RACING NOTES

Evening Star, Issue 23678, 11 September 1940, Page 4

RACING NOTES

RACING. September 14. Ashburton C. Racing Club. September 14, 16.—Avondale Jockey Club. September 19, 21. —Geraldine Racing Club. September 21.—Marion Jockey Club. September 28.—Kurow Jockey Club. September 28.—Foxton Racing Club. September 28, 30. Ohinemuri Jockey Club. October 3, s.—Hawke’s Kay Jockey Club. October 12.—Otaki-Maori Racing Club. October 12, 14. —Dunedin Jockey Club. October 12, 14.—Auckland Racing Club. October 17, 19.—Masterlon Racing Club. October 19. —South Canterbury JockeyClub. October 19. —Rotorua and Bay of Plenty Hunt. October 19.—Stratford Racing Club. October 24, 26, 28.—Wellington Racing Club.

THE NEW ZEALAND GUP FIELD

No three-year-olds have been nominated for this season’s New Zealand Cup, and of the 61 engaged 18 are four-year-olds, 15 live years old, 12 six years, 11 seven years, two eight years, two nine years, and one 10 years old. The four-year-olds are Airline, Anita Foe, Areas, Beau Repaire, Boniden, Classform, Don Quex, Hearth, Kilometre, Kinkajou, Pearl of Asia, Peru, Serenata, Tu Kawiti, The Raker, Trench Law, Winning Rival, and Yogi. Five-year-olds; Arabic, Capricious, Colonel Bogey, Coronation, Doubleack, Dunmanway, Dunstan, Lord Puck, Night Hawk, Passaform, Peerless, Pink Lad, Taurangi, The Cardinal, and The Ring. Six-year-olds: Auto Sweep, Blonde Princess, Gleuora Boy, Great Night, Heidelberg, Little Robin, Lockit, Royal Chief, Royal Vision, Settlement, Sly Fox, and Sparkle. Seven-year-olds: Dictate, Guilder, Mishna, Old Surrey', Second Innings, Siegmund, The Buzzer, Thermidor, The Wrecker, Wagner, and Wardress. Eight-year-olds: Entail and Swordstick. Nine-year-olds: Royal Appellant and Willie Win; and Limhohm at 10 y-ears old is the veteran of the party. Seventeen mares are included in the list—Anita Foe, Blonde Princess, Capricious, Classform, Great Night, Guilder, Hearth, Kinkajou, Pearl of Asia, Peerless, Serenata, Sparkle, Taurangi, The Ring, Thennidor, Wardress, and Winning Rival. Including the 19 contests run under the name of the Canterbury Jokkey Club Handicap until the name was changed in 1883 to the New Zealand Cup, there have been 76 Cup races run, and during that long period it has been won 13 times by three-year-olds, 20 times by four-year-olds, 18 times by five-year-olds, 13 times by six-year-olds, and 14 times by aged horses. In the first 40 contests three-y r ear-olds were successful a dozen times, and four-year-olds won four times. Since then only one three-year-old, Indigo, who deadheated with Warstep, has succeeded, and 14 four-y'ear-olds have won, including Warstep’s dead-beat.

JOTTINGS

Answers to Correspondent. “ Inquirer.”—ln the race run at the Wanganui meeting there were only two dividends, on the winner of each division. The gaming laws forbid the publication of dividends. Neither of the horses you mention paid dividends at the Wanganui meeting. Sovereign Lady’s Record. In the five seasons she has been racing Sovereign Lady has contested only 36 races, and eight wins, seven seconds, and four thirds have been worth £2,743. The Kurow Meeting. Owners and trainers are reminded that nominations for the Kurow meeting will close at 8 p.i\). to-morrow. The meeting will be held on the Oamaru course this year, and stakes amounting to £955 are offered. Ajax’s “Trebles.” When Ajax won the Memsie Stakes last Saturday he recorded his third consecutive win in that race. Ajax has also won the Caulfield Futurity Stakes, Underwood Stakes, A.J.C. Allaged Stakes, and C. \V. Cropper Plate each three times. "Winton Juvenile Stakes. After the second payment 31 three-year-old pacers remain in the Winton Juvenile Stakes, to be run next December, and 54 survived the final payment for the following year’s race. Holds Two Records. No horse has succeeded in winning the New Zealand Cup twice since Lie race was run under that name, but when it was known as the Canterbury Jockey Club Handicap Mr M, .Studholme’s Knottingly won it twice in succession, in January and December, 1870. Kuottingly also _holds the weightcarrying record, having carried 1U.6 when he won the second time. May be Run in Divisions. The Geraldine course, which, by the way, is reported to be in vastly improved order as compared with previous years, is narrow at the six furlong harrier, and 17 is the limit that may be started m races over that distance. At present there are 24 engaged in the Olrapi Hack Handicap, to be run on the first day, and.it may be necessary to run this race in two divisions. A Promising Field. With Camphor, Don't Forget, Muffler, Muscatine, PJatform, Pleading, Shikari, Wild Coon, Whipcord, and Tissue racing at the Ashburton and Geraldine meetings this month, it promises well for a good field in the Dunedin Guineas, to be run at Wingatui next month. In addition to the above, there are others, including Doria, from Riecarton, and the local and Southland candidates to swell the field. Americans Secure Bloodstock. The exodus of high class bloodstock from England during the war to the United States has been enormous, among those bought being the One Thousand and Oaks winner, Galatea 11., and her dam, Gala IT., Piping Rock, Foxborongh IT., and others of excellent breeding. The buyers include Messrs Robert S. Clark. Marshall Field, A. B. Hancock, Louis R. Meyer. J. H. Whitney, Joseph E. Widener, and W. Woodward, all prominent breeders and sportsmen.

