Topics of the Turf

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20364, 23 July 1934, Page 12

Topics of the Turf

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ACCEPTANCES for the South Canterbury Hunt Club's meeting close at 9 o’clock this evening. * * * . * General entries for the C.J.C. meeting close at 8 p.m. on Friday. At the same hour, acceptances for the Winter Cup, Grand National Hurdle Race and Steeplechase close. * * * * Handicaps for the Christchurch Hunt Club’s meeting are due next Monday. WINTER CUP CANDIDATE. At Trentham, Slippery ran unplaced in the Stewards’ Handicap, six furlongs, won the Members’ Handicap, seven furlongs, and finished fourth in the Winter Oats Handicap, one mile. This Hunting Song four-year-old was successful at Hastings on Saturday, when he won the Tikokino Handicap, six furlongs and a half, with 9.13 from Sunny Sky 9.7. Slippery is in the Winter Cup with 5.9. Sunny Sky is also engaged in the Cup at 8.3. FIELDS FOR WAIMATE. The Waimate Hunt Club has received quite a satisfactory acceptance for As race meeting on Thursday. Riccarton representatives are Starshooter, Willow Glen, Imperial Spear, Cheap Money, Doiran, Silver Sight, Cleaner, Niggerhead, Beau Geste, Colossian, Weatnerley and First View. JOCKEY’S TREBLE. P. Atkins, who rode three winners at the Hawke’s Bay Hunt Club’s meeting on Saturday, has had a successful season. He is now eighth on the winning list withf 42 successes. EXPECTED TO-MORROW. The Auckland owner-trainer 11. Rama is expected to arrive here from the north to-morrow with Free Air Wee Musk and Horowhenua, who have been at Trentham since the Wellington meeting. In company with Tunbridge, Free Air was schooled over three steeplechase fences at Trentham on Saturday. Tunbridge, who is likely to contest some of the minor steeplechases at Riccarton, gave a sound display, and Free Air alsp jumped safely, but too high. Free Air has not yet raced over country, but it is understood that ; she will tackle the fences at Riccarton. ; ROYAL LINEAGE AGAIN. Royal Lineage, a candidate for the i New Zealand Grand National Hurdle Race, followed up his good form at Trentham by winning the Otane Hack and Hunters’ Hurdle Race at Hastings cn Saturday. Among his opponents was Luna Lux, who finished third but ten lengths behind the winner. Royal Lineage has 9.8 in the Grand National Hurdles. It is interesting to recall that he won a race at this fixture seven years ago. Then a three-year-old, he was successful in the Cashmere Plate for P. F. Neagle, who owned and trained him. D. N. Ducker, of Gisborne, now has charge of Royal Lineage for Messrs W. Wilson and W. Whitfield. PLANS FOR PAUL’. Pahu is likely to be a runner in the Longbeach Hurdle race at the Christchurch Hunt Club’s meeting on Saturday week. In that case he will be ridden, by M. H. Nicol. Pahu was not a visitor t oßiccarton last August, but in the 1932 Grand National Hurdle race he was looking dangerous when he fell at the last hurdle. He then had 9.9, and he has the same impost in the C.J.C. race this time. * LATE MR GEORGE TYE. Reference is made in the trotting notes to the death of Mr George Tye, cf Melbourne. The late Mr Tye, after severing his connection with trotter?, became prominent in the galloping department of the sport. He and his brother Alan were partners in Tye Brothers, one of the largest furniture manufacturing and retailing firms in Victoria. They were also associated in both trotting and for a time in galloping. In the latter sphere they raced a number of English importations with the New Zealander Lou Robertson as trainer. Lavendo, winner of the Caulfield Cup, Costello and Highflown were three of their horses. Subsequently Mr George Tye formed a partnership with Mr Jack Corteen and Mr Alan Tye retired. The new combination, with C. T. Godby as trainer, raced a big team with great success, but the trouble that developed after the Caulfield Cup victory of their horse Purser led to the permanent retirement from racing of Mr George Tye. ' NEW HURDLE RACER. Pleasant Memory will make her public debut as a jumper in the hurdle • race at Washdyke on Saturday. She has shown considerable promise in her schooling at Riccarton. WEIGHTS COMPARED. A number of candidates for the principal C.J.C. events are entrants for the Manawatu winter meeting, handicaps for which appear in this issue. Weights in the Flaxbourne Hurdle show some differences with the adjustments for the Grand ational Hurdle, as will be seen in the appended list.

F2 motion 10 3 9 0 WASHDYKE TRAINS. In connection with the South Canterbury Hunt Club’s meeting, to be held at Washdyke on Saturday of next week, a special steam-heated train, conveying passengers and horses, will leave Christchurch at 6.50 a.m. It will stop at Addington, Sockburn. Templeton, Rolleston, Dunsandel, Rakaia, Chertsey. Ashburton, Hinds, Orari and Temuka, and will arrive at the racecourse at 10.33 a.m. The return train will leave Timaru at 5.45 p.m., Washdyke at 6 p.m. and will arrive in Christchurch at 9.20 p.m. Christchurch passengers may travel at specially reduced fares by the 8.35 a.m. express train, connecting at Washdyke with a special train for the course.

