OVERSEAS NOTES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 40, 3 March 1937, Page 9

OVERSEAS NOTES

From Various Sources Midget Apprentice, The smallest apprentice attending classes sponsored by .the AJ".G. at Randwick is a son of the New Zealander George Young, who was associated with' most of Gioaming's victories, and is now training at Randwick. The boy weighs only 4st. 31b. when fully dressed. • / • • In the West. The latest success for N^. blood of whi.ch we have word from West Australia was gained by the three-year-old Chief Ruler — Prophet's Mark gelding Beenbarra in the Hawley Handicap, seven furlongs, at the W.A.T.C. ineeting oii the 13th inst. Starting secojid favourite, he won by three lengths. « w • After the £6000, • By this time the Melbourne Cup winner 'Wotan, shipped from Auckland during last week, will be in quarters at Sydney with the winning of the £6000 bydney Cup in his eye. In charge of his Hawera trainer, J. Fryer, he has as a shipmate and etable companiou the four-year-ol.d Posterity — Motley horse Le Grand. • • • Big American Stakes. Though the Santa Anita Derby won by Fairy Hill last Saturday carried a subscription of 525 dollars with 50,000 dollars (£20,000) of added money, it was not the biggest stake of the 53days mseting. Tkat was the 10-furlong Santa Anita Handicap run last SatiU'day^for which the entry is 1100 dollars and the added money 100,000 dollars, with 20, •000- dollars for second, 10,000 for third and 5000 for fourth. ■ • * * Ellis's Eye Trouble. According to pnvate information given the Christchurch Press, the trouble with oue of L. J. Ellis's eye a, of which we heard by cable, ia not the result of any accident sustained in Australia. It is attributed to the results of a bad spili Ellis had at Wingatui in 1932, when he suflered eevere concussion as well as a fractured thigh. Since then he has had recurring trouble with his eye, but until recently it was of a slight nature. Now, however, the sight has practically failed and Melbourne specialiste enjoin absolute quiet for a few weeks under observation. m » • All the Year Round. In America jockeys ride from the beginning to the end of the year, and eonsequently it is not unusuaL for the leading jockey in that country to xecord more wins than the oue at the top of the list in England, where fiat racing extends over only eight months. A week before the conclusion of last year 's racing in America, 17-year-old Basil James was first in the jockeys' list with 239. wins. J. Longden was in second place with 210. • • • Raasay's Only Winner. ^ t In 1928, says the Sydney Herald, the New Zealand sportsman, Mr. J. S. McLeod, sent to Australia a three-year-old colt, Raasay, a half-brother to the New Zealan.d Derby winner. Runnymede. "Mr. Constable" paid a big price for him, but Raasay did not even -gain a place for that owner, and after racing until a five-years-old, dieappeared. His existence was recalled at Cantearbury Park last meeting, when Raasay 's son, Killaloe, practically his only representative on ' the turf, won the Maiden Handicap nicely, and beat into third place the favourite, Holbein, who runs in the interests of a partnorship of .which "Mr. Constabla" is a meniber. • e • New Stars Arise. Recent events have cauaerr a chango in the prospects of the importaut autumn two-year-old races in Australia. When Ajax, a chestnut colt Dy Heroic, won thb Eederal Stlakes at Caulfleld last Saturday week iu course record time, he carried 8.5, beating Sweet MOmories 9.0 (Maribyrnong Plate winner) and Lochlee 9.8 (Victoria's best eolt in the spring). _ Ajax was not tried seriously early in the season, but it looks as it he was a good colt now. Since then, however, another of Heroic's gets, the Gladioli colt^ Hua. has run himself into fame by winning the V.R.O. £3,000 Sires' Produce Stakes at Flemington last Saturday, with neither Ajax nor Lochlee in a place. e . * * # A Rapid Asoent. Hua's rise to premier positlon among Victorian, if not Australian, two-yeai-olds, has been a rapid one. When, as noted above, Ajax, carryingi 8.5, won the 5-furlong Federal Stakes, Hua (8.4) a forlorn outsider, after leading to the home turn faded out and finished in the ruck. The following Saturday, however, in the six-furlong Alma Stakes on the same course Hua, 8.0, starting at still longer odds, finished third, 2j lengths away, behind Nightguard 8.1, and Caesar 8.6, with Lochlee, 9.7, fiftb, Ajax being a non-starter. Last Saturday at Flemington, over seven furlongs and meeting them at level weights, Hua narrowly defeated both Caesar (second) and Nightguard (third), with both Ajax and Lochlee, also on the same weight mark, well out of a place. It can only be a matter of speculation as to how Sydney's N.Z.-bred crack two-year-old Lynch Law (Limond-Dras-tic) would have farecl among this lot had not an unfortunate accident put him out of the combat. Caesar, who ran Hua tp half a head last Saturday, is by Silvius — Wingecarribee, while Nightguard, only a head further back 1 is by Nigbt Patrol— Cyden. * * s Cold Rod Again. By winning th© 10-furlong Essendon Stakes on Saturday in 2.4J from two such good ones over the distance as Cuddle and Golden Promise . Mr E. J. Watt's Chief Ruler — Oreum colt Gold Rod fully confirmed the return to form he displayed at Caulfield a week earlier in winning the 7-furlong Futurity Stakes. As in that race, he would seem to have come from well back at the straigbt entrance to snatch victory on the post, with Cuddle this time as his victim. Of his Futurity success tho Sydney Herald sa.vs: "Although excuses may be made for Pamelus, there can be no denying the merit of Gold Rod's win. Gold Rod gav© an amazing performance, which puts him right back in

hiB place among the great, a position he lost after his defeat in the A.J.C. Derby last year. At the straight entrance, Pamelus was well ciear and 100 yards from the pust he appeared" to hhve the race at his mercy. Suddenly Gold Rod appeared oa the outside of the track. He responded in great style to McCarten's ett'orts with the whip, and Pamelus was weakening. Fifty yards from the post, Gold Rod was going so fast that it was obvious that he would catch Pamelus, and he went on to beat that horse by half a lengtb." i