Topics of the Turf

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 935, 4 December 1933, Page 12

Topics of the Turf

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\y eights for the Auckland Cup j and Railway Handicap are due to-morrow. * * * * Nominations for the Manawatu Racing Club’s summer meeting at Awapuni on December 26. 27 and 29 will close at 9 o’clock this evening with the acting-secretary, Mr M. Buchanan, P.O. Box 52, Palmerston North. * * * * Nominations for all events at the Christmas meeting of the Westland Racing Club will close with the secre- j tary, Mr D. J. Evans, P.O. Box 61, Ilokitika, at 8.30 p.m. to-morrow. There are seven events each day. Stakes total £IO7O, with two trophies valued at 20 and 10 guineas respectively. * * * * Nominations lor the Dunedin sum-! mer meeting on December 26 and 27 will close on Friday at 5 p.m. ❖ * * * Handicaps for the Hororata Racing Club’s meeting at Riccarton are due on Thursday. DAVOLO IMPRESSIVE. Vintage had the worst of the luck in running in the Winchmore Hack Handicap but Davolo won so well that the Shambles gelding would have had his work cut out to reverse the positions had fortune favoured him. Nevertheless Vintage is revealing himself as a most consistent performer, his three starts having produced third, first, and second. Davolo was disappointing at the New Zealand Cup meeting but on Saturday he acted up to the great promise which he gave in his win at Geraldine in September. LIKELY TO TRAVEL. All Clear, brother to Phar Lap, who is a candidate for the Great Northern Derby, belongs to Mr G. L. Lyon, and it is likely that he will be exported before long to join Compris and Hunter’s Moon in Ceylon. J. H. Jefterd at present trains All Clear. TWO-YEAR-OLD KEPT BUSY. Several horses looked to be unlucky in their races at Ashburton on Saturday and Wonderful was certainly one of them. He got away all right in the Lagmhor Plate, but at the end of a furlong he went back as if he had run into a brick wall and was second last of the field of 13. He came home strongly to finish fourth. Wonderful has had a very busy time for a young two-year-old. He made his debut in the McLean Stakes at Wingatui on October 5. and has now’ started ten times. Wonderful is overdue for a win as he has been runner-up in three races. LIKE A riR( US. A well-known Melbourne racing man. writing to “Vigilant,” says:—“There was a big element of doubt as to whe- ! ther Hall Mark would run in the Cup. even before the Derby, and a much bigger one afterwards. Bert Wolfe (“Cardigan” of the Melbourne “Herald”) and I were at Holt’s stable on Cup morning, and it was hard to believe that we saw the Melbourne Cup winner when Hall Mark went limping off to do his job. It was more like a circus striking camp, as we saw Holt’s four runners for the day marching off to the station, with every youngster in Mordialloc carrying a bag of hay to make it soft in the train for Hall Mark. 1 consider that Shadow’ King was most unlucky to lose the Melbourne Cup.” TOTES DTD WELL. There were four race meetings in New Zealand on Saturday, and at each the totalisator turnover showed a substantial increase on the figures for the corresponding day of 1932. The compariron is: 1932 1933 £ £ Ashburton .... 5,811 7,233 Takapuna 20.5412 21,855 Feilding 7.142 9,425 Winton 4,081 i 5,636

