RACING NOTES

Evening Star, Issue 21750, 19 June 1934, Page 10

RACING NOTES

RACING. Ju»« 21. 25.—Napier Park K.C. Ju«* 23.—Ashburton C.R.C. June 30.—OamarU J.C. ' July 6.—Dannmrke Hunt Club. July 10, 12. 14.— WelliBSton R-C-, July 21. —Hawke’s Bay Hunt Cl«». July 21.—Franklin Racing Club. July 26.—Wairnato Hunt Club. July 28.—South Canterbury J.C. July 28. —Manawatu R.C. i—Season, 1934-35. — Augvai 4.—Poverty Bay Hunt Club. JOTTINGS, In reply to an inquiry the dates applied for for the New Zealand Cup . Meeting nest season are November J, •3, 7, and 10. The Melbourne Cup will bo run on November 6. In Victoria some of tfa’Q clubs new publish the draw for positrons at the barrier on the morning of the races. Horses for courses! So far all of Imperial Spear’s successes have been gained on the Washdyke course. Shining Gold (Arausio —Gold Light i, who now races in Mr F. Fort’s colours, won the Hospital Welter, carrying 8.4, at the Woodend Meeting. Starting a good favourite he just won by halt a a trotting meeting held in Melbourne early this month a winner retumed a dividend of £SB os 6d on fiveshilling tickets. „ , , Owing to the scarcity of horses and jockeys a race meeting at North Wangaratta (Victoria) early this month in aid of the hospital ended farcically, two of the six events having ’to b© abandoned, while the total number of starters in the other four was twelve. His present owner, Mr H., Kearns, is reported,to have secured Imperial Spear from Mr H. A. Knight at a cost of lOOgs. As a yearling Mr Knight gave 12ogs for him at the national yearling The Dunedin District Committee has £1 699 Os 9d in its distressed trainers and jockeys’ funds. On the interests these funds earned in the year ended May 31, 1933, the committee had to pay £l2 17a income tax. On June 2 at Flemington, a horse was hacked from 33 to 1 to 6 to 1 in one of the flat handicaps. Some of the bookmakers could not lay anything against him at th© ond. He won, and landed a great betting coup. “ Though Carbine was foaled so long ago as 1385—a matter of nearly half a century—and died in . June, 1914. his Uame appears as close_ up as the third generation in the pedigree of three ol the six winners at Flemington on Juno 2.” —Melbourne ‘ Leader.’ Th© Ascot Gold Cup, which promises to be a great international race this vear, will be run next Thursday. The Italian champion, Crapom, and the Americans, Mate and Gusto, are among the horees nominated to oppose Hyperion and other English stars. Passion Fruit, under 9.13. put up a rattling good performance in the hack sprint at the Hastings Meeting, being prominent all the way to finish fourth. It was his first race for six months, so he should improve from now on, and be about his best again for Wellington, as was the case last winter. With a prospect of big business in selling pacers and trotters to China, a well-known Australian horse dealer is endeavouring to corner the market, and will give anything for suitable sorts. This is part of a big move that is said to have been made to popularise t trotting in-Shanghai. One can insure against most things at Lloyd’s.A man. who hacked Colombo to win a lot of-money for the Derby insured the colt going,., to the post for the Epsom classic. He was-able to do so at the rate of 10 per cent. Another man who laid out a large sum of money on Golden ; Miller for the Grand National insured the horse at Lloyd’s against falling. Salaries paid to_ the office staff of the New Zealand Racing Conference during the year ended May 31 last totalled £2,082 Is Bd. Of that amount £582 Is 8d was charged to the general trust fund. £3OO to the apprentice jockeys’ fund, £6OO to the general account, £340 to the stipendiary stewards’ account, and £260 to the racecourse inspectors’ account. ,In connection with the paragraph published in this column last evening to the effect that Mr G. J, Barton had missed the nominations for the Australian engagements, Mr Hill, secretary to the Dunedin Jockey Club, informs me that that only referred to the Australian Jockey Club < fixtures. The nominations for the Victoria Racing Club were made through the Dunedin Jockey Club, which is an authorised agent of the latter body. Speakeasy, who was missing from his engagement at Washdyke on Saturday, owing to breaking down badly last , week, was slightly lame after jumping a round of the steeplechase fencep on Tuesday, and was given some easy ■work on Thursday. He had a decided limp when pulled up, and it is feared that the recurrence of his old trouble will keep him out of action for a while. There is ’ reasonable reluctance by the ’Racing Conference to grant training licenses to jockeys who are still regularly riding; but one can well understand why at present several hurdle horsemen are forced to try to , make ends meet by seeking spoh' licenses, for it is impossible for them to exist on one or two mounts a fortnight in the heart of their own special season. There is certainly a case why the winter minimum of 9.0 should be re-established. Tte control of racing in the dominion is so far as the stipendiary stewards and keeping the courses dear of undesirables during the year ended Mar 31 last cost in salaries and travelling expenses £3,786 16s 7d. The stipendiary stewards cost £1,876_ 13s .4d, deputies £3Ol 7s, and travelling, expenses. £561 Ds Sdj racecouse inspectors £2,407 10s. deputies £745 12s. travelling expenses £494 4s lid. The total salaries paid hy the conference last year was £6,813 .‘!s. Equipoise scored another win on May 5, when be captured the Dixie Handicap, one mile and three-sixteenths, at the Maryland Jockey Club’s Meeting. The race was worth £B3B to Equipoise, whose total stake winnings were thus increased to £66,592. Sun Beau, the world's greatest stake winner, won £75.354. According to American records, Phar Lap Won £66,450. ‘ Miller’s Guide ’ (Australia) gives the total of Phar Lap at £66,738. Equipoise holds engagements in many valuable ’ prizes in the next lew months. The ‘ Sydney Morning Herald,’ in reporting the return of Walla Walla and Auburn Lad, said they looked in splendid condition, despite their extensive travelling. Walla Walla was sent immediately to the stud of his owner, Mr L. S. Martin, at Dalton, and Auburn Lad is to be shipped to-day to Melbourne to Mr W. M*Kay. While in Nbw Zealand, Mr Martin secured three mares, wiheh have also boon sent to the Walla Walla stud. They are Grand Lady, a bay mare, aged, by Nelson Bingen from Lady Ellwood : Modern Girl, a hay mare, aged, by Guy Parrish from Swift: and an unnamed chestnut two-year-old filly, by Jack Potts from Wharepiana..

