Sister to Windbag Is Topnotcher

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 582, 7 February 1929, Page 12

Sister to Windbag Is Topnotcher

A REAL STAYER ENTHUSIASTIC CRITICS The coincidence that Li‘Quacious, like her illustrious brother, Windbag, has come good only well into her second year of racing, has set some racegoers wondering whether she is destined to go a long way toward equalling his performances. At present Loquacious has risen only a short way along the road to equine fame, but her performance in the Sydney Three-year-old Handicap recently attracted attention. She finished like a real stayer, and started a hot favourite for the Adrian Knox Stakes the following week, and won easily. . . . Loquacious has-now w'on thrice, deadheated for first once, and was once second in her last five runs, so perhaps there is some reason for imagining that she may live up to her relationship. Windbag was a comparatively unknown quantity until he shut - prised Spearfelt in the A.J.C. St. Leger, and it will be a peculiar coincidence

if Loquacious can so far improve as to follow in his footsteps in that regard. In High Regard Her trainer, W. Kelso, always had a high regard for the mare. He once told a visitor that the best horse in his stable was Loquacious, then a maiden two-year-old. But he found great difficulty in getting her to the post in condition to win. She suffered badly from shin soreness, and it was that fact that caused her being sent for a long spell before she won a race. a wise move, for a few months back Loquacious returned, and her improvement has been continuous. She showed by far her best form in her recent successes, and even taking into consideration the weakness of the field, her finishing run was sufficient to settle all doubts of her worth. In the first three furlongs of the Three-year-old Handicap she dropped back, and at the half-mile she was in front of three horses in a spread-out field. Her task seemed too great, yet that she got up after giving away 10 lengths in the last two furlongs proved that it will take a particularly good three-year-old to withstand her final effort over a mile. After her success in the Adrian Knox Stakes last Saturday week, Loquacious was to be given a slight let-up with a view to autumn events. Summer form does not always form a reliable guide to the big Randwick events, but there are many good judges who will look to her in one of the bigger handicaps of the autumn racing at Randwick.

Paeroa Card is A Liberal One OHINEMURI’S ANNUAL FIXTURE MEETING ON MARCH 16 AND 18 The first of the autumn fixtures to contain steeplechase events on its programme is that of the Ohinemuri Jockey Club, which holds its annual meeting at Paeroa on Saturday and Monday, March 16 and 18, The club has drawn up a schedule which is in many ways superior to the programmes conducted by some of the metropolitan clubs outside the province, for the stakes to be distributed total £4,050, £2,100 on the first day and £1,950 on the second day. With such a liberal amount to be won, it is small wonder that Paeroa is a popular rendezvous where racing is concerned. For the fixture, commencing March 16, entries are due at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, February 20, with the secretary, Mr. H. Poland, Paeroa, or with Messrs. Blomfield and Company, High Street, Auckland, at the same hour. Weights are due on March 4, and acceptances on March 8. The Cup Of course the race de resistance is undoubtedly the Ohinemuri Gold Cup. carrying with it £6OO in stakes and trophy, the winner taking £4OO and a handsome gold cup to the value of £75. The distance is one mile and three furlongs, and the event should attract the best handicap performers in the province. Other notable events on the opening day are the St. Patricks Handicap, of £3OO, six furlongs; Handicap Hurdles, of £2OO, 1* miles; McGuire Memorial Steeplechase, of £2OO. about miles; Komata Handicap, of £250, about 7 furlongs; and Hetherton Handicap, of £250, 8i furlongs. Then there are the Karangahake Handicap (for two-year-olds), of £l5O, about oi furlongs; and Novice Handicap, of £l5O, about 5 \ furlongs, for non-win-ners at time of entry. The Shaw Memorial Handicap, of £4OO, S£ furlongs, heads the second day’s card, with the sprint, the Paeroa Handicap, of £250, six furlongs Then there is the Hikutaia Hack Cup Handicap, of £3OO, 84 furlongs, th© winner of this race taking £2OO and a £25 silver cup. The other events on the concluding day are also liberally endowed, constituting a programme that is sure to attract the attention of all horse owners.

