RACING AND TROTTING.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16434, 24 May 1921, Page 3

RACING AND TROTTING.

(By “ARGUS”) rrxTUTtEs. May 2.V—Egmorf W* njanui Hunt Jus* 1,3, 4-—Dunedin JocVev Club. June 3—South Wairarapa Trotting: Club. June 3, 4—Canterbury Park Trotting C/lat>. June 3. 4 —Otaki Maori Racing Club ■Tune 3, 4. S— Auckland Racing ClubJune 29—Dannevirke Hunt. NOMINATIONS. June 10—Dannevirke Hunt. June 10—larauaki Stake*. 1922 HANDICAPS. Wav 24—Otaki Maori Racing Club. June 17—Dannevirke Hunt. acceptances. May 23 South Wairarap*. Trotting Ciub. Man 25—Dunedin Jockey Club. May '26-—Otaci Maori Racing Club. May 97 Auckland Racing Club. Way 30—Canterbury Park Trotting Club. June 21—Dannevirke Hunt. APPRENTICES. With a scarcity of Itish-class horsemen, those interested in the -welfare of racing; have devoted considerable attention to various proposals for improving the general standard. In most countries where the subject lias been tackled it lias been realised that the l-est method is by starting with the apprentices, the beginners at the riding business. In New South Wales the allowance granted to apprentices is not available in two-year-old handicaps. The members of the New South Wales .Breeders, Owners and Trainers’ Association are of opinion that nothing is gained by this regulation and they are asking the Australian Jockey Club to rescind it. It m pointed out that the licensed jockeys in the Sydney metropolitan area include' few that can rid© at loss than 7st (Mb, and therefore it is unavoidable that ;i large proportion of runners in two-y ear-old handicaps should bo ridden by apprentices. Therefore, as owners must employ these, lads, it is only fair that they jhoulrl benefit by any allowance to which they arc ctifitlcd in other races. Another matter in which the association is moving

i* the greater provision of races rr. stricted to apprentices. Some trainers

have quite a number of apprentices, but they cannot prevail upon I heir

patrons to give them mounts. As a j result, many promising lad<- have drop- ■ tied out of the game through lack of j opportunity. On. the other hand, a ! lucky win or two has brought an inferior rider in the same stable into notice, and for a time, at any rate, 1 o will get plenty riding, as owners are usually anxious to secure the lad who is most in the. limelight. Tf, is discouraging to a lad, too. after riding work week after week, to he only given an occasional mount on a hor.se supposed to have Tittle chance of winning, arid this is one reason why many apprentices in New South Wales have broken away and gone over to the. unregistered ranks, which provide such a big outlet for youngsters who arc dissatisfied with ih© conditions and the op- ! portunities offered to them under the ! Australian -Jockey Club rules. Owners cannot bo expected,,to be as well ac- j quainted as trainers with the merits of apprentices, and while a trainer may j be quite satisfied in his own mind that j one of his apprentices entitled to a 71b or 51b allowance would be prefer- ■ able to the rider chosen by the owner ! for whom he trains, ho is naturally j diffident about stressing that point. j The Ashburton Trotting Club will | give. £2325 in stakes at the winter meeting next month. The principal ! event, the New Zealand Sapling Stakes, is likely to provide a great, contest among the two-year-olds, several of whom have already shown smart form. The balance of the programme is made up of seven handicaps, for which nominations will close at five o’.clocii to-morrow evening. The club caters liberally for horses of all classes, the smallest stake being £2OO. and the meeting is certain to attract big fields. Acceptances for the first- day of the Duuediu Jockey (dub’s winter meeting are due at five o’clock to-morrow evening. The weather was mild for training operations at Ricearton this morning. Tiic inside of the trial grass was open | for fast work, and it was patronised j by -i few of the trainers, chiefly for | hordes with engagements at the Dun- ! edin Jockev Club’s meeting, blit the < proceedings were not very interesting. <. Trilford will take five horses to V ingatui for next week’s meeting. Thus© under orders are Macduff, and tlie lumpers Golden Prince, Gamecock, i I bins and Vice-Regal- They w ere given useful tusks litis morning: All of them look well, but Hylans makes a noise and his prospects ui earning dis r :action Ti important hurdle races do not seem bright. T. H Gillett has Manawapango in good fettle lor cro's-country engagemi nts. Will Prosper will accompany him on the south trip next week. (•lean Sweep moved freely in a spin over six furlongs this morning. He will lx* the onl\ representative of -J. B Pearson's stable racing at AVingatui next week. • I M'Combo is keeping Pyjama busy in ' ipw of engagements at ingatui. .The Martian gelding is very well. W M’Donald will take Bonny Mac south for th© Dunedin meeting next wick. This consistent gelding has done well ou a lot of racing, and lie may pay his way on the trip. Link Up appears to he none the wors* for her two hard races at Oamnru. and she should race prominently in die sprint events at Wingatui next R. \V. King has Demonstrate- and Lord Asblca engaged at the Dunedin Jockey Club’s meeting, but it has not yet been decided that they will make the trip south. Comment was lam© after working on Saturday, and she has been thrown out of commission. The trouble is in a. tendon ft was had luck for her connect ion a to have her go wrong, as -T. B Pearson had her in tine fettle and she looked like winning some more money among th© hurdlers at the winter meetings. The R-iccarton . trainer, F. Christmas, is laid aside just now with an attack of influenza His horses are having an easy time-

