Topics of the Turf

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20342, 27 June 1934, Page 12

Topics of the Turf

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for the New Zealand Grand National Hurdle and Steeplechase, Winter Cup, Sydenham Hurdle, Beaufort and Lincoln Steeplechases close on Friday at 8 p.m. Acceptances for the first day of the Wellington meeting, also for the Winter Hurdle race, close to-day week. OAMARU TRAINS. In connection with the Oamaru Jockey Club’s meeting, to be held next Saturday, a special horse train has been arranged for the convenience of Canterbury competitors. It will leave Oamaru at 9.40 a.m. on Sunday and the racecourse at 10.20 a.m., taking horses for stations north of Timaru. Passenger accommodation will be provided for attendants. ALL PAID THEIR WAV S. Barr is giving Fleeting Glance, Quietly, Cheap Money and Silver Sight a rest. They have all been moneyearners this season, during which Silver Sight has obtained £025, Fleeting Glance £362, Cheap Money £270, and Quietlv £231. Barr has turned the attention of Starshcoter to hurdle racing, and he shows aptitude for his new game. * * * * S. Anderson has been engaged to ride Red Bank in the Wellington Steeplechase. A. Hobson will ride Flower and Hill Comet in their engagements at Trentham. LUNA LUX AS HURDLE RACER. Although he is not in + he Wellington Steeplechase, Luna Lux holds hurdle race engagements at Trentham next month. He has been allotted 9.S in the Trentham Hurdle and 9.7 in the Winter Hurdle race. HURDLE WEIGHTS COMPARED. __ Wee Pat has been given 101 b more in the Winter Hurdle at Trentham than she carried to victory in the Great Northern Hurdle race this month. She meets Makeup, who was second, 81b worse. A comparison of the weights in the two races is appended:— G.N.11. Winter, st. lb. st. lb. Wee Pat (1) 10 1 10 11 Makeup (2) 11 8 11 10 Billy Boy (4) 10 4 10 3 Hounslow (71 10 9 10 7 Callamart (fell) 9 12 9 11 Gold Knight (fell) .. 9 0 9 0 Prince of Orange (fell) 10 4 10 3 Pahu (fell) 9 7 9 8 *Cruachan 10 S 10 6 * Did .not start in Great Northern. WIN AND PLACE INDICATOR. An official trial, in the presence of the stewards, took place at Trentham on Saturday morning of the new win and place indicator, and it proved in every way satisfactory. Backers will be able, at any stage of the betting, to see just what their fancy is paying both for a win and place, the dividends being shown in the one column by different coloured barometers. IMPRESSIVE FORM. Now that True Shaft has learned to jump properly he should go on to better things, says the “ Dominion.” His flat form is much above that of the average jumper, and while one perfbrmance is insufficient to establish a claim to greatness, he will, if he improves at all. win a big event over the hurdles before the close 3f the jumping season. WILL BE HERE AGAIN Cyclonic and Bay Tree, who won three races between them at the Hawke’s Bay and Napier Park meetings, are to race at Trentham and then come south for the Grand National fixture. Last August Bay Tree won two races at Riccarton. * * * * L. Knapp has a strong hand on paper in the Wellington Steeplechase. He trains three of the sixteen entrants, namely Cailamart, Riotous and Tudor. SOUrHONG SPELLING. Souchong has finished racing for the season and will consequently be taken out of work and rested on the property of his owner-breeder, Mr P. F. Wall, at Ilatuma, Hawke’s Bay, where relatives of his, Hatuma and Recitation, are being pottered about. Dissertation, who foaled the last-named pair, is a half-sister by Demosthenes to Souchong, and as both Hatuma and Recitation were sired by Arausio (sire of Souchong) the relationship i» well defined.

WELLINGTON STEEPLECHASE, Omeo, winner of the 1933 Wellington Steeplechase, is dead, and Luna Lux, who was runner-up, is proving difficult to train and is not an entrant this time. Makeup was third last July with 11.3, Callamart fourth with 11.10, while the other starters included Billy Boy 12.0 and Copey 9.9. Billy Boy won this event in 1932 with 11.3. The horses engaged in the 1934 Wellington Steeplechase include seven who were handicapped for the Great Northern Steeplechase this month. A comparison of the Ellerslie and Trentham weights is:— WellingG.N.S. ton.

