RACING AND TROTTING

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIV, Issue 21062, 14 June 1938, Page 11

RACING AND TROTTING

On and Off the Track A BUDGET OF NEWS AND VIEWS FIXTURES Racing: June 18—S.C. Hunt Point-to-Point. June 18—Hawkes Bay J.C. June 18—Bay of Plenty J.C, June 18—Grey mouth J.C. June 25—Ashburton RC. June 25 Waimate Point-to-Point. June 25—Dannevirke Hunt Club. For using too sharp spurs on Kinkle in the Green Lane Steeplechase at Ellerslie, the jockey, N. Watson, was fined £2. Dainty Verse, a five-year-old daughter of Iliad and the Absurd mare, Isa, recently won four races in succession at Perth. Entries for the Ashburton Racing Club's meeting are due by 8 p.m. tonight. Entries for the Oamaru Jockey Club’s fixture will close at the same hour. T. Boyle, V. Langford. A. E. Didham and J. W. Jennings each steered three winners during the Dunedin meeting, and between them they took half the races during the three days. P. J. Boyle 4 was the most successful trainer at the Dunedin meeting. F. Trilford 3, A. E. Didham 3, H. Morton 2, W. E. Hazlett 2, P. Stock 2 and E. Redmond 2 accounted for most of the remaining events. Balboa, who died in Southland a couple of years ago. was responsible for seven wins at the Dunedin meeting, four over obstacles and three on the flat. Valkyrian 3, Pink Coat 2, Winning Hit 2. and Woodend 2, did best of other sires represented. Among the trotters at Addington nothing has given better displays in private than Norman Fox, but his racing has not been up to expectations. A difficult horse to keep at his gait in a race, his retirement has been considered. In some northern papers. Ginger Jack was credited with 3.12 2-5 and 3.13 1-5 in the All Aged Stakes at Ashburton. The first-mentioned time would have constituted a New Zealand record, but Ginger Jack’s official figures were 3.14 1-5. Four races were held this season for two-year-olds, and each revealed a different winner. Shadow Son annexed the Timaru Nursery Stakes, Aidershot the Juvenile Stakes, Bed Rock the New Zealand Sapling Stakes, and Contender the Great Northern Trotting Stakes. The Elderslie Stud, which is to undergo another change of ownership, was founded by Mr J. B. Reid, and produced a long line of notable winners. It was bought about 13 years ago by Mr J. G. Duncan, of Wellington, who subsequently formed a company composed of New Zealanders and Australians to carry on the business. The Hawke’s Bay Steeplechase, decided at the first winter meeting oi the Hawke’s Bay Jockey Club, marked the diamond jubilee of that event.. The first steeplechase was run just 6(r years ago at Pakowhai, and was won by the late Mr William Douglas's Baron, who carried 11.12, and was ridden by James Munn. It has been known for many months that the Elderslie Stud Company was to be wound up, and the property has now been sold to a Queensland runholder, who will carry on breeding there under the management of Mr K. Austin. A dispersal sale will be held next January, about the time of the National yearling sales, and possession of the property will be given in February. Among the horses recently retired was that one-time good trotter Koro Peter. He was the only free-legged trotter to have won as a two-year-old in New Zealand, and he carried on to reach the first flight in his department before his career was cut short by wind trouble. He was operated on for this complaint, but without success. The Ringmaster-Anklet colt for whom Mr G. J. Barton paid 525 guineas at the sales in January hasbeen named Phil Wirth. He is a halfbrother to Garter Knight, a promising youngster whom Mr J. M. Samson had the ill luck to lose on a trip to Sydney. Another half-brother is Royal Order, now carrying Mr j. Richardson’s colours in Victoria. So far as can be discovered, F. J. Smith’s performance in training all the placed horses in the Mark Memorial Handicap at Auckland is unprecedented in the history of New Zealand trotting. It is not so in racing, however, as R. J. Mason trained Gloaming, Nincompoop and Chignon, the placed horses in a Middlepark Plate, all owned by Mr G. D. Greenwood, and C. Giesler repeated the performance in a handicap at Gore with three horses all owned by Mr A. Cambridge. In Smith’s case the horses were in different ownership. America now has 29 trotters and 53 pacers in the two-minutes list. Tn view of these figures it is peculiar that nine trotters took the coveted mark in their three-year-old season, compared with four pacers. The pacers appear to reach their peak at six. as at that age fifteen pacers have registered 2.0 or better, and only four trotters. Greyhound (trotter, 1.56 holds the world record in his division, and Dan Patch 1.55} that for pacers. The dual-gaited marvel is Calumet Evelyn, who paced 1.591 as a four-year-old, and trotted 1.591 in the next season. Valpeen is one of five to win the Great Northern twice since the inception of the race in 1885, and one of six since 1876 to capture the Grand National Steeplechase twice, but he is the only horse to have completed a double in both events. Valpeen won his first Great Northern in 1934. He

was ridden by R. E. Thompson, who was associated with him in most of his early exploits. Two months later, when he took his first Grand National, he was ridden by A. J. Peart, and in the same race the following year W. J. Bowden was his pilot. On Thursday > he had the services of F. R. Foster, who rode him in his previous six starts this season. In six seasons of racing Valpeen has gone out 77 times for 11 wins. 11 seconds, seven thirds and 48 times unplaced. His stake earnings total £5585. A Conference remit sponsored by the Wairio Jockey Club reads:—"Owners and/or trainers shall pay to recognised hurdle or steeplechase riders a fee of 5/- each time they are engaged to school horses over one or more hurdles or steeplechase fences. This rule shall not apply in cases where an owner or trainer has any engagement with any rider permanently employed in his stable to school horses under the trainer’s care nor in cases where the trainer’s horses are ridden at hunts by riders in their permanent employment.” This remit has a good deal to recommend it. Where no such fee Ls paid, owners often feel under an obligation to put up a rider with little race experience because he has schooled a horse. This many times results in a race being lost, and in the long run is expensive. On the other hand, boys can hardly be expected to educate horses, at risk of injury, if their only reward Ls to see better horsemen engaged on race days. AUSTRALIAN RACING WINTER MEETING AT KANDWICK United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received June 13, 9.10 p.m.) SYDNEY. June 13. Fine weather favoured the King’s Birthday meeting at Randwick. Results were: A.J.C. HURDLES, Of £650; 2 miles and 3 furlongs. Syntax, 9.2 (Gollop) 1 Capaneus, 10.10 (Robinson)2 Fugitive, 9.0 (Malcolm) 3 Six started. Won by three lengths; five lengths between second and third. Time—4min 19’,see, a race record. A.J.C. AMATEUR CUP, Of £250; 1 mile. Tweedsidc. 10.7 (Mr L. Quilan) .... 1 Ashbridge, 10.4 (Mr T. Waters) .... 2 Officer, 9.2 (Mr L. Whale)3 Thirteen started. Won by threequarters of a length; four and a hall | lengths between second and third I Time—lmin 40sec. The Exeter Handicap was won oy Sedenum from Normandy and Red Thespian with Deputy Ruler, Golden Chance and Red Rosebud unplaced. ENGLISH JOCKEY'S SUCCESS DOUBLE EVENT SECURED United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, June 12. A Chantilly message states that the The English pockey Elliott, who rode the Derby winner, Bois Roussell, completed the double by winning the French Derby on Cillas, which is owned by M. Marcel Boussac.