RACING AND TROTTING

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIV, Issue 21065, 17 June 1938, Page 15

RACING AND TROTTING

On and Off the Track

A BUDGET OF NEWS AND VIEWS FIXTURES Racing: June 18—Hawkes Bay J.C. June 18—Bay ot Plenty J.C. June 18—Greymouth J.C. June 25—Ashburton R.C. June 25—Waimate Point-to-Point. June 25—Dannevirke Hunt Club. July 2—Oamaru J.C. July 2 —Marton J.C. July 5,7, 9—Wellington R.C. July 9—Westport J.C. (at Rlccarton) July 16 —Hawke's Bay Hunt Club. July 16—Waimate Hunt Club. July 23 —Rangitikei Hunt Club. July 23 —South Canterbury Hunt Club. July 23—Matamata R.C. July 28, 30—Poverty Bay Turf Club. July 30—Christchurch Hunt Club. July 30 —Taranaki J.C. Financiere, who looked well treated at Greymouth, is unlikely to make lhe trip. Porotiti could not be raced on the concluding days of the Great Northern meeting he had a festered foot. It is probable that Manawatu will make his reappearance in the Juno Steeplechase at Hastings on Saturday. The owner of Gorban was not keen on the Balboa gelding going' to the Dunedin meeting, but the two wins gained there were worth £350. The three defeats registered against Vaalso at Ellerslie proved very costly to his admirers, who supported him very confidently. Tlie hurdle race at Greymouth on Saturday will be the. first run on the West Coast for several years. The brush hurdles used by the C.J.C. have been loaned to Ure club. Hirangi will not be taken to Hastings because he stifled himself at Ellerslie in the Hunt Cup, and, although he is making a good recovery, it has been deemed wise to. give him every chance. Horses from M. B. Edwards’s stable have won £7250 this season, for 32 wins, 18 seconds and 16 thirds. Fourteen horses were responsible for this score, and eleven of these were by Jack Potts. Silver Ring, who disappointed his connections at Washdyke, has been given solid work at Greymouth in preparation for this week’s meeting. He is reported to be galloping freely and to be showing no sign of soreness. The Oamaru winter meeting will close the racing and trotting season in the Otago and Southland districts. The total amount in stakes given by racing clubs in these districts this season will be £41,987, and the amount for light harness events £29,201, making the total £71,188. After his impressive win over a mile at the recent Waikato meeting it was confidently expected that Barrister would earn more money at the Great Northern meeting. He was saddled each day at the latter fixture, but failed to get in the money, though he had been working well prior to the meeting.

With only five more races to be decided in the Otago and Southland racing districts this season, four jockeys have a chanSe of heading the list. To date G. Barclay is in front, having ridden 17 winners, from J. W. Jennings 16, and R. J. Mackie and L. J. Ellis each 15, M. N. Caddy 13 and C. T. Wilson 12 arc lire next on the list.

So far this season 245 racing events have been decided in the Otago and Southland districts, and with only one meeting to be run, the Wingatui

trainer D. J. McDonald heads'the list with 17 winners, R. E. McLellan (Invercargill) is next with 16, and F. W. Ellis (Invercargill) and P. T. Hogan (Washdyke) have each led in 11 winners in the territory named.

L. J. Ellis has not ridden a wniner for over a month, and since he scored on Lady Leigh al Ashburton on May 14 he has been stationary on 80 points. In spite of that his lead for the jockey's championship is unassailable. C. G. Goulsbro 69, next on the list, is under suspension, and the nearest of the others are B. H. Morris 54, W. J. Broughton 48, and S. Wilson 47.

The Gisborne jumper Royal Mimic was taken over by C. Morse after the June meeting, and is now trained on the Takanini track. He is a very promising ’chaser, and although up in the weights is likely to extend his winning record during the winter racing. Royal Mimic appeared certain to finish first or second, when he fell two fences from home in the Winter Steeplechase.

Although Kilonsa did not register a win at the Great Northern meeting, she ran two sterling races. There are few better gallopers than Kilonsa in heavy going and she lias been a good proposition to Mr H. Lynn, in whose colours she races under lease. The term expires on July 30, and it is not yet known whether the mare will be reserved for breeding purposes or kept to racing for another season.

There has been no more well deserved winning mount of late than the success of N. C. Trillo on Kilberis in the Campbell Hurdles at Ellerslie. Examination of Trillo’s riding since the beginning of last month shows that commencing with his win on Lucidus irr the Onewhero Steeplechase, at Franklin on May 7, he has in his last 19 mounts, scored three firsts, nine seconds, and four thirds. Strangely enough each of his three unplaced rides was on Kilberis.

At a special meeting of the Manawatu Hunt Club a proposal of the committee to obtain an Irish hunter for stud service in the district met with full approval. Such horses in the Waikato district have had wonderful results in recent years, begetting stock that have proved good racehorses as well as hunters, and an endeavour is to be made to obtain for Manawatu a horse who will sire big-boned horses who are up to weight.

At the Wellington Racing Club’s winter meeting last year the steeplechase course in the straight was moved from the inside fence to the

outside fence, the brush half-way down the straight and the double in front of the stands being placed on the outside of the track. It was decided at a meeting of the stewards this week to move the obstacles in the straight back to the inside of the track. It was also decided by the stewards that the steeplechase course should nor be again flagged. Two horses (one being Streamline) had to be pulled up last year through running inside the flags. The New Zealander Royal Order, who unexpectedly scored in the Buckhigham Handicap, had not won for 12 months. In the meantime he has never looked like winning, and at his last six starts he has been last isays “The Globe.”) Royal Ordar was lucky. The field came away from the rails, and he secured an uninterrupted run through. On the home turn, Royal Order was fifth, behind Bridge Law. Heroic Star, Vocal and Dioblote, with apparently no chance of getting through. The leader swung wide and in quick time Royal Order was in front, and had the race won. There were only three starters in the Cessnock Mile at Maitland recently, but they provided enough incidents for any day’s racing. When the horses were at the barrier the owner of Sir Mart (I. Hall) found the horse’s lead bag had been left in the. enclosure. A quick sprint round the course by Hall rectified this. In the race Heraway (W. Cook) dead-heated with Call Mag (E. Reynolds), with Sir Mart (W. Elkin) third, three-quarters of a length away. Reynolds entered a protest against Heraway, alleging interference near the finish, and Elkin lodged a protest against the dead-heaters on the grounds of interference in the straight. Both protests were dismissed, and Elkin was fined £2 for a “frivolous protest.” To round it off, I. Hall was fined £2 lor carelessness in forgetting his lead bag. A good deal has been made of the achievement of Full o’ Scotch in winning three hurdle races in one meeting at Ellerslie. These were all hack events, and Full o’ Scotch started off on 9.0. Hounslow won three times at a National meeting—Trial Hurdles, Grand National Hurdles and Sydenham Hurdles. King’s Guard at Ellerslie won the Grafton Hurdles, Ponsonby Hurdles and New Year Hurdles, and at his fourth attempt just failed with 12.7 in the Auckland Hurdles. Taumai, also at Auckland, won the Penrose Hurdles, Remuera Hurdles, and Campbell Hurdles. In the case of King’s Guard, all the races were open events over two miles; and two of the three successes of Hounslow, and of Taumai were gained in the open class. Another treble winner over hurdles at Ellerslie was the Australian gelding Explorer.