RACING.

Waikato Times, Volume 110, Issue 18405, 12 August 1931, Page 11

RACING.

FROM TRACK AND STABLE. (By “Maillan.") fixtures ahead. August 13, 15—Canterbury. August it— Pakuranga Hunt. August z» —ia»«uiaai Hum. septeuiner s—u.ago Hunt. September 16—buchwoou Hunt, septemner 11, I»—Wanganui, oeptemuer is—-Ashburtuu county, ueptvmuer z*. zu—Geraldine, aepteuiuer Zu—Hawse s uay. sup.omi.er zu, za—Avonuaie. Hew South Wales List. August 15—Rosehlil. August It— Hosehld. August zy—Warwick Fann. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. ‘Weight,’ Hamilton—Toxeuma (11.5), who won the race last season, honls the weight carrying record ’ for the Winter Cup. “Stakes,” Te Aroha.—Valroe earned £1035 In stakes last season, wnile , Gold Day was credited with £»ov. r “Curious,” Hamilton. —captains cat, the winner of tne Hunters Hurdles »t Hlccar.on yesterday, is a ilve-year-oid gelding by Sky Blue— Peroxide. He ran unplaced in two starts last season. SIGN OF THE TIMES. REDUCTION IN STAKES. POSITION AT WANGANUI. Probably the most drastic “cut” yei made in stakes is shown by the programme lor the Wanganui Spring meeting to be held in mid-September. Last year the prize money to.aiieJ over £4100; this year the aggregate for the two dajs is £1730, roOO o: which was hypothecated for the Guineas. For the fifteen other events only £1230 is available, ana only two races are worth over £l2O The open sprint races have been cut down to £OO, and the Debutante Stakes (for two-year-olds), to £65. The Eclipse Stakes, a w.f.a. race previously worth £4OO, has been replaced by an £»o hack race. Ths appended figures tell their own story:— 1930 1931 £ £ Maiden Race 175 65

GOSSIP FROM ALL PARTS

The Canterbury Jockey Club's meeting will be continued at Hiccarton to-morrow when the Grand National Hurdles will be the chief attraction.

The New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club will conclude its August meeting at Addington on Friday.

The Grand National fixture of the Canterbury Jockey Club will be concluded at Hiccarton on Saturday.

Goshawk is galloping well at Hastings and he will be ready to race early in the season.

Blue Paper, who is being educated at Awapuni, has been acquitting herself well in her schooling over hurdles.

Toxeuma. who has been spelling for a few months, Is shortly to resuma work at Greenmeadows.

White Fang has been turned out for a spell in the Poverty Bay district. Later on he will be brought in and again tried as a hurdler.

Racing clubs in Tasmania have all been hit hard by -the economic pressure, but an added menace to the .mancial success of the sport Is (he wholesale illicit bookmaking that is carried on.

The Australian who bought Banner 3dy is the Handwick trainer G. P. Nailor, who proposes to try the exsouthland gelding in jumping races in Sydney.

The Hawke’s Bay Hunt meeting, vhich was fixed for August 22. has een postponed to a date to be deMed upon later in the season. P-o--ably It will not be held until next winter.

Aberfeldy was tried out as a steeplehaser at Hiccarton, but the ex-Wal-ato gelding shaped so badly that his iwner-trainer, H. W. King, has derided not to persevere with him in the division.

The Hawke's Bay owned My Own reported to be in good order. The ord tjuex—Tressida mare should

igain be a good stake winner, though she is now at a position on the handicaps which makes races more difficult to win. Last season My Own won £1973 in stakes.

The well-known horseman. A. E. Ellis, has arranged to leave Wellington for Sydney by the Lilhnaroa on August 25. and to return immediately at Hie conclusion of the spring meeting at Handwick. Tills will be Ellis's first trip to Australia.

The Hiccarton trainer. F. E. Jones is not doing a great deal with Semper Paratns and Weatherly al present. They will not be racing at the Grand National meeting, bu-t the»

will be in active commission again before long, with a view to competing at some of the early spring fixtures.

