RACING AND TROTTING.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16452, 14 June 1921, Page 3

RACING AND TROTTING.

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FIXTTTBES. •Inna IT, i£—Napier Park Racing CTnl», Juri® 18-—Brackenfield Hunt.. Juno 22, 23, 25 Hawke's Bay Jocfcoy Club and. Ha.’v&e’p Bay Hunt. Juno 25—Christchurch Hunt. Juno 25, 23—Auckland Trotting Club. June 29—Dannevirke Hunt. NOMINATIONS. Jane 14—Rangitikei Hunt. July 6—Bangitikei Hunt. HANDICAPS. June 17—Dannairirke Hunt. Juno 29—Christchurch Hunt. June 20—Hawke’* Bav Jockey Crab and Hunt. June 24—Bangitikei Hunt.

ACCEPTANCES. June 14—Br&ckenffeld Hunt. June 14—Nepier Park Racing Club. Juno 3 7—Auckland Trotting Club. June 20 — Hawke’s Bay Jo eke 7 Club and Hunt. 3une 22—Christchurch Hunt. June 24—Darraevirke Hunt. June 28—Rangitikei Hunt. — BREAKING. Rut/e 293 of the Rules of Trotting ! reads:—“ When any horse breaks from ! his gait the rider or driver shrill immediately pul] him to the "ait at -which f*e was to go the race, and if any rider : pr driver shall fail to comply with tho i “requirement the horse he is riding or driving shall he disqualified for the ; race, and the rider or driver may be j fined any sum not exceeding £2O. >r ; he suspended or disqualified for a J term” Rule 29-5 reads:—“A horse breaking at or near the winning post j shall he subject to no greater penalty i than if he broke on any other part of j the track, provided the stewards did ! not consider it a wilful break.” From j these two rules it is quite clear that ; the object of racing is that horses j should go throughout a contest at the j gait of the race and if they break and : are not immediately checked they shall j not he entitled to any stake. During i tiie present seasou, now drawing to a ' dose, a very liberal application has, in j many cases, been made of the rule and j the word immediately ” has not j been interpreted strictly. Facing I horses, when they go to a break, ex- ! oept when raced without hopples, can- j not go as fast as if they remained pacing and therefore when pacers leave j their feet they are quickly brought j back again by their riders and drivers j to their gait. But with the trotter it is quite different. Horses going at that gait cannot go as fast as if they galloped and this fact lias been the means of a good deal of trickery especially in saddle races. Tri more than one close finish in trotting races riders or drivers have urged their horses to go faster than their limit at trotting and a break naturally follows, which more than once has enabled the breaker to beat an opponent, who has kept to his gait throughout the struggle. Had j this practice been dealt with at once j il would soon have been discontinued ] but il has been allowed to go by. Now j h has become common and no notice is : token of the happening. It will, bo in- j foresting to see how far a trotter wi ; l j he allowed to gallop, especially at the j end of a race, before definite action is j taken under Buies 298 and 290. .Verne pt arnvß for the Bracken field J Hunt. Club’s meeting will < !ose at the ; Canterbury Jockey Club’s office at j eight o’clock to-night. The Biceurtnn tracks aV» very soU ! just now, as a result of the rrin wh h i fell on Monday. The number grass was open this morning, for fr.-t work, for horses engaged at the Bracken field and Christ church Hunt rae.itbigs. Some useful work was got, through, but there was nothing oi par- . Jiieular me nit- in t life jperformam e-. Horses with no immediate engagements were restricted to the sand track, and some of the trainers were content to exercise their charges on the roads. Orang Pip and Mazama wore sent out for a school over a couple of hurdles this mornipg. Mazama. blundered at the first obstacle, dropping his rider. On being caught the pair were turned juto the jumping ring. where the Southland owned horse shaped modernely. They were then tried again over r> hurdle. The first time Mazama blundered through it. hut, on a second trial got over a little, better. Altogether, it was not a pleasing dispin v. the performance of Mazama being all