R. J. Mason has taken Gloaming in hand again. Air Greenwood’s champion, who is very much in the rough after his spell, has not done any work on ihe tracks, but he is being given Foni© light exercise, leaving the more serious part of his preparation to be gone on with when he arrives in Sydney. 'Hie veteran trainer, R. Emerson, has made his reappearance at the K.iccaiton tracks, after being off the scene for a few weeks, as the result of a tail. tie was severely shaken by lus aecidonf and sustained some other injuries, from which he is making a. good recovery. F. D. Jones, whose trip to the North Island bus turned out very successfully no far, lias decided to go on to Auckland with Mustard l’ot, who may get some more money at the winter meeting at Fllerslie. Malaga and Gang Awa' may return home this week. Special horse and passenger trains will be provided by tbo Railway Department for the Bracken fie id Hunt meeting and the Christchurch Hunt meeting, both of which will be held at ltaugiora next month. Agathos and Frank Tracy arc both looking very well and they arc bciug given plenty of solid work at Addington. Reports from Invercargill state that Marc Anthony is suffering from a slight told. A much more serious trouble is that the old Varen gelding has de- j vclopcd a habit, of bleeding alter he works. | There were several promising jumpers j included in the hunter class competing at the Pakuranga Hunt Club’s meeting, bold at Kllerslie this month, says an | Auckland writer. Thigantbn. who led the field home in the Maiden Hunters’ j Steeplechase, is a solid looking chestnut, by Spalpeen, that looks like seeing a better day ; and the same remark may be applied to Garvagb. a lengthy son of the defunct Salvadan. As winner oi the Hunt Cup. Hokomii (by Waiknranga) is entitled to first honours amongst the. cross-country division, and lie should he aide. t.o win in open company ere he is much older. Peer Rosa (by Carl Rosa) al-o fills the eve as a promising sort. Among the. hurdlers Silverton (hv Sylvite), Ah Fu (by Patroniisk and Space (by Gravitation) may prove the imost noteworthy as time roily No further effort will, it is stated, b© made to train Surveyor, and the goodlooking !?on of Nassau and Pedometer is booked for the list of sires during f he coming season. It is a great pity that Surveyor failed to tram on properly, j for he was high-class at least up to a j mile and a quarter. The son of Nassau ! certainly demonstrated that he was i great over ;• mil© course in Australia, i when he ran Cetigne tiu a head in the weight-for-nge Linlithgow Stakes, and in which the mile record was cut to linin 37sec. Tli*s action of the. Canterbury Jockey Club in raising the stake, for the New Zealand Grand National Steeplechase to 122100 is interpreted in some quarters to a de=iiv on the part of the southern body to outstrip Auckland, writes Pliieton.” Well, C'£sti though ibere may he something uinter that heading actuating the Canterbury Jockey Club, in giving greater stake money, such will, l am sure, he received by the Auckland Racing Club rather with a smile, than a frown. There is plenty of room for friendly rivalry, and Auckland need have no fear of being beaten by Canterbury i The imported horse- Catmint, who | was landed in Auckland last week. G I one of the finest types of horse ever j brought to the Dominion. writes “ Whalebone,” and shows most pro- | nouncedlv most of the characteristics lof the celebrated Musket family. A ■ ma-sive horse, he stands close on seven- | teen hands, on a perfect set of legs. | and he should do much to- improve tho I thoroughbred, stock of che Dominion. lie stood the long sea trip remarkably j well, and should bo well acclimatised before the season commences. The son of Spearmint is at present located at | the. stables of E. J. Rae. Green Lane. I unci lovers of the thoroughbred would I be 'yell repaid by a visit of inspection, : (° r ’t 15 rarely a horse of his type lias been seen in this country. On the opening day of the South Australian Jockey Club’s meeting a verv peculiar mistake was made “ in the totalizator in connection with the South Australian Stakes, in which AJoeosia and Lady X.illen ran a dead heat. After Ihe totalizator money had been paid out it was discovered that, hv some i xt raordinari oversight, the 75 per cent set aside for first horse and 25 per cent placed to the credit of tho second lrorse had not been added together and that the dividends had been declared and paid only on the amount available for the I first horse The sum overlooked was if.; 1.3. This meant a substantial increase in the prices returned bv both horses. Ihe matter was considered b\ i tne committee at night, and it was dcj "bled to nay the full dividend on the I following Monday. A number of people did not cash their tickets on the dav o' the occurrence and they would be all right, hyt it can be imagined what would happen in regard to those inVfstors who look the. prices offerer! tncin on the day of the. .contest. ft is safe to say that the- club would lose a.

