TURF NEWS & NOTES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 July 1938, Page 9

TURF NEWS & NOTES

CURRENT TOPICS FROM STABLE & COURSE

Views on Racing Facts and Fancies

ROY BUN FIT AFTER SPELL

(By

"The Cynic.”)

Roy Bun is looking better than ever after his spell, and he should earn .further honours next season. Only 1 lb above the minimum of the Winter Cup Handicap, Roy Bun is a possibility if he trains on the right way. In the last race he contested the Flaxbourne Handicap of one mile at Blenheim on May 16, Roy Bun carried 9.1 and was just beaten by Mishna 8.9 with Siegmund who carried 9.0, (Unplaced. On the weights if Siegmund, with 9.0 in the Winter Cup, is expected to have a chance, Roy Bun’s chance with 8.1 must be infinitely better. Neither horse has raced since meeting at Blenheim. Gayfire has improved considerably in his jumping in recent schooling efforts and J. B. Pearson will give him his first race on Saturday next in the Teschemaker Memorial Hunt Cup Steeplechase at Timarii, a race in which there are some well performed hunters engaged. Another novice from the same stable who is to make her initial: appearance over hurdles is the Paper Money mare Guilder. For some time past, Guilder has been responsible for brilliant schooling efforts and one morning last week she registered practically the fastest time over four hurdles for the' season. The only doubt about the mare is expected to be in her questionable stamina. Formerly trained at Avondale, Tip Toes has joined A. Kemp’s team at Ellerslie. As a result of a knock she is still doing only easy tasks, but is expected to join the regular workers in the near future. Valspear is again hittihg out well in his track essays at Ellerslie. His form at Waikato in May was encouraging and it should be merely a matter of

placing for Valspear to win races. Veteran F. Stenning again has him in hand at Ellerslie.

Since being recommissioned, Royal shaped up nicely. This two-year-old showed waywardness when trained earlier in the season, but it is hoped that after a spell he may mend his manners. His speed was encouraging in the few races he had before being laid aside.

The two-year-old Talak is showing a disinclination to work kindly and he has been very stubborn on recent mornings at Ellerslie. It will be a pity if he develops bad habits as he has already shown speed in his work.

Although he failed in his one outing at Trentham, Te Hai was prominent for a good part of +he mile journey. He is partial to easy going, but not so heavy as it was at Trentham and as his condition appears to be good he may do better at early meetings. ' '

«Clarion Call has finished second in the Grand National Hurdles two years running with 10.9 and 10.12. This year he has been given 11.3, but appearances point to' the. steeplechase being his mission. -

Miss Rang!, a half-sister to Prince Rangi, and Goldation (Oration —Gold Rep) are rising three-year-old additions to A. C. Jones’s stable at Te Rapa.

Essex had his first race of the season in the Stewards’ Handicap on the opening day at Trentham. He ran fairly well for a fresh horse and should improve. As a three-year-old Essex showed good form, winning the Queen’s Plate and the Great Northern

Derby. In the latter event he beat Trench Fight, Quadroon and Cerne Abbas. He is in the Winter Cup with 8.3.

Dunmure, who has been nominated for the Grand National Steeplechase, has not won a race for three years, his last win being in the Great Western Steeplechase at Riverton in 1935.

Paper Money, with £10,640, and the defunct Limond, with £5973, are the only St. Simon line horses in the first 18 sires heading the list for the present season.

Absurd sired winners of £336,498 in the season of 1921-22 and established a record that has not been equalled. The fact shows the value of speed, as Absurd never got a real stayer.

Royal Gallant, who won the Morven Handicap at Waimate, was got bjj Top Gallant from Princess Ilona, by Troutbeck —Princess Mary, by Bend Or—Saint Mary, by Hermit.

Silver Bond’s closing price when he won on Saturday, was close to double figures, but a stable commission would get on at. a rather better price. Silver Bond was got by Pink Coat from Victory Bond, by Paper Money—Kilberry, by Kilbroney.