the more surprising! in view of his attractive illuming at the end of last -n eck. There is. however, plenty of time for him, and with education he promises to make a good hurdler - Endure and Hytem were schooled in company this mornivign. They started off verv badly at the double, where Hytem lost his rider. On being remounted tlicv set out again, when Hytem ran off at the second of the double but on being taken hack he cleared it. all rigid The. pair then vie a red the sod wall safelv, finishing the. two hurdles down the straight. The hurdler Hylans. who met with pome injuries a. few weeks ago, is making a good recovery, but S. Trilford has decided that he will bo benefited tv a spell and he is to he sent home this week. Headlong has cot over the lameness that was troubling him a few weeks ago. and he is again moving along freely in his work. F. D. Jones, who returned from Auckland at the end of last week, left again >on Monday nijrjht with Gang Awa. who is to compete in steeplechases at Napier Park this week and at Hastings next. week. He is in fine fettle f and should pay his way on the trip. A. AVorinald came home after riding nt, the Auckland Racing Club’s meeting, w here he piloted Coalition to victory m the Great Northern Steeplechase. He will ‘go north again to-night for the Napier and Hastings meetings, at which ho will do the riding on H. Hickey's jumpers. Going Up, by Absurd—Marsala, has been sent to the North Island, and she will in future be trained by J. Sullivan at AVoodville. A suggestion has been made that the Canterbury Jockey Club should only take the nominations for the New Zealand Cup about three weeks before the day of the race. This would solve the penalty 7 buestiou.

A. Pringle is now out of business, and after he hat. settled his affairs in irvirediß he intends residing at New Brighton for the remainder oi the winter. He lias a few' young horses, which he will educate and train on the- New Brighton Trotting Club’s training track. Reports from the south state that the Gleuculloeh gelding Jock has changed owners, and he rnoy be tried over hurdles. A report conics from Southland that the pacing stallion Sungod, by Harold Dillon—My Mistake (dam of Grace Darling, Star Queen. Drift mine and Coil), bus been acquired bv Mr G. Hunter, of Wyndham. for the coming stud season. Suugod was a good racehorse and has some fast times against his name—oue mile. 2m’n 12sec. and pne mile and a quarter. 2min 50 l-ssec. Ho has also raced successful!v over one mile and a half and two miles. It is understood that John Barleycorn has run bis last race, and tluit Mr W. Gardiner, jun.. ha.* given him away to a friend, who will" use him as a hack. The Southland sportsman. Mr O’. Hazlett. whose colours have not been seen in' trotting or galloping events for some time past, contemplates reentering the ranks of owners in the near future. He bus had a beautiful private residence erected in the vicinity of Wingatui, with an extensive range of stabling alongside. The accommodation provided for racing stock is stated to take rank with the igery best of its kind in New Zealand. Coalition. Levanter. Dummy, The Guard. Hayden, Bercola. Woimai and Loch-el la have won both the Grand National and Great Northern Steeplechases. Totara Jack was offered at auction in Auckland last week, but at 130 guineas was passed in. This was fortunate for Mr J. Beil, as the big son of Spalpeen won the Tamaki Steeplechase on the concluding dav of the Auckland Racing Club’s meeting. Hallowvonia, who finished second in a race at the Otagi meeting, is expected to do a lot better very soon. The New- Zealand rule bearing on the minimum weigh!} in jumping races differentiates as between hurdle races and steeplechases. 