MAY COME HERE. Autopay, who is engaged in the A.J.C. bp;um with 9.2, is reported from Trentham to be fairly well forward. He may race at Riccarton as a preliminary to another trip to Australia, where he has done so well in the past. MR J. M. SAMSON. Mr J. M. Samson has left the private hospital at Dunedin, of which he has been an inmate since May. His recent progress has been good, and he is now well on his way to complete recovery. EXODUS FROM N.Z, The Maungfinui, when she leaves Wellington on Thursday, will have a valuable shipment of New Zealand racehorses on board. R. W. King has booked for Silver Ring and Royal Am phora. H. E. Russell will have several of Mr C. T. Keeble’s horses, including Golden Wings. C. Boyle will take Saltspray, Playground and Hit the Deck. W. Griffiths will also be aboard with Limbohm and Royal FI unting. Nine days later the Wanganella will leave with another big shipment aboard. It will include the teams of F. D. Jones and C. Tmerson, also JM’Laughlin with his own rising four-year-old Epigram, also Mr W. Higgins’s rising two-year-olds (Lackham—Deborah colt and Lackham—Joybird filly) and probably the Irish-bred two-year-old colt Journey’s End (Yutoi— Sweet Sounds). All going well, M’Laughlin will not return until after the Centenary meeting. One of Epigram’s engagements is the Caulfield Cup, in which he has 7.12, .but he is not in the Melbourne Cup. WIN AND PLACE.

Mr W. T. Hazlett, the president of the Southland Racing Club, has spent a good deal of time in Australia during the past year and he has had opportunities for summing up betting systems. Speaking at the annual meeting of his club last week he expressed the opinion that the time was ripe for the five-shilling totalisator to be tried, but :t was a matter for the committee. Mr Hazlett also said that the electric totalisator at Trentham was working so admirably that he thought it would be a good idea for the main clubs of Southland to form a limited company and purchase *>ne. The majority of the members of the committee were in favour of the win and place system, which this totalisator favoured. ABOUT HAULBOWLINE.

An interesting candidate for the Claremont Handicap, one mile and 35vds, to be run at Washdyke on Saturday’ week is Ilaulbowline. He is a horse of great pace but has not the reputation of really relishing a fight. His sixtv-nine starts to date have produced seventeen wins, but these have nearly all been gained in sprint events. He has, however, won over a mile and has one victory to his credit over a mile and a quarter. This last-men-tioned success was gained at Hokitika; on April 4. and he ran the journey in 2min 8 3-ssec. He is Australian-bred and was imported to New’ Zealand by G. W. New, who raced him for over two seasons. Then he passed finto the. possession of Mrs C. Perano, for whom T. R. George trained hijn. After racing at Reefton in January, he changed ownership again, and he has since been racing in the colours of Mr G. Linton, for whom Rf. Conza trains him at Omoto. This season, Haulbowline has obtained ten wins, two seconds and four thirds in twenty-eight starts. He another race by six lengths at Kumara on Easter Monday, but his rider failed by 31b to draw the weight. By the Swvnford horse Top Gallant, Haulbowline is from Ayrmagh, vho was by the Ayrshire horse Ayr Laddie SON~ OF GREAT GALLOPER It seems rather strange to entertain a doubt as to whether Haulbowline cares for a longer journey than a mile, seeing that his sire is joint holder of the world's record for a mile and a quarter. When Top Gallant went to the starting post for the Newmarket Three-year-old Stakes on May 16, 1923, the course_ record for the distance was -min 6 2-ssec. When he passed the judge clear of his the New'market record had become 2min. Top Gallant carried 9.0. Whick Broom 11. carrying 9.13, created this world record at Belmont Park (U.S.A.) in 1913, and Hark Forrard, with 6.2 in the saddle equalled it at Brighton (England) three months after Top Gallant had done so. Top Gallant was a highclass horse. He was not nominated for the classic events in England, where he raced as a two, three and four-year-old. He subsequently had half a dozen races in Australia. In all. he contested twenty-eight races for nine wins, five seconds, five thirds and nine times (including three fourths) iTfnn Ced ’ 1,1 stakes h e won over iIo.OOU. His one success in Australia was a notable victory. With 10.2 he Caulfield Futurity Stakes, of 1926, and ran the seven furlongs in lmin 26-!sec. He was followed home by Fujisan 9.10 and Manfred 96. Mer cian King, who later came to New Zealand as a sire, was fourth with 9.7, and Heroic fifth with 10.1. Among the other runners was The Hawk 10.2, Top Gallant that day conceded over three stone to some of the rupners. BLOODSTOCK SALE. Pvne, Gould, Guinness, Limited, and Wright, Stephenson and Co., Ltd., joint auctioneers, announce that they will hold their annual bloodstock sale on the Friday of Grand National week at Tattersall’s Bazaar, in Cashel Street. F'our brood mares from the Hororata Stud will be offered on behalf the trustees of the late 11. M. Reeves. They are Rapina (half-sister to Rapine), in foal to Nightmarch: Sennight (halfsister to Pillow Fight), in foal to Philamor; Scrip (winner M’Lean Stakes), in foal to Philamor; and Gay Round (half-sister to Phar Lap’s dam) who was not mated last season. F'urther entries for the sale are now being taken. RACING FIXTURES, July 25—Rangitikei H.C. July 26—Waimate D.H.C. July 26. 2s—Poverty Bay T.C. July 28—South Canterbury H.C. July 28—Rotorua and Bay of Plenty H.C. July 28— Manawatu R.C. August 4—Christchurch H.C., at RicAugust 4 —Poverty Bay H.C. August 14, 16. IS—C.J.C. Grand National. August 18—Pakuranga H.C. August 30—Rgmont-Wanganui lI.C. September I —Otago H.C. September i—Taranaki H.C.

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