RACING.

Waikato Times, Volume 98, Issue 15320, 22 August 1923, Page 9

RACING.

SEASON’S FIXTURES.

New Zealand. Aug. 25—Pakuranga Hunt Club. Sept. I—North1 —North Taranaki Hunt Club. Sept. s—Marton J.C. Sept. 6—Rangitikei Hunt Club. Sept. B—Otagoß—Otago Hunt Club. Sept. 13 and 15 —Wanganui J.C. Sept. 21, 22—Ashburton County R.C Sept. 22, 24 —Avondale J.C. Sept. 22, 24—-Otaki-Maori R.C. Sept. 27, 28 —Geraldine R.C. Sept. 29—Manawatu Hunt Club, Sept 29 —Napier Park R.C. Australia. Sept. 29—Epsom and A.J.C. Derby. Oct. I—Metropolitan Handicap. Oct. 3—Craven Plate. Oct. 6 —Randwick Plate. . Oct. 13—Caulfield Guineas. Oct. 20—Caulfield Cup. Nov. 3—V.R.C. Derby. November 6 —Melbourne Cup, England. September 12 —The St Leger.

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

“True to Label,” Hamilton. —That was a misprint. General Advance won the “Wanton” Cup, not the “Winter" Cup last season. “Admirer,” Gordonton. —Oakleigh Is not the only horse to win two Grand National Steeplechases _in succession. Coalition also claims that honour. “South Island,” Hamilton.— (1) Jack Roach rode Malingerer, the winner ,of the Spreydon Hurdles at Riccarton. (2) General Advance is the second South Island horse to win the Grand National Hurdles in seven years.

JOTTINGS.

The Pakuranga Hunt has splendid acceptances for the meeting at Elles6lie on Saturday. At the Waikato Hunt meeting at Hamilton in October the stakes will be over £2300. A Dominion writer makes the Grand National Hurdles journey las nearly two miles and five furlongs. On Tuesday next the members' of the Hamilton Racing Club will assemble for the annual meeting. With more experience the Wellington horse, Carawock, promises to be a trimmer at the hurdling business. Oakleigh the best of the steeplechase candidates, seen out at Riccarton. The annual meeting of the Waikato Trotting Club will be held on Thursday of next week. The weights for the principal events at the Avondale meeting will be... announced on Monday. Prince Abbey will be the elect of Mr R. Hannon’s stable in the chief sprint event at the Avondale meeting. General Advance, the Grand National Hurdles winner, may be put to the big country next winter. Gamecock broke his surcingle in the early stages of the race for the Grand National Hurdles. Hokemai (11.10) and Lady Bruce (10 10) are a pair in the Pakuranga Hunt Cup with form to recommend them. < Glen Canny (9.13) “likes the mud, and investors will remember this when the Jelliooe Handicap Held parades for duty on Saturday. Himpo, who,, is among the minimum brigade in the principal sprint race set down for Ellerslie on Saturday, won both two-year-old events at the A.R.G. autumn fixture. Tinohoro (9.9) should be capable of seeing out the mile and a quarter of the Jellicoe Handicap at Ellerslie on Saturday.

The New Zealand trainer, F. D. Jones, had a successful day with his team at Randwick on Saturday, when Urgency, Zaragoza and Ballymena won. After arriving in Australia, R. Reed went up to Brisbane, and on August 4, at the Q.T.G. exhibition meeting, rode Mallina, the winner of the Trial Plate. There were 24 other starters. Omahu was fencing badly in each of his steeplechase starts at Riccarton. He owed his success in the Lincoln to his superior pace. It Is stated that W. Rennie, the Waikato horseman, may go over to Australia to do some hurdle and steeplechase riding. Bright Day, the promising representative of Day Comet in F. Tutchen’s stable at Frankten has been given a 'nomination in the Avondale Gup. Tinohoro and Royal Abbey will carry the cream jacket and crimson ■cap of their W aikato stable in the Avondale Cup.

Judging by the way he is working, Gloaming will be a very fit horse for The A.J.C. meeting, and will give Beauford’ a stiff argument in the Craven Plate, a distance which' suits both horses admirably.

Boomerday is to open the season with sprint racing, having been accorded an acceptance in the Chatham Handicap on Saturday with 9.12. The lour races the Quin Abbey—Belle Crispin gelding won last season were all over a journey of a mile and a Quarter. Zaragoza, one of F. D. Jones’ team to win at Randwick on Saturday, is a rising three-year-old bay filly by Nassau —Madrid. She had one start at the Ashburton meeting in May, but ran unplaced. It has been stated that the former Ellerslie trainer, H. Eva, was removing his team to' Hamilton, but so far he has not succeeded in getting suitable accommodation here. The Birkeenhead —Lady Creswick geilding, Birkwick, is not making much of a success at steeplechasins. He had four starts at RtecartOn, but failed to get round once. M. McCarten, the leading horseman in New Zealand last season, opened his Australian visit in a prominent manner when he rode three winners on the first afternoon in the saddle at Randwick.

Oaklcigh made two very bad jumps when crossing the sod wall in tar Lincoln Steeplechase at Riccarton on Saturday and this cost him the race probably. Otherwise his- work was of the brilliant order.

