STABLE AND TRACK.

North Otago Times, Volume CVII, Issue 17167, 25 March 1927, Page 2

STABLE AND TRACK.

Boimy Logan on 4.29 in the Timaru Cup! She -would not have been favourite on 4.33. ! Sea Hawk, a winner at the Wyndj hani Trotting Club's meeting, is a son of the champion Great Bingen. The pacer Locanda Mac has again .changed his address, and is now a paying guest at J. Messervey's establishment King's Folly (King Mark — Hoy)-, who i-fd the fel-l home in the Tinakori F>.nd;cap at Trentham, is a brotLe/ to Anomaly aad Snatcher. Shirley is a half-sister. Rumours are current that a wellknown trainer is being required to furnish the Trotting Association with particulars of some transactions in horseflesh with which it is alleged he was associated. The Yictorian jockey F. Dempsey, who lately returned after a couple of seasons in England, was out of luck at the V.R.C. autumn meeting. He piloted eight second and three third horses without notching a victory. Evidently the A.J.C. handicapper was not unduly impressed by the suggestions that Stormy was overrated. In the Doncaster Handicap, the Aucklander was allotted 7.12", or 191bs above the minimum, in the hardest mile race in Australia. Kid Logan has a lot of speed, but she is not a well-gaited pacer, and when she breaks she slips about in disconcerting fashion. The halfsister to Waitaki Girl at present is an uncertain investment for backers. but if she ever becomes solid, her pace should carry her a long way. The Trentham Gold Cup enabled j Count Cavour to score his. third vic- j tory over Rapine. The track was ! not to the liking of the Martian j gelding, who is a bad actor in the j mud, and this time defeat could not i be attributed to b^.d riding. It seems, however, that the Count can not win a w.f.a. race unless Rapin" and R. Reed are engaged; When Terence Dillon was handicaped on 4.34 at Wellington, afterrunning unplaced off 4.36 at For- ' bury, his owner scratched him imme- j diately and asked for an explanation of the horse's adjustment. Terence Dillon has not raced in the interval, but he was placed on 4.34 again in the Timaru' Trotting Cup — and has been accepted for. Author Jinks has been, in tbe wars since his impressive effort at Addington in Februgry. He received a severe bump during shunting operations on the return trip from Christchurch, and later\sus~ ; tained a mysterious flesh wound. The brilliant young pacer is making a good recovery, but will not be ready to race for a w"eek or two. Trenand, who has been eight times second this season (ten times run-ner-up since his last win), was not badly treated on 4.31 in the -Timaru Trotting Cup, in view of his 4.29 4-5 at Addington. It was at the. Timaru meeting 18 months ago, that Mr Suttqn's unluclcy horse notched his last win, and it would have been a popular victory if he had been on hand and got the verdict on Saturday. Laughing Prince was put up to auction at Trentham on Friday last, and was purcbased by, F. Tiiley (acting for Mr T. A.. Duncan) at 1000 guineas. He made a quick y,eturn towards his cost by winning the Pacific Handicap on ,sSaturday. Laughing Pidnce, who.is by Quantock (imp. ), was secured in Australia as a yearling for Mr W. J. Jor- ! genson, for whom he won the Auck- | land Welcome Stakes. I Great Bingen's gross winnings to i date total about £12,000. Tanadees was sold during the Wellington meeting for 500gns, the bqyer being the Masterton trainer, B. Burgess. Native Chiefs mile at the Royal meeting was oue of the best registered in a handicap, from a flat-footed start, but it is hotnnearly equal to some of the fastCst'figures recorded from a movingj start. In Acron's Free-for-All the, jwinner's time was ,2.3 3-5, Realm went 2.3 4-5, and Logan Chief 2.4. 2r.5.

