RACING AND TROTTING

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLI, Issue 20446, 17 June 1936, Page 7

RACING AND TROTTING

On and Off the Track A BUDGET OF NEWS AND VIEWS FIXTURES Racing : June 20, 23—Wanganui J.C. June 20, 23 —Napier Park R.C. June 20, 23, 24 —Dunedin J.C. June 23—S.C. Point-to-Point. June 27—Oamaru J.C. Aug. I—Christchurch Hunt. Aug I—Poverty Bay Hunt. Aug. 11, 13, 15—Grand National. Trotting : June, 20, 23 or 24—Auckland T.C. Aug. 8, 12, 14—Metropolitan T.C. Entries for the South Canterbury Hunt’s point-to-point meeting will close at 5 p.m. to-day. King Mestor broke down completely while contesting the Orakei Hurdles at Elleslie, and a long spell will be necessary before he will be able to begin another preparation. The appeal of B. Burgess and A. Jenkins against their disqualifications in connection with the running of Pukeko at Auckland will be heard on Friday. De Soto was shipped from Lyttelton last night to run in the main events at the Auckland Trotting Club’s meeting on Saturday. He was accompanied by his usual pilot, J. Bryce. Claims totalling over £5OOO were paid to injured jockeys out of the Racing Conference’s accident fund for the year ended May 31. As a result, the executive proposes that the accident fee by owners should be increased from 20/- per horse to £l/5/0. The Hawke’s Bay Jockey Club has forwarded a remit to Conference which proposes to make it compulsory for all flat races to be started from a standing start. In hurdle races and steeplechases it is proposed to allow starters to use their own discretion. The appeal of the owner of Stirling Lady against the decision of the Wyndham Trotting Club’s stewards is understood to have succeeded on the ground that the stipendiary steward, who instituted the original inquiry, did not make a charge in writing. It is likely that the promising colt Black Friar will be sent to Sydney this spring, where he is engaged in the A.J.C. Derby. This handsome son of Gascony revealed undoubted stamina in his races as a two-year-old. He races in the same ownership as Red Manfred. Further additions to F. Davis’ already large team of youngsters are two from Mr T. H. Lowry’s Okawa Stud. A typical Hunting Song is the brown colt from Fintry, a daughter of Desert Gold by Chief Ruler, while the other is an attractive half-sister to Gold Trail by Hunting Song from Pure Gold. R. Watson and A. Sibbritt, two jockeys who have been visiting Auckland recently, were to have left for Dunedin by ’plane on Monday. They have several engagements at Wingatui, including some of the horses they rode in Canterbury and on the West Coast prior to their arrival in Auckland. Considering the very light work that had been allotted Vai Watch during the past few weeks, the Valkyrian mare’s performance in the Remuera Hurdles with 11.8 was full of merit, as the race was run in record time. If she is taken on the southern tour this winter it is predicted that she will pay her way. Chile has had three months’ racing on the flat, with two wins. He is in the best condition, therefore, to face the battens at Wanganui. Last season Chile won four hurdle races and at the end of the term he was runner-up to Chang, who received a stone, in the Te Kuiti Hurdles. Chile, a high-priced yearling, was sold cheaply at the Greenwood dispersal sale, and has proved a great bargain to Mr J. O’Meara. Matoru, owned by Mr R. Hannon and trained at Te Rapa by J. F. Tutchen, has been sold to Mrs D. Levin, of Wellington, and .will in due course enter the stable of J. S. Shaw at Riccarton. The Acre three-year-old wil’ be brought south by Tutchen when he makes the trip to Trentham. Matoru proved himself a decidedly useful hack while in Tutchen’s charge, and in his last four starts has won once, been once second, and twice third.

Onewhetu, topweight in the principal flat race at Wanganui, has earned the distinction in that class. The Haweratrained gelding's record reads:—At three years, 22 starts, 3 wins, 10 places, £3BO in stakes; at four years, 21 starts, 8 wins, 5 places, £1530 in stakes; totals, 43 starts, 11 wins, 15 places, £l9lO in stakes. His owner, Mr J. F. Kiley, took him on lease from Mr H. Nuku, with right of purchase at £3OO after he had won £3OO in stakes, but this contract was cancelled and Mr Kiley bought Onewhetu outright before he commenced to win.

Something in the nature of a record must be claimed for Mr Jack Langford’s mare Lady Chicken, which competed at the Birchwood Hunt meeting at Parawa (says the Southland “News”). According to figures and facts supplied by Mr Langford, Lady Chicken has competed over 13,800 jumps, and has fallen only five times. These figures are exclusive of schooling jumps. Lady Chicken won one or two events on the racecourse, and has a long roll of successes in hunters’ contests in show rings. She is now twenty years old.

The ex-New Zealander G. Price should be strongly represented in three-year-old events in Australia in the spring. In addition to Gold Rod, Grand Boy, and Ilium, he has another promising youngster in Omarere (owned by Mr R. J. Murphy) which won over seven furlongs at Rosehill last Saturday. Omarere’s dam Gesture was in her year our leading two-year-qld, and by Chief Ruler from Nottava, by Solferlno from Stepka, by St. Leger —Stepfeldt, by Nordenfeldt—Steppe, she comes from one of the most solid families in the New Zealand Stud Book.

