RACES AT BELLS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 254, 27 October 1939, Page 4

RACES AT BELLS

Rangitikei Club s ji Meeting RI( CARTON IN THE OFFING i NOTES AND COMMENTS The Rangitikei Racing Club’s spring t meeting will be held at the Bulls > nurse to-morrow. 1 * * • • ( The;c will be seven events at Bulls, ' 7-morrow, and the first Is to start at I 2.30 p.m. i The Banks Peninsula meeting will 1 e held at Motukarara to-morrow. It ill serve as a full-dress rehearsal ar the Canterbury Jockey Club’s - reeling. r I The Neu Zealand Cup will be run « t Ricca Hon on Saturday of next week 3 nd the Melbourne Cup will be decid- • 1 at Flemington the following Tues- t The £92.328 10s handled at Tren- e ham on Monday has only been ex- 2 >• ’ded three times in the Wellington t lacing Club’s history. The hignest c urnovei for a day was the £IUZ,7Bu I hat passed through the machine on a uiniversaiy Day, 1921. a - • : In 1932 the amount handled on the ; 'rentham totalisator on Labour Da> .as 120.330 ius, which is only a irttic lore than the amount the otate re- I eived in taxation from the recent c aree-dav meeting. r ,c The announcement that Beauiivre t .Hl fuiiil his engagement in tne btew-|C ids’ Handicap at Riccarton before |t on testing the* New Zealand Derby ( ill probably result in cramped ante- ' ost quotations on the Cup and blew- f rds’ ’’double.” 1 - • ♦ • i Three-year-olds that have won the ■towards' Handicap in tne past 4u ears include: —Pampero «<-4», Koyai - utiheiy <7.19), Vladimir <7.b*>, ana 1 idcinne Gun »8.9> in lour successive < ears from ISO.'; Goid Crest <B.3> in = 907; Bon Reve (8.6 > a dead-neat with 1 ►tardancer in 191’2; Eulaue (8.1) in • 9’27; Autopay (7.2» in 1930; and c ’aper Slipper ‘8.5) in 1936. in the <• arlicr years the 6.7 minimum ruled, t o Beaulivre’s 8.1'» is not a greater mpost than tnat earned by Machine I rim. Homily might have repealed her 1 'earcc Handicap success of last year ' .hen she contested this event on < ionday at Trentham, but she received i 4 check early and then had to come J ; ound her held, covering so much ’ xtra ground that it cost ner the race. 1 1 he was beaten a head and half a ead only by Mitti.» and Gay Chou in j ast time. I Ringci sit was o»ie of the unlucky i 1 tinners at Trentham. Inexperience : ‘ obbed him ot second place at any■ 1 ate in the Wellesley Stakes, lor net) an about a lot in tne straight and; hen only wmi under by a iieao top •liss Hahomet. v.no was lour lengths'/ ►ehind the winner. Enrich. In the/ loseneath Handicap Ringcraft met j’ • -ith interference early and then hit 1 he front inside the false rail, only to succumb to Black Robe's finishing run n the outer. The Ringmaster geld-; ng will have benefited hy his ex-r ►erience and when he Is stepped out:' n the Great Northern Foal Stakes j 1 ic should be much improved. Fracliousness al the barrier settled 1‘ hr <'nances of Absolve in the Welles-! rj Sta tes, a*hd h ? i ept ate 1 the con-, j iuet on Monday in the Roseneath’ 1 handicap. Absolve w ill be gelded, ana J t is not likely that he will be a con- 1 estant in th»* Welcc»me Stakes at • Like his half-brother. Catalogue, me ■' Aaveriey Cup winner. Hunting Cat,', •arries his years welt, and he cannot >e jeft out of calculations for th. . 1 <e, v Zealand Cup. An eight-year-old. jeiding by Hunting Cat from CataliniJ hunting Cat is experiencing his best:; =eason since he won the 1935 Mana-.' vatu Cup. H- has won three racesi' his season, including a surprise, re-1 urning a win dividend of ftver two| ■coie, m the Ling Memorial, at Otaki. ’ Waverley Cup winners that have) on to win the Nev. Z-aland Cup' nrlude Oratie.-s. The Banket ana' f'rtc. land. Dr'predation and Muraahii ’.on th*' Waverley Cup after having I' ■cored in the Auckland Cup. Perhaps : his year’s winner at Waverley may j follow suit at Ri< carion on Saturday! O. Evans is generally condemned for I !a>r Cali < cieieat in the Brewer Handicap a; Waverley fa,l M mday. R.ic ; ■ 2all appeared i > head Fiancee 5 J aids from th< post but the lightly-1 weighted mare came again and won! »n the p:»~t b\ the narrowest of mar-j jins. Perhaps the explanation may be hat Race Cail, carrying 9.“. had .spent 1 lim-eif i n his effort t»» catch Fiancee) 7.1f0r he was conceding the pace-j nake. !■> lengths at ‘>ne .-tage. With I in advantage of nearly two stone it s littic wonder that Fiancee could] iroducc an extra effort in that last I ew strides, whereas Race Call apw’arod to falter just short of the post, md that spelt defeat. At any rate is •ost Evans 15 for failing to ride his «»Qunf out." A feature of Fiancee’s success in the >tewcr Handicap, at Waverley. was •he manner in which she was handled i w her apprentice rider. D. Ryan, who

