RACING & TROTTING

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19587, 6 September 1933, Page 12

RACING & TROTTING

Ors And Off The Track. A BUDGET OF NEWS AND VIEWS. FIXTURES. Racing: Sept. 13 —Marton J.C. Sept. 16—Ashburton R.C. Sept. 21, 23—Wanganui J.C. Sept. 21, 23—Geraldine R.C. Sept. 3b—Kurow J.C. Sept. 30—Foxton R.C. Oct. 5, 7—Dunedin J.C. Oct. 6. 7—Otaki-Maori R.C. Oct. 7. 9—Avondale J.C. Oct. 14—Masterton R.C. Oct. 14—South Canterbury J.C. Trotting: Sept. 9 —Wellington T.C. Sept. 30—Methveil T.C. Oct. 7—New Brighton T.C. Oct. 14—Waikato T.C. Oct. 21, 23—Auckland T.C. Oct. 23—Oamaru T.C. Oct. 21. 23—Greymouth T.C. Wellington Trotting Club’s meeting on Saturday. The Chelmsford Stakes will be run at Randwick on Saturday. A silver tea set valued at £2O will form part of the winner's reward in the Kurow Cup. Weights for the first day of the Geraldine Racing Club's meeting are due on Monday. The twenty-one-year-old trotter Speculator is in w'ork again at Hutt Park. The stakes for this year's Kurow meeting have been increased by £45 on last year’s figures. The meeting is to be held at Oamaru. There will be no racing in the Dominion this week, and the only trotting fixture is the Wellington meeting at Hutt Park on Saturday. Night Recital is racing into form. He did not quite see out the mile at Wingatui on Saturday, but he looks ready to run a good six or seven. Kemal. Pasha is to have another change of trainers, as he is reported to be joining A. S. McKay's team at Wingatui. It appears that Blue Metal will require a lot more time to make a hurdier. He drifted back early at the Otago Hunt meeting, and was very slow at his fences. J. Davidson has been appointed private trainer for Mi' J. R. McKenzie, and will have a good-sized team of young horses, headed by the Derby winner Taxpayer. The committee of the Waverley Racing Club rejected a recommendation from the annual meeting of members that a trotting event should be included in the, Labour Day programme. War Buoy v r as not produced at New Brighton as had been expected. It is worth recalling that neither Village Guy nor Chancellor, who followed him past the judge in the Sapling Stakes, is eligible'for the Derby. Polling Day hit the last hurdle at Dunedin on Saturday, but it is doubtful if this affected the result. Quinopal was practically alongside him at the time and appeared to be doing the better of the pair. J. E. Pike, who won the Derbies for H. R. Telford on Phar Lap, has been engaged to ride that trainer’s colt Coonband in this season’s classic. Telford has another smart three-year-old in Break Up, who finished second to Waltzing Lily in the Memsie Stakes at Caulfield last week. The owner-trainer of Wyncross was very dissatisfied at the penalty of 36 yards in a mile and a half imposed on the Gore pacer after he had straggled home in a mile and a quarter race. The value of the stake to the winner was £55, and it was contended that the penalty was excessive. W. J. Tomkinson has effected the purchase of the Oamaru-owned gelding Black Jester, but in all probability this horse will do his future racing in New South Wales. Black Jester won at his last start, the Winchester Handicap, at the South Canterbury Jockey Club's meeting, hts time being 3.25. Towing, winner of the Hunters’ Plate at Wingatui, had not been named at the time of entry. He is a brother to Venite, a speedy but wayward mare trained in Southland. E. J. Ross, who prepared Towing, had another representative in the race in Ecclefechan, who received a greater amount of public support.

Washdyke-trained horses Charmaine. Night Recital and Water Power —finished second, third and fourth in the Tally-Ho at Dunedin, but were defeated by an outsider in Kakaha. The Dunedin-owned mare's return to form was not more marked than that of Charmaine, but it was not anticipated by punters.

“it is now stated that the date of the Napier Park Racing Club.’s spring meeting will, subject to the approval of the Racing Conference executive, be changed from September 30 to November 4, instead of October 7. The new date, a week before the Hawke's Bay spring meeting, will be the same day as the opening dates of the Auckland spring meeting and the New Zealand Cup meeting.

Taxpayer, who won the principal event at New’ Brighton, is by the exchampion pacer Great Bingen. He was successful in the Sapling Stakes, and won the New Zealand Trotting Derby, wearing the three-year-old crown until deposed by Indianapolis. Although the time at Nerv Brighton was not fast, Taxpayer was going away- at the end, and it appears that he will prove a capable two-miler.

The Victoria Racing Club proposes to introduce a new rule to provide that any rider who has a fall in a jumping race shall not ride again on The same clay. In some instances this may impose hardship, and it may result in a temporary shortage of competent horsemen, but it has something to commend it. There have been cases lately in New Zealand where a rider who has had a toss has not clone hts mount justice in a subsequent race on the day.

At the annual meeting of the Victoria Racing Club the president (Mr L. K. S. Mackinnon) declared that in 50 years he had not known a worse lot of horses than were racing to-day. Now it is being “explained on hts behalf ‘ that he did not mean what he said. Possibly Mr Mackinnon's own horses are the worst he has had. but other people have had Phar Laps. Windbags, Nightmarchs, Heroics. Manfreds, Chathams, Winookas, Ammon Ras and the like, whose times suggest that they would make hacks of the earlier champions.

Glowing accounts come from Taranaki concerning the Orari-bred three-year-old Diatomous.