9st being fixed for the first-named and 9st 71b for the latter. The committee of the Auckland Racing Club has given notice of motion to come before the approaching conference whereby the minimum weight shall lie 9st for both hurdle and. steeplechase. Another alteration to lie proposed by the Auckland Racing Club is that the period of apprenticeship shall be left to he fixed by the persons immediate! v concerned. The present rule fixes the term at not less than three years and not more than lour years. *- *• Demos is about the unluckiest horse racing at the present time. Me ran second in the Connolly Handicap at Wanganui, and second in the Cornwall and Members’ Handicaps at Ellerslio. in the York Welter Handicap, on the third day of the Auckland meeting, he had TOst 21b. being placed within Gib of Khublai Khan, who conceded the Demosthenes gelding Sib and a heating in the. Cornwall Handicap. JCliublai Khan won :i L 1 COO stake and went up a stone, and Demos went up 101 b for getting beaten. Waiinai was. the veteran performer of the field which contested the Groat Northern Steeplechase this mouth, as he win; making his fifth appearance in the Filers lie cross-country race. On the first occasion that he took part in the race lie ran second to El Gallo in 193 0, after winning the Maiden .Steeplechase no. the previous day of the meeting. ! ho following season AVaimai was again among the runners, when Gluepot won. Maimai I**ll, hut was remounted and complete*l the course. A year later he won from Coalition and uiuepot. On his fourth appearance he ran second to Master Lupin. Waimai was not among the runners twelve months ago, being detained at Riecarton. owing to the strike, after competing at the Royal Early last month the grandstand officials at Epsom. .England, were worrying about the difficulty of coping with the attendance on Derby Day . and it . was said the oni\ solution was to take : in a 20ft strip of the running track. ; The police wore instructed to debar pedestrians from using the race track ; on their way to the stands- A deal of • are has been bestowed on the track. ; and the management naturally wish to ; keep it in good order throughout the

HAWKE’S BAY NOTES, (Special to* the f ‘ Star.’) NAPIER, .June 13. Acacia, a sister to Desert Gold, had to he destroyed at Okawa a few days ago. ft will he remembered that Acacia fell when practising at the barrier ar Hastings m the spring of 1919 and fractured one of her thigh hones. An effort was made to save her for breeding purposes, but as. she lias been more or less a cripple since the accident it was deemed best to destroy her. !• . Davis has taken in hand a. quartette of coming two-year-old colts. Three of them are by Finland, from Aurarius, d'Oro and AYar Scare respectively, while the fourth is by K.Uhroih'y from the imported marc Symbolism. Aurarius. of course, is darn of Desert Gold, while d’Oro is a sister to that celebrity. The Mar Scare youngster is a brother to Bjorneborg, list lon d and Finm a r k. Gisborne will be represented by a big contingent at the coming meetings of the Nnpicr Park Racing Club and the Hn vices* Bay Jockey Chib. The following horses- arrived at Napier on Thursday:—Dribble, Prince AYillonyx, Queens Up, Reparoa, Sign, Actifid, Cleft. Crosswords, Multifual. Orawai, Pavilion. Steep-holm and White Hope. Strategy, who has just won £I4OO at Auckland, appears in t-ljje Settlers’ Hack Handicap at the Napier Park meeting, and as he was nominated for the latter before he won at Auckland he is eligible to compete, but he will have to race in open company in future. Hyttus is showing much better form in his recent schooling essays at Hastings and /'w ith Jus pace lie should be handy in some of the hurdle races shortly. . Pente is in work again, looking very Kahumangu, Honey Bee and Strange ways have had to he thrown out of work again for the time being, owing to soreness. Tairawhiti and Mokattam are enjoying a spell at present and will not race again until the spring. K.ohu continues to jump big fences well but he has not built up as he should have done and it will take time for him to be ready for steeplecbasing in earnest. , _ T. F. Quiulivan, who is quartered at Hastings again, is handling a big gelding by Kilbroney—Chakwana—good breeding and likely to race early. Sturdee is one of the most attractive fencers in training at Hastings and he looks certain to win a steeplechase or

two this season, though perhaps any distance over two miles and a half will trouble him.