L'Allegro, who opened his racing as a four-year-old last season by a victory at Te Rapa in the Autumn, is again in work. A four-year-old brother to the Day Comet—Lady Faithful gelding is also being prepared at local headquarters.

When the last mall to hand left England, Pharos, by Phalaris, and grandson of Polymelus. was head of the list of winning sires with £32.107. Pharos sired Cameronian, the winner of the Two Thousand Guineas, the Derby, and the St. James's Palace Stakes.

The Limond—Aspic two-year-old (half-brother to the Te Awamutu owned Asplan), who is being prepared at Hiccarton by T. Lloyd for Dr. M. G. Louisson, is a very attractive colt. He was taken in hand early and as a result he is very forward, it is doubtful, however, if he is the type to make a success of early spring racing, but he may do well in the autumn, while he should make a good three-year-old.

The Australian horseman, J. Pike, who has been engaged to pilot Pentheus in the A.J.C. Epsom, has not yet ridden a winner of tiiat race. Ills closest effort in 17 attempts was his second on Fujisan in 1926. A home writer adds that Pentheus, provided be progresses satisfactorily, will afford him a good opportunity of going one better this year.

Nine English thoroughbreds, the property of the late Mr Sol. Joel, were sold in Capetown recently for an aggregate of 14 45 guineas. Dark Warrior, hero of the Lincolnshire of 1928. was one of the horses offered, but his Soulli African career lias been very disappointing, and he realised only 95 guineas.

C. Mason, who had been associated with the riding of jumpers in the past and who steered Sea De'il to victory in the -Great Northern Hurdles of 1924, has been granted a trainer's license for the new season. Mason has Homelight under his charge on the tracks at Te Rapa. This four-year-old gelding by Illumination— Fanny Homer is a half-brother to Hakanoa. Homellght had three .start*. lasi season and while he did not run' into a place he showed promise and should reach the stake earning list this season.

Kahlkatoa, the winner of the Winter Cup at Hiccarton yesterday, Is a four-year-old gelding by Arausio— Carlatour. He is trained at Hastings by L. D. Berry for Mr H. Tupaed. During the season just closed he was taken out freely, contesting 28 races and winning eight. It is noteworthy that the first time he entered open company, at Woodville, he scored twice in successive starts. His victory at Trentham, over seven furlongs, was achieved very simply. Kahlkatoa needs a strong horseman, and with Gray in the saddle yesterday he was well controlled.

The three year-old Lochlaggan, by Woodend from Glentruln, has not done a great deal since she rejoined C. Emerson's slab'.e. after a lengthy spell. It is unlikely that she will do much racing before November, and her early efforts are likely to be in sprint events. She showed a lot of natural speed when she was tried’ out last spring, and it is probable she will follow in the foolsteps of her dam, who was a brilliant sprinter.

The Australian stipendiary stewards continue to impose disqualifications for unsatisfactory running. It seem.-, an extraordinary thing that when really expert vigilance Is in charge riders continue to take risks. The stewards, of course, are frequently supplied with a guide before a race Is run. If the market creates suspicion they naturally become doubly vigilant. That Is one point in favour of the bookmckers, who do not fail to extend the odds against a horse when there is no money for something that should by all the laws of the game start a well-backed chance..

Tradesman has commenced his preparation at Te Rapa for the racing of the new season. The Raceful— Lady Birdwood gelding earned £555 In stakes last season, winning four races and gaining minor places. Tradesman is a speedy sort and with the further improvement in stamina that w’ill be possible his term of racing as a four-year-ol.t promises to be favourable.

Linamagne, who heads the handicap lists tor both hurdle race (11.2) and steeplechase (11.7) at the Adelaide Grand National -meeting, is a son of imparted Charlemagne IL, who stood In New Zealand for some years. Very few of his gets have been put to the jumping business either in the Dominion or in the Commonwealth, but apparently this one must have put up some fair records. After the race for the Royal Hunt Cup at Ascot the stewards called on the trainer of Grand Salute to explain the running of his horse in that race and in the Flying Dutchman Welter Handicap Plate at York. The stewards, while accepting his explanation, considered that he was to blame for running a horse in an unfit condition previous to the publication of weights in a handicap in which he was engaged.

