SPRING RACING

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 244, 16 October 1940, Page 9

SPRING RACING

Campaign To Advance This Week MASTERTON AND STRATFORD TRENTHAM NEXT WEEK . The spring racing campaign will be advanced materially this week, as the Masterton fixture is set down for tomorrow and Saturday, ano there will oe racing at Stratford and Rotorua on Saturday. The Wellington Racing Clubs spring meeting is tp be hpio at Trentham on Thursday, Saturday and Monday (Labour Day), October 24, 26 and 28. It promises to bring together the majority of the weight-for-age and handicap stais in commission. A Press Association message from Masterton yesterday stated that Manahau (8.5) was inadvertently omitted from the Maiden Stakes acceptors, and Sky Limit (8.0) should be added to the acceptances lor the Lawn Handicap. K. Chote, who steered Dynasty to victory in the Mema Champion HacK Handicap at Otaki onr Saturday, has been engaged to ride Lord Cavendish, Vaalstar, Battle Dress and Gold Card at the Stratford meeting. Win-and-place betting, now so popular with totalisator turnovers steadily mounting, will operate at Masterton to-morrow and Saturday, and at Stratford and Rotorua on Saturday. Pay Roll, a half-sister tu Free Gold, being by Croupier from Zarisee, is the first of the juveniles this season to have scored two wins. She shared the honours with Nuna in the Welcome Stakes on Saturday and then registered a clear-cut victory in the Dominion Handicap on Monday. Pay Roll is raced by her breeder, Mr. N. Newman, of Nelson. In the Debutant Stakes at the Wanganui meeting at Awapuni Pay Roll drew a wide marble and never had a chance. The Awapuni trainer L. G. Morris, who made a successful debut as a starter at the Hawkes Bay Jockey Club meeting, has been appointed starter to the Egmont Racing Club. It is reported that when Beau Repaire came back to the birdcage after being beaten a neck by Sly Fox in the Mitchelson Cup at Elierslie on Saturday, he was showing evidence of having bumped along the at some stage of the race. He was very tender in front when unsaddled. Nuna, who dead-heated with PayRoll in the A.R.C. Welcome Stakes but had to strike her colours to the Croupier filly in the Dominion Handicap on Monday, is raced by Mr. H. D. Matthews, who won the event previously with Rippling Waters, buna's dam is the Day Comet mare Cometary, dam also to Surview, Surmount and Cometarian. Mr. H. D. Matthews, whose colours Nuna carries, also bred the Lysander filly. The Straightcourse gelding Lord! Nuffield had been getting thiough a good deal of slow work at Wingatui prior to the spring meeting, ana his win in the seven-furlong Navy Handicap on Monday was not so unexpected as the generous dividend suggestea. Lord Nuffield won over six furlongs. at the Dunedin one-day spring meet- , ing last year. Silver Lily, winner of tne McLean Stakes at Vvingatui on Saturday, is a daughter of Paper Money ana the Sunny Lake—Droski '•mare Bonnie Lake. She is thus a half-sister to Mobile. Salutation, who scored in the two-year-old race at Wingatui on Monday, i s a roan filly by Tneio (by letratema, son of The Tetrarch/ from the Chief Ruler mare Queen's Salute. Salutation is bred for speed and she should win plenty of races. C. Emerson has established a record in connection with the McLean Stakes that will take some beating, lie won on Nones in 1914, Meteorite in 1920, Top Score in 1922, Count Cavour in 1923, Chiia's Piay in 1927, Aspiring in 1925, and Satisfy in 1929. Nones was one of the fastest two-year-olds ever seen at Wingatui. She won from the half-mile post on the course proper in 49sec., ana that time was not equalled until Pelmet did so in 1930. tor several years the race was run over live furlongs. The dales for the Wellington Racing Club's summer meeting have been changed from January io, 20, and 22 to January 16, 18, ana 22, a Thursday, Saturday, ana the following Wednesday (Anniversary Day), 'inis will allow the yearling sales to come in on the Monaay ana Tuesday. The Levin Racing Club has been successful in its application to race' on Monday, November 2b, which is Iht substituted King's Birthday holiday. The Southland Racing Club's meeting will also be held on the Monday instead of the preceding Saturday. The second day or the Auckland meeting (old Takapuna meeting) will complete the Birthday meetings. This year’s winner of the A.J.C. Breeders’ Plate, Yaralla, cost his owner, Mr. E. P. Walker, 1200gns last April. He was the top-priced lot sired by The Buzzara at the sale. Yaralla is a chestnut colt, his dam being Even Keel, by Highland from Syceonelle, by Syce. He is a fullbrother to True Flight, who is owned in Perth, who won the West Australian Guineas and Derby and finished second in the Perth Cup last season. True Flight is now one of the better favourites for the Caulfield Cup following his recent striking victory in the Mentone Cup. Syceonelle, second dam of Yaralla, is the dam of Old Rowley.