EARLY ARRIVALS

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 226, 21 June 1944, Page 7

EARLY ARRIVALS

Northern Team For Trentham

(By

St. Simon.)

Visitors for Ihe Wellington winter meeting are already putting in an appearance. Kliurja, Classic, p’uxsen, Valantua, Leigh Hark, Vafer-h'lame, Chat, Borah, Iteorapa and Kinsman, and two orher horses in the same ownership as Kinsman but not engaged at the July meeting, reached Trentham yesterday, liaving travelled ‘'.V coastal steamer from Auckland. A turthcr seven are due today from the south, six of them members of A. 11. Didhaui s team.

Ko Transport. Dozie Boy, winner of the Great Aortnern Steeplechase, was not entered tor the main steeplechases nt flic Wellington meeting. G. W. B. Greene, who travelled his team from .tuckland by steamer, disembarked at Napier, and lie informed the secretary of tlie Wellington Racing Club that he was unable to arrange further transport which would get his team to Trentham in time for the winter meeting. Jfoxfana Recovering. The injury which prevented Foxiana from competing at the Alanawatu winter meeting may not leave any permanent effect. The horse’? owner, Air. L. H. Collinson, rode him at exercise on Saturday morning, and Foxiana hit out freely in a long walk. Mr. Collinson said he was still hopeful that Foxiana would be seen in public before the end of the jumping season.

Broadcasting at Trentham. Mr. D. B. Clarkson, racing commentator for the Canterbury Jockey Club, has been engaged for the Wellington July meeting, succeeding Mr. S. V. McEwen, who recently resigned the Trentham announcer’s position. Bindon Recovered. The grey horse Flndon is reported to have made a full recovery from the lameness which put him out of commission after his promising debut in the spring, and he is to compete at the Hawke’s Bay meeting this week, when he will be ridden by W. J. Broughton. , Another Strathern.

F. H. Strathern, of Invercargill, has been licensed as an apprentice jockey. He is the third of the Strathern brothers to be associated with W. E. Hazlett’s stable. The others are J. L. Strathern, now in the armed forces, who rode a Dunedin Cup winner (Sparkle) and a Grand National winner (Astral Flame), as an apprentice, and T. H. Strathern, who scored his first win on Night Lancer at the Riverton meeting last season.

Correspondent Retires. ■ Mr. W. A. Saunders, who for 16 years has contributed the racing column to /the Dunedin "Star.” has retired from active journalism. Mr. Saunders was one of the veteran racing correspondents in the South Island, and for a quarter of a century he contributed the Otago notes to the "Referee” under the pen-name of “W.A.” He is still secretary of the Wairio Jockey Club. Racing Returns.

Duping the first eight months of the present racing season 108 days of racing and trotting were held, compared with 118 the previous year, and £327,987 was given in stakes, against £273,863. The totalizator investments this season were £6,056,730, compared with £5.088.355. The average stakes a day this season were just under £3037, against just over £2354. and the totalizator investments averaged £04,47-1 each day, compared with £'50,749 last season. During the same period the taxation taken by the Government from totalizator investments amounted to £652,1'55.

Sydney Winner by Coronach. A recent winner in Sydney of a juvenile Handicap for two-year-old fillies was Cordiality, who is by Coronach from Wine Card, by Paper Money, owned by IMr. F. W. Hughes. Cordiality gave a good display of staying power, as she came from last to take the lead at the last furlong and win well. 15-1110 Card is one of five mares bought by Mr. Hughes for mating with Coronach and four of them produced fillies. Change of Business.

C. P. Shield, well known formerly as a jockey and latterly as an owner-trainer, is retiring from his professional connexion with racing, having acquired- the Maktiri Hotel in the Pahiatua district. The only horse he Is retaining Is Pompit. who will be kept In work In the country. No Protection For Lessors.