During the fourteen years since Martian’s name first appeared on the sires’ list his progeny has accounted for £231,1G3 10s in stakes, an average of just over £16,500 a year. Oakleigh had been causing his trainer some anxiety owing to trouble behind prior to the Grand National meeting. When warmed up the horse shook it off. With 9.0, old Bedford may be found capable of going a good horse in the Jellicoe Handicap on Saturday as lie will find it an advantage to have the sting out of the ground. Sycorax had a his list of racing round the country circuit last season, hut the King Mark mare failed to earn a winning bracket. She is in the Jellicoe Handicap at the minimum. There are no fewer than thirtythree acceptors for the Sylvia Park Handicap on the Pakuranga Hunt programme on Saturday. There are a

number of untried sorts in the field in which a good beginner must have an advantage.

Panchito is to make the first appearance of the new season in the Hunters’ Hurdles at Ellerslie on Saturday. Lark Hall is another Hamilton representative in the same event, and may be Hie better of the pair. The Day Comet —Lady Frisco three-year-old, White Comet, will be a starter in the Auckland Handicap, of one m(le, at Ellerslie on Saturday. It mav he a shade early to expect Mr Seifert’s gelding to show of his best. WaikaWa, Panchito, Lark Hall, Arch Opal, Irish Errand and White Comet are among the Hamilton-trained horses to take part in the racing at Ellerslie on Saturday. The three biggest hurdle events of this jumping season have all been won by jockeys who obtained a chance ride. Bagby secured the mounts on Kohu in the Great Northern and on First Born in the Winter Hurdles at Trentliam through accidents, and in the Grand National the mishap to Poanui gave Walls the ride on General Advance. Rouen promises to make a capital hurdler. His fine pace is an asset, while the Bezonian gelding shapes attractively at jumping and must mprove with experience. Sunny Loch, the winner of the Winter Gup, races in the interests of his owner-trainer, J. McCombe, at one time a prominent South Island horseman. Red Gown wits one of the disappointments of the Grand National Hurdles. The Christchurch-owned mare appears to have been troubled by the big field. ■ Mr B. Chailey won the last Caulfield Cup with Whittier, and again has designs on that race this year with the same horse. At least it is understood he has already arranged for P. Brown to ride Whittier. It is unusual for Tinokaha he caught napping at the barrier, but the Ouin Abbey hurdler was left at Riccarton on Saturday and took no part in the Sydenham Hurdles. What are the longest odds laid against a Derby runner? A hundred to one chances have been plentiful, and have actually won on several occasions. The longest odds’, however, are probably those laid in the Derby of 1867 when one bookmaker made a wager of £20,000 to a coat, waistcoat and hat against Black Tommy, second to Blink Bonny. Isle of Wight, a horse that has not learned good manners at the start of a race, caused Hector Gray to be fined £lO at Newmarket. Linby, a horse ridden by Archibald in the same race, caused 'the' latter to be mulcted in a similar amount for also breaking the rule prohibiting horses being held at the starting post. There was a very marked difference in the receptions accorded by the Riccarton crowd to Oakleigh and General Advance the winners of the respectave big events of the National meeting. When Oakleigh won the cheering was continuous, hut General Advance strolled in in the Hurdles amidst a stoney silence, and when he returned to scale there was not a single cheer nor a hand-clap. , Tinlhanga, the winner of the closing event on the Grand National card, is a speedy sprinter, but rarely shows it in a race. The five-year-old daughter of Absurd—Formless returned a double figure price. Bon Spec was making his first appearance as a hurdler when he ran second to Cheer Up jit Riccarton on the closing day of the Grand National. Everything points to Bon Spec being more than useful at the game. Master Peter was the,, most prominent of the younger brigade of crosscountry performers at the Grand National, where he won one steeplechase and ran second to Oakleigh and Omahu in two others. Master Peter is an aged gelding by St. Petersburg from a Deerstalker mare. The jumper, No Bother, was destroyed at Ellerslie owing to an attack of tetanus. He was an aged gelding by Coronet—Fuss and owned by Mr r t Reid, the proprietor of the Wai- | kato’Hotel. At the winter meeting at Auckland, No Bother was successful in the Green Lane Steeplechase, having 375 sovs to his credit for the season. Matinee has been accorded a nomination in the Flying Handicap of six furlongs at Avondale towards the end o f next month. This will be the first appearance of Phil Brady’s charge since the son of Day Comet—Ristori went amiss about Christmas time. When Gloaming and Cupidon left New Zealand prior to winning the A.J.C. Derby of their respective years, they were untried (writes “Pilot”). I do not wish to boom Lascelles by suggesting R: J. Mason is going to put up a similar performance with him, but on Saturday the son of Martaau and Mary of Argyle galloped balf-a.-milc well enough in company with Gloamhtfe to demonstrate the possession of pace, and on breeding he should certainly stay. Golden Tresses is fast, but I doubt whether he will be as good over --a distance as Lascelles. The good-looking and brilliant Farceur, another of Mason s team is again working, and on Saturday had his first sprint for about 1~ months.