THE TURF

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20005, 23 November 1927, Page 4

THE TURF

FIXTUBES. Novwnber 23—Ashhurst-Pohansrina R-C. November 26-28—Takapuna J.C. November 30. December I—Feildinjr J.C. December 2-3—South Canterbury J.C. December 7-B—Woodville J.C. December 10-12—Taumarunui R.C. December 17—Waipa R.C. December 26-27—Dunedin J.C. December 26—Waipukurau J.C. December 26-27—Westland R.C. December 26-27—Taranaki J.C. December 26-27-29— Manawatu R.C. December 26-28. Jan. 2-3—Auckland R.C. December 31. Jan. 2.—Wairarapa R.C. 1928. January 2—Waikouaiti R.C. January 2.—Wyndham R.C. January 2-3—Hawke’s Bay J.C. January 2-3—Stratford R.C. January 2-3—Marton J.C. AT ASHHURST TO-DAY FIELDS WILL BE LARGE. EEVIEW OF THE CARD. CBy ‘ * Kestrel.' *) Situated at the entrance to the Manawatu Gorge, the Ashhurst racecourse is favourably placed to be patronised by a wide circle of racegoers as it can draw from the Wairarapa and southern Hawke’s Bay as well as from Manawatu and Rangitikei. The annual fixture to-day will no doubt be attended by the usual number of Wanganui followers of the turf, as the form will have a good deal of bearing on the results of the Feilding meeting next week. Racing commences at the early hour —for summer time —of 11.30. with the HACK HURDLES HANDICAP.

Vexatious is at the head of the list with 10.8, which is -'lbs more than she carried into second place behind Mister Gamp at Levin on Saturday. On this occasion the Thurnham mare meets her conqueror on Tibs, better terms and this should bring them together. Most improvement van be expected from Chrissarto, while a promising newcomer is Kilburn, and they are Vexations, Mister Gamp, Kilburn. Owing to several scratchings there will not be a division in the second race. This is the MAIDEN STAKES. (Of 100 sovs; five furlongs)

As there will be nineteen starters or jess no division will be necessary, but it will be a very unwieldy field. Shining Star. Little Queen and Card Trick may be best supported. The open sprint is the next event, the POHANGINA HANDICAP. (Of 150 sovs; six furlongs.)

As a result of his win at Levin Mireusonta’s impost has been increased to 8.12, but as this is only 31bs. more than he carried on Saturday there is no reason to expect that he will be otherwise than a tough proposition for the remainder to dispose of. The winner of the six furloog event at Waverley on Labour Day, Bonogne. may be the next best to Mireusonta. while Arrow Lad must be given a chance. One event that may sec a division resorted to is the SIBERIA HACK HANDICAP. (Of 125 sovs; six furlong?.)

As there are twenty-seven acceptors and the safety number is seventeen it would appear that two bites will have to be made at a rather small cherry. Vast Acre and Miss Pat may do best in the first division and in the second there may be support for Imitation-, and Carrigalien. The big event will be the ASHHURST CUP.

Royal Damon has not done enough of late and Royal Game has done too much so they may be discarded. Rowley won the Masterton Cup a month ago in fine style and should be the elect of backers. Rouex, Beaumont and Novar have chances but Waicullus appeals more. Anolo is a possibility on recent running, but the others have not much to recommend them, although at this time of the year the only thing that can be expected is the unexpected. Perhaps they may be fancied thus: Rowley. Waicullus. A nolo. Another good field of hacks will be seen out in the

Some of these claim other engagements but a trio that may be prominent when the whips arie cracking are Imitation, Rising Star and Kilmoyler. A seven furlong event that has drawn a god field is the RUAMAI HANDICAP.

Two or three of those figuring on the card may be missing when the field parades but there is sure to be solid support for Royal Land, Lipsol and Brigadier Bill. The meeting will conclude with the MANAWATU GORGE HACK HANDICAP. (Of 125 sovs; one mile.)

