GOSSIP FROM ALL PARTS.

Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17220, 1 October 1927, Page 19 (Supplement)

GOSSIP FROM ALL PARTS.

The Mamnvatu Hunt Club will race on Wednesday.

There will be racing at Kurow on Thursday.

On Friday and Saturday the Otaki Maori Racing Club will hold its Spring fixture.

The Auckland Club will commence its Spring meeting on Saturday and will conclude it on Monday.

Footfall’s third to Chickwheat in the Ashburton Handicap was a rattling good performance, and he should do much better at his next start.

Civility will be on the scene for racing at the Auckland meeting. Reports from Wanganui indicate that her track work continues to be good and this brilliant galloper is due to make her presence felt next week-end.

In is reported that the Wellington sportsman, Mr J. R. McKenzie, has purchased the three-year-old pacing filly, Enawah, who is favourite for the Great Northern Derby Stakes, to be decided at the Auckland Trotting Club’s spring fixture. The price, it is stated, runs well into four figures.

Nucleus has proved her ability to handle holding conditions in. competent fashion. The daughter of Luculius and Persis finished in second place in each of her two starts at the Avondale meeting and an advancement on that form need not be unexpected witliin the near future.

Branson will be all the better for his recent racing. The Greyspear— Garston gelding carried top-weights at Ellerslie at the week-end and he is going to meet the more prominent opponents of those occasions on improved poundage terms when he is next saddled up.

The Southland Times reports that F. T. Quinlivan, who has been training in Invercargill for some time past, has decided to give up the game, and has handed over his horses to another trainer.

Nancy Lee ran a good race each day in sprint company at the Avondale meeting and as these were her first outings for some time the form should be worth taking notice of. The Luculius —Flagship mare has been a very consistent stake-earner and as she can operate under the track conditions which obtain at present, and will be in vogue for some time, this is a further factor to record in her favour.

The Limond colt Agrion, who is back at Riccarton, is looking none the worse for his trip to Sydney, except of course, that part of his quarter has been cut away, ind he will not be given any fast work till his hoof grows down again.

Orewa, who impressed by her success in the Nursery Handicap at Ellerslie on Monday, is likely to do further good service for her owner-breeder, Mr W. C. Ring, of Hinuera. Orewa will have her next engagement in the Welcome Stakes at the Auckland meeting. As she is by Valkyrian, a son of William the Third, from limerewa, who was by Freedom Black Watch, the latter the dam of Potoa, Wauchope, Keep Watch, Hohungatahi and others, her breeding has much to recommend it.

At Riccarton the other morning the Absurd filly. Kulalie, was the outstanding galloper. In dashing over seven furlongs in lmin 30sec she placed an attractive performance to her credit, and though the Dunedin Guineas will be her first outing this season, she will be as fit as hands can make her when she contests the classic race at the Wingatui course next month.

Star Stranger should be reaching somewhere near his best in the near future. With a further week of work into the Martian—Star Lady gelding a marked Improvement should be wrought in his preparation for successful racing. Even if the Mitchelson Cup does not find him up to the expectations of some he will have a further near-at-hand opportunity in the New Zealand Cup, to prove his ability.

One of the horses taken to Australia last month by the Pukekohe trainer, W. Kirk, was the five-year-old Golden Autumn,’ a mare by Autumn from Tipuua. She ran a couple of seconds at small meetings outside Sydney. Advice has come to hand that she has been sold by Mr Wenzl Scholium, and that the mare is to do her future racing on the pony tracks.

Aberfeldy is a very fit horse at present, as a result of a hard campaign among the hurdlers during the winter. Now he is to be tried out on the fiat. He may not he up to New Zealand Cup form, but more will he known on this point when he has had a few races.

Eden Hall ran a surprisingly good race to finish third in the Avondale Cup, a little over two lengths away from the winner. While, in the past, the Quin Abbey—Toil Gale gelding has not always sustained his promise of reaching the front of a handicap field age may be doing something for him and he may he more consistent in this connection during the new term.

