TROTTING.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 26 November 1927, Page 2

TROTTING.

FORBURY PARK MEETING. Dunedin, Nov. 25. The Forbury Park spring meeting was opened in line.but windy weather an;l before a large attendance. The tote handled £21,016, compared with £18,666 for the first day last year. Late results:— Spring Handicap.—s Swiftbine (RW, Franklin) 1. 1 Underviewer 2, 3 I’c.ndolph 3. Also ran: 7 Master Peter. 6 Jade 2 Julson Ata 3 Avalanche. Won. by a neck, with Randolph 12 lengths away. Time. 1.55. President’s Handicap. -2 Daliiahine (J. McLennan) ]. 1 Author Jinks 2. I Bonny Logan 3. Also ran: 8 Bell Harold. 8 Downcast, 4 Trenand I bracketed with Bonnv Logan), 7 | Tramplast, 6 Fight. Ever. 5 Talent.. 3 ' Away. Won bv four lengths, third I horse a neck away. Time, 4.35 2-5. ■ Caversham Handicap.-—-4 Quality ; tC. Donald) 1. 3 Desert Star 2, 6 : Pointalena 3. Also ran: 8 Kate ! Thorpe, 1 Acre. 5 Lingfield, 2 Evelyn ] Txicanda, 7 Fashion Queen. Won oy i half a length, with Pointalena and I fiingfield 1.5 lengths away. Time. I 4.42 4-5. I Dominion Handicap.—s Ingle Binl gen (C R. Hadfield) 1. 2 Young I Blake 2. Little Izigan 3. Also ran: ; R Herbilwyn 6 Proud Ata. 3 High- ■ Imrn. 4 Frisco Beau, 1 Engagement. I Won by half a length, with Little : Logan six lengths awav. Time 4.51 , 2-5. I Dash Handicap,_B Rtnhraee (H . Gas-kill)- 1. 1 Bob Logan 2 6 Haunni I 3 Also rhn : 3 Avenger, 9 Menember. : 7 Jolly Chimes, 4 Bingen Lad. 5 I Event 2 Terrace Dillon. Won hv i two lengths, with Hannui half a lengths away. Time ?21 2 5

DIVOTS. (Dug by “The Delver.”) Nominations for the Manawatu Racing Club's Meeting and first forfeits for ,the Palmerston North Stakes, will close on Friday. December 2. Entries for the Waipa Club’s Annual Meeting at Te Awamutu. to be held on December 17. close on the same date. Bonogne's pen Ity of 41b for his win at Ashhurst, bringing his weight up to 9.2, hus not frightened him out of the Flying Handicap at Feeding, nor has an extra 71b induced Hie withdrawal of Henna from the Fitzroy Handicap, in which she will now have to carry 7.7. • * » Crown Area. G scony, High Finance, Pure Gold, Flying Binge. Dominican, and the valkyrian—Hinerewa filly are included in the telegraphed list of those left in the Feuding Stakes. They are. however, missing from the list as nublished by the “Manwatu Times,*’ whose information would probably come direct from- secretarial head quarters. The same paper includes in its list of acceptors for the Trial Plate the Cynic-Amusement geldins Ironic, whose name is missing from the telegraphed list, but omits Wliaizone. who was wired as being left in. A Dunedin exchange says that the Dunedin Guineas winner. Ark Roval, will be allowed to take his chance in the Auckland Cup if all goes well with him in the meantime. Arrow Lad is stated to have been very unlucky at Aslihurst. This three-year-pld sprinter, says a Wellington writer, will win his share of stakes this season, and the race on Wednesday will improve him for his Feilding engagements. • • • Christchurch reports state that Count Cavour is sill enjoying an easv time, on which he is thriving. His three-year-old mate, Satrap, is also doing light tasks. These two are hoped to be at their best by the time they have to leave for Auckland. • » • The New Zealand Derby winner Agrian, continues to make steady progress, and the soreness that affected him prior to the Cup Meeting has disappeared. The Limond eolt is both looking and doing well, and he will be an improved horse at Ellerslie next month. In View of his engagements there he is just now being worked the reverse wav at Riccarton.

