RACING NOTES

Evening Star, Issue 22452, 24 September 1936, Page 8

RACING NOTES

RACING. September 26. —Geraldine R.C. September 26. —Marten Jockey Club, September 28. —Napier R.C. October 3. —Kurow J.O. October 3.—Otaki Maori Racing Club. October 3, s.—Taumarunui Racing Club (at Paeroa). October 8, 10.—Dunedin Jockey Club. October 10.—Dannevirke Racing Club (at Waipukurau). October 10, 12.—Auckland Racing Club. October IS, 17.— Masterton Racing Club. October 17.—South Canterbury Jockey (at Avoadale). October 22, 24, 26—Wellington Racing Club. . , October 2A, 26.— Gore Racing Club. October 26.— Waverley Racing Club. October 26.—Waipawa County Racing Club (at Ha»ting»). JOTTINGS

[By St. Clair.]

Amelila, who showed good form up to a mile ou several occasions last season, has rejoined F, W. Ellis’s stable. Golden Lap, who is engaged in the hurdle races to be decided at Wingatui next month, schooled well over four flights of hurdles at Invercargill on Monday. Accoi'ding to the Southland ‘ Times Horn’s Reef, who has been nominated for the New Zealand Cup, is backward in condition, and the present state ot the tracks is not assisting his trainer to get him ready for the big two-mile race which will be due in about sis weeks. Mr W T. Hazlett, president of the Southland Racing Club, left yesterday on a visit to Australia, where he still has a big team in training. Silver Choir, who claimed an engagement in the Dunedin Guineas next month, has been blistered and turned out for a short spell. This is bad luck for Mr W. Baird, as the Australianbred youngster was working well on the Invercargill tracks. Great Shot is reported to be showing good form in his work at Invercargill. Great Shot races best under a light scale of weights. He is not engaged at Wingatui next month. There is no doubt about Cleaner’s speed, but it is her inability to stay that troubles her in the distances she has been raced over lately. On Tuesday morning she sprinted three furlongs at Riccarton in 37sec. On Tuesday morning, at Riccarton, Polydora, with R. Beale in the saddle, gave a brilliant display over four flights of hurdles. This mare will not be raced at Geraldine this week, but will contest the Kurow Cup ou Saturday of next week. Racing in Australia on Saturday next will be held at Hawkesbury. a minor New South Wales fixture with a stake maximum of £l5O, and at Moonee Valley, where there is a £I,OOO steeplechase as the main event.

Capo Gabo was galloped on during his race at Ashburton last week and had to miss his engagements at the Geraldine fixture. Cape Gabo was not nominated for the local Spring Meeting. Wild Chase, who had to miss his Wanganui Guineas engagement owing to soreness, has made his reappearance on the training tracks at lliccarton. Should his trouble recur it is intended to put him out for an extended rest. Epic is nominated for the open sprint to be run at Geraldine on Saturday. At lliccarton on Tuesday mornhe ran six furlongs in Imin 16 2-ssoc, the last three in 38 4-ssec. Willie Win pulled up lame after working at lliccarton on luesday morning. He is reported to be suffering from splint trouble, and had to forgo his Geraldine engagements. Ocean Singer, who was one of the best hacks produced in Southland last season, is working well again on the Invercargill tracks. He should be a much improved horse this year, and will probably be seen in action at Gore next month. ■R. E. M'Lellan is working a goodlooking two-vear-old gelding by Balboa from Morse Signal at Invercargill. This youngster is closely related to both Signaller and The Smuggler, and is developing into a fine type. When -T. A. Hennah took Padishah, the half-brother to Cuddle, to Australia it was understood that he was destined for hurdle races in the Commonwealth but he has been racing on the flat and his nominations for the Randwick Spring Meeting are for flat events also, including the Kensington Handicap, 7f, on the first day. Hennah is superintending the work of the Sydney trainer, F. Williams, who has had a severe illness. The following nominations have been received for the principal race to be decided at New Brighton on October 10; Walter Thompson Handicap. .‘iOOsovs. 4min 36scc • class. 2m.—Cliechahco, Agile, Subsidy, Noble Prince, Morello, Avernus, Village Guy, Mario Celeste, Giro, Pot Luck, Reporter, Nobleman, Plain Pearl, Rongomai, Isabel Derby, Golden Cross. Aristotle, Arachne, Golden Direct. An unusually large number of borses have been engaged in two or more races at the Kurow Meeting, to be held on Saturday of next week. Ada, Royal Gallant. Silver Jest, Polygraph, Toreador, Brevity, Rousseau, llytlua, Lord Byron, Red Dragon. Isadore, Dracula, Stratosphere, Pink Paper, Silver Lark, Silver Slipper, and Pharaoh have each been nominated for two races, and Brevity and Last Dance each for three. As at Wingatui, the training tracks at Invercargill are all against fast work being recorded, and the occasional showers during the last week have not helped either track. However, the lengthening of the days is giving the sun more drying power, and there js a slight improvement each day. A good drying wind would effect a great improvement. The South Australian Trotting Club has decided that in future owners shall pay ?i per cent, of the total stake money in nomination and acceptance fees. I his will mean a slight increase. Under the new rule the fees for a race worth £IOO will amount to 15s. Fvcn now owners in Adelaide arc well treated, and few will quibble at the slight extra cost. Racing is cheap in Adelaide, both for owners and public.

