Sporting SCOTTISH AIR’S HANDICAP

Southland Times, Issue 24881, 22 October 1942, Page 6

Sporting SCOTTISH AIR’S HANDICAP

TROTTING CUP AT INVERCARGILL Scottish air is handicapped to give away 36 yards in the Invercargill Trotting Cup, o 4.47 class. She has a 3.18 mile and a-half record to her credit, equivalent to 4.24 for two miles. It would appear that if she can stay she has about 20 seconds “up her sleeve.” I Favourites I Night Pal, Strip and Gold Flight are the ruling favourites for the President’s Handicap at Gore and Bashful Lady is a decided ! favourite in the Stewards' Handicap. Full Books For Gore Both W. F. Ellis and K. E. Wilson have ‘full books" at Gore on Saturday. Ellis | v.ill ride Sal, Aramoney, Carolyn,. AngloIrish, Marquee and Bashful Lady, and Wilson has been engaged to ride Tissue, Platform, Tea For Two, Amorlad, Spanish Lad and Green Note. Night Pal Night Pal, one of the favourites for the President’s Handicap at Gore on Saturday, has two engagements at the meeting, but he will probably be started in the main event. To Ride at Mdtukarara W. F. Ellis has been engaged to ride All Night in the Rangiora Cup at Motukarara on Monday. He will also ride Gunga Din, Rawhamai and Last Effort at the same meeting. Dunedin Cup Meeting At a meeting of the committee of the Dunedin Jockey Club the programme for the Dunedin Cup meeting on Boxing Day and January 9 was drafted, and it was decided to increase the stakes by £l2OO. In addition to endowing the Cup with £lOOO, the Publicans’ Handicap will carry £5OO, the principal handicap on the second day £6OO, and the James Hazlett Gold Cup £6OO. It was also decided to close the nominations for these four races a fortnight before the general nomination day, declare the handicaps the following week, and make a first acceptance for the Dunedin Cup and Publican’s Handicap due on the date that the nominations for the other races on the programme close. Stable Emergency Desert Maid was placed on the schooling list last week by the Conference Executive, and consequently was debarred from starting in the Kerrytown Handicap at Washdyke on Saturday. The stable produced a good emergency in Dash o’ Dublin. Auckland Dates In the event of no racing being permitted between December 26 and January 1, the Auckland Trotting Club has been granted permission by the Trotting Conference to race on December 19 in lieu of December 30, the date originally granted for the first day of the summer meeting at Epsom. It appears that a change will be necessary for the second day of the meeting, which is listed for New Year’s Day, a date held by the Auckland Racing Club. Australian Racing Before the war there were 10,760 horses racing in Australia, and now something like 3000 fewer are in training. When the war opened more than 300 horses were trained at V.R.C. headquarters in Melbourne and a similar number at V.A.T.C. tracks at Caulfield, where horses owned by Mr W. T. Hazlett, are prepared. Williamstown and other Melbourne tracks were also extensively used by trainers. The 300 or more thoroughbreds trained at Flemington have now dwindled to under 100. The debarring of racing in South Australia for the duration has, however, resulted in several horses being sent to Melbourne to be trained and raced. The Australian Derby winner, Main Topic, raced on seven occasions as a two-year-old for one win and two seconds. Bred by Mr A. E. Cooper, he was sold at auction to the well-known Sydney trainer, Mr T. McGrath at 240 guineas. The blue ribbon colt is by Talking (son of Magpie) for whom Mr Cooper gave 19,000 guineas as a three-year-old who failed to race well and was then relegated to Mr Cooper’s stud, writes Sir Modred. Talking's dam, Society, was a New Zealand mare and by Absurd I from First Class, by All Black. The Derby winner’s dam, Germain, was by Corban, by The Tetrarch. Great Britain, winner of the Melbourne Stakes at the V.R.C. meeting on Saturday, is a Derby candidate of high hopes and some i promise. He is by the imported English horse I Enfield, son of Winalot, by Son-in-Law. Last i season the first of the Australian progeny I of Enfield, a very limited collection, were I seen in public and three of the select band won six races. Great Britain was one of the stock of Enfield to race well and he won three stakes in 10 starts. The fact that the descendants of Enfield gave promise of staying on was a great point eagerly noted in their favour, writes Sir Modred. A.J.C. Derby Many New Zealand three-year-olds have won the rich A.J.C. Derby in Sydney,* while other winners have owed their origin to New Zealand horses or mares in marked degree, writes Sir Modred. An early winner of this class was the Auckland-bred Nordenfeldt, by Musket, who scored in 1885. Then the first owner of Carbine, Mr D. O'Brien, was successful in 1895 with Bob Ray, a grandson of the great Traducer. In 1905 Mr G. G. Stead won with Noctuiform, by Multiform, and in 1916 Messrs W. G. Stead and Luttrell owned the winner, Kilboy. Mr G. D. Greenwood won in 1917 with Biplane and in 1918 with Gloaming, both of Australian breeding; in 1921 he gained his third success with Cupidon, a Martian gelding who'ended his carer on a Southland racecourse. Successful Trainers Two Invercargill-born trainers, both of Trentham, have been turning out winners of late. At the Otaki Maori meeting W. J. Bromby produced Daljarrock, winner of the Pahiko Hack Handicap, for Mr H. P. F. Blundell. Daljarrock Is a four-year-old gelding by Theio, an English importation and by Teteatema. Bromby’s charge is from Gay Lass, by Lord Quex from Mountain Lass, a mare tracing back through noted mares in Maud and Hilda to the mighty Musket, writes Sir Modred. The other Invercargill trainer to score honours was H. Telford, who accounted for the Masterton Racing Club’s principal event with Enrich. In Ausrtalia In addition to several Southland-bred horses from his Chelandry Stud, the Invercargill owner, Mr W. T. Hazlett, has included in his team trained at Caulfield by F. J. McKay several youngsters and juveniles bred in Victoria from Chelandry Stud mares. Two of the juveniles bred in Australia are the promising colts Maniototo (Manitoba-Luminare) and Makarewa (Manitoba-Yilderim). Of the two-year-olds one of the best fillies of the many prepared at Caulfield for various owners Mr Hazlett’s Manrim is claimed to be of front rank. Presumably Manrim, a sister to Makarewa, is from Yiiderim, by Night Raid from Razzle Dazzle, by Kilbroney from Simper, imported. When undergoing her educational studies on the Southland tracks before being sent to Melbourne to race, Yiiderim figured as one of the bestlooking of her age and sex ever handled on the course and in the process she displayed exceptional galloping talent. Like a number of other fillies of her great sire line owned elsewhere, Yiiderim disappointed as a turf proposition, but she may follow in the footsteps of many Night Raid mares and win success at the stud, writes Sir Modred. Double Success The Christchurch owner, Mr J. R. McKenzie, reaped success in consecutive races at the South Canterbury J.C.’s meeting on Saturday, writes Sir Modred. Mr McKenzie's opening win was with the four-year-old mare Scottish Dale, trained by F. D. Jones at Riccarton, the daughter of Foxbridge accounting for the Flying Handicap. Then followed a win for the Canterbury breeder-owner when Scottish Air. by U Scott, paced home a winner in the Hadlow Trot. Bred by her owner, Scottish Air is from the American mare Airflow, by Guy Day from Willina Chenault. In addition to owning the sire and dam of the winner, Mr McKenzie also won with the smart performer Airflow when he raced her in New Zealand. The success of Scottish Air will be of interest to two well-known Invercargill studmasters who have mated their respective approved mares with the American horse U Scott, a bold pacer familiar to followers of light harness racing.