RACING AND TROTTING NOTES

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18785, 14 June 1929, Page 2

RACING AND TROTTING NOTES

RACING FIXTURES. .Tune 14, 16—Napier Park Racing Club. June 20, 22—South Canterbury Jockey Club. June 21, 22—Hawke’s Bay Jockey Club. June 29—Waverley Racing Club. July 10, 11, 13—Wellington Racing Club. July 20—Waimate Hunt. July 27—South Canterbury Hunt. August 3 —Christchurch Hunt Club. NOMINATIONS. June 14— Manawatu Racing Club classics. June 14—Dunedin Jockey Club classics. June 14—Taranaki Jockey Club classics. June 14—Auckland Racing Club classics. June 14—Wellington Racing Club classics. June 14—Feilding Jockey Club classics. July 4—South Canterbury Hunt. July 17—Christchurch Hunt Club. HANDICAPS. June 14—Waverley Racing Club. June 17—Hawke’s Bay Jockey Club. July 23—Christchurch Hunt Club. ACCEPTANCES. June 14—South Canterbury Jockey Club. June 20—Waverley Racing Club. June 20—Hawke’s Bay Jockey Club. July 19—South Canterbury Hunt Club. July 31—Christchurch Hunt Club. June B—Ashburton Trotting Club. TROTTING FIXTURES. June 22, 24—Auckland Trotting Club. ACCEPTANCES. June 14—Auckland Trotting Club. RACING NOTES. The Canterbury Jockey Club will take nominations up till eight o’clock to-night for the Welcome Stakes, 1929, Middle Park Plate, 1930, Champagne Stakes, 1930, Challenge Stakes, 1930, New Zealand Derby, 1930, New Zealand Oaks, 1930, and Challenge Stakes, 1931. * * * * The leading clubs of the Dominion will take nominations for classic-events to-day. 4 4 4 4) Acceptances for the first day of the South Canterbury Jockey Club’s meeting will close at eight o’clock to-night. 4 * 4 * Nominations for the Ashburton County Racing Club’s winter meeting will close on Monday. 4 4 4 4 Nominations for the Wellington Racing Club’s winter meeting are due on Monday. * * * * . The Riccarton trainer, J. Boyd, intended to leave last night for Awapuni, where he will make his headquarters in future. His plans were changed slight!, however, and his departure for the north has been delayed until Tuesday. 4 4 4 4 The order paper has been issued for the annual conference of representatives of New Zealand Jockey Clubs, to be held at Wellington on Friday, July 12. and a copy is acknowledged from the secretary of the Racing Conference. * * * * Latest advice from Auckland is to the effect that it is quite likely that Roman Abbey and Tinokoa will run their next races in Australia. Mr R. Hannon is considering the prospects of an Australian trip with the two geldings. Roman Abbey is engaged in the Victoria Racing Club’s Grand National Hurdle Race and Grand National Steeplechase. * * * *

Young Thurnham, who has been entered for the Hawke’s Bay Steeple chase, will leave Auckland for Hastings on Monday. This horse ran a good race in the Winter Steeplechase at Ellerslie last week, when he finished fourth. He looks all the better for his racing, and only needs to keep sound to win good steeplechase.s. L. Dulieu. who met with an accident at Ellerslie which resulted in a broken will ride Young Thurnham if he recovers in time.

* * 4! * Advice has been received by W. Garrett that Sir Roseberry, who won the Great Northern Steeplechase in 1924, and the Great Northern double in the following year, accounted for a steeplechase at the South Australian Licensed Victuallers’ meeting, at Victoria Park, Adelaide, on Saturday. The distance was two miles and a half, and he scored by ten lengths, after fencing brilliantly throughout. Sir Roseberry was taken to Adelaide last year by Garrett with the idea of capturing the Onkaparinga Steeplechase, but went amiss on the eve of the meeting, and could not be started. He was sold there, and apparently is now back to his best form. This year Garrett took over Zircon for the Great Eastern Steeplechase, on the same course, but he fell when leading two fences from home. He was brought back to Auckland, and it is possible that he may be taken back to Australia again shortly. He is entered for the Victoria Racing Club’s Grand National Hurdle Race and Grand National Steeplechase. * * * >4

The committee of the Wellington Racing Club has applied for an amended set of dates for its Cup meeting next January. The original application was for January 20, 22 and 25, or Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday, the Wednesday being the public holiday. It is now proposed to race on Saturday, Monday, and Wednesday, January 18, 20 and 22. The amended dates appear much more satisfactory, for the}' mean much less waste time for owners and trainers, while the holiday crowd on the concluding day will have the benefit of the two earlier days’ form.

