On And Off The Track.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19623, 18 October 1933, Page 11

On And Off The Track.

A BUDGET OP NEWS AND VIEWS FIXTURES. Racing: Oct. 19, 21, 23—Wellington R.C Oct. 21, 23—Gore R.C. Oct. 23—Waverley R.C. Oct. 23—Waikato Hunt. Oct. 23—Waipawa J.C. Oct. 23—North Canterbury R.C. Oct. 26, 28—Poverty Bay J.C. Oct. 26, 28—Taumarunui R.C. Oct. 28—Banks Peninsula R.C. Trotting: Oct. 21, 23—Auckland T.C. Oct. 23—Oamaru T.C. Oct. 21, 23—Greymouth T.C. Gore races Saturday and Monday. Wellington spring meeting Thursday, Saturday and Monday. A. Messervey Is to ride Chrysology at Trentham. Shatter has had a different rider in every race he has contested this season. If track work is a reliable indication, Eupator will be a winner before many weeks are past. Palphar, the name of the winner of the Caulfield Guineas, is a twist of Phar Lap. Red Shadow will not race on Labour Day. J. Bryce will be at Auckland with Meteor. Invoice and Copyist, who are not engaged at Trentham to-morrow, will be starters later in the week. Fast Passage has been nominated for the Auckland Cup, which the won last year. L. J. Ellis failed to ride more than one winner on the first day at Avondale, but he did the hat trick on Monday. Free Advice is to race at Greymouth, and will be driven by J. Fraser. W. J. Tomkinson will take Indianapolis to Oamaru. • * * • Rocket did not get too good a run round the eastern bend in the Timaru Cup and his rider could be heard making vocal protest during the running. Miss Mimic has foaled a colt by Winning Hit. As the colt closely resembles his brother Copyist. Sir Charles Clifford has already decided to name him Impersonator. First Song, who has done no good since he won a treble at Riverton 18 months ago, was showing up at the finish of the Tycho Handicap on Saturday. He is now in F. Trilford’s stable. • • • • Only four times in nineteen years has the winner of the Caulfield Guineas captured the Victoria Derby, so it is possible that Hall Mark will revenge himself on Palphar at Flemington. • * * • Kerbside’s win in the Flying Handicap at Washdyke does not entail a penalty for Trentham to-morrow, and Chrysology likewise escapes a rehandicap for his engagements.

Palphar, winner of the Caulfield Guineas, won only one race (at Williamstown) as a two-year-old, but with 8.6 he was second to Hall Mark 8.10 in a handicap at Caulfield. He is trained at Caulfield by Elwood Fisher.

S. Barr produced three winners—Don Jose, Niggerhead and Some Shamble—at Washdyke last Saturday. It may have been only a coincidence that his team arrived at the course on the previous day, instead of being hurried down on the morning special. Garry Thorpe, a winner at Washdyke on Saturday, is by Lee Thorpe, who has produced other winners in Girvan and Lena Thorpe. Lee Thorpe has had few opportunities, and his average is a good one.

Proscenium, who ran well in the Spring Stakes, is a three-year-old by Solwit. Solwit himself (now a gelding) is only six years old, and must have sired Proscenium when a youngster.

Versant, who returned a dividend of over a century on the first day at Avondale, strolled in again on Monday, but this time he was not so friendless. Versant is a brother to On Top, who raced in the South Island two or three years ago.

Whenuakura. who has won three juvenile races in a row in the north, is engaged in the Welcome Stakes at Ellerslie, and this may mean that he will not be at Riccarton next month. Southern owners of two-year-olds will be glad if he goes north.

On Saturday there will be racing at Trentham and Gore; on Monday at Trentham, Gore, Waverley, Waipawa and Te Rapa. Trotting fixtures are Auckland and Greymouth, Saturday; Greymouth, Auckland and Oamaru, on Monday.

Rebel Song’s career, which may have ended, has been bright and snappy. He had two runs as a two-year-old in the autumn; and won his first race, a Trial Plate, at Riccarton as late as February last. He captured the Great Easter and was second in the Great Autumn. Kerbside put herself in credit for the season by her smart win in the Flying Handicap at Washdyke, and her halfsister Trivet will not be long in doing so. Her fourth in the Kerrytown Handicap was impressive when her bad luck at the barrier is taken into account

Kerbside has been wayward all her days, and is not showing much improvement with age. At one stage of her career she did utility work in a vehicle, but she was as fractious as ever when she returned to the tracks. She threatened to give a lot of trouble in the birdcage on Saturday, but after doing her preliminary with Didham up she behaved reasonably well at the start for her apprentice rider.

