Topic of the Turf

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 936, 5 December 1933, Page 10

Topic of the Turf

T FS‘ tND HEWS FROMeVERYWHERi

ACCEPTANCES for the Auckland Cup and Railway Handicap are not due until December 15. ** * » * Nominations for all events at the Christmas meeting of the Westland Racing Club will close with the secretary Mr D. J. Evans, P.O. Box 64, Hokitika, at 8.30 this evening. There are seven events each day. Stakes total £IO7O. with two trophies valued at twenty and ten guineas respectively. Nominations for the Dunedin summer 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. The acceptances will close next Mondav at 8 p.m. 5}C * =*C s£ Nominations will close next Monday at 9 p.m. for the Waikouaiti Racing Club’s meeting on January 1. Stakes total £1175. The Cup of £355 is run over a mile and a quarter. * * * * Nominations will close at 9 pm. next Monday for the Oamaru Jockey Club s meeting on Tanuary 2. Stakes total £1045. The mile President's Handicap is worth £250. SILVER RING. Silver Ring is likely to have a change of quarters in the near future. He has been trained throughout his career by R. W. King at Riccarton. It is probable that he will be transferred to the West Coast, where James Stewart, of Coal Creek, may have charge of him. £IO.OOO OR £20,000 CUP? According to the Sydney writer C. J Graves, there is a possibility of the Centenary Melbourne Cup, to be run next November, being worth much more than the £IO,OOO and trophy already announced. Mr L. K. S. Mackinnon (the V.R.C. chairman) and his committee would like to make it £20,000. Revenue from four good da vs at the recent spring meeting may help even to this unapproached Australian stake, and who will say that further success at the summer and autumn meetings at Victorian headquarters will not prove the deciding factor in urging the V.R.C. Executive to this ambitious flight? RACING IN AMERI< a “ Race meetings are rather quiet in America after you have experienced Randwick, Flemington or any of the best courses in Australia,” remarked Mr Rufe Naylor when in Auckland last week. “ They are conducted something like your meetings in Auckland, where all the betting is done on the totalisator. However, those who do go to the races are not afraid to bet, and I understand that before the depression it was not uncommon for a million dollars to be bet on the totalisator in one day at a big meeting. It is very much less now, when people haven’t the money.” COSTLY TO TITS ADMIRERS. Shatter is spoiling his record this season. He has had a dozen races and has failed to win. Two seconds and a third, and nine times unplaced, make up his total. He has paid for his keep by earning £l5O in prize money, but his backers have not approached the corner, let alone turned it. CHANGED HIS MTNT). Sir Abe Bailey was instrumental in bringing G. Nicoll, the South African jockey, to England this season. Nicoll, though he is described by a London writer as both capable and stj'lish, exp„:enced nothing but bad luck and failure in England for most of the season. He was contemplating returning to South Africa, but on October 25 he won the Cambridgeshire on Ravmond for Sir Abe Bailey. Nicoll has now decided to remain in England. TANGLED IN A FENCE. Gibraltar did not meet his Feilding engagements because of a mishap. He became entangled in a fence at Hawera and injured a leg. The injury is not considered to be very serious.

