JOTTINGS

Evening Star, Issue 22464, 8 October 1936, Page 11

JOTTINGS

Cuddle is reported to have finished sixth in the Epsom Handicap.

Capris is the first of her sex to win the Epsom Handicap since Maximise scored in 1906.

Handicaps for the first day of the Gore Racing Club’s Spring Meeting are due to appear on Tuesday of next week.

The Gore-owned mare Set Sail has dropped a filly foal to Iliad, and is to visit the Mataura sire Philamor this season.

Owners and trainers are reminded that handicaps for Saturday’s races will be declared at the club’s office at 7.30 this evening, and acceptances close at 8.30 p.m.

Royal Saxon is getting through useful tasks under J. Thistleton’s care at Riverton. He is being prepared with a view to contesting high-weight events immediately ahead.

The gelding Azevedo, by Arausio from Delphi, is a recent addition to T. G. Pollock’s team at Gore, and has been engaged at the local meeting this month.

J. Ross apparently has an idea of patronising the Gore Meeting on Labour Day. The nominations include Queen Dorothy, Royal Gallant, and Silver Lark.

Talking, winner of this year’s A.J.C. Derby, was purchased as a yearling for 120 gs, and afterwards sold again, Mr S. Cash being the lucky buyer.

Cuddle is to run in the Caulfield Stakes, w.f.a., 9f, on Saturday, and if she fails again she will be returned to the Dominion on the WanganelJa next week.

Mrs M. S. Curie, of Wanganui, who owns Black Friar, has received word Jiat the colt is in great fettle, having completely recovered from the injuries sustained on the trip to Sydney.

The suspensions of H. N. Wiggins. A. Jenkins, and W. H. Jones at weekend meetings will mean that some owners will have to make hurried dianges in their immediate plans.

The totals of nominations received for the Gore Spring Meeting for the past 12 years are as follow : — 1925, 316; 1926, 300; 1927, 276; 1928, 334; 1929, 360 (a recojd); 1930, 347; 1931, 323; 1932, 329; 1933, 308; 1934, 305; 1935, 328; 1936, 322.

The committee of the Auckland Racing Club has decided to make 7.0 the minimum for the Auckland Cup instead of 7.7, as previously announced. This action was taken in consequence of a pronouncement of the Minister for Internal Affairs that his recommendation about the imposition of a 7.7 minimum in races should not apply this

year to the New Zealand Cup and the Auckland Cup.

One of the strongest in the stable of W. Jarvis, at Takanini, is a bay colt by Lord Warden —Full Swing. He has a white eye on the near side, but from the off side his head is the living image of that of his dam’s sire, Nassau, -who is sire of the dam of Silver Ring. He has the appearance of a likely stayer.

The Dunedin Guineas is the only race of its kind now run in the South Island, but at one time there were the Timaru Guineas, Vincent Guineas, and Winton Guineas. Other races which have disappeared are the Oamaru Derby, Winton Derby, Cromwell Derby, Southland Stakes, Queenstown Derby. Oamaru Champion Stakes, and Geraldine Sires’ Produce Stakes.

Although the A.J.C. Derby did not come to the Dominion this year, the winner, Talking, is out of one of Mr W. G. Stead’s mares, Society, by Absurd from First Class, by All Black— Class, by Wallace. This is a wonderful family for producing class horses, for to it belong such as the great Wakeful, Noctuiform, Midnight Sun. Bon Ton, Eligible, The Toff, etc.

Few jockeys would voluntarily cancel a Royal engagement, and probably no other jockey in the world to-day has ever taken that step for such a reason as did Frank Sampson, an international who rode his first winner in England last month. Sampson was retained to ride for the King of Rumania, but because he could not send any money out of the country to support his wife and family, he severed his connection with the Royal stable.

S. W. Parlin, in liis book, ‘ The American Trotter,’ writes as follows:—“ It is evident George Wilkes was one of the most honest trotters that lived, and at times suffered from cruel abuse. A man whom I have known for years, and whose word can be relied upon, ears that a wiro was braided into the lash of the v/hip with which George Wilkes was driven in his races, and he saw the whip applied so severely that the blood trickled down upon his legs after the heat was finished, and yet the horse did not break from the trot.”

Gay Lover, the horse who finished first in Saturday’s Epsom Handicap but was relegated to second place behind Capris on a protest, had for some time past been on the top line for the race, sharing the post of honour in recent weeks with The Marne, so his defeat was undoubtedly a very expensive one to his connections, possibly more than The Marne’s failure was to his immediate party. He is a four-yoar-old chestnut horse by Gay Lothario and he cost 4oogs as a yearling, now being owned in Victoria by Mr J. W. Keeney and trained at Flemington by S. Murphy.

A feature of the spring racing to date in Sydney and Melbourne has been the success credited to the Now Zealandbred sire Veilmond. who is being represented for his first season in two-vcar-old races. One of his productions, 'Lochlee, probably the first to appear in public, won the second division of the Maribyrnong Stakes for colts and gold-

ings at Flemington on Saturday, and, incidentally, was ridden by tlie former New Zealander, J. Barry. On Monday, at Randwick, the richly-endowed Breeders’ Plate was won by Rodborough, a gelding by Veilmond from Silver Cord, by Demetrius from Silver Shoe, by Wallace from the New Zealand-bred mare Golden Slipper, by Multiform from Aura. Veilmond was represented in j-esterday’s fillies’ classic by Freveil.