In New Zealand division races on the flat arc not uncommon, but so far it has not been found necessary to run a jumping race in divisions. At Moonce Valley (Victoria) on September 10 the acceptors in the Steeplechase were too numerous to run in one race, so it was divided. According to the Australasian, it was the first time in racing history in Victoria that such a course had been found necessary, but two fine races resulted, outsiders winning in. each division.

Master Boon gave his supporters a disappointing run each day at the Avondale meeting. The Lucullus— Lassie Doon gelding looked the part, so far as condition was concerned. He has had a goodly measure of racing, however, and this may be having its effect. Perhaps, if Master Doon is restricted to'briefer journeys, in the immediate future he may be still numbered among the dividend payers.

At one period it was likely that Acron, Kohara, Great Hope and Great Bingen would he bracketed on the totalisaior in the New Zealand Trotting Cup (says The Press), but arrangements have now been made for Acron to be trained by J. Bryce, junr., who will drive him in the Cup. This will leave Great Hope and Kohara under J. Bryce’s care. The former will he driven by his trainer and A. Bryce will pilot Kohara. When this is carried into effect Great Bingen and Acron will be coupled and Great Hope and Kohara, with the result that the club will derive a much better revenue than if all the four horses were bracketed.

After his promising showings in the earlier part of the Spring the Wanganui trained candidate, Alloway, was expected to be more prominent in good handicap company at the Avondale meeting than actually turned out to be the case. It would not be judicious to discard the chestnut son of Limond and Admyra for these failures as on a track which is not so holding as Ellerslie was at the week-end he should do a lot better.

Merry Mint’s Australian programme is to run in the A.J.C. and V.K.C. Derbies and the Melbourne Cup. E. Bartle will ride him in the classics, and probably in the Cup, too, if the gelding is able to win one of the blue ribands so that he will have to carry 7.6 instead of the 6.12 the handicapper gave him. Afterwards, he will he returned to New Zealand to run in the Northern Derby at Auckland, then given a brief spell before he is sent to Australia again for the autumn races.

The local horseman, A. Tinker, who also adds training to his important duties these times has started off the new season in good style. Owing to increasing weight the number of mounts he secures is limited but he is a very capable horseman. The Avondale fixture, where he steered King Lu and Waltzer to victory, was the latest occasion on which linker gave support to the claim set up here.

Discussing Limerick’s cramped price for the Metropolitan a Sydney writer says: “According to the betting market Limerick has a mortgage on the Metropolitan. The New Zealander proved himself such a good stayer, as a three-year-old, with dash enough to get a good position early, that he commands the deepest respect. But let it not be forgotten that lie is burdened with 81b over w.f.a., and a similar task has proved beyond the capacity of other high-class horses. David was one who failed utterly, and in the same year the dashing Syce Knight was in the fight to the turn, hut the big weight told its tale in the last two furlongs. Certainly Manfred, at the same age, carried a pound more, 9.6, to victory in the Caulfield Cup, hut, great as he is, Limerick has yet to prove himself a Manfred. He certainly has the size—he stands 16.2-J — and he handled 9.4 as though it were no more than a bag of hay, but his task will 'be tougher with light weights to rush'•'the field along, without any breather at any part of it.”

Tinokoa finished fourth each day over six furlongs at the Avondale meeting. The four year old descendant of Quin Abbey and Tinopai gives indications of being a more than useful sort this season, although a sprint distance may not always find him so prominent as a journey in advance of that.

At Caulfield years ago, before stipendiary stewards were in vogue, a well-known owner ran a horse in a hurdle, race. It opened at a short price, and apparently the owner decided to simply give his horse a run. It ran all right, and everybody on the course but the honorary stewards could see that it was, to say the least, a screaming “hot case.” The trainer who is famed for his wit, watched the race from the stand near the Guineas enclosure, and, meeting a friend as the horses were returning to scale, they walked down the lawn together. “What did you think of so-and-so?” said die friend. “I think everybody on the course saw it.” “I suppose so,” said the trainer, “that’s the trouble with some people. if they want to burgle, let ’em burgle, there is no necessity for them to fall over the furniture and bring in the police.”—The Australasian.