The profit on the Dunedin winter meeting was considerably over £2OOO, and with the surplus on the autumn fixture, will enable the club to wipe out an overdraft of about £4OOO, and relieve members of the committee of the guarantee they had been shouldering for some time. The Dunedin Jockey Club has been unusually fortunate in regard to weather lately, but there are

signs that racing is regaining popularity in Otago.

Negotiations for the sale of Fabriano were in progress prior to the Dunedin meeting. The price P. T. Hogan put on the 'chaser was £350, but there was a contingency of a percentage of stakes the horse might win. This did not appeal to the Otago owner concerned, who wanted a clean sale, and no business resulted. It is understood that Fabriano is still on the market, but that the price has been raised to £IOOO. The horse’s gross winning# at Wingatui were £705, so that Hogan must be glad he retained him.

Red Boa (the brother to Baldowa), who won a double at the Dunedin meeting, is trained by R. M’Kay, and as a result of the death of a relative*

of his owner’s he ran at Wingatui in the one-time well-known ‘’Radial” colours. Red Boa is engaged in the Electric Plate at Washdyke next week.

Meadow’ Lark is a doubtful starter at the South Canterbury meeting next week, and will probably be treated to a holiday. The little Oamaru sprinter does not act well on soft tracks, and would not have been raced at Dunedin but for the fact that his owner is a committeeman of the Dunedin Jockey riub. Meadow Lark will probably make his reappearance when the 9D minimum ceases to operate.

A Dunedin auctioneer priced Uralla recently on behalf of an Otago man w r ho likes to race a jumper or two. The horse was placed under offer at 300 guineas, but this figure was considered excessive, and no business resulted. Since then Uralla has won the Great Northern Steeplechase, worth £I4OO to the winner. Uralla, like the Great Northern Hurdles winner, Mister Gamp, was imported from Australia.

There is plenty of money for jumping horses in France, and in Paris district and provinces from January 1 up to March 30 of this year, representatives of Mr Arthur Veil-Picard’s stable had won £BOOO in steeplechases and hurdle races. He was followed by the Vicomte Max de Rivaud, with £5500, and Mr James Schwob, with a little over £4OOO. Lafleur, a five-year-old horse by Yverdon, was the greatest contributor to Mr Veil-Picard’s total, his earnings being nearly £SOOO.

* * * * The class of hunters seen out at the Great Northern meeting this year was probably weaker than it has been for some years, and the Hunt Club events proved easy for that improved horse Odin. It w’ould have been interesting to have seen Odin tested w’ith a stronger class, says a northern writer, be- ! cause he seemed to have a good deal in reserve in both his wins and would ! have done better if he had had something to make matters a little more i difficult. Odin may not yet be a good horse, but his form was very encouraging and it is in his favour that he is only a young horse, who is now making progress after appearing to be nothing more than a moderate. On the concluding day Dr Grant, his owner, had him engaged in both open and hunters’ steeplechases, and was in a quandary whether to run his horse, who was on the course, or not. A last-minute decision saw Odin walking off the course, and the scratching pen put through his name for both events. His owner had decided he had done enough for the meeting.

Mr A. C. Ingham, the new chairman of Tattersall’s Club in Sydney, is one of the leading -members in the timber industry of that city. He had been a committeeman for five years, and was a big worker in the new building scheme of the club, and was one of those responsible for the fine premises now owned by the organisation He has been an alderman of Drummoyne for fourteen years and Mayor of that municipality for four years. His circular to members before his election stressed the policy of developing the social side of the club. This is a feature of Tattersall’s which has to be experienced to be appreciated by visitors to Sydney. The club is not wholly the betting concern that most folk imagine. Since its institution Tattersail’s Club officially has done a good deal for the city charities, and the records show that no less than £45,618 16s Id has been disbursed.

