Racing Bits and Turf Tattle

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 185, 30 March 1932, Page 2

Racing Bits and Turf Tattle

HORSES AND fiORSEMEN. ( ' BROTHER TO PHAR LAP. Nightguard's win at Waimate was not the first return he had made towards the 1500 guineas that was paid for him as a yearling, as he had pr eviously secured a small amount in place money. All told the brother to Phar Lap must be about £2000 in debit, and if there is anything in the suggestion that • he is going in the wind, he will find -it hard to balance his budget. Without Foundation. * " A paragraph is going the rounds to the effect that The Smuggler struck himself behind recently and had been eased np in his work. The report was absolutfely without foundation, arid the son of Balboa has gone on the right way since he last raced. Jockey's Feat. A New York paper of February 6 reports that at Buenos Aires shortly before the date mentioned a jockey named Ireneo Lequisamo, an Argentine rider, rode seven winners in a day's card of eight races and finished second in the eighth. This is claimed to be a world's record. Touts Puzzled. Weatherstep has the Trentham touts completeiy prizzled. Before the Wellington meeting she reeled off brilliant galiops with almost monotonous regularity. In her two starts at the meeting she failed to gain a place. Liick Aga'ihst Him. Revoking a decision made a few weeks ago, G. W. New, owner of King Colossus, decided to race the chestniit three-year-old at the Wellington meetiiig. Kirig Colossus failed so badly at Woodville and Bulls that it was decided to spell him. Before the decision could be given effect to he showed a sudden improvement in track form, and that led to his being taken to Trentham. He made a moderate showing in the St. Leger, and a surprisingly good one in the Autumn Handicap on the second day. In the Autumn Handicap .he was going very well when interference sent him right back. Half a mile from home he was running last, but he finished so well that there were only four in front of him when the winning-post was reached. First Success. When Crash won the Waitangi Hack Handicap at Waimate, he scored his first success since he was acquired early last year, by the well-known trotting trainer, G. S. Donald, from his breeder, Mr. V. Riddiford. In the interval he had been second three times, those being his only moneyearning efforts. Liverpool National Winner. Forba, the winner of the Liverpool Grand National Steeplechase, is a six-year-old gelding. Last season he scored a win and a second over hurdles and finished unplaced in three other starts. His change from hurdles to the big country at Aintree has been remarkably rapid as it is generally considered that winners over Liverpool fences take some time in the making. In the early part of January Forba was one of the rank outsiders, but towards the end of the month he grew in favour. Egremont, who ran second to' Forba, also ran in modest company last season. He won four races over country amongst hunters and ran second in another out of seven starts. Shaun Goilin. who finished third, won last year's Liverpool Grand National Steeplechase, under 11.7 or 111b less than he carried this year.

, Good Tactics. The policy of not hurrying Tout le Mond is Jikely to he well rewarded. This good-looking colt raced disdppointingly earlier in the season, aiid it was decided to take him along gently in the hope that he would coine right in the late autumn of his first season or in his second season. His sutcess at Tlentham is very encouraging, and the half-brother to Aspian. will be confidently looked to to go on to better things. Promismg Youngster. One of the most promising young horses at the Wellington meeting was The Quorn, the three-year-old black gelding by Hunting Song from Flagship, owned by Dr. M. G. Louisson, and trained by T. Lloyd at Riccarton. Lloyd has a high opihion of this gelding, who has been hard- to train on account of soreness, but Jie has developed very quickly and fortunately it does not take much hard work to. bring him to form. He had had only two sholt sprints prior to breakiiig his maiden status at Dunedin last month, and he has come on very quickly since then. Dr. Louisson paid 525 guineas for The Quorn at the Trentham yearling saies. He was bred by Mr. R. W. Todd, of Opotiki, and is a half-brother to Naney Lee. Sale of Tirotters, Five hundred attended the sale of Mr. H. F. Nicholl's trotters. Bidding was not brisk. A. J. Nicoll bought Arethtisa for 424gns., Bracken for "230gns., and Wrackler for 225gns. G. H. Nicoll purehased Ciro at 175gns. Other saies werfe: Grahela to F. Richards (Geraldine), 12Sgn§; Gatwich, Captain Godfrey (Wanganui), 20gns.; Air, a Tasmanian huyer, 37|gns.; Pearl Pointer, McDonald Bros. (Methven), 13gns.; Reclaim, F. Holmes (Riccarton), 100gns.; Lorella, R. McKewan (Ashburton), 22gns.; Wrackeen, W. J. Robertson (Ashburton), 70gns. Wrack was passed at 500gns, and First Wrack at 280gnS. Saies on account of G. H. Nicoll were: Ruin, to J. F. McKendry (Lyndhurst), for 140gns.; Lady Swiathin, J. T. Paul (Auckland), 70gns . Another Spasm Another of those spasms of diligent duty, which oecasionally attack the police foree, in unexpected parts of the Dominion, resulted in nine bookmakers being charged in Dunedin last week for tote betting. It reaily amounts to a huge joke the manner in which the suppression of the bookmaker is gone about. Whenever a raid or an arrest is made, it's a guinea to a gooseberry that it is one of the small fry that is pinched, whilst in elaborate offices, and with a more attentive telephone service at his disposal than any leading business man, the big bookmaker sits at his ease and fears no foe. It would be the easiest tlfing in the world to round up all the big men in the game to-day, as their place s of business are well known to the police, but small fish are sweet to Robert when he goes hunting. The sooner the laws of the country license a bookmaker to follow his calling so much the better will it be for the morale of the people and the country's exchequer, says a southern writer.