TURF NOTES

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 488, 18 October 1928, Page 11

TURF NOTES

Waikato’* Fixture The Waikato spring fixture is to be held at Te Rapa on Saturday and Wednesday next. On Saturday trains will leave tor the course from Auckr land at 6.50 a.m. (arriving at Te Rapa 1Q.39 a.m.) and 7.45 a.m. (stopping at Newmarket only). With an excellent day's sport in prospect there is every reason to expect tho club to have a successful day, followed by another on tho concluding day, Wednesday. Fine weather is the only requirement neces.sary for the Waikato Racing Club to Attain success. Dargaville at Avondale Dargaville’s annual two days’ racing is this season to be held on the course of the Avondale Jockey Club on Thursday and Saturday. November 1 and 3. Nominations for all events close with 2dr. A. J- Farquhar. at the office of the Avondale J.C., at 5 p.m. to-morrow. A Possibility Notwithstanding that the ponified Golden Krist is apt to display distinct signs of soreness at the conclusion of sound exercise, it does not interfere with his racing programme. His victory in the concluding event at Avondale last month served as some recompense for past failures, and trainer 11. Hastedt deserved a win, too, for luck has not favoured him for some time. Golden Krist is to race at Te Rapa, and he may add further " to his record. For Country Meetings Among tho gallops recorded at Ulerslie on Tuesday, Master Doon’s w:is very smart, sufficient to encourage ihe belief that ho may yet return to iorm. Ho has not the ability ho displayed a couple of seasons ago, but nevertheless he should at least prove a payable proposition where the company is not over strong. Horses for Courses t?inco he scored at Te Rapa on the occasion of the last Waikato Racing rlub meeting. Respirator has come before the racing public very little, but he wiil make a reappearance at the above-mentioned course on Saturday, to meet his engagement in the darkin Handicap. In the event of firm going the long-striding son of Tea Tray cannot be overlooked, for he is a i apable galloper who only requires the track to his liking to perform well. Hunt Club’s Meeting At Cambridge next Monday the annual race meeting of the Waikato Hunt Club meeting will be held. A special train leaves Newmarket at 6.55 a.m.. and from Auckland (stopping at Newmarket and Frankton only) at 7.45 a.m., and an earlier une at 6.20 a.m. * A Change of Quarters

W. Patterson, the manager of the Auckland Stud Company’s farm at Otahuhu, has sent Miss New Zealand to the Te Rapa trainer, P. Brady, who will train the mare in future. Miss New Zealand scored two attractive wins during the winter period, and although she failed in subsequent events, she ran an excellent race at Ellerslie recently in lur only start, suggesting that she wall prove a danger to her opponents in country cups. Likely Youngsters In Wye and Catoma, J. Thorpe has a pair of two-year-olds who should be to advantage in their engagements during the season. Both are big upstanding youngsters, and opinions at present are divided as to which is the better, although the writer is inclined to lean toward Catoma, who strongly resembles his defunct brother, the promising Chamour. Wye has been sprinted quite often at headquarters, showing nothing outstanding, however. Nevertheless J. Thorpe has promising material to work upon. H»a First Race Having spelled Hoariri. H. Rama has only Taneriri to work upon now. and with intentions of giving the three-year-old a chance in public at Te Rapa on Saturday, trainer Rama has put him through a useful preparation. His track gallops have been indicative of no more than average galloping ability, hut he is likely to show improvement with a race or two. Not Hia Lucky Race Although C. Emerson has piloted tho winners of six contests for the McLean stakes, he has failed to be successful in tiie Dunedin Guineas. His second on Childsplay on Saturday last marked his sixth similar placing in the classic, his previous mounts being Recontre (1914), Braid (1918), Sunny Corner (1920), Warhaven (1922), and The Polynuuan (1923). Rars Occurrence An incident such as happens very rarely cropped up in connection with the Trial Stakes at Wingatui on Thursday. Mr. G. J. Barton started two horses, both, of them trained by W. Cooper who also holds a jockey’s licence. Had there been only one starter, Cooper would have had the mount, hut because two horses trained by him were in the field he was debarred froni riding either of them, there being a specific prohibition on this subject in the rules of racing.