The Douglas Estate has leased from Air A. Symee a yearling colt by Absurd —Snooze. It is understood there is a purchasing clause in the case. 9 lie youngster is well grown and should maintain the family reputation for speed. Doze is suggested as a, good nn.nio for liim. A yearling filly by Roseworthy—Gaze was purchased in Auckland by Air E. Riddiford and w ill join T. J’ . Quinli van’s string at Hastings. The youngster is related #> Moorak, Mnlvolio, The Admiral and other Australian celebrities. It is stated that George Jones will take Mermin, and a couple of Mr AY. G. Stead’s coming two-year-olds over to Australia for spring racing. All Talk is doing good work over the battens at Hastings and the success of the stable companions. Alt Talk and General Raven, in the double at Napier Park is more than a possibility. H. Hickey has just received an addition to his string in the shape of a Sabretache gelding, who is to be educated as a jumper. AY. Griffiths, who recently lost the services of Ladoguer, through the son of Sir Laddo going amiss, is handling a couple of All Reef youngsters, belonging to his patron, Air L. McKenzie. They are from M.ariwha and Headache respectively. It is to be hoped that Mr M’Kenzie will steer clear 61 the name Indigestion for the All Red Headache youngster. J. La wry is breaking in a grey filly by Alountnin K ni" 11 1— Motu. ' A Bardolph colt and a Buckwheat colt, purchased in Australia by Air E. Riddiford. are being got- ready at Hastings by T. F. Quinlivan. HANDiCAPS.

AUCKLAND TROTTING CLUB. [Pbr Press Association.! AUCKLAND, June 13. The following handicaps have been declared : IMPROVERS’ HANDICAP (in harness), of I 2CO sovs; one mile and a half—Bren do scr, Goldfinder scr. King Albert scr, Nita Wood scr, Eric Bell scr, Logan Rothschild sex', Puduma scr. Silvery Moon scr. Congo scr, Liberty Bell scr, Master Councillor scr, Muriel Bingen scr, Tiny Locanda scr, Posiram scr. Reliance scr. Beau Ideal scr. Gold Sound scr, The Infant scr. Tpclement scr, Little Bill scr. King of Lydia, scr. Regret scr, Rotocnanuku 12yds behind. Gold Bud I.2yds, Whakatane 12yds, Recommended 12yds, My.. Junior 12yds. Conscript 12yds, Siiveretta 24yds, Wakanui 24yds, Special TraceyU 36yds, Plain Bob 4Syds. Rockaway 48yds, 'xlanressa 48yds, To Ataiagaea 4-Syds, Louvina 48yds, Peter Scott 48yos, Coal Light 46yds,’ Bill ’ Tocl 4Syds, Oro 48yds, Hetty King 60yds, Sal Pointer 60yds, Sedd el Bahr 60yds, Wairemana 98yds. "WINTER HANDICAP (in harness'), of 750 sovs; two miles —William the First scr. Queen Pirate scr. Prize Pearl scr, Ladv S within scr. Onyx scr, Borises Drift I2vds behind. Comedy Chief 24yd 3, Gold stream 36yds, Gold Girl 36yds, Lord Rose 36yds, Huan Grattan 48vds, Mintson 60yds. Erailius 60yds, Whispering* Willie 72yds. Dean Dillon 96yds. ONEHUNGA HANDICAP (in harness'), of 250 sovs; two miles—Lobster scr, Manressa sc.r, Rio Grande scr, Appeal 12yds