GOSSIP FROM ALL PARTS

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20890, 23 August 1939, Page 12

GOSSIP FROM ALL PARTS

Nominations for all handicap events of the Avondale Jockey Club's spring meeting on September lb and IS and forfeits for the Avondale stakes, Champion Stakes and Avondale Guineas, arc due at 3 p.in. to-morrow Friday), with the secretary (Mr J. Hawson), Avondale Jockey Ulub s office, Victoria Street, West Auckland, Box 390, ’phono 41-070. Has Earned His Spell The steepelchaser. All Irish, who has been out of action since the lington meeting, is enjoying a spell on a farm and will not be put into work again for some months. Gold Salute , , „ , , It is understood that Gold salute will probably be taken to Australia for the spring meetings. lie has developed into a rather fine and upstanding colt, that on appearance would not be out of place in any classic field. Triple Dead-heats t In connection with triple dead-heats it would be hard to beat the record established at Moorfleld in 1903. Highflver, Loch Lochie and Barindi, triple dead-heated, and in the run-off they dead-heated again, the stakes being divided. Photographing Finishes At the annual meeting of the Auckland Racing Club th© president, Mr O. Nicholson, said that the committee has considered photographic finishes, hut at the present time was not prepared to go to the expense. It would cos-t a considerable amount to do it properly, for there was the housing of the people who would operate the camera. However, it would receive further consideration. Success at Caulfield The former Taranaki trainer J. Fryer won his first race with the New Zealand-bred colt Xavier at the Caulfield meeting on July 15. The race was the Lillimur Two-year-old Handicap, run over seven furlongs. Starting at double figure odds, Xavier led all the way to score comfortably. By Lord Warden from El Sorella, dam of Mount Boa and Mount \al, Xavier gave considerable promise earlier in the season when he won a Maribyrnong Trial Stakes division, but later raced below expectations before entering Fryer’s stable.

Catalogue Accommodation been secured September. Last year his only important engagement was in the Melbourne Cup. This year be has been freely nominated for all the principal events. A Gift Brayton, the dam of The Wrecker, was a discard from the Elderslie Stud, and when apparently barren was made a gift to the late Mr J. O’Brien, who g bred her to Shambles and got The A Wrecker. He is a half-brother to t Historic, Bonnetter, and other more h than useful performer*. L Returning Owing to the serious illness of his a father, who accompanied him to Eng- o land, the Auckland jockey, X. Yaug- h han, has returned to New Zealand r with Mr Vaughan, and they will ar- t rive at the end of the month. Vaughan will be in the saddle at the Avondale meeting. Yours Truly Yours Truly has made a complete a recovery from the pas-tern soreness s that prevented his racing at the C..1.G. ( meeting, but lie is having a fortnight s n holiday before being set on another 1 preparation. Yours Truly was fancied 1 for the Winter Cup prior to going wrong. The damage is not deepseated. 1 Fast Times [ The Australian record for seven fur- \ longs in 1.23, is jointly held by Lough r Neagh and Mohican, but at Aqueduct r (New York) in June, Fighting Fox \ did that distance in 1.22 4-5. Sub- f sequently Fighting Fox strengthened his claims to be considered one of the < best four-year-old sprinters in America by running five and three- < quarter furlongs in 1.7 2-5 at Empire t City (New York). He reduced the t previous track record by two-fifths of f a second, and, as he carried 9.0, it was a brilliant performance. The first quarter-mile was run in 22 4-5, and the half-mile in 40. Not a Record Padishah’s time for the Grand Na- I tional Steeplechase, 6min 57sec, is not : a record, that being held by Oakleigh in his first year, 6min 5>5 l-ssec, while Peter Maxwell recorded Gmin 55 2-5 sec. Since their years, however, the course has been altered, a rail having been erected between the second sod wall and the top brush to make horses run straighter at this brush fence. This prevents horses cutting the corner, as was always done previously, and it is estimated that Padishah ran over 50 yards further than either Oakleigh or Peter Maxwell in their years, as this turn is negotiated twice during the race. There is thus little doubt that Padishah’s Gmin 57sec will take a lot of beating in future Nationals. English Winners Up to the end of June Lord Rosebery had the double destinction of heading the list of winning breeders, and also that of winning owners. The chief contributor to his totals was the champion colt, Blue Peter. Lord Roseberry had only two individual winners of five races worth more than £23,000. Next to Lord Rosebery on j the winning breeders' list was Mr R. S. Clark, the American owner of I Galatea 11, winner of the One Thousand Guineas, and the Oaks. Galatea 11 failed in the Coronation Stakes, won by Lord Glanely’s Olein. The leading owners following Lord Rosebery were Mr R. S. Clark, Sir Abe Bailey, Lord Glanelv, Lord Milford, Mr J. V. ■Rank, and Lord Derby, in that order. As Lord Rosebery had a substantial lead in both lists, he does not seem likely to be displaced this season. High Caste High Caste is developing into the most commanding type of three-year-old, and good judges expect him to be the horse of the season. His first clash with Reading, who defeated him in the Sires’ Produce Stakes at Randwick, will be interesting, but apparently J. T. Cush, trainer and part-owner of Reading, has the highest respect for iHigh Caste. Cush went to Jamieson’s stable recently (says an exchange), and was so impressed with the appearance of the Bulandshar colt that he and the other part-owner of Reading coupled Reading and High ' Caste for the Caulfield and Melbourne Cup double for £30,000. This is an 1 unusual double, for three-year-olds seldom run in the Caulfield Cup, trainers of good colts preferring to run in the Caulfield Guineas, after contesting the A.J.C. Derby and then saving their young horses for the Victoria Derby, decided on the Saturday before Mel- ■ bourne Cup day. As Cush and Mr ! Luscombe have supported also the ! Reading-Defaulter double for the two Cups, it would appear that they have 1 serious designs on the Caulfield Cup, A famous London (Harley Street) specialist's tribute to the value of tobacco: “The ground on which tobacco holds so firm a footing is that of nearly every luxury it is the least injurious. It docs infinitely less harm than opium. It is in no sense worse than tea. Also, a thorough smoker is never a glutton. It brings quiet to the over-worn body and restless mind. 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