A Melbourne writer furnishes the following interesting particulars of the career of the South Australian sportsman, who has a strong leaning to New Zealand horses:—“Son of a Northern Territory millionaire, a new owner has arisen in Adelaide. He is Mr E. E. Jolly, who, although only a young man, already has spent thousands in getting together a team in Adelaide. So far only one of them has raced in Adelaide, but when his string are ready they should do well. Mr Jolly married a daughter of Mr Leslie Penfold Hyland, and one of his purchases will run in his wife’s name. He always has had the ambition to own horses, and when he went to New Zealand a couple of years ago on his honeymoon, he decided to buy there, as he thinks that New Zealand horses are always more for ward than those in Australia. Mr Jolly, when in the Dominion, was one of bidders for Honour against Mr G. D. Greenwood, but the latter stayed better. Mr Jolly paid 1400gns for Jet Black, by Magpie from Daffodil Queen, and 1075gns. for a filly by Absurd from Rose Queen.. She is now known as Roseglow. Salt Petrel, by Saltash from Daffodil Queen, and 1075gns. for a filly by Absurd from Rose Queen. She is now known as Roseglow. Salt Petrel, by Saltash from Mother Carey, cost Mr Jolly 1000gns., and Concentrate 11., by Claro from Eugeny, caused him to lay out another 500gns. Mr Jolly also has Hot Spring and Catilex. Considering the money he has spent in getting together his first team of horses, Mr Jolly is deserving of much success with them. All Mr Jolly’s horses will be trained near a beach and on a private training track by B. Matson, who is a firm believer in the open-air treatment for horses. The Matson family has had wonderful success on the Adelaide turf, and now they have a golden opportunity of improving on their many important triumphs.”

TROTTING NOTES. Acceptances for the first day of the Auckland Trotting Club’s winter meeting will close at five o’clock this evening. * * * * Nominations will close at five o’clock on Monday evening for two trotting events at the Ashburton County Racing Club’s winter meeting. * * * * W. J. Tomkirison will leave for Auckland to-night with his team, which will race at the Auckland Trotting Club’s meeting. The meeting will commence on Saturday, June 22, and be concluded on Monday, June 24. Tomkinson’s team will be the largest from here, and will consist of the pacers Dalmeny, Ethiopian, White Sun and Maiwhariti and the trotters Young Blake and Western Voyage. ■a * * * V. Alborn's team to race at the Auckland trotting meeting will consist of the pacers Linkman and Vesuvius and the trotter Cannonball. They will go north to-night. The Australian-bred pacer Vendome will be J. J. Kennerley’s representative at the Auckland Trotting Club’s meeting. Kennerley will take the mare north to-night.

E. R. Kennerley, who has been associated with his father, J. J. Kennerley, left this week for Te Awamutu, where he will remain with Mr W. Johnstone’s horses until the Addington trainer goes north to take charge of the team.

Wharepiana has been racing fairly consistently in her races over short and long courses. M. B. Edwards’s stable seems to be a trifle out of luck at present, but Wharepiana may not be long before she is returned a winner as she is evidently on the improve.

When the trotter Golden Girl was first put into work, the Great Audubon mare showed a lot of speed and looked like making a more than useful performer. She has since shown some speed in her training work, but has not raced well. Recently she went into R. B. Berry’s stable, and it remains tc be seen if that trainer will get Golden Girl to reproduce her best training form in a race.

The pacer Locanaa Boy seems to have trained off quickly. At the For bury Park meeting, early last month, the West Coast-owned pacer showed a lot of speed and was prominent in his races, but his subsequent efforts have not been so satisfactory.

The pacer Western King, in M. B. Edwards’s stable, is not racing at all well at present.’ The Australian horse is very brilliant when at his best and when first raced at Addington last August by J. Shaw, the Auckland trainer, he showed a lot of speed.

The Waimate pacer Macaranda has not been racing well of late. He seems to be a horse who takes a long time to get into his best form. In all his recent races he has shown some speed early in the contest but has failed to go on.

The Methven trained and owned Baynut put up quite a good showing in the mile and a quarter race at Ashburton, only failing over the last furlong. Baynut, who is by Betel Nut, has some smart performances to his credit over all distances, although in his racing career he has not been lucky.

The well-known trainer, J. Messervey, is still far from well, and he has been confined to bed for several weeks. Messervey has been associated with the sport for a great many years, and all his friends will wish him a speedy recovery.

