RACING.

Waikato Times, Volume 98, Issue 16096, 20 September 1924, Page 16 (Supplement)

RACING.

SEASON'S FIXTURE*. Sept. 20 and 22—Avondale J-C. Sept. 20 and 22—Otaki-Maori R.C. Sept. 24—Manarwatu Hunt Club. Sept. 25 and 26—Geraldine R-fi. Sept. 27—Napier Park R.G. Oct. I—Hawkc's Bay J.C. Oot. 4 —Pakuranga Hum Oct. 4,6, 8, and 11—Australian J. G. Spring. Oct! 9 and 11 —Dunedln J.C. Oct. 10 and 11—-Masterton J.C. • Oct. 16 and 18 —Whangarel R.C. Oct. 17 and 18—Oamani J.C. Oct'. 18—Carterton R.C. Oct. 25 and 27—Wellington R C. Oct. 27—Waikato Huni, Oct. 27—Waipawa R.C. Oct. 30 and Nov. I—Poverty Bay Turf Club. Nov. 1 and 3—Auckland Racing Club Nov. 8 and 10 —Hamilton Racing Club Nov. 10, 12, and 15—C.J.C. Meeting. Nov. 26 and. 29 —Takapuna Jockey C. Doc. 6—■Taumarunui. Racing Club. Deo. 13—Waipa Racing Club Deo. 26 and 29 —Auckland Racing C. Jan. 1 and 2—Auekland Racing Club Jan. 17—Dargaville Racing Club Jan. 29 and 31—Takapuna Jockey G. Feb. 7—Te Muiti Racing Clun Pet. 11 —Rotorua Racing ClUb Feb. 27—Opotiki Jockey Club Feb. 28—Te Aroha Jockoy Club March 2 —Te Aroha Jockey Club March 14 and J.C '■■. March .26—Bay of Plenty Jockey Club :ilaroh;2B—Franklin Racing Club April 11 and 13—Auckland Racing C. April 18 and 20—Avondale Jockey CJune 3, 6 and B—Auckland Racing C. Feb. 14—Matamata Racing .Club. .

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. "Wiseacre," truin has won £7941 in stakes. (2) G. Young always rides Gloaming these times.

"Wayfarer," Horotiu.—Gold Crest was one of the Gold Reef stock who was successful In the Hawkes' Bay Guineas. "Waipa," Te Awamutu.—Mandola, the dam of Doleful Ditty, was sold for'4s guineas at Karamu stud dispersal in 1918. JOTTINGS. The Avondale meeting will conclude on Monday. /The projected trip of Red Cent to VAustralia is cancelled. I : Royal Divorce won the Eclipse : Stakes without being extended. -Nigger Minstrel's form in Australia looks good for Derby duty. ;. /Gloaming will race in. the Hill ': Stakes at Sydney this afternoon. - • ,Ro3cday is to be sent •on an Aus- » IMiari campaign. A profit, of £6092 was made by the Wellington Racing Club on investments in Government loans.

.The prospects point to a big Held in the Dunedin Guineas this season.

. "Cardigan" states that Glentruin is one of the fastest mares seen in Australia over a short course. Fool's Paradise promises to show up in important sprint events this season.

-Adavale (Limond —Intrigue) is a handsome black Ally well worth making a note of. •',;: Geranial, The Cheat and Forgery •are a trio of J. ' McCombe's horses back from an Australian trip. Tinokaha is encountering an unusual happening in having a holiday from racing for a few weeks. .'. Arch Opal, who had been held in lease, is now back to his owner, Mr W. Cranston, of Matangl. ■The Craven Plate, a standard weight for age, over one and a quarter miles, comes up for decision under the Australian Jockey Club auspices on October 8. : , Glentruin's- reported break down in Sydney is unfortunate as the English mare appeared right to earn good money.

Chirrup (Gazeley—Ransyl) has qualified as a hunter and may start at Pukuranga or the Waikato Hunt to introduce the new season. He is one of Loomb's team.

Monday, who is owned and trained by A. Craik in company with Heisler at Hamilton East, will probably line up at the Pakuranga fixture early next month.

