Racing and Trotting

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16875, 27 October 1922, Page 2

Racing and Trotting

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FIX'-T-URES. f 'Suoher 28—Poverty Bay Turf Club. October >B—Taratahi-Carterton ilacics t lub. October 29 Otago Hurt. Club. November 4. 6—Auckland Racing Club. November 4, 6. 8. 11 —Canterbury Jockey Club. November 7,9, 10— Metropolitan Trotting | dub. , . . November 10. 11—Hamilton Racing Club. ?*'overnbcr I?—Horowhanija Racing Club. November I*. 22—Otaliuhu Trotting Club. Novernlvr 24. 25—Soutb Canterbury Jockey Club. Norember 23, 30—Feilding Jockey Club. NOMINATIONS October 26—Horowhenua Racing Club. November I—Gore Trotting Club (Juvenile Stakes, 1023). November I—Feilding Jockey Club. November 3—Otahuhu Trotting Club. Novemher 6—Soutb Canterbury Jockey Chib. HANDICAPS. November 2 —Horowhenua Racing Club. November 7—Otahuhu Trotting Club. November 7—Hamilton Racing Club. November 14—South Canterbury Jockey Club. November 16—Feilding Jockey Club. ACCEPTANCES. October 27—Auckland Racing Club. October 3D—Canterbury Jockey Club. October 31—Metropolitan Trotting Club. November B—Hamilton Raciug Club. November 9 —Horowhenua Racing Club. November lO— Otahuhu Trotting Club. November 16—South Canterbury Jockey Club. November 23—Feilding Jockey Club. FORFEITS AND PAYMENTS. October 30— Canterbury Jockey Club November I—Feilding Jockey Club. November I—New Zealand Cup. TROTTING RACES. The New Zealand Trotting; Association is getting further and further into trouble in reference to its attitude towards racing clubs which hare trotting events on their programmes. The whole subject has been so badly handled by the governing body of the trotting sport that unless a halt is J called in the proceedings it will even- I tually load to a serious breach between j the trotting and galloping sports, j Briefly, the position is that certain rac- i ing clubs in the South Island hare for | r ears past put a proportion of races on ; their programmes for the trotter and ; pacer. Tn the whole it amounts to 13£ | full days racing, in other words rac j mg clubs provide the. sister sport with j 108 extra races per season. This is j acknowledged to be a great help to j the trotting sport, which, it must now i be admitted, is starving for want of sufficient-races. At the same time, the j racing clubs find trotting events on I their programmes a source of revenue, in many cases the most profitable of all j races. T*. will thus be noticed that the ! ntrnnftaxnent was profitable to both fports. With the knowledge of their ; revenue producing worth, it, was not ' to he expected that racing clubs would j fail to subsidise the trotting races j with a. fair stake, and on general lines the clubs have beeu most liberal to- | wards these races. Comparison has only to be made between the South- i land Racing Club’s stakes Tor trotting j races and the stakes provided by some i of the clubs which arc affiliated with the New Zealand Trotting Association end which are supposed to devote their I energies towards the advancement of , lhe trotter and pacer. However, sev- j oral members of the New Zealand j Trotting Association had other views, and Mr H. W. Kitchingham has been the chief spokesman in a crusade j against the racing clubs, with the ob ject of passing a rule making it man- j datory that a certain sum (equal to the { average amount given for the galloping races') must be given for trotting races. When the question was first discussed we pointed out that if the proposals were carried they might defeat the whole object, as there was nothing in the rules to make racing clubs give any stakes for irotting races and if the subject was forced it night lead to the races being struck out altogether. If this eventuated, Mr Kitchingham and his supporters would be taking away 108 races from trotting owners. The ; idea was ridiculed by those who were trying to force the racing clubs, over whiejt they bad no direct control, to increase the -stakes, hut in a short space of time j this has come to pass. The Nelson j Jockey Club has cut out its trotting j races and its action has been followed | bv the "Marlborough Racing Club, so that trotting owners have already lost meetings, in addition to which owners of trotting horses in Nelson and Marlborough may he driven out of the sport. Those who have been moving in this’matter have been working along vrnng lines altogether and have quite fai'ed to realise the responsibilities of their position, the chief of which Is to fester the sport of trotting and pacing. M bat will Mr Kitchingham and his supporters on the New Zealand Trotting Association say when trotting i r oes are confined solely to trotting clubs, hv reason of the fact that racing clubs have been compelled to strike ihem out of programmes through the action of the New Zealand Twhlnp Association ? There is one point that has been overlooked by the Trotting Association when considering the question. The permit*on which the club races is held by a racing club, and this racing club can refuse to be dictated h© by an outside body. If the demand* are net ta the dub’s liking it can refuse to comply with them and by so doing frustrate the object of those demands There is a more serious phase of the subject also, the working together of the racing and trotting authorities The action of the New Zealand Trotting Association towards racing clubs in this direction has not done anything towards solidifying the two sports, ao that they can combine against others who view both eporte with disfavour.