The first foal, by Peter Chenault, of the well-known pacing mare Onyx had the misfortune to break its leg, but veterinary skill has saved the youngster, who is making a good recovery. Onyx is in foal this season to Native King. 4 4 4 4 The South Canterbury trained and owned trotter, Peter Lin, who has been racing consistently of late, has been nominated for the Auckland Trotting Club’s meeting, which will be commenced next week. 4 4 4 4 Epigram has been returned to his breeder, W. J. Morland, as G. M’Kendry’s lease has expired. Epigram is a half-brother, by Brent Locanda, to Lady Joan, and possesses a lot of speed, having put up some fast times over short courses. He is bred on staying lines, but his sire’s progeny usually take some time before they are seen at their best over a distance. Owing to Mr Morland having a number of young horses ready to be put into work, it is probable that Epigram will go into other hands. * * * * Since Acre came south, from B. Jarden’s stable in Wellington, to join J. Bryce’s team, the Author Dillon pacer has been backed more than once, but has raced indifferently. Acre has a lot of speed and when at his best he can stay two miles. He is a lightlyfleshed pacer, who takes a long time to get to his best form, and it is just probable that his present trainer does not thoroughly understand him yet. As he is only five years old, he has plenty of time to show further improvement. * # * * The trotter Nighborn went a good race on the first day of the Canterbury Park Club’s meeting, and it was thought he would show improvement in his effort on the second day, but his first day’s effort settled him and he failed to race at all well. Nighborn is a good trotter, although he is not sound. Since he has been trained by F. Gallagher he has raced very consistently, and he looks as though another race may come his way before long.

TOTALISATOR FIGURES IN AUCKLAND. The shrinkage in totalisator receipts recorded in many instances in connection with meetings held in Auckland this season has formed the subject of much discussion and the opinions advanced to account for the same take various forms, says the Auckland writer, “Phaeton.” That there is a shortening of sail on the part of the vast majority who set out in search of winners can, I think, be accepted without demur, and to a tightness in the money chest may. no doubt, be ascribed the curtailment of investments. Then there is the section who transfer their speculations to another quarter, which offers facilities for extensive investment without the same being proclaimed by the rolling round of figures on the totalisator machine. The taxation of dividends on the top of other charges also plays a part with many, so that when the totalisator shrinkage question is surveyed in all its bearings the tendency to a decrease instead jf showing an increase is not, after all, to be regarded as a surprise. Holding as Ellerslic does the totalisator record for the Dominion, it goes without saying that considerable interest is always centred in the shape figures assume at meetings held under the jurisdiction of the Auckland Racing Club. The “fat” season experienced at Ellerslie was in 19fy21, but, of course, everyone knows that circumstances very much out of the ordinary operated in bringing about the record total at that particular period. In the interval there has been steady decline, and this season the figures are especially instructive in that respect. The following is a statement of the totalisator receipts : Auckland meetings during the past nine seasons, with eleven days' racing each season:— 1920- 1.146,150 1921- 954,000 L 1922- 888,881 d--192- 939,660 1924- 991,837 1925- 949,688$ 1926- .. 848,450 1927- 911,6054 1928- 783,034 i

SOUTHLAND NOTES. (Special to the “Star.”) INVERCARGILL, June 13. Duririg the past few days winter conditions have settled down over the southern districts, with heavy rains, and the grass tracks have become sodden and only available at intervals. However, the horses engaged at the South Canterbury Jockey Club’s meeting next week are all well forward and a number of youngsters have hitherto had favourable ground to work over, so trainers have very little to complain about, as the sand-cinder track serves their purpose in view of immediate engagements.