The Riverton Racing Club has applied for an extra day’s racing for January 13, in connection with the centenary celebrations of the settlement.

Under English racing law, the clerk of the course, clerk of the scales, starter, judge and handicapper, as a qualification for office, require a licence to be granted annually by the stewards of the Jockey Club. Racecourse gatekeepers and checktakers also require an annual licence if employed at more than one meeting. The handicapper must attend the meeting to which he fa appointed either personally or by licensed deputy. A remit being brought, up before the conference by the Wellington district clubs proposes that the selection of starters be the duty of district committees.

“Dollar Bet” asks for a settlement of an argument on the question: “Was a Grand National ever run at Auckland?” This is one of those questions which cannot be answered by a plain yes or no. No Grand National Steeplechase was ever run at Auckland, but at one time the race now styled the Great Northern Hurdles was known as the “Grand National Hurdles,” and the Auckland winter meeting was billed as the “North New Zealand Grand National” meeting. It is well to point out that the big hurdle race at Riccarton is officially styled the “New Zealand Grand National Hurdles,” and the steeplechase has been known as the “New Zealand Grand National Steeplechase” ever since it was inaugurated by the New Zealand Grand National Steeplechase Club formed in Timaru.

Aucklanders have a tremendously high opinion of the black pacer King’s Warrior. One writer states that those who saw King's Warrior record his two wins at Hutt Park, are not likely to forget him. He went to a bad break at the start and from what appeared to be a hopeless position, staged a phenomenal finish to beat Queen’s Author by a neck. Then on the second day he committed a similar error when the barriers were released and lost fully 50 yards, yet he gathered his field four furlongs from home and won by a length with his driver sitting still. These two wins marked his ninth success out of ten starts this season and he has overshadowed everything in the North Island over all distances and under all conditions. He has not appeared since the Wellnigton meeting, but has been kept in steady work. He is at present on 4.28 for two miles and will probably have to win two more two-mlle races to qualify for the next New Zealand Trotting Cup. This, no doubt, is well within his compass. King’s Warrior is a black five-year-old gelding by Blue Mountain King from a mare by Advance, who was a highclass three-year-old in his day. King’s Warrior is owned by Mr W. L. Lincoln and is trained at Takanini by F. J. Smith. NAPIER PARK R.C. ACCEPTANCES By Telegraph—Press Association NAPIER, June 16. Acceptances for the first day of the Napier Park Racing Club's winter meeting, to be held on June 20 and 23, are:— MOTEO HACK HURDLE RACE HANDICAP, of 85 sovs; U miles— Joumet 11.5, John Charles 10.11, Emotion 10.8, Curie 10.5, Blue Boy 10.2, Blue Tiger 10.0, Count Willonyx 9.12, Manifesto 9.8, Souchong 9.0, Royal Bengal 9.0, Lord Hereford 9.0. MAIDEN SCURRY, of 60 sovs; 5 furlongs.—Black Frost 8.7, Tractile 8.7, Agog 8.7, Silver Tide 8.7, Vainsborough 8.7, Black Magic 8.7, Gascon 8.7, Master Hector 8.7, Arrownilla 8.7, Jay Bird 8.7, Mahala 8.7, Mutunga 8.7, Golden Ridge 8.7, Lucullus Lad 8.7, Sunny Blonde 8.7, Gironde 8.7, First Hand 8.7, Whistle Winkle 8.0, Inheritance 8.0, Essex 8.0, Le Torquet 8.0, Count Siegfried 8.0, Marsyas 8.0. MEANEE HACK HANDICAP, of 70 sovs; 6 furlongs.—Mata Hari 10.8, First Chapter 9.7, Royal Feast 9.2, Hunter’s Morn 9.1, De Friend 9.0, Hunting Star 9.0, Caen 8.6, Begorrah 8.0, Helios 8.0. NAPIER STEEPLECHASE HANDICAP, of 125 sovs; about 2i miles.— Royal Banquet 11.4, Cotsfield 11.4, Dozie 10.4, Strome 9.7, Battleground 9.6, Kaokaoroa 9.0. LADIES’ HANDICAP, of 70 sovs; li miles. —Sunny Sky 12.4, The Grasper 12.2, Royal Shift 11.4, Lyn Dhu 11.0, Tahoma 10.12. FLYING HANDICAP, of 100 sovs; 6 furlongs.—Slippery 9.3, Bodyline 9.1, Hunting Jay 8.12, Passion Flower 8.10, Lavina 8.5, Cawbeen 8.2, Royal Bengal 8.0, Quake 8.0. SETTLERS’ HACK HANDICAP, of 85 sovs; 1 mile.—Granvale 9.6, Blygain 8.13, Blue Garter 8.13, Master Cyklon 8.11, Trailer 8.5, Forum 8.3, Royal Dash 8.0, Sybil Song 8.0. PROMISING FILLY INJURED United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright SYDNEY, June 16. The promising racing filly Red Rosebud, which fell at Rosehill on Saturday. has, it is feared, fractured her pelvis, and yesterday she was placed in slings.