Tim absence of protection, for lessors by the New Zealand Racing Conference was commented l on by Mr. C. Holdsworth at tlie annual meeting of members of the Canterbury Jockey -Club. The conference decreed thdt a lease must be properly registered, but it stopped at that, said -Mr. Holdsworth. No effort was made to protect the lessor and the only way .open to him to recover monev-s owing under tlie terms of a lease was- through the civil courts. He suggested that steps should- be taken to see that the terms of leases were carried out and -lessees who did not meet their obligations were placed on the forfeit list. After it had been pointed out -that it was a matter for thC'Raeing Conference, and that it was too late to do anything about it for the coming annual meeting of the conference, the secretary (Mr. F. T. H. Bell) was instructed to make a note of the matter for comsideration later. Soutane Retired. Mr. F. 11. Bustin. Wellington, lias decided to retire tlie Lcighon mare Soutane, and she will take up stud duties this year, her first mate, being Broiefort. Soutane won seven races, three as a two-year-old, three at three years, and one at four years, her last two successes being in open sprints at Woodville and Waverley. She also earned place money on 12 occasions. She was bred by the late Mr. H. AleManaway, in whose colours she won lier three races as a two-year-old. She was bought at tlie dispersal of Mr. McManawav’s horses, and from her three-year-old season she raced for Mr. Bustin. She is from the Thespian marc Habit, dam also of Black Robe. Habit was from Cowl, who founded a highly -successful family for .Mr. G. M. Currie lit Koatanui, Including Veilmond, Rational, The Monk, The -Masquerader, Smoke Screen, Pelmet and Gladswood.

The Foxbridge Family. Tehran, runner-up in the Derby, is by Rois Roussel from Stafaralla, and conics from the same family as Foxbridge, Ninth Duke, Christopher Robin. Golden Eagle, .Spiral and King John, all of whom have stood* or are .standing at service in New Zealand. Stafaralla was a good winner in the colours of Prince Aly Khffn. She was bred in Franco, but of wholly English blood, being by the St. Loger winner Solario from Mirawala by Phalaris from Miranda. Miranda was dam of King John, a successful stallion imported to New Zealand by Mr. T. If. Lowry, and was fullsister to Pretty Polly and Adula (third dam of Foxbridge, and his half-sister, Crest a Run, who won the One Thousand Guineas), ami half-sister to Veneration, dam of the disqualified Derby winner of 1913. (Taganour. From an American Mare. Hycilla. who won the Oaks Stakes at Newmarket in the colours of Mr. William Woodward, chairman of the New York Jockey Club, credits the loading stallion Hyperion with another classic winner. She descends from an old-established English family, though her dam, Priscilla Carter. was bred in America, being by Omar Khavvani (winner of the Kentucky Derby) from The Reef, by Trap Rock from Pyramid, by Hastings from St. Priscilla, by Rayon d’Or from St. Pauline, by St. Blaise from Patience, by Parmesan. lu 1929 Mr. _ Wood ward sent Priscilla Carter to England, and there she bred SpinnAr, who won the Scottish Derby. Alcazar. who won five races in succession as a throe-year-old, including the Doncaster and Chesterfield Cups and Ebor Handicap. and Herald, a winner at Newmarket. Patience was a three-quarter sister to Cremorno. winner of the Derby. This is the family that gave the turf The Tetrarch. Thrush, Skirmisher, and the good Australian performer Kennaquhalr. Winning Sires. Up to and including May 20. Foxbridge was well in the load in the list (compiled by the Official Calendar) of winning sires for the current .season, with £24.341, and Mr. Standfast is in second place with £ 15.553, Salmagundi is third with £*15.807, and Bulandshar next with £12.573. Then follow Man’s Pal £9530. Ringmaster £9lBO, Solicitor General £8957. Lord Qucx £7900, Broiefnrt £(5510. Hunting Song £oo’7B, Croupier £0075. Kincardine £5930, Surveyor £'5720, Paper Money £5002, Theio £.7215. Lang Bian £5989. and Leighton £4925.