RACING AND TROTTING

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20496, 15 March 1932, Page 12

RACING AND TROTTING

LATEST NEWS FROM FAR AND NEAR

RACING FIXTURES. March 17—Opunake B.C. March 17—Waimate R.C. Mareh 17, 10—Wellington B.C. March 17, 19—Ohinemari J.C. March 19—Otautaa R.C. March 19, 21—Weatport J.C. March 23—Opotiki J.C. March 2.1, 24—Oamaru J.C. March 26, 28—Wairarapa R.C. Mareh 26, £8 —Feilding J.C. March 26, 28—Auckland B.C. March. 26, 23, 29—RWerton R.C. March 28—Beaumont R.C. March 28—Waipukurau R.C. March 28—Kumara R.C. March 28, 20—Canterbury J.C. March 30—Weatland R.C. March 26, April 2—Greymouth J.C. TROTTING FIXTURES. March 16—Manawatu T.C. March 3 6—Wyndham T.C. March 17—Waimate R.C. ((wo ergnu). March 19, 21—Weatport J.C. (two «T«nU each day). March 26, 28—Hawera T.C. March 26, April 2—Greymouth J.C. (two events pach day). March 26, 30— N.Z. Metropolitan T.C. April 2—Taranaki T.C. April 3 —Cheviot T.CTURF GOSSIP. . Beminders. Nominations lor the Westland Meeting close at 8.30 p.m. on Thursday. 1 N'ominqjions for the Oamaru Jockey ; Club's Autumn Meeting will close at ■ S p.m. on Tuesday next. Dual Engagement. l -Merry Peel figures as an acceptor in 1 'if! concluding event at Trentham on Thursday and also for the High-Weight Handicap at Waimate. In all probability he will carry out the former engagement. The Week's Racing. Racegoers throughout New Zealand will be well provided for this week. The Opunake.and Waimate Clubs will race on Thursday, and the fixtures of the Wellington and Ohinemuri Clubs will open on that day, and both will conclude on Saturday. On the latter day, also, the Otautau Meeting will be held and the Westport fixture will open, concluding on Monday. Racing Career Terminated. The Paper Money gelding, Money Mine, owned by Mr W. Swale, of Inver-t-argill, and until rocently trained by J. A. Rowland, recently suffered a mishap on the Southland tracks and as a result, will probably be permanently retired from the turf.

Winning Riders. H. Gray, with 58 wins, still has a commanding load in the jockeys' premiership. The next on the list is H. Wiggins, whose wins at Dannevirke last week brought his total to 51. K. Voitro has 48 wins and is followed by B. H. Morris 39, E. Eeed 31, and L. G. Morris 31. .

Night Baid Juvenile. The most promising two-year-old seen at the recent Napier Park Meeting was Aesculus. Aesculns is n good-looking chestnut eolt by Night Baid—Tinihanga, dam of Elude. He made a line showing against the more experienced Chief Marionette, and is the cut of horse that will be looked to to do well in his second season. Through his dam, Aosculus is related to Bon Eeve and Havering. His breeding is interesting, inasmuch as it represents the mating of a sire of stayers with a mare by a sire of sprinters. Tinihanga was by Absurd from Formless, a Multiform mare out of Dreamer, the dam of Bon Here and Havering. Dreamer's dam 'Was a Trenton mare. As a yearling, at Trentham, Aesculus was .sold by his breeder, Mr J. B. Starkey, to Mr T. H. Lowry for 225 guineas.

A Big loss. Captain Bassoon's West Indies, the mont spectacular. steeplechase mare that has been seen for many years, fell in the Winchester Steeplechase at Newbury (England) on January 23rd, and broke her back. Thus ended her owner's high hopes of Winning the Grand National on her, and thus ended the life of a mare whose career has been as chequered as it was tragic. She was a good two-year-old when she was in f . Ireland, and in the following season she •• won the Irish Two Thousand Guineas for Lady Malum in a manner so devastating that Ireland went crazy over her prospects when she was sent to Newmarket to run for the English One Thousand Guineas. She was, a bad failure there and in every other 'race subsequently in which she ran on the flat. liSdy Mahon di<fdj and West Indies £ came to England, but was a hopeless disappointment. When Mr Claude Bowe, a London stockbroker, bought her he put her over hurdles and she won races. Then she was sent steeplechasing. Here she waß dazzling. "She paralysed the opposition in her races lost season in a manner that induced Captain Bassoon to give a sum in the neighbourhood of £SOOO for her. She gained him his first victory at Liverpool last November and he intended to ride her in this month's Grand National.

SPANISH PLAY.

Re-handicapped.

DANGEROUS RIVAL TO PHAR LAP. (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION" —BY ELECTRIC XELKOEAFH—COPYRIQHT.) (Received March 14th, 8.15 p.m.) AGUA CALIENTE, March 13. It is announced that Spanish. Play, the winner of the New Orleans Handicap on Saturday, is entering for the Agua Caliente Handicap, and is expected to prove' a most dangerous • opponent for Phar Lap. * Phar Lap has been working on the track every morning. There has, however, beeri no actual speed trial yet.

