RACING NOTES.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20503, 3 January 1935, Page 12

RACING NOTES.

£ j*| @ F*! ® gj g g i*j|*] [*j gj gj g gj g, T HE Wellington Racing Club will take nominations for its summer meeting on Monday. ** * * In view of his successes on the third and fourth days of the Auckland meeting, V intage stands out as the best stayer in commission in the Dominion. * >ie * Hunting Go has done practicallv all his racing this season, lie started in modest hack company, and after his success in the Invercargill Cup yesterday he is in line for the best handicap class. * * * * The three-year-old form has been very mixed this season. The latest line shows Gay Blonde up as the star. She can sprint and stay. * * * * Galilee has won three of the good two-year-old events in Auckland this season—Welcome Stakes, Avondale Stakes and Royal Stakes. CLUB’S ILL LUCK. The Greymouth Jockey Club must be accounted to have been very unlucky to strike the only really wet weather there has been for two months on the West Coast. As a result the totalisator aggregate for the cup meeting was £8612 as compared with £11,750 last year. MAIDEN SUCCESS. Nautipol, a three-year-old daughter of Polazel and Red Bloom, had her third start and first win in the Trial Stakes at Omoto .yesterday. She is trained by C. J. Walsh for Mr H. Duggan. Nautipol had some assistance from Dame Fortune. Sir Leighton led for the first three and a half furlongs. He then suffered a bleeding attack and was pulled up. Sundancer, the favourite. was last away and went round the field to lead into the straight, but Nautipol beat him by a length. Quebec ran a much improved race. A GOOD RECORD. Sir Charles Clifford had eight horses racing in the North Island during the holidays, and they came through the campaign with a very creditable record, as they won nine races, besides being second six times and third twice. Of the four who went to Auckland, Bun Fight did best, with two wins and a second, while Cricket Bat secured a third, after starting the trip well with a win at Trentham. Copyist and Horns Reef did not earn any money. The other four raced in the southern part of the North Island. Fracas did best of this lot. She started with a second at Manawatu, after which she had a win, while she won two more races at Wairarapa. Hororata had a win and a second at each meeting. Knock Out was third at Manawatu and won twice at Wairarapa, while Owlsgleam was second at each meeting. In this team, therefore, each of the four contributed to the success of the trip. AT LAST. At last. Weatherly has returned to the winning list. His record this season until yesterday included seven seconds, three thirds, but no wins. In the Dominion Handicap at Omoto he had ten opponents. The novice Sisterena essayed to lead all the way and made a very good attempt at it. Weatherly was running second early but lost that position in making the turn into the back. He ran up to third *place coming to the home turn behind Sisterena and Rothen. In the run home, Rothen and Weatherly drew out for a desperate battle, in which Weatherly just prevailed. Three lengths away, Importance cut Sisterena out of third place. Sisterena, a four-year-old sister to Anvil (Arrowsmith— Matty Carling) is trained at Omoto by M. Conza for Mr J. Leonard, of Blackball. She made her debut at Hokitika this week and does not seem likely to remain a maiden very long. HAULBOWLINE’S FALL. There was an unusual incident at the outset of the Walton Memorial Handicap at Omoto yesterday. Haulbowline, whose barrier manners do not improve with age, delayed the start for some time. He persistently turned his back on the barrier and on the occasions that he did come into line, he immediately went down the line of horses and tangled the whole field up. Wise Choice, who had the ill-luck to be drawn next to him, became upset in turn. Finally the starter, Mr R. Hatch, shouted to the attendant to take Halbowline back behind the line. He was well on the move when the barrier lifted. Haulbowline is very difficult to beat when he jumps out in front on West Coast tracks, and what sort of a task his opponents would have had if all had gone well with him can be easily guessed. However, after going a few yards, he apparently crossed his legs and fell. Haulbowline was favourite, so one way and another he did not enhance his popularity. All the time he was holding up the start his opponents were carrying their weights, which included the lOst 51b of Royal Amphora and the 9st 41b of W ise Choice. The unfairness of this is obvious. In the actual race only Cheap Money. Animated and Lady Rene ever gave their supporters much encouragement, and Animated scored an easv win. This ten-year-old mare has proved decidedly useful on the Coast. KEENLY FOUGHT RACE. R. Adamson’s novice, Rotokino, showed plenty of pace in the Blaketown Handicap at Omoto yesterday and this Robespierre three-year-old should win races. He 'was just cut out of third money in a close finish in which five horses took part. The winner was Hunting Call, an eight-year-old Hunting Song gelding, who is owned and trained by A. Thomson, of Nelson. Azevedo, who was beaten by half a length, seemed to have every chance. Epris, who was favourite, was lying fourth when he ran into trouble at the home turn and was knocked back. Zetes looked to have a chance at the top of the straight but finished ungenerously. * * * * Royal Sceptre was galloped on and his legs cut while running in the Electric Handicap at Omoto yesterday. 1N WIN NTNG WAY. At the Christmas-New Year circuit on the West Coast last season, W. Shand rode six winners. He came down from Trentham this time under engagement to the young Omoto trainer. C. J Walsh, and so far Shand has had eight successes. Walsh, who trained four of the winners at Omoto yesterday, gets his horses very fit and places them well.