TURF NEWS & NOTES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 April 1938, Page 11

TURF NEWS & NOTES

CURRENT TOPICS FROM STABLE & COURSE

Views on Racing Fads and Fancies

ARABOA WELL WEIGHTED

(By

“The Cynic.”)

AUCKLAND ACCEPTANCES. AUCKLAND, April 8. Acceptances for the first day of the Auckland Racing Club's meeting, to be held on April 16 and 18, and at which single-pool betting will operate, are:— Presidents’ Handicap, of £450. One mile and a quarter: Round Up 9.0, Kilonsa 8.10, Gay Rose 8.10, Master Brierly 8.9, Paso Robles 8.6, Knight of Australia 8.5, Shy 7.12, Crooning 7.9, Tybalt, Maligigi, Star Artist, Glen Abb, Light Comedy all 7.0. Brighton Hurdles, of £4OO. Two miles: Erination 10.9, Master Musk 10.8. Valpai 10.7, Sandrift 10.6, Bryce Street 9.13, Celtic Lad 9.13, Killadar 9.4, Kilberis 9.3, Irish Comet 9.0. Saster Handicap, of £BOO. One mile: Stretto 9.6, Golden Sheila 8.5, Round Up 8.4, Royal Appellant 7.12, Suleiman 7.12, Llangollen 7.12, Whirling 7.9, Dark Shadow 7.7, Race Call 7.3, Valamito 7.2, Francis Drak 7.1, Trilliarch 7.1, High Tea 7.0, Day Wind 7.0, Prince Rangi 7.0. Mangere Steeplechase, of £350. About two miles and a half: Huskie 11.7, Neil 10.5, Bryce Street 10.3, Lucidus 9.12, Adsum 9.12, London 9.1, Floodlight 9.0, Count Roussilon 9.0, Smilin’Thru 9.0. Onslow Stakes, of £350. Six furlongs: Noitaro 8.12, Bright Wings 8.11, Roycevrus 8.5, Vitemint 8.3, Fidelis 7.11, Philcourt 7.7, Pocket Venus 7.7, Te Takina 7.3, Avail 7.3, Brazilian 7.2, ’ Verey Lights, Maioro, Milanion, Vaalstar, Olympus, First Gold Money, Nordic Song/Spinning Wheel, all 7.0. Eden Handicap, of £350. One mile: Lady Meath 9.0, Strathire 8.11, Jack Tar 8.9, Balinavar 8.7, Fleetwind 8.5, Alyth 8.1, Mon Acre 7.13, High Sea 7.11, Barrister 7.9, Prival 7.7, Dragon Moth 7.4, Bronze Wing 7.4, High Star 7.2, Barricade 7.2, Ivy Willonyx 7.2, Inquisitor 7.2, Master Appellant, The Trimmer, Disturbed, Vaalso, Siega, Paddy the Rip, Palmint, Rajanya, Mai de Mer, all 7.0. Final Payments. Final payments for classic races are as follow: — The Great Northern Champagne Stakes, of £600; for two-year-olds. Six furlongs: Arvakur, Brazilian, Bronze Emerald, Hot Box, Olympus, Rehearsal, Surmount, Vitement, Ecstatic, Russian Ballet. Great Northern Oaks, of £500; for three-year-old fillies. One mile and a half: Accomplice, Airam, Aiwai, Fleur D’or, Glenogil, Icing, Wildflower. Great Northern St. Leger Stakes, of £500; for three-year-olds. One mile and three-quarters: Aero King, Bachelor King, Barricade, Beverley, Francis Drake, Accomplice, Fleur D’or. Wildflower. The Great Northern St. Leger will be run on the second day of the meeting. WHANGAREI MEETING. MEMORIAL TO TYBALT. WHANGAREI, April 8. The Whangarei Racing Club’s autumn meeting opened today in fine weather. There was a good attendance and the track was in good order. Totalisator investments totalled £12,502 against £14,946 on the corresponding day last year, a decrease of £2444. Results Portland Hack Handicap, 6f: 1/1 High Star (McTavish) 1; 4/5 High Delight (Chaplin) 2; 5/4 Paddy the Rip (Green) 3. Also started: 3/3 Abbey Lass; 2/2 Prival; 7/6 Chief Lap; 6/7 Tiverton; 9/9 Palmint; 8/8 Flashing Spear. Length length and a half. Time, 1-17.

