RACING NOTES

Evening Star, Issue 21746, 14 June 1934, Page 5

RACING NOTES

RACING. June 16.—Hawke’s Bay J.C. Ju»» 16.—South Canterbury J.C. I Jua* 21, 23.—Napier Park R.C. j Jua* 23.—Ashburton C.R.C. j Ju«« 30.—Oamaru J.C. 1 July 6.—Dannerirke Hunt Club. 1 July 10, 12, 14.—Wellington R.C. | July 21.—Hawke’s Bay Hunt Club. July 26.—Waimate Hunt Club. July 28.—South Canterbury J.C. July 28.—Manawatu R.C. TOTALISATOR INVESTMENTS. During the first nine months of the present racing and trotting season,- to the end of April, 263 days racing had been held, as compared with 255 during the corresponding period last season. Stakes amounted to £276,932, as against £256,004, an increase of £20,928, and totalisator investments £3,421,515, as compared with £3,007,633, the increase being £413,892. During April this year the stakes given amounted to only £32,601, as compared with £41,097 in April, 1933. and totalisator investments fell from £483,538 to £373,629. Taxation for April amounted to £34,781, as compared with £42,537 for the same month the previous year, but for the first nine months of this season clubs have paid £287,114, as against £264,628 in the corresponding period last year. The total stakes given by racing and trotting clubs in the season 1932-33 were £312,788, as compared with £276,932 given in the first nine months of this season, and the totalisator investments were £3,678,251, as compared with £3,241,313 this season. From these figures it looks as if -the present season’s figures will show a' marked increase oh last year’s stakes and totalisator investments. Of the totalisator investments for the nine months of this season £273,661 was retained by clubs, and £20,577 as unpaid fractions, as compared with £255,646 and £20,210 respectively last year. JOTTINGS. “ Point Duty.”—£7 15s. Waterpower, Davolo, and Silver Sight are the ruling favourites for the Prince Edward Handicap on Saturday. Both Black Duke and Umtah, wno are engaged at the South Canterbury Meeting on Saturday, were sent north early in the week to finish their preparations. , • The Lexington ‘ Thoroughbred Record ’ says that when the Crawford Bill, legalising bookmakers, recently became law it enhanced the value of yearlings at least 50 per cent. For the sake of Ameriuean breeders it is to he hoped that idea proves correct. Up to the middle of April there were 1,369 racehorses in training in Germany, the majority being in charge of trainers located at Berlin-Hoppegarten, which, is Germany’s racing headquarters. . The California Horse Racing Board has decided that an apprentice rider shall keep his apprentice allowance for one year following the date of riding his first winner. . In the State of New York an apprentice loses his allowance after riding forty winners. Prior to leaving _ Invercargill on a health recruiting trip to Australia, J. 0. Rowland was the recipient of a subscribed testimonial from his friends and fellow trainers in Otago and Southland. It is stated by the Timaru ‘ Herald ’ that Thelma Wrick, dam of the New Zealand Sapling Stakes winner, Moana Tama, was at one time sold for 2gs when in foal to Nelson Derby, and the foal, Saturday’s successful youngster, cost his present owner, Mrs G. Bins, of Christchurch,, only lOgs. M. B. Edwards has decided to give Gamble a spell for a few weeks, after which the colt will be put into steady work in view of contesting the New Zealand Derby at Addington in November. Gamble has had just enough experience to fit him for his three-year-old racing, and a spell at this period will do him a world of good. The nominations received for the Oamaru Meeting, to be held at the end of this month, and which will conclude both the racing and trotting seasons in so far as the Otago district is concerned, are very satisfactory. Handicaps will not appear until the Monday after the Ashburton Meeting, and acceptances close the following evening. Qver the hurdles, as well as on the flat, time records continue to improve. At Flemington on June 2 Sarokos and Nyerimilang were both inside the previous two miles hurdle record for that course. Sarokos, in doing 3.36 i, reduced the previous best by a quarter of a second, and he,defeated Nyerimilang by only a head. Wingatui presents a deserted appearance at the present time, very few horses being worked. S. G. Ware, with his team, is now located at Washdyke, and it will depend on how the three rising two-yeaf-olds, purchased by Mr Barton at the last yearling sales, shape during ' the next few weeks whether he makes a trip to Sydney in the early spring. Minerva], who has been idle since the Summer Meeting at EHerslie, where he won the Auckland Cup, is in good health after his spell, and F. Holmes hopes to have him in work again before the end of this month. He has been nominated for the four Cup races in Victoria, and he may make a trip to Melbourne in tbe spring, provided he goes on all right in his training. A new pool has been created by the English Racecourse Betting ■ Control Board. Where there are seven or more starters 60 per cent, of the pool is to be allocated to backers of the winning horse, and 20 per cent, each to the second and third. If there are five or six starters the allocation will be 70 per cent, to the winner and 30 per, cent, to the runner-up. The pool will not be operated when there are fewer than five runners. Tickets will be ss. The stock of Boniform have now passed from tbe active stage, bnt he was represented by a double winner in Perth at tbe Winter Meeting of the W.A.T.C. on June 2 and 4. Bondi, a ton-year-old gelding out of Secret Link, tbe dam of Silver lank, won the first division- of the Stirling Handicap, one mile, on the opening day; arid on the second day won the Penguin Welter over the same distance. The track was heavy, a condition which suited most of the Boniforms.

