AUTUMN RACING

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 57, 9 March 1937, Page 4

AUTUMN RACING

j EASTER PREPARATIONS I i TRENTHAM THIS WEEK NOTES AND COMMENTS The principal race meeting this week will be the Wellington Racing Club’s fixture at Trentham. • * » • The Trentham meeting opens on Thursday and will be concluded on Saturday. The Thompson Handicap will be the principal event at Trentham on Thursday, with the Railway Handicap as the second “leg” of the double. The Ohinemuri Jockey Club’s meeting will be held at Paeroa next Saturday and Wednesday. This will be another windfall for the State, with a turnover sure to top the £60,000 mark. The dividend indicator at Bulls on Saturday maintained its popularity, in spite of the criticism which has been aimed at it from some quarters. Patrons may be surprised to learn that on an average seventeen alterations per race were made on the dividend calculator. The New Zealand St. Leger Stakes will be the weight-for-age titbit at the Wellington meeting on Thursday, for it promises to be a test for supremacy between Martara and Wild Chase. It is run over a mile and three-quarters. The North Island Challenge Stakes will be decided on Saturday, and it will be interest ing to note how much support there will be for this event. The Auckland maiden Raepata's acceptance for the first day at Trentham is the Silverstream Handicap, not the Tinakori Handicap, as has been generally published. The value of the stake won by the three-year-old Hunting Song filly Nelurtibo at Napier Park on Thursday last was not sufficient to make her ineligible for the Trial Pla'e at Wellington on Thursday. Stable doubles for the Thompson and Railway at Trentham on Thursday are Travenna and Gold Boa (W. E. Hancock). Chief Ranger and Laughing Lass (L. G. Morns) Haut Monde and Karl (F. W. Davis) Debham and Deficit (H. Telford) and Darecourt and Acceptable (P. Reardon). • ♦ » * Bumble, the disappointing halfbrother by Captain Bunsby to Admiral Drake and Francis Drake, is to be tried out over a distance in the highweights at Trentham this week. Trentham stables supply five out of the eleven horses engaged in the Trial Stakes on the opening day or the Wellington meeting this week. The scratching of Debham for the final day at Te Aroha, after the announcement of the Wellington weights suggests that his connections may be hopeful of a Thompson Handicap success with him this week. He Is the right type for such a race. Shrewd has been recommissioned at Hastings after an absence of over three years. He is now twelve years old. Jolly Beggar, winner of the lasi two Grand National Hurdles, ts reported from Ricarton to be regaining his form steadily, though he is still on the burly side. * * » V Bahram, the English tripie crown winner of 1935, who retired to the Egerton Stud unbeaten at the end of his three-year-old career, has srred his first foal, a brown filly out of Queen of Scots, who possessed good racing form in France. Stanley Wootton’s former apprentice, J. Crouch, who has been appointed to ride for the King this year, has employed his time profitably in India during the off-season in England. At Madras in December he won the Nizam’s Cup on the Maharajah of Venkatagirt's Laden La. Another innovatiqn contemplated by the Onkaparinga Racing Club (South Australia) is to provide each year a sash for the winning horse in the Great Easter Steeplechase. it will have a silver buckle, and this will be suitably inscribed. Sunbeam, who will accompany Emissary to Trentham, was a promising two-year-old last season, and on resuming recently he showed plenty of early speed in the maiden event at tne C.J.C. summer meeting. He is by Siegfried .out of Sunee's full-sister Sungift. The Iliad mare Yaringa, winner of the Westralian Derby and St. Leger last year, is to run in the King’s Cup at Perth next month and then she will be shipped to Melbourne to be prepared for important sprint events i in Victoria. Her form this season rias been generally disappointing. The Manfred horse Manolive, who won the last Perth Cup with 7.12 in record time, will leave Perth for Melbourne at tne end of the present month in charge of his owner, Mr J. E. Hay. He is to be entered for the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups. The oldest horse in the Liverpool Grand National Steeples this year is Milk Punch, who is 13 years old. Crown Prince and Delaneige, a veteran of the Aintree course, are aged 12. Second Act is the only six-year-old still in the contest.