RACING AND TROTTING.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12570, 6 March 1919, Page 2

RACING AND TROTTING.

(By •• ARQUB-") FIXTURES. Kureh 7, B—Napier Park Racing Cluh. March 8, 10-To Aroha Jockey Club. March 13—Waimato Pacing Olub. March .13, 14—Wairarapa Racing Club. March 15—Westport Jockey Club. March 15, ]7—Oliinemuri Jockey Club. Ma.rch 17—Opunako Racing Club. March 19, 80—Woodville Jockey Club. March 21, >l2—Ashburton County Racing Club, ■ , March 22—Masterlon Racing Club. March 39, 24—Thames .locker Olub. March 22, 21—Forbury Park Trotting Club. March 2G, 27—Rangitikei Racing Club. March 29—Hororata Racing Club. April 3—Gore Trotting Club. NOMINATIONS. March B—Thames Jockey Club. March 11—Hororata. Racing Club. March 14—Hawke'* Bay Jockey Club. March 14—Canterbury Jockey Club. March 14—Auckland Racing Club. March 18—Gore Trotting Club. , March 21—Auckland Trotting' Club. ■ March 28—Auckland Racing Club. HANDICAPS. Match 7—Woodrille Jockey Club. March 7—Maatcrton Racing Club. March 7—Forbury Park, Trotting Club. March B—Ashburton County Racing Club. March 11—Oliinemuri Jockey Club. March IS—Rangitikei Racing Club. March 17—Thames Jockey Club. March 22—Hawkos Bay Jockey,, Club. March 21—Hororata Racing Club. March 24—Auckland Racing Club. March 25—Auckland Trotting Club, March 28—Gore Trotting Club. March 28—Canterbury Jockey Club. ACCEPTANCES. March 10~Opunaka Racing Club. March 11—Westport Jockey Cluh. March 12—Ohinemuri Jockey Club. March 12—Ashburton County Racing Olub. March 12—Woodville Jockey Club. March 14—Forbury Park Trotting Club. March 14—Masterton Racing Club. March 26~-Tham.es Jockey Olub. March 21 —Rangitikei Racing Club. March 26—Hororata Racing Club. March 28—Auokland Trotting Cluh, March 28—Auckland Racing Club, March 29—Gore Trotting. Club. April 4—Canterbury Jockey, Club. Nominations for the. Southland Racing Oluh’s autumn meeting will close At five o’clock to-morrow evening. _ The Canterbury Jockey Club’s Grand National Meeting, to bo held in August, will again extend over three days, as was the case before the war reduction took place. The programme will be particularly attractive, the stakes having been increased in several directions. The acceptances received for the Waimatot meeting . next, week are a trifle disappointing, bub if all the horses still engaged put in an appearance there should be some interesting sport. Probably on the strength of his recent good form on the Riccarton tracks; Gamecock is being freely discussed ,as likely to race well in the Waimate Cup next week. Ho has not yet been, tried over a. mile.'and a quarter, however, while those who saw him racing at Oamaru last month will be disinclined! to trust him again so soon after his two failures. Two cast-offs from Sir George Clifford’s stable in Don Francisco and San Sebastian, both by San Francisco, are engaged in the hurdle race at Ashburton. Neither of tile pair has raced this season, so they will be at a, disadvantage compared tfith the seasoned campaigners. The Yaldhursb three-year-old, Almoner, has been nominated for the principal events at the Ashburton meeting this month. There seems to be a disposition to fancy his chance for a big race before tho close of the season, and the Great Autumn Handicap has been mentioned as an event likely to suit him. Achilledes and Kimbolton, who figure among the nominations for the hurdle races at Ashburton, competed over obstacles on the same course in the spring, Kimbolton being-the winner on the second day of the meeting. Tip Up and Kaminohe figure in the second day's hurdle event at Ashburton, but they are not.engaged in tho first day’s jumping race. Southland stables are well represented in several of the events at the Ashburton meeting this month, and the presence of a contingent from that quarter will assist greatly to ensure a very successful meeting. Red Tape, who has some good performances to his credit in southern hack races, with big weights in the saddle, is to be given a chance to earn distinction in better company, as he has been nominated for the chief event each day of the Ashburton County Racing Club’s meeting. H. Gray rode four winners on the opening day of the Hamilton meeting. Tempo, o. winner at the Hamilton meeting, is by Maniapoto, and is one of the team trained by F. Tilley for Mr W. Duncan. Tho win of All Talk in the principal event on the