RACING NOTES.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 543, 27 August 1932, Page 12

RACING NOTES.

DOMINATIONS for the St Leger Stakes to be run at Trentham in 1934 will close at 9 p.m. on September 9. Horses now two-year-olds are eligible. No money is required at time of entry. * * * Nominations for the Ashburton County Racing Club’s meeting on September 17 close at 9 p.m. next Friday. Those for the Geraldine fixture on September 22 and 24 close at S p.m. on September 5. * * * * Those hardy customers, Rational 11. and Ranelagh, each had only a brief holiday, and have renewed acquaintance with the tracks at Riccarton. * * *■ * Mr H. E. Edmunds, of Palmerston North, owner of Inflation, has received a cable from Sydney asking him to put a price on the colt, but he is not prepared to sell. NEW ZEALAND CUP. When Nightmarch won the New Zealand Cup in 1930 there was a fixed minimum of 9st 61b. There 1 is no limit this time. He was awarded 9st 101 b in the Melbourne Cup, run over the same distance, but with a 6st 71b minimum instead of the 7st in the New Zealand Cup. Weights are due on September 26. RIDDEN 3590 WINNERS. Earl Sande, America’s most famous jockey, who has ridden 3590 winners in America, is shortly to sail for France. Mr William Ryan, the well-known American owner, who has a large stable in France, was instrumental in persuading Sande to go there to ride, and it is probable that he will have the mount on most of Ryan’s horses. * * * Hounslow (W. Pascoe) and Lancer (G. H. Murfitt) jumped five hurdles at Riccarton this morning, and went very well. Hounslow looks like making good at his new game. CARBINE’S GRANDDAUGHTER. Lord Woolavington, who recently purchased the Oaks winner Brulette, has now bought Seaweed, her dam, and also dam of Hotweed, who won the Grand Prix de Paris and the French Derby. Seaweed is a sixteen-year-old daughter of Spearmint and Seadune, by Ayrshire. She was acquired together with her fine yearling colt by Bruleur, who is named Hotspur, and is a full brother to Hotweed and Brulette. Seaweed has a colt-foal by Finglas, and is again in foal to the son of Bruleur. sfc * * * Agomini', the half-brother to Mystic Peak, in the Phar Lap stable of H. R. Telford, had a bleeding attack when going well in a race at Caulfield on August 13. CHARITY BENEFITED. In these hard times, it seems especially remarkable that unclaimed totalisator dividends at Randwick and Warwick Farm last season amounted to £IOO2. The money, according to custom, was distributed among various charitable institutions. NEW SIRE FOR N.S.W. Mr Percy Reynolds, of the Ilobartville stud, New South Wales, has received advice that his son, acting on his behalf, has purchased the bay horse Silverburn, foaled in 1928. Silverburn is by Phalaris from Silver Urn, winner of the One Thousand Guineas, by Juggernaut (son of St Simon). * * * * Short dashes and serviceable tasks were allotted a number of horses on the No. 7 grass and sand at Riccarton this morning. WOMEN'S STEEPLECHASE. Great interest was taken in Adelaide on August 13 in the Women’s Point-to-Point Steeplechase held at Oakbank, where the famous Great Eastern Steeplechase is run on Easter Monday. Nine women took part in the race and they gave a fine display of dashing riding. The weather was bitterly cold and wet, and as the course was sodden, the horses slipped and slid at every jump. The women riders were well bespattered with mud. The winner was Miss Tasma Fuller, a sister of one of the leading South Australian crosscountry riders. LORD GLANELY. Lord Glanely, who plays such a leading part in English racing both as an owner and a breeder, is a native of Devonshire. Pie began his business life —as William James Tatem—in a Cardiff shipping office and now has wide shipping and coal-mining interests. He was created a baronet in 1916 and raised to the peerage in 1918. * •* * * Araios, a four-year-old gelding by Arausio, is the latest recruit to the jumping ranks at Trentham. He had his first school this week, and gave a capital display. The Premier of New South Wales has agreed to replace the 10 per cent tax on winning bets by a tax on the bookmakers’ turnover. A reduction of racing days on Sydney courses from 207 to 157 has also been decided on. The pony clubs will have five Saturdays without opposition and one public holiday.