RACING ON AND OFF THE TRACK

Timaru Herald, Volume CLI, Issue 22253, 22 April 1942, Page 6

RACING ON AND OFF THE TRACK

The Timaru Trotting Club has decided to apply for January 16 and March 13 as dates for next season. The investments at Hutt Park on Saturday last, £41.172, were £742 above the Trotting Club’s previous record of £40,430.

Burt Scott lost almost 50 yards by failing to begin correctly at Hutt Park. He made an effort to race round the bunch in the final circuit, but could not carry on and was not driven out. The committee of the Timaru Trotting Club has made a donation of £lOO towards the Timaru quota of the Patriotic Fund.

The three-year-old pacer Loyal Winner, who was successful in the Wyndham Stakes, will in future be trained in a Canterbury stable. He has been purchased by Mr D. Macfarlane, of Christchurch. Hunting Lore, who has not raced over obstacles since he won the June Hurdles at Wanganui in 1940, is to revert to jumping this winter. Hunting Lore, a brother to Foxiana, i' a brilliant fencer.

An analysis of the turnstile returns for the Timaru Trotting Club’s autumn meeting shows the attendance to have been 3406, including 106 soldiers. Of the remainder, 2071 were men and 1335 women.

A profit of £530 was made on the Timaru Trotting Club’s autumn meeting. This more than offsets the deficit of £340 shown on the summer fixture. Taxation on the two meetings amounted to more than £4650.

Premature (Posterity, - Impetuous), one of the wonderful Eulogy family, is to be retired’ to the stud. Premature defeated Salutation in the Great Northern Oaks, and was unlucky not to win the Thompson Handicap. Twenty-year-old Charming Billy, driven by an old-man reinsman, won the Trotters’ Handicap at Victoria Park (Sydney) recently. The ancient must be tough, as he was attacked by serious illness subsequent to a win two and a half years ago. Kindergarten’s owner, Mr Ned Fitzgerald, has a brace of promising hurdlers to carry his colours. Native Song, half-brother to the champion, won easily at his only start as a jumper, and Native Chief has been successful in the three hurdle races he has contested.

Erndale. who was just beaten by Kindergarten in the Auckland Easter Handicap, is said to be a natural jumper. He will be given a run over the sticks at Te Rapa next month, and if his performance is satisfactory he will be given a chance in the Great Northern Hurdles.

There was widespread disappointment when it , became generally known that Royal Lancer could not run in the Timaru Cup. The Southlander is a fine galloper when fit, and he would probably have been installed favourite. The best may have been seen I of him, as it took his trainer a long time to get him over his first attack. The success of the only two meetings held this'season has put the South Canterbury Jockey Club in a really sound position for the first time for many years. Financially, as web as in other aspects, Saturday’s meeting was one of the most successful ever held, and there should be a substantial profit. Expenditure will Include nearly £250 for rent, an item which did not appear last year, but this will be compensated for in the general account, as the club is no longer responsible for upkeep of the racecourse. The closing of Santa Anita, America’s most palatial racecourse, was due to the property being commandeered to house Japanese internees. Before this was done weights had been Issued for the Santa Anita Handicap. The maximum 9.4 was awarded to Challedon and Mioland. Next were the star three-year-olds of last season, Whirlaway 9.3 and Market Wise 9.1. The Australian horse Reading, who defeated High Caste in two Derbies, was given 8.10. Paper Money mares are doing well at the stud, and several of the sons of the Greenbank horse are proving successful as sires. Inflation and Autopay are well in the limelight, and Guarantee was responsible for a winner on Saturday. Paper Slipper’s stock are not yet old enough to race, but it will be surprising if this brilliant galloper does not leave some good The Llmond-Veil horse Veilmond is doing particularly well as a sire in Australia. Among his best at present in commission are Veiled Threat and Velocity, first and second in the Sydney Cup, All Veil (a Newmarket winner), and Rimveil, whose owner declares he Is the best horse in Australia. Veilmond was a good horse—evidence of this is found in the fact that he won £21.587 in Australia—and, in spite of the fact that he was out of a mare by Absurd, he was nearly the best stayer sired by Llmond. He was, however, a rather moody fellow, and, after being stirred up by M. Maarten when racing ungenerously, he declined to do his best for that horseman. McCarten advised that another jockey should be tried, and Veilmond thereafter was usually ridden by J. E. Fike.