Turf Notes

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 828, 23 November 1929, Page 12

Turf Notes

Te Kuiti Fixture The Te Kuiti Racing Club’s meeting; is to be concluded on Monday. One - of the principal event.' is tiie Maniapoto Hack Cup. for which the best hacks were nominated. The Daylight [.united, leaving at 7.03. and will set . passengers down at the course, and • bring them back to Auckland, arriv- ■ ing here at 11 p.m. For Second Day It is probable that Master Holey will bo seen out in the hurdles at Te Kuiti on Monday. He won well at Rap last ' k so t at In sho aid go another good race. A Good Hack Carrying 9.1. llakanoa ran a good: fourth in last Monday's Waikato Hack Cup, without meeting much in the I way of luck in the running. llakanoa, if he doesn't incur any more weight I as a result of his outing this after- ! noon, possesses an undeniable chance» in the Maniapoto Hack Cup, to be run i at Te Kuiti on Monday. Noryal Tea One of the disappointments of late j has* been the three-year-old Norval Tea, whose form in the early spring indicated that she was endowed with j a ton of speed. The lilly is engaged i in a hack sprint at Te Kuiti today, and it she is still eligible it is possible that i she will contest the Trial Handicap on Monday, the distance of which, six j j furlongs, should suit her admirably. Due Shortly Respirator, the mainstay of J. M. i ’ Buchanan’s team at Ellerslie, con- : tinues to go along satisfactorily in his ; training, without recording any- ; thing out of the way. A trip to Te ; Raya last Saturday for the Waikato : meeting was planned, but the pro- . I gramme was eventually abandoned, j ' conditions underfoot being such as to , ! prevent Respirator from producing his ; best. There is a good race concealed in this big sturdy son of Tea Tray, j ! and as it is several months since he j last scored, the connections of the | horse mav be consoled in the fact that > they are likely to receive a good j , return when Respirator does materii alise. Improving ; a. Love lias wrought plenty of I 1 improvement in Luxurious since the Lucullus gelding was placed tinder his i charge, and providing the horse lives j up to his track efforts a return should be experienced at an early date, prob- j '• ably when Luxurious essays some , I minor hack race. Earlier in liis ; i career Luxurious was a brilliant per- , ! former in training, but his deeds in , I public were a long way below the ; standard of his track efforts. Aow ; that lie has some age. however, he may | j race inore honestly. Magnifico Returns 1 Windbag's 4,ooogns. brother. Mag- , : nilico wno was recently operated on in Sydney by Dr. W. C. Ring for roaring, ; i returned to F. McGrath’s stables last j week. He is not j*et to be put into training, but after a short stay in : Sydney will again be sent away. Prior to the operation Magnifico could be, heard a long way off when exercising, i but it is stated that when cantering ' about the paddocks before his recent ] 1 return to Sydney he made no noise. j Bred Right ! Lady March (by Lucullus —March), j full-sister to Queen March, recently j produced her first foal, a filly by Lapi- ! j dary, at the farm of her owner, Mr. G. Carolan, of Waharoa. Required Experience With Avon Court and Zane Grey as the exceptions, all the members of F. Gilchrist’s team are two-year-olds. Both Great Emblem (who was left in his only engagement), and British Princess have raced, but neither has shown anything out of the ordinary, although British Princess shaped in much better style on his second appearance. Experience is necessary to youngsters, and this filly may show j some of her undoubted speed whpn she i ! again contests a race, which may bo : ! at the forthcoming Takapuna fixture. ; i Paquito To Come? i On returning from Australia, Paquito was allowed a few days' respite at Kic- ! carton, but F. D. Jones has commenced on him again. The gelding I looks improved if anything by his hard racing in Australia, and will not re- • quire much work to get him ready to i race again. He figures in tlio noinini ations for the Auckland Cup, and all depends on the liandicapper’s opinion as to whether he will be at Ellerslie. If not, his holiday racing may be con- ■ lined to tho Manawatu and Marton ! meetings. Lack of Stayers In concluding a leading article on the breeding question, the “Australasian” ! remarks: “Tho present lack of stayers I in Australia should surely cause breeders to consider whether they should j not give greater opportunities to Aus--1 tralian-bred sires who have proved j themselves on the race-track. Nothing j could bo lost by such an experiment, i and much might be gained.” Limerick Spelled Limerick has been blistered and is being sent to his owner’s property, Racecourse Hill, for a spell, in a speci-ally-equipped paddock. Tie will bo brought in again after the New Year, and will enter upon another preparation. If he should stand up to his work, he will do his autumn racing in New Zealand, as there will not be much opportunity to get him ready for another Australian trip. For Ellerslie Silver Paper and Aspiring arc reI ported to be none the worse for their racing at Riccarton. all going well ; in the meantime they will go north to | the Feilding meeting, after which they will be brought on to Ellerslie to fulfil I engagements at tho Auckland Racing Club’s summer meeting. Silver Paper was obviously not at his best when he competed at the Riccarton meeting, j At this period of the season a good many of the Paper Money gallopers i suffer a temporary lapse, but at Auckland Silver Paper may strike his best form. He is engaged in the Feilding Jubilee Cup with 5.9, and if his connections set him for that race he should bo hard to beat. Silver Paper, though a son of Paper Money, seems to have lost a good deal of his former brilliance, but he is staying on much better now. ITo lias succeeded at weight-for-age over a mile, and another two furlongs should not prevent him asI serting his superiority. Undoubtedly he is a good horse, and this season he may be found winning over middle journeys.

