RACING NOTES

Evening Star, Issue 21743, 11 June 1934, Page 10

RACING NOTES

RACING. Jua* 14, 16.—Hawke’s Bay J.C. June 16. -South Canterbury J.C. June 21, 23.— Napier Park R.C. ■June 23. Ashburton C.E.C. June 30. —Oamaru J.C. July 8. —Dannerirke Hunt Club. July 10, 12, 14.—-Wellington R.C. JOTTINGS, Acceptances for the South Canterbury Meeting to Be held next Saturday close to-morrow at 8 p.m. ■ Nominations for the Oamaru Jockey Olub’s Meeting to be held on June 30, close on Wednesday at 8 p.m. The meeting held at Greymouth on Saturday was an extra fixture made available to that club by the Masterton Club not using one of its permits this season. His many friends will regret to learn that W. J- Tomkinson is seriously ill, and .will have to undergo an operation in a private hospital in Christchurch this week. Messrs J. Richardson, and G. J. Barton weire present representing the Forhury Park Trotting Club at the Ashburton Meeting on Saturday. Mr G. Aitcheson, of Hlllgrove, was also present to see his horse, Prairie King, win the concluding event. The total value of the stakes for which entries closed in Australia last Tuesday was. £105,222, made up .as follows Victoria, £64,795; New South Wales, £31,012; Queensland, £4,250; South Australia, £3,215; Western Australia, £1,950. . The Grange Handicap, the principal race on the Oamaru Jockey Club’s programme to be decided this nionth, will be run over a mile, and carries £l4O as the stake. The mile and aquarter race bn the card is the Winter - Hack Handicap, which is endowed with £lls.

Light Brocade, winner of the Oaks States on Friday is a brown filly by Galloper Light from Trilogy, and finished second to Campanula in the One Thousand Guineas Stakes. She is owned by Lord Durham, who also won this race in 1927 with Beam. As a two-year-old Light Brocade won three times out of fou,r starts.

vOamaru is credited with having the best winter climate in the dominion, find this winter the North Otago district has certainly missed a great deal of the bad weather experienced at other centres .in the South Island. The result is certainly reflected in the state of the Oamaru course and training tracks, which at the present time are in splendid order. Teviot Downs gave none of the others engaged in the Mayfield Handicap a chance over the last five furlongs on Saturday, and won easily under strong restraint. He skipped after about three furlongs had been covered, but E. Mitchell got him back to his gait very smartly, and his performance gained him many admirers. He looks as if he still has some seconds. in hand on his handicap mark. The Invercargill trainer, J. A. Rowland, leaves Wellington this week by the Monowai on a few weeks’, holiday in Australia. His .promising apprentice jockey, C. T. Wilson, goes to Australia on the same boat'under engagement to do the light riding for Mr W. T. Hazlett’s-team. Wilson will remain in Australia until after the Melbourne Ciip Meeting. Prairie King’s performance in winning the Winter Handicap on Saturday was a good. In the bad light in which the .race was run he appeared to lose his position racing for the home turn, then ho came again and scored by a short head from the ex-Balclutha-owned mare, War Paint. Prairie King, who cost his owner, Mr Gordon Aitclieson, £SOO about a month ago, -has now won two races and finished second once out of three starts, and must now be considered a good purchase. A remarkable incident during the running of the Great Northern Steeplechase, was related by Mr W. Rennie, rider of ’ Make TJp, to the ; ‘ Sun’s ’ Auckland correspondent at Ellerslie. Going up the hill, Rennie said, his mount suddenly i took off at an impossible distance from the obstacle, and just as he was wondering what would' happen next, the horses landed in front of the fence l and then jumped over-it like a stag. This is only the second time in his lengthy; riding career Rennie has known such a thing to aecur in a jumping race. His Highness the Maharajah of Rajpipla is very well known in English social circles, but he does not race on a very extensive scale, or at least not comparable to that of his compatriot, the Aga'l Khan, and Windsor Lad has raised him as a winning owner from comparative obscurity, also the stable of M. Marsh, who is the trainer, and jockey, C. Smirke, though Smirke was a leading-rider a few years ago. In fact, last season Windsor Lad was the only winner credited to this Indian potentate. - After an interval of twenty-six years open bookmaking has been legalised on racecourses in the State of New York,* and there is great rejoicing on the part of everybody connected with racing. In addition to' bookmakers : being debarred from doing cash business, there vai no totalisator in New York, and it was reckoned that unless betting on racecourses was given a legal status racing would descend to a low standard, if it did not go right out in that State within the next year or two. The socalled “oral” method of bookmaking did not give cash backers opportunity for betting, though those with good credit could do so on an extensive scale.