* * * * ! Sunny Sky is said to have been very j unlucky at Greenmeadows on Saturday. This mare likes winter going and may prove worth keeping in mind for Trentham. OAMARU’S GOOD ACCEPTANCE. Acceptances for the Oamaru meeting give full promise of interesting racing. The Hack and Hunters’ Steeplechase has attracted ten horses and looks like providing a good contest. The New Zealand Cup winner, Palantua, and C.J.C. Stewards’ victor, Silver Streak, ! are in the mile Grange Handicap, and the acceptors for this event also include Ilurlingham, Great Star, Yentrac and Mount Boa. There are fifteen in the mile and a quarter hack handicap. TIIURINA SCHOOLS. Thurina (D. O’Connor) schooled over a round of the steeplechase fences !at Riccarton this morning. He 1 jumped the first fence very big, but ; then settled down and gave a very | good exhibition. Pleasant Memory (J. Yeevers) and Royal Limond (G. Salt) were sent over four hurdles together. It was the first occasion on which Pleasant Memory has had a companion in her jumping tasks and she shaped particularly well. DUNEDIN CLASSICS. Nominations for the Dunedin Jockey Club’s classic races will close on July 20. These event's are the M’Lean Stakes, of 200 so vs, half a mile, to be run next October; the Champagne Stakes, of 200 sovs, six furlongs, to be run in February, 1935; and the Dunedin Guineas, of 250 sovs, one mile, to be run in October, 1935. Entries, which are for present yearlings, are free, with a first forfeit of £1 in each * * * * Arcade (G. Murfitt) and Rational 11. (G. Salt) both shaped well in a school over the steeplechase fences at Riccarton yesterday. UN KEANUS SOUTHERN TEAM. j Among the horses trained in the j Auckland province engaged at the Wellington meeting are:—Silver Division, Wilton, Greek Gold, Billy Boy, Neil, Patutahi, Yalpeen. Cargen, Cruachan, Prince of Orange, Wee Pat, King Musk, Lord Yal, Protomint, Prince Yal, Wee Musk, Square Acre, Simeon, Ilorowhenua, Royal Gallant, Wiltshire, Free Air and Hawthorne. MAY COME TO RICCARTON. After racing at the Napier Park meeting, Tunbridge returned to Trentham, the negotiations for his disposal having been dropped. Had he failed last Saturday he might have been j bought by a patron of L. G. Morris’s I stable for use as a hunter. His nomI mation for the Wellington meeting was | inadvertently missed, but he may come j to Riccarton later on. MR ICE.MBALL RETURNING. Mr W. R. Kemball is expected to be back from Australia in time for the Wellington races next month. His only entrants for the meeting are the two-year-olds Orby’s Choice and Rulate. * ❖ * * Entries for the Wellington winter meeting are 115 in excess of those received last year. PROMISING MAIDEN. Roj'al Feast drew attention to his future prospects by his finishing run into second place in the Trial Plate at Napier on Saturday. Not only was this his first experience with the colours up, but he was also a long way back in the early running. With the improvement that can be reasonably expected with experience, Royal Feast should develop into a gallopei above the average. lie is a three-year-old by Mercian King from Morning Gift, who is by Boniform from Morgantic, dam of Disrank and Fitzquex. A ’ little further back in this pedigree are such good gallopers as Kick Off, Benannee and Black Art. Royal Feast is engaged at Trentham. WORTH REMEMBERING. The form of Passion Fruit at Hastings and Greenmeadows indicated that he will again be dangerous at Trentham next month. He scored a runaway victory in the Trial Plate at this meeting last year. M. J. Carroll leaves this week for S\'dney with Boughal, Sirona and Orac. The apprentice jockeys’ fund of the New Zealand Racing Conference shows that a sum of £6842 13s lid was received in fees during the year, while interest amounted to £383 16s lid. The expenses of administering the fund were £331 2s lid. After £152 0s 7d was credited to the apprentices for interest, the fund showed an excess of expenditure over income of £99 6s 7d for the year. RACING FIXTURES. June 30—Oamaru J.C. July 4—Damievirke H.C. July 10, 12, 14—Wellington R.C. July 21—Hawke's Bay lI.C. July 25—Rangitikei lI.C. July 26—Wa imn te D.H.C. July 26, 28 —PoveYty Bay T.C. July 28—South Canterbury H.C. July 28—Rotorua and Bay of Plenty H.C. July 28— Manawatu R.C. July 28—Franklin R.C. August 4—Christchurch 11. C., at Riccarton. August 14, 16, IS—C.J.C. Grand National.

st lb st lb Yalpeen (1) .... 4 in 4 Copey (3) 7 9 5 Simeon (4) .... . 10 3 9 10 Billy Bov (6) .. . 11 8 11 O Callamart (9) .. . 11 9 11 2 Makeup 8 11 2 "Patutahi * Did not start. . 9 3 9 10