RACING & TROTTING

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19961, 20 November 1934, Page 12

RACING & TROTTING

On and Off the Track A BUDGET OF NEWS AND VIEWS. FIXTURES Racing: Nov. 17—Carterton R.C. Nov. 17, 19,—Waikato R.C. Nov. 24.—Levin R.C. Nov. 24, 26—Takapuna J.C. Nov. 30, Dec. I—Feilding J.C. Nov. 30, Dec. I—Winton J.C. Dec. I—Ashburton C.R.C. Dec. 6, B—Dargaville R.C. Dec. 8, 10—Woodville D.J.C. Dec. 15—Waipa R.C. Dec. 15—Hororata R.C. Trotting: Nov. 22, 24—Forbury Park T.C. Dec, I—Northland T.C. Dec. 1, 3—Nelson T.C. Dec. B—New Brighton T.C. Dec. B—Te Aroha T.C. The Forbury Park meeting will be held on Thursday and Saturday. Knockfin has been blistered and turned out. The name Screamer has been claimed for a colt out of Toti dal Monte. R. Dunn has succeeded J. Davidson as private trainer at Mr J. R. McKenzie’s trotting establishment. Phar Lap’s two-year-old sister Te Uira has been sold to an English buyer, no doubt for stud purposes. War Buoy frightened a good many horses out of the President's Handicap at Forbury, but was not paid up for himself, Punchestown was kept in work with a view to racing in the steeplechases at Auckland, but this idea has been abandoned and he has been sent home to Longbeach. Twelve horses failed to make the acceptance for the President’s Handicap at Forbury. Many of them would have been left in had it been known that War Buoy would be an absentee. The Canterbury Owners and Breeders’ Association desires to have the rules amended to provide for division of trotting races where the number of starters exceeds 18. It is also opposed to pacers being raced without hopples. Usually it is claimed that 100,000 people witness the Melbourne Cup. This year the weather was so atrocious that only 60,000 were present at Flemington, and if is estimated that 20,000 of these left before the Cup was run. Rebel Chief has run out of the hack class, but that is no hardship, as he would have had to carry thumping weights in that division in future. His first entry in the open ranks has been made at Ashburton. There are rumours in circulation that the Government intends to take drastic steps during next session to deal with the present ridiculous and anomalous position in connection with the gaming laws. There is likely to be European representation in the 100,000 dollars Santa Anita Handicap, to be run at Los Angeles. The Aga Khan contemplates sending his three-year-old Badrudden across, and another likely competitor is Admiral Drake, winner of the French Grand Prix. Tempest’s two wins at Addington were gained over a mile and a quarter, and he is being referred to as a sprinter. In the War Buoy race over two miles Tempest came from nowhere to finish fourth, and he is entitled to start a pronounced favourite for the President’s Handicap at Forbury. It appears that a new industry of an undesirable nature has been established in New Zealand. Tickets which were not issued by clubs, it is understood, have been presented at the gates at race meetings, and there is reason to believe that these forged tickets have been purchased at less than the regular admission charges. Stakes up to £IO,OOO have shed a glamorous light over racing in Australia during the last few weeks. There is, however, another side to the shield. At country fixtures prizes raced for are as low as £2O, of which second takes £3, third £2, and the Jockey ten shillings. Even in the Sydney area, at fixtures like Kensington and Canterbury, stakes run as low as £4O, and at Moorefield recently the highest figure on the card was £llO. A peculiar thing about Limond, the sire of the moment, is that while he has been represented by winners of ten St. Legers and eight Derbies, none of his stock has yet won a two-mile handicap. Limerick was second in a Sydney Cup with 9.13 on a water-logged track and Veilmond was runner-up in this race under a big weight, but a win in a Melbourne, Sydney, New Zealand or Auckland Cup has eluded the Limonds. Northerners expect Solarium to break the spell this season at Auckland, but the handieapper is not likely to make things easy for him. It has been stated so often that the G. Smith who rode Impulse in the New Zealand Cup in the “nineties” was identical with G. W. Smith, the sprint and hurdles champion and All Black three-quarter of later years, that it has long been rather generally accepted as a fact. In conversation the other day with a member of the New Zealand amateur team which took part in the Australasian championships at Brisbane, it was learned that on this trip “G.W.” referred to the fact that many people believed he had been a jockey, and said that this was a mistaken idea. The death occurred in Auckland recently of Mr Max Friedlander, a member of the family which was wellknown in Ashburton some years ago. Like his brother Hugo, Max took a keen interest in racing, and in addition was a trotting enthusiast and breeder. Among the gollapers he owned were Cannonshot, a Great Easter winner who later achieved some notoriety, and General Symons, who annexed a Metropolitan Handicap. General Symons sired Lady Symons, dam of that fine sprinter Reval, Jack Symons and Kapuna. , In an effort to popularise trotting in Victoria, Sir Gilbert Dyett, secretary of the Victorian Trotting and Racing Association, approached Mr L. S. Martin, owner of champion Walla Walla. The suggestion was that Walla Walla, from a moving start, should make an attempt to break the Australasian record of 2min. 2 2-ssec„ at present shared by Walla Walla and Auburn Lad. Should he be capable of carrying out his contract he will get a special prize, and should he fail he will get half the promised sum as appearance money. Mr Martin has agreed to send Walla Walla after the record to Ascot on November 26.