Kilburn shaped at Aslihurst as if he is the makings of a very useful hurdler. A big strong gelding, lie should be able to carry weight, and with experience he seems likeh to do much better than his second of Wednesday. Kilburn is a s. ,i.

year-old gelding by Kilbroney—Kill, and so half-brother to that good little steeplechase mare Bonny Rill, by Bonifonn. Although he is still a maiden, Christchurch writers still have faith in Martanna as a possible Derby nropositibn at Ellerslie. He has two engagements on the first day of the South Canterbury Meeting next week, and it is not certain whether he will run in the Maiden Plate or the ' President’s Handicap. The latter event, at a mile, may suit him better than the scramble of the maiden race. Mr W. E. Bidwill has presented 10t)-guinea cup to the Wairarapa Racing Club, to go to the owner of the winner of the Wairarapa Crip at the club s pubilee Meeting. Mr C. Elgar, another steward, will give a similar trophy for the Wairarapa t up at rhe 1929 Meeting. The Archery three-year-old Don Jose, who downed the Oaks winner, Mild Pigeon, on the last day of the Now Zealand Cup Meeting is reported to have improved with the recent racing he has had In compnay with Fair. Exchange he galloped particularly well at Riccarton on Thursday morning. More than likely Don Jose will next be seen out at the Auckland Racing Club’s Summer Meeting. • • « The Awapuui trainer, H. H. Dovle. produced a very shapely three-vear-old brother to Ornzone at Ashhurst. This was Bisora (Bisogne—Princess lira). Jf looks go for anything, says Wellington exchange. Bisora ran gallop, but in the race which was his first public appearance he showed his inexperience by getting left ' when the earlier rose. * * . F. D. Jones will probably take Stormy Arikiwai. and the two-vear-old Island Fastness to the South Canterbury Meeting, but Stonnv is not regarded as at his best vet. 'these three may form Jones’s team for the holidays, with the Manawatu and .Marton Meetings as a Ikielv programme. * y » Civility is again reported as putting up great times in her work at Wanganui. On Thursday morning, looking in great heart, from a living start, she left half a mile behind in 18 1-5. She ran the first furlong in 11 3-5 and the quarter in 23 4-5. J. Head was in the saddle. » <t » Another horse that is pleasing bhh touts at Wanganui is Whenuajiui. The Arcre Bell Boyne gelding ran six furlongs in Imin 17 3-ssec on Tuesday morning. On Thursday he was again sent over the three-quar-ters. and hit out in fine style, running the first quarter in 24, the half in 49. and the full distance in 1.16, finishing on well. The Acre gelding is said to have never looked better. He has a good long string of disappointments this season to wipe off the slate. • * " • At Wanganui on Thursday morning Covent Garden (J. Barry) and Lysander (B. H. Morris were associated in a five-furlong flutter. Covent Garden went into the lead at the start, and acted as pacemaker until the straight was reached. Here Lysander was on terms, and he had a shade the beter of it at the post, the time being 62. A good half-mile scamper on the same morning was that in which Episode (B. H. Morris! was indulged from a barrier start, with Curtain J. Barry) for a companion. Episode stood very quietly, but Curtain caused some delay, and when the tapes went up she was rather slow to begin. Episode led all the way. finishing about three lengths in front of the Thespian fifill.v in a tick under 51. Following on the foregoing gallops, Elysianor (J. Head) and Star Area (C. Butler) were companions in a round over the schooling hurdles. Elysianor took the lead, jumping well, and made the pace all tile wav. St r Area was jumping rather high, but was going along well at the eiiu Royal Damon ran in the Ashhurst Cup, but was unplaced. His effort however, gave a Palmerston writer the impression that he may be ticked off as a winner in the not far distant future. He may be seen out again at Feilding, but it is probable that he will lie more forward by the time the Woodville Meeting comes round, a week later. * * . The Absurd gelding Standard, who w s previously raced on lease bv Mr W. R, Kemball, made his reappearance at Ashhurst, and ran in the colours of his owner, Mr E. F. Christensen. Standard ran unplaced in the Pahangina and Raumat Handicaps, and after the races he was purchased by the Awapuni trainer, H. H. Doyle, for £5O. Standard will do the holiday racing on the West Coast of the South Island. The story goes that the Absurd—Peroneal five-year-old was paid for out of a dividend collected on Borselene. “The Watcher” is ol opinion that Henna was possibly lucky to' win at Ashhurst, for had Excess stay co < n the rails either Wanderlust would have won with Excess second, or the reverse. Henna and Wanderlust finished very solidly, Wanderlust from a good way back. Excess was asked to win all the wav, and was set a severe task. Vexatious, says the same writer, only docs her best when vigorously "idden. and Hoiison got her Home ' Ashhurst by keeping hard at her. It looked as if she were hard pushed I heat Kilburn, when in reality she ' was loafing, and a cut of the whip neaiing the post made her show that