It is reported that Antrim Boy, who is engaged in the hurdle race at Orari, has been purchased by a Timaru man.

Polydora is likely to make her nextappearance in the Kurow' Cup. H. Nurse usually has a representative in this race.

W. Hogan thought he had won the Hunters’ Plate at Wingatui on Pharaoh. Unfortunately for Pharaoh’s party the judge viewed it differently. Merry Peel’s name was missing from the Ashburton and Geraldine entry lists, and he is not likely to race for some weeks yet.

Inflation will probably have his first race on the present trip to Australia in the Hill Stakes at Rosehill. He will be ridden by T. Green.

L. J. Ellis, who reached Sydney yesterday to ride Cottesmore in his engagements there, expects to return in time for the Wellington meeting in October.

Jimmy de Oro, who has proved veryexpensive to his admirers since he showed so much promise at the Geraldine meeting last year, has been transferred from R. J. Humphreys's stable to the care of A. Holmes.

None of the lists of prospective entrants for the Trotting Cup have included the name of Author Jinks, but no surprise need be evinced if the little pacer is nominated. Cherry Queen, who registered her second win at the Otago Hunt meeting, is owned by E. C. McDermott, the wrellknown trotting trainer, but has been leased to Mr G. J. Barton.

Greenline, one of Australia's best sprinters up till a year or two ago, has been pensioned off. By Greenstead, son of The Welkin, Greenline was a wonderful weight-carrier, and won over £16,000 in stakes.

The name of Top Coat has been registered for the two-year-old by Pink Coat from Princess Mafalda (Gay LadGlamis).

The entries for the two days of the Geraldine meeting total about forty fewer than last year. The shrinkage is found mainly in the trotting events, and the novice hack handicaps. One of the hack races last September had to be run in divisions.

“Limarch won like a champion," cabled a friend of one of his owners after the New Zealand colt's victory in the Hobartville Stakes. That is satisfactory, but Limarch was only a length in front of Blixten. who was backward as a result of an attack of boils. The Caulfield-Melbourne Cups double —Silver Scorn and Peter Pan —has missed, possibly both barrels. It is unlikely, however, that much public money has been lost. The bookmakers opened with the price so short that no great inducement was offered for backers to operate.

A few weeks ago sportsmen were on tip-toe of expectancy over the prospective meeting of Silver Scorn and Peter Pan. Now the New Zealand mare is being referred to as Silver Scorned, and it is feared that Peter Pan will be unable to pipe.

The Handicapping Committee of the New Zealand Trotting Conference has set down the following classes for the two-year-old and three-year-old classic events: N.Z. Derby 3.33, Great Northern Derby 3.36, Champion Stakes (Ashburton) 3.34. Derby Trial (Oamaru) one mile and a quarter 2.59, N.Z. Sapling Stakes 3.40.

The Tramway Handicap, to be run at Tattersall’s meeting on Saturday, usually throws some light on the prospects of Epsom Handicap candidates. The double is not often captured, but horses which do not run prominently in the seven furlongs race at Tattersall’s fixture, usually lose favour in connection with the big mile at the A.J.C. carnival.

The steeplechaser Luna Lux is to be turned out until the approach of next winter, when he will again be prepared for cross-country racing. Luna Lux was raced on the flat at Hastings and was an expensive failure. He appeared to be sound after the race, however, though he was slightly lame after winning the Lincoln Steeplechase at Riccarton on the last day of the Grand National meeting.

Apparently Peter Pan may be denied opportunity to justify the claim of some admirers that he is as good as Phar Lap. If this claim was based on a solid foundation, the Melbourne Cup would have been easy money for the Australian champion, as he is handicapped half a stone below the weight which Phar Lap carried to victory at the same age. Peter Pan did not appear to be so good in the autumn as he had been in the spring of last season, and it is not unlikely that his Melbourne Cup effort has left its mark.

The most interesting event at Marton next week will be the open six furlongs race. In this the three-year-olds Impasto, Diatomous and Princess Doreen are expected to make their first appearance this season, and with Cadland engaged a good line should be secured on their form. Impasto, who finished up last season by winning the Auckland Champagne Stakes, has been allotted 8.4, Diatomous 8.0. and Princess Doreen 7.11. Under the weight-for-age scale Princess Doreen would receive a 51b sex allowance, so that at present the handicapper rates Impasto as 21b better class than Princess Doreen and 41b better than Diatomous, over six furlongs.

Mr W. R. Kemball experienced a stroke of bad luck at Trentham, when he lost a two-year-old bay colt by Niglitraid out of Sweet Charity, which he had named Abundance. The youngster, which was trained by W. Hawthorne, jumped the fence of his enclosure and, catching his rug in the fence, received injuries which included a broken foreleg. Abundance, who cost Mr Kemball 160gns at the Trentham sales, was a well-developed colt who had shown considerable promise. His dam. Sweet Charity, is an English-bred mare, and dam of Knightlike and Netley.

It is many years since the New Zealand Cup made much appeal to owners of three-j’ear-olds, and it is a long time since a good horse of this age tackled a once-popular treble—Cup, Derby and Canterbury Cup. Manton, Euroclydon. Seahorse and Noctuiform are names of treble-winners, which come to mind but it is 28 years since Noctuiform succeeded. and since then no three-vear-old has won the Cup outright, though Indigo dead-heated with Warstep in 1914. This year an unusual opportunity may present itself for a three-year-old which might make rapid improvement after declaration of handicaps. The scale will be higher than usual this year for moderate horses, but no horse can be rehandicapped to carry more than weight-for-age, 76 tor colts and geldings.