Turf Notes

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 48, 19 May 1927, Page 6

Turf Notes

RACING

BY “EARLY BIRD.” In At Otaki Among the entries for the forthcoming Otaki meeting appear the names of the Auckland performers. Matinee and W iaka King. The latter is again to make an attempt to get out of the; non-winners’ class. Otaki races are on June 3 and 4, and to win on this coi rse a horse must be able to act in m id. Auckland Weights Handicaps for the minor events on the first day’s programme of the Auckland winter fixture are due next Monday, and to-morrow week, Friday, 37th inst., acceptances for all first day’s events, and the G.N. Steeplechase (second day) are to close. Too Severe Probably there will not be a great number of horses contesting the two Great Northerns this year on account of these two tiding races being decided within twenty-four hours. It is probable that the hurdles field will be much bigger than that to parade for the steeplechase. No Tips Prosecutions against persons alleged to have sold race tips, were upheld by a Sydney court last week. Lowell T. Pedlar was lined £SO for having sold a certain writing known as “The Mascot,” contain ng race tips. George Sutherland was fined £SO, for having sold “Sutherland s Turf Wire.” Hector Munro and Richard Short were fined similar amounts. Wingold Does Not That some investors like to go for a big dividend was evidenced at the Kgmont meeting when Wingold, in the Telegraph Hack, was entrusted with the sum of £3. Of course this does not necessirily mean that the Tree Lucerne —Kathleen Mavourneen geldig was fancied by only three supporters—there is a ten shilling totalisator at Ha wen! But, alas for fond hopes of a Karamu dividend! Wingold proved that he couldn’t, and didn’t. An English Trainer With a team of five horses he intends to race in Sydney Colin Castle, a young English trainer, has arrived in Melbourne. He is a brother-in-law of E. O’Sullivan, an Australian, who has done well in England, and who was in Australia last year. Castle’s horses are aboard the Suevic. They are Cottingham, aged, by Lemberg (an English Derby winner), Indigo, Stefanovitch, Cygon, and a three-year-old unnamed tilly by Polytechnic, from Lily Willy. Cottingham was unbeaten in three starts last season. Lady Spalpeen’s rail A win at the recent Waikato meeting was sufficient to send Lady Spalpeen out favourite for the Hack Steeples at Hawera on Thursday but supporters of the Spalpeen mare were doomed to disappointment. When racing at the sod wall on the last round she threw a “seven” and £507 went the way of a lot more. It may have been that Lady Spalpeen was blinded by the sun and did not see the obstacle —Passin’ Through and Birkenella both fell at this fence in the Egmont Steeples—but she will make amends later on.

I A Good Display I Sea Comet gave a fair display of jumping when sent over the pony hurdles at Ellerslie this morning. He negotiated four of them in such a manner as to suggest that he • is in very good order. His First Lesson This morning at Ellerslie the big Lucullus gelding, Master Mind, was given his first lesson over the pony hurdles. He knocked the first one over, but negotiated safely at his second attempt, though he jumped high. Work at Thames H. Dulieu has returned from Thames,, where he has been riding King Smock, Antrim Boy, Thurnrosae and Hoariri in their work. Hoariri is reported to be sore, and it remains to be seen if he fulfils his engagement in the Members’ Handicap at the Great Northern meeting. No Cause for Alarm The ’chaser, Beau Cavalier was decidedly sore after galloping on the sand at Ellerslie this morning. The Great Northern candidate has been going well in his work, and it will be unfortunate if anything serious is amiss with him. There is a suggestion however that Beau Cavalier is suffering with corns, and a little attention should soon see him well again. This Morning’s Work Owing to the heavy rain overnight there was not a great deal accomplished at Ellerslie this morning. On No. 3 grass, which was in a very soft condition, Lomint and Chamour covered six furlongs in 1.22, Passionate and Killute taking 1.24 for the same distance, Star Comet and War Officer running the last six furlongs of a round in 1.22. Fair Abbey and Clockwork ran away from Glendowie in a seven-furlong bout on the sand track, cutting out the last six in 1.24 1-5. Off to Australia J. Williamson is to leave for Sydney to-morrow morning with Clarus, The Thorn, Pentegram and the rising three-year-old, Salanio. The crossr country horseman, A. Rutherford, will accompany him. Space has also been booked on the same steamer (Ulimaroa) for the Papakura trainer, J. T. Jamieson, who is taking over Prince Otto, Le Choucas and the Emigrant. W. S. Bagby, S. Bryce and D. Jarvis are making the trip with that trainer to do the riding of the trio mentioned. Ring the Bell, who was sold last week, will be shipped on the same steamer. Problem of Names The selection for a horse of a name that has not already been accepted by the racing registrar is one of the greatest problems of present-day owners and trainers. All have their troubles but probably have not enjoyed an experience such as did Randwick trainer A. Foley, with a gelding by Wolaroi, from Lady Vive. Foley thought out a list of possible names, but one after the other they were knocked back because someone had beaten him to them. At last Foley, in exasperation, remarked, “I’ll call him Wim Warn in a minute.” “That’s not taken,” "replied the clerk, and Foley, appreciating the joke, called the gelding that name. To prove that he is no sloth, Wim Warn put up the best mile gallop at Randwick one morning last week. Jockey’s Fatal Wasting Details to hand by mail show that without doubt wasting contributed largely if not entirely to the death in England of the American jockey, George Archibald. He had ridden in five races at Newmarket and was preparing for the sixth when he took suddenly ill. The doctor was summoned and Archibald was taken home in a motor-car, but his condition became rapidly worse, and he died twenty minutes after arriving home. He rode at 7.13, lib. overweight, during the afternoon, and had been living more or less in Turkish baths. Archibald, who was 39, came to England in 1922 to ride as first jockey for Gilpin’s Clarehaven stable at Newmarket, for which in that year he rode Lord Queensborough’s St. Louis to victory in the Two Thousand Guineas Stakes and Town Guard, one of the best two-year-olds, in all his races that season. He also rode the colt when it started favourite and finished unplaced in the Derby of 1923. In 1924 he rode the King’s colt Runnymede in the famous July Stakes, and won the race. When, not long afterwards, he won the Goodwood Stakes for the King on London Cry, Their Majesties sent for and congratulated him on his success. Archibald was born at Oaklands, near San Francisco, in 1890. Pie had experience of riding in America, Germany, Austria, Spain and England, and in all except England he topped the list of winning jockeys.

GREAT NORTHERN HURDLES

LATEST SCRATCHINGS DESERT GLOW AND MIA BELLA. Desert Glow and Mia Bella were scratched at nine o’clock this morning for the Great Northern Hurdles.