RACING.

Waikato Times, Volume 98, Issue 16152, 29 November 1924, Page 16 (Supplement)

RACING.

tunomrurußni Nov. 29. Dec. 1— Takapuna J.C. Nov. 29, Dec. I—Fetlding J.C. Deo. 6—Taumarunul Racing Gob. Deo. 13—Waipa Racing Club Deo. 26 and 29—Anakland Racing C. Jan. 1 and 2—Auckland Racing Chib Jan. IT—Dargavllle Racing Club Feb. 7—Te rcultl Racing Cluo Fet. 11—Rotorua Racing Club Fob. 14—Matamata Racing Club. Feb. 27—Opotlkl Jockey Gub Feb. 28—Te Aroha Jockey Club March t—Te Aroha Jockey Club March 14 and 17 —Ohlnemuri J.C. March 26—Bay of Plenty Jockey Club March 28 —Franklin Racing Club April 11 and 13— Auckland Racing C. April 18 and 20—Avondale Jockey C. June 3. 6 and B—Auckland Racing C.

WAIKATO TROTTina CLUB. MEETING ON SATURDAY NEXT. ACCEPTANCES BY 5 P.M. TUESDAY. The progress made by trotting in the Waikato during recent years has been very marked, and there is ample evidence that the advance is being continued by the number and quallty of the fields given entry for the oneday fixture of the Waikato, Club, which will be held at the Claudelands course on Saturday next. The handicapper has done ‘his work well, and there promises to be only limited defections by the time acceptances are called Vr. It Is important for owners and trainers to recognise that these will close with the secretary (Mr A. J. Smith) at Hamilton by 5 p.m. on Tuesday next. . ‘ - The maximum of attention is being given to the course at Claudelands, ■which has been very freely rolled and in other ways fitted for the racing, on Saturday. In this respeet the surface will be in splendid order, and racing of a high-class order is promised the big attendance of patrons to the meeting. Claudelarfcßf has always demonstrated that it is a fastJrack under favourable weather conditions, and with the good prospects continuing climatically, and the extra attention that the circuit is being given, the times'Should be well-forward on Saturday. This is always important, .u •view o' the special attraction at the meeting in the. endeavour to lower the Australian and New Zealand record over a two mile journey, for which success the club are offering a gold cup, valued at 100 guineas. Two of the leading light harpess performers in the Dominion in Tarairc and Man o’ War intend to make an assault on the record, and this item, apart from the high quality of the general programme, should prove an attraction of the outstanding order The club has every reason to feel gratified at the prospects surrounding the success, of its annualwhich promises a wide attendance, high-class racing, and,- "generally, record returns from all points of view.

taumarunui RACING CLUB. On Saturday next the Taumarunui Racing Club will disperse its annual programme.' The fields .which have teen engaged fpr the- coming occasion are such as to provide interesting racing and keen speculation. As the racing headquarters are on the., main line and train facilities, north and south, are suitable* .the patronage to the outing should-prove of the expansive order with fine weather conditions prevailing.”' THE CLUB. The list of nominations which closed last evening for the annual race gathering of the Waipa Club, at To Awamutu, on Saturday, December 13. is of the highly favourable order. When weights have been posted and acceptances taken, fields of good size and quality appeared assured. The Waipa Club has always endeavoured 1 to keep up a progressive tone, and the best support of owners and the public is warranted and, we feel sure, will be extended when the programme is entered on on December 13. JOTTINGS. The Takapuna and Feilding fixtures will conclude on Monday. A record crowd is promised the trots at Claudelands. M. J. Carroll’s and J. F. Tutchen’s teams will be represented at Taumarunui. • ■ The Te Rapa trained Ally, Pinon, ' will start at the Shore dn Monday. ■ The steeplechaser, Sir P.aseberry, is to be put into work again in Die near future. 1 Strongholt is on the private sale list. The Polydamon—Ju Jitsu Ayear old will race at Taumarunui and Waipa. Heisler will race over seven furlongs at Takapuna on Monday. The Hamilton trained gelding may find the journey excessive. Wynette made her last appearance In a race in the Melbourne Cup and now goes to the stud. If Levin form was true, the maiden, Rangimoana, is not much good.

The Husbandman —Vestalis gelding, Euchre, promises to be handy at the coming meetings in Taranaki. Amber Tips will do punters a good turn with experience over fences.

R. J. Mason, the trainer of Gloaming, has returned from Australia. Loughrea promises to be in cherry ripe condition when the Auckland Cup rolls round.

Gauged on his form at Levin, Equitable is destined to win more hurdle races. He gallops well and Jumps fast.

Owing to developing lameness, it is doubtful if Motley will be fit to race at Christmas. Wassail, who was recently purchased by an Australian sportsman, is now in light work at Fleming!on. Murihaupo went amiss while racing in the Stewards’ Handicap at Riccarton and has been turned out for a spell. Form at the Waipa fixture is very often a guide to Auckland prosgects. According to “Vedette” of the Post Punller should have won the Levin Cup. Injudicious riding was the root of the trouble.