second day of the Hamilton meeting did not come out of its turn, as ho has been placed five times this season, with only one previous win to relieve the monotony. Lovcmateh, a winner at the Dannevirke meeting, is a. sister to Nones and Menelaus, but her form so far makes her a very unworthy relative to these two good gallopers. It is reported that an Auckland’ sportsman recently made a substantial offer for Punka, but Mr J. B. Reid refused to place a prico on the filly. There is a strong probability that the Otago Hunt Club will receive a permit to hold a race meeting before the close ot the present season. The Royal Artillery gelding Henclra, the winner of the principal event at Danncvirke, was a strongly-backed chance for the New Zealand Cup a couple of years ago, and was at one time the ruling favourite for the race. Several New Zealand-owned horses claim engagements at the Australian Jockey Clubs autumn meeting in the Champagne Stakes, St Leger and Sires' 1 reduce Stakes, for which forfeits fall duo on March 24. About twenty-five nominations were missed in connection with tho Forbury I durk'Trotting Club’s meeting. This is ; a source of annoyance to both the club .ind owners,, and those who are responsible, made the usual blunder of puttiuv oispatch of nominations off until a foolishly late hour. Others sent, them after the hour of closing. Such a state of affairs clearly suggests that some owners and trainers require a, lot of making up to attend to their own business. The Sydney auctioneer, M r H. ChLsholm, who has been spending holiday l n i? r 4-11, go since he arrived there tor the klderslie sale, wis a passenger s ‘“ Mer It i* reported that the ex-New Zealanders, Andrew and Lou Robertson, for several .years connected with the horses of Messrs A, and G, Tye, in Victoria, are going to England, with the intention of setting up as public trainers there. Tho autumn campaign in Australia will he launched - on Saturday, with the first day of the Victoria. Amateur Turf Club's meeting, which will I*, concluded on Tuesday, while, the Victoria Racing Club’s fixture will open on tho iug Saturday,

About 700 yenrlings trill go under the hammer at tho coming blood stock sale in Sydney. The total is about 100 more than last year’s figures. The 'West Australian Turf Club have a rule which makes it necessary for ai horse to ho in the, saddling paddock at •east one hour before starting in a. race. The object of the rule is u 0 doubt to bar the way to dope-charged horses. Tlte ex-Hastings joe,key, C. Hollo, was successful in two races at the Anzao meeting in Palestine in .December. Hollo piloted the winner. .Stonewall Jackson, of the Anzac Steeplechase. The distance of the trip was one mil© and a half, over six jumps, each 3ft 6in high, and all of the runners carried 12st. He also hail the seat on Sima in the Divisional Stakes, four furlongs, weight list, in which ho was just beaten for second money. Sinia is identical with Chamois (by Wonderland—Eland), who, during ,thc earlier portion of her career, was raced by her breeder, Mr G. Hunter, and who later on. under the cognomen of Gold Cup, was seen in action at Miramar, Wellington. Another New Zealand-bred equine seen out. at the meeting was Rising Sun (by Robin Adair—Rangiraoki), who was bred in the Wairoa district, and who as a five-year-old won several races in the Wairoa and Poverty Bay districts. When high prices such as now rule are paid for racers, says the Auckland writer, “ Phaeton,” my mind is fro qnently carried hack to the summer of 188(3, when Trenton was sold in Auckland for £2501 A horse of command in g physique, and with an un-' beaten certificate, the son of Musket was placed under offer to the late Mr G. G. Stead at the sum named, and, though there was a contingency that an additional £6OO was to he paid if the colt won either the New Zealand Cup or C.J.C. Derby, that was to proves of uo value to the breeders, Messrs T. and S. Morirn, for Trenton did not contest either of those races. Trenton won hack more than the sum expended in his purchase when he captured the O.J.C. Champagne Stakes, and then Mr Stead quitted him for oOOgus to Mr D. O’Brien. The latter sold Trenton jo Mr (now Sir) William Cooper for 2500 guineas, and at. the. close of his turf career Trenton was sold at a notion for 700 itcuinoa.s. Then at the sale, of the Marihyrnoug Stud t lO nil r 3' ■ 3Vilson