It remains to be seen whether the successful Awapuni trainer, G. New, can resume the run of wins that was interrupted by the Levin failures, and it may be that Wanderlust will be the elect of backers. The most dangerous opponents of the Rangitiro gelding appear to be Henna and Essential. THE SCRATCHING PEN ENGAGEMENTS DECLINED [ Per Press Association. ] PALMERSTON N., Nov. 22. The following scratchings have been notified for the Ashhurst-Pohangina meeting to-morrow: — Hack Hurdles. —Lombardo, Panchito, Wembley. Maiden Stakes.—Abisogne, Lady Raven, Broad Acre, Miss Boniform. Pohangina Handicap.—Lausanne, Deluge, Starboard Light. Siberia Hack.—Miss Mercia, Royal Elm. Komako Hack—Archon, Miss Mercia, Exhibition. Ruamai Handicap.—Decoy Bird, Road Hog, Starboard Light. Manawatu Gorge Hack. —Archon. NOTES AND COMMENTS By ‘ ‘ Kestrel ’ ’ The Ashhurst meeting to-day will lead up to the Feilding fixture next week, though the Takapuna meeting on Saturday and Monday is the next on the racing calendar to claim attention. Feilding Acceptances. Acceptances for all first d» events at the Feilding Jockey Club’s spring meeting, including final payments for the 23rd Feilding Stakes, will be received up till 8.30 p.m. to-morrow evening. It should be particularly noted that the acceptances close on a Thursday, whereas Friday is accepted as the usual day for receiving same. Promising Juvenile. There was a chill wind blowing when training operations commenced at the Wanganui tracks yesterday morning, but there was not much for the track watchers to record. Curtain and Episode, the two juveniles in Walter Rayner’s stables, were stretched out over three furlongs after doing a round. They covered the first furlong in 13 1-5 sec. and took 39 1-5 sec. for the journey. Curtain has got over the effects of the cold that hindered her development earlier in the season, and should furnish into a fine filly. Episode maye be hard to beat in an engagement at Christmas time.

Lysander’s Six. Six furlongs at three-quarter pace was the task allotted Lysandcr, on the No. 2 track, on which his stable mates had galloped. The son of Absurd and Pennon cut out the distance in 1.22 2-5, the last four taking 56 1-5 sec. He will be a visitor to Feilding next week, and will very likely go to Auckland for the holiday fixture. Bent and Thaw.

Thaw was not shaken up in a gallop with Bout over six furlongs, taking 1.20 2-5 io his companion’s 1.19 2-5. Of course the Limond three-year-old can do a lot better than that, as he may demonstrate during the holiday campaign at Auckland. Bent was taken through to Ashhurst yesterday, where she is engaged in the Komako Hack Handicap. Whenuanui Well.

Whenuanui, who claims an engagement at Feilding next week, was sent over six furlongs yesterday morning, and cut out the distance in 1.17 3-5. He was finishing on better than he usually does, and by the time the Manawatu and Marton Christmas meetings come round he will be in great fettle.

Wallace Young’s Pair. Wallace Young had Huikai on the tracks yesterday doing good work, and the Tribulation gelding will be given a run in the open sprint at Ashhurst to-day. He is sure to go well. Y'oung took Huikai and the Lord Quex two-year-old through to Feilding yesterday. From there Huikai will be walked to Ashhurst this morning. Two Thirds and £5.

The connections of Archon may be considered rather unfortunate in failing to secure a winning bracket with the Archiestown gelding at Levin on Saturday. Trainer G. Gordon has Archon in great trim at present, and the two thirds that were his portion at Levin may be the prelude to successes of a more satisfactory nature in the near future. Mr C. D. Lynch’s stake money at the fixture amounted to the magnificent sum of £s—less Government tax*

Royal Elm’s Mission. Royal Elm will start in the Komako Hack at Ashhurst to-day instead of in the Siberia Hack.

Marked Improvement. The form displayed by Paitonu in winning the Levin Cup was such as to draw marked attention to his defeat in the Waverley Cup on Labour Day. On that occasion the Bisogne gelding, second favourite, was entrusted with £5Ol in a field of four and, after sprawling in the rear for five furlongs of the journey, he was sent to the front after passing the six-furlong post. At the bend Paitonu had a break of five lengths on the field and appeared to be unbeatable, but Euphonium had his measure in the run home, and won nicely by a neck. The pair met on terms that were decidedly in Paitonu’s favour on Saturday, and followers of J. Frayer’s Hawera stable were not slow to show their appreciation of this, installing the son of Monaghan a good favourite, £lOO better backed than anything else. What a good thing he was he demonstrated by going round his field between the six and the five, and winning rather comfortably by a length from Waicullus. Paitonu should pick up even better races during the Christmas and New Year circuits. What’s the Use?

