RACING & TROTTING

Timaru Herald, Volume CXL, Issue 20261, 9 November 1935, Page 18

RACING & TROTTING

On and Off the Track A BUDGET OF NEWS AND VIEWS FIXTURES Racing: Nov. 9—Whangarei R.C. Nov. 9—Hawke’s Bay J.C. Nov. 9, 11, 13, 16—Canterbury J.C. Nov. 16—Carterton R.C. Nov. 16, 18—Waikato R.C. Nov, 23—Bay of Islands R.C. Nov. 23—Levin R.C. Nov. 23—Southland R.C. Nov. 30—Ashburton County R.C. Nov. 30, Dec. 2 —Takapuna J.C. Nov. 30, Dec. 2 —Fielding J.C. Decs. 7, 9—Dargaville R.C. De<£ 6, 7—Woodville District J.C. Dee. 14—Waipa R.C. Ded. 14—Hororata R.C. Trotting: Nov; 12,14, 15—N.Z. Metropolitan T.C. Noy. 28, 30—Forbury Park’T.C. Ded. 7—Te Aroha T.C. Deo. 7—New Brighton T.C. Dec. 26—Ashburton T.C. Dee. 26—Gore T.C. Del 26, 28—Wairarapa T.C. D eti 26, 27—Westport T.C. Dec. 27, 28, 31—Auckland T.C. Dec. 28—Winton T.C. New Zealand Cup to-day. S. A. Edwards may drive War Buoy In the Trotting Cup. Heloise was scratched at 9.55 a.m. yesterday for the New Zealand Oaks. The Wingatui two-year-old Riddle is expected to race at Flemington this afternoon. At'9 to-night the New Zealand radio stations will relay Keith Voitre’s story of his Melbourne Cup ride. Peter Pan will not start in the Fisher Plate at Flemington to-day. There are 14 acceptors, but the majority appear to be overshadowed by Sylvandale and Hall Mark. Sporting Blood with 8.12 is topweight in the principal handicap at Flemington to-day. Gay Sheik is No 1 in the three-year-old handicap 51b above Gay Circle. “Wager” (Waimate): Neither party is wholly correct and the bet should be declared off. The facts are that Indianapolis has never beaten Roi l’Or off the same mark, but Roi l’Or has conceded Indianapolis a start and beaten him. A really wet Cup Day is so unusual that pessimists are prophesying that the club’s luck must change. If it does the track will not be really bad, as Riccarton does not become boggy so quickly as Trentham and many other courses. Any horse which leads Emissary to the main course in the Stewards’ Handicap will have to run a merry three furlongs, but it is doubtful if the broken-winded Australian speedster will see out the trip up the long straight. The V.R.C. meeting will end this afternoon, the Fisher Plate of £IOOO being the feature event. There are two more good stakes to be won in Victoria before the Spring meetings end—the Williamstown Cup of £2500, and the Consolation Cup at Caulfield worth a like sum. The final acceptors for the Trotting Cup total fourteen, just about the number expected. Making liberal allowance for possible casualties before Tuesday, a dozen starters are in sight, quite enough if a clean race is to be witnessed, as it is not unlikely that the field may bunch early. War Buoy may not be asked to try and lead all the way, and it is unlikely that Tempest will be asked to make the pace hot and prejudice the chance of Indianapolis. There have been two dead-heats in the New Zealand Cup—those between Fulman and Ideal in 1900. and between Warstep and Indigo in 1914; but only one in the Stewards’ Handicap, that between Bon Reve and Warstep’s sister Stardancer in 1912. The sole deadheat in the history of the Derby occurred away back in 1874, when Tadmor beat Rangi in a run-off. One dead-heat in the Welcome, one in the Metropolitan, one in the Oaks and one in the Grand National completes the list in important events at Riccarton. Place dividends are usually so good at big meetings at Riccarton that the rank and file of backers can have a day’s amusement without worrying about/the straightout machine. Place prospects for Cup day appear to be:— SPRING HURDLES—RasouIi, Black Duke, Monastic. SPRING PLATE—Valarth, McHeath, Lowenburg. LINWOOD HANDICAP— Landraid, High Glee. Tail Light. NEW ZEALAND CUP Kiltowyn, Tuirau, Fersen. WELCOME STAKES—Paper Slipper, Pelmet, Kow Tow. APPRENTICES’ HANDICAP— Daring Deed, Golden Dart, Rose Val. STEWARDS’ HANDICAP Silver Streak, Variant, Travenna (if wet). RICCARTON HANDICAP Heritage, Southdown, Quite Soon. Steeton is the only horse in to-day’s Cup Held with a two-mile race to its credit, but notwithstanding this she will be an outsider to-day. Tout le Monde has won at a mile and a half, but he too will start at a long price. Caliente won the Mitchelson Cup, but she is under a cloud. The only other winner at a mile and a half is Vintage, who has a big weight and has not had a searching preparation. All the others have to be taken more or less on trust as journey horses, but some of them are bred to go two miles. Kiltowyn, who looks the pick of the field on figures, is by Kilbroney, who won the Great Metropolitan Stakes, two miles and a quarter, and the Goodwood Cup, 2 miles 5 furlongs, and sired The Banker (New. Zealand Cup), Oratrix (New Zealand Cup), Concentrate (Auckland Cup), and Kilboy (Treniham Gold Cup). The dam of Kiltowyn is Towyn, by Lucullus from Congress, by Hierarch from Te Huinga, by Hitchkiss from Sunningdale, by Hampton. Lucullus was stoutly bred and sired many middle-distances performers, and is sire of the dams of Nightly, Limarch and King March. A Derby Trial Heritage, the North Island’s main nope in the Derby, has not had a race since he won the Avondale Guineas in September, but he will probably be given a run in the Riccarton Handicap toxday, and if he is to be a real menace to'Kinnoull in the classic he should win. The Riccarton Handicap has been a lucky one for three-year-olds in recent years. Eight seasons ago Commendation won it with 9.9, giving 71b to the five-year-old Footfall arid, •

registering a great Derby trial. Next year Laughing Prince won with 8.12, but he was beaten in the Derby by Agrion and Satrap. Full Feather was second with 7.13 in the following year, but was not equal to a place in the Derby, but, Cyclinder won the Riccarton with 9.3 and the Derby also. Admiral Drake and King Colossus, each carrying 8.4, won the Riccarton, but neither was class enough for the Derby. In 1932 no classic contender ran in the handicap, but in succeeding years, Nightly 8.0 and Sporting Blood 8.11, each captured the double. Three-year-olds have won the Riccarton Handicap six times in the last seven years, and four of them have gone on to success in the Derby. Heritage has 8.10 to-day and unless he returns a dividend he will recede in favour for the Blue Ribbon contest.