Racing World

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19056, 8 July 1924, Page 6

Racing World

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EARLY BIRD

NOTES AND COMMENTS Wellington opens to-morrow and concludes on Saturday. At Trentham on Wednesday the Winter Hurdles is to be decided, and on Saturday the Wellington Steeplechase comes up for decision. The Monk (Absurd-Cowl) carried lOst. 21bs. when he won a six furlong race at tho last V.A.T.C. meeting. He was favourite. According to an Auckland writer Joy Ride is still in the northern city, the negotiations for his sale to a West Australian not yet being completed. Instead of remaining in the Bay district as intended, Polonett and Sunny Roe returned to Auckland after the Hawke’s Bay meeting. Last week the Hawke’s Bay District Committee dismissed the appeal of jockey K. Baker against his suspension in connection with the running of Antler at Napier Park. Prince Rufus suffers from rheumatics, which prevented him starting in- the Great Northern Hurdles. He is still moving a bit stiffly out at Trentham (says “The Watcher”). Cawnpore, the rising three-year-old son of Lucknow and Catherine Dock, who is owned by Mr Ewen Alison, is to be shipped to Sydney this week by the Ulimaroa, Cawnpore will make the journey to Sydney with Mr J. Williamson’s team, but on arrival in Australia he will go into F. D. Jones’ stable. Lochson had not been jumped since Auckland prior to Sunday at Trentham, when J. Kaan, who will ride him in his engagements at Trentham and Riccarton, came down and schooled him over three fences. Lochson will be one of the most seasoned performers at the meeting. The annual session of the New Zealand Racing Conference opens at Wellington on Thursday next. It is very doubtful if any of the Derby place-fillers started in the Princess of Wales Stakes on Thursday. Salmon Trout, the winner, was a brilliant two-year-old, and in May last brought himself into favour for the blue ribbon by winning the Hastings Stakes at Newmarket. Thus a Sydney writer recently: An idea of Chrysostom’s pace may be gathered from the fact that at Caulfield on a soddenod track he was only seconds outside the two-mile record, whereas the Hurdle Race was 9Asec., the seven furlong 4|sec., and the six-fur-long race 3£sec. outside the course re; cord. One Melbourne man said: “Sydney critics were evidently justified in their adulation of Chrysostom as a steeplechaser, for few finer and faster exhibitions of fencing have been witnessed at Caulfield.” “Has a horse ever been penalised for a Grand National Steeplechase for having won a hurdle race?” is the nature of a question to hand (writes “Phaeton”). Tho correspondent who sends the query must admit that he gives the matter a wide range. I have no recollection of such a condition ever having been laid down in New Zealand, but a celebrated instance is connected with the Australian turf, in which a great horse was involved. Redleap won the V.R.C. Grand National Hurdle Race of 1892, and, according to the conditions laid down, he was mulct in a 101 b penalty for the V.R.C. Grand National Steeplechase, which addition raised his impost in the cross-country race from 12.7 to 13.3. Redleap won the race under the 101 b penalty. A London cablegram to hand last week conveys the interesting news that the French owner, M. Wertheimer, is dispatching Epinard to America with a view to meeting America’s best in a series of matches at Brooklyn Park, New York. That these matches will be very effectively stage-managed in America need not be doubted, and wo shall no doubt hear quite a lot when the great French colt gets into his stride on American soil. That Epinard is great up to a mile is an opinion widely expressed in well-versed circles, and America’s best may expect to find the chestnut from France a very tough proposition. With defeats registered against Zev, the vanquisher of Papyrus in last year’s match at Brooklyn Park, the Americans will no doubt be set the task of finding something better than their much-boomed champion of 1923 to cope with Epinard. EGMONT-WANGANUI HUNT CLUB The point-to-point steeplechase meeting of the Egmont-Wanganui Hunt Club will be held at Waverley on Saturday next. The programme will comprise the following events:Lightweight Hunters’ Steeplechase (for qualified hunters), distance about 2J miles. Heavyweight Hunters’ Steeplechase (for qualified hunters), distance about 3 miles. Farmers’ Steeplechase (for qualified hunters), distance about 3 miles. Consolation Steeplechase (for horses that have started but have not been placed first or second in events 1,2, or 3.) Entries for the above events close with the secretary (Mr W. Maefarlane) tonight.

MARTON J.C. AND RANGITIKEI HUNT. SPRING MEETINGS. The programmes for the above meetings to be held on Marton racecourse on Wednesday and Thursday September 3 and 4so that eight events are set down for decision on each day and comprise hack hurdles, hack flat races, open handicap events, and three rae.es for hunters (including a steeplechase, and hurdles). Nominations for all events at both meetings close on Friday, August 15, at 9 p.m.