| was having his first mount in a race. | jHe displayed more than average, j ability in holding his mount well to-1 I gether while making the pace and Jthen got an extia dab out of her in the last few strides. Indentured to R. Brough, young Ryan should not lack mounts at meetings in the future, especially in the Taranaki district. , If Screen Star had any chance of . beating Race Call at Waverley, w here ‘ their weights in the Brewer Handicap were 5.12 and 9.0 respectively, what chance has. he of reversing tne posi- ; tions m the Clifton Handicap, at Bulls, ! to-morrow ? On this occasion Screen Star has 8.1 and Race Call 7.10, a . difference of 71b. as compared with ‘ Waverley. The weights appear all in , favour of Race Call as between the pair. The same handicapper made the . adjustments for the Waverley and ‘ Rangitikei meetings. Last season Screen Star started on ’2l occasions for three wins and seven minor platings. Already this season he has started six times for two wins , and a second, so perhaps he has gone r a trifle stale on it. The fast pace sei j by Fiancee at Waverley also con-1 tributed to his undoing. Twelve months ago there were eight starters in the brewer Handicap at Waverley, resuiting 1.4 a totalisa- 1 tor pool of over £2ou*J. On Monday «. only four lined up for the sprint, and S the pool amount to £1'217. a drop ol < about £BOO. Obviously, had there been s a decent field this year it would have > made a material difference to the i Waverlcv turnover. J - 1 Erebus, w inn* 1 of the Handicap t Hack Hurdles at Waverley. on Mon- 1 day, filled a similar position twelve < months ago. In each instance he was ‘ confidently ridden, allowing the others 1 to make the pace, but when his rider elected to test the pacemaker Erebus 1 ran up to take the leader’s measure. On Monday hi a task was made easier j wir.n Air Shot came out from the < fence on the home turn, enabling C. ' L. Kerr on Erebus, to take the shorter route to the judge. The Smiler was favourite for the 1 Morton Memorial Maiden at Waver- I ley, though his backers were getting r a generous dividend, thanks to the support accorded the majority of his I opponents. His connections were un- ' iuexy in that the Laughing Prince i gelding had to make most of me pace, i and it was oniy in the last lew strides ■ that Caution got the upper hand. Pro- j duced again m tne concluding event,, The Smner struck a snag in tne bril- * liant but disappointing Saxon For. whose lightning dash from the bar-! ner spelt the defeat of the Martontrainee gelding. The Smiler, whose!J dam was the speedy Acora, wiil win I. in his turn, and the small profit his I ‘ supporters secured at Waverley could L Ibe piayed un with advantage. He is 1 | trained by F. McHugh. [ Colossal Chief, winner ol the Wilson 1 Hack Highweight at Waverley, is from the same stable as The Smiler, and his • connections secured a lucrative dividend when the Colossus gelding nar- • row .y defeated the L.voUiTtc, Noble! Tug from whom he was receiving 1231 b. In eight starts this season . Colossal Chici has only once been out of the placing*, and his win was overdue. Only a three-year-old, he will win still more races, as he has developed into a solid customer. Eurotas was backed dow n to second ; favouritism in the Wilson Highweight 'at Waverk v, but the Pantheon geldiing did not have an uninterrupted run, ! and from the distance he had no < ! chance whatever. Afterwards it was : found that he had been galloped on, and he was allowed to drop'out of his : Rangitikei engagements. ’1 his was unfortunate for Lis owner-trainer, L. G. ! I Butler .of Wanganui, as he had Euro- ■ ! tis in good order for the spring camipaign alter a series of misfortunes. All Bunsby started in seven races last season but his only win was in •' the Morton Memorial Maiden, at i 1 Waverley. Ho was produced in the , Wilson Hack Highweight last Monday. but. was rather neglected on the! totalisator. However, he was one of the earliest to challenge the pace--maker. Colossal Chief, and attended ( him to the straignt, only to drop out jof the contest in the final furlong. , I The race w ill do All Bunsby a lot of ! good. He is engaged at the Stratford I meeting. Those w ho noticed the fast-finishing i ; Kilometre in the Wilson Hack High-j ; weight at. Waverley w ill want to be on the Lackham colt when he steps) lout again, lie was not in the first i ’ half-dozen on the home I urn, but ho came with a great burst into third place, ball a length behind the ; dividend-payers. Kilometre is engaged in the Farewell Hack Handicap, the concluding event at Stratford on Saturday of next week. Tne New Plymouth trainer, 11. . Dulieu. who won the concluding 1 event at Waverley last year with Life- . guard, again provided the winner on 'Monday with Saxon Tor. who appears Ito have the same brilliant turn of speed possessed by Lifeguard. Dulieu ■ also saddled up Kaiwaka. winner 01 i the Moumahaki Stakes, and Noble 1 Fox. second in the Wilson Hack i Highweight. so it was a profitable day ; for the stable. Spender will be improved as a result of his race in the hurdle event at Waverley, and he must be given a chance in the Sandon Hurdles, at Bulls to-morrow. Spender was well back early in the race but moved up behind Erebus near the half-m.’l?. . at the finish he was close to the dividend-pay ers.