very large amount of money when it came to paying out the full dividend on the (.are word of applicants who claimed to have been paid short. In a reference to the horses in training in England this season' Ropier recently wrote, as follows in the £ ‘ Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic Noiv> ’’ : •• Mr George Lambton b.ps the list «.vitli just six tv in | 3 i s stable, tlurly-five of Lord Derbv’s, including fourteen two-year-olds, ‘chiefly by Swyriford and Chaucer, as might | have been expected. Lord Stanley has n twoyeai-old Chaucer filly. the Hue Deeazc-s, a three-year-old Rabelais Lord Durham three. Lords d’Abernon* Wolrerlon and Mrs Arthur James making ”P the rest. Captain Renwick ties with Mr Lambton. also having | sixty, flu- property of eighteen owners* j but in the matter of variety of owners jMr Peacock comes first, for in bis stable are no fewer than twenty-one, which must 'involve an alarming amount of book-keeping. Mr Pcrsse has fifty-eight horses to look after, the peculiar thing about them being that there is not a single two-year-old Tetrareh where one would have expected several. Mr Day has fifty-six. Frank llartigan fifty-four, Mr Cottrill tiftv-two, while P. F. Hartigan had fifty-one at the time of his death. Several others come near to the half hundred : Lines has fort>-seven, mostly belonging to Mr W. H. Dixon ; Hogg has forty-five and Alec Taylor one fewer. There are seventeen two-year-olds at Mnnton.” RACING COMMISSION, [Per Press Association.] WELLINGTON May 23. It. is not expected that the report of the Gaming Commission will be available for about a month, as the time originally fixed has not proved sufficient for all the inquiries and consideration which the Commission found necessary to give the subject.

