FOXTON RACES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 122, 26 May 1938, Page 4

FOXTON RACES

WITHOUT OPPOSITION SATURDAY’S GOOD FIELDS NOTES AND COMMENTS The Foxton Racing Club will have ho opposition for its winter meeting on Saturday, so all the leading horsemen may be in attendance at the fixture. Good fields are engaged for the respective events at Foxton, and with the single-pool totalisator there should be a very satisfactory turnover. A large number of Wanganui and Wellington enthusiasts will probably attend. Last year £11,770 10s was handled at the Foxton winter meeting, which proved a decided success. Judging on recent turnovers, Saturday’s fixture should find an increase registered. Prinihia, who is engaged in the Trial Stakes at Foxton on Saturday, is from the Awapuni stable of L. G. Morris. By Laughing Prince out of Quinvardia, Prinihia was given a run down the straight at Awapuni last Saturday before the first race and shaped well. Another Laughing Prince candidate from L. G. Morris’ stable is engaged at Foxton, this being Titter, who is out of Sigma. The pair will carry the colours ot their breeder, Mr. T. A. Duncan. At Otaki another of Mr. Duncan’s youngsters in Snigger (Laughing Prince —Beilina* will be produced. Twelve months ago Sir Thomas Wilford won the concluding event at Foxton with Youssipof, one of his own breeding. On Saturday he has Ugly Duckling engaged in the Trial Stakes and it is understood that Sir Thomas will be on han 1 1 ■ see his representative race. Gaily, who is engaged in the Foxton Cup oil Saturday, slipped over a mile in pleasing style on Tuesday morning. being clocked over six furlongs in Imin. 20sec. Her win the Connolly Handicap will ensure plenty of support for the Siegfried filly on Saturday, despite her defeat in the Empire Handicap at Wanganui. With S. T. Edwards in the saddle Reipar ran five furlongs in Imin. 2 l-ssec. on Tuesday morning. He is to carry 7.6 on Saturday in the Kebhell Memorial at Foxton, but with lhe allowance for an apprentice rider he will probably have 7.2, with which impost he scored in the same even last year. The fact that Conveyer won the Palmerston North Handicap on Saturday with great ease suggests that he will be well in the picture if he is a contestant for the hurdle race at Foxton. As Conveyer is by Tractor from Prima Lux. a sister to that good Thaser Luna Lux, he should be able 1o hold his own with the opposition over the minor obstacles. Acceptances for the first day of the Auckland Racing Club’s winter meeting on June 6. 9 and 11. and also for the Great Northern Steeplechase, will close to-morrow at 5 p.m. Handicaps for the first day at Otaki *ill appear on Monday, and acceptances will close next Wednesday at F p.m. At. the second forfeit for the Derby to be run on June 1. 6S colts and one filly held their ground. The filly was Radiant, a full-sister to Windsor Lad. and for whom Miss Dorothy Paget gave 11.500 guineas as a yearling. Entheos fenced very carefully at Awapuni on Saturday, but it was encouraging to noie that the five-year-old son of Gainscourt and Enthusiasm made no errors, and it is reasonable to assume that the experience will benefit him considerably. It vould be ditticult to imagine a better trial for the Great Northern Hurdles than the brilliant win of Jolly Beggar at Te Rapa on Monday with 12.0. This was his first start in a hurdle race since last August and he is sure to benefit by the race. At present Jolly Beggar would seem better than ever, and as he was third with 11.13 in last year's Great Northern. he must again be given a royal chance with 12.0 next Monday week. » • • • The New Zealand-bred Whernside. who ran a two-mile hurdles record in winning the Kororoit Hurdles at Williamstown (Victoria) on Saturday, is one of Mr. W. R. Kemball’s cast-offs. A five-year-old son of Grand Knight and the imported mare Bay lock, Whernside gave considerable promise as a two-year-old, but later lost form. Now a five-year-old, he has raced fairly well in welter events of late, but was having his first start in a hurdle race when he won on Saturday. He is the first of Grand Knight's progeny to be tried over the battens. Enge stripped much improved by his racing at Avondale to beat all but Valamito in the Presidents Handicap at Te Rapa on Saturday. After that effort he will probably be elevated to favouritism for the Cornwall Handicap and there is every reason why he should occupy that position. Weighted at 8.2 he seems very favourably handicapped, for under winter conditions his form has been high class. His runaway with 8.10 in the Parliamentary Handicap at Trentham last July was a performance that few who saw him win will forget and his subsequent early spring form under welter weights was almost as good. The Hollywood Turf Club's track, which has cost £500,000. is to be opened officially on June 13. The first carnival, which will last for 33 days, will include about a dozen big races, the prizes ranging in value from £5OO to £lO,OOO. The chief event will be the Hollywood Gold Cup, which will be worth about £13,000. This is a race for three-year-olds and over, the distance being 10 furlongs. The landscaped track covers 315 horses, with

J accommodation for 60,000 patrons I The owners of the course are all con- ' nected with the film industry. • • i The iron horse Slippery made two appearances at the Manawatu meeting on Saturday, and he was in the firing line at the straight entrance on both occasions. It was surprising to find him going out rank outsider in the Palmerston Handicap, but he was nevertheless not by any means neglected, as it was an even-betting race.