SPRING RACING

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 258, 1 November 1939, Page 4

SPRING RACING

Four Meetings On Saturday NEW ZEALAND CLP DAY INTEREST IN STRATFORD Racing will take place in four centres in New Zealand on Saturday. The New eZaland Cup will be run on Saturday, the opening day of the Canterbury Jockey Club's spring meeting. which extenos over the following Monday. Wednesday and Saturday. Two days* racing will be held a/ Whangaret this weeK, the meeting opening on Friday and concluding on Saturday. Other North Island meetings on Saturday will be held at Straiiord and Napier Park. The latter club will have a second meeting the following Saturday. Several horses from the Wanganui district will be racing at Stratford next Saturday, and later it is intended that several more repre- . entatives will go through to Te Kapa for the Waikato Racing Club s spring meeting. Acceptances close at 9 o’clock lonignt lor the Stratford Racing Cluos spring meeting, and the indications are that the club’s enterprise in staging a November meeting will be well i ewarded, even thougn it entails a clash with the New Zealand Cup. ’ Discussions” on the New Zealand Cup and Stewards Handicap, a popular spring •‘double” suggest that the general opinion is that Beaulivre has 10 fall down to be beaten in me sprint. Royal Chief, Lady Furst, Centrcpoisc and Yours 1 ruly appear to be the most favoured Cup candidates. The Melbourne Cup will be run next Tuesday at Flemington, on the second day vi inc V.R.C. spring carnival. which opens on Saturday. The V.R.C. Derby, the Melbourne Stakes and the Cantala will be decided on the opening da\. New Zealand has more than the usual amount ot interest in the Meioautne Cup this year. Catalogue, last year’s winner, is engaged again. He is a New Zealander, ored and owned here, as also is Beau Vite. The t opweight, Mosaic, was bred at Air. G. M. Currie’s Koatanui Stud, and Wilson and Gold Salute were also bred in the Dominion. Further, Respirator, one of the ruling tavourites, v.as sent across to the Grange Stud. Westmere, and had his earlv education there. 11 wa.s suggested last week in these columns that Race Call hau ah the best of the handicap for the open sprint at Bulls, as compared with Screen Star, ihe result proved this contention correct, for Race Cali, meeting Screen Star on 71b belter teims tnan at Waverley. won well by half a length. It appeared, however, as if Laugning Lass was rather unlucky, being knocked ba< u once and (hon being disappointed wiien looking for an opening in the straight. ’ It is reported lhat Race Call's connections are dissatisfied with tne weight allotted the Billy Lup.n g mg at Stratford and it is unlikely that he will contest the open sprint on Saturday. Race Call has 9.0 in that e\ent 61b. above Russian Ballet, whom he. is meeting on 151 b worse terms. Last year Race Call was second to Life Guard at Bulls with 9.0, and he appears to have earned the weight ne has received. Before going out for the hurdle race al Waveney on Labour Day the connections of Erebus stated mat w in or lose he would be having his last race as it is considered that his wind is now aiiecten. Despite his convincing success in the race concerned it is understood that ne will be still turned out. The Diacquenod roan was never very *olid but he pai his way throughout his career, which is more than the majority of horses succeed in doing. Because oi the weather, S. -I. Reid postponed the departure of his team Beaulivre, Kobi, i ogi. and Brunhild’, which was to have gone south on Monday night, l ill to-night. Horses who faced the storm ana travelled on Monday night were Arctic King, Beaupartir, Old Surrey, Reburn. Sceptre, Sudan, Sleeveless. Anita Fot Great Legion. Miss Hallomet, Vercy Lights, Classform, and Duncannon. The surprise foim of Anita Foe and Gieat Legion on the final day at TrenIham will be remembered by some when Ruatiti next as Um gelding finished just in front of the pair of them in the Belmont Handicap on the second day of the meeting, and hew as not produced on the final day. Beaupartir will not race again bebore the Canterbury Cup. decided on the third day of the C..C. spring meeting. L. J. Elks has again been secured for him. The hurdler Blue Steel broke down bady while competing at Cambridge on Labour Daj. He did not return to L. Knapp's stable at Awapuni. After the hrst of the Rangitikei Racing Club’s two meetings this season the trainers leading for the club’s special training tropny are:—F. C. McHugh, 5 points; G. W. New, 4 points; and E. C. Haddock, M. Williams, I. Lupton. L. E. George, and B. Burgess, 3 points each. A possible explanation of C\obe Trotter’s poor showing at Masterton orior to the Wellington meeting is that he got his tongue over the bit during the race. Though it was not there when he returned to the enclosure, this is the belief of his trainer, states the Evening Post. Flammarion will not be racing at the Napier meeting., Mr. Charlie McCullough, his popular owner-trainer, goes into camp this week and he has disposed of his tfam. Piloting two more winners at the Rangitikei meeting on Saturday, the Auckland horseman, H. N. Wiggins,