COMPARISON OF TIME. ER RON ECUS IMPRESS 1 ONS. In comparing cracks of the past with those of the present, there is really little more than time to go upon, but riding tactics in middle and long distance races are so different now from those of between thirty and forty years ago, that it is naturally difficult to arrive, at a correct solution of the * improvement made by our horses. Some 1 admirers of old-time champions really thiuk we have not. advanced, says the ‘ Sydney writer, “ Pilot,” but one cannot well hold with them. Courses have improved, but not to the extent 1 many people believe* Rand wick has J not changed greatly since, say, 1905, and mile and a half and two mile handicaps of importance. were run * solidly throughout then, just as they ‘ are now, b it the horses did not put up the same time. (hie exception was Maniapoto, who won the 1905 Metropolitan in 2niin 32isee, the best for the race prior to then being Alias’ 2in in 34$ see. Prior to 190-5 the best for the Sydney Cup was "Wakeful's 3iniu 28sec. With horses doing faster times at all the distances it seems to me that the presentday best must be superior to the giants of the past. To what end is all the trouble now taken iu specially select- ' ing breeding strains suitable to each other if this is not the case. Perhaps [ the difference in time sways some of us a little too much when we indulge in comparison, and a correspondent, who writes most interestingly. gives figures to show the error of attaching too much importance to that side oi the question. Ho says: “In comparing the. horses running at present w ith Carbine, Wakeful and Co., too much attention is paid to the times they did then and now. ” in Carbine’s time and before him. practically every horse out to win waited upon tho leaders for a brush home, or was ridden a waiting race, either in front or behind. It did not matter whether they had 7st or lOst. Of course the short stirrups and Tod ■Sloan method of going from start to stop was not known; but. if the latter methods had been employed in Carbine’s day. he would have made just as fast time. A horse has no more logs now than then, his stamina is not greater ; in fact they are more delicate i nowadays, and Eurythmic. great horse j that he is, was not allowed to start in both the Craven Plate and-Cumberland Stakes in one day, as Carbine did (a feat Eurythmic could easily. 1 think, have accomplished successfully) for fear, I presume, of knocking him about. “Taking past and present times of the Sydney Cup, picking out some good horses that won on fine days, or when the track was in good order, allowing that the horse* could ho resurrected. I make up the following- field to meet to-day with the same weights and th© times they did when they won

