DIVOTS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 131, 19 June 1937, Page 16

DIVOTS

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Nominations for the Wellington Racing Club's Winter meeting are due at 5 p.m. on Monday. • • • In reply to "Enquirer" : £16 16/6, £15 15/-, £23 16/6. • # • Balboa. The defunct Balboa gained more posthumous honours by siring winners at Wingatui last week. He sired Signaller, Balmenter, Araboa and Gay Boa, wh,o won at the meeting. Balboa has sired speed and stamina, hurdlers and chasers, and too late forced himself into recognition as a wasted sire. — "Sentinel." • * * Odds v. Odds. On the machine figures as actuaily recorded a continuous "play-up" on the winners of the Ellerslie "treble", 6.N. Hurdles, Cornwall Handicap and G.N. Steeplechase would have realised something over £6000 for a first £ investment. Had the pay-outs been on winners only the amount would have been well over £14,500. What odds were the criss-cross gentlemen offering? Red Clover. The lliad — Red Shank filly Red Clover when she won at Rosehill (Sydney), started the rank outsider of a field of 17. She carried 8.4 and won over seven furlongs in lmin. 27sec. Red Clover is a three-year-old half-sister to Red Manfred. Their dam, Redshank, was got by Thrice from Red Streak, by the Carbine horse Wallace from Elsie, the first St. Simon mare to be imported, to Australia. # • • J. F. Fergus. The joekey J. P. Fergus, rider of the Great Northern Steeplechase winner Irish Comet, is a nephew of the late Sam Fergus who won the Great Nor--thern Steeplechase on Haydn in 1903, and died as a result of injuries received in a fall in a hurdlo race at Ellerslie. He also won the Great Northern Hurdles on St. Simon, carrying the record weight of 12.12, the Grand National Steeplechase on Haydn, Napier Steeplechase on Oeo, and Wanganui Steeplechase on Haydn. e # v Whips and Spurs In races reserved for apprentice jockeys, the riders, uiider present rules, are not allowed to use whip or spur, and consequently a free galloper has an advantage over more sluggish horses, apart from the question of horsemanship. Some racing authorities have doubted. if the prohibitbn is in the real interests of the boys, it being contended that thereby they are not likely to gain confidence in race riding under ordinary conditions. Remits have been prepared by the e>.ecutive of the Racing Conference and by the Hawke's Bay Distriet Committee seeking to delete the prohibition altogether, while the Manawatu Racing Club and the Canterbury Jockey Club propose to delete the law against the use of the whip while retaining that which forbids the use of spursi • • • Winners at Melbourne. Cheque, winner of the first division of the Marlborough Trial Handicap at Flemington on Monday, is a seven-year-old gelding by Paper Money from Roburite, by Absurd, and was eold as a yearling in Sydney for 100 guineas. Evidently he has not been a very payable proposition as Monday' s event was for horses that had not won a race to the value of £100. Cape Lilock, winner of the Royal Steeplechase, of 500 sovs., at the same meeting, is a five-year-old gelding by Cape Horn, and is owned by his breeder, Mr W. R. Kembali. He has been for some weeks past one of the fancied candidates for the Victoria Grand National Steeplechase, to be run on July 10, and his success on Monday is certain to bring him into much stronger favour. Upoko Ariki, by Chief Ruler, winner of the Birthday Handicap, is still trained by J. T. Jamieson, at Randwick. - • m • • Heroio Hopeloss. A picturesque story ooncerning Heroic was recently published in Melbourne in which it was stated that on one occasion his suffering was so iutense that it was decided to end it with a bullet. The execution was proposed in the hope that Heroic would improve, which he did, and it was said he was almost restored to normal health. It was also suggested that he would be doing, stud duty nexfc season. Nothing would give greater pleasure to Mr C. B. Kellow, his owner, and to Mr Herbert Thompson, his lessee, thau to kuow that the horse had recovered (says "Chiron"), but unl'ortunately tbat is far from beiig tii'^ case. TVtf stud. days of Hcioic are over, and he has been transferred from Tarwyn Rark to Oakleigh, in the Widden Valley, where he will spend the remainder of his life.