The New Zealand mare Lovesign, one of the Nassau stock, showed up in second place in her initial start in Australia, where she was beaten by half a head at Randwick on Saturday. Betty Moko’s 3min 39 2-ssecs fcr one mile and a half at the Otahuhu Trots was of the rare order for a 3 year old filly. Grand Parade and Lackham, two recent English importations, may race at Woodville next month. A veterinary diagnosis attributed a horse’s poor showing at Timaru to an internal complaint. Some recent displays in this island can be nailed to eternal mal-de-mar. _

For the year ending July 31 last the unclaimed Totalisator dividends at Randwick aggregated £lllO, and this amount was allocated to charitable institutions.

A half sister to the brilliant Amythas has appeared at Brown's Island stud. The youngster is by the imported Tea Tray from Gold Treasure. A meeting between Gloaming and Gold Light would provide top-notch interest. It may be on the card at Ellerslie next month.

Illumination, it may be news to many, is a half-brother to Feathernest who has been Aguring .well on Australian race tracks.

White Comet will probably ho brought in soon by his Hamilton owner and the Day Comet gelding will be got ready for racing in the new year. \ One of the soundest'- ' Australian writers- states that the Derbies this year disclosed three colts of superlative excellence —Heroic, Nigger Minstrel, and Spearfelt—but which is the best has yet to be decided.” Reta- Peter, twice winner of the New Zealand Trotting Cup as a square trotter, has foaled a colt foal to the handsome American trotter., The Triumph.

Sparklight, who is to accompany Limelight and the others of G. Mur-ray-Aynesley’s team from Riccarton to Auckland, is a 2 year old Ally by Autumnus from Stardancer. She is a half sister to Limelight, Jazz and Starland and shows promise as a galloper. Loughrea will start, In the Winton Cup on Wednesday. He won the event last year and although he has 10.7 this time must again have a chance with weak opposition.

Nigger‘Minstrel is entered in the ■V.R.C. and A.J.C. St Legers and if his recent leg trouble disappears he will most likely be seen back -in Australia in the autumn. I; .1." .

When the French: horse "Epinard .was heaten in his/Ulsccbnd race in America many of the critics blamed the jockey, Haynes.; They reckon he waited too long, and allowed Ladkin to get too great a start. Chignon (A.J.C. Gimcrack Stakes winner) and Backwood (Melbourne Cup winner) are.related on tips maternal side. . Chignon’s dam. Lady D., who is owned by Mr W. G. Stead, is 0 half-sister, by St. Denis, to Lady of Graoe, dam of Backwood. Two of the progeny of the Martian mare Bee have joined a Sydney stable. One is a three year old Ally by Magpie and the other a 2_year old coll Ivy Beau Soult.

Boadicea has raced much below her best form this- season, as in seven atwts she has not once been In a

piaffe. She has gone out of training and she has well earned the rest, which should greatly beneAt her. Rockfellow, who won the Maiden at Timaru and returned a dividend near double Agures, is a S.ycaT old chestnut gelding by Fabrfkoff —Oil Wells, trained at 1 , Waimate. Oil Wells is an American-bred mare, imported by Mr Harvey Patterson. The ex-New Zealander, Bon Spec, got Arst position in a race over Ave furlongs and a half at Launceston early in the month. Mister (9.7) finished first but was disqualified and placed second. As a result the owner of the latter has decided to relinquish racing in Tasmania.

The offer for Heroic subsequent to being passed in at auction was ”18,000 guineas, but the Victorian colt is unlikely to be sold until ,these is. a decision, pn the application for an interim injunctionCupidon, who is now located -in Southland, will race at the Winton meeting next week. Though a winner of the Australian Derby, Cupidon has been one of the many disappointments of the turf in this country. Still it may hot be that he”, is a'back number altogether. America’s crack jockey, Earl Sande, who had a thigh broken and received other injuries in a fall at Saratoga in August, is never likely to ride again. Even if his leg permits of it, his weight will be nearly lOst when he is able to get about without crutches, and that may dispose of him as a horseman.

The two year old half-sister to Wassail, known as Plain Sailing, is being given a preparation at Waipukurau, and It is intended that she will make her first public appearance at the Waipukurau Jockey Club’s summer meeting on Boxing Day. Wassail first raced at the same club’s meeting last Easter, when he won the Maiden Plate.

For the first three months of the Australian racing season Valais’- stock, chiefly by Heroic’s efforts, headed the list with four winners, six wins and £11,295 in stakes. Gloaming was the principal means of placing The Welkin next on the list with five -winners, eight wins and £10,386 as the measure of earnings.