DOING A “TROT AWAPUNI JUMPERS WON 11 OUT OF FOURTEEji The success which has attend*,) candidates trained at Awapuni ,j* a nawatu’s big training centre) jumping events this season has been truly remarkable, for. going back a. far as the Levin meeting in Novem' ber. one finds that of the 14 contest* of that description at surrounding fixtures held since the Southern meett ing, local jumpers have captured the honours on 11 occasions, while in the three instances where they l. a( j submit to defeat by outsiders, second placinga went to them. It was the old New Zealand Cup winner. Sunart. who opened the ball at Levin, and then another former handicap winner in Novar, the Manawatu Cup winner of 1926, made a promising debut in the branch hv winning both days. Another double winner was presented at Feilding in Llysianor, while at Woodville the one stable —Miss G. Maher’s that was—furnished the winner each day. Elicit prevailing on the opening day and Grand National on the second for the lady mentor. A Check The run was broken at Manawatu for, following upon Redbank bringing off something in the nature of a surprise victory on the opening dav Elysianor led the field home in the High-weight, which class of event substituted the jumping race on the second day, Diana’s Lad accounted for Elysianor on the final day. At Marton, Elicit added his second success since the opening of the campaign, but Lady Gay stepped in to again stem the tide on the second when the chestnut mare snatched the honours from Atareria. A repetition of such circumstance? was forthcoming at Foxton, *-hen Hymestrason won on the opening day, only for Deluge to step in and beat Lin Arlington (who was making his debut over the sticks) on the second day. Won His First At Aslihurst. Locarno burst into the picture in brilliant fashion by winning, at his first attempt, in comfortable manner from a fellow-Awapuni representative in Lin Arlington, who thus, for the second successive occasion, had to be content with the smaller portion of the stake money. Last week’s fixture at Hawera found a small team from this centre engaged and the jumping events parsed to Awapuni horses, Vexatious prevailing on the opening day and Atareria on the second. With Red Fuchsia, Peneus, Mister Gamp and others to com© in later on, the winter season should find Awapuni jumpers playing a very prominent role.

FORFEITS ENGLISH TEST CASE A DECISION REVERSED (Australian and N.Z. Press Associationf (United P.A.—Bp Telegraph — Copyright) LONDON, Tuesday. The Court of Appeal allowed the appeal by the Jockey Club in a friendly action against the novelist, Mr. Edgar Wallace, to recover forfeits for void nominations for the Newmarket races, in which Mr. Wallace’s horses did not run. The Master of the Rolls, Lord Hanworth. in giving judgment reversing the decision of Mr. Justice Clauson, said that horse racing, in spite of certain restrictions, was still a lawful pastime. If there were no other purpose in a contract than gaming and wagering it was void, but there was nothing that depended on gaming and wagering as between the Jockey Club and Mr. Wallace. Therefore there w’ould be a declaration that Mr. Wallace was liable to pay the sums claimed. The decision has given the greatest satisfaction in racing circles since it establishes the principle that a forfeit incurred by an owner of a racehorse is a debt legally recoverable. It will probably have far-reaching consequences. including an alteration of the rules of racing regarding nominations being void, should an owner die before the decision of a race for which his horse is entered. Mr. Edgar Wallace in July last year won a friendly action brought by the Jockey Club to recover forfeits tor voia nominations for the Newmarket races, in which Mr. Wallace’s horse did not run. j Mr. Justice Clauson ruled that P 3s ' ; ments for the forfeits could not be tni forced as the contracts were wagering j contracts under the Gaming Act.

RACING FIXTURES February 1. D—Glsborne KC February 7. 9—Tarauaki J.C. February 9. u—Rotorna B.C. February 11. lfi—Dunedin J.C. February 14. lG—Wangnnui 1.0. February 14. lG—Poverty Bey T.CFebruary 16. ls—Te Aroha LC. February 20. Zl—Gore RC. February 20. Zl—Woodvllle J.C. February Zl—Tologa Bay LC. February 23—Cunterbury LC. gegruary nggv—Pannailako RC. e ruary ‘ aapu . February 28. March 2-—Mariborouß- 3-C-March z—Banka Peninsula KC. March 5. l—Rangitkei KC. ‘ March 8. Q—Napier Park KC. March B—Franklm RC. March 13—Otautau RC. March :4—Waimate RVC. March 16—0punake [l.O. March It: lS—Ohinemuri J.C. Llarch 16. ls—Wellington R.C. March 19. ZO—Southland R.C. March 20. zl—Manawatu KC. March L‘s-Bay of Plenty J.C. March 23—Hororata RC. March 23. 25-Westport J.C. March 23. 25—Oamaru LC. March SO-Tuapeka J.C. March 30. April l—Wairarapa March 30. April l—Feildin: 1.0March 80. April l—Auckland 8.0 6. ‘March 30. April 1. 2——Biverton 3‘April l—Beaumont R.C. iApril l—Waipukurau J.C. {April l—Kumara 8.0. ‘April L S—Canterbury .I.C. {April 4—Westland RC. . April G—Greymouth J.(_‘. April 6, lO—Avondale J.C. April lO—Reei'ton J.C.