SUMMER RACING

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 292, 11 December 1941, Page 8

SUMMER RACING

OTAKI, ON SATURDAY NOTES AND COMMENTS A feature of Mondays racing ar Woodville was the “hat trick whicn went to the credit of B. H. Morris. Aho rode Yogi. Koi Ragi and Burra Sahib, respective winners of the third, fourth and tifth races. Further. Morris trains the trio for Mr. F. Ormond. Dynasty’s win in the principal event at Woodville on Saturday was overdue. as the Posterity gelding had had 10 races without success this season. Dynasty gave a sterling display and now that he has struck firm he should go on with it. Rink was second favourite for the Nursery Handicap at Woodville but he could not do better than third, and backers lost money as a result. The Ringmaster colt was finishing on well, so it looks as if he will be seen to advantage over a distance. Incidentally. a full-brother to Rink in MasterCraft was a winner in Melbourne last week.

Clarice, who won the first-day juvenile event at Woodville, was one of the fancied runners at Feilding las? Monday week, hut she did not get

away too well. Those who followec their money got a good price lass Saturday when the Solicitor-Genera* filly won comfortably.

Mr. G. M. Currie secured a win at Woodville on Monday with Ringcraft, the Ringmaster gelding scoring a hollow victory in the seven-furlong Gorge Hack Handicap. It was a race for apprentices, and C. A. Bowry never let the opposition have a chance.

Dalesman, favourite for the juvenile race each day at Woodville, los; any chance he had by running wide making the turn into the straight on each occasion. On the wa*' he won at Levin it looked like the St. Boswells colt being a good betting proposition Miss Phaleron. who sprang a surprise in the hack sprint at Woodville on Monday, is one of the progeny or Phaleron Bay, as her name indicates, and she is trained at Hawera by L. E. George. She returned a dividend or nearly a quarter of a century. Her dam is the Day Comet mare Hallomet. • • • •

As the maiden event each day at Woodville was run in divisions, this meant that four horses qualified a: winners for the first time. The firstday winners were the Gascony gelding Hamish and the LackhamPiuthair filly Nighean. On Monday the Phaleron Bay colt Polarto anc the consistent Lord Quex filly Sea Quex were the winners. Another maiden winner at the meeting was Condole, the Bulandshar filly whose win dividend on Saturday was just short of a century.

Two Auckland Cup candidates In Yogi and Rakanui ran satisfactory trials at Woodville, suggesting that they are well forward for their twomile engagement at Ellerslie. Old Bill, also engaged at Auckland, Is reported to have pulled up lame after running second to Dynasty in the Bolton Handicap on Saturday, and it is understood that he will not undertake the trip to Ellerslie.

At Hawera on Tuesday morning Battledress (Holland) moved nicely over half a mile the reverse way in 51J. A candidate for the Great Northern Derby, he is coming through a thorough preparation in pleasing fashion and promises to parade a very fit horse at Ellerslie. High Caste’s most ardent admirer seems to be the well-known Victorian trainer, F. Godby. He has presented to the Trainers' Association rooms in Melbounre a painting of the "Strawberry Bull." saying: “We’ve never seen one like him before, and we ll never see one like him again."

J. W. Lowe, for many years a prominent trainer, has decided to retire. Lowe, who is in his eighties, has worn as well as any man much younger, and has been a familiar figure at Trentham for many years, where he earned the distinction of being the early bird for track work. He was also the first trainer to make use of the Trentham course as a trainingground when the club made the shift from Hutt Park in 1905-6. He has had many good horses through fits hands and he won two New Zealand Cups, with Menelaus for Messrs. Vivian and Eric Riddiford. and with Yours Truly for Mr. J. S. McLeod. Tn the year Menelaus won, Lowe also trained the second horse. JohnnyWalker. a feat equalled this year by B. Burgess with Happy Ending and Gladynev. While he won most of his races for his patrons he also raced in his ow n interests. He won a Wellington Cup with Insurrection, and the best horse he has had in more recent years was Glare, whose good form attracted an Australian buyer. Glare was bred in Australia and purchased there by Lowe as a yearling. For some years he made an annual visit to Sydney . Blue Border has been sent up to B. Burgess at Opaki. and Eastern Sport will go to L. Knapp, al Awapuni.

Those who have seen Orakau in A. Cook's Te Awamutu stable, have a good word for this Waikato winner. Orakau is a brown gelding, also byMr. Standfast, from Bravado, and Delongs to a great family. Bravado, bred by Mr. T. H. Low ry, being by Psychology from War Scare, by Martian from Gossip. War Scare was the dam of Estland. Finmark, and Highland and Gossip left Bobrikoff and Tete-a-Tete.

The A.J.C. committee decided rc» cently that as a result of a discussion at the conference of delegates from principal clubs held at Melbourne during the recent Melbourne Cup meeting it will in future be considered an offence for a licensed jockey o: apprentice to contribute articles relating to racing for publication in the press or to grant interviews on such matters for publication.

Last season Mr. E. H. Cucksey refused an offer of 3000 guineas for Beau Leon, and to stop further negotiations put 7000 guineas on the three-year-old. Even 3000 guineas looked a big price then, but the owner’s confidence has been justified. Beau Leon is to be nominated for the Sydney Cup. but first will have a tilt at the £3500 cups at Auckland and Wellington.