RACING ON AND OFF THE TRACK

Timaru Herald, Volume CLVI, Issue 23082, 22 December 1944, Page 7

RACING ON AND OFF THE TRACK

Wild Cry, who had been galloping like an early winner at Invercargill, has had another check this time due to a bruised foot. The Invercargill apprentice, B. S. Wilson, who rode FirSt In in the Metropolitan will be on her again in the Publicans’ Handicap. Golden Souvenir and Matador have been withdrawn from the Great Northern Derby, and Black Simon is another which will not make the trip to Auckland. Monetary will be at a disadvantage at Dunedin owing to lack of recent racing, but he is one who will benefit if the going is heavy. The mare Salmi, which was recently deregistered, has been sold to Mr and Mrs J. Shelley, of Wellington, and her reregistration has been approved by the President of the Racing Conference. Mr C. H. Slater, of Hastings, has appealed to the Racing Conference against the decision of the Hawke's Bay District Committee in dismissing his appeal against the verdict of the judicial committee of the Napier Park Racing Club, which disqualified him for one year in connection with totalisator betting on the Omahu Hurdles won by Malacca at the Napier meeting on November 11. A date for the hearing of the appeal has not yet been fixed, but it is likely to be about the middle of January. Bridge Acre is to run in the Christmas Handicap on Boxing Day, as a prelude to the Derby. The filly appears to have thrown off the soreness which caused her withdrawal from the Oaks. Beau Vaals was brought from Auckland to run in the sprint at Otaki, but was prevented from starting by an attack of colic to which he subsequently succumbed.

Flight, brilliant daughter of the New Zealand mare Lambert, has resumed work at Randwick in view of autumn meetings. At her last start Flight was second in the Metropolitan to Nightbeam. A year ago Lord Chancellor and Merry May finished first and second in the Auckland Cup. Neither has won a race since. Lou Rosa, third last year, has done better, but he has 41b more than in 1943 and is unlikely to be that much better. Another minor place seems to be the best he can achieve.

Te Hinemoa, potential favourite, for the Auckland Cup, has not tackled a two-mile journey, but she should be able to stay the distance at Ellerslie. She has been successful in her last two races. She won the King George Handicap at the Avondale meeting with 9.0, and the Te Awamutu Cup with 9.4. In the big Ellerslie handicap she is scheduled tg carry 8.9, with W. J. Broughton as her pilot. Glenfalloch beat Lord Chancellor very badly at Trentham. With 9.2 he was only third in the New Zealand Cup, and this does not make Lord Chancellor read well in the Auckland Cup with 9.8. Beau Vite won the Cup three years ago with 9.6, but Lord Chancellor has done nothing to entitle him to rank with the Beau Pere horse. Figures make Lord Chancellor’s prospects look poor, but there is a surprising amount of support for him in Auckland.

When the Ajax filly Civic Pride ran away with the Gimcrack Stakes at Randwick she was acclaimed as unusually good. She was so soundly trounced in the Kirkham Stakes this month that her owner asked for a veterinary examination on. the ground that she might have been doped. The verdict was that there was nothing wrong with her. Her conqueror was Courtship, a descendant of Desert Gold’s sister d’Oro. Courtship has won three races very easily, for Mr J. S. Firth, who had not previously figured as an owner. Salmagundi’s Australian stock include Piastre (Auckland Cup), Hamurah (Doncaster Handicap), Sal Volatile (Adrian Knox Stakes), Salamander (Tattersall’s Cup), Mince Pie (Bond Handicap, Williamstown Easter Cup), and Princess Pam (Ottawa Stakes). In New Zealand he sired Macedoine, Royal Flight, Sally Lunn, Sal’s Pal, Sing Sing, Sister Sal, Tring, Aurora Australis, Bonny Flight, Salmi, True Range, Cruden Bay, Immediate, Balblair, Sascha, Sir Saladin, Sal, Tea for Two, Signal Officer and many others. Altogether he was responsible for nearly 100 individual winners. Another Southland trotter with a good record has come north and is to race at Ashburton. This is Royal Stone (Nobleman-Copplestone), who was educated In the same stable as Millisle. At Gore last autumn she won from 72 behind and was second from 132 behind. From 108 at Ashburton she will be faced by an extremely difficult task, but she will be worth attention in a suitable class.