RACING

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21184, 6 August 1940, Page 9

RACING

GOSSIP FROM ALL PARTS The Grand National meeting will ! open at Riccarton on Tuesday next J week. ’ Others Eliminated j In addition to Dauber, Gold Wren j and Nightbound broke down in the j Homeby Steeplechase. I May Do Better I Arabic, who raced unluckily at Trentham, is entered for Riccarton ! and may be seen to better advantage | next week than was the case at the Wellington fixture. | A Jumper’s Chance Willan, a candidate for minor I jumping events at Riccarton, has ( been schooling well at Hastings of I late and must be conceded a jumper’s j chance in pending engagements. He lacks speed but is a sound jumper. j Riding at Christchurch I A. Gilmer left for Riccarton on | Friday evening and has been engaged i to ride Erination and Nino Martini at j the Grand National meeting. j Slayer’s Lapse | Slayer’s lapse as a steeplechaser ; in the Homeby Steeplechase at the j Christchurch Hunt on Saturday was I unfortunate. With nine furlongs I to cover he ran off at Cutts’ brush ! and though up to this time he was ! fencing in dashing style it was too ' early to assume how he would ulti- ! mately have fared. Coronation Coronation came through his Matamata engagements safely, and that being his first outing for months, the race should work some improvement in him. As Fit As Ever Padishah, who was reported to have pulled up very sore after his race at Trentham, came through his engagement in the Homeby Steeplechase at the Christchurch Hunt on Saturday in great heart and he will lose no friends for his Grand National engagement as the result of his deI feat at the hands of the iightly- ! weighted Flashlight. Encouraging The close third registered by Hunter’s Night in open class at Mata- ! mata indicates this son of Hunting Song and Dark Night is worth deep j consideration again in the early j spring. | His First Success

Don’t Forget created a good impression when he won his first success for his breeder-owner, Dr. M. jG. Louisson, at the Christchurch i Hunt meeting at Riccarton on Satur:day. Beginning smartly he came on ito the course proper with a clear j lead, an advantage which he increased in the run home to win easing up by the official margin of eight I lengths. He will bear keeping in j mind the next time he is produced. i Condition of Sleeveless I Sleeveless is reported to be in I splendid condition for her engage--1 ment in the Winter Cup at Riccar- , ton next week but she will need to 1 give of her very best with the steadier of 9.10. She is a game 1 mare, capable of going a fine race, i but weight may find her out over the I telling stages of the big Riccarton ! mile. Last of Surveyors Stated to be the absolute last of Surveyor’s stock a rising three-year-old gelding in Gilchrist’s charge claiming Miniwaroa as his dam is a solid sort of customer which should prove a good performer later on. Because of being the last of the Surveyor’s, he will be known to the j public when his turn comes as Last 1 Survey. Saccone For Riccarton I Saccone is leaving this week for Riccarton to compete at next week’s Grand National fixture and a line through the recent quality of his work at Takanini points to his lacking nothing on the score of condition for racing at the meeting. He won the Talavera Hurdles at the recent Trentham gathering and he appeals as having excellent prospects in the Jumpers’ Flat event the first day. Blue Tiger Amiss While schooling at Hastings on Saturday morning, Blue Tiger overreached himself and severely cut one | of his forelegs with the result his i Riccarton engagements next week will have to be cancelled. It is a stroke of bad luck for his connections as Blue Tiger was a St horse at the time of the mishap and he gave the impression that he would have been a force to be reckoned with in jumping engagements at the Riccarton carnival. Dauber Breaks Down Dauber broke down badly two ' fences from home in the Homeby Steeplechase at the Christchurch Hunt on Saturday and there seems little likelihood of his starting again on the trip. He was going well in ; the lead half-a-mile from home and lit was stated by his rider, D. J. ) Burgess, that at the time he thought j he had the race won until Dauber ' commenced to weaken in the last furlong. He was very lame on pulling up. Catalogue

l Catalogue was to have gone south j from Awapuni yesterday in charge of I Alan McDonald to attempt his fourth successive win in the Winter Cup. From Awapuni comes the report that the aged son of Lord Quex has been bowling along in solid style in his track preparation and it will not be on the score of condition if he fails to reproduce his best. His Awapuni admirers are of opinion that if he is handy to the leaders a furlong from home he will take a power of beating.

Will Advance in Favour Giving a polished display of fencing Flashlight made a firm impression at Riccarton on Saturday when he won the Homeby Steeplechase and that exhibition will increase his circle of admirers for the National next week. Once over the last fence, after he had taken the measure of Padishah and Dauber, he carried on to win going away, and, according to critics who saw the race, he gave the impression that another mile further would not have troubled him.

HUNT MEETING DEFECTION

Paddy the Rip was scratched at 2.35 p.ni. yesterday for the Jellicoe Handicap at the" rakuranga Hunt meeting- on August