Not for Riccarton Kilmisa was yesterday scratched for I all. engagements at the Canterbury ; Jockey Club’s meeting. Mystic Peak’s Form Winner of some good races in Australia last season as a two-year-old, Mystic Peak’s third to the Aga Khan and Merab at Caulfield yesterday show’s that the colt is returning to form. Mystic Peak was got by imported Romeo from Refinement ( Shepherd King—Elegance), and was bred by Mr. E. Alison. Ohinemuri’a Enterprise The Ohinemuri Jockey Club has completed arrangements for a nontotalisator spring hack meeting on November 17. The programme, which consists of seven events, has been approved by the Auckland District Committee. False Starts Under the English rules of racing, a starter is not allowed to recall a field unless the tapes get fouled or some mechanical defect occurs with the starting machine. Then the recall flag is brought into use. Not a Champion Royal Flyer, which cost Mr. W. H. Gaisford 100 guineas in Australia, is now a cheap purchase, but he does not seem likely to reach high honours (comments “The Watcher”). After jumping out best and having matters all his own way, he was kicked along to beat Equitant at the finish on Saturday. Promising Maiden A maiden seen out at Masterton on Saturday likely to go on and improve into a good sort is the three-year-old filly Chief Singer, by Chief Ruler from Carol Singer, by Bezonian from Sweet Angelus, by Multiform. Chief Singer was making her first appearance on a racecourse, and after being prominent all the way she finished fourth (says a Wellington writer). Chief Singer cost her owner, Mr. H. Murphy, 625 guineas as a yearling, and was a smart two-year-old in her early gallops, before she was turned out. Smart Sprinting Lipsol, Huikai, and High Court, in that order, galloped half a mile in 50 2-5, the best of the morning, at Hastings last Saturday (reports the “Tribune”). Lipsol is in great heart. Huikai, for the time he has been up, went surprisingly well. The two-year-olds Head Serang (9.0) and Admiral Drake (8.0) did their half-mile in a tick under 51. Both w r ere finishing on strongly when passing the finishing post. Head Serang will have the confidence of local track-watchers at T.rentham.

May Be Good Nedda, who ran second to Stealth in the Dominion Handicap at Dunedin, is a very speedy galloper, and with a little luck she wouid have caused a lot of trouble to the winner. She began smartly, but lost her place, only to come on again with a great rush over the last furlong. Nedda is going to win races later on. and she is worth following from now on (says “Argus”). It was intended to race her at Trentham, but the acceptance date was overlooked. She is by Paper Money from Michaela, a brilliant galloper in her day. Her first foal. Don Jose., has not come up to expectations, but Nedda may earn her high fame. Transport of Racehorses Owners of racehorses, breeders, and trainers were invited by Mr. O. R. Wise to attend a meeting in Dunedin on Friday afternoon for the purpose of discussing the question of taxation on racing, to take steps to travel horses to race meefngs by motor, and to discuss the further question of voting at the General Election only for those in favour of racing and sport. The response, however, was so small that the meeting did not eventuate. In the course of discussion, Mr. Wise said the railway charges for the transport of horses were undoubtedly too high, and he contended that owners could secure advantages in more ways than one by resorting to the use of motor-lorries for the conveyance of their horses to and from meetings (says the “Otago Daily Times”). He had received a letter from J. H. Jefferd, who stated that the means of transport he had used mostly had been a special body fixed on to a lorry. One lorry carried five horses, which rode facing crossways. They travelled with far more comfort and fed better on a lorry than on a train. He had never had any skin or hair knocked oft them, whereas in a train it was the exeption to get to the end of a train journey without something of this kind happening. The best means of transport that he had used was a special box, which held three liorses facing the way the lorry was travelling. There were, in his opinion, many advantages in motor transport, one of the greatest being that the amount of air could be regulater. The charge he had paid for transport was fivepence a mile for each horse for the outward journey, and threepence a mile for the return journey. Stable boys and feed were carried fre. Mr. Wise stated that he had also received a letter from Messrs. Powdrell Bros,, Hastings. They stated that they had two horseboxes, which fitted on to four-ton lorries. Each of these boxes carried five horses in comfort and safety. The cost of making these boxes, together with a loading gangway, was in the vicinity of £BO each. The boxes were provided with removable cushions to prevent any damage to the horses, and to keep them from falling down. In the carriage of horses they governed their prices by the railway fares when they were competing against the railways, but when they were off the railway route they charged £ 1 return fare for each horse for a 12-mile journey. Under that distance the charge was £5 for a fui load for a two-hours and a-half rui* going and coming. The cost of running worked at at about Is 8d a mi!?. The writers added that they carried horses to the local hunt two cays a week during the season. They had carried some local horses on several occasions, and these walked up the gangway into their boxes as if they were going into their stables.