Topic of the Turf

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20235, 20 February 1934, Page 10

Topic of the Turf

yiOTES AND NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE

'A c CEPTAXCES for the Bank Peninsula meeting will close at 6 p.m. on Friday. * * * * Nominations for the Waimate Racing Club’s meeting on Thursday, March 15, close at 8 p.m. on Friday. * * * * Copey gave a fine display of jumping in a school over hurdles at Hawera last week. SOME roxsQLATION. Shatter has failed to win a race in his nineteen starts this season, but he has earned £3OO in stakes. He has been second four times and third once. IX GREAT ORDER. Reports from Te Awamutu state that King’s Knave, who is a candidate for the Herries Memorial Cup at Te Aroh.» on Saturday, is in great fettle. IMPROVED MARE. Imamint, who is due to have her next outing at the Te Aroha meeting, has made marked improvement since racing at Takapuna, and now looks very bright and muscular. She is working well at Ellerslie, and it will not be for lack of condition if she fails to earn some stake money at Te Aroha. Imamint showed a glimpse of her real form at North Shore, and if she reproduces it the next time she goes to the post it will take a smart hack to lower her colours. GOOD HUNTING. In the Ruahine Handicap at Woodville to-morrow. Good Hunting is due to have his first start since his return from Australia, where he was a winner. He may need a race but has previously done well on a short preparation. MIGHT CAUSE SURPRISE. If there be a surprise awaiting punters in the Woodville Handicap to-mor-row, it may be provided by Copper King, who is trained on the track and who races well when fresh. Form, however, points to either Tiger Gain or Rust. ANOTHER CALLAMART? Remiss, whose name appears among the acceptors for the Maiden Stakes at Woodville to-morrow, is a seven-year-old gelding by Bisogne from the Martian mare Immer bought a few weeks back by the Awapuni trainer G. W. New. New undoubtedly has visions of another Callamart, as the Great Northern Steeple and Grand National Hurdles winner was also out of 5 Martian mare. LIMARCH AND BLIXTEN. Advices from Australia credit Blixten and Limarch with carrying a very bright appearance and state that both are training on well. In the spring opinion was a little divided as to which was the better of the New Zealandbred pair. In the Hobartville Stakes, seven furlongs, they fought out the finish, victory resting with Limarch, who scored by a length in the good time of lmin 26sec. The Rosehill Guineas, nine furlongs, run a few weeks later, saw Blixten win from his stable mate, Shakuni, with Limarch third. A foot ailment came against Limarch later, with the result that he had to be thrown out of training, but he had a race at Rosebery on February 7, and is now in Melbourne. IN FIRST-RATE CONDITION. Few horses at Ellerslie are working better than Wee Pat, who is in the pink of condition, and doing everything asked of her in first-rate style. She has done no schooling recently, but, being a natural jumper, does not require a great amount of schooling. Wee Pat will contest hurdle races at the Te Aroha meeting, and can be relied on to run prominently against the opposition she will be meeting at that fixture. PRINCE OF ORANGE. •After being off the scene for several months Prince of Orange is due to make his reappearance at the Te Aroha meeting, where he has been awarded top weight in the Ruakura Hurdles. The field is not a high-class one, and if the Te Rapa-trained jumper is in any way approaching his best condition his prospects cannot be overlooked. However, he usually requires a bit of racing to enable him to reveal his true form, and this fact should be worth remembering next week. VOITRE’S LIVELY FEW MINUTES. Note Issue, the sister to Dole, has now had sufficient racing to justify the opinion that she is a long way below the class Dole showed as a youngster. She has plenty of pace, but appears to be somewhat flighty, and at Wanganui on Thursday she tossed K. Voitre off three times in the birdcage before he was properly mounted. She behaved herself all right at the barrier and showed up in the race, but hung out badly and lost ground coming into the straight. However, that did not appear sufficient excuse for her defeat, and she will have to improve a good deal to come up to the standard of her brother. MANY MINOR PLACES, Cleaner had two unplaced runs at two years. As a three-year-old last season she had sixteen starts for a win, two seconds and a third, worth in all £Bl. This season, in 21 starts, she has won twice, been second six times and third four times, earning £204. * * * * Bambury, after racing at Takapuna, developed tendon trouble, and he has been turned out for a spell. * * * jp Jonathan, who was a member of the team of «. L. Russell, has had a change of quarters. lie will in future be trained by A. Cook at Te Awamutu.

