RACING AND TROTTING.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19814, 4 December 1919, Page 2

RACING AND TROTTING.

(By “ ARGUS.*-) .

FIXTURES, fijecembsr 10, 11—Woodrille Jotkey Club. {December 11—B»y of Plenty Jockey Club, Dooamber 18, 16—New Brighton Trotting . Club. December 18—Teumatunui Racing Club. . Deoember 26—Kwkout* Racing Club. December 96—Porangibftu Rboing Club. December 26~Ashburton Trotting Club. Deoember 26—Crone Trotting Club. .December 26, 37—Westport Trotting Club. December 26, 27—Westland Racing Club. December 26, 27—Taranaki Jockey Club. December 26, 27—Dunedin Jockey Club. Deoember 26 39, January 1, 2—Auckland Racing Club. December 27, SO, 31—Auckland Trotting Chib. December 81, January 1, B—Greymouth Jockey Club, January I—“Wyndham Racing Club. January 1, 2—Canterbury Park Trotting Club. January 1, 9—Marten Jockey Club. January 1, 2—(Hawks'S Bay Jockey Club. January 1, 3—lVairarnpn. Racing Club. January J, 2—Stratford Racing Club. January 2, 3—Southland Racing Club. January 2 s—Greymouth Trotting Club. January 7, B—Recfton Jockey Club. January 7. B—Vincent Jockey Club, January 14—Rotorua Jockey Club. January 20, 22, 24—Wellington Racing Club. January 21—Wellington Trotting Club. NOMINATION'S. Deoember s—Ashburton Trotting Club. Deoember s—Gore Trotting Club. December s—Auckland Trotting Club. December 6—PorangAJiau Racing Club. December 3—Westland Racing Club. Deoember s—Dunedin Jockey Club. December S —Wairsrapo. .Racing Club. December s—Auckland Racing Club. .December s—Marion Jockey Club. December s—Hawke's Bay Jockey Club. December B—Southland Racing Club. December 9—Grtymouth Trotting Club. December 13—Greymouth Jockey Club. December 15—Reeffdh Jockey Club. December 18—Canterbury Park Trotting Club. Deoember 18—Wyndhifn Racing Club. December 19—Wellington Racing Club. December 19—Rotorua Jockey Club. December 99—Vincent. Jockey Club. January 2— Wellington Trotting Club. January 6—Wellington Racing Club. HANDICAPS. December 5-r-Taratinki Jockey Club. December o—Koikouro. Racing Club. December 10—Auckland Trotting Club. Deoember 10—Gore Trotting Club, December 10—Stratford Racing Club. December 10—Westland Racing Club. December 19—Dunedin Jockey Chib. Se comber 12—Por.ingahau Racing Club. Sgetober ]S—Waitarapa Racing Club. December 13—Hawke's Bay Jockey Club, December 13—Auckland Racing Club Deoember 15—Marten Jockey Club. December 17—Ashburton Trotting Club. Deoember 17—GJejr'mofitH' 'Trotting Club. December 19—Southland Racing Club, December 39—Canterbury Park Trotting Club. " ■ . December 27—Wyndham Racing Club. December 37—Grey mouth Jockey Club, December 27—Vincent Jockey Club, January 3—Hcefton Jockey Club. January S—Rotorua Jockev Club. January 6—Wellington Racing Club. January 9— Wellington Racing Club. January 9—Wellington Trotting Club. ACCEPTANCES. Secember-- s—Auckland Racing Club, ectmbor s—Bay .of Plenty Jockey Club December B—Taumarur.ui Racing Club. December 9—New Brighton Trotting Club December 9—Manawatu Racing Club, Decombef: 12—Taranaki Jockey Club. December 18—Kaikoura. Racing Club. December 13—Westport Trotting Club. December 17—Stratford Racing Cluo. December 19—Westland Racing Club. December 19—Dunodin Jockey Club. December 19—Marten Jock n y Club, December 19—Porangahau Placing Club. Deoember 19—Hawke's Bay Jockey Club. December 19—Auckland Racing Club Decmber’l9—Auckland Trotting Chib. December IS) —Ashburton Trotting Club. December 19—Gore Trotting Club. December 20 —Wairavapa Racing Club. December 23—Southland Racing Club. December 29—Wyndham Racing Club. December 39— Greymouth Jockey Uud. December 39 Canterbury Para Trotting Club. January. 3—Vincent Jockey Club, January s—Keeftou Jockoy Club. January 9—Rotorua Jockey Club. January 14—Wellington Racing Club. January 16—Wellington Trotting Club. The Dunedin trainod purer Cello Sydney Wilkes has won £1855 and has been first on fire occasions and twice third, all his money having been earned on the Addington track. The Oamarn trained pacer Legacy looks up to the present as though lie would establish a. record ior placed performances without registering a win. Since the opening of the season at Addington Legacy has finished third on five occasions and has been once second, his winnings amounting to £l7O, The pacer Moneymaker, who won the Forbury Park Cup last week, has earned £llOO in stakes this season. Tne pacer Vice-Admiral commenced last reason with a long series of platings without winning, and looks ' like being in the same position this season, AS already ho has been three times third once second. Ho has won £295. The Taranaki owned trotter Whist, who is trained here by .1. liryco, is themost'successful performer in the trotting division to date, having won £725. Harold Dillon easily headed the list last season us the most successful stallion of the year, and indications already point to him occupying a similar position at the' end of this season. His stock has won £5170 to date, and huro been forty-five times in the money, scoring sisteen firsts, fourteen seconds nnd hftetn thirds. There will he a lot of interest in the Great Northern Derby, which is to he run at the summer meeting of the Auckland Trotting Club. 1 understand that a. number of three-year-olds will ho taken north to contest tho race, several of whom, it is reported, have trained most satisfactorily. A payment is due.for the race to-morrow at 5 p m. The Aka.roa County Racing Club will distribute £IOOO in stakes at its meeting this season, an increase ot £3OO over lost year's figures. It is probable that there will be no stake in the programme below £IOO. Some of the West Coast clubs have included hurdle races on their programmes for the approaching holiday fixtures. There was a, suggestion at one time that the experiment was a had one for tho clubs concerned, a.s there were not many likely jumpers in sight. A few novices are in training at Riccarton, however, and tho jumping events may prove a pleasant feature of tho West Coast campaign. The Wanganui District Committee, At a. recent meeting, acting on the suggestion of tho Manawatu Racing Club, remitted tho balance of tho disqualification imposed on W. Young. loiter it was found that this was a matter that rested with the Racing Conference, so that for the present the disqualification will have to stand. The Hawke’s Bay sportsman. Mr F. Armstrong, will leave in February on a trip to England. He will keep a few horses in trainine, in R. Gooseman’s stable, to bo raced during his absence. Backers appear to hare been Unwise in some of their early selections for the Auckland Racing Club’s Railway Handicap. The popular fancies in doubles included Surveyor, who has beeh scratched, and Onslaught, who is certain to be plisaiag from the list of acceptors this week. The two-year-old Weary Willie, by Etonian—Satisfaixe, was under offer to an Auckland sportsman prior to winning the Welcome Stakes at Ellerslie last month. The figure quoted is stated to have been in the neighbourhood of ISOOgs.