October 26,—North Canterbury Jockey Club. , , October 26.—Waikato Hunt Club. October 29, 31— Poverty Bay Turf Club. October 31.—Banks Peninsula Racing Club. . t October 31. —Rangitikei Racing Chib. November 5, 7.—Whangaroi Racing Club. November 7.—Hawke’s Bay Racing Club. November 7,9, 11, 14.—Canterbury Jockey Club.

TROTTING. October 3.—Metbven T.C. October 10. —New Brighten T.C. October 17.—Waikato T.C. October 24, 26. —Auckland T.C. October 24, 26.—Grcymouth T.C. October 26.—Manawatu T.C. October 26. —Oamaru T.C. October 31. —Wellington T.C. November 10, 12. 13. —N.Z. Metropolitan T.C. November 26, 28. —Forbury Park T.(*. After his good showing early this month it was extremely unfortunate for his owner and trainer that Silver Streak should go wrong on the eve of his important engagements in Sydney. It is reported that he is to return to the Dominion early next month. While many high-priced yearlings have proved failures all the world over, and will continue to do so. many lowerpriced youngsters have given a wonderful return. Writing in the Lexington ‘ Thoroughbred Record,’ Nelson Dunstan gives many distances of bargains in America during the last 25 years. Commencing in 1909 these included: Novelty: £340, wnnings £14,893. George Smith: £l2O, winnings £8,577. Man o’ War: £I,OOO, £49,900. Master Charlie : £2OO, £19,105. Vander Pool: £o2o, £10,019. Cavalcade: £340, £25,213. Roman Soldier: £2O, £12,163. Gokley F.: £3O, £3,455. Roman Soldier, who is now only five years, was passed out of the ring without a bid, and was subsequently sold privately for £2O. Later he changed hands at £2OO and subsequently at £1,500. In a list of entries for the Debutant Stakes, for colts, to be run at Caulfield on October 10, are the following youngsters bearing names well known in New Zealand racing:—lmpersonator (Pantheon (The Night Patrol—Cyden), Epic (Heroic—Blue Dome), Pangolin (Pan-theon-Great Speech), and Sturdee Captain Bunsby—Merry Twinkle). In the Debutante Stakes, for fillies, there are the following;—Clemency (iantheon—Joy Bells), Judith (DrakeMasked Battery), Currency (Chivalrous —Money Order), Civility (Viol D’Amour—Crouse), and Chimera (Dig-nity-Belle Meade). Included in the colts’ race are Mr W. T. Hazlett s Colonel Dazzle, by Colonel Cygnus from Razzle Dazzle, and Cygnus Light, by Colonel Cygnus from Glad Light, and Mr G. J. Barton’s Sir Ken, by Night Raid from Lady Violet, and Silver Bond, by Pink Coat from Victory Bond. In the 1929-30 season the fees payable to riders and drivers of trotters were as follows: — To a winning horseman: In no case less than £2; if the net amount did not exceed £2OO, 5 per cent.; if the net amount exceeded £2OO, 5 per cent, on the £2OO and 2J- per cent, on the excess. To a losing horseman: In no case' less than £1; if the net amount exceeded £3O but not £loo, £4; if the net amount exceeded £l5O, £3. Considerable reductions have been male in recqnt years, and a losing horseman may be paid as little as 10s, and no payment bigger than £3 is provided for. The galloping horsemen are treated in much more liberal fashion, and this point was stressed by Mr J. S. Shaw when he made an appeal for higher lees for reinsmen at the annual meeting of the Canterbury Owners and Breeders Association. Mr Shaw said the position should be at least equal to that of 1931, and even on those figures a good deal of improvement might be made. Ihc association should keep in_ mind the matter of training and riding fees, and though he might be too old ever to derive any benefits, a future generation would be indebted to the association for making easier the life of men whose business it was to attend to horses. Having his first race in Sydney this season, Panax came from nearly last to be narrowly beaten by The Marne in the Tattersall’s Tramway Handicap, and will now be one of the most fancied candidates for the Epsom Handicap. Panax is hy the Melbourne Cup winner Blackwood from Ash Queen, by Saltash from Winsome Sister, by Comedy King from Cross Battery, by Stepniak, tracing to Powder (7), by Blinkhoolie. The family is one of the most famous in Australia, and has produced such celebrities as Arsenal, Alawa, Valcaire, and Artilleryman, the last-named being a brother to Winsome Queen, grand-dam of Panax. The latter’s fifth dam, Crossfire, who was by Goldsbrough from Powder, had the distinction of winning the Doncaster Handicap as a two-year-old, a feat which has only once been equalled. Panax won two races at the Australian Jockey Club’s Autumn Meeting, the Vaucluse Handicap and Rous Handicap, both seven furlongs, and so evidently likes the course. The Marne has now won at his last two starts, the Warwick Farm Campbclltown Handicap, six furlongs. and the Tattersall’s Tramway Handicap, seven furlongs. Last season his limit appeared to be about six furlongs, but from his latest effort it would seem possible the Epsom Handicap distance may not be beyond him. His breeding is not against this idea. Ho is by Heroic from Kalyanni, by Treclare from Lystrim, by Cooltrim from Lyssa, by Ayr Laddie, tracing to Britannia (12) by Cathedral.