this country. Any argument about the effect of broadcasting upon racing is clinched by an examination of totalisator returns and Government taxation. This reveals that the commencement of the falling-off in returns synchronised with the advent of wireless broadcasting of racing. Set up a concert, a theatrical show, a fight, or a wrestling match, and the microphone can take it from you and scatter it broadcast through the land to thrill the senses of thousands who pay not a penny piece towards providing the real contest, or concert, or fight. . . , They can sit in an hotel bar, club, or barber’s shop, hear the starters and the jockeys and the barrier positions, make their wagers with the S.P. book, always at hand, and hear the race described. Folk at home hear the same information, ’phone the S.P. bookmakers for bets, and thus have the race meeting transferred to their very hearths

Unwittingly the race clubs gave permission to the broadcaster to set up ! his microphone on the course. But inroads into revenue moved some to withdraw the privilege. Others are too i proud to follow the example of Queensland and South Australia, and anyhow would probably find it futile, for the wireless companies descend to the ; uttermost form of privacy by establishing their machines on high stands just outside the course properties. Such ; concerns deserve no consideration.’ The “Referee” demands Government action throughout the Commonwealth. , Carinthia started racing as a two-year-old in Auckland province, but won only one race—at Ohinemuri—in ten outings. Next season, after several unplaced efforts, he was sold to Mr J. M. Samson, and was brought south by C. Gieseler, who had been to Ellerslie with Receipt and Battlement. His first success in his new ownership was at Tapanui, where he won a double. He was in the money several times later in the season, but his only wins were in a hack race at Washdyke and in another at Dunedin. Altogether he raced 23 times as a three-year-old. After the Dunedin meeting he was sent up to R. C. Keeper’s stable at Orari, and it was here that he was introduced to hurdles. At the third time of asking he won the Styx Hui ?s at the National meeting. He finished third in a hack race at Ashburton to Beau Geste and Nightmarch, running the last-named to a head at a difference of only one pound. Beau Geste beat two future champions that day, though few onlookers realised it at that time. For the first half of that season Carinthia had a hard time, saddling up for 20 races, nearly all over hurdles, in five months. Then he was bought by Messrs Orbell and turned out for some months. He won * hurdle race at the Hunt meeting at Washdyke in July of last year, and won another race at Wingatui, but he was not consistent, and was treated to another spell. His next appearance was at Riccarton at Easter, when he scored a surprise win on the second day. That marked the turning point in his career. He won the Otago Hurdles, won the Winter Hurdles, won the Grand National Hurdles and won the Sydenham Hurdles. Since Easter his gross earnings have been £2390.