RACING NEWS & VIEWS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 83, 22 September 1947, Page 8

RACING NEWS & VIEWS

Brilliant Times While practically all the training tracks in the North Island are very soft and heavy, those at Riccarton are not. During the last week horses there have been registering 49 and 50 seconds for four furlongs, while on Saturday Cipher slipped over the distance in 48 4-ssecs. From 52 to 57 are common throughout this part of New Zealand.

Bridge Acre’s Total During her racing career the Foxbridge—Ann Acre mare, Bridge Acre, just sold to a Sydney breeder, won £4330 in stakes. Bred in N.Z.

Deep Sea,, the runner-up to Shannon in the Canterbury Stakes was bred in this Dominion by Mr R. Rowan, of Te Awamutu. She is a half-sister to Cheval de Volee twice winner of the Auckland Cup. A Good Record

Valley Boy, who did not carry racing colours until he was a four-year-old, has since won £7470 in stakes. He has a record of 13 wins, six seconds and nine thirds in 46 starts.

A Winning Family Mr W. S. Goosman’s Tauloch, a winner at Avondale, is by Balloch from Taupiri, a full sister to Huntsman, winner of 16 races in Australia.

A Change of Scene Taranaki’s veteran trainer, R. Johnson, is taking Brown Derby over to Melbourne, where he will continue to train him. Having disposed of his Taranaki property, he decided upon a change of scene.

To Compete Again Last year’s winner of the New Zealand Cup, Catterick Bridge, is again in work at Hastings, and is to compete in this season’s big event at Riccarton.

The N.Z. Cup The Canterbury Jockey Club has decided to retain the condition setting the maximum weight for the N.Z. Cup at 9.7. Nominations Galore

For the Trial Handicap at the Te Aroha Spring Meeting no less than 124 entries have been listed. This will probably necessitate a race of three divisions although such events are not at all popular with turf patrons.

A Cup Certainty The Australian stayer, Proctor, expected to come to the Dominion to compete in the £IO,OOO Auckland Cup on Boxing Day, is at present quoted in Australia as a certainty for the Melbourne Cup on November 4.