“ This is a pretty warm crowd, with the exception of Prince Bardolpli, but 1 must’ leave him in the field, as on the tinny test lie is going to run well. Tliis is how it pans out. on Keuriaqiihair’s time being the standard : Distance bhd. Kennaquha ir. J Tvennaquhan 2 Eurythmic and Prince .Bardolpli, dead-heat . 34.-iyds, 3 Rebus . . • . 64-2yds. 5 Wakeful . . . 90|yds. <j Wallace and Carbine, dead-beat for last . 1122yds. (over half a furlong) “Is there anyone who knows the above horses who would place them in the positions the time test places them, if they met as above in the Sydney Cup to-day? The cracks to-day are struggling to catch up to the amount of money Carbine won, and although, stakes have been trebled to help them, Eurythmic is the only one likely to beat it. But what of Carbine's record— forty-three starts and only once out of a place? They can’t beat that. “ 1 read that J. .Holt said Eurythmic was a freak. Yes. ho is ; but that only means ho has the knack of galloping. New ha ven was another : his full broth©;, Fronde, was racing in the galloways at Canterbury and could not get past five furlongs- Biplane and Poseidon were others. L admire Poitrel. Eurythmic. Gloaming, Cetigne, Greenstone, Wclaroi and others so much-that I would go miles to see them walking, let alone racing, but none of them are Carbines.” HANDICAPS. OTAKI MAORI RACING CLUB. FLYING HACK HANDICAP, of 100 sow, six furlong's—Bestir 3«<t 61b, Strategy 9st (lb, [ Velociform Bst 131 b, Tigrrinia Gst illß. Petunia Bst lelb, Martian Miss Sst 91b. Lord Aftolat Sst 51b. Lord Usk Sst 31b. Chant Royal Sst 21b, Top Dog- Sst ‘2lb, Doric Sst lib, Gallia Sst lib. Super Six Ist 12lb. Hallowroz 7st T2U>. Melting Moments 7st 10lb. Connemara 7sfc 81b, Jackaroo 7st Tib. Lady Kotiropo 7st -11»>. Vi tell a 7st 3lb, Fortune Teller 7-t. 2ib. Sunbath 7st 21 b. Wat- Gourd 7st 21b, Bonnibrook 7st. Whiriv.-kata, 7st. Stream of Hold 7M. Brown Study 7st. IVaimahoe 7st, Clem Tat, Western Boom 7sE TAIHOA STEEPLECHASE, of 300 sova; two miles and a quarter—Mattock 12st slb, Ngakanui list fllb. Old Gold list Bio. Powder King list Sib, Seadowu list 7\b. Okane list, Otauru Kid lOst 13lb. Pawerewere lOst. Blb, Tigilo lOst 611>. Sartoline lOst lib. Transmission l(h,t lib. Juan 10'st lib. Sail Home 9st 121 b, 'VY’bi/.v: Bang Ost 101 b, Whetoke 9st 91b, Gay Boy 9st 9lb. Toddy 9.at 7lb, Conquest 9at Vlb. Chummy 9st 71b. Meliucourt 7lh. .Bokanekanc 9st 71b. Silent Dick Sst 71b, Trucker 9st 7lb. Tarquin 9st 71b. R AUK AW A CUP, of 850 sova; one mile and a ouarter—Volo Sst 21b. Malaga Sst 81b, Red Ribbon Sst nib, Matat.ua Bst Jib. Rose Wreath Bst. Crueelfc Set. Bonnetter 7st 13lb, Tame Fox 7st 13lb, Simonides 7st 13lb. Teka 7st 12lb. Verbosity 7st 9lb. Johnny Walker 7st 9lb, Simon 7st 9lb, F.sperance 81 b. Molyneaux 7st 71b. Kilsrour 7st 71b, Sycorax 7st Tib. Income Tst 51b, Halifax 7st Rib. Auckland 7st 21b, Pacific Slope 7st, Arrowfield 91b, Detroit Gst 7lb, Haversack 6st 71b. Kildee Cat. Tib, American Beauty Gst 7lb, Halcvon Cel 71b. OTAKI HACK HANDICAP, of 190 so-«; one mile—Spook 9st -tlb. Auckland 9st 2lb, Amberino Bst 71b. Earthshittr Sst slb, Halcyon Sat 21b. Doric Sst lib, Kildee 7st. 131 b, Beloved 7st 121 b, Hautawa 7st 7lb. Ifallowvonia 7st Tib. Moments 7st 61b. Transmission Tst 3lb, The Baronet. Tst. 31b. Red Bob 7«t. ?lb, Managawsi 7at, Californian 7st, Whizz Bang Tat, Sling Camp 7st, Lord Desmond 7 fit. TAIPUA HANDICAP, of 380 sova: eix furlongs— Simonide* 9pt. Mustard Pot Sst 91b. Rwatara Sst Blb, Callaean Bat 71b. Crucelle Spt 41b, Waimatoa Bst 3lb-, Astijiome Sat 21b. K'nsem 7st 13lb. Bir*kie Tat lllb. Sycorax ?st lllb. Income 7st fllb. Lingerie 7st 9lb, Canyon 7«t 91K Aplcari 7st "lb. Barleycorn "fit 51b,' Sweet Memory 7st, 31b, Bonny Briar 7at lib. American Bes.ntrv’ Gst 101 b. Hymarty Gst 101 b, Weldone Gst Tib. Probata Get 71b. 6st 71b, H-aatio Gst Tib. Mistian fist 71b, Connemara Gst Tib. BIRTHDAY WELTER HANDICAP, of. 190 sova: seven furlongs—Spook lost 9lb, Velociform 10at Gib, Admiration 9st 13lb, Convention 9at 81b. Pobuff 9st 61b. Yankee Dan 9et 6lb. TTtuwai 9st 21b. Paa6enger 9»t lib. Macliree. Sst 13lb. Milita-ire Bst 13]b. Mort Avis Sst 131 b. Silk Rein Bst, 121 b. Courtfield Bst lllb. Lady Kotiropo Gst lOlb. Transmission Gst 91b, Sunbath Sst 91b. Royal Sst 71b. Goolwa. Sst Tib. Not-a-Wede Sst Tib. Baki Sst 71b. Crystal Palace Sot 71b. Will vs Knight Sat 7lb. Ignition Set- Tib, Clem. Bst Tib, Western Boom Bst 71b.

the Cup : WeightTime. Tvermaq it hair . H.O 3.222 Prince Bardolph . ■ 7.3 3.24 £ Eu rythmic . n.s 3.24 : T?obns 7.1 2 :*.m Wakeful . P.7 3-28 Carbine . &.!) 3.31 Wallace - 8.1*2 3.31