Faumarunui Acceptances nui etinij on D ind 7. close at 5 p.m. on Wednesday t iext. with the secretary at Taumarunui. >i- with Messrs, Blomfield and Corn - jany. Auckland. r or the Autumn ~ y. Gilchrist has not bustled Avon t Jourt • he recommissioned her, u .•ut nevertheless the mare is fining • v 3 own, and although by no means j s 'e'adv yet. the tasks allotted her are laving tiie desired effect. _ Avon I t Jourt is no mean galloper, as her two- j e rear-old record proves, and as there is j r [’eason to believe she is just as good j now—if not better —her owner- ; a trainer must regard the future, prob- ! . ibly the autumn, with pleasurable : a mticipation. ; I Chide the Mainstay : . The present intentions of the Riccar- • \ Lon trainer. G. Murray-Aynsley, are h Lo bring a team to Auckland for the j r summer meeting. Chide will be a ; c member, provided all goes well with j j nim in the meantime, but a decision as | to other horses from the stable likely 1 to accompany him, will not be made ; until later. Staying Well : i Mr. J. J. Gatenby's two two-year- * olds, the sister to Pliar Lap and the t colt by Weatliervane —Rada, in J. M. 1 Cameron’s stable, are beginning to t shape up into nice youngsters, and s about Wuodville time may receive their c first public outing (says a Hastings ; writer). The Weatliervane colt, do- j i spite the relationship of the filly, is selected by quite a few to develop into j t the better performer. j ( Fop Takapuna Recent addition to the horses trained j 5 at Ellerslie is Tea Time, 0. smart sprin- i ter until recently trained at Te Arolia j j by J. Wallace. The son of Tea Tray t now claims H. Hoyle’s attention, and ( if the horse’s appearance is a criterion 1 it will not bo long before he is racing 1 prominently over six furlongs. He 1 completed a working gallop pleasingly j at headquarters on Thursday morning, t and hit out with plenty of freedom. Tea Time is engaged in the Cheltenham ] Handicap at Takapuna next Saturday. < i SLOW CLOCKS J 1 FLEMINGTON TIMES ! | 1 DOUBTS ENTERTAINED One of the amazing features of the , recent Melbourne Cup meeting was the brilliancy of times recorded, comments < a Sydney writer. Middle distance events were particularly swift, and the surprise of the . meeting was the achievement of faster times than champions l»3 r the secondrate performers. Some who are in the ! habit of timing races on their own watches differed from official figures. j This might mean nothing, but the C fact that figures were so variable, and j some of the best performances against j 1 time were made by moderate performers leads to doubt. Ono watch made the C.R. Fisher Plato 2.321. The official time was a second and a half faster, 2.302. The Final Handicap’s 2.31. was also made slower by a private watch. it seems surprising that a. horse of the type of Parsee, who has been battling round in second-rate company for two seasons with moderate success, should suddenly achieve unexjiected fame by equalling Beauford’s 2.31, a. record that has been standing for eight years. Tests by experienced men. who time hundreds of gallops a week, and are therefore thoroughly conversant with the art of getting things exact, suggest that Flemington’s clock has slowed down, thus allowing faster times to be recorded than should be actually the case. It seems hardly likely, however, that such an important phase,of racing as the timing, should fall into disrepute at Victoria’s headquarters through neglect of the official clock. Walk Up Start At one time Randwick times were always much faster than Flemington’s. Both have had the electric clock for many years, and tests were thus fair, but Randwick was always recognised as the faster course. In recent years, however, Flemington has overtaken Randwick in the matter of speed to such an extent that the Victorian course holds its fair share of time records. The walk-up start is, of course, a strong factor in this attainment of speed. The horses are frequently galloping when they reach the tapes, or at least a stride after, and that must considerably reduce times for races. Phar Lap’s 2.31 J made a new Derby record, and Amounis’s L36£ for the Linlithgow Stakes, was within a quarter of a second of his own Australasiar mile record. Such figures are to be expected of champions. But Cimbrian’s 2.3 h for a mile and c quarter, and Parsee's 2.35, equalling the Australian record, seems too muci to swallow. The Cup was a slowly run race. So were most of the other longei races. It was striking, too, that while Green Wave’s I.OJ for the five furlong* of the Maribyrnong Plate was fast, bu a second outside the record, no othei two-year-old put up good time, anc the only sprint event for older horse* took 1.142* for six furlongs. QUEENSLAND DERBY NOT TRULY RUN Comanche’s trainer, H. Lewis, doe: not excuse his Queensland Derb} failure on the score that the track dii not suit him, but contents liimsel with saying: “It was a muddling run race, tin pace only being on near the end, anc Comanche is not an easy horse to ride He ran much better on the second day “Bernstein is a nice horse, but thougi he won the Derby, that race was no solidly enough run to make me thin! his Cup chance as good as his backer: believed. “The stipendiary stewards have made a set against everything in tin way of unfair and careless riding, anc one thing that strikes you is hov little interference occurs in th< straight. Xothing is hampered, anc horses get every chance. “Xo, there was nothing outstanding among the Brisbane horses. Bern stein is probably most deserving c: mention. “Goddard was the northern rider win impressed mo most. lie keeps lit, is cool, and rides with judgment. “Attendances are small in comparison with those of Sydney, and it i: wonderful where all the money comes from for racing.”