bought him tor 3000 guineas, and when the dispersal of the St Albans Stud was decided upon > wn* won m the "art union ” by a Victorian, who subsequently sold him to Mr S. Wilson for 6000 guineas, and ho crossed the (icean to England, When we come to recognise that £SOOO was paid recently for Fmmark, one is left wondering what n, horse of the stamp of Trenton would command if he were in the market. Trenton, compared with Finmark, would he as a TViton among the minnows. A BREEDING PROBLEM. RACING MARES AT THE STUD. ,A n a H- article compiled by Mr A. J. Morton, of Sydney, on “ Racing Marcs as Breeders,” many striking illustrations were given that mares that ., n , evor been raced, or those only in a mud degree, had a long way the best of it as compared with illustrious performers under silk in the matter of high-class foals. Mr Morton’s article covered a fairly wide ground, but it excluded a reference to a matron that earned, a place with the brightest gemsj of tho Stud Book that never raced, writes ‘ Pluetou” in tho “Auckland Meekly News.” This is Frailty, tho bay daughter of Goldsbrough and Flora M’lvor, who brought great fame toi Wellington Park for quite a long stretch of years. Taken all round, and counting in. the success of her descend-'’' ants both rts racers and at the stud, Frailty’s record is undoubtedly entitled to rank high, and it might not he going too far to contend that it is No. 1 so far as New Zealand and Australia are concerned. Frailty was put to the stud at throe years old, and her initial contribution to tho Stud Book was Trenton, who won high-class weight for age honours, and whoso success as a sire was almost as marked as that of Ida illustrious parent, Musket. . In all, Frailty produced thirteen-foals, and, with the exception of Edith Curetoni and a colt by Musket that died young, tho others were all returned winners. Frailty, who was bought cheaply as a yearling for 95gs, proved a perfect gold mine, for those of her stock sold realised the following prices:— Gs. Trenton (by Musket) . 250 Niagara (by Anteros) . . . 1,000 Cuirassier (by Musket) .• . 1.000 Zalinski (by Nordonfeldt) . . 950 Mousquetaire (by Nordonfeldt) ■ 2,025 Havoc (by Nordenfeldt) . . 2,200 Astronomer (by Castor) . . 1.575 Lancaster (hr Hotchkiss) . . ] ,000 Siege Gun (by Hotchkiss) . . 5(30 Another Auckland-owned mare only lightly raced that proved a marked success as a matron was Ouida (b> v iattendon—Guluarc). If my memory serves me aright, Ouida only contested a couple of races, and the records show that, like Frailty, she was put to the stud at three years old. Ouida threw a. Cup winner straight away in tho shape of. Artillery, who beat .Nelson in thq Canterbury Cup of 1886. Her daughter, Hilda, won tho Hawke’s Bay Cup of 1890, and another daughter, Hazel, accounted for the opposition in tho Great Autumn Handicap of 1891; while her son, Strathmore, won the V.R.C. Derby and St Leger. A strenuous racing career did not apparently affect Hilda, for she produced a brace of Cup winners in Antares and Fulmen in successive years, and her last foal (the tenth she produced). Lady Lucy, placed the New Zealand Cup to her credit. Maude, who was out of Hilda, it is interesting to relate. • threw a, good one in Malmtonga, who won the Auckland Cun of 19 °4. Some of the scientists argue that there is no reason why a hardly-raced mare should not he a stud success, hut the long list of failures to ho found in their ranks is hard to explain away otherwise than that great exertions as a racer in some way leave the marc impaired. Tho history of the English turf furnishes many illustrations where the great racing mare has failed lamentably as a matron; and the case of Pretty Polly is one of comparatively recent date. Pretty Polly won prize-money to the extent, of £37.297. hut she never gave tho turf one docent performer. Among Australian-bred racing mares, Wakeful holds the leading place, and, though she has a Melbourne Chip ner to her credit in the shape of Night Watch, there is no great reason to go' into ecstasies over that, for as a four-year-old the horse in Question was awarded an impost 351b under weight for age. When Desert, Gold is relegated to the stud, it will ho highly interesting to rote her record, for, having been engaged in carrying silk from two to six years old, she comes within the category of mares that have hecn extensively raced.