Snowfail, the winner of yesterday's Grand National Steeplechase at Hiccarton, is owned and trained in Southland. He is an aged gelding by Balboa from Martian Nell. Snowfall was fourth in the race last season, and. at the same meeting was second to Aurora Borealis in the Lincoln Steeplechase. He won the Otago Steeplechase in June last, but was beaten into second place by Tunamoe in Hie South Canterbury Steeplechase last month. once it was announced that A. E. Ellis was to be his pilot Snowfall came In for good support

The Queensland Turf Club has framed a protective tariff In favour of Brisbane bookmakers. Formerly any bookmaker could visit Brisbane for the principal meetings and field at a fee of ten guineas per day, and many Sydney ringmen availed themselves of the privilege. Now the right to be at the Club's meetings has to be paid for quarterly in advance, at a rate of £7 7s per day. As there is also an annual license of £2l, and a Government levy of £5O, It is not likely that many outside bookmakers will operate. The Australian Jockey Club has received about forty fewer applications from bookmakers for paddock licenses for the season. The unsettled state of affairs generally and the incidence of the betting .tax have so affected attendances that some paddock bookmakers have been unable to obtain even their share of clients, and are retiring temporarily from business. Others have applied for a transfer to the cheaper enclosures. Notwithstanding this, there were fewer applications for licenses to operate in the St. Leger reserve. The programme for the Australian Jockey Club's Winter meeting showed that 140 bookmakers were licensed for the paddock and 146 for the St. Leger reserve.

The Winter King, an English-bred sire, was responsible for Barneveldt, this year's winner of the Grafid Prix de Paris, the richest event run for on the French turf. The Winter King, who was bred by the late Lord Rosebery, Is by Son-In-Law, his dam, Slgnorinetta, being by Chaleureux. Slgnorlnetta won the Derby In 1908 under the colours of the Italian sportsman, Chevalier Ginistrelll, and a few years after recording her sensational victory she was bought by Lord Rosebery for 10,000 guineas. The Winter King was sold for 200gns In 1929.

Twenty Grand, who Is regarded as the greatest racehorse seen on American tracks since Man o' War, was soundly beaten last month by Mate in the Arlington Classic. The event carries £17,000 in added money, and is the richest three-year-old -race in the world. Twenty Grand, who started at 3 to 1 on, finished third behind Mate and Spanish Play. Mate broke the’ track record. Mate, who won about 40,000 dollars as a two-year-old, has now won about 200,000 do’Jars. He is owned by Mr A. C. Bi ftwlck, and when Hie last mail left America it was reported that the chestnut was to be sent to England to race. If Mate does cross the Atlantic as America's greatest three-year-old. a match may be arranged with Cameronian, the English Derby winner, to decide the world’s best three-year-old. Cameronian is a first-class colt, but in view of Mate's consistency and his ability to sprint and stay, he would be a worthy opponent for Mr J. A. Dewar’s champion. Twenty Grand holds a record of 2min 1 4-sseo for a mile and a quarter.

I The great majority of English turf I writers are strongly in favour of .the j bookmaker in preference to the ' totalisator as a betting medium. For i instance, referring to the recent meeting at Royal Ascot, the London 1 Sporting Life says:—''Distorted and ■ obviously biased statements have been ; advanced throughout the fixture, presumably with the object of prejudicI ing the public against layers—a not ! altogether sportsmanlike attitude to 1 adopt. Nevertheless, bookmakers ’ arc well able to take care of themselves; and for .the benefit of those who think otherwise we place it on record that it will be a sorry day for racing if ever the human form of wagering is dispensed with. In time tile racing public must go bankrupt under the present system. During the fixture the totalisator extracted over £22.000 from the public; this automatically Is lost to racing. In contrast, the bookmakers, wiio lost substantially, circulated within the region of a quarter of a million of money among their palrons. all of whom will return for further Hings at the ring"