It is probable that the Great Northern Foal Stakes, to bo decided at the Auckland Racing Club’s summer meeting on Boxing Day, will 7 excite more than usual interest. North Island sportsmen are very sirring in the view that Humbug will win, while southerners are very confident that Moor fowl will repeat her Trentham and Ricoar* ton successes. TVloorfowl is going on wel]'in W preparation, and she should be an evert better filly at ISllerslio than when last she raced. Apart from the pair named, there is the Australianbred colt, Dunedin, who showed smart form when he ran second to Cool Light in the Gimcrack Stakes at Ranclwick. Biplane's brother. Air King, has been a great disappointment as a racehorse. He won a race in Victoria recently, but there was not much merit about it, as ho carried a light weight, in very moderate company. At the close of the first quarter et the present racing season, on October 31. Tlie Welkin was at the bead of the sires’ list, hut Comedy King is now well in front, thanks to the' efforts' of Artilleryman at the Victoria Racing Club’s meeting. The Australian Jockey Club’s rule bearing on the raising of the highest handicap weight to fist if the highest acceptor for a race or division is weighted below that, .has been operative in the Sydney metropolitan area for some time, hut commencing this month it is now in force at meetings in other parts of New South Wales. There is now a fixed day of acceptance for all registered meetings in the metropolitan area, so that with them there is no confusion associated with the increase of weight, but exactly how the new rule is to he .iimlied at meetings outside the forty miles radius is, from the hare reading, left somewhat in doubtFor instance, at the provincial meetings there is no day of acceptance, horses left in within half an bony off the time set down for the, running of any race being deemed acceptors. It is the same at most country meetings, and the question naturally arises whether the rule as to increase of weight will apply in such cases. If so, it will give uo end of trouble. The Totrarch is gradually working his ws}v to the top of the winning- sires’ list in England, which is somewhat remarkable for a stallion whose progeny have only been racing two seasons. By latest files he was credited with 13 winners of 23 races worth £18.927 10s, and was third ort the list to Orhy (Ifi, 37,i £21,10,3 10s) and Polymelus (20. 42. £1fi,234). Sunstar was a good fourth with 23. 30, £18,452, and then there w;is a. drop of nearly £OOOO to iSwynford, whose stock realised such exceptional prices at tho recent Doncaster sales. Many people hold the- opinion that the feet of young horses require no attention until they are. shod, hut the} “Agricultural Gazette ” (England) points out that this is a mistake. It is true that with unlimited range growth and wear arc proportionate, so that normal shapes and angles arc preserved ; but on ordinary, soft fields the feet do not usually encounter enough friction, and so become longer than they should be. Unless something absolutely sensational should tako place during the remainder of the flat-racing season, it is perfectly certain that the cost of the King’s racing stud at Egorton House, Newmarket, will show a very heavy deficit again this year (says a, contributor to the London “Evening Nows" of August 28). The King, I have authority to state, has not the slightest intention of giving up his stud, but naturally he desires to see it placed upon a much more businesslike basis, so that there will be n very general weeding out process, and SO mo of the horses now carrying the Royal colours will hp disposed of. To replace, those, several purchased on ,Lw IPst;r s behalf, but what is really needed is another dam for the Sandrimdiam stud 0 f the calibre, of Pordita, -* -*• *