When the Australian A class radio stations agreed to abstain from broadcasting betting information during the course of a meeting, the B grade stations refused to fall into line. They will have no choice in the matter before long, as a conference of P. and T representatives has recommended the Commonwealth Government to refuse to license any station which radioes starting prices during the day, and the recommendation is to be given effect to

Atralette’s failure to begin in the Washdyke Trot was due to a hopple breaking. Whenuakura continues on his winning wav, and cantered home in the Avondale Stakes. He did not. however, bring joy to his place backers, who lost part of their investments. If Satin King survives his Trotting Cup preparation, he will be driven by O. E. Hooper, and Sunny Morn will have the assistance of F. Holmes. This explains why the veteran piloted the Methven pacer when he won at New Brighton. Captain’s Gift was very seedy on Sunday following his tumble in the Otaio Hurdles, and did not go on to Trentham. It will be unlucky for his owner if he receives a severe setback, as he looked a good prospect for forthcoming fixtures. R. Townley was lucky to escape injury at the start of the Washdyke Trot. Wee Wrack turned side on and was run into by Black Watch, whose driver was spilled. Townley became entangled in his horse’s gear and sulky, and might easily have been hurt. Red Dance unwound a lot of speed in the Spring Stakes at Washdyke. He was tiring a bit at the finish, but he should not go long without a win. Red Dance was bred by his owner, Mr J. M. Samson, who also bred Hot Stuff, the winner of the race, and sold him for about 20 guineas.

In the Wainui Handicap (one mile) at Trentham, Nightly is rated as lib better than Kerbside. In the Shorts (6 furlongs) The Masquerader is set to concede 71b to Kerbside. The Otago mare is better at sLx furlongs than a mile, and the Wellihgton handicapper apparently rates The Masquerader as at least 71b better than Nightly.

Some very forcible language was addressed by a driver at Washdyke on Saturday to a brother reinsman. Very obviously the complainant believed that he was the victim of careless driving on the part of the other man, whose sulky became locked with that of the protestant.

The C.J.C. Committee has again given consideration to a proposal to reduce the size of the Riccarton course to eleven furlongs, by cutting off part of the big northern bend. Another proposal is to do away with the six furlongs track and run races over this distance round the bend as in former years.

The Oamaru Trotting Club has been unfortunate in connection with its Derby Trial, but it had reason to be pleased with the entry for the main open events. Harold Logan, Roi l’Or, Satin King, Red Shadow, Kingcraft, Nelson’s Victory, Wrackler, Indianapolis and Author Jinks represented real class.

It will be interesting to see how Shatter and Chrysology fare If they meet at Trentham. Shatter has to give the Washdyke gelding lib more than in the Timaru Cup, over an extra furlong. Chrysology is generally considered a non-stayer, but at the finish of the Timaru Cup he had stalled off Shatter, and it is no certainty that he would not have beaten him at eleven furlongs.

Harold Thorpe, who was a surprise entry for the Trotting Cup, is not likely to see the post. He has not been nominated for any other race at the meeting, and his work has been so poor that R. J. Humphreys has sent him home. It is rumoured also, that the Club has given a broad hint that the horse’s prerence in the Cup field is not desired. Rebel Song’s bowed tendon found him out in the Timaru Cup, and his address for some time will be the paddock. He may race again after a good rest, but it will not be in New Zealand Cups or even middle distance races. He was the “chart" favourite for the New Zealand Cup, but if any speculators lost money on him it was in face of repeated warnings that he was very unlikely to see the post.

One man who backed a w’inner at Wahdyke last Saturday viewed the race from the middle stand. Tripped by the deceptive angle, he became needlessly alarmed when Davolo made his late run wide out. “He's gone to sleep,’’ he exclaimed as Niggerhead’s rider did not get busy. “He should be on the mat.” The winner's rider could afford to “sitr pretty" as he had a good two lengths up his sleeve, and was never in danger of defeat. The stumpy English jockey Gordon Richards will have to strike a bad patch now’ to miss breaking Fred Archer’s season record of 246 wins, as he has five w’eeks in which to notch the necessary 21 points. Bad patches are always to be encountered, however, and just recently J. E. Pike, Sydney's much-boomed horseman, went two months without a win. Even if Richards passes Archer’s total, he will have no chance of making a world record. An American jockey named Walter Miller was credited with 388 wins in 1906, and 334 in 1907.

Consider Chrysology’s consistency. At Ashburton he went under by half a head to Cricket Bat. who was favoured by the luck of the stride; a stride before or a stride after the post Chrysology would have received the verdict. He was second and third at Orari, and second again at the Kurow meeting to a good one in Polydora. He has since won the Mosgiel Handicap and the Tlmaru Cup. beating first Rebel Song and then Shatter, and holding them off when they looked certain to beat him. After making all the running he outstayed both, but for some reason few people seem to want to give him the credit that is his due. Six Stewards’ Handicap entrants ran in the Flying Handicap at Washdyke. A comparison of their weights

221 b. Silver Streak 191 b. Mobile 181 b. Kerbside 61b. and Royal Sceptre has the same weight. Silver Streak beat all except Kerbside at Washdyke. and on the figures should do so again. He will meet Kerbside on 131 b better terms and appeals more than the Mosgiel mare. If the Stewards’ winner was seen at Washdyke, it looks to be Sliver Streak.

is interesting:— Flving Stewards Hurttngham .. 9 1 7.9 The Quom .. .. .. 9.1 7.7 Silver Streak .. 8.7 7.2 Mobile .. .. .. 8.4 7.0 Kerbside .. 7.6 7.0 Royal Sceptre .. 7.0 7.0 Hurlingham is dowi 201b. The Quorn