’AGING & TROTTING

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19986, 19 December 1934, Page 14

’AGING & TROTTING

On and Off the Track

\ BUDGET OP NEWS AND VIEWS FIXTURES Racing: Dec. 26 — WaipukuriiU J.C. Dec. 26. 27—Taranaki J.C. Dec. 26. 27—Dunedin J.C. Dec. 26, 27, 29 Manawatu R.C. Dec. 26, 28, Jan. 1. 2—Auckland R.C. Dec. 26. 29—Westland R.C. Jan. I—Waikouaiti1 —Waikouaiti R.C. Jan. I—Wyndham R.C. Jan. 1, 2—Grey mouth J.C. Jan. 1, 2—Hawke’s Bay J.C. Jan. 1, 2—Stratford R.C. Jan. 1, 2—Marton J.C. Jan. 1, 2—Wairarapa R.C. Jan. 2 —Oamaru J.C. Jan. 2, 3—Southland R.C.

Trotting: Dec. 26—Gore T.C. Dec. 26—Wairarapa T.C. Dec. 26—Ashburton T.C. Dec. 26. 27—Westport T.C. Dec. 27, 29, 31—Auckland T.C. Dec. 29—Winton T.C. Jan. 1, 2—Canterbury Park T.C. Native Chief is back at Addington, now being trained by A. Holmes. Might has been scratched for the Auckland Cup. Solarium. Gold Trail, Spiral, Grand Jury, and Red Manfred were Auckland Cup candidates who made no show in the Gloucester Handicap. Cricket Bat has been rehandicapped only 21b at Auckland for his win at Trentham. Lady Kyra, who beat the Derby winner Sporting Blood at Wellington, was sold as a yearling for ten guineas.

A. Russell has completed his apprenticeship with F. D. Jones, and he won the Gloucester Handicap as a fullfledged horseman.

The Wanganui Cup. which disappeared from the calendar five years ago, is to be reinstated next month with a stake of £250. At one time the race was worth £IOOO.

Silver Streak was allowed to drop out of the Railway Handicap. His form this season gave him no chance at the weight allotted of repeating last year's win.

M. Holmes has been engaged to drive Ironside in the Champion Stakes at Ashburton. This will mean less weight than usual for the Wrack three-year-old to pull, and weight tells even on wheels.

The first half mile in the Trentham Stakes took 53 i. and the next half was run in 47L This suited Synagogue, but he beat Sporting Blood so easily that the result would probably have been the same however the race had been run.

Limulus. winner of the Novice Stakes at Feilding. and second at the Royal meeting, is to go under the auctioneer's hammer at Trentham next month. The filly is being raced at present by the executors in the estate of the late Mr Vivian Riddiford.

Indianapolis is a strong favourite for the Auckland Trotting Cup. in spite of the fact that E. C. McDermott will not be available to drive him. One thing that is worrying some of his supporters is that he did not appear too happy on the left-handed track when he won the race last year.

Vintage confirmed Metropolitan form by beating in the Gloucester Handicap all the horses which finished behind him at Riccarton. Figures pointed to this result, but he was unable to concede the weight required to newcomers in Cricket Bat, Gay Marigold, and Caliente.

Backers who dabble in doubles should exercise caution concerning Polydora. Although her stable mates Scratchmere Scar and Elloughton have been nominated for the Invercargill meeting. Polydora’s name is missing. These entries were taken several days after those for other southern meetings.

Bunsby Gaze, who clipped the cpurse record for twelve and a half furlongs at Moonee Valley recently to 2.413, bettering Nightly’s previous best of 2.43 in the recent Moonee Valley Cup, is a three-year-old chestnut colt by Captain Bunsby from the Gazeley mare Gazelia, and he is thus a half-brother to Huntique, who won the New Zealand Grand National Hurdle Race last August.

Lobengula. the Nightraid—Zany two-year-old, which Mr K. Austin sent to Melbourne, attracted favourable notice on his arrival. His size would command attention for him anywhere, as in appearance he is very much like Phar Lap. by the same sire. Lobengula has gone into the stable of Victoria’s most successful trainer. J. Holt, who is very pleased with his early experience of the colt.

The Forbury Park Trotting Club has decided to ask the chief stipendiary stew r ard to explain why he did not call the patrol stewards to give evidence at the Tempest inquiry. Whether he will feel called upon to tender an explanation remains to be seen, but the incident may open up the question of the extent of the duties of patrols, and may lead to their position being more clearly defined.

Haul, Monde’s win at Trentham was his third in line in four starts this season. He was not ready when first produced at Naoier Park, where his bracked mate Kotou was the winner, but he then succeeded at Trentham in the spring, at Woodville a week ago, and again at Trentham on Saturday. Haut Monde was receiving weight from several of those he beat at Trentham. but his win was so decisive that he will probably be favourite for the Great Northern Foal Stakes.

Winooka, who was a disappointment in America, is due to make his reappearance in public in Australia in the Carrington Stakes, six furlongs, run at Randwick on December 29. The campaign mapped out for him includes the Oakleigh Plate. Futurity Stakes, and Newmarket Handicap, the three chief sprint races of the Melbourne autumn campaign. According to his trainer. M. Poison, he is now threequarters of a hundredweight heavier than when he raced in Australia previously. J. E. Pike will probably ride Winooka.

Fairfax, who held up the start of the Balmoral Handicap at Trentham, is a half-sister to Jonathan. She is not a good actor at the barrier. She was taken to Elilerslie for the spring meeting for educational purposes and had a sprint down the straight each day with the two-year-olds who lined up to contest the Welcome Stakes and the Musket Stakes. She was not started until the Avondale Stakes, and after getting away slowly troubled Galilee seriously over the last bit, Galilee beating her by a head. If she had not shifted in the run down the long straight she would have won. In the Nursery Handicap on the second day she was completely left owing to her waywardness at the post and took no part in the race.

It is understood that when a Bill designed to legalise bookmaking is presented to Parliament in February, it will reveal some unusual features. It is not proposed that bookmakers should be licensed to operate on racecourses, but that betting shops should be opened under Government supervision. Shop betting would be illegal in Timaru on meetings at Washdyke, and it is suggested that in additiOE to Government taxation, betting transacted through the shops should pay to the clubs the same percentage as they now receive from totalisator turnover. If these proposals were given effect to. clubs would benefit considerably. and if the Bill does embody these principles a lot of the existing opposition to the licensing of bookmakers, or starting price layers, would disappear.