NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 105, 6 May 1933, Page 4

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

(By “Kestrel.”) With the concluding day of the Egmont Racing Club’s winter meeting to-day, there will be a bit of a lull before the Wanganui Jockey Club’s steeplechase meeting takes place. The weights for the first day are to be issued for Monday. Ganpat at Hawera. The Wnganui-owned Ganpat was to have contested the hurdle race at Hawera on Wednesday, but on the postponement of the opening day of the meeting he was brought back to Wanganui and was not a starter on Thursday. He was. however, taken through again yesterday, and with average luck should prive tough to dispose of at the finish of the Manawapou Hurdles to-day.

Sunny Sky. Nothing very strenuous has been exacted from Sunny Sky since she raced at the Easter meeting and she has freshened up splendidly. Sunny Sky has not raced with much success since registering two wins and a second at the Great Northern meeting last June and she is due to win another race soon. If all goes well with her in the next few weeks, she should be ready to make a good attempt to repeat last year’s success in the Cornwall Handicap. Owned by Jamieson.

Voyager, who won in Sydney last Saturday week, is a juvenile gelding by Caravel (imp.)’, owned and trained by J. T. Jamieson, who paid 600gns. for him at Trentham 1931 sales. Impossible?

With prize money on the present scale in Australia, it is impossible for a good horse to equal Phar Lap’s stake record there of £66,738. Pike’s Place.

J. Pike, who goes to U.S.A, to pilot Winooka, is ninth on the list- of winning Sydney jockeys with 20* wins—he was suspended for a term. Did Not Relish Trip.

The Sydney Sun of April 27 had the following: F. T. Cush said that whereas Silver Scorn stood up to the rough trip from New Zealand on the steamer, she is now showing signs of it. Yesterday when she was being dressed she was rocking with the motion of the ship, and altogether was hardly pleased with herself.

Broken Leg. The Victorian hurdler Comic Prince, while schooling recently, stood off too far and broke a fore leg below the knee through landing on top of the hurdle. The force with whiph Comic Prince struck can be gathered from the fact that a piece, of bone about four inches long was knocked out of the leg and picked up twenty feet away. At Aintree.

The value of th e Liverpool Grand National Steeplechase to Mrs F. Ambrose Clark, owner of the winner Kellsboro’ Jack, was £7070 and a £2OO trophy. Second received £BOO, third £5OO, and fourth £2OO. Of that amount £4OOO was added money, the remainder being owners’ contributions in the way of forfeits and sweepstakes.

Jockey’s Busy Week. No jockey in Australia had a busier time during Easter week than the Melbourne apprentice Harold Skidmore. He rode at Randwick, Sydney, on Easter Saturday, and gained a second on Maid of Orleans in the A.J.C, Sires’ Produce Stakes. Returning to Melbourne he rode without success at Williamstown on Easter Monday, but had three wins at Ascot on Tuesday. Next day ho was back ’again at Randwick to win the second division of the Coogee Handicap on Bold Boy and run second on Maid of Orleans in the .Champagne Stakes. He returned to Melbourne and on Saturday won the Mentone Plate on Gold Bag, defeating the New Zealand gelding Araunah by a neck.

For Australia Mr. W. T. Hazlett’s team for Australia will number eight and will be comprised as follows: Ruling Light, Paris, Gold Ray, Shining Gold, Irish Chieftain and the two-year-olds Sir Simper, Dazzling Raid and Kindly Light. They will be shipped from Bluff on Saturday in charge of their trainer, F. J. McKay, who will also be accompanied by two of the stable jockeys, probably T. Wilson and A. G. Leckie. The team will be campaigned in Melbourne and, if events warrant it, Sydney will be visited later on. Tho plans provide for the team being absent fiom New Zealand lor seven month? at least. Mr. W, T Hazlett proposes to leave for Melbourne after the Southland Racing G!ijD“ winter meeting and will be away for a couple ci months. A Station Hack

Woven into the History oj the Sydney Cup winner, Rogiila, is a romance that hud its setting on a New South Wales station. Early in his career Rogiila did duty as a stockman’s hack. Then followed picnic racing. He went to Sydney 12 months ago and established himself as one of tho most promising horses in commission. According to a man who knows Rogiila’s early histoiy, one of the last assign ments the gliding had before being put into training was to carry rabbit traps. On one occasion the jingle of the traps upset him, and he bolted. Rogiila never forgot this happening, and for a long while afterwards was inclined tc be highly strung.

Victory, then Death The 13-year-old hurdler Boomlet was running in a race at Worcester, England. It blundered at one fence and jumped the remaining two badlly and finished on three legs. It had won, but collapsed with a broken hind leg and was destroyed, almost amid the cheers which acclaimed its victory. A veterinary surgeon says that a horse, like a human being, might bo so keen to win that it did not realise its pain. Good Stake-winners

The principal Australian stake winders still in the flesh as racehorses and likely to keep going may be summed ip as follows: Veilmond (N.Z.), £21,537; Don Moon, £18,254; Greenline, £16,265; Kuvera, £14,769; Peter Pan, £13,393; Johnnie Jason, £13,306; Park wood, £1.2,273; Rogiila, £10.894; Denis Boy, £9803; Winooka, £B,Oll. In con auction with the head of the list, Koa tanm-bred Veilmond, who is owned in Sydney, it is disconcerting to learn that the son of Limond from Veil is reputed to bo touched in the wind, and, in the event of this proving correct. ho is hardly likely to be permitted to linger superfluous on the stage.