RACING NOTES

Evening Star, Issue 22146, 28 September 1935, Page 13

RACING NOTES

RACING. September 30. —Taumarunui E.C.! (at Paerda). October 5. —Napier. Park R.C. October 5. —Kurow J.C. October 10, 12.—Dunedin J.C. October 12. — Dannevirko R.C. October 12, 14.—Auckland R.C. Octdber 18, 19.—Masterton R.C. October 19.—South Canterbury J.C. October 26, 28.—Wellington R.C. October 28.—North Canterbury R.C. October 28.—Waikato Hunt Club. October 28.—Waipawa County R.C. October 28.— Waverley R 0. October 28. 29.—Gore R.C.

JOTTINGS. Handicaps for the Kurow Meeting are due on Monday morning, and ceptances close at 8 p.m. on Tuesday. Blazon does hot appear to make niucli improvement, but any cnance bo miolit have had in the Belfield Handicap on Thursday was spoiled by the poor start made, as he was one of the worst sufferers. Horses from F. C. Dunleavey’s stable nominated for the New Brighton Meeting include Chiming Wrack, Grand Mogul, Teviot: Downs, Chancellor, Silk Bonny, Indianapolis, Wrecker, and Iraq. Handicaps for the first day of the Dunedin Spring Meeting are due on Monday, and acceptances and final payments for the M‘Lean Stakes and Dunedin Guineas close at 5 p.m, next Friday. > : . With the publication of handicaps oa Monday morning for the New .Zealand Cup interest will be stimulated in the big two-mile. race. The first acceptance is duo next Friday, Which will probably- reduce, the field considerably. Black Duke, who has not had a race for some time,- was going like a winner at Geraldine on Thursday- until the last stages of the journey were entered ton. A race or two should bring him back to form. 1 . Daring Deed lost some ground at the start of the Eaukapuka Handicap and then met -with a good deal of interference in the running. She was finishing on fast over the short straight, and should catch a race before long. Moheygran now- races in the colours of D.; Teahen, of Pleasant Point, who is known ter race-goers as a trainer and driver* in the light harness sport. Moneygran was. one of those badly left at the start of the Ruakapuka Handicap. ; C:,..;,,-.' - - Jack Ahoy is still growing, nml does not appear to be thriving under the racing he is getting. At Geraldine he looked much lighter in condition than 'when lie raced at the National Meeting, and requires a lot of building up before he is asked for more racing. . Guarantee looked big and as if he had not done a lot of work when he paraded for. the open sprint race at Geraldine on Thursday. • Both he and Penelppe, with whom-he was bracketed, were fa little slow ~to jump out, and with Tunneller whipped in the field all the way. Trishna is a hard horse to ride in a hurdle race, and at Geraldine on Thursday Turner had to ride him hard for over a mile. Trishna, who is owned by Mr G. Paul, who won the Hazlett Memorial w-ith Aussie, is pot engaged at the Dunedin Spring Meeting. Waltham started from the extreme outside of the field in the Ohapi Hack Handicap on Thursday'. He was not able to jump out with the smarter beginners in the rage, and was racing at the rear of the field all the way. The race, however, should smarten him up. Hunting Go was going well in thq Geraldine Cup until approaching the homo'turn. When Djdharn took him up between another horse and the rails Hunting Go appeared to falter, and he is evidently afraid of the rails since the fall he had at Riccarton last month. There was another had start at Geraldine- on'Thursday when the field was dispatched in the' Belfield Handicap, and Trivet, who was- backed down to a very short price, was one of those who Suffered. She'w-as never nearer the loaders than fifth, the position she occupied when the winning .post was passed.

[By St. Clair.]

TROTTING. October s.—Methvcn T.C. October 12.—New Brighton T.C. October 19, 20.—WJaikato T.C. October 26. 28.—Auckland T.C. Octobei 26. 28.—Grey mouth T.C. October 28. Oamaru T.C. October 28. Manawatu T.C. November 2.—Thames T.C. November 2. —Wellington T.C. November 12, 14, 15.—N.Z. Metropolitan T.C. November 28, 30. —Forbury Park T.C. December 7.—Te Aroha T.C. December 7.—New Brighton T.C.

