Turf Notes

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 131, 24 August 1927, Page 10

Turf Notes

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Wanganui Handicaps Weights for handicap events on the first day of the Wanganui meeting are due on Monday. Pompey to be Taken Up p Conway will keep Whaka King in active work lor spring racing. The same trainer is to take Pompey in hand this week. To be Tried Again Luxurious, who was added to the list some time ago, is back once more on the tracks at Ellerslie unaer W. Gall's charge. Jazz Baby for Australia Jazz Baby arrived at Ellerslie last Saturday, and is to be shipped to her owner in Svdney by the first available steamer. She is stabled at W. Tozer s. Jazz Baby has a lot of speed lor six furlongs. 1 Driscoll for Marton The Auckland horseman, A. Driscoll, will be attending the Marton meeting next week, where he will ride Marsurd. He has also been engaged to lido that filly at Wanganui, as well as Grand Court. Riders for Taranaki Hunt Meeting B_ McTavish will be riding Miss Mercia and Manly at the Taranaki Hunt meeting. R. E. Thompson will pilot Kafa and Huirangi Girl, and W. Rennie Lady Acre and Sea Comet. Sea Comet for Taranaki At the Taranaki Hunt meeting at New Plymouth on Saturday, Sea Comet and Lady Faye will be competitors. The last-named was left in A. Julian s charge after the Pakuranga meeting. With Sea Comet as a companion Lady Kaye covered a round on the sand track -it Ellerslie yesterday morning in 2.8. the last mile taking 1.56. A. Julian intends leaving with the pair to-mor-row. Another of his team in Royal Bonus, who was paid up for for the same gathering, is not to make the trip. Royal Bonus requires a good deal more schooling before he will make a hurdler. Finelli’s Great Race Although she dwelt slightly when the barrier was released in the Dunedin Handicap at Ellerslie on Saturday, Finelli. making a reappearance after a lengthy spell, showed a tremen»lous burst of speed. She had hit the front inside a furlong, and at three furlongs she was a good six lengths in front. However, she stopped even quicker, for inside the fourth furlong she was caught and passed by two horses. At the post she had but two horses behind her. What a great race it would be if such speed merchants as Finelli. Cimabue, Lysander, Eulalie and Paleta were to meet in a sprint! Unlucky at the Barrier There was good support forthcoming for Sir Archie in the Dunedin Handicap on Saturday. The chestnut failed to get going from the barrier, and making heavy weather of it was soon tailing the field, being a long way back after a couple of furlongs had been traversed. It was a disappointing showing for a fancied candidate, for which a bad jump-out can be blamed. Automne Improving Of late Automne had been showing some form in his track work, and it came as no surprise to see him prominent in the Dunedin Handicap on Saturday. He was near the rear for most of the journey, and in the straight displayed plenty of dash to be narrowly beaten for second place. Tinokoa was well supported, and he shaped disappointingly. as did Day Guard.. Whaka King, still a maiden, showed a lot of pace for four furlongs. Delivered the Goods Festina Lente has been expected for some time to win a race, but it was not until Saturday that the Thamestrained daughter of Romeo and Lady Floss delivered the goods. She was handy over the final half of the Sylvia Park Handicap, ten furlongs, and she outstayed her opponents, being favoured with a run on the rails in the straight. Now that she has got on the winning list once again Festina Lente may be successful in repeating her performance during the season, for she has stamina. Not Yet Ready Bright Dawn looked big when he went out to contest the Sylvia Park Handicap on Saturday, and in the race itself he was found wanting when it came to the business end. He was in a nice position throughout, and at the home turn was noticed wide out. He was within striking distance of the loaders at this stage, but he failed to come on. Bright Dawn should be improved by the race, and he looks like being a good proposition in hack events this season. The Day Comet gelding is now in the same stable as Llandudno, being prepared at Te Awamutu by W. Stone. Athenry Ready The Franktoi ner. Mr. J. Carroll. turned Ath ouv. in fine fettle for the ten-furloii -ack event at Ellerslie on Saturday. She was always in a good position, and had she not floundered somewhat in the soft ground as the field came round the bend, might have finished closer to the winner. Acushla was in the same race, and after being kept in behind the leaders to the turn she faded out. Acushla was produced later in the day, but the result was much about the same. Capable of Doing Better After making the running all the way. Pendavies duly won the Pakuranga Hunt Cup on Saturday, giving a