A. Russell will go to Auckland with the team of F. D. Jones, while his fellow-apprentice, 11. Mackinnon, will ride at Dunedin and other southern meetings. ❖ * * * General entries for the Auckland i summer meeting which closed on Friday number 656, as compared with 570 last year, an increase of 86. SPUXT M.AV HR THE I'.U'SK. Minerva! moved all right while accomplishing a useful task at Riccarton this morning. lie shows lameness when he cools down, and F. Holmes states that it is thought he is developing a splint. WILL RIDE IX tup: SOUTH. A. IT. Eastwood was at Auckland last Christmas, but he is going to Dunedin this time. Eastwood will also ride at the Southland meeting and will go either to Wyndham or Waikouaiti G. IT. Humphries will begin a southern riding tour with the Dunedin meeting. XPT EXPECTED TO STAY. Cavalcade (Chief Ruler—Roselatte), who was sold last month in Melbourne by Mr XV. R. Kemball for 500 guineas, is engaged in the A.J.C. Sires’ Produce and Champagne Stakes, V.R.C. Sires’ Produce and Ascot Vale Stakes and the Caulfield Guineas, but he was not nominated for either the A.J.C. or Victoria Derby. * * * * If any of J. B. Pearson's team race during the holidays, it will be at Waikouaiti. * * * * Spoon has developed soreness and F. E. Jones has decided to give her a rest until the tracks are less hard. T IJJBED WI X XK R. Tubed horses are not allowed to race in France. The four-year-old Silkstar, who cost 3000 guineas as a yearling, has a tube, so he was sent across the Channel. At his second start in England, Silkstar scored an easy win. * * * * A. E. Wormald expels to have Ranelagh and Hurlingham racing at the Waikouaiti and Oamaru meetings. MR V. RIDDIFORD'S HORSES. In pursuance of Mr V. Riddiford’s decision to race only on a small scale his horses in training will be offered for sale next month. They comprise Eminent. Zetes, Forestry, Might, Secrecy, Valarado, Historic and Meritor, also the two-year-olds Tutor, Hornpipe, Binocular. Mowgli, Whyte, Melville and Limulus. Mr Riddiford has, however, stated that he is likely to retain one or two of the yotinger horses. This team is the largest in training at Trentham and its dispersal will make a marked difference at that centre. EARLY MORNING FOG. With many horses having raced at Ashburton and the weights for Ilororata not due till Thuirsday, proceedings were quiet at Riccarton this morning. A thick fog prevailed early, but soon cleared when the sun came on the scene. The fog and a heavy dew produced a lot of moisture useful for the tracks. <'OXSISTEXT. Manetho, in eleven starts this season, has managed two firsts, three seconds, three thirds and three unplaced. He is consistent and improving. On his Ashburton form further success for him should be near at hand. * * * Mr IT. Reeves’s Hororata Stud turns out a surprising number of winners, considering its size, and it was in evidence again at the Takapuna meeting, where Rereatu won the Takapuna Plate on Saturday. Rereatu, by Paper Money from Vicereine, is a three-year-old brother to Gold Tinge, who won the Breeders’ Plate in Sydney, also to Pin Money, winner of the Welcome Stakes at Riccarton last month. He won five races last season and now looks a good prospect for open company, as there was a lot of merit in his latest win. to achieve which he beat a strong field. T\rrnFVTS AT FETLDIXG. After the Empire Handicap at Feilding on Saturday, the stewards held a long inquiry into incidents which occurred in the race. There was a long delay at the start, chiefly through the behaviour of Havering, who was started outside a hurdle. When making a run on the outside in the straight, he came across on to Speed and Emotion and seriouslv checked them. The stewards decided to recommend that Havering be placed on the schooling list, and they also suspended W. Grindlay for a fortnight? Another incident inquired into was interference by Knollmere with La Poupee. Roy Reed, rider of La Poupee, gave an explanation which satisfied the stewards, that L. Dulieu. rider of Knollmere, was not guilty of careless riding. PACING FIXTURES, December 0, 11—Woodville District J.C. December 16—Hororata Pacing CJub tai Riccarton). December 16—Napier Park Racing Club. December 16—Waipa Racing Club. December 26—Waipukurau R.C. December 26, 27—Westland R.C. December 26, 27—Dunedin J.C. December 26, 27—Taranaki J.C. December 26. 27, 20 — Manawatu R.C. December 26, 2S, January 1, 2—Auckland R.C. January l—Waikouaiti R.C. January I—Wyndham R.C. January I —Waiau R.C. January 1, 2—Oreymouth J.C. January 1, 2—Hawke’s Bay J.C. January 1, 2—Stratford R.C. January 1, 2—Marten J.C. January 1. 2—Wairarnpa J.C. January 2—Oamaru J.C. January 2, r. —Southland R.C. January 6. S—Jteefton J.C.