Trial Stakes, sf: First Division: 10/10 Mischel (Forsyth) 1; 3/3 Vaals Star (Goulsbro) 2; 9/5 Rajanya (McTavish) 3. Also started: 7/8 Brazilian; 12/11 Love Parade; 17/14 Rey Lu; 14/12 Strathearn; 5/6 The Trimmer; 14/15 Avail; 6/6 White Foam. Length; two lengths and a half. Time, 1.3. Second Division: 2/2 Asset (Green) 1; 4/4 Viracious (Wiggins) 2; 8/6 Red Ledgci (Goulsbro) 3. Also started: 17/14 Electric Spear; 17/14 Master Appellant; 10/9 Paint; 17/17 Tane Mahuta; 12/13 Love In Idleness; 1/1 Pasture; 16/15 Torakiki. Two lengths; length. Time, 1.3 2-5.

Mclnnes Memorial Handicap, l.jm: 2/2 Tybalt (Gilchrist) 1; 1/1 Grateful (McTavish) 2; 3/3 Bonny Gay (Goulsbro) 3. Also started: 5/6 Paso Robles; 6/5 Crooning; 4/4 Airam. Head long neck. Time, 2.8 2-5. Northland Hurdles, IJm and 197yds: 3/3 Lucidus (Trillo) 1; 2/1 Teak (Fergus) 2; 4/4 Gay Broney (Green) 3. Also started: 1/2 Hunting Star; 5/5 Illimani. Six lengths; two lengths. Time. 3.1 3-5.

Stewards’ Handicap, 6f: 2 Sir Abb (wiggings) 1: 1 Inver (Goulsbro) 2; 3 Tosh (McKenzie) 3. Also started: O Trilliarch. Neck; half a length. Time 1.15 2-5.

Settlers’ Handicap, 7Jf: 3 Enlightenment 2 High Delight *; 1 Disturbed 3. -Signifies dead-heat. The only starters. Third horse three-quarters of a length away. Time. 1.38 3-5. Maungatapere Hack Handicap, 6f: 2/2 Prival (Wiggins) 1; 6/6 Bright Idea (Gilchrist) 2; 1/1 Windcress (Goldfinch) 3. Also started: 5/5 Aymon; 4/3 Raceline; 3/4 Lapidarian. Two lengths and a half; neck. Time, 1.16 4-5.

Waipu Handicap, Im: 2/2 Miss Lu (Goulsbro) 1; 1/1 Land Girl (McTavish) 2, 3/4 Shy (Nicholson) 3. Also started: 5/5 Tip Toes: 7/7 Kilberis; 6/6 Ringshot; 6/6 Whakapara. Neck; three-quarters of a length. Time, 1.43 4-5.

Araboa, who is top weight, 8.5, in the Macaulay Memorial Handicap, to be run over a mile at Otautau today has not had a race since he ran unplaced in the Cressy Handicap at Riccarton last November, and his last winning performance was when he carried 7.12 and beat Last Refain 8.5, Tauramai 8.7, and a big field in the Ranfurly Handicap on a fast track at Wingatui last October in Imin. 40 1-5 secs. The Otautau course, with its long straight, .should suit this Balboa gelding, and if the going is yielding his chance will be all the better fancied.. Araboa is reported to have done well since joining up with A. E. Didham’s team, and should be worth following at both Otautau and Riverton. The manner in which Erndale finished to win the Waharoa Handicap at Matamata was distinctly pleasing and it may not be long before he scores again. Like other members of his family, Erndale shines when the going is soft and he should have excellent prospects at the autumn and winter meetings. The three-year-old Broadway Bill attracted attention by the bold manner in which he hit out in his preliminary before the Putaruru Stakes at Matamata and may have prospects when more seasoned. Broadway Bill is a good stamp of gelding by Spear Dance from Sweet Colleen and is owned and trained by Mr. J. Clothier. Up to the present the four-year-old Maxown has failed to reach expectations but he ran one of his best races when he finished second to Highland Queen in the Railway Hack Handicap at Matamata. The determined manner in which he finished suggested that he maj' do better when given an opportunity over longer distances than he has tackled lately. The 50,000 dollars Santa Anita Derby, which was run at Santa Anita last month, was won by Stagehand, a son of the English-bred stallion Sickle and thq Fair Play mare Stagecraft. Stagehand, who is owned by Colonel Maxwell Howard, defeated Dauber and Sun Egret, and the race must have been very exciting, as the result was in doubt until a couple of strides from the winning post. His win in the Santa Anita Derby made Stagehand’s fourth in succession, and this well-bred colt is now being rated one of the best horses racing this season in America. His success will be of great interest to English sportsmen, for his sire, Sickle, was bred by Lord Derby, and was raced by him with great success in England. There are one oi' two of the stock of Myosotis making an appearance about the Riccarton tracks and the past week served to introduce two fine fillies by that sire from Some Abbey and Berate. The former has just been broken in by E. Parker who is riding her about, but the Berate filly has not yet been ridden to the course. She is an exceptionally fine type who must give her breeder, Mr. G. Murray-Aynsley, much satisfaction.