The point that was being debated when the last mail left Sydney, and news of Agrion’s success in the New Zealand Derby had been received, was whether Agrion would have beaten Trivalve in the A.J.C. Derby if they had met. R. J, Mason’s judgment is seldom at fault, and there is no doubt he rates Agrion highly. To enumerate tho races won by horses prepared by Mason would necessitate a very long list indeed. Going no further afield than Riccarton, he has to his credit five New Zealand Cups, five Stewards’ Handicaps, eleven Welcome Stakes, seventeen Derbys, nine Oaks Stakes, nine Canterbury Cups, sixteen Champagne Stakes, eighteen Challenge Stakes, seventeen Middlepark Plates, and innumerable other successes in less important events. The success of Eulalie in the Stewards’ Handicap recalls a remark he made when interviewed on his arrival in Sydney for the spring meeting. “What is there to bring Eulalie across for?” he said when questioned as to the filly’s absence. “A win at Randwick would only penalise her for our meeting.”

Big Dispersal Sale. Prior to his death in England, the Kinloch studmaster, Mr. J. F. Buchanan expressed a wish that the trustees should dispose of the whole of the stud at such time as they thought opportune, and arrangements have now been made to hold a dispersal safe at Kinloch immediately following the January bloodstock sales at Trentham. The whole of the stock attached to the stud will be submitted, comprising the English stallions, Paladin and Diacquenod, and fourteen brood mares with foals at foot by Martian, Limond, Paladin and Diacquenod. The annual draft of Kinloch yearlings will be sent to the Trentham sales. Messrs. Pyne, Gould, Guinness, Ltd., end Messrs. Wright, Stephenson and Co., Ltd., will act in conjunction in conducting the sale, which should arouse keen interest throughout the Dominion.

Next Year’s Derby. In England, National Hunt Club racing will now be indulged in. But already the Derby of 1928 is being Jis cussed. Fairway is being spoken of as a Blue Riband possibility. Thus a writer in Horse and Hound: “Seven horses have won both the Champagne Stakes and Derby, although in the case of Craganour he was disqualified at Epsom. Time will show whether Fairway, the latest hero of the 'Doncaster race, can bring off the double, and although as regards his looks the brother to Pharos (who ran second to Papyrus in the Derby) does not greatly appeal to me, he is a colt that I have much faith in for the future, as he finishes his race in the style of a thorough stayer, and also like a horse that loves racing, a very important and none-too-com-mon quality amongst latter-day racers. Bred and owned by Lord Derby, Fairway, foaled on April 14, 1925, is a bay colt by Phalaris out of Scapa Flow, by Chaucer from Anchora, by Love Wisely.’’ The Yearling Lottery.

The highest-priced yearlings sola in Sydney and Melbourne in 1926 have not yet proved good investments. Some of the fillies have already been retired, and Valicare’s 5500gns. brother, Avant Courier, with the light weight of 7.10 failed to win the Three-Y’ear-Old Handicap at Sandown Park, Melbourne, recently. Scion (4100gns.) is also still a maiden, and has cost his owner a small fortune in addition to the purchase money. Glenariff (3800gns.) is the winner of a race to the value of £247, and Bouveret (2400gns), purchased in the ‘•ame interest, has not yet started. Valora (3000gns) was unsuccessful in her four starts last season; and, at his only stajt as a two-year-old Manfred’s brother, Murthong (2700gn5.), was unplaced. The race won by Bollinger (1)700gns) carried £226. Prest (1600 gns.) had a dozen runs last season for two seconds and a third, the prizemoney totalling £2OO. Rampage (1500 gns), sister to Hampton, has been trained, but has yet to race. Nearly all the four-figure yearlings of 1926 have yet to do anything to justify what they cost, which merely emphasises the fact that the man who gets hold of a yearling that makes a first-class race-horse should congratulate himself more on his luck than his shrewdness. At different times some shocking duds have been bought on the advice of trainers who were in luck, and who were temporarily considered’ infallible by their patrons. Unfortunately for some, their luck ran cut, and, with it, the faith of their patrons. Racing in Germany.

