SPORTING

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23974, 15 June 1943, Page 7

SPORTING

TURF GOSSIP Trainer Laid Up C. Emerson is in hospital, where he is making good progress, after undergoing an operation at the end of last week. During his temporary absence the members of his team are being kept going in light tasks. It la hoped that ' Lynden Lea, Foxhaven, and In Chancery : will be able to resume racing in August, : when the jumper, Benevolent, will also . be seen, after appearing first at the South' ! Canterbury hunt meeting next month. . More Yearlings ■ Two yearlings, which have gone to J. ■ S. Shaw to be broken in, will be ready i to join C. Emerson's stable when he rei sumes work. One of them is by Sleg--1 fried from Silver Canal, by Gustavo or Paper Money, and the other is by Solici- : tor General from the Paper Money ; mare. Scrip. Back in Work Prudentia, who has been spelling since the Canterbury Jockey Club's autumn . meeting, at which she won two races, these being her only appearances in public, came back -to R.. Wilson’s stables yesterday. She will be got ready to resume racing at the Grand National meeting, and she has enough speed to continue in good form, even though she may take on better company. Promising Novice Among the novices who are showing some promise at Riocarton is a three-year-old filly by Salmagundi from Sweet Memory, who comes from the same family as Membo and Nightcalm. She will have her first race at the, South Canterbury Hunt meeting. For Trentham After having an easy time since he came home from Wingatui, Valantua has resumed work. B. H. Brodle hopes to have him ready for steeplechases at Ti'entham next month. Jumping Candidate Ever England, a Foxbrldge gelding who looked like going on to good form after his early successes as a three-year-old, became so unruly at the barrier that he was placed on the schooling list. According to a report from Southland, he is to join the stable of F. J. Boyle at Heddon Bush, to be prepared for jumping. Old-time Rider Joseph Bice, who died last week, was one of the best-known light-weight jockeys in Southland half a century ago. He won the Wyndham. Cup on Surefoot in 1894 and 1895, while he scored in the Winton Cup on Obolus in 1911, after which 1 he dropped out of the game. Trentham Straight As a result of a slight reduction in the width of the straight at Trentham since the removal of the false rail, the Racing Conference has reduced the safety number for the mile and three furlongs barrier from 27 to 25, and for the mile and a quarter from 24 to 22. Only tfye mile and three furlongs start is likely to be affected, as mile and a quarter races are not now run at Trentham. Government Help Racing clubs have been advised by the secretary of the Racing Conference that as a result of negotiations with the War Cabinet it has been agreed that in cases where the property of any racing club, A. and P. solcety, or other body is taken over or partly occupied by any branch of the military forces, it will be an accepted principle that the War Expenses Account should bear any financial loss Incurred thereby by these bodies, less any profit made by them in operating on their own or other grounds, subject to the final approval of the War Cabinet in each individual case. The War Cabinet has also agreed to bear the cost of restoring club grounds and buildings to the state in which they were when first occupied by the military. In a note to the Conference president, the Hon, A. Hamilton, Minister of War Expenditure, said that while care was being taken to safeguard expenditure in the War Expenses Account, it was desired to attain the full co-operation and goodwill of all those with whom the War Cabinet had to deal. TROTTING NOTES For Auckland The five-year-old Sandiways, by Sandydaye—Eugenja, has been sold by Mr W. T. Lowe to an Auckland sportsman, and will do his next racing in the North Island. Sandiways did not race last year; but as a three-year-old he showed good form and looked like .developing into a good handicap performer. He was fourth in the Sapling Stakes, won by his stablemate Pacing Power: he then won the Juvenile ■ Handicap at the Canterbury Park Trotting Club's meeting after pacing a mile and a quarter In 2mlp 50sCc, time that has not often been beaten oy , a two-year-old. ■ • • A Useful Pacer Loyal Friend and Royal Worthy have been two good winners for the Methven sportsman, Mr A. Wilson, who keeps dhly ; a small team in work. Loyal Friend was not over-raced because of an injury In the early part of the season; but in 11 starts he won once, was second three ■ times, third three times, and fourth once. Royal Worthy’s record for the season is ' three wins in six starts. There was some 1 merit in Loyal Friend’s' third placing 1 in the Acton Handicap at Ashburton, for : in a strong field he was set to give away ■ GO yards. 1