WAIKATO HUNT.

Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17222, 4 October 1927, Page 2

WAIKATO HUNT.

ANNUAL RACE MEETING. THE NOIWTOfITIONS. The following is a list of the nominations .received for events to be run at the annual race meeting of the Waikato Hunt, which is to be held at Cambridge on Monday, October 24 (Labour MAIDEN STEEPLECHASE, . Of £200; 2| miles. .

Glendowie, bay mare Winterbourne —Bonaform mare. Sea Comet, Haurangi Girl, Risk, Memsahib, Town Hall, Roa, Day Abbey, Wiltshire, King Lupin gelding, General Manurpoto, Prince Lupin, Nabob. BARDOWIE HANDICAP, Of £200; 6i furlongs. * Soami, Master Clements, Creation, Waipenui, Rarakau, Mosque, Facia, Calaris, Lord Abbey, Some Lady, Lord Thurnham, Upoko, Atapai, Bracken Abbey, King Arch, Flying Tresses, Te Waka, Miss Sphinx, Dark Moon, Kaikawhana, Air King, Abbess, No Boy, Daytaro, Lassau, Flitter, The Jack Jumper, Yellow Bonnet, Major Abbey, Captain Cobham, King’s Guard, Taha.

HUNTERS’ HURDLES, Of £350; If miles. Blago, Pouri, Royal Day, Hangawera, Town Hall, Memsahib, Whatatoe, Lady Faye, Prince Lu, Mangani, Le Cheval, Te Tama, Raitihiki, General Maniapoto, Prince Lupin, Nukatere, Temperature.

MEMBERS’ HANDICAP, Of £450; 1£ miles.

Eden Hall, Le Choucas, Mint Leaf, Hipo, Barometer, Mosaic, Master Doon, Delightment, Valkon. Ballaohulish, Te Kara, Day Guard, Papatu, King Lu, Queen Arch, Manly, Phaolo, Desert Glow, Wenday, Paganelli, King Merv, Gold Jacket, Lord Star, Tinokoa.

WAIKATO HUNT CUP. Of £700; about, 3 miles

Rafferty, Glendowie, Waiau Lari, Glenlight, Sea Comet, Haurangi Girl, Banjuke, Hangawera, Memsahib, Town Hall, Day Abbey, Syndicate, Pendavies, Wiltshire, Stonewall, Maidos, Bourne, The Curragh, Craigowan, Nukatere, Royal Abbey, Hypothesis, Nabob, Raymond, Frisco Jack.

BRUNTWOOD HANDICAP, Of £200; 1 mile. Levenside, Royal Doulton, Taurimu, Komak, Te Katalii, Ohinemuri, Lucullent, Manly, Branson, Daytaro, Wenday, Lassau, Mac room, Always, Romford.

LADIES’ BRACELET, Of £200; II miles.

Levenside, Glendowie, Quinvnrdia, Pouri, Frisco Jack, Risk, Hangawera, Town Hall, Roa, Owen, Lady Faye, Syndicate, Prince Lu, Mangani, Le Cheval, King Lupin gelding, Prince Lupin, Nukatere, Temperature, Pukerimu.

IN STOW HANDICAP. Of £360; 6J- furlongs

Le Choucas, Tea Time, Nastori, High Pitch, Nancy Lee, Delightment. Some Lady, Kirtgfield, Aussie, Awarere, King Lu, Ring Potoa, Matinee Billikins, Tinokaha, Branson, New Moon, Arch Opal, Macroom, Paganelli, Prince Abbey, Muscari, Tinokoa, Tinoiti, Ramford, Fineiii.

JOTTINGS. ‘‘Two factors have had an enormous influence in the evolution of the English racehorse (writes Dr. D. J. Stewart McKay in the Austalasiau”). The first factor was tiiat Eclipse lived and was a sire. As a racehorse he wiped the floor with every horse that ever raced him; and because be was far and away better than all the rest it meant a sudden development of the thoroughbred which was to alter the whole character of English racing for a century and a half afterwards. The second factor that had the greatest influence was the fact that 50 years ago the very long races were dropped, and horses were no longer required to run 10 miles in an afternoon. From the time that these long, slow distance races were abandoned the faster modern animal began Lo be rapidly evolved; and the Jong races were then confined, with few exceptions, to two and three mile weight-for-age races, and the gallop Look the place of the former canter. In the old long races the pace was on during the last two or three furlongs only, but now the whole race is run at a much quicker rate, and so a great change has taken place in the time. 'The 'horses that look part in these two and three mile races still had some of the enduring qualities of their original Arab ancestors, and they still had much of the Arab’s placid disposition; and so they did the tasks over hard and ill-prepar-ed courses, and carried big weights, and went through an amount of work that would have ruined nine out ofj ten of our present-day hothouse weeds, j Where could we find another Catherine, j Whisker’s famous daughter, who ran | in no less than 171 races, and died at] the age of 31?” :

When on a visit to South Australia some weeks ago the Southland R.C.’s caretaker, Mr T. Marshall, forwarded some very informative details and returns in connection with the halfcrown toLalisator investments in tlxat part of the world, and now some further interesting figures have been received, writes “Sir Modred” in the Southland Times. On the opening day of the Adelaide Racing Club’s recent Grand National fixture the totalisator returns amounted to £50,549 15s and of this sum £22,037 5s passed through the half-crown machine. On the second day the receipts were £47,780 7s 6d, including £19,795 12s 6d in the half-crown machines. Thus on two days the totalisator figures read at £98,3‘ > 0 2s 6d and of this sum £41,832 17s 6d was handled in the half-crown machines. These returns must be accepted as a convincing answer to the people who contend that cheap totalisator facilities do not pay racing clubs. In the leading centres of the turf in'Maoriland the public attendances do not, perhaps, encourage the establishment of the half-crown totalisator, as far as can be guaged at present, but there is no reason why patrons of leading galloping and trotting tracks should not have five-shil-ling wagering facilities afforded them. There are a number of Maoriland clubs who refuse to believe that investments of under £i will pay them and they appear to be dying with their backs to the wall, while others, who relented in favour of ten shilling tickets and not so j favourably situated are still carrying j on bravely, some holding their own, J others gaining ground, and a few, un- ; fortunately, failing back, but not at the j irresistible pace that characterised > their operations under the one-pound ! regime, a system of investment that has j probably crippled them fqr years to j pome, if not for all time. *