Racing and Trotting.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19070, 15 May 1930, Page 17

Racing and Trotting.

(BY

“ARGUS.”)

RACING FIXTURES.

May 15, 3 7—Wanganui Jockey Club. May in, 17—Marlborough Racing Club. May 24—Ashburton County Racing Club. May 24—Taumarunui Racing Club. May ci n b ** une *3» 4 —Dunedin Jockey June 8, 4—Otaki-Maori Racing Club. June 3,5, 7—Auckland Tracing Club. June 111, 21—South Canterbury Jockey Club. June 25—Egmont-Wanganui Hunt. NOMINATIONS. May 29—South Canterbury Jockey Club. May 20 —Egmont-Wanganui Hunt. HANDICAPS. May 16—Dunedin Jockey Club. .May 19—Auckland Racing Club. May 20—Otaki-Maori Racing Club. June 9—South Canterbury Jockey Club. June 9—Egmont-Wanganui Hunt. ACCEPTANCES. May 19—Taumarunui Racing Club. May 20—Ashburton County Racing Club. May 23—Auckland Racing Club. May 23—Dunedin Jockey Club. May 26—Otaki-Maori Racing Club. June 3 3—South Canterbury Jockey Club. June 17—Egmont-Wanganui Hunt. TROTTING FIXTURES. May 3 6, 17—Marlborough Racing Club. May 3 7—Oamaru Trotting Club. May 24—Ashburton County Racing Club. May 31, June 3—Canterbury Park Trotting Club. NOMINATIONS. May 15—Canterbury Park Trotting Club. HANDICAPS. May 15—Ashburton County Racing Club. May 21—Canterbury Park Trotting Club. ACCEPTANCES. May 20—Ashburton County Racing Club. May 27—Canterbury Park Trotting Club. RACING NOTES. The conditions were very mild during training hours at Riccarton this morning. All the galloping was done on the plough, which was in good order, but there was nothing of an exciting character about the proceedings. Horses with engagements at the Ashburton and Dunedin meetings were allowed to stride along in useful tasks.

Waterline and Full Feather were associated over about a mile. They went at a sound pace all the way, and registered a useful performance, finishing on terms. These two horses are training on nicely, and they should be in good order for the Dunedin meeting.

Arrowmir was allowed to stride along over half a mile. He has made a good recovery from the trouble that affected him on the West Coast, and he should race well at Ashburton.

Ranelagh was not doing his best at any part of a five-furlong spin. He is in good fettle for engagements near at hand.

Kentish Lady, who has shown very consistent form lately, was given strong work over about five furlongs. She may add to her record before the end of the season.

Quarterdeck looks in capital cond: tion at present, and she may race pre minently at Ashburton, where the bi, course will suit her.

Arikiwai is getting through plenty of useful work, and, in spite of his big weight, he will take a lot of beating in the chief event at Ashburton.

Royal Mint, who joined F. P. Claridge’s stable after the Amberley meeting, is shaping well in his work, and he should earn some money before the end of the season.

Mr F. T. Buchanan's two novices, Flaxbird and Night Recital, have shown considerable improvement lately, and they look like turning out useful. They shaped well in a five-furlong spin* this morning, and they may run prominently at Ashburton.

Gay Sonnet has been confined t< light exercise lately. She appears to b< quite sound again, however, and it ; hoped that she will be ready to rac< at the Dunedin meeting.

The hunter Bladon was given a turn in the jumping ring this morning. He is a highly-strung customer, but he has shown a fair amount of speed.

. Magna Charta has been on the easy list during the past week, as a result of lameness. He is no worse, but T. 11. Gillett is not disposed to hurry him while the tracks are so hard. He can be counted out of his Dunedin engagements, and it is probable that he will be put aside for another long spell.

Pompeius, who was thought to have more than a passing show in the Great Northern Steeplechase and hurdle Race, was withdrawn from both events on Tuesday. Pompeius is trained at, Frankton, and since October last, when' he scored over fences at Ellerslie, and ran third at Cambridge on Labour Day, his attention has been confined to flat racing, at which he has proved most successful. His withdrawal will

come as a surprise to ante-post betters. Advices from the Waikato state that Pompeius will contest the Cornwall Handicap, and endeavours to secure the services of 11. Gray will be made. Star Comet, from the same stable, will run in the Great Northern Steeples and Hurdles, and will be ridden by P. M. Brady, who piloted him in the Brighton Hurdles.