[By Sr. Claik.]

August 4. —Christchurch Hunt Club. August 14. 16, 18.—C.J.C. Grand National Meeting. August 18.—Takuranga Hunt Club. August 18. —Egmont-Wanganui Hunt Club. September I.—Otago Hunt Club.

TROTTING. June 20, 23.—Auckland T.C. June 24. —Hawke’s Bay T.C. Dick Reynolds, the only trotter or pacer to join the two-minute ranks during 1933. is a 1.59{ pacer by Single G., I.SBJ. lie is the first of his speedy sire’s get to gain fame, and as a two-year-old trotted to a record of 2.51, in 1930. In his next year he showed an inclination to adopt his sire’s pacing gait, and as a four-year-old took a pacing record of 2.1 i; His 1.09 i was put up in a race. It is interesting to note that his dam, Etabella, 2.51, was got by Etawah, 2.3, the great stallion figuring as the sire of Peterwah, who won a two-mile race in the dominion in 4min 24sec against pacers. Great Star reeled off a most creditable performance in filling second place to Mobile in the concluding event at 'Washdyke on Saturday, as he encountered trouble during the middle stages of the race which forced him from one of the leading positions to a rear berth, and he had a good deal of leeway to make up entering the straight. This form promised well tor other engagements near at hand, but unfortunately lie received a cut on one of his hocks which may necessitate another rest. Great Star has been a most unlucky horse this season, as at nearly every meeting he has attended has suffered an injury of some kind. The decision to destroy the great sire Magpie, which was given effect to on •June 6, was reached to save the horse further suffering. A few months ago Magpie’s front feet commenced to trouble him. Although he was shod with bar shoes to take the weight from the soles of his feet, and rubber was fitted into the feet to relieve the pressure, and he was only allowed to walk on straw or sand, the coffin bone continued to descend until it caused a displacement of the soles of the feet. The result was that the only relief Magpie got was when he was lying down,# and even then Mr B. Riddle, manager of the Kia Ora stud, was of the opinion that the feet ached. Magpie was buried on a hill overlooking the stud, and a tombstone will be erected to his memory. Figures now available show that his stock up to April 30 of this year had won £263,365. Ronald J. Parquharson, a well-known English trainer, died at the wheel of his car while motoring from Tilshead to London on April 30. He was seventynine years of age,; Three days earlier ’he had saddled up two winners at Sandown Park. For many years he was a tea planter on a large scale in Ceylon, where he owned a number of horses and rode as an amateur both there and in India. Returning to England in 1906, he began training at Tilshead, owning a number 1 of horses in partnership with the late Lord Westbury. Among the horses he had brought with him were the Australian Dalkeith and the New Zealander Nightfall. . The latter, winner of the New Zealand Derby and St. Leger, was one of that famous team which R. J. Mason took to Rand wick for Mr G. G. Stead in the spring of 1905, when New Zealand nearly scooped the pool. Nightfall’s share in that Australian debacle comprised wins in the Squatters’ Handicap and Randwick Plate.