Mr L. G. Hill, secretary of the Dunedin Jockey Club, w r ho recently underwent .an operation, has made a good recovery, lie is returning to his office this week. ABLE HORSEMANSHIP. L. G. Morris accomplished a notable feat of horsemanship in winning the Kowhai Handicap at Feilding on Thursday on Ida Merling. When the mare had gone half a furlong, her offrein broke. She was in front at the time. Morris managed to keep her under control, though she ran out a little wide entering the straight, and got her home by a neck. INC! DENT OF 1913 RECALLED. A Flemington race decision that was very strongly questioned was the verdict in the Newmarket Handicap of 1913. when the judge said the Tasmanian candidate Relievo had won by a neck from the Western Australian Jolly Beggar. Put to a public vote. Jolly Beggar, who w T as owned by Mr P. A. Connoll\-, would have been declared the wdnner. Three weeks later Jolly Beggar won the A.J.C. Doncaster. The incident is recalled by the death of Jolly Beggar in Western Australia at the age of twenty-six. His other wins on the turf included the W.A.T.C. Derby, while he was beaten by half a head in the Perth Cup. He proved a successful sire in the Western State. STILL A MAIDEN. Delice, who was runner-up to Final Shot In the Lagmhor Plate at Ashburton on Saturciay, filled a similar position in that event last year to Manetho. She has yet to win a race. IIER FIRST WIN. Final Shot, who was runner-up to her stable-companion Gaysome at Motukarara, scored her maiden success in the Lagmhor Plate at Ashburton on Saturday. Her connections were keen on her chance, and she started third fancy on each machine. Final Shot was bred by Sir Charles Clifford, in whose colours she did her early racing. She is a three-year-old filly by Winning Hit from Rivalry, by Antagonist (con of Soult) from Equipment (dam of Cricket Bat) by Martian from Tomorrow, by Bill of Portland from Elusive, by Trenton from Eleusis, by Barcaldine. Final Shot is now trained by Mr? J. Campbell for Mr J. D. Simpson. She is the sixth winner turned cut by Mrs Campbell this season. WEST COAST RACING. Mr T. E. Coates presided over a meeting of the District Committee of the Greymouth Jockey Club on Friday. J. A. Maloney wrote asking that his suspension be lifted. It was decided to forward the- application to the New Zealand Racing Conference. An application ior a jockey’s license from R. B. Orange was approved. The New Zealand Racing Conference advised that licenses had been granted to the following trainers: D. Johnston, V. A. Lee and J. Messervey (provisional in each case). Mr A. -A. Be?ley, of Christchurch, will officiate as totalisator inspector at the forthcoming meeting of the club. RIDER SUSPENDED. Two inquiries were held at Takapuna on Saturday. For badly interfering with King Mestor by careless riding in the Plate, J. A. Day, who rode Bcughal. was suspended for one month by the Judicial Committee. At an inquiry into the running of Royal Gallant in the Ponui Handicap, the explanation by the rider, 11. Goldfinch, and the owner was accepted. After Money and Safari, who arc due at Auckland to-morrow from Sydney, will go into the stable of E. Pope at Takanini. A RGp.N’TT(-’S WTN. Since his burst of success as a three-vear-old in the spring of 1932, the career of Argentic has been checked by interruptions to his training through going amiss. He has a liking for the Ashburton track, where he won over a mile and a quarter last Mav in 2min 4 3-ssec. He won the Tinwald Handicap nicely on Saturday, but Sweet was responsible for a really good effort, and she may have been somewhat unlucky to lose. Metal Bird ran a creditable third. Starshooter should be in the money’ during the holidays. Ranelagh lost a couple of lengths at barrier-rise, and finished last. It was an inglorious performance. Shatter, who has been an expensive horse to follow this season, again disappointed. PROMISING, Some Shamble is one of the most promising horses racing in the South Island. Ilis only real failure since he struck form in October was in the Apprentices’ Handicap at Riccarton. when he mav have proved too much of a handful for his rider. He won the Moreton Hack Handicap most decisively at Ashburton on Saturday’, and he looks like going further than a mile and a quarter. IT tv ac; jits TURN, True Shaft looked to have the best of the luck in a bumping finish for the Wakanui Handicap at Ashburton on Saturday, but he was due for a good turn from Fortune, as she frowned on him at Trentham in October and at Riccarton in November. Roth Manetho and Hurlingham were hampered in the run home. A protest lodged on behalf of Manetho was dismissed. TMHNT, FfXTIT’ v. December 4—Taksouna Jockey Club. December 9. 11—Woodville District J.C. December 16— Hororata Racing Club (at Riccarton!. December 16—Napier Park Racing Club December tfi—W«lt»a Damn" Club. December 26—Walnukurau R.C. December 26. 27—WestDnd R.C. December 26. 27—Dunedin J.C. December 26. 27. 20— Manawatu R.C. December 26. 2S. January 1. 2—Auckland R.C. January i—Waikouaiti R.C. Januarv I—Wyndhrm R.C. Januarv i_Waiau R.C. .Tanuar’v 1. 2—Dreymoutb J.C. .Tanuarv 1. ’-Hawke's Ray .T.C. January 1. ?_ s . n tford R.C. Jnrmarv 1. 2 M«rton J.C. January 1. ‘»-W?‘rantia J.C. January 20a mam J.C. .Tanuarv 2, 3—Southland R.C. January 6 S —Reef ton J.C.