Racing in Germany has never reached anything like the standard in Great Britain and France, but, according to the Rhineland correspondent of London Times, the sport is being most assiduously cultivated since the close of the Great War. The Dusseldorf Incorporated Riding and Racing Clubs and the Mulheim-Duisberg Racing Club

have now decided to erect, at the cost of 7.000,000 marks, a new race-course between Kaiserworth and KaJkura, about five and a half miles from the town of Dusseldorf. It is claimed that the course will be the largest in Europe. The track is to be 2500 metres long and 30 metres wide, and the straight will measure 1400 metres. The main stands will be two-storeyed, and members’ en ; closures, a large restaurant and two bandstands will be erected. In dry weather it will be possible to irrigate the track as a large water-works with the necessary pumping apparatus will be installed for the purpose. The totalisator will be installed and electrically controlled. Stable accommodation will be provided for 300 horses and 300 dwellings for trainers, assistants, and their families will be erected near the course. It is proposed to hold twentytwo meetings a year.

(Of 125 sovs ; 1$ miles.) Rrvrl .. — IO 6 Maidos .... 9 6 Mister Gamp 10 1 Blue Peter .-. 9 6 Braeman .... 911 Lady Faye .. 9 5 Ratapiko .... 9 10 Benmure ..9 2 Vexatious ..10 8 Kilburn . • .. 9 0 Chrissarto .. 9 7 Lady Acre ..9 0

Roy a. Black.. 9 0 Air Force ..9 9 Bisora .. .. 9 0 Scintillate .. 9 0 Thurville .... 9 0 Mint Belie ..9 0 Corbel .. .. 9 0 Radion . . .. 9 0 Lethal .. .. 9 0 Little Queen 9 0 Shining Star 9 0 9 0 Le Champ .. 9 0 Card Tnck ..9 3 Cornhill .... 9 0 Merry Mixture 9 0 Tom Byrne .. 9 0 Warnlle .... 9 ■> Hodren .. .. 9 0

Bonojme .... 9 2 Epistle .. .. 7 13 Mi reusonta .. 8 12 Standard .. 7 10 Lipsol .. .. 8 9 Royal Land .. 7 9 Arrow Lad .. 8 2 Birkie 7 0 Huikai .... 8 » Lady Cynthia 7 0

First Division. Second Division Vast Acre .. 9 7 Imitation .. .. 9 Arch Arrow .. 8 7 The Raider .. 8 Lady Cynthia S Silver Tray .. 8 0 Hypnotic .. 7 13 Mandarine 7 0 Miss Fat 8 3 Marsurd . . .. 7 M Expense __ 7 8 Powhiri . . .. 7 8 Grey Mist .. 7 7 Carrigallen .. 7 7 Flying Shot 7 5 Mandy .. .. 7 7 Torn Byrne .. 7 o Royal Time . . 7 Shining Star .. 7 6 Hinehoro .... 7 0 Maui 7 3 Plana — 7 0 Heather Blend 0 Borsalene 7 0

(Of 250 jsovs; 11 miles.) Royal Damon 9 1 Teri .. .. .. 7 8 Royal Game 8 11 Anolo .. .. 7 3 Rowley .. .. 8 5 Ki Hoch .. .. 7 0 Rouex 8 0 Kilmiss . . .. 7 0 Beaumont .. 8 0 G’nd National 7 0 Novar .. .. 7 11 Moepai .. .. 7 0 Waicullus .. 7 9

KOMAKO HACK HANDICAP. (Of 25 sovs ; seven furlongs.) 1 Imitation • 9 2 itin Afiifiq'.SB Rising Star § Kalos 8 9 S S 0 Kilmoyler 8 5 :: ’ » Bent . . . 7 12 jiieilt W»»h 0 Tanagra . . . 7 12 Volhynia ». u Twink . 7 8 Solden SsB 1 0 Atareria . . . 7 8 Royal Elm . 7 S

(Of 160 sovs; seven furongs.) Bonogne .... 9 6 Brigadier Bill 8 3 j Queen’s Choice 9 2 Horomea . . 7 13 Lipsol .. .. 9 0 Our Jack . . 7 7 Epistle .... 8 7 March On . . 77 Standard .... 8 4 Sir Fanciful 7 7 Royal Land .. 8 4 Phantasy .,7 7

Wanderlust .. 9 7 Revel .. .. 7 11 Henna . . . . 8 9 Inoe 7 11 Capitulation .. 9 5 Gordon Swift 7 9 Essential .... 8 8 Jen 7 8 Excess .. .. 8 6 Heather Blend 7 7 Moepai .. .. 8 5 Martona .... 7 7 Twink .. .. 8 4 Lady Acre .. 7 7 Vexatious .. 7 13 Calithe .... 7 7