TROTTING NOTES. Reminders. Nominations close at 8.30 p.m. on Thursday for tho trotting events on the Westland R.C.'a programme. Nominations for the Cheviot T.G. Meeting close on Friday at 9 p.m. Showed Speed. Auspicious showed enough speed at Timaru to suggest that she may race prominently in the near future. She made a bad beginning in her Timaru engagement, but she finished fifth in Black Jester's race. Her next appearance will be at the Waimate Meeting ou Thursday. Gone to Australia. Silver Jack has been sold to an Australian buyer and he was recently shipped to Sydney where he will do his future racing. He is an aged gelding by Erin's King a Silver Ribbon mare and he had several useful performances to his credit in Southland, where he was bred. Re-appearance Awaited. Satin King has not raced since the successful outings he had at the New Zealand Cup Meeting, where he ran third on the first day, and subsequently won two races. He is likely to make his reappearance at the Addington fixture, which opens next week. A Promising Sire. The latest winner to bring Worthy Bingen's name into the limelight as a sire is Goldzone, who won at the South Wairarapa Meeting on Saturday. He is a three-year-old gelding from Gold Girl and he was bred by T. Roe at Hawera, but was subsequently purchased by Mr J. R. Corrigan, who has raced a number of Worthy Bingen stock, including Worthy Queen, with great success. In the Paddock. Koro Peter is at present turned out again. Just priqr to the January Meeting at Forbury Park he was trotting in great stylo on the tracks, but lie did not reproduce that form in his races and it is hoped that he will, benefit by the let-up. Lost Favour. Onoto, a winner at the Timaru Club's January Meeting, as a result of that win was made a good second choice to Claranda in the Seadown Handicap, but he stayed on the mark. He was started twice more during the afternoon when ho was eighth and eleventh fancy respectively. On no occasion did he leave the mark.

Hoppled Again. , - , As White Satin has shown pacing inclinations once again she is being given another course of work with the hopplos on. This experiment was tried previously with her and she won at her second start, when put . back to the trotting gait. It is not intended to race her as a pacer. Stronghold of Sport. That tho light harness sport is thriv l ing in Southland is demonstrated by the list of nominations the Eiverton E.G. has received for the two trotting events to be decided on the third day of the Meeting. The Wakatipu Handicap has drawn a field of 36, while there arc forty in the Ohai Handicap. Canterbury Horns at Manawatu. and Silver de OrO, ( winners at the South Wairarapa Meeting, will be racing to-morrow at the Palmerston North fixture. M, B. Edwards will handle them on this occasion,. 8. A. Edwards having to fulfil engagements at the Wyndham Meeting on ■ the same day. Astral, Special Sun, and Sandown from C. S. Donald's team are also acceptors for Manawatu. A Specialty/ Mr J. H. Lloyd, has maden specialty of winning the Manawatu Trotting Club's plate, "the principal race at the Manawatu Annual Meeting. Horses who have carried his colours to victory in the' event are Ngaraima, Hal Junr., Master Hal, and The Shrew. His representative in to-morrow's race is Capitano by Hal Junr., from Cinderette. This mare won a two mile Taco at Clareville on Boxing Day and; she ■, is expected to race .prominently • in tomorrow's eyftit," May Oome South. t It is reported from the north that there is a possibility of Auto Machine being brought to Aldington to be trained because thero are very few races suitable for him in the Auckland district. '•

Black Jester, a winner at Timkru, has been penalised 72yds in the Morven Trot to be run at the Waimate Meeting on Thursday.

Re-assessments. Placed horses at the Tiuiaru Trotting Club's Autumn Meeting, held on Saturday, have been're-assessed as follows: — Table. Line. Aristotle .. 1 23 Automatic .. 1 21 Baron Bingen .. 1 2.13, 2.47, 4.33 Black Jester .. 1 11 Claranda 1 14 Colorado ,1- 10 Cranleigh .. 1 2.12, 2.46, 4.32 Delightful .. 1 2.10, 2.43, 4.31 First Wrack ... 2 21 Gay Paree .. 2 16 Great Burton .. 2 10 Gunfire .. P •Honora Bingen .. 2 1 Jean Drusus ..117 Lord Lupin .. 1 1 Major Lind .. 1 2.12, 2.46, 4.34 Merrijigs .. 2 17 Midnight Sun ..17. Nimbus .. 1 23 Nimble Direct .. 1 2.12, 2.46, 4.33 Kokena .. ... 1 21 Tanepai ~ .. 2 8 Wrackeen .. 1 2.13, 2.47," 4.32

LIFTING OF H. GRAY'S SUSPENSION. ;\£TION BY CHIEF STIPENDIARY STEWARD. (PRESS ASSOCIATION' TILIGBAM.) WELLINGTON, March 14. Mr A. P. Wilson, chief stipendiary steward to the New Zealand Racing Conference, has, under rule 57 of the Rules of Racing, notified the Executive Committee of the Conference that, in his opinion, the decision of the Auckland District Committee in upholding the appeal of H. Gray in the Antique case is unsatisfactory. If the Executive Committee is satisfied that the case merits further enquiry it may now direct that? Mr Wilson's notification be referred to tho appeal judges appointed by the president, and that it be dealt with as an appeal from the decision of the District Committee.