In connection with the complaint received in connection with collectors annoying patrons of the Dunedin Jockey Club’s recent winter meeting, it has been surprising to many racegoers that clubs have not taken action before this. Most of these collectors seen on racecourses are soliciting funds for an organisation strougly opposed to racing, and if at any time a referendum was taken on the totalisator they would be very strong opponents to its retention. Patrons of racing will welcome the decision of the committee to prevent a continuance of this nuisance in the future.

[By St. Clad*.]

—Season 1934-35. August 4. —Poverty Bay Hunt Club. August 4.—Christchurch Hunt Club. ■ August 14. 16, 18.—C.J.C. Grand National Meeting. August 18.—Pakuranga Hunt Club. August 18.—Egmont-Wauganui Hunt Club, September I.—Otago Hunt Club. TROTTING. June 20, 23.—Auckland T.C. Jane 24.—Hawke's Bay T.C. Southdown is being kept busy, and he looks in excellent health to start on a. preparation for spring engagements. Mr J. M. Samson wished to have him nominated for the Melbourne Cup, but A. M'Aulay persuaded him against this programme. Southdown may never be more than a middle-distance horse, but at a mile he is above the average, with prosjxects of being very good next season, provided nothing goes wrong with him. Mr Samson had his way over starting Southdown in the New Zealand Cup, and it took the gelding a long time to get over that race. The hurdle race at Foxton ou Saturday effectively disposed of the prospects of Aurora Borealis, as she pulled up and walked away very lame. Since she last raced she has been to the stud and has had a foal, so that in commencing racing again she was at an unusual disadvantage. It was reported that she had done a good deal of work in private, and when paraded she looked well enough, but she was never prominent in running, and the lameness suggests that we have seen the last of this fine little mare. There was some interesting galloping at Ricearton on Tuesday morning (reports the ‘ Press ’)'. Davolo and Great Star were resporisibJe for a smart effort over five furlongs, occupying Imin 4 1-Ssec. Rebel Chief ran six furlongs in Imin 25 l-ssec, the last half in 54sec. Re is likely to lose his maiden status at Washdyke, where he will be ridden by H. Mackinnon. Final Shot and Sibella were practically abreast thx-oughout a seven-furlong task in Imin 34sec, the last half in 54. 3-ssec. The former went very well, and should show up at Washdyke. Vintage was given his first sprint since being recommissioned and covered half a mile in fair time. He looks in advanced condition, and was evidently not idle during his holiday. Martian Chief gave Hostile and Top Rank a good break over the. early stages of a six-furlong gallop, but finished on their heels in Imin 21sec, the last half in 54sec. Doiran strode over five furlongs in Imin Bsec. He looks well and may do better after his recent spell. At Ricearton on Tuesday morning Thurina (D. O’Connor), Punchestown (H. Turner), and Advance Camp (G. Murfitt) set out to negotiate eight of the steeplechase -fences, commencing with the sod wall. They kept together till the fourth fence, at which Advance Camp ran off. The other two jumped the next two well, but both made slovenly efforts at the first of the stand double, and Thurina ran off at the second because of Punchestown boring in on him on landing. Advance Camp was taken back to’ the fence he missed and jumped it safely, and was then pulled up. Thurina’s display was quite pleasing, and it was not his fault that he evaded a fence. Punchestown made a marked improvement, and but his one mistake performed like a horse that had been at the gam© for a few years, instead of being a novice with only two schooling tasks over the' big obstacles. Thurina is not to go to Washdyke for Saturday’s engagement, but will race at Ashburton, where O’Connor will ride him. Punchestown will be an interesting contestant at Washdyke. Speakeasy (A. S. Ellis) negotiated six of the steeplechase fences, jumping cleanly but carefully. At a two-day picnic race meeting in New South Wales last month an amateur horseman, Mr Alex. Campbell, rode all five winners on the first day and the first three on • the second, making a sequence of eight. This is a record which has only been beaten once, though it has been equalled previously. In England last year the champion jockey, Gordon Richards, had an unbroken sequence of twelve victories. He rode all six winners at Chepstowe on the first day, and the first five on the second. The day prior to. Chepstowe races he rode the last winner at Nottingham, and thus established a record which surpasses by four any known riding feat. In America in 1906 a jockey named Walter Miller rode the last five winners on the first, day of a race meeting and the,first three on the second; and at Latonia, Kentucky, on October 16 and 17, 1923, Ivan Parke rode ten winners, eight in succession, equalling the record of Miller. These are the only instances of eight successive victories, and they stand next in order of merit to Richards’s great achievement; so that the performance of Mr Campbell is something for him to be proud of, as it has only been beaten once and equalled twice in the history of the turf.