RACING & TROTTING

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20027, 7 February 1935, Page 5

RACING & TROTTING

On And Off The Track. A BUDGET OF NEWS AND VIEWS FIXTURES Racing: Feb 7, 9—Poverty Bay T.C. Feb. 7, 9—Taranaki J.C. Feb 9—Canterbury J.C. Feb 9, 11—Rotorua R.C. Feb. 13. 14—Egmont J.C. Feb. 14, 16—Dunedin J.C. Feb. 20, 21—Gore R.C. Trotting: Feb 9—Wellington T.C. Feb. 16—Kaikoura T.C. Feb 16, 20—Auckland T.C. Feb 23—New Brighton T.C. Mar. 1, 2—lnvercargill T.C. Mar. 2— Wellington T.C. Mar. 9—Timaru T.C. The first race at Riccarton on Saturday will start at 1 p.m. The Taranaki and Poverty Bay meetings will commence to-day. The usual “summer” tariff will operate at Riccarton on Saturday—one enclosure, with a flat rate of 2/6. Honi Soit is the name chosen for a three-year-old bay filly by Garter Blue from Queen Lizzie, bred by Mr J. S. McLeod, president of the Racing Conference. The most expensive horse at Riccarton on Saturday will be Zetes, who cost 2400 guineas as a yearling, and with training fees, forfeits, etc., must be at least 3000 guineas on the wrong side.

The Lord Warden —Ma Mie filly engaged in the C.J.C. Lyttelton Plate at Riccarton has been named Heloise. Ma Mie is by Martian from the Kilbroney mare Kildee, and is trained by F. Trilford for Mrs M. H. Tripp.

G. Feilding has entered Ramo and Last Link for the principal event at Gore, but he has taken the precaution of nominating his own horse (Last Link) for the open sprint as well. This suggests that Ramo is shaping well in his work at Wingatui.

Originally the Midsummer Handicap, first run in 1883, was a two-mile race. In 1887 it was reduced to a mile and three-quarters, and a year later to a mile and a half, at which it remained until 1926, after which a further reduction was made to 11 miles.

The Dunedin Jockey Club has decided to adopt the betting system that proved so successful at Forbury, and at Wingatui next week the “win” machine will pay 75-25, and the place machine the customary three dividends.

Milford, who defeated two other light-weights, Thornton and Pompax, in the principal event at Tapanui, is by Anomaly, a sire whose stock have been mainly notable for speed. Milford is trained at Gore by T. G. Pollock, and has done very little racing.

' Four additions to the schooling list dated January 22 include two horses well known in Canterbury and on the West Coast. These are Haulbowline and Riri. The others banned are Roxy and Sabatini. A horse on the schooling list is ineligible for entry in races on the flat.

Tauramai £505, Hunting Go £485. Cherry Queen £450, Osculate £440, and Kamal Pasha £409 were the principal stake-winners at Otago and Southland meetings during the first six months of the racing season. Hunting Go has won an additional £265 at Canterbury fixtures.

The engagement of Maurice McCarten to ride Vintage in Australia will be welcomed in New Zealand. It will ensure the horse receiving every chance in his races, as McCarten has been on the other side long enough to be thoroughly acquainted with all the courses there, and there is no better horseman in the Commonwealth.

Ears as well as eyes will be on Nightly on Saturday. A fast-run seven furlongs with 9.13 up will test his bronchial apparatus and reveal the extent to which his wind is affected. Nightly is the only one of Miss Muriel’s stock to race. She had three other foals to Night Raid, but two of these ,‘died; and her last foal, to Lord Warden also failed to live. Miss Muriel herself died a couple of years ago. Sir George Clifford was particularly successful in the Middlepark Plate, -which his horses won 11 times and another good race for him at the C.J.C. summer meeting was the Midsummer (handicap, in which Waterline registered his eighth success shortly before his death. Next to Sir George, M. Hobbs has the best Midsummer record with five wins, three of them in succession with Lady Zetland (twice) and Marquis of Zetland. The New Brighton Trotting Club is endeavouring to arrange a match between Harold Logan and Indianopolls, to be run at its meeting on February 23rd. The Club offers £250 (£SO to go to the loser), with an additional £l5O if the winner does 2.0. Mr Hinds is willing to start Harold Logan, but only on condition that the start is a standing one, and it is understood that Mr G. J. Barton will fall in with this proposal.

