JOTTINGS IN GENERAL

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 37, 14 February 1933, Page 4

JOTTINGS IN GENERAL

\'a The Stratford Racing Club has been: granted a permit to hold an extra day's racing on Saturday, April 1. The Carterton. Racing Club, which recently applied for Saturday, May 27, for an extra day's racing, has been advised that this date has been allotted to the Woodville District Jockey Club as an extra day. Thiß date was the one relinquished by the Waiapu Racing Club. The Carterton Club has now applied for an extra day's racing_on April 29. Three of the four meetings that applied the win-and-place system of betting last week recorded increased turnovers. At the other (Poverty Bay) the test was not a good one, as the fields were so small as to provide only two three-place fields in the two'days' racing. The public had a great innings at the Marlborough Trotting Club's Meeting last Friday,'for the whole programme of seven races was won by the respective favourites. The rim continued at the gallops, where all four trotting events went to the favourites:y:;■:. i'"-?v".■'...-,- . . ~-'; ■Althoughtuere was a decline of £1109 in the .turnover .at" the. MJarlb,orougllt<Racing Chub's:Me'etirig'last week, the club anticipates that it. will be about able to balance expenses.' Still this will not'provide the club with anything towards its general annual expenses. Starring prices of winners at" a recent meeting at Nice (France) were 22 to 10, 73 to 10, 34' to. 10, and 72 to 10. Take .some working out in the case. of small punters..- ; . ■— A. E. Ellis "is usually a cautious and careful* rider, but'he erred in the Jockey Club Handicap at Dunedin on Saturday ■m- bringing: his mount, Cricket Bat, too sharply across Red Racer at the: straight entrance.. As a result he is standing down for a month under suspension. Racing for the remainder •of this week will beheld by.the Tolaga Bay (Thursday), Wanganui (Thursday and Saturday), Chfden (Saturday), and Canterbury (Saturday) Clubs. There will be trotting at Auckland on Saturday and Wednesday week; also two items at Clifden. ■ Report, from the south states that Desert Song has been taken in iand again by T. Lloyd. He has been off the scene since last JMarch, and some time -will elapse before he is ready to race, but he looks in good health to start a preparation. ' The two-year-old brother to Red Heckle is making excellent progress at Ricearton. He is a good-looking colt, who moves freely in his work, and he may develop into a horse of more, than average class when he has had some racing. The three-year-old Rebel Song has been going on .well since he resumed work at Riccarton. He has a fine turn of speed, and there is no reason why he should not stay. He will be in action this week in the Trial Stakes, but he may not be; sufficiently forward yet to show his real form. :>,<-.- ; Silver Scorn.belongs to one of the most' prolific taproots of winners that can be found in the .New Zealand Stud Book. She traces to: Manto, and her tribe includes such, winners as Altair, Bloodshot, Cuirass sier, Day Star, , Disowned, ■ Euroelydonj Eotjl- Play, ..Havoc, -Trenton, Vladimir,; Zahnsln, Sant;; Ilario, Nonsense, and Niagara; -Therei-are some good and bad! branches family tree, and Silver Scorn represents the best' limb of; a wide-spreading tree. :