she had a lot in hand. It would appear as if Vexatious has been loafing like this in the past, with the result that some gowl races have been lost by her that should have been won.

lhe question may now be asking Rseff in the minds of punters, “was Mister Gamp’s win at Levin a flash in the pan?” On his running last Saturday, even with the extr weight he looked a good thing for the Hurdles at Ashhurst. yet his running in the latter event indicated that there is a distinct possibility that he may prove as disappointing over the battens as he was on the flat. He had every ch nee. yet made his run too late, after having an onpoitunity to outstrip his opponents He will have another opportunity at Feilding next week, and again at Woodville the following week, so it whould be perhaps better to suspend judgment.—“ Speculator,” in ”Manaw tu Times.”

The greatest winning performance, ever registered in Auckland. Such' is the claim that can be made for Jewel Pointer, says the Auckland “Star,” and the wonderful reception accorded the horse and driver IJ. Shaw) when lie won the Ferguson Handicap was of the kiknd all connected with the horse might well feel proud of. Immediately it was seen that (Jewel Pointer had settled Black Lila and had the race won. the crowd began to cheer, and from the stewards' and members’ stands there w s a warm round of applause, while Mr Moodabe, the owner, had to undergo much handshaking • . • The Rowley rase at Christchurch, with the series of findings in connection therewith, has served to revive recollections when the rules operating in New Zealand laid it down that an “obvious pull” was a question of fact, and was not subject to appeal. A ease that cropped up (says “Phaeton”) at Wanganui in the winter of 1911, it may be remarked, played a part in bringing about an alteration of the arbitrary rule. The rider of Napper—a horse owned by the rate Mr J. D. Ormond, who finished second in the Kaitoke Hurdle Race—was disqualified for 12 months. An appeal was lodged bv the jockey, and the judges appointed to hear the same were Sir George Clifford and Messrs T. W. Stringer and P. Miller. The appeal of the jockey was upheld and the disqualification quashed. The judgment delivered stated that the stewards took up the running of Nanner on their own intiative. and that it was the plain duty of the stewards to distinctly notify the jockey of the charge against him and to afford him an opportunity of calling evidence. In failing to do this, the proceedings were held to be irregular, and on these grounds the appeal would be upheld. Motions were submitted for an alteration of the rule t subsequent meetings of the Racing Conference, but it was not until the session of 1916 that the rule took its present form, which reads:—“The decision of the stewards as respects a cross, or jostle, or a pull, shall be conclusive, and not subject to appeal, unless a disqualification for a longer period than 14 days is thereby entailed.”-- “Phaeton” in Auckland “Herald.”