Gay Boa, who is trained at Winton, has been pleasing his trainer with his galloping and jumping recently, and will be ridden by E. J. Jennings in the Otautau Steeplechase to-day. So far this season Gay Boa has had only one race, finishing fourth in the Hunters’ Flat Handicap at the Birchwood Hunt meeting last month. Gay Boa won the hack steeplechase on the second day of the Dunedin Winter Meeting, beating Radius Rod and Cock o’ the North and six others. He is trained by Frank Langford, and is by Balboa from Geraldine, a mare by Nassau from The Spike, by Charlemagne 11. from Marlin, by Artillery.

Vitaphone, who has 9.11 in the Otautau Steeplechase, has started seven times this season, four times over hurdles (unplaced), and three times in steeplechases, finishing second to Cock o’ the North at the Birchwood Hunt Meeting last month. Last season he won the hurdle race on the second day of the Dunedin Spring Meeting in soft going. He has been in J. Thistleton's stable this season, and that trainer thoroughly understands making jumpers, but so far Vitaphone has proved a very erratic jumper over big country. Always more or less unsound, he has probably found the firm going against him, and now that the tracks are becoming more yielding he may do better.

C. G. Goulsbro reduced L. J. Ellis's lead to six when he won on Granvale and Peter Beckford at Hastings on Thursday. On Saturday Ellis won one race at Waimate and Goulsbro one at Matamata.

Galleon races in the name of Mr A. Clark, of Dunedin, but there is a registered partnership including also Mr E. J. Irving, of Kelso, and Mr H. D. Irving, formerly of Otautau. and president of the Birchwood Hunt, now residing in Palmerston North. Galleon was bred by Mr E. J. Irving.

Though engaged in flat races at the Otautau and Riverton meetings, Last Post is being schooled over steeplechase fences, and is reported to shape well. He will be tried out as a steeplechaser at the winter meetings. When Haughty Winner finished second to Silver Streak in the Stewards’ Handicap on the first day of the Oamaru Meeting he carried ,7.6 and was ridden by an apprentice who was not much use to him in the ' running. After getting out first and leading for nearly four furlongs, Haughty Winner lost his position racing across the top and was fifth turning into the straight. Then he finished strongly a length and a-half behind Silver Streak. The latter gave him 241bs. at Oamaru, but in the Great Easter Handicap there is only 181bs. between them, and on paper Haughty Winner would have to improve a whole lot to turn the tables with the Paper Money gelding. Catalogue and Conveyor have been sold by Mr E. L. Barnes to Mrs A. Jamieson. The sale comes as a surprise, but Mr Barnes has been in illhealth for some time, and finds it difficult to keep up an active interest in his horses. The sale may mean the absence of Catalogue from the Auckland Easter Handicap. Sir Admiral has improved with th/ little racing he has done across country and at the Birchwood meeting he was responsible for qquite a sound display. He has been staying on much better in his races and he will not be without a chance at forthcoming meetings. It is likely that he will be ridden at Otautau by E. J. Jennings. The three-year-old Gascony gelding Shangri La, owned by the Hon. G. R. Hunter and the Hon. P. C. Webb, and trained by Hector Gray, was in the picture all the way in the Budge Memorial Handicap at Stratford. It was his best performance to date, and he looks like being useful. When Airam ran second to Llangollen on the second day at Tauranga she put up an encouraging performance as she was placed on the outside of the field and had to cover a good deal of ground to get a position. If Airam behaves at the barrier at Whangarei she should score an overdue victory. She was second to Trench Fight when he ran a record mile in the Christmas Handicap at Ellerslie. The Great Autumn Handicap is looked upon by some as a fairly easy race to sum up, but it cannot be said that there is an outstanding prospect and until some further guide is given Davolo, Willie Win, Galleon and Sovereign Lady appear to be worthy of holding their places among the favoured division. At the moment the Chokebore stable has both Paper Slipper and Wild Chase in the Great Easter Handicap. Judging by the word Wild Chase is doing on the tracks he seems intended for a long journey, and, as he is also engaged in the Sockburn Handicap on the same day and in the Great Autumn Haiidicap on the second day, those races would appear more likely to be his mission, the stable relying upon Paper Slipper in the Great Easter. The final acceptance is not due till next Wednesday. Illimani raced on the flat and over hurdles at Tauranga and failed to make an impression in either department. He will need to improve considerably in his jumping to be a success as a hurdler. The Waikato jumper Bryce Street is again being schooled over country at Te Rapa and he is pleasing greatly. Last year M. J. Carroll’s charge succeeded first time out as a steeplechaser and he is likely to do even better this year.