SPORTING.

Hutt News, Volume 2, Issue 35, 6 February 1930, Page 11

SPORTING.

NOTES AND COMMENTS

Though Paper Money easily headed the sires '■ list in New Zeaaind last season with 79 wins, 232 placings, and a ■total of-22,067 -soy's, and Lucullus folowed him with 16,439 soys., it is not generally known that Paper Money V progeny racing in -Australia placed him '.eleventh on the Australian list with 25 winners of 41* races for 12.053 soys. His total for Australasia was. 34, 120 soys., which placed him second to Magpie. Paper Money two-year-olds during the, last Reason won no less than 13j660 soys. ■• •■ - ' . •• ' ■ ''•''.'■. The finish for the Tieh Piinlico Fu- ! turity Stakes in America last month resolved itself into' a. two^horse race. A great race took place between Plying Heels (who won by a nose) and Spinach, whose rider lodged, a protest on the ground of interference. It- was dismiss- , cd. The nearest.of the other horses, Gala day was -«even length; away.' The value of ther stake is 55,000 dollars (£11,000). The race is for two-year olds. Flying Heels is a bay colt by Flying Ebony from Heeltaps, by Ultimus. Flying •Ebony is by The Finn, from Princess Mary, by Hessian. The colt has won' seven races this season valued! at £16,000.

. A world.'s record for one mile and a-half was put .up at Leicester (England) in the recent, racing season. Boi dcs Auba.es, in winning the July Handi* cap, ran the mile and a:half in 2.26 2-5. The previous best figures 'for the distance were 2,20 3-5 by' Gauntlet at. Newmarket 12 months earlier.- The fastest American time for -this,distance Us 2.28 3-5 by Handy Mandy.'.at Latonia, in Kentucky, wlrile the best Australasian figures are 2.29^ shared by Gothic Vana Kidaides. Boi dcs Atilnes ig a .four-year-old bay gelding my Winter King from Flyaway,, and is trained by Lord Westmorland at Badminton. .: Another good-horse is going, .into the stable of ■S. Darling (trainer of Streplion for .ne^it-year's racing in' England). This is Ballyferris, tie best two-year-'bld to race in Ireland last season. He is said td be the best type of hors*e bred in Ireland for years—so that he must be "..pome class. He is a .dart bay by Apron out .of-..Gilford,'-, by Corcyra and belongs tothe No. 22 fairiily which also produced Ti-jgo, -Dpi-by aifd Leger winner. Apron >vns bitoft.by Sir Abe BaUey, , He is hj •the' brilliant.. Son-in-tjaw> from^Aprille, by Chaucer (St. Simon—^Canterbury Pilgrim) froTii Japoniea fey Lord1 Lome. Apron belongs to the No. 5 family, which

lifts pirt)duced''!!4 Derby winners. "He is a young sire, nsKe" was. foaled; in/1920. V

In this machine age there ,is . every 7-oason why the'horse'should cbntiriue to j^ain in. popula^'ity: People do not exercise sufficiently. _;The' automobile ..l-'as; made walking unnocessary. Everybody i'ides.v But congested traf&c hais eliiriin■Atßd much, of? the arid autos aje now tilings to; use to •" get i somewhere. Miieh. r o£ its inerifcvas 'a pleasure device lias been 'bliriiinatecT^ is lacking. Some groups >of;^horse lovers realise that the. youth of to-day will be healthier arid x stronger at maturity if they take an interest in the horse. In pursuance of this "policy associations are. being .encQuraged to give races for yputhftil 1 drivers^ while the inatinee clubs are seeking^a way to reinstate Young America as prominent I contenders forribbons^. and cups. It is j well that such is the ease. An active brain

in ji -Healthy body .is,a real asset for the itftiiori. Arid it Js a greater asset for the .spirit, of sportmanship that, is imbibed in these contests and this spirit of fairness, the desjre for-an even break only, 'is carried, intb the business of mature h" fe. American ' ( BtorsemSri. ''

T3he working of the totalisator at Hurst Park recently, was of more than prclnnaty interest, because. of the fact thai; for the first time in a southern race-

course three, synchronised electric indicators were operated (says "Sporting Life>%; An official of the the. Hurst Park totalisator, in v explaining the plans of the engineers, said: "The Hurst Park installation is the only three-indi-. cator totalisator in the World. A fullymechanised "tote** will be running for the public use in April."The company can have the installation working •by that time if no delays are" occasioned. The fully-mechanised * tote* will handle 12,000 "bets per minute.' Immediately a bet is made it will "be recorded-automa-tically on the indicator board at the same instant as the punter receives his

check. The installation at Hurst Park is constructed of entirely detachable

anitri. uf xaree i.iv»i.;utor uo<uus can show the Letting on 40 horses and each Horse is allotted a separate and self-contained unit. If required, any given number^ of units can be detached!, and sent o another part of the country, and alternately, can be added to, .to cope with large meetings such as' at Epsom, etc, making, say six indicator boards if required. ,