RACING NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26616, 12 November 1947, Page 8

RACING NEWS

By the Sporting Editor November 15 .. .. Southland R.C, November 15 .. .. Feilding J.C. November 15 .. .. Napier Park R.C. November 15 .. .. Waikato R.C. Jottings Martianair is a half-brother to Red Glare. Acceptances for the Southland meeting are due to-day. A. E. Didham has three representatives in the hurdle event at Invercargill—Foxchase, Money Bird and Hakim. Looks Backward Lunaria, who has been nominated for the hurdle race on the first day of the Cup meeting, is reported to be backward. Salmagundi Youngster King Gundi, who has been nominated for the two-year-old event at Invercargill, was got by Salmagundi from Perboa. When produced at the Wingatui spring meeting he was very intractable, and no line could be got on his speed. Whangarei Winner Faithful Knight, the winner of a division of the Kauri Handicap at the Whangarei meeting, is a four-year-old gelding 'by Medieval Knight from Duchess’s Daughter, by Captain Bunsby from Duchess Eudorus, by Eudorus from Acrospire, a mare tracing back to Yatterdon. Faithful Knight is trained by S. McGreal at Pukekohe. No Itchandicap The value of the Levin Handicap to the winner was £685, which rendered the successful horse liable to rehandicap if it was engaged in the New Zealand Cup. It could not affect Beau le Havre, however, as the rehandicapping conditions of the Cup specified that a winner after declaration of weights of any race or races of the collective value of £SOO or more to the winner could be handicapped, provided that no horse be rehandicapped to carry over weight-for-age. Beau le Havre’s New Zealand Cup weight is 9.3, which is 31b above weight-for-age for a four-year-old at two miles In November; therefore, the rehandicapping condition could not apply to him. Has the Breeding Grand Melee, the winner of a division of the Trial Stakes at the Banks Peninsula meeting, is bred to win races, being by Battle Song from Fracas, by Winning Hit from Scrimmage, by Antagonist from Mad Whirl, by Treadmill. A Strong Hand With Longsword and Royal Tan to represent him, Mr G. Lang has a strong hand in the New Zealand Cup. Although Longsword may not be a dyed-in-the-wool two-milcr, he won the Wellington Handicap, of a mile and a-half, with 9 2 and defeated Bruce at level weights in' the Harcourt Stakes, of 11 furlongs —two outstanding performances. Royal Tan a brother to Bruce, has yet to prove that he is in the same class as his relation, but he was fighting on at the end of the Wellington Handicap, to be second to Longsword, his bracketed mate. Fie should play a prominent part in the big handicaps ahead.