behind. To Ataia.fiaea 42yds, Hova 24vds, Auckland Girl 36yds, Lena Patch 36yds. Succory 48yds. Hint 60yds. Wonderland 60yds. BlueTvond 60yds. Bronze Patch 72yds, Miss Salisbury 84yd9, Grattan Abbey 84yds, King Capitalist 96ys. Speculator 108yds, Belmont Chimes 120yds. STEWARDS’ HANDICAP fin saddle!), of 250 sovs; one mile—Gold Flake scr, Moondrift scr. Runv»ere scr. Leverine scr. Master Grattan scr. The Scout scr, Mykot scr. Kotiro'ser. Winestra scr. Plain Bob scr. Rocka.wky scr, Peter Scott scr, Sedd el Bahr scr, Handsome Lad scr. Lady Wildwood «c:r. Hetty King scr. Never Will 4 2yds bhd. Tails ore a. 42vds, Blue King I2yds, Ramaroa 12vds, Waterfall 2iyd«. Hedcewood 2 , -yda, Albert Patch -tyris. Piletta 24yds, Am hush 36yds, Great Britain 36vds, Illumination 36vds. Mn'Ani Albert 36yds. Profiteer 36yds, Ruanui 36yds. Jewell Wood 36yds, Hymen 36yds, Agnes Chief 48yds, General Advance 48yds. August Child -48yds, Sauddrift. 48yds, I‘riuce Poole 4Svds. Dorolhv Dimple 60vda. MOUNTAIN HANDICAP (in harness'), of 400 sovs; one mile and a. ha/jf--Pukeora scr, Logan Fnirbairn scr. Guava, scr. Mut.ll scr, Monica Heir scr, Rita Galindo scr, Special Diamond scr, Teddy M’Kinney’ scr. Vigorops scr. Meritorious scr, Sir Wiidmoor 4 2yds behind. Native King 12yds. Malmshury 12yds. My Junior 24yds, Amberite 24yds, Tiki 24yds. Scientist 24yds. Nighborn 24yds, Bnllin 2tyd.s, Ladv Aan 24yds, Miss Jiuou Jnur, 24 yds, Kirikirivoa, 36yds, Lobster -48yds. Rio Grande. 48yds. Rio AJto 48yda, Bundaberg 48yds. Peter M’ATillan 60yds. Ho' a 84yd.-, Wonderland 108yds, 'Bluewood 105yds, H.mt 108yds. Miss Salisbury 132yds. Grattan Abbey 132yds. Speculator 133yds. JUNE HANDICAP (in harness), of 300 sovs; one mile and a quarter--Onyx scr. Rot-heliff ser. Alis? Bolfe s.cr. Bronze Patch per. Red Star per. Belle Logan scr. Prinjcora. ser, Wilfia.m (ho Fir?( per. Tliea. per. Manuka Park 12yds, Prize Pearl I.2yds, Nelson Derby J2yds. Breadalbanc 42yds. Doreen Dillon 12vd.:-, Nabob 12yds, Ben lyomend 12vds, Huon Grattan 36yds. Rcrke’s Drift 36yds, Stralesy 36yds. Eccentric, ?6yds. Gold Girl lords. Nil a Bell 48yds, Emilius 48yds, AH Bell 4'Svds, Dean Dillcn *- s yds ELECTRIC HANDICAP (in harhe-ssh of 250 sovs; one mile Cf-al Light scr. Gold ■Sound scr. Mykot, per. The Scout per. The Scott scr. Handsome Lad scr. Rockper. Oro scr. Never Will 12yds behind. Ttikorea 12vds. Leuriue lib'ds. Moondrift 42yds. Ekorraiiei 12yds. Pef.erden 12yds, X, :i ciy Du.nm.ore I.2yds. Sa] Pointer 12 yds, Garni pc 12yds. Winestra- 42yds, March On Ern'd I,2yds. George the Fourili 12yds, Lav Wildwood 12yd*. Kempsey 36yds. Lady Burlington 36yds, Wairemana 36yds. Waterfall 30yd«, Fislier ton 36yds. Piletta 36yds. Peter King 18yd-. Treanae 48yds. Gallipoli 48vd?, ll'-mm' 48yds, Rua.nui 4Rvd.s, Jewell Wood 18yds. Mon A i Albert 48yds. Great Britain '4Bvd«-. Profiteer 48yds, General Advance 60yds, Prince Poole 60yds, All Bell lOSyds. ’