Tongatatoa, who paid a big dividend at Levin, is a half-brother to the dam of Civilform, Civility and Siaosi. He is not a prepossessing looking gelding, but he can gallop. He has formerly confined his attentions to hack sprints in the Hawke’s Bay district, where his form has been nothing unusual. Stayers are not numerous in America at present—at least, the fact of there being only four runners for the Jockey Club Gold Gup, 2 miles, at Belmont Paark in September suggests it. The added money was about £2200, but the full value of the rare to the winner was about £3150, while £550 went to the second and £220 to the third. Man o’ War’s five-year-old brother. My Play, won by five lengths in 3.25 3-5, and one runner. Mr Mutt, broke a leg, his destruction being necessary-

An outstanding feature of the meeting at Timaru was the amount of rough riding indulged in on both days (says a writer in the Christchurch Sun). One prominent horseman told

the writer that in a long experience he had never seen so much humping and foul riding as happened during the southern meeting. In at least half-a-dozen events horses were unnecessarily chopped about and bumped, and it was remarkable that there were not several falls. Most of the interference can be ascribed to incompetence rather than deliberation, but in only one case was any penalty -—and that a mild one—inflicted by the stewards. It is quite evident that many of the light-weight horsemen now riding arc either careless or lacking in ability to keep their mounts straight, and the sooner some of them are dealt with the better will it be for the more experienced jockeys. The A.R.C. betting rule regarding the refund of bets on non-starters has been amended (says a Sydney paper). The new rule reads as follows:—"In double and treble event betting the taker of the wager shall be entitled to a start in each event otherwise the bet is off. This is to apply only to the bets made on the course on the day of the races." The last provision of the rule quoted gives the layer of odds a chance, for without its inclusion it would have been necessary to refund all bets made on horses scratched any time prior to the races in question. Thus there would have been no “dead wood” for the layers’ proflt. This, of course, would have operated harshly against the bookmaker and almost certainly would have effectively stopped the opening of set books on the double. Now that the amendment has been effected the double is sure to become popular with both the book-makers and the public. Three-year-old form in England this season has fairly puzzled the critics. Horses of that age have repeatedly turned the tables on each other, and one of the heaviest blows backers received in this respect was when, three weeks after his St. Leger win, Salmon Trout was beaten by Despatch in the Kingsclere Plate, one mile and a-quarter, at Newbury. He had 9.10, but in a Acid of five the race was considered such a certainty that odds of li to 4 wero laid on him. Salmon Trout led into the straight, but to the surprise of ids backers, Despatch (9.0) worried him down j beating him a length and Edglestone ! (8(4) dead-heated him for second. The assumption now is that Salmon Trout is a thorough stayer, and the , distance was short for him. A week j prior to. the Kingsclere Plate Despatch with 8.4 was fourth in a Aeld of Ave i in the Leicestershirq Stakes, one | mile and arquarter, in which other: cry not being given, saying ,th.-.t dis- ! three-year-olds in Mr Bliss (8.1) and! Shambles (8.10) .were respectively! Arst and second. Regarding Gloaming’s further engagements, Mr Greenwood has stated ] that he had been entered for all the classic events in New Zealand, including the Challenge Stakes (Christchurch), Middle Park Plate, North l

Island Challenge Stakes, Wanganui Jackson Stakes, and at races in Hawke’s Bay, Feilding, and at certain other places. A further trip to Australia was contemplated, if only as a compliment to the Australian public who had given the horse-such wonderful receptions, both in Sydney and Melbourne. Of course the trip would be only made provided the horse was well. Mr H. A. Knight had remarked that the last race that Gloaming had raced and won in Sydney was a benefit to Gloaming, but it was no more a benefit to Gloaming than to the other horses in the race. Mark Twain, who ran second to Andante in the Kennels Hack Handicap at the Birchwood Hunt meeting, is a five ,year old gelding by Markliope (imp.), from Foudrette, a bay : marc bred in France in 1905, by Roissy— Foudrc-d’e-Guerre, by Floreal —Gclinette, by By Archer —Gazelle. “Sir Modred” of the Southland Times states that in company with Wild Oats, Runaway Girl, etc., Foudrette was imported to Southland from India in 1915 by Mr J. Nestor. The consignment of mares referred to were intended for Australia, hut could not be landed in the Island Continent at the time owing to the stock conditions obtaining, hence they were brought on to New Zealand and landed at the Bluff, Foudrette afterwards passing into an Otago stud. She was a winner in her own country and India prior to leaving the post for the paddock. The successes of H.H. the Aga Khan on both the English and French turf this season have been of such magnitude that he seems almost certain to head the list of winning owners in each country, says the English “Referee.” It would not, perhaps, he safe to assert that this* feat has never before been accomplished, but the only previous instance of such extraordinary and exceptional luck was the case of Count de Lagrange, Whose great ijorsc, Gladlateur, carried all before him in France as well as England in 1865. Gladiateur won the Two Thousand Guineas, Derby, St. Leger, and Grand Prix, and Goatran, in the same ownership, won the French Derby and other valuable prizes. , The stakes won by the Aga Khan this year, however, already reach a much higher total than that which Lagrange secured just «n sixty years ago, and Zionist, the ’highlytried two-year-old which made a brilliant debut at Newbury, will help to swell the aggregate. This fine Spearmint colt may very likely win next year’s Derby, as the wonderful luck of his owne.r bids fair to continue.