Calham, who claims engagements at the South Canterbury meeting, from this part of the world, is a descendant of Thurnham and Calma, the latter being a Calibre mare at one time raced successfully from P. T. Hogan's stable, over battens and big fences. As he is prepared in the back blocks, very little is known here of Calham, as the Thurnham representative has yet to appear in public. F. W. Ellis will probably take King Balboa and Nylotis to Washdyke next week to compete at the South Canterbury Jockey Club’s meeting. Red Sea may accompany her stable companions to Timaru, but it is unlikely, as she has already had a strenuous experience of racing under heavy weights at Wingatui. • King Balboa lightened up as the outcome of his three races at the Dunedin Winter fixture, but he is rapidly picking up again. Nylotis came through his Wingatui campaign safely, but he is not the horse he was prior to a severe race at Riverton at Easter time. He is a fine fencer, however, and a let-up in the weights might give him a reasonable chance of success at Washdyke. Fresh from his double success at the Dunedin Jockey Club’s winter fixture, Red Boa returned to Invercargill an improved horse, and is at present galloping well on the local tracks. He is to be a runner at the South Canerbury meeting next week and will probably pay a visit to Trentham later on for the Wellington Racing Club's winter gathering. R. M’Kay’s pupil has come on noticeably of late and it is now easily apparent that he is going to rank as a more robust horse than his brother, the Thompson Handicap winner, Baldowa, but whether he will stay on as well remains to be seen. Of Mr W. T. Hazlett’s horses in training Apache, Latin Quarter, and Paris are being kept up to the collar and the trio all look well. Paris commenced his hurdling education this week by negotiating pony jumps and it looks as if he is going to prove a more apt pupil than his elder brother, Apache, who, by the way, raced rather well over the little sticks on the concluding day of the Dunedin winter fixture. Latin Quarter stood up to his severe tests at Wingatui like a good horse in the making and it must be admitted that he is growing into an attractive representative of the thoroughbred family. The son of Thurnham —Moulin Rouge, by Kilbroney—Directoire, should strip as a commanding five-vear-old next season. One of F. J. M’Kay’s pupils, in the steeplechase. Greenstone, owned by Mr J. E. Ilazlett, has probably run his last race. He has been retired from training quarters and sent to the back country for station duty. He is a veteran now and did well last season. when he won £740 in stake money.

W. Stone has decided to move on to, Riccarton at an early date with Silver 1 Paper, Aspiring and two youngsters, prior to embarking on a visit to Australia with the older members of his team, while the rising two-year-olds, mav be taken along for educational purposes. When the baby referred to reach Riccarton the critics will see two well-grown, good-looking and well-behaved youngsters. The colt is by Weathervane from The Lmnet (sister to Songbird), while the filly is by Tea Tray from Victory Bond, by Paper Money—Kilberry. by Kilbroney. The Weathervane colt is the more forward of the pair, as he has been in hand for some time, but, judging by the progress made by the daughter of Tea Tray during the past fortnight, she will soon be on even terms with her companion. Both have been cantered over the grass on the Southland Racing Club’s property and they move nicely.

The connections of Brightling were well satisfied with the showing made by the son of Tractor as a hurdler at the Dunedin Jockey Club’s winter meeting, and they had good reason to be pleased, as the gelding had very little experience of jumping when he made his debut as a hurdler at Wingatui. He raced and jumped generously and created the impression that he may redeem his reputation as a racehorse by way of hurdle events, and even over big country in due course. The trotting tracks here are deserted at present and there is not likely to be anything doing in the local light harness world for some time to come, unless several trainers elect to step novices out for educational purposes. The three-year-old filly Remindful, by Balboa—Reminder, has been relegated to the paddock in the meantime, and a spell will do her no harm as she is easily the tallest of her sire's progeny ever trained hereabouts. She should furnish into a fine looking mare with ago, and win races, too, as she galloped encouragingly in private on several occasions prior to being attacked by slight muscle soreness, just when she was expected to race well. J. A. Rowland has made a start to assemble his team for spring training, and Aranoah and Full Fling were brought in this week to join Bachelor Boy, who has been in gentle exercise since he was gelded some time ago. This son of Tea Tray and imported Santaline has been a disappointment so far, but he has improved in many respects since being added to the list, and he may get among the early winners, as he has already displayed pace on the tracks. The Wingatui horseman, B. 11. Brodie, has changed his .-.mind with regard to his propo.sed trip to India, and will now remain in Otago. This is not surprising, as he stands well with owners and trainers, as a very capable jockey, and the prospects tot next season are very bright in that quarter, with all or nearly all Wingatui stables sheltering strong teams. A record number of horses will be in work at Wingatui in the spring, and this can be understood when it is explained that C. Gieseler has eighteen horses in hand, while the strings of several other mentors number from sixteen

down to ten, a very cheery sign as far as the Dunedin Jockey Club and a number of other clubs in the metropolitan district are concerned. It has been stated in the north that the much-discussed pacer, Imperial Thorpe, ranks as a Southland horse, but this is not so. His home address has always read as Mosgiel, while he was only located here during the busy time on the Southland circuit and while the Southland Racing Club’s clay trotting track was in its best autumn condition.