RACING.

Waikato Times, Volume 106, Issue 17802, 29 August 1929, Page 3

RACING.

DATES OF SPRING MEETING. NOVEMBER 1G AND 18 GRANTED. The Waikato Racing Club recently made application, through the District Committee, to the New Zealand Racing Conference, to alter the dates of its Spring meeting from October 26 and 30 to November 1G (Saturday) and November 18 (Monday). Advice has been received by the club that the President of the New Zealand Racing Conference has granted the request. TRACK & STABLE GOSSIP. NOTES AND COMMENTS. I .. (By “Martian.”) Papatu covered a mile on the tan at Randwick on Thursday morning last in 1.4 21.

Paddon, Mosque, Taneriri, Desert Glow, Prodice, Corinax, and Mithra are horses from this province nominated for the New Zealand Cup.

Supremacy will not contest the Avondale Guineas next month. It js understood that 'the To Awamutu candidate may also be missing from the Great Northern Guineas.

Snowplane, Ned Kelly, Ah Wera, Glena Bay, Black Maire, Trig, Glenstar and Joy Germ are horses trained in the South Auckland district with engagements on the opening day of the Marton meeting next month.

The first foal credited to the Melbourne Cup winner of 1927, Trivalve, made its appearance early this month in the shape of a colt from the imported English mare Eloquence, by Argos. Trivalve is likely to get a reasonable opportunity at the stud in Victoria, where breeders are always inclined to give native-born sires a chance.

Although no definite news is to hand on the point, it may be that Paganelli will be started in the Stakes at Warwick Farm (Sydney) on Saturday in preference to tiie Campbelltown, Handicap. • The former wall be decided over a mile journey and the latter at gix furlongs.

The win of Royal Lineage at Hastings on Saturday was unexpected. It was his first start since Waipukurau on Easter Monday last, and although lie had been doing excellent work on the tracks it was the general‘"Opinion that he was not ready to show such good form. Royal Lineage is a very useful galloper when at his best, but so far P. P. Neaglc has not had a great deal of luck with him. Saturday’s result rather points to him liking soft going and racing well when fresh.

The four-year-old Chide is one of the Riccarton candidates for the New Zealand Cup in whose career a good deal of interest centres (says a Christchurch .writer). He did iiis racing last season in modest company, but he wound up in the autumn with an attractive performance over a mile and a quarter. liis owner-trainer, G. Murray Aynslcy, has always field the view that Chide will stay, and he has excellent porspects .for this season. He has been in regular work for a couple of months, and he may be seen ■to advantage in early engagements.

The two juveniles racing on the English turf this year that are singled out for special mention, it is interesting to relate, are fillies, and both were sold under the hammer. Quarrat-al-Ain (by Buchan—Harpsichord) and Scotford (by Stratford- —Skein Dhu), tooth .went up to auction at Don-caster last September. The Aga Khan had to carry the bidding to 12,500gns for the possession of the first-named filly, but Mr de Mestre secured Scotford for lOOOgns. Unless the. question of supremacy -between Quarrat-al-Ain and Scotford has been settled by this time, it will probably be left 1o the threc-year-old stage of their careers, for Scotford is not engaged in the Champagne Stakes, set down to be run at Doncaster next month.

The recent performance of Alfred the Queensland jocfcey, in riding seven winners in one day recalls other notable deeds in the saddle. Probably -the record of L. 11. Hewitt „ (remarks “Snowden,” writing in the Australasian), who is now training in India, is the greatest of them all. Hewitt rode for the late Mr G. G. Stead when that owner had such horses as Noctuiform, Isolt, and Nightfall—'to name but a few—racing for him. Hewitt’s greatest triumph was In riding eight winners at the A.J.C. Spring meeting of 1905. These were: No-ctuifor-m (A.J.C. Derby), Machine Gun (Shorts Handicap), Isolt (Spring Maiden Stakes', Wycombe Stakes, and Members’ Handicap). Sun God (New Stakes and Grantham Stakes), and Nightfall (Handwick Plate). Incidentally Hewitt was the first professional rider to adopt the Sloan seat in New Zealand.

The Christchurch writer “Argus” sounds a note of warning with regard to the prospects of Rapier seeing the post in the New Zealand Cup. He says: Although Rapier has been nominated for the New Zealand Cup, it may toe unwise to regard him as a certain starter, despite the fact that there is no horse in the field with better

credential's for a two-mile journey. He has done a lot of useful work ' through the winter, and he looks as well as ever he did; so 'that there should be no difficulty about having him at his best in November. His trainer, 11. Nurse, realises that the Greyspear horse will require every-

thing in his favour to win big handicaps under the weights he is likely to receivo, and for ( that reason he is disposed to conserve the energies of Rapier for weigh t-for-age events.