JOTTINGS IN GENERAL

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 39, 16 February 1933, Page 8

JOTTINGS IN GENERAL

There ■ will, be racing rat ,r Wanganuij, Kiccarton,-and Invercargill;(.ClifienClub) on Saturday, also r. trotting :at Auckland. At all meetings, except possibly the Clifden, there will be win-and-place betting,' - The Pahiatu-.'''Racing Club has been' granted April '..s.and 6'for its postponed AnnualMeeting.-'•-.The Foxton Racing. Club-has. applied for May 10 and 11; for •its. postponed. meeting.'.;... i /•.; •* Jaloux raced: much below his best form in the Dunedin Jockey- Club ; Handicap on .Saturday. -At no stage was. he. near the leaders, and there was'only one horse behind him when the winning Ot>ost. was reached.' -.:' ... .-''-.. ■■'-~'P' r-■-'■ '■ ' Although ho..' official announcement _ias beep ~made^ yet, it is probable ■thaV the Oamaru Jockey/Club will adot-tlthe win-and-place, system .of betting for its twoday meeting, to be held next month.. The committee of the' South' Canterbury Jockey Club is considering, a - proposal; to; adopt- the; win-arid-place - system of betting ■/ for its Autumn Meeting. Several officials of the club have .'arranged to be at Riccartbn on Saturday;:. after which, the subject will, be considered. ' _ Hark' ForrardJ who was due to' have raced in the Juvenile Handicap at Wanganui, today, is the two-year-old fullsister to View Halloo, being :by Hunting Song from the Hallowmas mare1 Haligdn, a close relative,'.-to Reremoana/ Lady Cavendish, etc. She was bred by Mr.-C. R. Standfield, of/ Dannevirke, and races^ in the. colours of Mr. H. V. Wilton,'of; Feilding, who trains her himself. Palermo was responsible- for a,.good performance in the • Publicans'. Handicap: on .the first,day at Wingatui. but he did; not repeat.it last Saturday; He was well' placed, in ..the .early part of Saturday's; race, but he. started to drift back when; the straight wa£ reached. Provided, he; remains' sound, 'however,; he should win a race at rone of. the 'southern meetings; later in the; season. : '.-' ; ' ; . . • The Dunedin Cup, which he won with Silver .Scorn last week, is a race in which G.: Murray Aynsley has an excellent record. He trained Stepdancer when she won' the race in 1900 and :1907, and he also trained the 1009 winner, Prim. Sixyears later ho saddled up another winner in Warstep, a daughter of Stepdanctr, and still another twelve years on he produced his fifth winner in Warstep' s sou, Footfall. All these earlier successes were for Mr. C. Gr. Dalgety.