A northern writer states that one of the most promising young pacers seen out for a long time is Kid Logan. "Barring accidents, she will take a, high place among the pacing division next season." A lot of improvement .will have to be effected in the manners and " gait of the halfsister to Waitaki Girl before she joins select society. On. her first appearance at Kurow she nearly fell twice in the first hundred yards. At Oamaru she failed to begin correctly, at Waimate she refused to start at her first attempt, and she put in two bad breaks in the race which she won. The cable man in Sydney periodically ranks Windbag as a New Zealand horse. The Magpie horse has been trained by a New Zealander (G. Price), and his dam (Charleville), was bred in North Otago, but Windbag was sired by an English stallion and bred in Australia, so that the Dominion cannot claim him as one of her great ones. A Christchurch paper credits Thes- ; pian, 1.36 3-5, with the Australasian mile record. - Thespian's time is only the New Zealand best, the Australian figures being 1.36J, jointly held by The Hawlc and Amounis. Reremoana won the Auckland Easter Handicap last season with 9.11, in 1.37 3-5, establishing a time and weight-winning record for the race, and he was responsible' for a new record of 1.37 3-5 in the Thompson Handicap with 9.8. The plainlooking Hallowmas gelding is half a hundredweight better than his app'earance suggests, and is one of the best milers this side of thp line. Lysander has not won a race for months, and it is evident that the best has been seen of the Absurd gelding. "Bix months ago the North Island Challenge Stakes would have been a trot for the flying three-year-old, who, up to six furlongs, or even a mile, had had few superiors of his j ages in Australasia. The attempt to j win a Derhy with. him had the same ! disastrous results as have attended ; earlier essays to win classics with non-staying blood. - j Royal Feast's tptal earnings at the i conclusion of the Flemington meet- j ing, were £7000. IJnless some unto- : ward event has to he chronicled, the : King Offa youngster should rank as : the record-holder for a two-yeai'-old after the Champagne and Sires' Pro- ; duce Stakes are decided at Randwick. ; Royal Feast is the first two-year-old for over 50 years to win the Victorian treble — Maribyrnong Plate, Sires' Produce Stakes and Ascot Vale Stakes. He has only to win the A.J.C. Sires' Produce Stakes tto shatter Heroic's record for a two-year-old of £11,826. Gascony, who scored a surprise victory in the Great Northern Foal ; Stakes. at the Auckland summer ! meeting, downed another favourite 1 in the Challenge Stakes at Trentham, I and is entitled to serious considerai tion in connection with next season's | Derbies. He earried the maximum ! penalty last week, and equalled the ! record for the race (1.25), held by Silver Link, so that the performanee was an excellent one. In the mes,ntime, however, it piay he unwise to place too much reliance on the fact that he defeated Lysander. This one-time fiash of speed is probably ten or a dozen pounds 'worse than he was in the spring. It is good to read that Mr J. S. Barrett has scored over the Auckland Racing Club in its endeavour to override the Rules of Racing. s The Club's conditions have been framed ! to read: "Clifford Plate, of 650 sovs; second hors.e-100 sovs, third horse 50 sovs," the usual "from the stake" being omitted. The Rules, however. are quite clear on the point, and no club should he allowed to evade them. The last horse to win the two Derbies and New Zealand St. Leger — completed last week by Commendation — was Danube, a higk-class racehorse, but a rank failure at the stud. G. Jones, trainer of Commendation, is credited with assessing the dual Derby winner as the best horse he has handled. Which means that he rates Commendation as superior to Sasanof and Nigger Minstrel.

Mr J. S. Barrett is credited with. having designs on the wieght-for-age events at Randwick. Count Cavour's form does not measure up to tbe accepted standard for Randwick, but this year offers an unusually good opportunity to secure some of the very substantial place money. Manfrqd will he an absentee, Rampion is amiss, Windhag and Pantheon are under a cloud, and Spearfelt is not the way, and if Spearfelt is himself again, the Count will find the going hard. . Mr J. S. Barrett N has met the Minister of Racing (Hon. R. F. Bol- » iard) only twice. The first occasion I' was after the New Zealand Cup, and the second after the Gold Cup at Trentham. Mr Barrett is credited with being susceptible to a certain amount of superstitious feeling — his jockey usually carries a nine of spades — and probably he hopes to meet the Minister again shortly. ? Commendation's victory in the St. S Leger in record time, disposes of any | doubts concerning his staying ability, f and the Limond gelding is entitled ( to rank as the best three-year-old in , the Dominion. How he would fare j against Limerick can only be conjectured, but Limerick has not raced in feNew Zealand this season, and it is useless to attempt a comparison. Commendation has won the two Derbies and the New Zealand St. Leger, and has beaten all comers at his age. When Commendation hoisted an Australian record in the St. Leger, he had not had a race since New Year's Day. The crack three-year-old will probably do his Easter racing at Elderslie, where he should have an exercise canter in the Great Northern St. Leger. Owing to an oversiglit, he was not nominated for the Challenge Stakes at Riccarton, otherwise he niight have been a runner in the Great Easter. .' '