It has been decided to ease up the Rossendale colt Ramulus, Sydney's champion two-year-old brother to Rampion, and he will not race till next autumn. The colt is in splendid health, and shows no ill effect of his early racing. It is stated that G. Price intends to send Rawhetu back to New Zealand for a spell. Wiualot ; who is under the same trainer, is to be offered at auction next month. Nassau has not done much good at the stud since going to Australia. For the period extending from August 1 to October 31 of this season he had three winners of five races worth £3095, and the main contributor, Affirm, was bred in New Zealand. • a • At a sale of horses in Melbourne during the racing carnival, Meteoric, a five-year-old brother to Battlement, was disposed of for 70gns. He cost I2oogns. as a yearling, but he has so far been a complete failure as a racehorse, having earned no penny of stakes to help pay for his oats. » » » In the programme for the summer meeting of the Australian Jockey Club the Chisholm Stakes is included, so named to perpetuate the memory and good work of the late Mr. Harry Chisholm, who was for many years a committeeman of the club. FormerS' the race was known as the Flying andieap, one of the five races of that name run at Randwick at meetings of the club. Spearfelt, who goes to the stud with the fine record as one of the best stayers that have graced the turf in Australia, has been transported to the Garraberb Stud in Victoria. Speartelt has proved himself a very worthy grandson of Carbine, and, as he is a horse of true masculine physique, he is regarded as a most promising sire. The only Sydney trainer who has a horse engaged in the £4500 Port Adelaide Cup is George Price, who is represented by Kentle, winner of the last Brisbane Cup. Kentle is also in the A.J.C. Summer Cup, so that there is no certainty that he will go to Adelaide. He cannot run in both races. The Kenilworth gelding, who carried only 6.12 when he won the Brisbane trophy, was subsequently bought for a patron by Price at 1500 guineas. ■ Arrangements have already been made by Mr. E. Moss for the placing of his horses when F. Williams retires from training at the beginning of next year, says the Sydney “Sun. Sion will go into G. Price’s stables, and Vaals will be taken over by F. J. Marsden. Price, who has previously trained for Mr. Moss, was given first choice, and in the younger brother of Vaals lie has excellent material on which to work. Sion is still a maiden, but he has won £B6O in place-money, and gives every indication of developing into a good horse.

A thrilling duel was witnessed at the end of the 2i-mile Cesarewitch, the first leg of the English Autumn double. A tremendous cheer went up when the popular Gordon Ritchards took the second favourite. Saint Reynard, to the front within the last mile, but his mount was gradually worn down by the fourth favourite, Eagle’s Pride, who got up in the last couple of strides to win by a head. The winner’s trainer, E. Martin, had ridden Don Juan to win the Cesarewitch 44 years ago. At the time Martin scaled only 4st., and he rode the winner at 5.10. • • • Argentine buyers of English thoroughbreds pay higher prices than Australians are prepared to offer, A few weeks ago one of them gave £19,000 for Adam’s Apple, the Poinmern colt that won the Two Thousand Guineas this season, but failed subsequently in the Derby. This figure is beyond the limit of Australian breeders, even at the enhanced price of yearlings. It is not within cooee of the sum which would have to be paid for a Derby winner in England. Call Boy, who won the last Derby, was sold after his owner’s death for £70,000.

Writing from London on October 19th. the special correspondent ol the Christchurch “Press” pens the following :—Fifteen horses belonging to Mr. J B. Reid, the New Zealand owner, were offered for sale at Newmarket a few days ago, and brought him 7675 guineas. The first of the batch, the three-year-old gelding Starbrace, went to the bid of the British Bloodstock Agency representative at 800 guineas. There was naturally keen competition for the consistent five-year-old Rob, who eventually became the property of Mr. F,. H. Gregory at 1800 guineas. The two-year-old Phantasy, who has won three races and has always been in the first four, made 2000 guineas, to Mr. R. G. Heaton, The filly has done remarkably well for Mr. Reid, who paid only 100 guineas for her as a yearling. Others to make fair prices were Fraticelli, to Air. C. Taylor at COO guineas; Shipshape, to Mr. Cundell at 650 guineas; Spanish Wish, to Mr. Brendon at 460 guineas; and Aberdonian, to Mr. 8. B. Joel at 450 guineas.