RACING NOTES

Evening Star, Issue 22445, 16 September 1936, Page 6

RACING NOTES

[By Sx. Clair.]

RACING. September 19.—Ashburton County R.C. September 19— Foxton Racing Club. September 19, 21.—Avondale J.C. September 24, 26.—Geraldine Racing C. September 96. —Marton Jockey Club. September 26.—Napier R.C. October 3. —Kurow J.C. October 3.—Otaki Maori Racing Club. October 3, s.—Taumarunui Racing .Club, October 10.—Dannevirko Racing Club (at Waipukurau). „. , October 10, 12.—Auckland Racing Club. October 16, 17.—Masterton Racing Club. October 17—South Canterbury Jockey Club. October 17, 19.—Dargaville Racing Club (at Avondale). October 22, 24. 26.—Wellington Racing Club. October 24, 26.—Gore Racing Club. October 26.—Waverley Racing Club. October 26.—Waipawa County Racing Club (at Hastings).

JOTTINGS Nominations for the Dunedin Spring Meeting close on Friday, at 5 p.m. . Nomination for the Auckland Racing Club’s Spring Meeting and first forfeits for the Great Northern Guineas and Welcome Stakes close on Friday, at 5 p.m. The Cattle Flat (Eiversdale) Hack Racing Club, which holds its annual race meeting during the Christmas week, will give £llO in stakes this year. The betting at Ashburton on Saturday will be win and place, and backers will be able to purchase both win and place tickets at the same window, i According to the northern papers Musquil was not an acceptor for the Avondale Cup, nor Mountain Breeze, Carlisle, and Red Flame for the Henderson Handicap. The suspension for one month imposed on Darby Munro at llandvvick on Saturday will prevent him from riding Talking in the A.J.C, Derby. The Vincent Jockey Club is proceeding with the making of a grass training track, and recently called tenders for 420yds of loam for topdressing purposes.

The Ashburton Racing Club has received satisfactory acceptances for its spring meeting to he held on Saturday. Owing to Southdown and Cleaner being bracketed in the Ashburton Handicap there will be only one dividend declared in that race. Brevity, who is engaged in the hurdle race at Ashburton, has been schooling well at Riccarton. Brevity is a four-year-old gelding by Roydon from Hope, a mare by Markhope from Nithsevo, who also produced Charleville, the dam of Windbag. It is stated by a Wellington paper that the delay in getting the races off to time at Hiitt Park on Saturday was chiefly caused by punters patronising the main totalisator building, which was unable to cope with the money offering. Three-year-old's claiming engagement in the Dunedin Guineas who are engaged at the Ashburton and, Geraldine Meetings include Paper Slipper, Fog Peak, Pelmet, Double Gift, Darien, Epic, Lord Byron, Golden Emblem, Sir Hugh, Stolen March, and Thermidor. The colt for which the Hon., Dorothy Paget recently paid 15,000 gs is a halfbrother to Orwell, who as a two-year-old raced, as the Golden Hair colt and won £18,614 that season. He won the Two Thousand Guineas Stake next year, but failed in the Derby, in which he started an odds-on favourite. The retailers in Gore have observed the Wednesday half-holiday for over 30 years, but with the new labour regulations have recently, decided in favour of Saturday. This is the reason of the Gore Racing Club changing the dates of its spring meeting to be held next month to Saturday and Monday. The change should not adversely affect owners. Kingcraft has a record of 4min 19 3-ssec, and to his credit he Las a victory in a division of the New Zealand Cup, in which he started from a, 4min 26seo mark. Even with his win on Saturday Kingcraft will have to win again over two miles before he again becomes eligible for a, race in which be has started several times. Riding engagements as follow have been made for Saturday’s programme at Ashburton:—A. Parsons, Cape Gabo, Heather Land, Tout le Monde, Invoice, Bellerive; A. Messervy, Culotte, Pelmet; C. Wilson, Screamer, Aggravate, Sir Hugh, Gaysome; J. Cotton, Tunneller; G. Ridgway, Brevity; T. Turner, Wexford Bridge; C. Hughes, Redolent. The many important successes registered by the progeny of Chief Ruler accentuates the fact that the Dominion lost a high-class sire when The Tetrarch’s son died two years ago. The winnings of Chief Ruler’s progeny from the season 1927-28 to that of 1935-36 amounted to £131,664, made up as follows:—New Zealand, £99,036; Australia. £32,628. The Gore Racing Club made the change over from October 26 and 27 to October 24 and 26 without any confusing alteration to the programme. The programme as issued will stand with the exception that the first day’s events will be run on Saturday, October 24. and the second day’s events on Monday, October 26. At the annual meeting of the South Canterbury Jockey Club members adopted a recommendation to the committee in favour of the win-and-place system of betting. It was thought that this would entail structural alterations to tho totalisator house if both inside snd outside enclosures were to be adequately provided for., but Mr W. ,F. James, who paid a visit to tho course at the end of last week to confer with the Ground Committee, reported that the change could be effected at small cost. A decision on the form of betting to be used at the spring meeting will be arrived at this week.

October 26.—North Canterbury Jockey Club. October 26.—Waikato Hunt Club. October 29, 31.—Poverty Bay Turf Club. October 31.—Banka Peninsula Racing Club. October 31.—Rangitikei Racing Club. November 5, 7—Whangarei Racing Club. November 7.—Hawke’s Bay Racing Club. November 7,9, 11, 14.—Canterbury Jockey Club.

TROTTING. October 3. —Methven T.C.: October 10.—New Brighton T.C. October 17. —Waikato T.C. October 24, 26.—Auckland T.C. October 24, 26.—Greymouth T.C. October 26. Manawatu T.C. October 26.—Oamaru T.C. October 31.—Wellington T.C. November 10, 12, 13.—N.J5. Metropolitan T.C. November 26, 28.—Forbury Park T.C.