Viking, winner of the novice plate at Tapanui, is by Lord Warden from Anthem, and was bred at Gladstone Park, Orari. He is owned by Mr D. M. Tweedie, president of the Riverton Racing Club, who put a substantial price on him in reply to an inquiry from Australia. As Viking was receiving two stone yesterday from maiden performers, there was nothing striking in his effort, but he is a good-looking youngster who should win in much better company.

The Napier Park Racing Club has decided to operate its totalisator at its two meetings next month under the same system as was used at Stratford at the'New Year. That is it will be win-and-place, with the place machine modified to pay two place dividends in the ratio of 75 and 25 per cent. (At its last meeting this club used the single' pool). The arrangement is a transposition of that used at Forbury, where it was the win machine that paid 75-25.

An application was made through the Racing Conference to the V.R.C. and. the A.J.C. for a permit to enable Mrs J. Campbell to train Vintage during his Australian trip. Women are not licensed in Australia, and it will be difficult for the clubs to make an exception. There is something of a precedent in favour of stretching a point for the New Zealander, as trainers from here are usually granted permits : to train at Randwick when visiting Sydney, and an Australian has to serve an apprenticeship at other tracks before a No. 1 license (carrying the privileges of Randwick) is issued.

In the Summer Handicap at Trentham, Cuddle was weighted at 8.7, Polydora 8.2, Tout le Monde 7.0. Cuddle was the only one of the three to start, and she ran right away from the rest of the field. In the Midsummer Handicap, Cuddle has gone up 91b., Polydora 91b.. and Tout le Monde 71b. In the Dunedin Cup, Cuddle has been raised 81b., Polydora 51b„ and Tout le Monde 71b. If Cuddle does not come south it can scarcely be on the ground of dissatisfaction with her weights. In fact her entry seems to have been responsible for settling the chances of several of those on the minimum. Signaller. third in the Southland Handicap with 8.13, is down to 8.0 in the Dunedin Cup, and Cough, winner of the Wyndham Cup with 7.8, is on 7.2.

Most of the Night Raid yearlings sold at Trentham last month will be given time to mature before they are raced, and in the meantime several of them have gone back to the Elderslie Stud, where they will be broken in. This is the programme mapped out for four who were secured for Australia. The 1450-guinea colt from Quadrilateral, bought for Mr L. K. S. Mackinnon, is back at Elderslie. So are Mr T. M. Daskien’s pair, the Kilcalm colt and the Fleeting filly. They have as mates another booked for Victoria, this being Mr G. L. Scott’s Gay Round colt, who will stay in North Otago for a year. Another Night Raid who has gone to Elderslie is Mr F. Armstrong’s Dresden China colt. He will remain there for a few months and after being broken in he will join T. R. George’s stable at Trentham. Of the Dunedin Cup candidates which raced in Southland at the holiday meetings, Signaller, Great Shot and Hunting Go stood out at Invercargill. Six Cup horses started in the Southland Handicap, with Great Shot, Hunting Go, and Signaller in the places. Their weights in the two races are:—

place-getters that his chance depends on great improvement on his Invercargill form. Great Shot and Hunting Go should certainly beat him again, while Signaller is well treated through that pair. Steeton was short of work at Invercargill and should run better at Dunedin, while Cough, winner of the Wyndham Cup, will be dangerous with 7.2. Osculate won the Waikouaiti Cup, and Tout le Monde the Manawatu Cup, while the distance and the light weight should suit the improving Nightform, but figures seem to favour Signaller.

Southland. D’din. Drop. Signaller (3) 8.13 8.0 131b. Steeton 8.10 7.13 111b. Tauramai 8.7 7.12 91b. Great Shot (1) 8.0 7.11 31b. Hunting Go (2) 7.12 7.6 61b. Aesculus (4) .. 7.7 7.0 71b. Tauramai was so far behind the