The scratching of Mireusonta. for all his engagements at the Canterbury Jockey Club’s meeting probably means that the Absurd gelding is amiss, as he was being freely discussed in Wellington at the end of last week as a horse likely to go well in the Stewards’ Handicap. Mr R. A. M’Kenzie is having a bad run with his team at present, as Sun art has broken down, while several others in T. Lloyd’s * stable have been sore. Tt was stated some time ago that Insurrection would probably be racing at Ellerslie next week, but when he made the last payment for the New Zealand Cup it looked as if J W. Lowe had decided on a trip to Riccarton. The Kilbroney gelding has since been scratched, however, and it is understood he is definitely booked for Auckland. He is pretty well and he will bo hard to head off at the business end of the Mitchelson Cup. Rational was favourite for the Stewards’ Handicap last year, when he finished third to iSolfanello and Absurdum. He* will 1 again be oilo of the best backed horses in the sprint race next week. The two-year-old gelding King of Hearts, by Bor.iform—Oenrest. a member of R. O’Donnell’s Trentham team, will not be raced nt Riccarton. the intention being to give him a spell. After witnessing the racing at Trenthara, some North Island sportsmen are more than ever satisfied that Bathos will easily prove the best of the two- j year-olds at Riccarton. The Absurd gelding was not produced at Trentham but from all accounts he is a brilliant galloper. Penitent, who still claims an engagement in the New Zealand Cup. has had a change of stables. He has ! raced very badly this season and -I. H. Jefferd has grown tired of trying I to win with him. He has now been placed under the care of J. *\V. Lowe, at Trentham. to see if he will do any | better under different treatment. His S New Zealand Cup prospects do not look | bright, even with his light weight. | Ft is reported that Mr TV. G. Stead j is not likely to race any horses in New | Zealand for some time. He will conI tinue to breed, but his racing may be confined to Australia. ! The New Zealand Cup candidate S Rouen is not nearly so well as lie itas I a year ago and he will need to improve I on Trentham form if he is to have a ! chance of success at Riccarton. | C\ Emerson continues to ride at the j top of his form. He was on four win- | ners at Gore. I Brisselette. the dam of Bonnie M'in--1 kie, is now at Mr E. E. T>. Clarke’s ! stud in Victoria, where she has proI duced a filly to The Welkin this ; There were four starters in the ■ Stewards’ Handicap at the Gore meetj ing, all of them sired by Solferino. j Mark Over, winner of the Maiden j Scurry at the Poverty Bay meeting i on Thursday, was placed in two races I at the Gisborne Steeplechase meeting j in July. In one of them he finished ! third to White Hope and Kahikatea, | the latter a three-year-old who is now ' at Riccarton. while in the other ho i was second to Joyful, a winner at I j Trentham last Saturday and a promis- i j ing candidate, for some of the minor | events at Riccarton. ! Good Sport, the winner of the Rose- ‘ land Hack Handicap at the Poverty i Bay meeting on Thursday, is a three- | year-old colt by the imported horse : Polydamon (who died recently) from Amusement, so that he is a halfbrother to Chortle. Good Sport won j a race last autumn and he looks now as if he was going to turn out useful. Owing to the postponement of the first day’s racing, with the result of having to hold the second day’s sport without the benefit of a holiday, it is expected that the Grey mouth Trotting Club’s meeting this week will