NOTES AND COMMENTS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 279, 28 November 1935, Page 4

NOTES AND COMMENTS

By

“Kestrel.

Racing at Feilding and Ellerslie '.the Takapuna meeting) will engage attention on Saturday. Otaki Summer Meeting. The summer meeting of the Otaki Maori Racing Club is to be held on Saturday, October 14. The principal event will be the Rere Nekitini* Memorial Stakes, run over a mile and a-quaner for a stake of £l4O. Nominations for all events close on Tuesday, December 3, at 8 p.m. Intervals Too Long. Commenting c-n the Levin Racing Club’s meeting on Saturday, ••Rangatira” in the Evening Post has the following:—Generally the meeting was ably conducted xxith the racing run to schedule, but credit is hardly due for the latter feature, for the club was using unnecessarily long intervals between the races. .Most of the intervals were 45 minutes, with 50 minutes between the last two events. At no provincial meeting should an interval of 50 minutes ever be required, particularly when fields are small, as thev were at Levin. At Pukekohe on the same day they were only 40 minutes, and at Invercargill they were 35 minutes, including the last interval; vet larger investments were handled at both those meetings. Provincial meetings to a considerable extent cater icr a farming community, which does not desire to be kept waiting till Dea* ly 5.30 for the last race. Will Improve. Had it been possible to give Dare* court an outing at the Bulls fixture, :be Gainscourt gelding might have played a still more prominent role in the* Lake Hack Handicap. He certainly enjoyed a good run throughout, but the absence of any previous racing told against him over the final pinch. He ran third and should be improved by the ra<*?. Admission Free. The Forbury Park Trotting Club has decided «o issue tickets free of charge io women who wisii to patronise Ihe meeting to-day and Saturday. This is a lead from the Oamaru Trotting Club, who for years past have admitted tree of charge women to race meeting.-*, although tickets have been sent to many outside the North Otago centre. It w said that the pvpularity <>l trotting in Canterbury, many years ago, was gained mainly through ths issue of complimentary tickets to ladies, and it seems that for certain clubs a reversion to the old order ot things might be an advantage. Some might ex ea consider the advisability of throwing the gates open and h» vitiiig everyone to come to the fair. It would be a most interesting ex penment, comments a South Island writer. Another Sydney Trip. The Woodville owner trainer, H. E. Russell, who recently returned from Svducv after disposing of his representative, Gohlen Chance, there, has now a couple ot two-year-olds in work, and they will probably be a>ked tv race at the Wo&dvißu meeting next month. Mala, a colt by Lackhaui from Hignal March, shows to be a very speedy ycungstvr and may encourage bib owner to make another trip to Sydney. Out of Hacks. In winning :be. Lake Hack <up at Levin Round Score increased his tally of wins to live and his total earnings in first money to £llO, thus he is now oul of naeks. The Greyspear gelding is a solid customer who stays well and should not have a great deal of trouble in pi< king up open races at the smaller meetings. He will, however, be able to run out his nominations in hack events, so may still compete in this class at both Feilding at. J Woodville. Chokebore Juveniles. The Chokebore stable last week had two more two-year-olds broken in and ridden. They are a colt, Recollection, bv 1'olazcl; and a colt, Sailalong, by Winning Hit from Swoopaiong, dam of Say Pilot. There are two more juveniles vet to come from Stonyhurst, and v. iieii these arrive, thirteen two-year-old. will have been broken in at Chokebore this year. i Will Not Be Long. The Rabbi four-year old Pawky was very disappointing last season, when he could not win a race even on tuc Nelson-Blenheim circuit, but he came home last into fifth place in the Hack Cup at Levin on Saturday, and if he improves on this initial performance ■ his term he should not be long in wining a race. In Demand. W. (Togo) Johnstone has been retained by Lord Derby for the 1933 season. Lord Derby, however, will have onlv third call on Johnstone, who is primarily retained by Count Derivauo, and 51. Pierre Wertneimer has second call on his services. Johnstone is to visit America shortly on holiday. Quake from Gisborne. QuaKe was only iollowiug up precedent by recording a Gisborne success at a Levin meeting. He quickly had everything except that funner speedster Toptnorn, now doubtfully winded, run od their legs in the concluding event on Saturday, and he was still going on well at the finish, winning even more decisively than tiie margin mi ht suggest. He is among the first of the stock of the Comedy King uorse Mimetic to race. Mimetic was imported from Australia over 10 years ago by Mr. A. B. Williams, and as a three year-old he the W.K.C. Shorts Handicap and the C.J.U. Memher." Handicap, two excellent performances, but his racing career was closed the following season. Quake, all of whose previous racing had been done at Gisborne, looks like providing a worthy representative of his sire, and lie will oe closely watched during his stay south for the summer meetings. Bahram s Big Stud Fee. It r- somewhat rare for a horse to enter on stud life at a fee of aOO guineas, but such is the sum fixed upon for Bahram, whose list for three seasons has filled at the sum named. Assuming ne is limited to 20 wares annually, apart from those “ed the Aga Khan, that will mean’£3l.soo tor three years. Having won prize rnontv to the amount of £44,386, Bahram proved a gold mine in his racing career, and his earnings at the stud promise to eclipse even his race winnings.