grand display of lepping. The Archiestown gelding was favourite, an honour gained by virtue of his success over Lupineel in the Hunt Cup at the Great Northern meeting. Pendavies is a good sort over country, his last three appearances at Ellerslie resulting in a win, a second (beaten narrowly by Zircon) and a win. Next season the Waikato representative should do well in better company. His owner-trainer. Mr. T. Wilson, suffered misfortune in the late autumn when he lost the services of Pendennis, another useful chaser, who broke down after chasing Beau Cavalier home. Might be Good Investment Mr. P. H-. Osborne, owner of Valicare, and a member of the Australian Jockey Club’s committee, is not coming back to Australia from England empty-handed. At the July sales the popular Sydney sportsmen gave 1,200 guineas for a yearling bay colt by the fashionable English sire, Buchan, from Motherwort. The youngster was bred at the National Stud. Hurdler Well Tried San Pedro is to race at Marton, and on 'account of his Riccarton failures he will not be heavily supported on the machines, but as his form in the South was well below the best we have seen of him in this area it might be dangerous to discard him too soon. His party seems to think a lot of him, and they have some excellent trying tackle. New Turf Register Acknowledgment has to be made of receipt from the publishers, the Christchurch Press Company, of the New Zealand Turf and Trotting Register for the season 1926-27, which closed with the end of last month. This handy publication gives full details regarding the several meetings held under the auspices of the Racing and Trotting Conferences, as well as a very great deal of other useful and interesting information in connection with the sport, and as a reference book is one which no follower of it can well do without. For Dunedin Guineas The tliree-year-old Satrap pleased his connections very much by his performance in the Longbeach Handicap, on the third day of the Grand National meeting. He began slowly, but finished with a great rattle, in fifth place, close behind the money earners. It was a very smart effort, and the Paladin gelding should be capable of running a good mile very soon. The Dunedin Guineas may be one of his early engagements, and if he goes on all right from now he should play a leading part in that event. Royal Lineage’s Programme P. P. Neagle is quoted by a Christchurch paper as having stated at Riccarton lust week that there was a chance of Royal Lineage going to Sydney to do some racing this spring. He said that nothing definite had yet been decided upon, but that there was no obstacle in the way of the trip being undertaken, and if he went with the Limond colt he would take Penman, who has some important handicap engagements there, including the Epsom Handicap. In Other Hands Sea Comet might has won the Greenmount Hunters’ Steeplechase at Ellerslie on Saturday had his rider shown more judgment. He was beaten into second place—there was nothing else standing to challenge him for the honour Later Sea Comet was produced for the Hunt Cup, and once again he was in trouble, the effect of which has already been noted. However, running along the back stretch. Sea Comet went after the leaders as if he was indulging in a five-furlong sprint, and therefore it was small wonder that he was so tired as to require the help of Hypothesis to carry him home. Sea Comet is engaged in steeplechase events at New Plymouth next Saturday, and when he makes the trip a new rider | will be up. The Stud Book A very important publication issued from the Christchurch Press Company, and under the authority of the New Zealand Racing Conference, is the tenth volume of the New Zealand Stud Book. There is no need to tell studmasters how essential an addition this is to their library. But even the private breeder on a small scale, not to mention those who purchase for , racing purposes, will get a great deal of useful guidance from a reference to its pages. No fewer than 1,600 mares are tabulated under their sires, while extended pedigrees of 40 stallions are given. To meet the predilection of those who attach importance to colour. a new feature has been introduced in giving that of each of the mares whose foalings are recorded. Arsene Lupin Jumps Well Up to the time he lost his rider six furlongs from home, Rafferty had a chance of finishing in a place in the Hunt Cup. He was going well at this stage, and fencing nicely. Arsene Lupin went a good race until he began to tire going up the hill the second time, and he was finally pulled up. His jumping was first class, and he may have to be reckoned with next winter if he goes on the right way. When raced in the South early in his career Arsene Lupin showed pace on the flat, but of late he has not done much racing. Syndicate went well for half the distance, and then he faded out. Stonewall could not go the pace. Hypothesis on this occasion did not carry his owner, the mount being entrusted to Rennie, who did well to get up into second money. His owner probably reserved himself to ride in the Bracelet, and on Pukerimo he beat all but the winner.

Pakuranga Club to Treasury The sum paid to the Government in connection with the Pakuranga Hunt meeting, held at Ellerslie last Saturday, amounted to £3,185 17s 2d, made up as follows: £ s. d. Totalisator tax 1,048 3 9 Dividend duty 1,586 18 0 Privileges, etc 29 19 11 Stakes 135 0 0 Amusement tax 85 15 6 Total £3,185 17 2 Agrion Back On the Track The New Zealand colt Agrion, who was recently reported to be suffering from heel trouble, reappeared on the Randwick track yesterday, with bandages on both forelegs. With a light boy up Agrion went half-pace for a mile and then went round again steadily, but appeared to be sore at the finish. Arrivals at Sydney The New Zealand racehorses Piuthair and Clarinda arrived at Sydney yesterday by the Maheno in good condition. Two-mile Hurdle Races Speaking at the annual meeting of the Thames Jockey Club on Monday, the president, Mr. H. Lowe, mentioned that a conference of representatives of New Zealand jockey clubs last month had recommended an alteration in the rules of racing to the effect that hurdle races should be run over not less than a two-mile course and that no hurdle races be permitted on courses less than one mile in circumference. This alteration, said Mr. Lowe, would seriously affect the Thames Jockey Club, whose course was 105 yards short of one mile. Officials of Thames Club The election of officers at the annual meeting of the Thames Jockey Club resulted: —President, Mr. Henry Lowe; vice-president, Mr. E. J. Clendon; treasprer, Mr. A. Rae; chairman of committee, Mr. E. J. Clendon; executive, Messrs Lowe, Clendon, Rae and Whitehead: judge, Mr. F. J. McManemin; starter, Mr. C. O’Connor (provisional) ; handicapper, Mr. W. P. Russell: timekeeper, Mr. A. Pg Buick; clerk of course, Mr. J. McCormick; clerk of scales, Mr. E. Whitehead; auditor, Mr. A. J. Hosking; stewards, Messrs. H. Lowe, F. Adams, W. H. Baker, W. Bame, E. J. Clendon, D. Mackay, T. W. Newman, A. C. Race, J. Twohill and E. Watson: judicial committee, Messrs. E. J. Clendon (chairman), F. Adamson, W. Baker, H. Lowe and J Twohill; surgeon, Dr. J. B. Biggins: veterinary surgeons. Dr. Costello and Dr. R. Denize. Mr. Clendon gave notice of intention to move that the club membership be open to all desirous of joining. At present membership is limited to 80 members.