It is said that Padishah may run in the Brabazon Handicap at the Christchurch Hunt meeting in preference to the Longbeach Hurdles. If he has a chance in the Grand National Hurdles education in the Longbeach Hurdles and Trial Hurdles would tend to improve his hurdling.

Brigadore fell when running in the Grand National Steeplechase last year and then put. up a third in the Grand National Hurdles. He finished the meeting with an unplaced performance in the Sydenham Hurdles. After racing over hurdles Brigadore, 9.8, was second to Clarion Call in the Wanganui Steeplechase, but fell at the sod wall in the Wellington Steplechase. He will probably start in the Hornby Steeplechase.

The French champion colt Nearco traces back on the dam’s side to a mare got by Mortemer, the sire of Apremont. whose line today exists only in tail- female. Apremont was bred in France and imported by the late Mr G. G. Stead in 1882. Apremont sired lots of good winners, but most of his stock were so highly strung or “viciously bad-tempered” that nearly all the colts he got were added to the list. The colts left entire included Silvermark, Sommeil, Prime Warden, Pygmalion, Dunkeld, Thackeray, Cajolery, and Mikado 11. Forty-three of Apremont’s daughters are in Vol. I of the new Stud Book, and from them descend Phar Lap, Nightmarch, Limerick, Ballymena, Fiery Cross, Loyalty, Bonnie Scotland, Treadmill, Ideal, and many other high-class performers. Apremont was a great sire of early speed, and his stock won the Welcome Stakes in five consecutive years.

Keith Voitre lost about 12 months’ riding by his smash, but he is busy in endeavours to make up time. On a recent Wednesday he landed a winner in Melbourne, and flew to Brisbane to ride at Doomben on Saturday. Taking the air again he was back to ride another winner at Caulfield on Monday, two at Moonee Valley on Wednesday, and' four at Pakenham on Thursday. Voitre now feels no effects of his serious leg injury, and is riding with alibis former confidence.

Sunny Form, the sire of Sunny Dawn, was got by Boniform —Sunny Water, by Sunny Lake —Bonnie Pluie, by Boniform —Grand Ram, by Gipsy Grand.

Two horses raced at Waimate were Snowy Dawn and Sunny Dawn. One of these days it may dawn on the nomenclature department that too much similarity exists in such names.

Mungukaha schooled pleasingly at Te Rapa this week, jumping with dash throughout a trial over four hurdles in company with Queen Lu. Mangukaha is a genuine mudlark and though she will be having her first start over hurdles at Matamata she should be kept in mind in the event of a heavy track obtaining on the day. Taken all round the class entered for the Okaiua Hurdles tomorrow is not particularly strong if one could discount Full of Scotch with 11.6.

Queen March, with £4,700 win in the 1922-23 season, holds the record for a two-year-old winner in New Zealand. She is now at the Elderslie Stud. Defaulter’s total (£2,510) is the largest since Ammon Ra won £2,535 in the 1930-31 season.

Mr J. M. Samson has decided to send his rising two-year-old colt by Iliad from Wealth up to J. H. Jefferd’s stable, and if the youngster makes satisfactory progress he wifi be taken over to Australia.

Irish Birdcatcher burst a blood vessel in his rape at Waimate and was pulled up. This is an old trouble and a ’few seasons ago he was so badly affected that he was considered a danger in a race and was barred from taking his place in the field on one occasion. He was a danger in that he used to stop very quickly when he bled.

Three interesting candidates for the Brabazon Handicap on the Christchurch Hunt programme are Cerne Abbas, from F. D. Jones’s stable, and Queen of Song and Top Row, from P. T. Hogan’s Washdyke team. Possibly they will be having a final race before leaving for Australia, where it is understood they are to do their spring racing.

Lovelit has done little racing over hurdles and following two thirds in her first three starts over the battens she annexed the Hack and Hunters’

Hurdles at Hastings last Saturday. She is a four-year-old by Mimetics from the Prince Willonyx—Barcarolle mare Humouresque, thus a half-brother to Megaphone.