DIVOTS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 79, 20 April 1937, Page 8

DIVOTS

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In spite of his lapse dtiring the summer Kelly's record this season has been profitable, with three wins, five seconds and a third, bringing in £970 in stakes. Of this amount he has won £565 in the last three weeks. • • « A" likely-looking maiden ih Rahotal carried Mrs F. S. Easton's colours at Manawatu. He is a well-grown colt by Lackh&m from Merry Sarto, so half* brother to Manawatu and Silent Acro. His Maori name, it is said, indicates a physical peculiarity which might havo preeluded its being granted had the Conference authorities known its meaniug. ♦ ■ • • Advice has been received by the Wanganui Jockey Club that the executive committee of the New Zealaud Racing Conference has granted the application for a change in dates for the winter meeting, which will now be held on Saturday, June 5, and Wednesday, June 9, instead of 24 and 26. • • • Rainier, who paid nearly a score> from the win pool after his Trial Stakes success at Whangarei yesterday, was bred and is owned by Mr C. G. Macindoe. He is by Vaals from Ti Tree, by Tea Tray from Taiamai, au Australian-bred mare by The Nut from Lady Molly (imp.), by Aurum. * • • Employees in the sports department of a London store one day noticed that an electric cloek was slow at 2.32 p.m.; then they saw the hand suddenly leap forward and catch up. This happened again. Then they remembered there was a horse called Flying Minutes entered for the 3.30 race. Not ono paper gave it as a runner but being superstitious, they backed it. It won its three-raile race by a short head at 7 to 2. • • • W. Rayner has brought in froin Koatanui stud the three yearlings which he is to prepare for their breeder, Mr G. M. Currie. They aro ail progeny of that great sire Limond, two being fillies and the third a colt. These are not the last of the Limonds, as there is at present at Koatanui a crop of foals which will provide Mr Currie with his last Limond eontingent for the yearling saies at Trentham. , • # • A time limit is rarely fixed in counection with a classic event of any importance. However, sueh was included in the conditions attached to the West Aiistralian St. Leger, lf mile, it being laid down that if the time recorded %xceeds 3m. 7s. the stakemoney be reduced by 25 per cent. In the recent race, won by the South Australian colt Bravo Lad, the offieial time was 3in. 8s., and as a result the' stake was reducoil in accordance with the conditions. • • • The outstanding feature of the A.J.C. Autumn Meeting, writes "Yedette" from Sydney, was the fine form of M. McCarten. It is doubtful if he ever rode better, and he hcaded the winning jockeys' list with six- victories. They jncluded the A-J.C. St. Leger on Gold Rod and C. W. Cropper Plate on Cereza. The latter has finiehod racing, and with Tredsure Trove, a daughter of Desert Gold, and one of the unluckiest fillies to race in recent years, will shortly leave for New Zealand. Both are being retired to the stud by Mr E. J. Watt. • * • , Kiding porformances at tlie reeont Ratidwick autump meeting have left an impression that Australia lias nevar been worse off for first class liorsemon, says a Sydney exchange. And some of the good riders too are passing through that stage where they have lost their ^udgment. Admittedly eriticisni from the stands is easy. It is never difficult to piek holes in another man's handi-

w'ork, but, without doubt; the display of even a limited amount of horsemanship would have altered several Tesults. * # 9 Because of a particularly wet winter, English trainers had diificulties enougb. to^give their horses the neeessary preparation for the recent start of the tiat-racing season, but to add to their troubles, an epidemic of mud iever swept through several Newmarket stables. The malady is brought about by horses being exercised in excessively wet conditions. Its symptoms are eracked heels and minor eruptions on the hocks. There are various treatments, but the most general is a dryiugup process, which necessitates the victim being kcpt inside the stable for a week or so. • # # * The six-year-old mare Happy Hunting (Hunting Song — Sanctuary) has beeu sold by Mr L. C. Purton, of Palmerston North, to Mr T. P. Hunt, of Cambridge, at a good figure. Trained by W. Goscomb (late of Gisborne and at jjresent of Woodville), Happy Hunting only rocently returned from the Gisborne district. She showed promising form at Feilding and raced on both days at the Manawatu meeting. She finished fast into second place behind Corroboree in Ihe Te Matai Handicap( nine furlongs) on the first day, but was unplaced in the North Island Hack Plate on the second day. # #. * The English stallion Salmagundi, a beautiful type of chestnut, arrived on Tuesday last from Sydney, creating keen interest through his wonderfui conformation, size and quality, says a Wellington writer. He is a half -brother to Salmon Trout, the successful English sire which won the St. Leger, the Priucess of Wales Stakes, etc., with stakes totalling £15,800. His dam, Salamandra, was sold for 16,000 guineas. Her dam, Electra, winner of the One Tliousand Guineas Stakes, produced winners of £13,000. Her next dam produced winners of £30,000. Salmagundi should prove a wonderfui acquisition to Mr Alex, Chisholm's Southland stud.

• » • Mr G. F. Moore has sent to O. Cox at Hawera, a fine-looking, yearling colt by Beau Pere from Lady Cavendish, winner, among other events, of the Railway Handicap at Ellerslie. This youngster, who is to race as Lord Cavendish, is a half -brother to that brilliant performer Golden Hair. On lopks he suggests that the future of Beau Pere's stock is going to be very bright. Beau Pere, of course, has gone to Australia, but several of his progeny remain in New Zealand, though Australian buyers secured some at high prices at Trentham last January. Mr Moore has raced some high-class horses bred at his Bushy Park stud, and the hope may be expres^ed that he will have in Lord Cavendish sueh another as Reremoana.

» » » Quadrilateral has proved a profitable mare for Elderslie Stud. Her last four yearlings sold at auetion realised the following prices: Homer, 55gns.; Rob Eoy, I450gns. ; Nightingale, 600gns.; and Homer 's brother, purchased by Mr J. S. Brunton, 1860gns. An aggregate bf 4600gns. for four from one mare is thoroughly satisfactory for any stud. Quadrilateral (Square Measure — Poltara, by Polymelus) was foaled in England in 1924, and as a foal was sold for 120gns. Ebba, third dam of Quadrilateral, is a sister to Ladas, who won the Two Thousand Guineas, Derby, Newmarket Stakes, Woodcote Stakes, Doncaster Champagne Stakes, and second in the St. Leger. She traces back to the successful IHuminatu taproot.