result in a loss. There will he a good number of Australian visitors present at Addington next month. A few from Melbourne and Sydney have already arrived. j The pacer Mykot has not raced for I nearly a year, his owner having been | 100 busy with other horses. Mykot is I to be put in work as- soon as the November carnival is over. I\. H. Smith has leased his pacer Sir Henry to a Canterbury sportsman. Sir Henry li»s a fine turn of speed, but is not yet "borl over a two mile course. The speedy pacer Harold Devon is having a good spell in the paddock. ; He did a lot of. racing as a young horse and his owner has wisely given the horse a long let up. He is quite, souud and is in the sale list. J. H. Jefferd started this season with excellent prospects of landing the Derby for Mr A. B. Williams, as his stable included Rapine and King’s Trumpeter, either of whom looked equal to the task. The result of the Avondale Guineas brought Rapine even more strongly under notice, and on the same day King's Trumpeter did j his part by beating a strong field ot i handicap horses over nine furlongs. ! This performance of the Clareuceux j gelding had a great deal of merit in : it ,especially when it is borne in mind | that he was a late foal. Rapine, it • is said, is a delicate customer, who requires careful handling, and there has be>?.B a persistent report in circulation lately crediting King’s Trumpeter with being the stable's Derby hope. At , present his chance does not look quite so bright as it did a. week ago He competed in the Champion Plate at Trenxham on Monday, and was soundly beaten by Enthusiasm, under conditions which seem to leave the Panmure filly with excellent prospects of repeating the form in the classic race at Riccarton. From the public point of view, the position has decidedly improved. and though the Derby field may not be large, there seems a chance of witnessing a very interesting contest.

f The pacer Lord Pose has beeii turned ! out in Auckland for some time, but it ir, Mr K. H. Smith’s intention to j have him put into work again shortly. ! It is hoped in southern sporting j circles that the totalisotor permit formerly held by the Lake County Jockey ; Club trill go to the Invercargill Trot- | ting Club, says the Dunedin writer 1! Sentinel.” The Southland district lias a strong claim to the permit, and it would give general satisfaction if j it was secured for a trotting mdeting ; at Invercargill. The question as to whether a racing permit can be given i to a trotting club or vice .versa, is j a matf'or t-hat might create a heap I of discussion, but the fact remains that the district is well supplied with racing permits, but ip somewhat starved tn the way of trotting permits. One of the latest ' jokes” ill England is robbing a post office of letters addressed to bookmakers. These letters frequently contain money, which is removed, and if the horse mentioned in the. letter happens to win they are poster! oil minus the money, but the losing ones are destroyed. One bookmaker had about fifty letters j stulen in one sweep. RACE RESULTS. ) POVERTY BAY TURF CLUB. tPir. Press Association.i GISBORNE. October 26. The Poverty Ba- Turf Club's meeting was commenced to-day. The following arb the results of the concluding events-.: — ROSELAND HACK HANDICAP, of 130 BOVS; six furlougp—Good Sport Sst 7lb (M’Flinn), 1: White* Hope Sst 2lb 2: Sunny Spec 9?t 3. Chaplin Set 4lb, Mise* Roscland 7=l 81 b. Sweet Heather 7et -lib. Tarinparoa ?st 41b. Silver Stride 7st 21b. Stern Lady 7ei, Ala !’ie 7st. Perkv 7st. also started. Mon bv three-quarters of a length, three