HEAD THE LIST.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 694, 22 February 1933, Page 10

HEAD THE LIST.

Team of H. and A. Cutts is Doing Well. Horses trained by 11. and A. Cutts this season have won seventeen races, and the brothers are at the head of the New Zealand winning trainers’ list. Their charges have also registered eighteen seconds and twenty-one thirds. In prize-money they have captured £4730. Of this total, Sir Charles Clifford has secured £4315. Mrs H. B. Douglas has won £335 in stakes since she purchased Rocket, while Rebel Song has won £BO for LieutenantColonel J. Stafford. Altogether fourteen horses in the Chokebore Lodge stable have earned stake-money since August 1, 1932, and the list in detail is:— Horse. W 2nd 3rd £

NEW STAR. Three-year-old’s Quick Rise to W.F.A. Class. Rather a dramatic change has come over the three-year-old situation in Melbourne this month. The Victoria Derby winner Liberal scored first up at weight-for-age, and high hopes were held as to how he would fare against Peter Pan at Randwick. but Liberal broke a fetlock at Caulfield last Saturday. At the same meeting that saw Liberal successful, Eastern Chief easily won an eleven furlong handicap. It was his maiden success. At Caulfield last Saturday Eastern Chief won again—this time at weight-for-age over nine furlongs, while Oratory won the mile and a half Bond Cup. Both Eastern Chief and Oratory were Derby hopes that crashed in the spring. It looks as if time had done a good deal for them. Eastern Chief was bred by his owner, Mr J. P. Arthur, at his Riverside stud at Nagambie, in Victoria. He is out of a half sister to Cragford, another son of Eastern Monarch, who died within a few weeks of winning the Metropolitan at Randwick. If Derby winners count in a pedigree, and they should. Eastern Chief is fully entitled to make good. He belongs to the same family as Galtee More and Ard Patrick, and his sire, Eastern Monarch, is by the Derby winner Lemberg (son of Cyllene). Eleanora, dam of Eastern Chief, is by Sea Prince (son of the Derby winner Persimmon) from Cena by Andria (son of Ladas). Pearl Mosque, maternal granddam of Eastern Monarch, is a half sister to Desirous, dam of the V.R.C. and A.J.C. St Leger winner Middle Watch. Temple Hill, dam of Pearl Mosque, was a sister to Galtee More, the pair being by Kendal from Morganette, dam of Ard Patrick. Eastern Monarch was a good performer in England, where his successes included the Lingfield Park Breeders’ Stakes, Prince of Wales Stakes at Ascot and the Newmarket St Leger. IRISH SWEEPS. - The Irish sweeps are doing good for that country’s hospitals, but the expenses are heavy. The deductions from the total are huge, and figures recently published officially make interesting reading. The auditors’ report on the Irish Hospitals Trust Sweepstake on the Cesarewitch last October reveals that, out of the total receipts of £3,624,300, expenses reached the huge sum of £333,853, or approximately 9 per cent. This included the following items:—Promoters, £79,486; salaries, wages and State insurance, £126,453; advertising and publicity, £23,000; postage, £29,545; sundries, £22,554. A further 25 per cent of the proceeds was divided as follows:—Frefe State Minister of Finance, as stamp duty under his last Budget, £226,518; Minister of Local Government and Public Health, £226,518; Free State Hospitals, £453,037. The total left available as the prize fund was £2,384,373, or 66 per cent of the proceeds. This gives a surplus of £5434 17s 6d over the total allocated at the time of the draw, and the directors of the trust announce that this surplus is to be divided among the winners of the ten residual cash prizes of £7893 18s each, making a further £543 9s 9d for each. WAIMATE MEETING. (Special to the " Star.”) TIMARU, February 21. The executive of the Waimate Racing Club has decided to extend the closing of nominations till Thursday. Handicaps will be declared on March 2, and acceptances will close on March 9.

ENGLISH DERBY HOPES, In addition to Manitoba, ranked first among the colts in the Free Handicap, the Beckhampton stable of Fred Darling shelters another likely classic contender. This is Lochiel, half-brother to the 1931 Derby winner Cameronian, and, like that horse, the property of Mr J. A. Dewar. That unluckiest of owners in a Derby connection, Lord Astor, has a hope again with Cannon Law, a colt by Colorado—Book Law. He was not included in the Free Handicap, as he had run only once, but he won his race well. The Hon George Lambton has four colts for the classics. Hyperion and Thrapston, belonging to Lord Derby, Scarlet Tiger, the property of Lord Durham, and Colorow, who is owned by Mrs James. George Diller is another trainer at present cast in hopeful mood in regard to the Derby. His representative is Statesman, owned by Mr Victor Emanuel, the American sportsman, who is the new Master of the Woodland Pytchley hounds. The main hope of the Aga Khan may be Felecitation. Mr W. M. G. Singer, owner of Orwell, has M’"-i

A reduction in admission charges for the Metropolitan Trotting Club’s Easter meeting has been decided upon by the club’s committee. Admission to the course has been reduced from 2s to Is, and the admission charge for motorcars from 2s to Is.

Fast Passage . . 4 2 — 2,440 Fracas 3 2 2 585 Cricket Bat .... 2 3 4 510 Rocket 2 2 2 345 Drumfire 2 L 1 225 Zeebrugge 2 L 2 205 Glance 0 3 3 110 Morepork 1 — — 105 Rebel Song .... 1 — — SO Silent Flight . . — i 2 35 Grouse — — 3 25 Heatherglow — 2 — 30 *Counterplav — — 1 15 Doiran 17 1 IS 1 21 20 £4730 Clifford. sold by Sir Charles