THE TURF

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 110, 12 May 1933, Page 7

THE TURF

RACING IN ENGLAND NEWMARKET STAKES. WON BY YOUNG LOVER. LONDON, May 10. The result of the principal race on the second day of the Newmarket meeting was as follows: Newmarket Stakes. (For th rec-year-olds; 1{ miles;. YOUNG LOVER (Sir Alfred Butt br c by Son-in-Law —Tryst, 9.0 1 KING SALMON (Sir IL CunliffeOwen) b c by Salmon Trout— Malva, 9.0 2 ASSUERUS (Mr. S. Valsto) b or br c by Asterus —Slip Along, 9.0 3 Nino started. Won by half a' length, three-quarters of a length between second and third. Young Lover and King Salmon both remain in the Derby and St. Lcgcr, but Assuerus is in neither. Young Lover did not race as a two-year-old, and if he started in the Two Thousand Guineas a fortnight ago he finished out of a place, the French colt Rodosto winning that classic from King Salmon and Gino. Lord Carnarvon entered King Salmon for the classic races this season, but according to English files the colt is now racing in the colours of Sir Hugo Cunliffe-Owen. PAPER MONEY COLT WON FIRST TIME UP. WAKATIPU IN AFEICA. The success of one of Sir Joseph Robinson’s New Zealand purchases extends the splendid record of Paper Money to still another country, this time South Africa. After last year’s Trentham sales Sir Joseph Robinson, then visiting New Zealand, purchased 'three youngsters with a view to racing them in South Africa. A Paper Money—Philomela colt, one of the trio, attracted much notice on the track in the "course of his being prepared ih South Africa for racing, and, as was reported briefly by cable last month, he won with colours up for rhe first time. Advice now to hand by mail shows that the colt, which has been named Wakatipu, did not record •i straight-out win but dead-heated fo* first place. The performance, however, was regarded as exceptional, and there was something exceptional also in the dividends returned by the dead-heat-ers. The New Zealand colt returned a good double-figure dividend, and tho still less fancied Gallant Girl (who shared first place) returned almost a quarter of a thousand to the one lucky holder of a ten-shilling ticket on her "hance of a win. In one report of the meeting, which was at Kenilworth, it is stated that the “ring” experienced a much-needed turn-up when the New Zealand two two-year-old and Gallant Girl deadheated in the Flying Middles—a race of six furlongs (middle weights) with £l7O as prize money (£23 to second and £ll to third). The outstanding feature of tho afternoon’s racing, the report states, was undoubtedly the stylishly promising debut of Sir J. B. Robinson .s New Zealand-bred two-year-old. This son of Paper Money has attracted a good deal of favourable notice on the training track, but owing to his entire lack of racing experience, and the fact that he was required to start his career in the second division in a field of twenty-two, few people were inclined to take him seriously. Fifty yards from home there wore four or five more, or less in line, with Gallant Girl holding a slight advantage. Here, however, Wakatipu shot up on tho rails, and, if a dead-heat was a fair verdict, there is not the slightest doubt that the New Zealand youngster had his head in front half a length past the post. A mistake was made in bracketing Mask with Gallant Girl for first place, but this was rectified subsequently. The mistake, it is stated, was not unnatural under the circumstances. Tho report adds: ’’Sir .T. B. Robinson paid 150 guineas for Wakatipu in New Zealand, and this colt and the two other yearling that accompanied . im were the first thoroughbreds upon which tho £lOO import duty was levied. If our breeders wore to produce a fair percentage of yearlings up to the standard of Wakatipu, there would be no need for a protective duty whatsoever.’ ’ “Arbiter’’ mentions in tho Cape Times that tho brilliant promise shown by Wakatipu—tho bookmakers, he suggests, may conveniently call him “What-a-tip”—recalls another imported yearling that came to South Africa, from South America, in 1906. This was Baluarto,‘by the English horse Batt.. NOTES AND COMMENTS. (By “Kestrel.”) Next week the Wanganui Jockey Club’s meeting will bo held on Thursday and Saturday, with the Te Kuiti meeting on the Saturday and tho following Monday depicting the ranks of tho riders available for the local meeting. Wanganui Acceptances. For all first-day events at the Wanganui meeting next week acceptances are due to close at 9 o’clock to-night. Woodville Nominations. The Woodville District Jockey Club will hold their jubilee meeting on May 27, and nominations for all events are duo at 9 o’clock to-night. For Otaki Meeting. Tho winter meeting of tho OtakiMaori is to bo held on Juno 2a nd 3 All nominations close to-night at S o ’clock. Divisions at Ellerslie. There arc ho fewer than 61 hacks entered for tho Jcrvois Handicap, seven furlongs, to be run on the opening day of the Auckland winted fixture. This event is almost certain to be run in two divisions, and as there are only seven races on the opening day’s programme al Ellerslie each division will be treated as a separate race. Easterly. In connection with Easterly’s display last Saturday at Hawcra, it should be noted that, as she got cast in her box on. Friday night, her display was quite a good one under the circumstances Easterly won tho Century Hurdles laxi year and is engaged in the event again next week.