Turf Topics

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 140, 29 March 1940, Page 8

Turf Topics

A SUCCESSFUL FAMILY Engaged at the O.hinemuri meeting -were no less than three of the Miss Vera family. This marc raced successfully in differ en I parts of the Auckland province" some years ago. Her representatives were Lornacre, Sunny Downs, and Pacifist. The first named won at Tauranga, while Sunny Downs registered a double victory at Paeroa. Pacifist, a two-year-old by Autopay, is likely to make good in the near future. WINNING IN AUSTRALIA Yours Truly, winner of the 193E New Zealand Cup, and later sold tc an Australian sportsman, is maintaining his winning form on "the other side." He has already been victorious in two events, the most recent win being in the Warwick Farm Autumn Cup, in which he defeated a strong field. KATHBELLA'S WINNINGS Mr F. Ormond's Beau Pere—Roya Line mare, Kathbella, is now in hei third year of racing. She has started 36 times for 8 wins and 15 minoi placings, and her stake money amounts to £2535. HIGHLY BRED Areas, a dead-heater at Trcntham is by Hunting Song from the Gen oral Latour —Prodice mare Callistc, (a full sister to Gallio) which was purchased for £750 at the Nationa Thoroughbred sales. THE ART OF HANDICAPPING It has been said that the art |c V handicapping is the bringing together by a carefully thought oul appointment of weights of a number of horses contesting a race,witl a view to the contestants finishing close together. Occasionally t-h( work of a handicapper is throwr out of alignment by the owner oi trainer electing to allow a candidate to carry considerably more weight than that assessed by th< handicapper. Such a case occurret at the recent Ohinemuri meeting Avhere in the Waitekauri Handicap Miss Jose weighted at 7.0 carriec 7.13 and to the surprise of many o the public won handsomely. If ix the first case the Vaals filly hac been handicapped at 7.13 investor would not have taken special noticc of the fact, but when the notification of 13Hlbs overweight was posted, many backers who considered the over poundage excessive, quickly decided to back something else. Some day,, in the dim and distant future, the New Zealand Racing Con ference in its wisdom, regulate the amount of overweight that may be carried.