Nelson Trots

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 25, 30 January 1937, Page 9 (Supplement)

Nelson Trots

FIELDS FOR TO-DAY. SINGLE-POOL BETTING. The Nelson Trotting Club’s meeting will be opened to-day. The betting will be single pool and well supported horses may be as under: — Brightwater Handicap: Gerfalcdfi and Margaret Parrish. Wakefield Handicap: Boltaire and Pukeuri. Motueka Handicap: Eopata and Vinco. Nelson Handicap: Ideal, Repeal and Red Flush. Foxhill Handicap: Native Tree and Gerfalcon. Murchison Handicap: Pukeuri and Tarn. Stoke Handicap: Happi, Little Derby and Abyssinian King. Riwaka Handicap: Red Flush, Loretta and Great Chum. THE ACCEPTANCES.

TROTTING FIXTURES. January 28, 30: Forbury Park T.C. January 30, February 1: Nelson T.C.

NAPIER PARK CLUB An increase of over £4OO in the stake money has been made by the Napier Park Racing Club for its meeting to be held at the Napier Park racecourse on Friday and Saturday, March 5 and 6. The main event of the meeting is the Napier Cup, of £215, which includes a cup valued at £ls, donated by Major Kerr Smiley, whose horses are well known on New Zealand and Australian courses. The stake for this race, the Napier Park Cup (hack conditions) is believed to be the biggest given in Hawke’s Bay for one race since the earthquake. The trainer of the winner of this raco will be presented with a stop watch donated by Mr Oswald Nelson. Owing to the poor support accorded the hurdle races—there being only four starters in each hurdle race last year—the committee has decided to put on two jumpers’ flat- races in their place. The committee has also granted permission for visiting horses to uso the club’s horse boxes free of charge. In recent years it has been found that the facilities offered at the members’ bar were too small and it has been decided to install a new bar for the meeting. Nominations for the meeting will close on Friday, February 12, at 8 p.m. WOODVILLE SUMMER MEETING NOMINATIONS ON MONDAY Owners and trainers are reminded that nominations for all events at the summer meeting of the Woodville District Jockey Club, to be held on Saturday and Monday, February 20 and 22 are due to close at eight o’clock next Monday. MONEY COMES BACK TO GAME One of the primary objects for tho formation of the Betting Control Board in England was that a reasonable proportion of the profits gained by totalisator operations throughout the country should be expended for the good of racing in general. In this manner a lot of money has come back to the game, and in reply to a question in the House of Commons recently, the Home Office UnderiSecretary stated that tho Board anticipated that a sum of approximately £120,000 would be available for distribution this year. The money will be used for purposes conducive to the improvement of breeds of horses or the sport of racing, or the advancement and encouragement of veterinary science and education.

GREAT MARE’S ANCESTORS j In F. M. Prior’s review of the halfbred horses successful in England, there is the following reference to that good stayer, Quashed( who is ineligible for inclusion in the English Stud Book: “Quashed’s family history dates back to about the year 1847, when her earliest known ancestress, a Perion mare, made the journey from Dunchurch, near Rugby, into the neigh-

bouring county of Stafford, to be mated jwith Melobourne, then standing at the Bonehill Stud, near Tamworth, and • whose fee to half-bred mares was five , guineas. “The resulting produce was the mare i who founded the Birdhill family, which, in course of time has produced two colts i placed in the Derby—-Curzon, second to ■ Sir Visto in 1895, and Thankerton, . third to Mahmoud and Taj Akbar this ■ year, and also third in the Two Thousand Guineas.”

12.30— BRIGHTWATER HANDICAP, of £80; 3.49 class; l's miles. Gerfalcon scr Dollar Maid 36 Wahrungu scr Billy Bingen 48 Bell Heather 24 Wrackless 96 Margaret Parrish 24 1.5— WAKEFIELD HANDICAP, of £85 3.43 class; 1J miles. Loyal Avis scr Tarn Northern Guy scr Boltaire 24 Pukeuri 1.40— MOTUEKA HANDICAP, of £100; 8.40 class; 1J miles. King Author scr Travelwell Marina Red Glow scr First Aid 24 Ropata scr Epilogue 36 2.20— NELSON TROTTING CLUB HANDICAP, of £175 4.48 class; 2 miles. Grand Author scr Ideal 12 Great Chum scr Irish Peach 24 Loretta scr Native Cole 24 Red Flush scr Repeal 24 Reno scr Starvale 36 Slippery Sam scr Activity 48 Superb 2.55— FOXHILL HANDICAP, of £90; 5.7 class; 2 miles. Gerfalcon scr Billy Bingen 72 Wahrungu scr Tommy Boy 96 Bell Heather 24 Lucky Rose 108 Dollar Maid 4S Native Tree 120 3.30— MURCHISON HANDICAP, of £85 3.5 class; 11 miles. Lola Bingen scr Well worthy Loyal Avis sc.* Boltaire 24 Northern Guy scr Truman 24 Pukeuri scr Marina 36 Tarn 4.5— SAOKE HANDICAP, of £90; 3.2 class; 11 miles. King Author scr First Aid 42 Red Glow scr Abyssinian Relax scr King 24 Ropata scr Atarau King 24 Travisque scr Little Derby 24 Vinco scr Happi 36 4.40— RIWAKA HANDICAP, of £120; 2.57 class; 1J miles. Eastern Prince scr Trada Glencree scr Ideal 12 Great Chum scr Irish Peach 12 Loretta scr Native Cole 12 Red Flush scr Repeal 12 Reno scr Starvale Slippery Sam scr Activity S6 Superb scr