Topics of the Turf

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 579, 8 October 1932, Page 12

Topics of the Turf

AND NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE

DOMINATIONS for the North Canterbury Racing Club's meeting will close at eight o’clock on Wednesday night. * # % * The South Canterbury Jockey Club’s spring meeting will be held next Saturday. A special train, stopping where required, will leave Christchurch at 7.30 ajn. The club’s Christchurch patrons will be better suited, however, by the express train, leaving at 8.35 a m., which will stop at washdyke. The return special will leave at 5.45 p.m., and is due in Christchurch at 9.20 p.m. The Takanini trainer, L. M. Manson, has been granted a jockey’s license, and he will be riding at the Avondale meeting. * * * * The latest report from Auckland, concerning the light-weight jockey, H. X. Wiggins, is that he has abandoned the idea of going to Melbourne, where he was expected to ride Admiral Drake in the Melbourne Cup. He is due home from Sydney on Tuesday, and he will do the remainder of his spring riding in the Dominion. * * * * Riccarton stables will contribute their share to the good fields at the South Canterbury meeting on Saturday Among the acceptors are Hounslow Lady Zephyr, Grouse, Niggerhead, ; Solwit, Dorian, Cricket Bat, Minerval, Ramo, Shatter, Night Recital, Locks ley, Night Flyer, Craigavon, Red Royal, Metal Bird, The Sun, Rocket Ranelagh, Belvoir, Royal Sceptre and Tip Tree. To oppose this lot there is a strong contingent of horses from South Canterbury and Wingatui, so it should be a good meeting. * * * * Since returning from the Grand National meeting, Paddon has freshened up considerably, and is now in regular work at Avondale. He has been entered for flat events at the approaching meeting, but unless rain falls in the interval the going may be a bit too hard for him. Several seasons ago Paddon put up some smart performances on the flat, but he is now ten years old and improvement at that age can hardly be expected. * * * * The Hunting Song—Semplice two-year-old, Hunting Melody, received a slight injury to his stifle a few days ago, and had to be eased up in his work. The trouble occurred as the result of the colt hitting a trestle while galloping with another horse on the course proper at Avondale. His owner, S. G. Lindsay, expects to have this juvenile in regular work again within the next day or two and if he makes satisfactory progress it is intended to give him a race on his home course at the coming meeting.

Mr J. Clothier, of Matamata, who purZ ! chased Sports King and Prince Val as ‘! yearlings from Mr D. G. Carolan, has again visited the Waharoa stud for , young stock, this time receiving a bay - colt by Spear Dance from Lady March ‘ (by Lucullus —March, a sister to Queen ** March. A descendant of the latter, in Limarch, won the Breeders’ Plate at j Randwick on Monday. This juvenile, i just twelve months’ old, is said to be , a colt of outstanding appearance. His . sire, Spear Dance, is a bay horse bred ! in Ireland, by Spearmint (son of Car- •; bine) from Lady Star, by Polymelus. t IHe was imported to New Zealand in * I 1928.* . NEW ZEALANDERS IN INDIA. ] News of the racehorses Karapoti and l Heremia, who were sold last March and » were transported to India, has been re- . ceived in Auckland. Racing at Poona , toward the end of August, Heremia won [ one race and ran second in another, , while Karapoti was twice unplaced. On August 20 Heremia (Bst 51b) was second to Cryptogram (Bst 91b) in the . Egerton Handicap, one mile and a quarter, for Class IV. horses. There was a field of nine, and Cryptogram won by two lengths, his time being 2min lOsec. | Heremia was third favourite. The sec--1 end prize was 700 rupees (£52 10s at ’ par). On August 27 Heremia won the second division of the Rufford Plate, one mile and a quarter, for which he was favourite. He caried Sst 121 b and, ; ridden by the Australian jockey, Reynolds, won by a short head from Sailor’s 1 Knot (9st) and Essex Brook (Bst 91b). 'j His time was 2min llsec. The first prize j was 2000 rupees (£l5O at par). The races in which Karapoti ran unplaced were the Sandhurst Plate, six furlongs, for Class I. horses, won by Flourish, and . the Harris Plate, one mile, won by . Bray Beau, with the Aga Khan’s Buland second and Pandora’s Box third. Karapoti was the top-weight on each occasion, and in the Harris Plate was joint segond favourite. * * * * Bringing a horse all the way from X'ew Zealand to Sydney is a costly business (says an Australian writer). More than 100 horses are here from New Zealand, but so far hardly more than a dozen have paid their way. RACING FIXTURES. October 15—South Canterbury J.C. October 15—Masterton R.C. October 15, 17—Avondale J.C. October 22, 2 4—Wellington it.C. . October 22, 24—Gore R.C. October 24—Waikato H.C. October 24—North Canterbury R.C. ; October 24—Waipawa C.R.C. October 24—Waverley R.C. ’ October 27 29—Poverty Bay T.C. October 29—Banks Peninsula R.C.

VICTORIAN THREE-YEAR-OLDS, Without detracting from Bronze Hawk’s brilliance, racing men in Sydney are not at all certain that he will have matters his own way in the Caulfield Guineas (remarks an Australian writer). They look upon Holt’s Heroic colt Top Hole as one of the most improved horses in Victoria, and consider that he will test the Sydney gelding over every inch of the mile at Caulfield. Top Hole had an excellent record as a two-year-old, and he has gone the right way this season; but most Sydney judges looked on him more or less as a handicapper, and considered that Liberal and Ruach would prove the outstanding Melbourne three-year-olds. Apparently the Melbourne judgment of Top Hole is fairly correct, for he was the outstanding galloper at Mentone last week; and, as he finished better than the Caulfield Cup favourite, High Brae, over a mile, he must be a good stamp of galloper. SAID*TO BE GOOD. With the two-year-old racing to start in Victoria to-morrow, much interest is being taken in the doings of a colt at Mentone called Melason. He is one of the biggest juveniles in Melbourne, and track watchers say that there has never been a faster two-year-old there since Heroic (says a Sydney writer). Some go as far as to say that at this stage he is even more promising than the famous chestnut. This is no idle exaggeration. He is a beautiful colt. Though not fashionably bred, he is by Blackadder from Melanesia, who has been a good brood mare. He takes a stride that will make his opponents know they have been galloping. He has been working brilliantly and many good judges declare he will be equal to any inter-State and New Zealand youngsters that may be encountered at the Melbourne Cup meeting. He is owned by the owner of Rakwool, who bred him, and is trained by F. W. Hoysted.

LATE RESULTS.

Otaki-Maori Racing Club. TAUMANKA HACK HANDICAP, ot 80 sovs. One mile and 55yds. 4—Sanguine King, 8.9 (R. J. Mackie) 1 7—Plateau, 8.0 (W. Taylor) 2 1— Red Sun, 9.2 (L. G. Morris) 3 3 Thrasher 8.13, 2 Riotous 8.12, 5 Invictus 8.3, 10 Bright Sun 8.0, 9 Gucsestor 8.0, 6 Okopua 8.0 and 8 Pai'k Acre 8.0 also started. Won by a nose, a length between second and third. Time—lmin 4 2 3-ssec. Two dividends. IvEREIHI ROERA HANDICAP, of 110 sovs. Seven furlongs. 2 Fiji, 9.0 (B. G. Morris) 1 I—All Humbug, 9.5 (Keesing) 2 3 Wasteland 8.0 (Anderson) 3 4 Arajean 5.2 and 5 Eminent 8.0 also started. Won by two lengths, a similar distance between second and third.