ON AND OFF THE TRACK

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21178, 27 October 1938, Page 9

ON AND OFF THE TRACK

A Budget of News And Views FIXTURES Racing October 27, 29—Poverty Bay Turf Club October 29—Banks Peninsula R.C. October 29—Rangitlkei R.C. October 29—Rotorua Hunt. November 5,7, 9, 12—Canterbury J.C. Trotting October 29—Invercargill T.O. October 29—Thames T.C. November 8, 10, 11—N.Z. Metropolitan T.C. The Walrio Jockey Club will offer £lOOO in prize-money at its next meeting. Pew clubs in the Dominion can equal that on a population basis. T! . Wairio Cup will carry a stake of £3OO, including trophies, this season, and will be the best endowed hack race In Otago or Southland during Christmas and New Year meetings. B. H. Morris will ride The Buzzer in the New Zealand Cup and Rebel Mate in the Stewards’ Handicap. H. N. Wiggins will ride Malaglgi in the J. F. Buchanan Handicap at Motukarara, also in his other engagements, including the New Zealand Cup. The suspension of R. Townley junr. at Gore on Monday will prevent him from taking part at the Invercargill Trotting Club's meeting on Saturday. Two novices who will be in favour at tlie Invercargill meeting are Willowbank and Dunallster, both of whom were placed at Gore. At the conclusion of the New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club’s carnival Logan Derby will return to Tasmania to take part in the championships to be held at Launceston. Defaulter repeated the performance ot Gallio and Royal Chief in the previous two years of winning both the Trentham and the Harcourt Stakes. Three year-old have now won the last six Harcourts. When Gipsy Fair led the field home in the Waimea Hack Handicap at Gore she scored her first win since she won this race last year, when she was also ridden by the Wingatui apprentice, P. Spratt. The Walpa Racing Club is spending about £BOOO in improvements at its course at Te Awamutu, and while the work is in progress it will hold its next meeting on the Waikato Club’s property at Te Rapa. King’s Play did not incur a penalty in the Trotting Cup for his Oamaru success, and will be one of the favourites for the big race next month. The manner in which he held off Parisienne in the run up the straight- was very impressive, and his condition can be Improved before Cup day. Regal is one of the best prospects in his present class in Southland and, while he was firmly beaten by Katene al Gore, he can be expected to improve in his next outing. The Grattan Loyal gelding has settled down since raced last season and has more speed than most in his class. Mr H. D. Greenwood has sold the four-year-old gelding Garonne, by Gascony-Orozino to Mr G. Hutter, of Auckland. It is expected that the horse will remain in the stable of F. A. Roberts, at Rlccarton. Garonne has been a disappointment lately, but he won two hack events last season, these being the only races he contested. Milford was handicapped at Gore to give 331 b to Made Money and 391 b to Ardchoille. In the New Zealand Cup he is required to concede them only 51b, and it will be extraordinary if they beat him in the Cup. Ardchollle's owner won the big race with Steeton, and it will be due to sentiment if Ardchoille goes to the post.

The Wellington meeting appears to have “placed" Te Hero. The temperamental Heroic colt seems to be a good one, but not the super-horse that some of Ips ardent admirers claimed. His two Efforts at Trentham suggested that he is better at six furlongs than at a mile; at least hfs slight superiority over Gay Son was more apparent over the shortfir distance. Dainty Sue's win at Trentham on Monday was her first in the Dominion, and her first for nearly three years. She was successful twice as a two-year-old in Victoria for J. Truskett wlia'hold her to Mr O. Boyle. The New Zealander has had to wait a long time for a return. Dainty Sue is by Drake from Masked Battery (by Comedy King from Artlllerle). Artlllerie, who was bred in this country, was by Royal Artillery from Nantes. The Tasman pacer Van Derby (closely related to Lawn Derby) was responsible for a spectacular performance at Epsom on Saturday. He lost so much ground at the start that he was soon nearly two hundred yards behind the leaders, and then finished second, travelling his last mile in 2.3. He mac'.e amends by winning on the second day, and If he can be taught to begin correctly he will win plenty of races. Van Derby is trained by F. J. Smith, but Is still owned by Mr E. Tatlow, ot Tasmania. • * • • Several New Zealand Cup acceptors won races during the holiday meetings. The most Impressive handicap victory was that of Quadroon, but his Cup engagement was allowed to lapse. Next

in merit was that of Sly Fox, in the Watkins Handicap, and it has been recognised by a penalty of 101 b. The Gore meeting drew attention to the prospects of Milford, and in lesser degree to those of Valantua. Rousseau beat another Cup candidate, Happy Night, at Ranglora, but there was nothing in the achievement to cause him to be regarded as a contender at Rlccarton.

Homily, who won the Pearce Handicap, at Trentham, is a brown daughter of Posterity and the Absurd—Eulogy mare Homage, hence is a full-sister to Heritage and a half-sister to Honour, Courtcraft and Submission. Like Submission, she races in the colours of her breeder, Mr G. M. Currie, for whom she is trained by F. W. Davis at Woodville, though probably she will join Submission at Wanganui after next month, when she will contest the Oaks at Riccarton. Her win has brought her into great favour for the fillies' classic, but the high scale of weights may not be to her liking.

There appears to be some haziness concerning the cause of the suspension at Gore of R. W. Townley and C. G. Kirby. The two men concerned are joint owners of the pacer Dewey Bell, who is trained by Townley. In the Balfour Trot on Saturday, Dewey Bell was driven by Townley, while Kirby took the drive behind Black Thread, owned by Mr J. Hunter and trained by A. Henderson. The Rules of Trotting debar any person who is interested in any horse from driving another horse in the same race. There was no attempt at concealment, and the offence was obviously committed in Ignorance of the rules.