lengths lie tween second and third. Time— ' SPRING HANDICAP, of 300 sovs: one mile j clair). ?; Hyrax ??t 41b 2: Heather sprig j 1 fist 71b Hookah Set 7lb, Orawia 7st 13lh, Actj fid 7 st, ] 21b. Westerner 6st. 71b, also started. Won by two lengths, a, head between R ‘nd third. Time—2min Psec. WET.TER HANDICAP, of 13b eovs : seven furlongs Persian Kin? fist. 21b fM’Flinn). i; Pitch fist rib 2: Cantabiie fist, 21b 3. Martini 9ft 21b and Lord Musfeerry fist 21b. also started. Won by a head, seven lengths between second and third. Time— I min 23 2-ssec. MAIDEN SCURRY, of 120 sova; five furlongs (weight. fist)—Mark Over f A. Dixon), i. Heatherife 2: Cairo 3- Crisis, Hine. Me nupamro. Prince Imperial and Kings Pp. also started. Won by three lengths. n length between second and third. Time—lmin lsec. KEYING HANDICAP, of 175 sovp : six furlongs—Barrier 7at 91b (Dwyer'. 1; Prince Jewel Bst 41b 2. The only starters. Won by a length. Time—lmin 15sec. OCTOBER HACK HANDICAP.- of 130 sov? ; one mil®—Miss Roselaud fist 6lb (Dix- i orb i: Sweet Heather Sst 21b *2; Carbur- I elt.or fist, 3. Glen ray P«t. also started. Won by three length?, two ’lengths between second and third. Time—lmin 45sec. SECOND DAYS ACCEPTANCES. MATAWHEBO HANDICAP, of 150 sovs; one mile—Queens Up 9st 21b. Orawia 9st 21 h. Martini 9et, Persian King 9?t, Lord Muskerrv 7et 13ln. Miss Rogeland 7at 91b, Carburettor 7st 71b, Taringaroa 7et 71b, iAhura 7st 71b. HURDLE HANDICAP, of 150 sovs; one mile and a half— Wlianoko list I3lb, Highway 10? t, 91b, roid scene lost Tib, Silverstride. 9st 91b, Patetonga 9st 71b, Cymer Bet. Nowra 9st, Aurore Sst, Perky 9et.3layfield Set. JUVENILE STAKES, of 150 govs ; five furlongs—Good Spovt !>st 41 b. Cairo fist -lib. Crisis 7st 131 b. .Morn Lady 7et 13lb, Three Cheers 7st. Matin Bell 6st. 131 b. MAKAKAKA HANDICAP, of 200 pot.-?; one mile—Heathersprig Sst Sib, Scotch : Mixture fist, lolb. Hyrax Sst. 61b, Hookah i fist 31b. Prince Jewel 7st 331 b. Actifid 7st, 121 b. Demagogue 7st 121 b. Barrier 7st 121 b, Martini 7st Sib. White Hope 6et. 121 b. I MAIDEN HACK HANDICAP, of 130 sovs; j s.-x furlongs—Mirk Over 9st slb, Heather- \ ite fist. 51b, Kingby Set 21b, Mono King Sst. Hine 7at. 121 b, Kings Up 7st 121 b, Stern Lady 7st 121 b, Prince Imperial 7st 121 b. i WAIKANAE HANDICAP, of 175 sovs; six J furlongs Barrier Sst, 7lb. Actifid Sst Tib. j Golden Light, fist 7lh. Trince Jewel Sst 7lb, I Cantabiie 7st 3lb. Chaplin 7st, Mark Over ! Sst, I3lb, Lady Gazeley 6st Tib, Moreau | Gst. 71 b. W AIM ATA HACK HANDICAP, of 130 sovs; seven furlongs—Golden Light, 9st 1 101 b, Sunny Spic 9st lib. White Hope fi*t i rib. Chaplin fist lib. Miss Roeeland 7at 18lb, j Taringaroe. Tst 21b. Glenray 7pt. Silver- j I stride 7st. Malua 7st. Perky 7st, Prince Imperial 7st. FAREWELL HANDICAP, of 130 sovs; *ix and a half furlongs—Hookah fist 131 b, Golden Light fist filb. Prince Jewel Sst slb. Queens Up Sst lib, Persian King fist. Good Sport Sst. Orawia 7st 131 b, Pitch 7st 121 b, Txird Mu skerry 7st. Mark Over Gst 13lb, Sweet Heather C-st 71b. AUSTRALIAN NOTES. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. MELBOURNE, October 25. Melbourne Cup ;—Rostrum, Jiorpho, Melody. Polythiest. for all Flemington engage- j ments: —Beeline, Fieririste. The Countess of Sliradbroke will race for the first time in Australia at Moonee Valley on Saturdas'. She runs Mandalay, trained by Holt, in the St Albans Handirup. Her colours are Fraser tartan and black cap. Dempsey will bare the mount. F. Straker will ride Mufti in the MelRadiant Light galloped six furlongs on the grass in lmiu *22sec at Flemington.