PEKOE’S CAREER ENDS

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 289, 4 September 1942, Page 7

PEKOE’S CAREER ENDS

Owner Gives Him Away

(By The Watcher.; Pekoe, who bled while contestiner the hurdle race at Hawera .on Saturday, was running his last race. Mr. I. Lupton has given him away for use as a hack by an employee of the Egmont-Wangauui Hunt Club, of which Mr. Lupton is a steward. Improved Form. Circular Note allowed a glimpse of his best form at Hawera on .Saturday when he ran second to Sanction over nine furlongs, conceding a stone. Circular Note has been off form for some time, . but schooling for hurdle engagements seems to have improved him. Circular Note now runs in the Interests of Mr. N. C. Trillo, formerly a licensed jockey. Bred in Australia, Jonathan Joe, an Australian-bred colt in H. Dulieu’s stable, ran a fair race in the Weraroa Stakes at Hawera and should improve. Jonathan Joe was sent over from Sydney and is raced by Mr. Ross Nelson. He is a black three-year-old by St. Christopher from Futurity, and is a half-broth-er to Variant, Futurity being by Posterity from Motley, by Absurd—Pennon, by Coriander—Eulogy. He is thus closely related on his dam’s side to many good horses. Midinette. the dam of Battledress, is a half-sister to Futurity, in tact the blood lines of Jonathan Joe and Battledress are almost identical on the dam s side, Battledress being by the same sire as Futurity. Christopher Robin, the sire or Jonathan Joe is by Phalaris from Dutch ■Mary, by William the Third. Jonathan Joe was bred by Mr. Percy Miller at the Kia Ora Stud, and he fetched I'JOgus. as a yearling. He raced between times in ,Aus ; tralia last season, being placed oncet third in a division of a Two-year-old Handicap at Canterbury Park in Januaiy. His last Start as a tWo-year-old was early in April. Also Australian. Dulieu’s stable also shelters another Aus-trallau-bred maiden, Mr. J. M. Jamiesons four-year-old geldlpg Walplro, who did not start on Saturday. Walplro is .. b ? Tippler from Figure, so he is a brother to that smart horse, Hadrian, Winner of the Hobartville Stakes, C. W. Cropper Plate, Canterbury Guineas, Rosehill Guineas, etc. Walplro has not yet raced. Bred by Mr. Hunter White, Havllah Stud, J. 1. Jamieson phid IjOOgne. for him as a yearling. Coincidence. There was an unusual coincidence connected with the Recent successes of Comrie, at the Pakuranga Hunt Club s menting. He was ridden by 0. Mclnally, who was born at Comrie, in Scotland. Comrle’s double win has been achieved four times previously.. At the first totalizator meting in J 914 both races wore won bv Mr. ,T- Wilson’s Waimai, who later went on to take highest steeplechase honours in the country. Mr, A. Jk Ding ® 8 Glentui repeated the performance in 1923, and Mr. J. W. Peters’ Llewellyn in 1024. The list, horse before Comrie to complete the double was'Mr. G. Campbell’s Valpeen, who won both races very easily in 1J33. Valpeen also became one of the Dominion’s leading steeplechasers. In IflM the meeting was held in May, and Mr. A. B. Hattaway’s Hokumai ran second in .the Malden Steeples (now known as the Greenmouiit Steeples) and won the Hunt Cup, and in 1929 the late Mr. A. J. Julians 4>ea Comet filled the reverse positions in the two races. Others wiho filled places in both races include Absent (1932), Ardmannlng (1935) and Electric Flash (1986). Though now known as the Greenmount Hunters' Steeplechase, the race is still for horses who have not won a race of any description before starting. For Australia,. „ , , . The two-year-old colt by Bulandshar from First Cast, dam also of Grilse, winner of the Welcome Stakes last spring, was bought at the Tfenthasm sales in January for G. P. Nalloh, of Sydney. After being left in the North island for several months, he was sent to Rlocarton, where he has been in J. Wadley’s stable for some time. He left there last week, and he will .be shipped to Australia. He cost SfoOgns. as a yearling, and he looks a good sort. No Racing In Palestine. . A soldier writes from the Middle East: “I am writing this in Palestine, where I have been for the past three months, it is a verv pleasant country. I spent a most interesting week in and about Jerusalem. The worst feature of this country is that there are no racecourses. It is against the law to gamble in Palestine. In Cairo now they cater for the punter, and you can back them all ways—doubles, win, place and first and second in the same race. Many of the natives are too poor to pay the admission fee to the course, and they gather outside the fence and have a whale of a good time, yelling and moaning and seeing nothing at all. They pass their bets to runners, inside the fence, and these scamper to and from the totalizator. Tickets are from 2/- each. Near Where we are now camped there are many settlements of Jews, who have resided here diirlng the past 20 years. The progress they have made is really remarkable. With usual Jewish thoroughness they have Introduced the most modern methods in their cultivation and have turned sandy wastes into fertile areas. They are a mixture of Poles, Germans, Russians, and many other types. A meeting was held in Tel-Avid recently in aid of patriotic purposes, and the chairman addressed the meeting in German. From the report in the paper, it must have developed into quite a good meeting after that, and the

ambulances were kept carrying away the bodies.. This just gives you some idea of the weird mixture of peoples Who have settled here.” Warned Oft. The Home. Guard was out on a route march. The route. led past the racecourse and bn arrival at the gates the column was halted. The O.C. addressed the troops to the effect that they , would break off for a few minutes and go in and have a “spot.” One of the men refused to go in. On being questioned; he replied:'“No, fear. I’m a bookmaker, and I’ve been warned off.” Answers to Correspondents. “Interested,” Stratford: iSnowy Bingen has not raced since he ran unplaced at the Cambridge T.C. meeting last January, which was also his only start of the season. His only placing in two years was a third at Thames in March, 1941. As previously advised, there has been, no Waikato-Cambridge trotting meeting recently. "Constant Reader,” Featherston: Duncannon was scratched at Hawera on Saturday at 2 p.m. on the day ami Whackie at 10 a.m. on the previous day, August 28. “Dusty,” Dannevirke; "M.R." Wellington; and “Ted,” Palmerston North: Gold Court was scratched at Hawera on Saturday at 1.45 P.m. “.Sport,” Turangi: (1) £l/3/-. (2) £2 119/6. (3) £4/11/6. (41 £l/18/-.