TRACK AND STABLE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19988, 13 July 1939, Page 9

TRACK AND STABLE

CHANCE AS HURDLER j BLACK BANNER'S NEXT FORMER N.Z. .JOCKEY FAVOUR ABLE COM M EXT Bv “Trenton” Black Banner and Quinopal will probably have their next racing at the Waimate Hunt meeting, and both arc in good order. Black Banner will E \have a change to hurdling at Waimate. | Not Favoured ; Pandine was unable to act in the j heavy going at Trentham. His stable- J mate, Gold Wren, was also unable to j show his best form under the condi- j tions there. j. Good Start I The former Auckland lightweight | jockey, N. Vaughan, has attracted the 9 favourable attention of racing men in i the. brief time he has been riding in I England. According to the latest files he was 1 placed fourth on his first mount; in | his second ride, at Yarmouth, he wan g beaten a short head, both his mounts I carrying the colours of J. Bell, the g Newmarket trainer. On his third | mount, an outsider, Musque Robin, | owned by Lord Durham, he was run- | ner-up to Chale Bay, ridden by Ci. | Richards. One observer staled: "Musq'io | Robin’s little-known rider, N. | Vaughan, did distinctly well against | the champion, G. Richards, whose vigorous riding made all the difference.” Conditions to Suit Evidently the best has yet to :bc seen of Hunting Mint, who gained a decisive victory in the Kaitoke Handicap at the Dannevirkc Hunt meeting. From fifth she came through Halfway down the straight and beat Middle going away. Last month, sht | won at the Napier and Hawke’s Bay | meetings over a mile and a mile and a pj quarter, and staying in bad ground is her forte, as her breeding would suggest. She is a daughter of Hunting Song from Mon Mint, by Catmint, her grand-dam being Mon Amie, a halfsister to St. Clements and other good performers in the early years of the present’ century. Hunting Mint began , racing as a four-year-old, and in two | sensor-- she has won seven races. Favours Trentham As an early two-year-old, Amigo | won a double at Trentham and he £ gained his fourth success this season | in tile Stewards’ Handicap at Trcn- u tliam. Including his early spring | venture to Australia, which was not | successful, he has now won eight Jj races, with 11 minor placings, in 29 jj starts, his stake-earnings totalling | £2350. | “Harmful Restrictions” | In his report to the New Zealand | Racing Conference, the president, Mr. | J. S. McLeod, said: "The removal of f the restrictions on the use of the s double totalisator, the transmission of £ investments to the totalisator by post £ or telegram through receiving depots | away from IHe racecourse, and the tj publication of dividends in the news- | papers are long overdue. The Racing S Conference has for many years urged fc the removal of these harmful restric- L tions, aixl it is difficult to account lor S the attitude of successive Parliaments ■« in regard to these very important re- jj peals of ill-advised legislation.” First Success Culvcrden, who prior to his Hack li Steeplechase success at Oamaru had jj not won a race of any kind, is by * Shambles from Heath Lass, an English fc mare who also produced a good win- $ ner over a lengthy career in Royal Saxon, and the Grand National d Hurdles winner, Hounslow. Culver- j$ den is owned by Mr. D. A. Withers, | who also races The Sandivichman and Donadca, and all three are now p trained by his son, G. 11. Withers, at R Riccarton. ! h