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Sporting WINNERS FROM GORE TRACK

SUCCESS OF HORSES TRAINED- THERE Bashful Lady’s successes at Christchurch draw attention to the deeds of horses trained on the Gore track during the last season. In addition to the good prizes won by Bashful Lady, the Southland Cup and the Awarua Handicap were won by Fidelis and the Otago Hurdles was won by Phalanx. Those and other pickings made it a good season for Gore-trained horses. _ The Gore track has a good surface and training is carried out on the course when in some other parts of Southland the conditions are almost "impossible.” Inquiry "Interested” (Invercargill): More ma n likely. It all depends what view the handicapper takes of the performance. The horse won decisively and he may be weighted as a winner.

Won Last Year Merry Simon, the iron horse of racing in New Zealand, won the Seaview Hurdles at the Otago Hunt last year with 9.10 on his back. This year he is weighted at 11.0 and will meet a much stronger class than he met last year. Merry Simon’s record in the last two years has been a particularly consistent one. In 26 consecutive starts he was out of a place only six times. Heidelberg Heidelberg’s form at Christchurch points to the Lord Warden gelding playing a prominent part in the races for which he has been entered at the Otago Hunt on September 5. The mile and a-half of the Seaview Hurdles will suit him. He is also in the Hunters’ Flat, and although asked to carry 11.39 he should race well in that event.

Fancy Goods Fancy Goods has not raced since she ran a creditable second to Rainstorm at Oamaru in May. In that race she went 3.29 1-5 for a mile and a-half and beat the remainder of the field just as easily as she was beaten by the winner. At the Otago Hunt she is off the point of a 3.43 class.

Kindergarten Kindergarten has been scratched for the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups.

Missing , , G. R. Tattersail, the well-known jockey, is reported missing in the Middle East.

New Zealand Cup The New Zealand Cup meeting this year is to be held on November 28 and December 5. Trots At Trentham

The Wellington Trotting Club’s next meeting is to be held at Trentham. This will be the first occasion on which harness races have been run there. The New Brighton Trotting Club has found it necessary to transfer its next meeting to Addington. Slipped A slippery patch not far from the winning post at Riccarton seemed to be responsible for Palfrey’s defeat in the Islington Handicap. He slipped and stumbled there, and this enabled Rakanul to overhaul him. AU Night jumped the patch when doing his preliminary for the next race, and a dressing of sand was then applied. It is possible that the same patch brought about Gay Boa’s skid in the Lincoln. Renascor

It is noticeable that during the past 12 months the majority of the winners of the principal jumping races in New Zealand and AustraUa have been won by performers of aristocratic breeding. The latest is Renascor, winner of the Grand National Hurdles. A useful galloper across the flat and a smart jumper, he is descended from one of the best maternal lines in the Dominion—that founded by the imported English mare Mermaid—while the credentials of his sire are above reproach, writes Sir Modred. He is by the imported English horse Musketoon (son of Stedfast), whose progeny have won as flat racers and jumpers. In female line his dam was Snowshoe, by KUbroney from Snowstell, by Clanranald from Safeguard, by Maxim from Teredo, by Apremont from Nautilus, by Traducer from Waterwitch, by Camden from Mermaid. Students of breeding wifi recognize that this maternal Hne is one of the foremost known in the South Island. Of the sires concerned their progeny to a marked degree adapted themselves to the jumping game. KUbroney was the sire of many good jumpers and a similar remark applies to Clanranald, Apremont, and Traducer. Two first-class jumpers in Southland of the Clanranald family were Smuggler and Signaller.

Anglo-French Winner of the Lincoln Steeplechase, the Southland-bred Anglo-French is a flve-year-old gelding of select family. He was foaled at the Chelandry Stud, and his sire and dam were both bred by Mr W. T. Hazlett. That good horse Sir Simper, by Grand Knight from Simper, has three brilliant jumpers racing to his account in Anglo-Irish; AngloFrench, and Noko, a trio capable of racing well across the flat. The dam of AngloFrench was Lorette, by Tractor from Moulin Rouge, by KUbroney from Dlrectoire, by Wairiki from Queen Anne. Filibeg FlUbeg. who raced in the colours of Mr F. W. Ellis last season, will in future be raced by Mr J. T. Scott.

