RACING

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 75, 20 June 1927, Page 7

RACING

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turf notes

nflton Attetina r _ h ■» *er -neet ng of the Welling‘Vc, . Club i to be held next * C or.Ui- Entrl -a do.<« to-night. Loitisina Novice iratura, winner of t n ., r acl. hurdle . r\* Napier Park on Saturday, was 1“ . 'his first outing in 'public over k sticks. If he stands up to the ■nrk he should soon win again, for he £ o n handsomely. Completed the Coure. - eat Pay. also making his first ap- “„ n ce as a hurdler, got round safely, Crine slowly. He is a big gelding, h t being bv Day Comet he should palce good at the game. - 3 V t.r the Shadow . The connections of Waioeka Jack, hoidened by their horse running cond in I* l6 Greenlane Steeplechase, rrsook the substance for the shadow t Greenmeadows on Saturday when ? heV missed the hack event in favour f the Napier Steeplechase. He did pot get very far when he crashed.

Good Hunter Banjuke is reporter to be galloping •nd Jumping in fine style, and interest will be taken in his appearance at Hastings this week Though not- in Jhe first flight, he should always be .'.angerous among the hunters. Secured « Smart One F Shaw did good business when he leased Overhaul with a purchasing clause which Is said to have been £250. Having won several races with tug' Tractor gelding, and deeming him of great promise, Shaw made use of the purchasing clause —won a few more races, and now has passed the gelding 0 n to Messrs. J. Richardson and D. P. Wilson for £I.OOO. It will be remembered that D. P. Wilson used to train that good horse Roseday for Mr. Richardson. Making * Steeplechaser

“Some of the critics in the North are very dubious about Comical developing into a steeplechaser,” says the Dunedin writer, “Sentinel.” “After seeing Fred Shaw convert Windermere into a ■chaser in less than a couple of weeks, the writer is prepared for anything in the way of improvement a horse can make at timber-topping. Windermere resolutely declined to face the sod wall at Wingatui, and about a week or so before the winter meeting of 1925 Shaw put a halter and rope on the Sunny Lake gelding, and, with A. Ruthven in the saddle, and a stopkwhip as a gentle persuader, the wall w as scrambled over a couple of times. Windermere afterwards decided that it was better to jump than get the bat about his hide, and the following week he ran second in the St. i. lair Steeplechase, second in the Forbury Steeplechase, and then on the final day of the meeting came out and won the Tahuna Steeples. It may take years to make a perfect hunter or a ’erfasef, but the rough and ready route sometimes is just as effective as a lengthy education.” Comical’s case is hardly the same. Me is not ungenerous, but does his best, which, far, has included a lot of mistakes. Dashing Two-Y«ar-Old An unnamed filly r by Golden Sun from Sweet Palm, is reckoned to be the best two-year-old of her sex seen out in England this year, at any rate, until the end of April, when the latest flies to hand left the Old Country. A writer in “Sporting Life” mentioned that it was doubtful whether many colts of the same age could beat her, and that opinion ,was expressed after tho filly had won the Enfield Plate, at Alexandra Park, pulling up by eight lengths. Sold as a yearling to Mr. J. Brown, for 670 guineas, the Sweet Palm filly was bred by Mr. H. B. P. Brock, who was encouraged to take up breeding by Mr. Edmunds, manager of Lord Rosebery’s stud. Mr. Edmunds, by the way, has on a number of occasions been commissioned to buy horses for Australian owners. Mr. Brock gave 1,500 guineas for Sweet Palm, and her daughter is described as a rich bay, with silver hairs in her tail, possessing powerful quarters, and with great length from hip to hock. Shortage of Claaa *i The slight reduction ih the number of the nominations for the spring handicaps will not trouble the racing duts (says the Sydney “Sun.”) Fields we still likely to be of average dimenlions. More noticeable is the absence of class. With RfimpWn out of the field for the time being, Limerick is left as the sole represent&tt e Australians know of a poor crcT of three-year-olds. A New of the oame age that has been entered la Commendation,, who isi reckoned high class. He has-been ' nominated for Australia before, but * never made the trip. However, nov nat Australia appears to be 6o Wy -tk in top sawyers Mr. Gaisford n^ayjW' s tempted. An attempt is to be nwiA’Wto prepare Spearfelt for V4>ut it i4f considered very doub rtjjl 'J? < .ether he will stand. There is ance for Wliewinkie, who struck'blf early in the last spring campaigi and has been resting since. The old fellow is ’aid to be doing very well again. The Hawk is coming back from New Zealand, to be in what seems likely to be a rather easy killing. Valicare, Pantheon and Amounis, three souncT horses, have bright prospects of adding to the bank rolls of their owners. Racing would not be racing if it were not possible for other horses to develop unsuspected form in a few months, and improve the prospects of *he w.f.a. races. Bookmakers and Totalisator “In no circumstances can the totalizator take the place of the bookmaker,” *fid Mr. Fred Howard, managing director of the Stadium Club, London. He w as recently speaking of its praeticability on the racecourse. A to tali sator baa been installed for some years at ihe Stadium Club under his management, and he claims to speak from experience as being the first in Europe to introduce the Australian electric machine. “I do not think that the Jotalisator will come into general use t° r a number of years, if ever,” he hid. “First of all. Britishers like to J 8 ® their brains, and, if it is possible, ? *natch a point or two during the kiting. They have not been edu•hted to the machine, which places *jcryone on the same level. Very ft*n there are races when the totali?tor would be absolutely useless, as, *“ r example, when there is a hot favJr r *te, or only one or two runners. 3® majority will not speculate until are given a lead, which often oc--22 so late that few would be in a to use the ‘tote.’ Races are him so late that it would be imposfor the majority to recover their before the next race. Like machines, totalisators go wrong. This would be Wcward if it occurred at a big ju e * The only points in favour of « totalisator, Mr. Howard summed follows : “Generally better prices be paid You can bac k a horse jj 0 a Place only. You can back a for « each way with six runners, and If tK * an< * sec °nd with five runners. totalisator were installed, the to hi 0 * system of racing would liave b materially altered. It would hj. l ?, fewer races with longer interT am willing to bet £IOO with at the Victoria C>b that the bt o r iment does not sanction and put kr the totalisator this year h* S T« ftp . M said Mr. James Sutters. TW'Jr ei !‘ known commission *agent. y * have reactted a state of av e * don’t care much if we Mar to *alisator system or not. iwr toat we have the'*betting tax w, ln .?uld not be worse from the agent's point of view.’*