j King March has been nominated for the Franklin Cup, to be run on March 3, also for events at the Waikato meeting on March S and 10. FUTURE OF KOROKIQ. M. Gardner, of Waverley, when at Wanganui with Artful Dodger, stated that Mr W. Jury has decided to spill Korokio, whose recent form has been very disappointing. She will be turned out until the spring, when she will be given another and probably a final trial. Korokio’s best form has always been shown in the spring, and it is hoped that she will show a return when taken up again. CHANCE TO MAKE AMENDS. Gibraltar, who was quietly fancied for the Wellington Cup, in which he. fell, has freshened up again, and is now looking and going well at Hawera. He is engaged in the Herries Memorial Cup at Te Aroha on Saturday. NEW JUMPER. One of the latest additions to the jumping brigade at Ellerslie is Ruling King, who is now undergoing a course of schooling to fit him for future hurdle contests. He was given a trial over a couple of hurdles one morning last week, his display being very satisfactory for a beginner. Ruling King is a hall-brother to Mary Bruce, winner of the Great Northern Steeplechase in 1923, and when he has had the necessary experience should develop into a payable proposition as a jumper. PLANS FOR ZAXE GREY Zane Grey is getting through the right class of work at headquarters to fit him for coming engagements, and has never looked better. His next appearance will be at the Franklin meeting in March, where he will be given a race over hurdles. Later on in the same month Zane Grey will contest steeplechase events at the Ohinemuri meeting. The racing he wfill get at those fixtures will put him in tiptop order for jumping events during the winter months. PUT HIM OUT.” When All Spirit returned to scale after winning the Matarawa Handicap at Wanganui on Saturday, there were a few cries of “put him out.” He had started twice previously at the fixture. On the opening day he finished last, and he again was the whipper-in in his first race on Saturday. In each of those races, All Spirit completely missed the. jump-i .-.t. MUCH BOTHER. An incident at the recent meeting at Wairoa is causing great trouble. After Gainsfid had won the President’s Handicap, his rider, H. Young, was disqualified for two months for interference. An appeal to the Hawke’s Bay District Committee brough no satisfaction, so far as Young was concerned, but it had another effect, as the committee reversed the placings in the race, putting Little Wonder first and Gainsfid second The connections of Gainsfid are now appealing against this decision, on the ground that Little Wonder was not trained by the holder of a trainer’s license. RACING FIXTURES. February 21, 22—Woodville D.J.C. February 21, 22—Gore R.C. February 22—Waiapu R.C. February 24, 26—Te Aroha J.C. February 28, March I—Rangitikei R.C. March 1, 3—Napier Park R.C. March 3—Franklin R.C. March 7, B—Dannevirke R.C. (at Woodville). March 8, 10—Waikato R.C. March 9, 10—Cromwell J.C. March 15—Waimate R.C. March 15. 17—Ohinemuri J.C. March 16, 17-r-Wellingt.on R.C. March 17—Birchwood H.G March 17—Opunake R.C. GAINE CARRINGTON. Breaks Down Badly at Williamstown. Gaine Carrington’s absence from the field for the St George Stakes at Caulfield last Saturday is explained by the mail which arrived from Melbourne this morning. After he had beaten Hall Mark in the Williamstown Stakes on February 10, Gaine Carrington pulled up very lame in the off fore-leg. The breakdown did not come as a surprise to his connections, as during the week he jarred the suspensory ligament of the leg which had been causing his trainer C. T. Godby some concern. There was a doubt about starting him at U illiamstown, but as he was fit a - i the risk of a breakdown was there with every gallop, it was decided to run him. Gaine Carrington, whose autumn prospects looked so bright, will not be able to race again for months. It is indeed by no means certain that he will stand training again, even after a long rest. ACCEPTANCES. Waiapu Racing Club’s Meeting. Per Press Association. T7V, n __.. GISBORNE. February 19 Axrii . are acceptances for the Waiapu Racing Club’s meeting:— wetemTsV SGURRY - of 35 tAj i 1 * “ ve furlongs—St Honowai T-eighcata, Rockhampton, Victor Colinn’ Agincourt, Marching Song?" Flynfg ATl ' l ' l RA . CK HANDICAP, of 30 sots, Six furlongs—aiiss Sartv 910 g oat Song 9.0, Portene 5.7 Prince Mbn 1 !? so’ vi M . aS ‘r Cynic 8.0. Plying STAK C E t m o a f r s a o e v° s S O one p e Da"y d ?.rS^ in g f lltisSTo UKinVwo'r”',.? o"*' 0 "*' 70 ’ Cotsflcld snv.?- U Sx I ? S , HA ™ H ANDICAP, of 30 sovs, six furlongs—Prince Henry 9 0 Honowai 8.0, Leiglicata 8.0, F.oeklfanipWolse y 8-5, Red Gold 8.5 OArF P A, R 4n A HIGH-WEIGHT HANOICAP, of 40 sovs; one mile and a dis- ? Sehtlor 10 ’ 3 ’ Hahunoke 40™ tra * gi .hack HANDICAP, of , 4 ® s .°' = ’ aeve ,n furlongs— Sunny Bachelor 10 0. Boat Song 9.5. Portene 810 Pr a ioc2 ,n S, S ° nS „ „ 8 ’ 5 ’ Gold Stitch ’s ®: ?n nr , y B ’®’ Wolsey 8.0. Victor Colima 8.0, lago 8.0. FARKWET.R HANDICAP, of 45 sovs’ filf Day ,0 - 7 - Oainsfid 9.],.. Stitch .1.8, Miss Sarty 8.9, T.ittle W onder B.Boat Song 8.7, Kinsel s I’lying Mimic 8.0. Master Cynic SO