In future, a person who enters for any race a horse subject to a joint interest, must state on the form of entry, or in writing, confirming the entry where It is not made in writing, the names of all parties to the Joint interest. This procedure will enable secretaries of clubs to ascertain what horses require to he bracketed in any race and will relieve a person who has an Interest In two or more horses not running in his name from being fined for falling to notify his interest to the secretary of the club where the horses happen to be entered In the same race. The responsibility for noting Joint interests now rests on club secretaries, after persons making entries have provided the information from their end. Dastur, by Solario—Friar's Daughter, has been mentioned as one of the Aga Khan's good two-year-olds in England. Another is Tarte Maison, by Tetratema—Blanc Mange, but the one which appears to have taken the greater fancy Is Taj Kasra, by Gay Crusader, sire of Gay Shield, now and last season located at the Kiwitahl stud at Morrinsvllle. Hjs dam, the flying Taj Mahal, by The Tetrarch, of whose blood we have much through excellent sources, will be well rememered. Taj Kasra beat twenty-two others in the Redfern Plate at Kemp-

ton Park, for which event he was not greatly fancied. Crumpets and Thorndean, who were the most fancied of the big field, were his Immediate attendants in the run past the judge. Tarte Maison Is a Ally and Dastur and Taj Kasra are colts.

Prince Arlm, Sydney's most popular steeplechaser, was killed recently at Handwick. In preparation for his engagement at Warwick Farm he was out for a trial over the brush fences. Approaching the first obstacle Prince Arlm appeared to put in a “short one,” and, getting right into the fence, struck it with his chest. He was forced completely over, and rolled about 30ft. Prince Arim broke his neck. The rider was fortunate in receiving only abrasions to his back. Prince Arim was a nine-year-old gelding, and it was the intention of owner-trainer J. Phoenix to retire him at the end of the present jumping season. Prince Arim won seven steeplechases, including an Australian Jockey Club Steeplechase, and his stake earnings, all over jumps, amounted to nearly £4500.

The fact that the Matamata owned and trained gelding, Prince Vai, has been entered for the JellicoHandicap, one mile and a quarter, in preference to the Dunedin Handicap, six furlongs, at the Pakuranga meeting, indicates that he is again to bo given an opportunity to earn distinction over a middle distance. In the past Prince Vai's efforts have been chiefly confined to racing in sprint events, although he has on a few occasions within the last eighteen months raced over longer distances. At Te Rapa two seasons ago he ran second to True Blood in the Hamilton Handicap, one mile and a quarter, and later on in the season finished third to Royal Doulton and Maori Boy In the Takapuna Jockey Club Handicap, nine furlongs. These were good performances, and in his present condition Prince Vai should be still capable of running out a solid tenfurlong journey. CHIEF STIPENDIARY STEWARD. REMOVING TO AUCKLAND. PALMERSTON N., Monday. Mr A. P. Wilson, chief stipendiary steward to the New Zealand Racing Conference, who has made Palmerston North his headquarters since taking up his appointment, purposes removing to Auckland in the near future. The change has been necessitated by the retirement of Mr Angus Gordon and the decision of the Conference not to replace him meantime. Mr Wilson will personally supervise racing activities in the north, while Mr B. N. Sandllands will attend fixtures at this end of the island.

Okehu Hack Hurdles .. 220 80 Putlkl Hack Handicap 200 70 Seafleld Handicap 225 80 Wanganui Guineas 500 500 Durle Hack Handicap 200 70 Marangai Handicap 400 120 Flying Handicap - 300 00 second Day. Debutante Stakes 175 65 Gonvllle Hack Hurdles 200 85 Spring Hack Handicap 200 70 Belmont Handicap —— 80 X.Z. Eclipse Stakes .. 400 Trial Handicap .... 200 70 Higgle Handicap 350 120 Moutoa Hack Handicap 200 70 pjsea Handicap .... 300 90