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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20509, 10 January 1935, Page 12

/Votes and news from everywhere

for the first day of the Wellington meeting close on Monday at 8 p.m. * i,’: Nominations for the Sydney Cup, Doncaster Handicap, Cropper Plate, Warwick Farm Liverpool Handicap and Autumn Cup. V.A.T.C. Oakleigh Plate and Futurity Stakes. Y.R.C. Newmarket Handicap and Australian Cup close on Tuesday. * * * * Nominations for all events at the Wanganui Jockey Club’s meeting on January 31 and February 2 will close at 8 p.m. to-morrow. The programme includes the Wanganui Cup, of £250, one mile and a quarter. HACK NO LONGER. Last season C. M’Carthy had in his team Drumfire, a former inmate of the Chokebore Lodge stable. Drumfire won £285 in prize money while in M’Carthy’s charge. This season another former Chokebore representative in Heather Glow is being trained by M’Carthy, and since his change over Heather Glow has had four wins. These, with two seconds, have brought in £365 in stakes. Heather Glow scored the fourth of these successes in the Trial Hack Handicap which opened the Reef ton meeting yesterday. Incidenally, he put himself out of the hack class in doing it. His seven wins have been worth in all £505, while his total earnings are £725 10s. CHALLENGE CUPS. An interesting feature of the Vincent programme is the two races to which challenge cups are attached. The Clare Memorial Handicap carries a stake of £IOO, with a challenge gold cup valued at £3OO and a miniature gold cup valued at £ls. The Lochella Cup Handicap also has a stake of £IOO, with a challenge silver cup valued at £2O. The Clare challenge trophy has to be won thrice in succession or five times at intervals before it becomes the property of the winner. Either feat requires a good deal of doing. The Lochella trophy has to be won twice in succession or three times at intervals. The Clare is safe at present. Quite Soon. who scored last year, is the only previous winner engaged. Amy Johnson, however, won the Lochella last year with 8.4, and she is an acceptor this time with 8.0. FCRM OF IMPORTANCE. The last win achieved by Importance was in the C.J.C. Post Handicap, one mile, on February 17 of last year. Heather Glow, to whom Importance conceded lib, was fourth. At Reefton yesterday Heather Glow successfully gave Importance 121 b. Between her Riccarton win and her third at Omoto on January 2, Importance was unplaced eighteen times in succession. It was nearly nineteen, because the judge at Omoto first put up the number of Earthquake instead of hers. HIS FIRST WIN. Until yesterday. Quebec had been third on four occasions and unplaced twenty-one times. His earnings amounted to £29 10s. At his twentysixth start, victory. came his way in the High-Weight Handicap at Reefton. He is a four-year-old gelding by Lord Quex from Polonaise, by Rossendale from Naarilla, by Malt King from the Polymelus mare Perilla. Quebec is a member of S. Barr’s team. IMPERIAL SPEAR. Imperial Spear, who won a double at Reefton yesterday, has raced throughout the West Coast circuit. At the Westland meeting he was beaten over seven furlongs by Animated, and won the Goldfields Handicap, one mile, with 9.1. He ran twice in mile events at the Grej'mouth meeting. On the first day in the County Handicap he was third with 9.5 to Rothen and Marmoration, while on the second he was fourth with 8.7 in the W. R. Kettle Memorial Cup won by Monipere 8.7 from Haulbowline 8.13 and Wino 7.12. He was ridden in his races yesterday by L. J. Ellis and A. E. Ellis. RACING CAREER ENDED. The Woodville-trained mare Foreign Queen is reported to have broken down, and her racing career is ended. She has been a good stake-earner for her owner-trainer, D. Kemp, for whom she won a number of races at the southern meetings during the last couple of seasons. As a' two-year-old Foreign Queen was successful on four occasions and the following season won the last fi**e races that she contested. GLENROMNEY KILLED. While being galloped on the hard sand on Waihi Beach, Glenromney. who was owned by Mr A. E. Pearce, and was engaged at the Thames Jockey Club’s meeting, put his foot in a hole and fell, dislocating a shoulder. He had to be destroyed. The rider, A. Conway, received injuries to the shoulder and bruises, but was not seriously hurt. SUCCESSFUL TRIP. The Auckland jockey, L. Dulieu, was in good form at the Taranaki and Stratford meetings during the holidays, having eight winning mounts. He won three races on Friesland, a similar number on Lucidus, and one each on St Clara and Chief Marionette. DOURO CUP ENTRY. The entry for the Douro Hack Cup, the doyen of such events in the Dominion, illustrates the gradual decline in nominations that has been taking place in the last three or four years. Three years ago the entry was fortythree, two years ago it was thirty-nine, last year it was thirty-five and this year it is only twenty-five.

! DOUBLY ENGAGED. ! Five entrants for the Wellington Cup i who claim nominations in other events 1 on the opening day of the Wellington meeting this month are Red Rufus < High-weight) and Great Star, Korero, Passion Fruit and Royal Artist (Anni- ! versary Handicap). j WELLINGTON' CUP. New Zealand handicappers are not prone to impose crushing imposts in important races. Mr J. P. Coyle has not been heavy-handed in framing the handicaps for the Wellington Cup. \ intage won the A.R.C. Handicap last week with 9.6 and was allotted 10.1 in the Grandstand Handicap, one mile and a quarter. He did not start in the latter, in which he had to concede Ga}’’ Marigold 201 b and both Great Star and Rocket 431 b. In the Wellington Cup he gives Gay Marigold 181 b and the other pair 371 b. In the A.R.C. Handicap King March*was second with 9.6, Grand Jury third with 8.8 and Caliente fourth with 7.4. The others included Spiral 8.4, Rocket 7.2 and Great Star 7.0. Vintage meets King March 51b worse. Grand Jury 71b worse, Caliente 71b worse. Spiral 91b worse, Rocket 51b , worse and Great Star 31b worse. Five j of the 1934 Wellington Cup field are again engaged, and the weights com- • pare:— 1934. 1935.

The new Melbourne owner of Synagogue, son of Rabbi, belongs to the Jewish faith. GOLD TRAIL. One of Gold Trail’s knees filled slightly after her racing at Ellerslie, j and she is having a spell for a few weeks. It is possible that she will race i in Sydney at Easter. QUIET OX TRACKS. The only horses at Riccarton with engagements this month are those j nominated for the Wellington meeting. The great majority of these horses | have had their share of racing lately ' and require little fast work at this . stage. In any case, the absence of any j rain worth while does not tend to make for any more galloping than is necesI sary. It -was very quiet at Riccarton this morning. TREXTHAM TRACKS. Watering of T;he Trentham tracks, combined with the recent rains, has resulted in the going being better at the present time than it has ever been at this period of the year, says the “ Dominion.” In the event of continued dry weather, the watering will be kept up for the benefit of the horses engaged at this month’s meeting. LIMARCIi’S CONDITION. The Randwick trainer, J. T. Jamieson, reports that Limarch and Latharna, who are still in Victoria, are making good progress. It is practically certain , that Latharna will make a complete recovery, and v although Limarch is doubtful, there is some hope that he will be able to do further racing. LAME AGAIN. The Auckland-owned Master Brierly, who has been in F. M’Grath’s stable at Randwick for some months, has developed lameness, and will probably be sent back to New Zealand for a spell. It is believed that the lameness is a recurrence of the trouble that affected him shortly before he left for Sydney. COMING HOME. Salt Spray is entered on the two ! concluding days of the Wellington meeting, so he is apparently due to i leave Melbourne shortly. j A CORRECTION. * j The correct result of the Kaponga Hack Handicap, of six furlongs, at the j postponed second day of the Stratford j Racing Club’s meeting on Saturda}* i was: —2-2 Chief Marionette 1, 4-3 OneI whetu 2, Princess Star 3. In the Press I Association report from Stratford the 1 favourite. Dancing Lady, was given as i the second horse. INJURED JOCKEYS. M. Kirwan has returned from a brief holiday with his people on the West j Coast. He had hopes of being able to ride at Reefton, where one of his mounts would have been Grecian Prince, who won, but found that the injury to his back suffered at Wingatui would not yet permit him to resume his S occupation. Advices from Auckland state that the condition of the Riccarton jockey, A. Russell, continues to be satisfactory, but he will have to remain in bed for some weeks yet. Russell received severe head injuries in a fall with Horn’s Reef at Ellerslie on Boxing Day. HORSE OLDER THAN RIDER. When E. Doran rode Laird o’ Cockpen to victory in the picnic cup at Pakenham. Victoria, last week, he had his first ride in a race and he won on a horse older than himself. Laird o’ Cockpen is fourteen and Doran thirteen. His father, the Caulfield trainer F. Doran, had a similar experience at Drouin (Victoria) on New Year’s Day thirty-three years ago. Then a lad of seventeen, Doran won the Drouin Cup. for amateur riders, on Millmin (late Harlcaway), who was nineteen years old. E. Doran rides at shows and is a regular attendant at the Caulfield tracks. His brother Jack is a wellknown amateur rider. ALL RECEIVE TROPHIES. On the second day (Saturday) of the Vincent Jockey Club's meeting, the principal event is the Jubilee Cup. and it carries three trophies in addition to its prize money. There is a £25 silver cup for the winning owner, also trophies for the trainer and rider of the successful horse.