SPRING RACING

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 275, 19 November 1937, Page 4

SPRING RACING

END OF CAMPAIGN LEVIN AND FEILDING WAIKATO TO-MORROW The end of the spring racing campaign is fast approaching, and already preparations for the summer fixtures are under way. The Levin meeting will be held tomorrow and the circuit for this coast will be continued with the Feilding meeting on Saturday of next week and the following Tuesday. The Waikato Racing Club's meeting at Te Rapa will commence to-morrow and will be concluded on Monday. In the north the Takapuna Jockey Club's meeting (at Ellerslie) will follow the Te Rapa fixture and will clash with Feilding. Acceptances for first day events at the Feilding meeting are due to close at 8 p.m. on Monday next. Thus owners will have the Levin form to guide them in a decision. The single-pool system will be operated at Levin to-morrow, but there vill bo win-and-place betting at Te ftapa and Southland. King s Lancer will be making his lebut as a hurdler at Levin to-mor-ow, and there are several good judges who consider that he will make good □ver the small battens. With the Beau Pere juveniles doing io well this season, it will be interesting to see how Arvakur (already a vinner at Ellerslie) fares at Te Rapa ;o-morrow. With iwo recent races over short lotuses in him. The Buzzet seems to lower above his opponents in the Levin Handicap. At his last start last season he won the Tamalete Handicap, 11 miles, from a very strong field it the Manawatu autumn meeting. Lone Raider, who won the McDonald Memorial Handicap at Levin last year, is again engaged to-morrow. Twelve months ago he was hopelessly left but finished brilliantly to win. Nothing like his burst of speed over the final furlong has been seen lor a long time, and if he can reproduce it to-morrow he will have an excellent chance of repeating last year s success. • » • • Great Hope's two forward efforts at Trentham recently at his first outings '.his season make him appear Golden Chests most likely opponent in the back sprint at Levin to-morrow. At Te R.apa on Tuesday a smart ?ffoit over five furlongs was credited lo Trilliarch (Horne), who easily accounted for Forest Acre (Gilmer) at lhe end in 1.4 3-5, time which was by far the best of the morning over the distance. Trilliarch is entered for the sprint the first day at Te Rapa and snould be one of the hardest to beat. Trackman, who has accompanied Shy to Waikato, has done well since the Wellington meeting, and he is likely to play a part in the hurdles tomorrow with 9.8. The Awapuni lightweight horseman, W. J. Broughton, whose services are in demand, has been meeting with considerable success in his riding so far this season. He had a good innings at Trentham, where he piloted four winners, and he steered Catalogue to victory at Riccarton. He will ue engaged to-morrow at the Waikato meeting, where he has practically a full list of mounts. The crack French colt. Clairvoyant, had to be withdrawn from that country's St. Legcr owing to all not being well with him, and there is a possibility of his not racing again. If he goes to the stud next season it is probable he will command one of the highest fees charged in France. The South Island lightweight horseman C. T. Wilson intends riding at several meetings in the north. He will be at Levin to-morrow and has been engaged to do some of the riding for 11. Telford's stable. Patagonia has splendid qualifications for the Waimai Hurdles on the first day of the Waikato meeting. After running third on the first day at Wellington he won the third day with 9.5 in time which constituted a New Zealand record for if miles over hurdles. Following that impressive performance he went on to the Rangitikci meeting and with 10.13 outclassed the opposition over a mile and a half. What beats Patagonia to-morrow should win, writes “Martian.’’

Among the lots passed in at the recent spring sale of racehorses in .Melbourne was the seven-year-old Amalfi mare Amalia, winner of the Australian Cup last year. The highest bid secured for the mare was 200 guineas.

While schooling at Takanini on Tuesday morning Lady Ruler (Baker) broke a knee and had to be destroyed, ohe set out with Lap Up (Mcllroy) to

school over four hurdles. After jumping the first in dashing style she came to grief and smashed her knee. This was Lady Ruler’s first and only mistake, either in schooling or in a race. Lap Up continued on over the remaining fences and gave a good display. Lady Ruler was a winner at the last Ellerslie meeting, and was to have raced at Te Rapa to-morrow.

As the result of her success in the Innovation Hack at the Rotorua and Bay of Plenty Hunt Highland Queen Kill be ineligible to start in the Trial Stakes on the first day of the Waikato meeting.

The attendance on New Zealand Cup day was estimated to exceed 14,000, the highest for 14 years, and that on Derby Day showed an increase ot between 4000 and 5000. It is likely that the final figures will show an increased attendance over the four days’ racing of close on 10,000.