LATEST FROM TRENTHAM YESTERDAY’S GALLOPS. INTERESTING WORK AND JUMPING. (By Telegraph). (From Our Special Reporter). WELLINGTON, July 7. Rain fell in the early morning, and the tracks were holding. The inside of the trial grass gallop was open for fast work, but there was nothing of exceptional interest, most of the work being confined to three-quarter pace, a good deal of it done against time. The going on the grass cut up badly. Peach Brandy ran four furlongs in 54 l-ssec. Entre Nous and Bonlita went ovei the same ground, and Entre Nous was much better in 53sec. Pantrymaid was better than Salamis over four furlongs in 58isec. Stream cleared out from a companion over six furlongs, run in Imin 23 sec—a fair gallop for the going. Comical was going better than Cold Steel at the end of a slow run mile in lmin 51|sec, the first half in 55sec. They were only cantering at the finish. Comical was giving away a good deal of weight. Uralla was much superior to Bodyguard in running seven furlongs in 1 min 38sec, the first half in 55sec. It was a fair effort. Mountain Signal did not have much on Gluement at the end of a mile in lmin 55sec. ONE OF THE BEST. Printemps had Megan doing her best, without much effort to himself, over seven furlongs in lmin 36sec. This was one of the best gallops from a time point of view. En Route, with a good weight up, went once round on the tan at a solid pace, the last mile taking lmin 53sec. Prompter ran six furlongs, doing the, last half in 54sec. He went well. Ecuador was better than Ardfinnan, with Backsheesh beaten off, over five furlongs, run in lmin Bsec. Ecuador was going nicely at the finish. Sycorax and Tinokaha were clear of a companion over a mile in lmin 58scc. SIR ROSEBERY PLEASES. Carawock and Sir Rosebery ran a mile and a quarter in 2mins 24 sec. Sir Rosebery, who had the outside running, had Carawock well in hand at the finish. Rafa went six furlongs in lmin 24 sec, and Koodoo did a half in 55sec. Musketoon, picked up by Knighthood over the last five, and running on the outside, ran a mile in lmin 49 sec, the first half in 53secs. Considering the going this was a good gallop. Killard went a mile in lmin 58sec, taking 59sec for each half. The jumpers Maunga and Kohu did pace work, as did Silent King and San Forte, all moving freely. OVER THE OBSTACLES. Bustler jumped the steeplechase fences on the inside of the course, giving a good display. Captain Sarto and Mandrake jumped three of the schooling hurdles, the former giving a good display. Mandrake also went well. Boomerday, Le Forte and Royal Fame were given the same task. Le Forte jumped particularly well, and Boomerday was also very good. Royal Fame was not their equal, but he went much better than on Saturday. Merry Singer and Cartoon were companions over three hurdles. Both went well, being quick at the fences. Prince Rufus went exceptionally well over three hurdles, and afterwards moved freely over a round. Rowan and Kyoto commenced over five fences on the steeplechase course proper. Rowan went well, but Kyoto ran about and eventually refused at the top brush, which he has previously done. Rowan was nothing out of the ordinary. Gaze, Fireblight and Achilleon were companions over the same obstacles. All went well, the jump over the top brush being as good as anything yet seen. TRAINING HORSES NOVEL IDEA—REST AFTER RACES. What promises to bo a variation from the usual method of training racehorses, with a view to keeping them fit and fresh, and thus enabling them to give more races a year, is proposed in a scheme being undertaken by Mr. T. M. Burke, a well-known racehorse owner, says a message from Melbourne, Mr. Burke is of the opinion that horses become tired of the usual practice cf returning to their stables after a race, being brought on the tracks for exercise, and then stabled again every morning, until they again take part in another race. His scheme is not original, as Mr. Burke says that some English trainers have tried the same experiment of giving a horse a brief respite by allowing him loose in a paddock., to roam at his will. Mr. Burke thinks that if a horse races on Saturday, then on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, and possibly Wednesday he should be given his freedom in a paddock to live the life of an ordinary working horse at rest. On Thursday he could again be brought on the tracks for an exercise gallop, and would be all the better for his short holiday, and in fit condition to race again on the following Saturday. With a view to putting his theory into practice, Mr. Burke recently puri chased from Mr. H. Peck, of Pascoe Vale, a large estate, and has reserved about 20 acres for his 16 horses. Up-to-date stabling accommodation will be erected, and Mr. Burke expects to move his team at the end of July. His trainer, W. Burke, lives two miles away, and will still have the supervision of the team.

traps at Rosebery.. Backers, generally, had a bad day, as Little Doubt was the only actual favourite to score. Hot favourites in Stop Watch, Entail, Malt Knight, Some Nut, and Mis. Dighton all went down. Then as a final blow, after Eu Donohue and Gancia had run a dead-heat, punter laid big odds on Eu Donohue in the run-off-in fact one well-known bettor offered £4O to £lO on Eu Donohue soon after the pair jumped away in the runoff. He led to the home turn, where Gancia easily passed him and beat him home. Skelton had five horses engaged in the first division of the Rosebery Handicap, but he scratched them all on the course. SANSOVINO’S DOWNFALL LONDON, .Tune 21. Though the Derby winner, Sansovino, was an odds-on favourite for the Hardwick Stakes at Ascot, he ran unplaced, the race bing won by Chosroes. W. McLachlan, jun., is the season’s most successful apprentice. He scored cleverly to-day in the Wokingham stakes, on Pasdarus, who started at 10 to 1.