The principal meeting in the Sydney area this wee/k will be held at Rosehill. The programme includes the Guineas (nine furlongs) and the Hill Stakes (one mile). This is the last fixture, of importance prior to the A.J.C. Spring Meeting, which, will commence a fortnight later. Southern Chief’s third at New Brighton, where he defeated Frisco Boy, has reinstated the Southland three-year-old in public regard, and he is now looked upon as the probable favourite for the Trotting Derby, tie will make his next appearance at Methven at the beginning of October. The Trotting Gup will be restricted to horses “assessed at” 4.26 or faster, but all other races at the meeting will be open to horses that ‘ can do ” the limits specified. The lastnamed condition may result in oversize fields in the Louisson Memorial (4.-7) and Ollivier Memorial (4.26) on subsequent days. E. Peck, who recently arrived from Perth to do the riding for Mr G. M. Currie, was having his first experience of New Zealand racing at Wanganui on Saturday. He commenced the day with a win on Icing in the Debutante Stakes, and a very pleasing feature was the way the New Zealand horsemen crowded round him in the jockeys room and offered their congratulations. Later in the afternoon Peck had a fall when his mount, Spiral, got on to the heels of another horse, but fie escaped with only a shaking. In answer to a. correspondent, when Gloaming won the Chelinslord Stakes he was able to claim the full allowance as a maiden performer, and he beat the English-bred Rebus by eight lengths.' In his next two starts in this race ho wad beaten first by Beauford and then by Heroic. After winning the Chelmsford Stakes as a three-year-old Gloaming’s next start was in the A.J.C. Derby, which he also won. Boomerang, who disappointed backers at the recent Wanganui Meeting, is a beautifully bred horse, and likely to do much better later on in the season. He is by Iliad from Graciosa, an imported mare, and one of the best of her sex at the Elderslie Stud., She is by Gay Crusader from Mistrelja, by Cyllene. Graciosa was a half-sister to the Oaks winner, Beam, and to Trnnestral, dam of the Ascot Gold Cup winners, Trindon and Foxhunter. Gay Crusader won a war-time triple crown ” and Iliad was narrowly beaten by Blenheim in the Derby, so there is no lack of stoutness and bn.hancy in this breeding. Ho is one of the strong team of four-year-olds engaged in this year’s New Zealand Cup. The Surgeon, who is top weight, 9.0, in the Ashburton Handicap to be run on Saturday, is now seven years old, and is also engaged in the New Zealand Cup. He is by Shambles from Sweet Charity, a mare bred in England, by Diadumenos from Maundy Thursday, by Symington from Maund, by Tarporley. There is a great combination of speed and sprinting ability in this breeding. Diadumenos was very fast, and brother to the brilliant Diadem, and haltbrother to Diophon. Maimdy Thursday was a' sister to Scotch Gift, the dam of Tetratema, one of the fastest sprinters of the present century. The Surgeon is a half-brother to Knighthke and to Clemency, dam of Kindheart. The Surgeon was, a gift horse to his present owner-trainer,, and is one of the very few horses trained on the Asnburton. course. The following letter, signed “ Streamline,” appeared m the Southland Times ’ of September 15. 18861 notice in the programme of the Winton races that it is the intention of the Winton Jockey Club to race under thenown rules. If they adhere to this they are making a great mistake, for under the new rules of racing adopted by the Dunedin and other jockey clubs of Otago any horses running at any such race meeting will he permanently disqualified from running at meetings where the new racing rules are in force. Now, I think this is sufficient to induce the Winton J.C. to send their programme to the Dunedin J.C. to bo passed according to tho new rules of racing. I understand that all other clubs have adopted these rules, which will be the means of making racing what it should be—straightgoing and no ‘ Johnny Armstrong ’ in the business. Though Gold Rod keeps on winning on the Sydney courses there are still good judges of racing who maintain that he will not stay. He has so far done all that has been asked of him, and his rider, tho experienced Maurice M'Carten, appears to have no doubts regarding his stamina. . Mala’s strong finishing run in the Chelmsford Stakes on Saturday denotes stamina, and Gustos, oh his breeding, is likely to bo seen to better advantage over a mile and a-half than the distance he has been racing over to date. Talking is unquestionably a high-class colt, and Limond Lad’s return to form by winning the Adelaide Guineas brings him into the picture again. It is a long time since there were so many proved three-year-olds racing in Australia, and, the winners of tho A.J.C. and Victoria Derbies will have a lot to recommend them. Deficit’s win in the Guineas was a mild surprise, but ho won well on the day, staying the journey much better than more fancied opponents (says the ‘ Dominion ’). Deficit was always well placed in behind the pacemakers, Laughing Lass and Karl, with Gallic handy on the outer of Deficit. The others were strung out behind. There was no change in the order all the way. but on tho turn Brazen King, who had been well back in second last place, began to move up. Laughing Lass and Karl led Deficit into the straight, with Deficit going exceptionally well. It was obvious he would win if he could get a go, and as soon as they straightened up he ran to the front and won

comfortably from Laughing Lass, who kop'. her head in front of Karl. Brazen King was only another head away. Dawning Light and Gallio were next. The feature of the race was that it saw only hack class to the fore, both winner and runner-up being beaten in that class on Thursday. Yet they both beat the open sprint winner, Karl. The form did not look good class. Brazen King was chopped out soon after the start. There is no doubt he was unlucky. Gallio improved, and ran with the winner all the way to halfway round the turn, when he began to weaken. He is not nearly ready, but tho two races at Wanganui will bring him on