SUCCESS ASSURED

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 227, 22 June 1944, Page 7

SUCCESS ASSURED

Good Entries For Trentham

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Entries for the Wellington Racing Club's winter meeting, to be held at Trentham on July S and 15, arc exceptionally good in view of the prevailing difficulties of travel. The aggregate for the two days is only 5-3 less than last year, an average of less than four a race below the IIH3 figures, and there is little doubt that there will be sufficient horses to make a good meeting, as the prizes on offer make it worth while for trainers to put an extra effort into getting their charges to Trentham. As usual the flat raws have drawn big entries, and there is no shortage of hack hurdlers and steeplechasers, but the open jumping races probably will be on the light side, as they have been at all the main meetings this season. Being Reserved. Notable absentees from the Wellington Steeplechase are Dozie Boy, winner of the Great Northern Steeplechase, and AngloFrench, who won the last Grand National Steeplechase. Both horses are being reserved for this year’s Grand National. Surpeen, who showed good placed form at the Auckland winter meeting, is another surprising absentee. In Big ’Chase. An unexpected entry for the Wellington Steeplechase is Town Survey. This is bls only engagement on the first day, and be has been entered for the Winter Hurdles on the second day, an event be won last year before going south to take the Grand National Hurdles. Town Survey has been schooled over country this season at Te Rapa. Wellington Weights. Handicaps for the first day of the Wei-' lington winter meeting are due to appear on Tuesday. In New Stable. The Wellington-owned Home Rule, who was unable to fulfil his engagements at the Manawatu meeting through injuring a knee, has joined up with A. M. Wright’s stable, and is to be educated for hurdle racing. Out to Spell. Broiefield has been turned out to spell and nothing more will be required of him till the spring. He was a winner of three races this season and was five times placed lu 11 starts. He is a big-framed horse who should do better with time, and may yet have his best form to show. Foxsen at Trentham. Foxsen, one of the early arrivals at Trentham for the winter meeting, is under the care of G. Jenkins, with whom she was left by R. H. Martin after the Auckland meeting. She was the unlucky runner-up in the Great Northern Hurdles, finishing second after striking the last fence heavily. She came through her Auckland racing splendidly and is in excellent condition. In Open Company. Victory Song, who has won at two of his three starts to date, is now out of hacks. Though he handles winter conditions well, like most of his breed, he is not to be raced again till the spring, but in the meantime is being kept in steady work. Good Type. Hastings track watchers speak well of the unraced two-year-old filly by Foxbridge from My Own who was bought by Mr. J. "Jameson, Masterton, at the IM3 national sales. She is in J. P. Ryan’s team, and has been given plenty of time to develop. She is a half-sister to Yours Truly, winner of the New Zealand Cup, and to Caithness, winner of the Oaks Stakes last spring. Rungitlkel Hunt, The Rangitikei and Manawatu Hunt Clubs will hold a combined race meeting at Marton on July 22. The programme provides for two events for qualified hunters, the Hunt Cup Steeplechase, worth £350, and a bracelet race on the flat for amateur riders. Record Cup Prize. The Pakuranga Hunt Club Cup Steeplechase, to be decided at Ellerslie In August, will be worth £lO5O. There is. little likelihood of a genuine hunter winning such a prize, as the value makes it worth while qualifying a steeplechaser, and it is easy to qualify these days as hunters’ certificates are granted and do not have to be earned in the hunting field. Out for the Season. The Dozer, who wag unable to compete at the Great Northern meeting on account of developing lameness, has been put out for the Remainder of the season. Plans for Sir Ringman. The state of the going wa a blamed for Sir Ringman’s failure at his only start at the Auckland winter meeting. It Is planned to race him at the Wellington and Canterbury meetings. Dresden China Colt.

The name Pallssy has been registered for .Mr. T. Fisher’s Robin Goodfellow — Dresden China colt. More than 300 names were submitted by “Dominion” readers, and Pallssy was suggested by four of them. Bernard Pallssy was a French potter who mastered the rudiments of peasant pottery, but suffered many failures in his endeavour to discover the secret of the rare enamelled Chinese pottery. It is said that at times he burned his furniture and the boards of his floors to keep his furnaces going while he was experimenting. He succeeded in making a type of pottery that will always be, associated with his name. Ills sons carried on his work after him and his methods ultimately spread throughout Europe.

Good Young Steeplechaser. i An Auckland writer states that it is probable that a less ambitious programme would have been planned for the steeplechaser Jehar.gir if he had been a thoroughly sound horse. He showed no ill effects from his efforts at Ellerslie where he won the steeplechase at the patriotic meeting, but one of his forelegs looked as though it had been weak previously. Jehangir, who has only to * train on to achieve further success, is engaged in the principal steeplechases at tho Wellington July meeting. Kindergarten Well. Tho latest news of the champion Kindergarten is that he is healthy and well at his quarters in Gisborne, having been kept in light exercise since returning home from Trentham. lie has been entered for the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups, and it is understood that shipping space null be available for the horse if his owner chooses to send him to Australia for the spring meetings. Virtuoso Coming In. The smart Vermeer colt. Virtuoso, who has been out of training for more than a vear is shortly to be put into work again at Hastings. He has not raced since lie won the Manawatu Sires’ Produce Stakes last year.

Sir Crusoe’s Sister. The rising two-year-old full sister to Sir Crusoe, bought at the national sales at Trentham in January by a Hutt sportsman for utldgns., has been put into work at Awapuni by A. W. McDonald, and is shaping up nicely.

Not Eligible. Being a five-year-old, Hula (liter, who has been entered for the Trial Plate at Trentham. is not eligible, tho race being for two and three-year-olds only-

Taranaki Hunt Venue. Mr. C. B. Webster was in Wellington tliis week and mentioned that owing to the transport restrictions there was littr likelihood of the combined race meeting of the Taranaki and Eginont-Wanganul Hunt Clubs being held nt New Plymouth this year, in which ease the meeting would again lie held at Hawefn. Mr. Webster added that there was every probability of Auckland and Waikato trainers using coastal steamer transport for the three-day circuit at New Plymouth and Stratford during tile Christmas and Mew Year holidays.

A Good Total. Arabian Knight's owner had to wait a long time for this horse to work his way out of hacks, but when he succeeded lie ran his stake winnings as a hack to more than £llOO. He had won less than L4OO prior to the Dunedin meeting, hut a win each day at that fixture gathered in another £BO9. Impressive Novice. Southern writers were impressed witu the maiden steeplechase performance ot Strip, who is one ot A. E. Dldhanr’s team now at Trentham preparing for the Wellington winter meeting. Strip has won '2O races, Including open handicaps, open sprints, and four hurdle races. He has also won th? only steeplechase he lias contested. He is by Valkyrian from Dismantle, by Tractor, so he has the breeding to make good over country, and those who witnessed his Wingatul .display have no doubt that he will do so. Answers to Inquiries. Walpukurau: Lightfair was scratched tor the Spitfire Hurdles at Mannwatu at 10.45 a.m. on the day of the race. “Smoky," Wellington: £B/18/-. “Redleap,” Poukawa. £3/18/-. “Interested," Lower Hutt: Sir Saladin ran .fourth In the Fighting Forces Handicap at Wingatui on June 10. “Wager." Wanganui: Arvaknr had 14 starts ami no wins, and Calorie. Bright Wings and protce>or did not race in the 1940-41 season. “Subscriber,” Marton: (1) The Great Northern Oaks, 1943, resulted: Merry May, 1; Alethea, 2; Te Hlnemoa, 3; Abbey Fox, 4. (2) Indian Princess was a starter and ran unplaced. (3) Alethea was favourite.-