BROWN DERBY’S CHANCE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 227, 25 September 1945, Page 7

BROWN DERBY’S CHANCE

NOT YET ON SCHOOLING LIST The three-year-old Robin Goodfellow colt Brown Derby, who threw his rider, S. Green, in the Wanganui Guineas, causing that jockey to fracture a leg, has not been placed on the schooling list. His owner, Mr. J. R. McKenzie, is to be asked for an undertaking that the horse will be started •next only in a- highweighl handicap and will oe ridden by a jockey recommended by the stipendiary steward at the meeting. The executive sub-com-mittee of the N.Z. Racing Conference last week considered the recommendation of Mr. B. N. Sandilands, stipendiary steward at the Wanganui meeting, that Brown Derby should be placed on tne schooling list. The committee also had before it the evidence heard at a meeting of the judicial committee of the Wanganui Jockey Club at an inquiry following the incident,

as well as a letter from the colt’s owner, Mr. J. R. McKenzie. Their decision was to give Brown Derby another chance.

Hulabaloo has been a consistent but unlucky place-getter in nack ranks, and as a result ne has had to pay the penalty, for he is now invariably at or near tne top of the handicaps in hack events. Judging by his display in the Foxton Cup, nowever, he should not be long in winning in better company, for he was unlucky to be up against one of Flying Tor’s calibre, irom whom he was receiving only 14ilb. Hulabaloo was taken up to a handy position halt a mile from home and joined the pacemaker, Ganges, on the home run, but Flying Tor proved too good in the run home. At the Wanganui meeting Hulabaloo carried 8.8 to dead-heat with Dark Morning behind Stony Broke in the Putiki Hack on the first day and then, with 8.11, was runnqr-up to Stony Broke in the Moutoa Hack on the second day. Hulabaloo also showed up for a time in the Halcombe Memorial at New Plymouth, and not much improvement would be required for him to win a race for his mentor, H. Benge.

Grand Coulee scored his first success when ne won the First Trial Stakes at the Foxton meeting on Saturday. He is a four-year-olu colt by Tiderace from Millament, a Beau Pere mare whose dam, Drama, was a halfsister by Thespian, to Spiral. Bred by the late Mr. 1. H. Lowry, Grand Coulee carried his breeder’s colours in two

starts as a two-year-old, his second essay resulting in nis being runner-up, beaten a head, in the Nursery Handicap at the Poverty Bay meeting at On his breeder’s death 'Grand Coulee was acquired by his son, Mr. T. C. Lowry, for whom, in nine starts last season, he secured two seconds and three thirds in nine starts. His final appearance was in the Oroua Hacq Cup at Feilding, where Kuri, Grand Coulee and Dunbar flashed over the line with a heaa and half a head separating them in the order named. Saturday o race was Grand Coulee’s next appearance, and as his time for the seven furlongs was only two-fifths of a second slower than Typhoon’s in the Robinson Handicap, there should be some good races ahead of the Tiderace colt.

Calm Courage, who beat all bur Grand Coulee in the First Trial Stakes at the Foxton meeting on Saturday, is a three-year-old colt by the champion sire Fox bridge from Eager Rose, and is thus a full brother to Foxrose. His only previous start this season had been in maiden company at Wanganui. Calm Courage is own«d by Mr. W. J. Crawford, who bought him at 800 guineas at the Trentham yearling sales in 1944, and for whom he is trained at Marton by W. J. McDowell. An elder brother to Calm Courage, Fearless Fox, was a good winner in Australia.

toaa(, z‘ivqi2wv ‘pzlhSnJi qluvi The restoration of a number of days’ racing announced last week will enable the Wanganui Jockey Club to hold a two-day winter meeting, on June 1 and 3. It is likely that a suostantial increase in the stakes will be announced. The earlier this is done the better it will be appreciated by owners and trainers, especially as South Island jumpers might be attracted. The Marton Jockey Club will be enabled to have two full days’ racing on January 1 and 2. instead of holding its second day in conjunction with the Ashhurst Club, which will race on January 22, probably at Awapuni.

The Marton-owned Whitley carried off the major honours in his first appearance in open company on Saturday, winning the Squatters’ Handicap at Geraldine for Mr. E. C. Haddock. At the Ashburton meeting a week earlier Whitley beat all but Rahiri in the Penscroft Hack. On Saturday he was an each-way favourite and ran the six furlongs in a shade under 1.15. Whitley is a four-year-old gelding by Theio from Odavarb. a Bravado mare who is not in the Stud Book. His success was well anticipated in Marton. Nominations for the handicap events at the Auckland Racing Club’s spring meeting total 262, compared with 243 last year. Following are the entries for the principal event, the Mitchelson Cup, of £2OOO (including £5O gold cup), run over a mile and a-half: —Lou Rosa, Rakanui, Dies Faustus. Chung Chong, Gaelic Salute, Hippodrome, Beau Dink, Orakau. Valley Boy, Broiedame, Cowper, Mr Rosa, Swift Quarry, Sir Dink, Betterman, Lord Chancellor, Coronaire Constitution Waiting, Our Gold, Hunting Loch, Snappy, Sir Bian, Gold Cape, Harris Tweed, Hot Pursuit, Leigh Hark, Yours and Mine, Flying Tor, Representative, Lance Wing, Rara Avis, Royal Musk, Abbey Fox La Fillette Gay Lally.