THE TURF

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 206, 25 August 1932, Page 7

THE TURF

FIXTURES FOR 1932 Aug. 2 7 —Taranaki Hunt Club. Aug. 27 —Otago Hunt Club. Sept. 10 —Marton J.C. Sept 17 —Ashburton R.C. • Sept. 22, 24 —Wanganui J.C. Sept. 22, 24 —Geraldine R.C. October I—Napier Park R.C. October I—Kurow1 —Kurow J.C. October 7, S —Otaki Maori R.C. October 6, S —Dunedin J.C. October 15 —South Canterbury J.C. October 15 —Masterton R.C. October 15, 17 —Avondale J.C. October 22, 24 —Wellington R.C. October 22, 24—Gore R.C. October 24—Wavcrley R.C. October 24 —Waikato Hunt Club. October 24 —Waipawa County R.C. October 24 —North Canterbury R.C. October 27, 29—Poverty Bay Turf Club October 29 —Banks Peninsula R.C. October 29 —Carterton R.C. IMPERIAL FAME CASE RUSSELL’S CLAIM DISMISSED At the Hastings Magistrate’s Court yesterday afternoon the Clerk of the Court (Mr. W. M. Will) read the written judgment of Mr. Wyvern Wilson, S.M., in the case in which the racehorse Imperial Fame was concerned. The action was the result of a claim by Leonard Wilmot Howard against H. Corlett and another, and involved the seizure by the bailiff of the horse and the claim of A. C. Russell that he bought Imperial Fame from Mrs. Corlett in all good faith, the bailiff making an interplea to the Court to decide the ownership of the horse. The judgment concluded: "The summons is dismissed and the chattel seized is released from the claim. The claimant is ordered to pay the creditor's and othei' costs.’’

WIN FOR COCKPEN I AT SYDNEY PONY RACES I SYDNEY, Aug. 24. The New Zealand racer Cockpen signalised his advent at a pony meeting by winning in convincing style the Maiden Handicap at Victoria Park to-day.

NOTES FROM FAR AND NEAR The five-year-old gelding Rosshire, by Catmint from Lady Penury, who was sent to Sydney to join J. T. Jamieson's team some weeks ago, has gone amiss and he returned to Auckland by the Zealandia recently. Rosshire has previously been troubled with unsoundness, having developed trouble in one of his tendons as a three-year-old, and he had not been long back in training after a lengthy spell. His principal victory was in the Wynyard Plate at Takapau, but he gave promise of making a good handicap horse, so that the recurrence of lameness is unfortunate. ❖ It is stated that that good horse Admiral Drake has gone amiss, and it is feared that he may be unable to fulfil his spring engagements, which include a trip to Australia. The trouble is in one of his legs. Admiral Drake was a fine performer last season, finishing second in the New Zealand Cup and winning the Auckland Cup, while he was also runnerup in the Sydney Cup to Johnnie Jayson. If his ovzner carries out his intention to take a team across to Sydney this spring Colonel Cygnus and the two-year-olds Garter Knight (Limond — Anklet) and Southdown (Rampion-Down South) will probably be included. The Grand National Steeplechase winner, Billy Boy, returned to Auckland recently. At the conclusion of racing at Riccarton, R. W. Lewis stated that he intended to give Billy Boy a spell and then prepare him for the Great Eastern Steeplechase to be run at Onkaparinga, South Australia, at Easter. A prospective buyer has been anxious to have a price placed on Billy Boy, but Mr G. J. Quirke and Lewis, who race the horse in partnership declined to state a figure after he had scored his fine victory. *

“The past year has been a difficult one for racing clubs,” states the annual report of the Woodville Jockey Club. “The financial depression has made itself felt in reduced attendances and totalisator investments as well as reduced entry fees and the club has done well to bring its income and expenditure so closely together.” The totalisator turnover

at the club’s February meeting was £97 31 10s, and for the December meeting £12,96 7, a total of £22,6 98 10s as compared with £38,647 for the previous year’s meetings. The club paid the Government £2312 2s in taxation during the year, and received refunds amounting to £5OO. “The track was in good order for the year’s race meetings, -while the training tracks have been satisfactorily maintained throughout the year,” the report states. The Manfred —Redshank two-year-old in F. Davis’s stable at Woodville has made exceptionally goo'd progress in his early education,* and in a couple of short sprints has shown that he can muster up plenty of pace. His sire was a brilliant racehorse in Australia, while his dam, who is by Thrice from Red Streak, by Wallace, won, among other races the V.R.C. Oaks.