Though, the finish for the Sapling Stakes on Saturday afternoon was one of the best the race has ever produced, in one respect it was unsatisfactory, in the big field of seventeen two-year-olds all went away fairly well excepting the bracketed pair Gamble and Boltai're. Both of these failed to strike their gaits until the leaders had covered over a furlongs, and when they hit their straps Levity and Floodlight were over 100yds’ in front of them. Gamble put in great work from then on, and despite the big break to the leaders was flying at the finish and passed the post only three lengths behind the third horse and well within four lengths 'of the winner. He is a very fine-looking colt by Jack Potts from Princess Ann, and on Saturday’s performance one of the most promising young paoera produced for some years.. Moana Tama, winner of the Sapling Stakes on Saturday, is well bred for stamina. By Nelson Derby, his dam Thelma Wrack is by Wrack from Joy Bells by Cathedral Chimes from Marie Lloyd, by Pctereta from Marie Corelli, by Wildwood from Thelma, by Kentucky. He is a sturdily-built colt, and owed his success on Saturday to garneness. As the field turned into the straight the leaders ran wide, their drivers probably looking ,for sounder and less cut up going than the track provided near the rails. At this stage the winner was not in the first five. His driver kept him on the rails all the way down the straight, and finishing very doggedly as he did at Timaru a fortnight earlier he just got up to win

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July 21. —Hawke’* Bay Hunt Clak. July 26.—Waimate Hunk Club. July 28.—South Canterbury J.C. July 28.—Manawatu R.C. TROTTING. Juno 20, 23.—Auckland T.C. June 24.—Hawke’s Bay T.C. by a neck from Subsidy, who had had a keen struggle with Ironside over the last hundred yards. The latter did not appear to be handled as well as the other two over the first furlong, and, like the winner, had a good deal of leeway to make up over the last two furlongs. Subsidy is by Rey de Oro, and Ironside by Wrack. The breeding of Resplendent, dam of Windsor Lad, is interesting to New Zealanders. She was bred in 1923 -by By George from Sunbridge, by Bridge of Barn, from Sunshot, by Carbine. Mr D. Sullivan, owner of Resplendent, figures as the breeder of Windsor Lad, whom ho sold privately as a yearling to H.H. Maharajah of Rajbipla, who is a newcomer to English racing. His record for last season was two wins worth £976, one of the successes being gained by Windsor Lad, who won his last of three races as a two-year-old at Newmarket in October. Windsor Lad first came iqto serious discussion as a Derby candidate when he won the Newmarket Stakes on May 16. A London daily, in referring to this win as very impressive, said that if Colombo met the same fate as the hot favourite Orwell did two years ago, Windsor Lad might be victorious. Windsor Lad, who is trained by R. Marsh, is entered for the St. Leger Stakes to be run in September. ■ The Derby winner, Windsor Lad, was bred by Mr D. Sullivan, and was purchased at the yearling-sales by the Maharajah for 1,300g5. He is by the Irish horse Blandford (a son of Swynford), who leapt into prominence as the sire, of the Derby winners, Trigo and Blenheim, in successive years—--1929 and 1930. Blandford’s list has been full since 1928 at a fee of 400 gs. Windsor Lad is a member of No. 19 Bruce Lowe family, and colonials will be interested to note that Carbine is at the back of his maternal pedigree. His dam, Resplendent, is got by Our George, a: son of Lally (by Amphion) out of Queen’s Holiday, by Royal Hampton from Cimiez, by St. Simon from Antibes, by Isonomy. Resplendent’s dam is Sundridge, by Bridge ot Earn out of Sunshot, by Carbine from Stream of Gold, by St. Angelo. ,On both sides of the pedigree the great staying line of Isonomy is well represented. M. Marsh, the trainer of the Derby winner, has his .stable at West Jlsley, ! Berks, and the jockey, C. Smirke, whose first success it was in this great race, is attached to the stable of G. Duller at Aston Tirrold. Smirke was a prominent horseman some years ago, but he only recently resumed riding after a term of suspension. __________