JOCKEYS FOR TE RAPA

RIDING ENGAGEMENTS Riding engagements for the first day of the Waikato Racing Club’s spring meeting at Te Rapa to-mor-row include: — G. Gilchrist: Rereatu, Huntingmore. R. W. McTavish: Jonathan, Galilee, Arvakur. F. E. Baker: Boughal, Bryce Street. R. J. Fearn: Gay Sister. P. Fearn: Droll. S. Tremain: Mungatoon. H. N. Wiggins: Valamito, Cappy, Miss Brierly, Winsome Lu. N. Vaughan: Dark Shadow, Bass, Tepoto. H. Goldfinch: Mon Acre. J. Day: Spearcourt. J. Winder: Master Brierlv, May Song, Valpai, Miss Mestor. R. E. Thompson: Modern Maid, Day Boy. M. Stewart: Holly Lu. O. Evans: Paunui. A. Gilmer: Forest Acre. Booklaw. W. Thomson: Rona Bay, Hopalong, Mark’s Gift. N. R. McKenzie: Friskland. Vitement, Tray Bit, Philemup, Winlona, Gay Streak. J. McLaughlin: Cometarium, Respectful. Sandrift. A. E. Ellis: Scotland. A. Messervy: Suleiman. T. Green: Tail Light. W. J. Broughton: Royal Minstrel, Royal Bachelor, Rollicker, Jan Ridd, Lady Meritor. MANAWATU RACING CLUB THE CLP MEETING ATTRACTIVE PROGRAMME The Manawatu Racing Club has made an appreciable increase in the stake-money to be offered at its Cup meeting at Christmas, the aggregate for the three days being 15410, compared with £4630 last year, an increase of £7BO. The fixture is set down for Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday, December 27, 18, and 30.

On the opening day the sum of £2070 is being allocated, lhe sum attached to six of the races having been increased. The Manawatu Cup will now carry a stake value of £7OO, the sum of £490 going to the winner, £l4O to the second horse, and £7O to the third. The Fitzherbert Handicap, the open sprint, has been advanced to £3OO. Similar all-round increases have been made where the other two days' events are concerned, while some minor adjustments have been made in the order in which the races will be run. On the second day the Christmas Handicap, a hack seven furlongs event, substitutes the Champion Hack Handicap, the latter having been transferred to the third day, and it i will make a grand finale to the meeting. It has been the custom to enter upon the third day’s programme with I the Apprentices’ Handicap, but it has been made the second event on this year’s programme, the I’nitea Highweight having been promoted to the top of the card. In all respects the programme should meet with the approval of owners and trainers, and, as in the past, there should be a strong representation of South Island horses at the Awapuni meeting. Lornacre is the Te Rapa hope for lhe big race to-morrow and with lhe handy impost of 7.11 he certainly makes strong appeal. Lornacre possesses a bright future and while his efforts on the training track of late have not been outstanding it must be remembered that he is seldom seen to advantage in his training. He will strip a fit horse for to-morrow. On his return from Australia W. Grindl |y brought back with him a four-year-old mare Dainty Sue for Mr. C. Boyle, of Palmerston North. Dainty Sue is by Drake from Masked Battery, by Comedy King from lhe New Zealand-bred Artillerie, by Royal Artillery from the Stepniak mare Nantes. Two prominent members of this family are Nightmarch and Silver Ring. In the summing up of the Waimai Hurdles on the first day of the Waikato meeting the credentials of Englishman will have lo be considered. His record in recent starts has been a model of consistency. He won very easily on the second day of the Avondale September meeting alter being distanced the first day after running second; ran third at the following Avondale gathering on the first day to win well on the second and beat all but Red Fox in the Hunters’ Hurdles on Labour Day at Cambridge in heavy going.

A handsome canteen of cutlery of 64 pieces will go to the winner of the Bolton Handicap on the first day of the Woodville meeting next month.

Peerless, winner of the C.J.C. Welcome Stakes and Pioneer Handicap at the recent meeting, was purchased at the yearling sales last January by Mr. R. J. Murphy, owner of Cuddle, for 425 guineas, the breeder being Mr. John Donald, Westmere. Prestige, dam of Peerless, was sold at the 1932 sales by Mr. G. M. Currie for 310 guineas to Mr. Donald, who sent her to Australia, where she had one win in ten starts. She was returned to the Dominion and put to the stud, her first foal, a Chief Ruler colt, realising 800 guineas when secured on behalf of Mr. C. F. Mclndoe, Auckland. This colt died a few months after arriving at J. T. Jamieson’s establishment in Sydney. Peerless had been twice placed before going to Riccarton, where she was reported unlucky not to have won the Spring Nursery Handicap on the third day, instead of being beaten by Taurangi. She was badly bumped at the start and was also hemmed in at the distance.

Starting times for Levin to-morrow are:—Noon, 12.40, 1.20, 2.0, 2.45, 3.30, 4.15, and 5.5 p.m. The rain has freshened up the track splendidly.

Beau Pere has a staying filly, Belle Parvenue, in England who recently scored over a distance for the second time. In September she won a two miles race at Ripon and at Thirsk last month she was again successful over two miles. This was in the Newby Plate, carrying 9.2. Odds were laid on her and she won running away by three lengths, with the third horse ten lengths further back,.