SPRING RACING

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 256, 28 October 1937, Page 4

SPRING RACING

N.Z. CUP APPROACHES BULLS ON SATURDAY BEAU PERE SUCCESSES With the conclusion of the Wellington Racing Club’s meeting the spring racing campaign may be said to have reached its peak. Totalisator turnovers appear to maintain a steady increase, but unless attendances can be considerably improved there will not be any sensational advances. This is tffe day of the small bettor. The New Zealand Cup meeting is not far off, and on Saturday of next week the flags will be flying at Riccarton for the commencement of the C.J.C. carnival of four days. The Rangitikei Racing Club’s oneday spring meeting at Bulls will attract generous patronage on Saturday, especially from Wanganui, for there is no other race meeting within range to compete with Rangitikei. The first race at Bulls on Saturday will be started at 12.30 pan. and the intervals between rhees will be 45 minutes. A broadcast description of the racing will be provided for patrons. The Poverty Bay Turf Club meeting will be held at Gisborne to-mor-row and Saturday, and the Banks Peninsula meeting will also ba he.d on Saturday. The V.R.C. meeting opens at Flemington on Saturday with the Melbourne Stakes and Cantala Stakes, the Melbourne Cup being set down for next Tuesday. Prior to racing at Waverley on Monday, Ngatirahiri and Ohanga had raced at Trentham on the first day of the meeting, without success, but each paid a dividend at Waverley. Ohanga was beaten into second place by Umpire, but Ngatirahiri won the Moumahaki Hack Stakes. Ngatirahiri’s owner-trainer, R. Johnson, of New Plymouth, received the trophy of a canteen of cutlery ■ from Mrs. Mcfvor, a daughter of the donor, Mr. G. Spriggens. Though the winner was not favourite the public ' did not fail to recognise the merit of , Airing's win in the Brewer HandiJ cap has. been described by one writer as rather lucky in view of Le Grand’s finishing run. Such opinions as these must help to make for good dividends, for the Cockpit gelding won more easily than the head margin suggested. Friesland won the Waverley Cup from one of the poorest fields that has ever contested the Labour Day event, but that should not be accepted as suggesting that the Friarsdale gelding will not have a good chance in the New Zealand Cup. He did all that was required of him after trailing the other three runners for seven furlongs. • • • » ! Amatory ran a better race in his [Second start at Waverley than in the [maiden event, and those who stuck to [the Kiosk gelding were well regarded. Captain Treville very nearly brought off the surprise of the meeting at Waverley when he beat all but Royal Romance in the Morton Memorial, and then it was only S. Anderson’s greater experience in the saddle that enabled him to beat Captain Treville. The latter was one of four Wanganui representatives in the race. Long purses will be required by would-be purchasers of Beau Per'e yearlings at Trentham next January. Six juveniles by the Son-in-Law horse have won within a month, and of these it is pleasing to find five engaged in the Wanganui Guineas of 1938. They are Amigo, Taurangi, Gay Son, Sudan and Arvakur. On Friday of next week, the day before the New Zealand Cup, nominations will be due for the Feilding Jockey Club's meeting. There will be racing at Levin a week before Feilding, and at Otaki and Woodville immediately after. Le Grand was described in the Waverley race-book as being out of Motley, but he is one of famous Eulogy’s offspring. At about the same time as Le Grand was returning for second place in the Brewer Handicap his full-sister, Relative, was extending Suleiman at Trentham. Another error in the official card at Waverley was the breeding of Ranga Poto, who is by Ruapapa from Rauriki. * • • • Royal Romance, who gave the line to his Waverley win with his excellent second to Liane at Otaki recently, is a six-year-old half-brother by Royal Divorce to the useful Ebeum. He is being raced on lease by Mr. W. G. Wright, of Otaki, from Mr. J. Kenrick, his breeder. Rona Bay, having only her third race since reverting to Mrs. C. B. Gill from whom previously she had been leased to Mr. O. Disley, was an easy winner of the Members’ Memorial Handicap at Cambridge on Labour Day. She is now trained by R H Martin at Matamata. Avvhiowhio scored his second success in two starts when W'innin° p the amateur riders’ event by four lengths at Cambridge on Monday. This seven-year-old half-brother by Whirlwind to Rosshire is liable to be seen to advantage among the ordinary hacks before long.