Chrysology hit the initial hurdle at Geraldine on Thursday so hard that it prevented him from showing what he could do. In his schooling efforts Chrysology has Jumped very carefully, and he will require schooling with his best pace on to make a proficient hurdler. After the good exhibition he gave over a mile at Ashburton the previous Saturday, it was surprising to find Gold Cross so neglected in the betting b’n the Eaukapuka Handicap on Thursday. He had only- £2B invested on his chance, and returned the best secondhorse dividend of the afternoon. Tizzie looked a little on the light side when stripped for the Squatters’ Handicap on Thursday, and it w-as surprising to find such solid support forthcoming for her. She was close to the leaders for .half a mile, but then her condition gave out. ‘ The race was run at a very fast clip, and should do her good for the local meeting. Quite Soon, who is now trained by T. Hobbs at Oamaru, nearly effected a surprise in the Geraldine Cup, and the downfall of the favourite, Wino, was largely due to Quite Soon making him do his best over the last half-mile. There was only £46 10s invested on Quite Soon’s chance. The pace was on all the wav in the Geraldine Cup, and though Wino, was not allowed to get away from the field as he did at Ashburton the previous week, he was well beaten at the end of nine furlongs. It may he that the gruelling bo got at Ashburton got to the bottom of him for the time being. When Violenta won a double at the Waimate meeting last July she ran right away from Knockfin in the second race. Violenta was in receipt of 251 b, and appeared to have at least a stone in hand. In the Ohapi Handicap at Geraldine on Thursday there were no Knockfins in the field, and Violenta had uo difficulty in carrying 9st and being in front all the way. ■While the New Zealand contingent in Sydney has not been very successful so far this spring, it is a tribute to our horses that after first acceptances the top-weight in each of the big handicaps, Epsom and Metropolitan, should be a New Zealander. Silver Ring is nov No. 1 on the Epsom list, and Master Briefly is top-weight in the Metropolitan. The start Jor the Raukahuka Handicap on Thursday was a bad one in more ways than one. Quite a number of the horses did not start from their correct positions at the barrier, and when the tapes were released some of the riders were still manoeuvring -their horses. Eighteen horses is too large a number to bo started from the seven-furlong barrier at Geraldine, and in Thursday’s race most of the horses near the outside of the line-up were badly left. . A. E. Didham did not appear td have any trouble with Kinnoull at the start of the Squatters’ Handicap on Thursday. Once on the way Didham let him got well balanced before he commenced to drive him along. Directly he entered the straight Didham called on him for a run, and Kinnoull, responding well, won by a narrow margin from Bon Tray, to whom he was conceding two years and 1541 b. “Hus race will do Kinnoull an immense amount of good for his Dunedin Guineas engagement, and he promises to start a warm favour!' > in that race. Dodge, who was reported to have done a good gallop before leaving home, was supported very confidently for the Geraldine Cup, and registered a good performance to win. C. T, Wilson had him well placed throughout the race, but had to ride him very hard .over the last furlong to catch Quite Soon. Dodge is one of the mpst ini; proved horses in training at Wingatui

just now, and may yet be worth the big money paid for him (1,300g5) as a yearling by the late Mr Greenwood. He has been a cheap horse for Mr R. Meo, who secured him as a threc-ycar-old for 55 guineas. His Majesty’s colours were carried in three races at Ripon on August 6, and to the delight of loyal Yorkshiremen Currnghmorc and Nunnery proved successful. The third runner from Egertou House, Kitcat, finished second. Joe Childp rode the winners, who are both by the King’s stallion. Friar Marcus. When Nunnery completed the Royal double in the Claro Maiden Plate, few among the cheering crowd knew that it was a near thing about the two-year-old taking part in the race. On the way to the gate the filly coughed, and Childs telephoned from the starting post asking the stewards if the filly should bo withdrawn. The trainer, W. Jarvis, however, decided that she shohld run, and the stewards agreed. Nunnery was in the lead all the way, though closely pressed by two of her rivals to the distance, and won by half a length. Raider, Imin 594 sec, is the third two-minute pacer carrying a record better than 2min lOsec at the trot, according to the ‘ Horseman. He was the outstanding money winning three-year-old pacer of 1932, then following a year’s idleness, was a genuine star in 1934, the period which J - sulted in the greatest series of fast and brilliant contests ever staged among our foremost performers. He, very naturally, loomed up as one of the outstanding candidates for this season’s honours, but unfortunately while training in West Allis, Wisconsin, this spring, he became badly frightened at an excavating machine working at the Wisconsin State Fangrounds, and from that time on became practically unmanageable in the hopples. The resourcefulness of the M‘Kay brothers could not overcome his faults resulting from his scare, and inasmuch as he seemed unable to control his great flight of speed at the lateral gait, minus the hopples, it was decided to try him-at the trot. In his very first public effort for the money as a trotter he came through with a victory Tmd a record of 2mm ojsec early in August.