Fiery-Lad has been entered for th<> Pakuranga meeting. The first success of the Campflre gelding was scored at Marton early In the month. Desert Glow, Royal Bonus and the hurdler, Mia Bella, are all members of the active brigade ' under P. E. Loombs' supervision at Te Awamutu. After Muraahl races at Waverley next month, a decision will be reached in regard to his New Zealand Cup engagement. Z V Among the regulaf trade workers with P. E. Loombs' brigade are Lady Cintra, a three year old by AbsurdCiutra and Klhikihl, a three year old filly by Winkie from Kilrea. Dehige, a winner at Wanganul, is a speedy sort but has always been a hard horse to get tuned up. Owing to the blunder over the dates by which the prohibited Anzac Day was given to the Wellington Racing Club, and with no other dates available without infringing on others, it is stated by "The Watcher" to be quite possible, that the meeting may be abandoned. If so, over £IO,OOO in stake money would be lost to owners. Duo has failed to stand to his work, hence his defection from the Avondale Cup field. His New Zealand Cup prospects do not look too favourable on the present failure to stand to a preparation. Rippling (Gazeley—Sea Breeze) has been taken up again at Te Awamutu. The chestnut did not distinguish himself last season during which he was successful only once out of eight starts. On the occasion referred to he carried Mr F. E. Loombs' colours to victory over hurdles at Te Kuitl.

Inferno, the winner of the Wanganui Guineas, gives prospects of being quite the best colt by Absurd since Thespian. The prospects that he will get a distance of ground are being reviewed in a favourable key as his dam Ayah (Absurd—-Ilcrrnosa) possessed staying qualifications. Pcndennls, a three year old, quartered at Wilson's at Wairnai is by Day Comet from the dam of Pcndavey. The latter proved a failure when tried in his early career but this does not indelibly indicate what the prospects for his relative will be. Time alone can determine that.

Lady Cynic, a chestnut two year old by Cynic—Principal Lady, is shaping fairly well in her preparation with P. E. Loombs' team at Te Awamutu. She is on the small side, however. Rocket, the winner of one of the steeplechases at the point-to-point at Fencourt will most likely be seen in Jumping events on the racing circuit this season.

Waltu is a regular worker wjth Phil Brady's team at Te Bapa. The Quin Abbey gelding will be a starter in the Hunters' Hurdles at £Uo.rsllo early next month.

Wenday continues to display satisfactory form in the track efforts the Day Comet—Wenonah candidate is receiving under E. O'Neill's charge. There has been mention givinv Wenday a start in the Welcome Stakes.

It was the intention to have given New Moon, the Kilbroney gelding in J. F. Tutchen's stables a start at Marton but leg trouble developed and the trip' was cancelled. New Moon is now on the mend and promises to be among the fields at Te Rapa next month.

The. Boniform —Big Blast gelding, Smoke, is given regular tasks on the track at Te Awamutu. Smoke won twice last season and showed himself to be a consistent galloper by notching several placed performances in addition.

The injury which Sir Burnett sustained while racing on the opening day at Wanganui was' in the pastern joint. The Quin Abbey—Orphelia chestnut can be indulged in light work, so that with reasonable fortune his services should be available again before very long. Old Tenacious was seen in action at the point-to-point meet of the Waikato Hunt on Saturday when he filled third berth In the open event. He jumped proficiently enough but had not the pace to seriously dispute affairs with the first and second'placed horses.

The Raccful filly foal which has arrived at Sunnyside Lodge to Lady Gwendoline the dam of two useful racing candidates in The Curragh and Bright Day, is an attractive youngster. When the time comes for the first of Raceful's stock to show her paces on tIH race track, her doings will be pursued with marked interest.

If Glengariff goes to the post in the Avondale Guineas on Monday hc : may make matters interesting as he is a useful sort with recent winning form. The three year old ii by Bisogne—from an Arab tap-root. Gray will most likely ride him if be starts.

"The Watcher" states that Sir Burriett had every chance in the Marangal Handicap at Wanganui. Nothing in the race got a better run, but he could not improve his position in the, last furlong. Sir Burnett, however, pulled up lame, and it may be"; that the trouble which kept him off the scene some time ago returned during the running, and prevented him doing his best.

Glentui's name appears among the entrants for the principal steeplechase event at Pakuranga and if Mr A. N. Dingle's cross country candidate reaches the post fit and well he can be expected to do favourably. It was at this meeting twelve V months ago when the No Surrender —Sunshine chestnut won a double over the country. Later on in the same month Glentui filled second berth to Rafferty in the Waikato Hunt Cup, since which he haft; been completely off the scene.