In addition to Star Comet, the Ilam* ilton trainer, P. Brady, has another engaged in the Great Northern Hurdles. This is the Day Comet—Miss Winsome gelding, Rawhetu, who is owned by Mrs C. Dawson, of Auckland. Rawhetu, who joined Brady’s team during the summer, has done most of his racing in Australia, wheie he had winning form to his credit on the fiat. Ilis opening effort since his location in the Waikato was in the Tauranga Cup toward the end of March, while he has had a race on the fiat since.

Mr W. 11. Wackrow, the well-known racehorse owner and president of the Taumarunui Racing Club, recently underwent an operation in Hamilton for appendicitis. He has made a good recovery, and was able to leave for his home last week.

On the first day of the Auckland winter meeting last year T. Green won the leading fiat events, the Cornwall Handicap and the Members’ Handicap, on Seatown and Gold Money respectively.. On the third day of the meeting Green landed another double on those horses when he won the York Handicap on Seatown and the Visitors’ Handicap on Gold Money. Green will again ride Seatown and Gold Monev in their engagements at Ellerslie this winter, and, though he might not have the same success as last year, he will be riding horses that will only require to be in form to have excellent prospects of success.

When the colt by Limond from Duchess Eudorus, owned by the Auckland sportsman, Mr C. M. Emanuel, was submitted to auction at the autumn yearling sales in Sydney, he was passed in at 700 gs, the bid being a good deal below the reserve.. Mr Emanuel has decided to have the colt trained at Randwick. and he has been placed in the care of D. Lewis to be prepared for next season’s racing.

Syme is to be Wiltshire’s pilot in the Great Northerns. When the Day Comet—Lady Lobelia gelding was doingsowell as to win the two latest Grand National Steeplechases he was ridden by Roy Syme, the elder brother of this pair of Waikato riders, who also trained \\ iltshire at those periods. This season Wiltshire has been in other hands. The horse looks well after his two races on the flat at the Waikato meeting, and his later contest in the Brighton Hurdles. There is a disposition to favour his chances more in the hurdles than in the steeples next month. For a dual Grand National winner over country, 11.11 is not a prohibitive burden, but past experience has shown that Wiltshire has npt done particularly well over the country at Ellerslie. He was second in the Winter Steeplechase last June, when he was not himself owing to feeling the effects of a fall in the big hurdles.

Mask has been retired from the turf and his place in Walter Raynor’s stable at Wanganui has been taken by the two-year-old Pomp. Pomp was so badly injured on the trip from Sydney after his unlucky defeat in the Breeders’ Plate at Randwick that small hopes were entertained of his ever racing again. Re has gone on right enough, biit it is too much to expect that he will be fit to race until next season is fairly well advanced.

A brother to Omeo, by Quarantine — Munitioness, is being hunted with the North Taranaki Hunt Club, though there is no similarily in the appearance of the two geldings (writes “Moturoa”). Razor is the appellation given to the maiden hunter, who fences rather well and, not unlike Omeo in the hunting field. Razor is inclined to be difficult to manage. However, nothing quietens a fractious horse better than hunting, and should Razor show any promise at the point-to-point meeting on June 3, he will be keenly sought by buyers, who saw his younger brother take the A class hunters’ event last year.

As all racing folk know a Derby is a race for three-year-olds, consequently it is impossible for one horse to win the same Derby twice. When you get talking horse, however, you often run up against people whose memory for turf peculiarities is remarkable, says a Melbourne writer, and we were all well taken down in a little argument the other day, for the impossible has happened in the past, and the same horse has won the same Derby twice. It took the book to convince me that such was the case, yet there it is in black and white. In the Victoria Derby of 1867 there were five starters, and the race was won by Mr J. Tait’s Fireworks, by Kelpie, in 2min 56sec, jockey C. Stanley. In the Victoria Derby of 1868 there were again five starters, and again Fireworks won, this time in three seconds faster time, and ridden by the same jockey. The explanation lies in the fact that the Derbies were run in the same season—--1867-68—the second one being run on New Year’s Day, or only a couple of months after the first one. The second race, it appears, according to the enthusiast who took us all down in the argument, was staged especially for the Duke of Edinburgh, who was visiting Melbourne on that occasion.