Sporting SOUTHLANDERS AT NATIONAL

Southland Times, Issue 24831, 25 August 1942, Page 3

Sporting SOUTHLANDERS AT NATIONAL

SECOND IN LIST OF WINNERS Southland was second on the list of leading stake winners at the Grand National meeting. Awapuni led the way with a total of £2395; then came Southland (£1980). Riccarton (£1942), Hastings (£1172), Masterton (£400) and Waimate (£360). Two Trotting Meetings Trotting meetings will he held at Addington and Auckland on Saturday. A Record Three brackets totalling nine horses —a record—will appear in one field if all go to the post In the National Handicap at Addington next Saturday. They are C. S. Donald’s quartet, Accountant, Our Jewel, Clockwork and Bayard, J. B. Pringle’s trio. Busted Flush, Special Edition and Donald Dhu, and J. Grice’s pair, Chatmos and Great Blaze. Compeer Compeer is "fighting fit" after his successful Canterbury campaign and instead of being on the dull side the Paper Money gelding is actually now more eager to race than two or three weeks ITackRoyal Donald If Royal Donald goes to the post at the Otago Hunt Club’s meeting he will bring the colours of Mr J. Carter before the public again. They have not been unfurled to any large extent since Royal Saxon went off the scene. Otago Hunt Southland stables will be well represented when acceptances close for the Otago Hunt meeting at 5 p.m. on Thursday. Geraldine Meeting For the one-day meeting to be held by the Geraldine Racing Club on September 26, the stakes have been increased £3OO on the amount given on the first day of the two-days’ meeting last season, and the Geraldine Cup carries £275 (including a trophy valued at £2O). Anomalies A northern writer points out the following anomalies, the result of automatic handicapping, in the marks for the two principal races at Forbury Park on Saturday:— 9 m 11 fl If

Northern Two-Year-Old Mr J. W. Pankhurst has sent his two-year-old by Phaleron Bay from Golden Rod to Invercargill, where his brother, T. E. Pankhurst, will prepare him for spring racing. He is a big gelding who shows great promise and he led one of the divisions home in the parade at Riccarton. Training B. H. Brodie has started as a trainer and he had Valantua racing well here this month. Valantua arid Dispense are due to come south for the Otago Hunt Club’s meeting. Owing to labour shortage, Brodie wants only a small team at present. Maori Jockey T. Tito, who won the Grand National Hurdles on Renascor, is a Maori who has been in the game for a long time. When a midget he won the 1924 Wanganui Cup on Cold Steel. He did well for a time, but put on weight and dropped out as a flatrace rider except in highweights. Two seasons ago he won steeplechases on Lady Callaghan, and last week got on the list of National winners. Renascor, by the way, is a half-brother to Kippet Lee, dam of The Raker.

Lord Glanely’s Stud The late Lord Glanely had no heir and this fact probably accounts for his executors selling his very select stud of 134 horses to Mr A. E. Allnatt for round about £100,090. This private sale would be deplored by breeders in America and elsewhere, as the stud contained a number of the best-bred horses in Great Britain. Reception - Reception, a brilliant Melbourne sprinter, is being spelled. In the last few months he has won seven races and £lBOO in stakes, no mean achievement in these days of curtailed prize money, writes Sir Modred. He is a son of Marconigram, and his dam, Breezy, represents very successful imported and colonial strains of blood. Two noted Australian horses in Breezy’s pedigree are Chester and Goldsbrough and to both New Zealand blood stock owe a great deal of merit in numerous instances. Successful Trainer

L. G. Morris has achieved a fine record as a trainer since he started in that profession some 12 years ago, after an eminently successful career as a jockey. Probably no one has done so well in so short a period, particularly with regard to the versatility of his winners. Included in his successes are three Grand National-Steeple-chases, four Wanganui Steeplechases, and a Wellington Steeplechase, an Auckland Cup, a Railway Handicap, Great Northern Oaks, C.J.C. Stewards, Egmont Cup, Feilding Cup, Feilding Stakes, Rangitikei Cup, Wellington Cup, Wanganui Cup, and two Thompson Handicaps. Kauri King Kauri king, winner of the Grand National Hurdles in 1918, died recently at the age of 31, but he had spent the latter half of his life in Idleness. Victoria has just lost a more active veteran in Kind Friend, destroyed when a few days short of 30. Kind Friend raced for only nine seasons, winning 49 races, including sprints; middle-distance races, hurdle races, and steeplechases, but for 22 years he visited the Mentone tracks every morning. After his racing days were over he acted as schoolmaster to young horses. PATRIOTIC RUGBY DAY £95 Netted For Fund . The sum of £95/5/8 has been handed to the Southland Provincial Patriotic Council by the Southland Rugby Union, the proceeds from the Patriotic Rugby Day held at Rugby Park on August 15. At last night’s meeting of the Rugby Union a letter of thanks was received from the secretary of the Patriotic Council. Lieutenant-Colonel J. E. Anderson, officer commanding the 0.M.R., wrote thanking the union and the people of Invercargill for the welcome given to the Rugby team and band on the occasion of their visit to Invercargill and stated they were gratified to learn they gave some assistance in helping the patriotic fund. The Invercargill Football Club was granted permission for its fourth and fifth grade teams to travel to Gore next Saturday to play friendly matches with Gore teams, under the management of Mr F. Webb. Following is the draw for the final series of games oh Saturday:— Army v. Military Reserve at Rugby Park at 2 p.m. (Mr C. Anderson); Pirates and Star v. Marist-Bluff at Rugby Park at 3 p.m. (Mr J. Aitken); Old Boys a bye. The following tables show the completed results of the junior competitions:— SECOND GRADE

Happy Man 2 m. scr 11 fur. 24 Hardy Oak scr 12 Busted Flush 24 *•. scr Jesse Owens 24 scr Lady Carol 36 12 Foremost Junior 24 scr Pleasant Guy 60 12

W. L D. Pts Pts Ch. For AgstPts High School 9 2 —— 128 78 18 Collegiate 6 5 1 132 147 13 Borstal 6 5 1 123 97 13 Old Boys 4 8 — 118 135 8 Wyndham 3 8 — 62 106 6 FOURTH GRADE Invercargill 13 2 — 169 68 26 Technical 9 3 2 118 66 20 Pirates 9 5 1 85 94 19 High School 5 9 1 77 115 11 Borstal 2 10 3 55 137 7 Bluff 2 8 1 57 81 5 FIFTH GRADE Pirates 11 3 1 175 66 23 Invercargill 10 4 1 136 56 21 Marist 8 5 1 89 62 17 High School 5 9 1 76 122 11 Bluff 4 8 — 23 78 8 Technical 2 9 2 36 151 6