[By St. Clair.]

Many Good Three-year-olds Missing.' Although racing is to be resumed in England this month many of the outstanding three-year-olds will be missing from the meetings. Djebet, the Frenchbred winner of the Two Thousand Guineas Stakes, is reported to have been lost in Franco, though an earlier report stated that this colt and Pharis 11. had been i-emovcd before the German occupation. Godiva, winner of the One Thousand Guineas and Oaks Stakes, is dead. Lighthouse IT. has been sold for stud purposes, and Tout Mieux lias gou<j to India. Riding Engagements for Ashburon. The following riding engagaments are announced for the Ashburton meeting:—L. J. Ellis—Pleading, King’s Toast, Iceland Spar, Royal Chief; J. W. Jennings, Whiphand; A. Messervy —Sweet .Mystery, Glenora Boy, The Vulture, Ryctown, Rebel Star; P. Spratt—Green Gables, Don’t Forget, Great Night, Shikari; C. T. Wilson— Winning Rival, Nightglass, Prudent Prince, Willie Win; B. H. Brodie, Jolly Time, Dinah Dim; D. R. Maokie, Gay Parade; J. Wadley, Sunnyland; G. Ridgway, Leopardstown; V. Barrington, Lord Midas; I. Walthcr, Sir Frederick; E. Baker, My Ship; W. F. Ellis, Night Hawk. Encouraging Young Trotters. In 1917, the Forbury Park Trotting Club endeavoured to foster the trotters’ section by including a race for three-year-olds in its summer programme. It was persevered with until 1930. At one stage, the race promised to develop into a big attraction, but lack of entries and poor contests for the concluding seasons brought about its elimination. During the 13 years it was in existence it was won by trotters that went on to do well in handicap contests. Among them were Swiftwood, Le Todd, Young Blake. Peterwah, Great Way, and White Satin. Now the New Zealand Metropolitan Club is going to initiate a race for three-year-old trotters. The first contest will take* place at the' Easter meeting, 1943, for a stake of £SOO, over a mile and a-half. The Future of French Bloodstock. On the subject of the future of French bloodstock, the London commentator “ Rapier ” said the Germans were taking the pick of the stock, and their fate could only be imagined. He did not believe that any profit would accrue to the enemy. "Nobody would have the slightest interest in Gorman bloodstock after the war, because nobody would give the slightest ejedeneo to pedigrees of any horses which had been in Germany or German-occupied territory. “ As far as racing and thoroughbred breeding is concerned.” declared the writer, “ Germany is beyond the pale for generations to come, and 1 see no option for the trustees of the stud book hut to exclude rigidly the names of all stock which cannot be proved to have been out of reach of the enemy. “It may even bo necessary to extend the ban to all European bloodstock except that which is in England . . . The influence of French blood on the British turf was assuming considerable and valuable proportions. It follows that owners of French stallions, brood mares, and other stock in England and in America have something priceless.”

October 26.—Poverty Buy Turf Club. October 28, 28. Gore Racing Club. TROTTING. September 12.—New Brighton Trotting Club. September 18, 21.—Wellington Trotting Club. October s.—Metliven Trotting Club. October 12.—New Brighton Trotting Club. October 26, 28.—Greymouth Trotting Club. October 26, 30.—Auckland Trotting Club. October 28.—Oamaru Trotting Club. November 2. Invercargill Trotting Club. November 2. —Wellington Trotting Club. November 12, 14, 15.—New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club. November 28, 30. —forbury Park Trotting Club. November 30, December 7. Waikato Trotting Club.

Ashburton Acceptances. The Ashburton Racing Club has received good acceptances for its Spring Meeting, to be held on Saturday. Of the 30 paid up for in the Ashburton Handicap, Swordstick, The Wrecker, Winning Rival, Settlement, Glenora Boy, the Raker, and Dunstan are engaged iu the New Zealand Cup. In the Spring Handicap the cup candidates are Royal Chief, Willie Win, Therraidor, Passaform, and Night Hawk, and another in Airline is engaged in the six furlong hack race. Reduced Stakes. If racing is resumed in England, not only will racing dates bo restricted, but the prize-money is ipoor, the clubs adding only £I,OOO to the St. Leger, in which it will cost £25 to start. The Cambridgeshire, on October 16, the Cesarewitch, on October 30, and a substitute for the Champagne Stakes will carry added money of £7OO, £7OO, and £4OO respectively. The Cambridgeshire of 1938 carried a stake of £2,360, the Cesarewitch £2,555, and the St. Leger, iron by Scottish Union, £10,465.