Not The First When Astral Flame won the Grand National Steeplechase last year it was claimed that his rider. J. L. Strathem, was the first apprentice to have won the race, but that honour goes to W. Naylor, who won on The Guard in 1900. Naylor, an apprentice to J. H. Prosser, was 16>/ 2 years old, and weighed 6st 121 b, and had to carry nearly three stone of dead weight. “Plenty Good” ■ , The change in the track was responsible for some reversals of form at Riccarton on Saturday, but it could not be held accountable for the wetched exhibition of Kanul Te Pai. comments The Timaru Herald. The further they went the further he drifted to the rear, and he altogether belied his name, which is interpreted as Plenty Good. Contested Three Cups Colonel Grattan, an acceptor at Forbury on Saturday, has contested three New Zealand Trotting Cups, and has been unlucky in not winning one. In the 1939 event he lost his driver when in the lead and with only four lengths to go. In the following year he suffered from interference five furlongs from home, and even after losing several lengths he got third to Marlene ana Dusky Sound. Last year he ran fourth from a 4min 25sec mark in 4min 14 4-ssec, after being back in eighth place with a round to go. With an advantage in handicap ana youth still on his side, he should be prominent in big events this year. BEAU VITE WITHDRAWN FROM ENGAGEMENTS SYDNEY, August 19. Beau Vite, who has retired from racing, has been withdrawn from the Epsom and Metropolitan Handicaps and the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups. For the third year in succession Beau Pere heads the winning sires’ list for the season. Australian-bred sires did well during the year and eight of them are among the first 20 in the list published by The Australasian. The leading sires were Beau Pere, 50 races and £23,410 in stakes; The Buzzard, 57 races and £19,595 in stakes; Veilmond, 64 races and £18,956 in stakes, Gay Lothario, 64 races and £18,524 in stakes; Manitoba, 33 races and £18,153 in stakes. BASKETBALL DRAW Following is the draw for basketball matches to be played on Saturday:— First Grade.—Court 5, 3,45, Rata v. Stuarts (referee, Miss Shand); court 5, 3 p.m., Collegiate v. S.G.H.S. (Miss Thomson); court 5, 2 p.m., St. Mary’s v. Makarewa (Miss Godward); Kew Nurses a bye. Second Grade. —Court 4, 3.45, Rata v. Collegiate B (Miss Swift): court 4,2 p.m.. Woodlands v. St. Mary’s (Miss Pollok); court 6, 3 p.m., Technical v. Collegiate A (Miss Basstian); court 6, 2.15 p.m., Bluff v. Makarewa (Miss Geddes); court 4, 3 p.m., S.G.H.S. v. Pirates (Mr Haberfield). Third Grade. —Court 6, 3.45, Rata A v. St. Mary’s (Miss Geddes); court 2, 3.45, Collegiate v. Stuarts (Mr Haberfield); court 2, 3 p.m., Technical v. McKenzies (Miss Swift); court 3, 3 p.m., Pirates v. Kennington (Miss Shand); court 1, 2.45, Bluff v. Roslyn Bush (Miss Pittaway); court 3,2 p.m., Makarewa v. Rata B (Miss Ingram). Fourth Grade.—Court 2,2 p.m., Technical v. Collegiate B (Miss Shepherd); court 1, 2 p.m., Collegiate A v. Makarewa (Miss J. Swale). MEN’S BASKETBALL The following are the results of games played last evening in the Y.M.C.A. indoor basketball league’s competition—Kittyhawks (A.T.C.) 20 beat Old Boys 10; Hurricanes (A.T.C.) defaulted to Tomahawks (A.T.C.); Bible Class No. 1, 14 beat Mohawks (A.T.C.) 9; Wanderers defaulted to Spitfires; Y.M.C.A. No. 2 16 beat Bible Class No. 2 10; Old Boys 24 beat Mohawks (A.T.C.) 2.

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Southland Times, Issue 24827, 20 August 1942, Page 3

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Sporting WINNERS FROM GORE TRACK Southland Times, Issue 24827, 20 August 1942, Page 3

Sporting WINNERS FROM GORE TRACK Southland Times, Issue 24827, 20 August 1942, Page 3

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