Gallelo, the. relative to the once noted Ell Gallo is to make his debut for the new season at the Pakuranga fixture, providing his preparation continues satisfactory. Gallelo has been given plenty of duty at the hunts by Ernie O'Neill but his work has been of the varying order. However, the chestnut may settle down as he matures.

The thoroughbred mare, Princess Bee, bred by the Hon. J. G. Ormond and raced successfully as a two year old by Dr. A. W. Beveridge, is now for sale. As this mare has a good turf record for the short time that she raced she should be a good proposition as a brood mare, being by Hymettus from Derelict, of the number three family. Nyassa has joined E. O'Neill's team with a view to being prepared for cross-country work. Nyassa, who is an aged chestnut gelding by Bombardo, was in the firing line for some time in the open point-to-point steeplechase at Cambridge on Saturday.

The new judge, Mr W. Russell, had some very close finishes to test him at Wanganui, particularly on Saturday, but he came through the ordeal with flying colours. Mr Russell is the recently appointed handicapper for the November racing at Te Rapa. . Maud Wilson, who is to race in the Hunt Cup Steeplechase at the Labour Day meeting, is standing well to the work Phil Brady has been giving the Quin Abbey—Marakopa mare at Te Rapa. The chestnut has not had a great deal of actual race experience over the big country but she ran well enough in the Greenlane event at the Winter meeting at Ellerslle to indicate that she will give a good account of herself with more work of this nature to stand to her.

Old racegoers will learn with great regret of the death, as the result of a motor-car accident, of Jack Rolla, one of the best of our old-time hurdle and steeplechase riders (says the Hawke's Bay Herald). Rollo won the Hawke's Bay Steeplechase on his own horse Tauraekaitai, and the Wellington Steeplechase with Echo, also owned, trained, and ridden by him. Always a most capable man with horses Rollo had for many years relinquished training and acted as stud groom, having been for some years employed in that capacity by Mr H. Hassall, at his Soutra stud. The Sydney Referee light harness writer, 'J.S.W.,' makes a few interesting and instructive observations:— "In America, it is all class racing, a horse taking its class strictly from its winning time, no times being taken or recognised of second or third horses. They tried a few handicaps on the Australian system, notably a £IO,OOO handicap at Readville, 13 years ago, but It was reckoned a failure, and the system is never likely to replace class racing in heats, as practised in America from time immemorial, and in the early days of racing in Australia. It will be remembered that when the much-dis-cussed mare, Virginia Rose, came to Australia, the American Trotting Association, the leading body of the world, gave the mare a certificate that she was a maiden, absolutely without a lime record of any sort, although she had finished second in fast-run heats."

Heroic, who brought about the defeat of Gloaming in the Chelmsford Stakes on Saturday, was the crack two year old of Australia last season. He was bred by Messrs W. and F. A. Moses, and realised ISOOgns, as a yearling, being purchased by the Victorian trainer, C. T. Godby, for Mr J..R. Cortecn.' He proved himself an excellent galloper, and in ten starts he was six times first and twice second, while in one of his unplaced efforts he was left at the post. His wins included the Breeders' Plate, Maribyrnong Plate, Ascot Vale Stakes and Champagne Stakes, and his stake earning for the season reached the record total of £ll,BOl. There never was any question as to his brilliancy, and the only question about him is whether he will stay. From this point of view his performance on Saturday appears to have been quite sat-

lsfaotory, and he now looks an excellent prospect for the Australian Jockoy Club's Derby, for which he and Nigger Minstrel have shared favouritism for some time.

j The Chelmsford Stakes can fairly 1 be described as one of New Zealand's lucky races, as Dominion-owned horses have a great record in it. In 1911 R. D. O'Donnell, now training at Trcntham, won with Los Angelos, who carried a 71b penalty and beat a strong fl»ld. In 1916 Mr W. G. Stead scored an unexpected victory with the three-year old Sasanof. Two years later Gloaming made his first public appearance in this event, in which he made his opponents look like cheap horses. He competed again two years ago, when Beauford beat him, that being the first of four races in which the cracks met, g their final score being two all. Last year Rapine carried the colours of Mr A. B. Williams into first place. While New Zealand failed to win Saturday's race, she was well in the limelight with the jockeys, A. Reed on the winner, G. Young on Gloaming, and Con. Reed on Rallymea, who shaped very weU. The nine furlong record beaten by Heroic on Saturday previously stood to the credit of All Sunshine, who ran imin 502 sec, also on the Randwick course.