AUSTRALIAN TURF REVIEW

Southland Times, Issue 24239, 24 September 1940, Page 9

AUSTRALIAN TURF REVIEW

HIGH OPINION HELD OF-TIDAL WAVE

BEAU VITE’S DEFEAT OF HIGH CASTE By SIR MODRED Tidal Wave, winner of the Rosehill Guineas, was an expensive yearling at Trentham. In the Dominion T. R. George trams Beau Vite; in Sydney F. McGrath ‘acts as mentor. ' . The first acceptance left 36 in tne Epsom Handicap and 44 eligible for the Metropolitan (Im. sfur.). Nightbeam, a brilliant New Zealandbred colt, will race in the A.J.C. Derby for a Sydney owner. The V.R.C. October meeting takes place on the opening day of the A.J.C. spring races—October 5. New Zealander S. W. Reid, now of Melbourne, is training a successful flatracer in Historian. The V.R.C. leading event of October 5, the Edward Manifdld Stakes, of £lOOO (Im.) is for juvenile fillies. t Descendants of Portofino (imp., and by Sansovino) are now racing well as youthful gallopers in Victoria. The three days’ Caulfield Cup meeting opens on October 12 and will be staged on the V.R.C. Flemington course. " The crack jockey D. Munro will pilot Beaulivre in the Epsom Handicap (lm.) and Reading in the Metropolitan Handicap. S. W. Reid’s pupil Historian, by Beau Fils, by Son-in-Law, is the ruling favourite for the Caulfield Cup under 8.4. The 2000 guinea yearling colt by Bulandshar from Tea Tattle is training on well in Melbourne.

The Moonee Valley Gold Cup, of £3OOO (lm. sfur.) is not to be reduced in value under war conditions.

While Maikai is the ruling favourite for the Melbourne Cup Beau Vite is a second selection.

The Warwick Farm September meeting will be held at Randwick tomorrow (Wednesday). A few of the leading entrants for the Australian J.C.’s important spring meeting opening on October 5 (four days) will take part. BY THE BUZZARD True Flight, the four-year-old horse, who started favourite and won the Mentone Cup (lim.) on Saturday, is a son of The Buzzard (imp.), sire of many stayers. The Adjutant, a smart winner at Mentone last week, ranks as a V.R.C. Derby and Melbourne Cup candidate. His sire, Marabou, accountc- 1 for the Melbourne Cup in 1935. Veilmond’s progeny have been strongly in evidence since the new season opened last month. The New- Zealandbred son of Limond was a good racehorse in Australia.

Geebung, the five-year-old horse returned as winner of the A.I.F. Handicap at Randwick last week, is bred to stay. He is by Bold and Bad (imp., and by Swynford, sire of Blandford) from Western Lass, by Westcourt (a Melbourne Cup winner) from Wolaroi Lass, by Kenilworth (imp., France) from Widden Lass by Maltster. The acceptance lists for the two leading handicap events of the Australian J.C. spring meeting afford striking tributes to the quality of New Zealand-bred horses through the estimates of weight adjusters. In the Epsom Handicap, run October 5 (lm.), the topweights are Beau Vite 9.6, High Caste 9.5, Mildura (Australia) 9.4, Beaulivre 9.4. The Metropolitan Handicap, run October 7 (lm. sfur.), is headed by Mosaic (N.Z.) 9.11, Beau Vite 9.4, Buzalong (Aus.) 9.2, Reading (Aus.) 9.0, Beaulivre 9.0. Lower in the long distance race list comes the New Zealanders Beaupartir 8.9, Maligigi 8.6, Yours Truly 8.2 and Gladynev 8.0. It will be noted that Gladynev has 8.0, as compared with 6.7 in the Caulfield Cup to be decided on Melbourne. The result of the Rosehill Guineas, of £lOOO, for three-year-olds (lm. lfur.), decided at Randwick on Saturday, was satisfactory to New Zealand studmasters, as Tidal Wave, who prevailed over the Victorian colts Pandect (second) and Lucrative (third), was bred in the Dominion. Disposed of at the New Zealand National Yearling Sales last year to the nod of the Sydney trainer J. T. Jamieson at 1450 guineas on behalf of Mrs C. C. Galbraith, of N.S.W., the colt is a half-brother to Yours Truly, by Siegfried (imp.), winner of last season’s New Zealand Cup. Tidal Wave is by Tiderace (imp., and by Fairway, by Phalaris) from .My Own (one of the Dominion’s premier brood mares), by Lord Quex (imp., and’ by Lemberg) from Tressida, by Tressady (imp.) from Princess Melton, a mare whose dam, Chand Bee Bee (imp.) founded a great Australian family. Tidal Wave has important spring engagements in the Derbies and other races.

The success of Beau Vite in winning the Hill Stakes, weight-for-age, with penalties and allowances (Im.), at Randwick on Saturday, will be received with gratification in New Zealand. This is explained to a great extent by the fact that he proved himself the Dominion champion juvenile of last season. It will also not be forgotten that it was recently written in Australia that Beaulivre was “the best horse to cross the Tasman Sea in 10 years.” New Zealanders did not hold ■with this contention in the light of what happened in the Dominion last year, and the fact that Beau Vite stayed out the Melbourne Cup until the last quarter furlong, and it was known that he was hardly at his best at that time—he returned home to develop champion form. In the Hill Stakes his party had the early market to themselves and were enabled to back him at a quote approaching twenties, while his starting price was a surprisingly remunerative one. High Caste (second) and Reading (unplaced) were equal favourites. Like many other high-class racers, Beau Vite can both sprint and stay on as the occasion demands. He is by Beau Pere (imp.), son of one of the world’s greatest stayers and progenitors of stoutness. Beau Vite’s dam, Dominant, is by Martian (imp.) from Lovelorn (imp.), by Melton from Hebrew Maid (imp.). The Wellington-owned four-year-old races for Mr R. Stewart. The horse’s personal attendant, who previously visited Australia with the crack, is J. Bromby, of Invercargill, a sturdy lad who avers that his charge is the Australasian champion.

ROSEHILL GUINEAS WINNER

TIDAL WAVE IS BRED TO STAY

Tidal Wave, who won the Rosehill Guineas from Pandect and Lucrative on Saturday, is bred to run a distance. He is from the New Zealand mare, My Own, who won several races of 12 furlongs. She was c half-sister of the New Zealand Derby winner, Runnymede, and dam of the New Zealand Cup winner, Yours Truly. My Own is by Lord Quex (imp.), sire of the Melbourne Cup winner. Catalogue, and other stayers, from Tressida, winner of the Great Northern Oaks, by Tressady (imp.) from Princess Melton, halfsister of the Melbourne Cup winner, Piastre, by Duke Melton (imp.) from Chand Bee Bee (imp.), third dam of Amounis and ancestress of Eurythmic

and Furious, a winner of the Victoria Derby. Tiderace (imp.), sire of Tidal Wave, is a son of Fairway, one of the greatest of English sires, from Panic, second hi the Oaks, and dam of stayers, by Hurry On, one of the greatest sires of stamina, from Volcanic, by Corcyra.