TURF NEWS & NOTES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 October 1938, Page 11

TURF NEWS & NOTES

AUCKLAND MEETING ACCEPTORS FOR FIRST DAY. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, September 30. Acceptances and final forfeits for the first day of the Auckland Racing Club’s Spring meeting on October 8 and 10 are as follows. The Gordon ‘t Handicap will be divided. Trial Hurdle Race Handicap, one mile and three-quarters.—Middle 10.12, Celtic Lad 10.7, High Star 10.4, Brown Lap 9.12, Irish Comet 9.10, Sinking Fund 9.3, Illimani 9.2, Flash By, Jan Ridd, Queen Lu, Lighter, Golden Spahi, Chikara 9.0. