Topics of the Turf

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20632, 5 June 1935, Page 12

Topics of the Turf

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OMINATIOXS for New Zealand events for now yearlings close on Friday, June 14. * * * * Nominations for the Ashburton County Racing Club’s meeting on June 22 close on Tuesday at S p.m. * * * Ss Ilandicape for the South Canterbury Jockey Club’s meeting are due on Friday. and acceptances close at 9 p.m. on Tuesday. THEY GET AN EARLY START. heights for the big Australian handicaps for which entries closed vesterdav, are due before 10 a.m. cn July 1, which means that they will be published in the Australian morning papers of that date. MOSTLY SHAW. Riccarton stables often play a big part at meetings of the Dunedin Jockey Club, but had it not been for J. S. Shaw theirs would have been a sorry record at the winter meeting which concluded at Wingatui yesterday. H. Nurse got a win and two thirds worth in all £9O with Land Raid, while High Speed managed a second and a third worth £23 for his trainerrider, 11. Turner. That was all apart from Shaw’s score of three wins and three seconds worth £453. JOCKEY FOR INDIA. 11. N. Wiggins will leave for Sydney, cn route to India, by the Niagara on Tuesday. Unless he changes his plans, he will be back in Auckland for the spring meeting in November. HATS OFF TO BLACK DUKE. Judged by their deeds the horses of the good old days were tougher . than the majority of. their present-day descendants. But every now and then, the racecourse of to-day sees an equine individual worthy to be ranged with his forbears in respect to stoutness. Take, for instance. Black Duke, winner of the Greenfields Hurdle Race at Wingatui yesterday. He needs only two more races to achieve his double century in starts. Of his 198 races, he has won 44. lie has also run 26 seconds and 21 thirds, and he has thus been unplaced 107 times. In prize money, he has earned £8270 10s in stakes. This is his tenth season on the turf. He won twice at three years, four at four years, nine at five years, three at six years, seven at seven years, eight at eight years, three at nine years, none at ten years, three at eleven years, and five at twelve years. One of his performances was to win the Greymouth Cup of 1931 with list 31b cn his back. Incidentally Black Duke is a real New Zealand horse, being the son of the Dominionbred sire Balboa. SON-IN-LAW BLOOD. New Zealand possesses three young stallions by Son-in-Law, namelv. Posterity, Philamor, and Seigfried. It is interesting, therefore, to note that three of the seventy final acceptors for the Derby are bv- Son-in-Law and two more by his son. Son and Heir. The latter stallion died in February, 1932, from an internal rupture. He was a STey. dam being Cinderella who was by The Tetrarch from Dolabella by White Eagle. Last year in England, Son and Heir was represented by seventeen winners of 26 races and £11,546 in stakes. ROYAL GALLANT DOES WELL. Royal Gallant made his first public appearance as a member of the team of J. S.. Shaw at Omoto on April 26. Including that race he has had thirteen starts while in the charge of Shaw, and has compiled the meritorious record of five wins, three seconds and two thirds. In prize money he has earned £584. He belongs to Mr W. Hosking. one of the' two Auckland patrons of the stable. Roval Gallant is an Australian-bred gelding of English parentage. He is by the Swynford horse Top Gallant, who shares the world record—2min—for a mile and a quarter. Princess Ilona, dam of Royal Gallant, is an English mare imported! to Australia. She is by Troulbeck Ison of Ladas) from Princess Mary by Bend Or from Saint Mary by Hermit, This is a good winning family in En« land, and it has numbered severa.l classic wins among its members. ELLIS FORGES AHEAD. L. J. Ellis returned to winning form at Wingatui yesterday after four blank racing days. He did it, too, in no uncertain fashion, capturing a treble*' He is now eight wins ahead of pX. ]. Broughton. This looks like a vanning margin with only seven weeks of the season left. DAUGHTER OF ORATRES S. In ten days the Martc in trainer, L. G. Morris, produced four well-bred young horses by Gainscourt successively for his patron, Mr T. A. Duncan, who is at present in England, and it remained to the last of them to take the honour r of winning first time under colours. This was Oratory, a shapely chesi-ftut filly out of the Demosthenes xr. *re Oratress, winner of the New ZeaT/and Cup and at the stud dam of Orat.rix (New Zealand Cu/p), Concentrate (Auckland and Wellington Cups) and the high-priced OratocVan. Oratory began brilliantly in the TTaikanae Scurry, five furlongs, at the C ftaki meeting on Monday, being just beaten a wav bv the 'favourite Merlyn. and after being on near terms for tjhree furlongs she took over control ,</n the home turn and ran in a deci?,i.ve winner by two lengths and a half . It was an attractive performance ?md speaks well for her future. MAY BE SOLD. It is reported that Knock Out is likely to be sold by Sir Charles Clifford to a South Can ferbury owner.

VERY SLOW TRACK. Form at Wingatui in June is apt to prove deceptive when it is applied to races on some other courses. A mile and a quarter in 2min I6sec, a mile in lmin 46 4-ssec, six furlongs in lmin 18 4-osec and lmin 19 4-ssec. These times tell - their own story about the slowness of the going at Wingatui yesterday, ACCOMPLISHED FENCER. Graball, in securing his third win at the meeting, gave a fine exhibition of jumping in the Dunedin Steeplechase yesterday, and he shaped as if he could manage any country in the Dominion. He met very weak opposition at Wingatui, and a good deal of interest will be , taken in his form when he meets a. stronger field. LOST IN THE BUSH. Lady Wold, a winner in Perth *ecently, is a six-year-old who has d'»ie little racing. One reason for this. f is that as a youngster she was lost, in the bush for nearly two years. CHANGED PLANS. Mr E. E. Jolly, of Adelaide* has altered his intention to have hts 2100 guineas Limond—Veil colt traiia*.d in Sydney. Tl*e youngster will be taken to South Australia and placed under the care of the owner’s private Strainer G. R. Jesser. \ ABOUT GIGGLESWICK. In June of last year the West Coast performer Giggleswick also -/aid a visit to Dunedin. He won the Winter Handicap with SO and the Rc«lvn Handicap with S.iO, while he v#j iS ' unplaced m the King George Handicap. A few days later he won over * mile and a quarter with 9 ; 12. He Lad four unplaced runs at Riccartcra i n August and was then off the sceia 3 until Easter’ R e I£V1 £ VR h n d wit - h 812 ‘f Wino S.S and °V. Gallant ~8 over; seven furlongs at Omoto, but was unplaced in four cuher races on the circuit. At Wingaun P laced jon the first rlay n the Winter Handj cap. seven furlo"f% n°l by Sea F<r °" Monday, r he , ran seccjad to Royal Gallant 1.9 in the Birthcf ay Handicap, one won th d % q . uarte Jj ’* hile yesterday he won the Tainui Handicap, seven furlongs with 8.4 He/s now raced by Mr M -Stewart and ,s t/ained at Omoto bv UJ. \\ alsh Giggly swick, who is rising mne !s a half brother by Clarenceux to Polydora. Jfe has now started se\enty times for twenty wins, twelve seconds six thirds and thirty-two times unplaced. In stakes he has won £lßl6. His record is a pretty good one for a horse weighted lat the minimum, as he was ill the BirtLday Handicap on MonHALL MARi/.’s FUTURE. „ ™ .Rellow, the owner of the crack Hall Jfark, has announced that next season wall be the last for the son oi Heroic. OTAKI HURDLE FORM. Air Ladrifc was not troubled on Mon day at the -Otaki meeting to repeat his first day s Success in the Pukehou Hack Hurdle, -,,-h.ch he won decisively by three lengths from Diamond. He went “P to , a lmond in the lead* five and a halt furi.ongs from home, outjumped P 1”? .tV the next hurdle, and ahvavs Cad th# race safe from that point He jumpe#, smoothly and confidentlv throughout again, and looks the makmgs pi. /a useful jumper this winter, one Who IT light win a big race, as he is bred to slf y. Twelve months ago Transact a won the Otaki double, and went on to win at Trentham. Diamond, '■erj- little less supported, jumped to the front brilliantly at the first hurdle, bu, thereafter his display was mixed, Tu n screwing jumps at the second and l'l hurdle. The latter mistake uj iked like costing him second money , ut he outstayed Arctic Star in the run to the post. His jumping was not .nearly so good as at Woodville, but Jie may have been feeling the effects •of his first day’s fall. Arctic Star was always close to the leaders after the held was fairly on its way, jumping well, but he did not stay on like a horse who will go far. Petrarch was lourth, but a moderate one, and Park Acre went badly. Enif fell at the first hurdle, where he was in line with Diamond and Petrarch in front. Esteem was a course scratching, his first dav’s rider, U . J. Bowden, obtaining the mount on Air Laddie owing to the absence of L. Dulieu at Ellerslie. OWNED IX KUMARA.

Land Raid, winner of the Electric Handicap at W ingatui yesterday, was bred by Mr M. R. Spiers and carries the colours of Mr A. B. Spiers, oi Kumara. He is a three-)’ear-old bay gelding by Night Raid from Missland by Elvsian (son of Soult) from Wairakau by Cyrenian (son of St Simon) irom Waiorongomai by Hotchkiss and tracing back to the imported mare Juliet b) r Touchstone. • The only previous start of Land Raid prior to his races at the Dunedin meeting was an unplaced run in the Juvenile Stakes at Motukarara on March 2. NOW A BLEEDER.

Melbourne reports state that the grey Hunting Song gelding Araunah has become a bleeder and M. McGrath has sent him out for a spell. 1000 GUINEAS WINNER. Mesa the French filly who won the Uile Ihousimd Guineas at Newmarket on May 3, was beaten a short head in the Pnx de la Jonchere, seven furlongs at Longchamps on April 22. Her conq}ie,r,or was Jus de Raisin. The value of the Pans race was 40,000 francs. GAY SHIELD COT.T

Advices from Auckland state that a co |* b- v Shield from Kiki has been sold by Mr Clive Matthews to Messrs T. C. and H. W. Wilson, of Waikato. NOMENCLATURE

Welcome Dawn, a three-year-old colt whom Sir Victor Sassoon is racing in England this season, is by Hot Night tL 0n V DaW s' Good nomenclature, but tfte l\ew Zealand Acceptable, who is by Tea Tray from Earlv Morn is even better. Irish Player bv Athlone from Actress is an English two-year-old raced by Baron F. de Tuyll. Hiker, an English five-year-old, is by Diligence trom Tip Toe.