Racing Bits and Turf Tattle

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 242, 2 June 1932, Page 2

Racing Bits and Turf Tattle

HORSES AND HORSFaEN. .

PAHU'S NEXT ATl'EMPT. Pahu, who created a favourable ittipressiott in his first two hurdling attempts at the Manawatu meeting last month, was not engaged for the Egmont and Wanganui meetings, but he will prohahly be coritinuing along the path of his n'ew career at Otaki next month. He has done well in his work and schooling at Trenthana sinfce the Manawatu meeting. Lucky Cluhs The r'acing and trotting cluhs in ; Ashburton have beeh singttlarly lucky in the weather that has favoured their meetings in the past few years, for since the present secretary has been ih o'ffice, there has not been a really wet day for any race meeting (says the Guardian). There have been days when rain fell in the morning, but the afternoon was fine, and there have been days when light

showers fell during the meeting, but this was only on about two oeeasions. Usually the sun has shone brightly at the meetings'. Evidently the secretary is regarded as sn mascot. Confidently Svipported. The fouf-year-old gelding Lochard, by Hunting Song — Vtennackar, was confidently supported by his eonnections in the Seadown Handicap at Amberley. As the saying is, he was never seen. This may not have been his fault, as the only. horses of the 1 eight runhers who did attract any notice were Crash and Red Royal. They were out by themselves from. end to end, and nothing got near them. At Ashburton Lochard is engaged in the Longbeach Hack Handicap, in which he will carry the minimum, 9.0. The high scale of weights may stiit him better than the lower minimum at Amberley'. Haverihg Also Goes. * Ephialtes was not the only NeW Zealand horse to leave on the Marama for Sydney recently, for also on board was Havering, whom Mr. J. Corcoran was sending over to enter G. Price's stable at Randwick. Havering indicated at Wanagntii rece^ntly that he is in good order, although he has not wori a race for 15 months, and he will race at the Australian Jockey Cluh's winter meeting next month, where there are plenty of raoes on the flat to suit him. Concerning Amdilni«. There is some talk of bringing Amounis baek to see ,if he will stand a proparation for further racing. One thing is eertain. If the trainer, Franlc McGrath, is of the opinion that racing will injure the old fellow, Amounis will be returned to the paddocks to end Eis days in luxury. Should he thrive on training, however, there is a chanee that he will pick up a race and add to his record. Amounis H one of the grand:est warriors to grace the Australian turf, and it is perhaps interesting to note that he has covered in acual racing one furlong 1'ess than 85 miles. He has still a long way to go to pass the record of old David, whose racing accounted for 97 miles 2 furlongs, of which 145 miles were done as a two-year-old. Amounis covered only 1| miles at this age, his most strenuous year being as a five-year-old,. when he racsd on 19 oeeasions and strode over 22 miles all but half a furlong. This year was a comparatively la'an one for stakes, for he won only three races and £4617 in stakes. In his career his earnirigs to the mile of racing amounted to approximately . £568.

Two Poitrel Victories. Iln the course of a lengthy narration of the exploits of the recently deceased Poitrel, a Melbourne writer mentions two of special intei'Ost to N'ew Zealanders. "Poitrel," he says, "provided the sensation of the A.J.C. Spring c'arnival of 1918. Desert Gold, who was then at the height of her fame, went to the pdst at 4 to 1 on favourite for the Spring Stakes, the race being generally regarded as at her merey. Her admirers, however, reckoned without Poitrel. Again the son of St. Alwyne displayed his wonderf ul grit in a tight finish. K. Bracken rode Poitrel, while Desert Gold had J. O'Shea to guide her. Both rode vigorously, whips were hrought int'o play, and Poitrel, a 25 to 1 chance, lowered the colours of the odds-on favourite by a short head. . . . "It was in the follbwing season that another of those fighting finishes for which Poitrel had now become famous characterised the A.J.C. Spring

Stakes, of 1919, when ne ciereatea tne mighty Gloaming by a head." "A Terrible Blow." The Australian journalist, Mr. H. A. Wolfe, who went to Agua Caliente to report Phar Lap for a syndicate of papers and returned via Auckland, spoke enthusiastically of the manner in which he and other Australian? were treated at Agua Caliente (Mexico) , and said that the reception Phar Lap received after his win was perhaps greater even than when he won the Melbourne Cup. "Phar Lap's death was a terrible blow, not only to his connections, but to the sportloving public of Ameriea, who had taken the 'Red Terror' to their hearts. He won at Agua Caliente in.a common canter," said Mr. Wolfe, "and I have no doubt that he would, with ordinary luck in training, whave remained unbeaten in the United States. He would have earned a fabulous amount in stakes, and in movie picture contracts, possibly something „like half a million dollars." Alarming Possibilities. Some months ago rather alarming possibilities were opened Up for racing cluhs and others by a decision in an English court awarding £16,000 damages to Mr. C. Chapman in connection with a doping case. Don Pat, a horse belonging to Chapman, was admittedly doped at Kempton Parlc, and the stswards of the Jockey Club disqualified the horse and "warned off" the trainer. The finding was reported in the Official Calendar and other papers. Chapman proceeded against the Jockey Club, the publishers of the Calendar and others, for defamation, and was awarded. £16,000 damages. The Appeal Court has quashed the award of £13,000 against the Jockey Club and the Calendar, and ordered a new trial in other cases. This will perhaps have the effect of killing a New Zealand court action. Exiles to S.A. According to advices from Capetown, South Africa, the three yearlings (two colts and a filly) purchased by Sir Joseph Robinson in New Zealand in February, arrived by the Nestor early last month and, considering the four weeks they had been on the water, they were landed in remarkably . good condition. The colts were by Paper Money and Lord Quex respectively, and the filly was by Chief Ruler. They were originally purchased at the January saies on behalf of a New York buyer, but the deal, owing to eertain diffieulties, was not completed. Sir Joseph subssquently bought them while they were still in the Trentham sale yards.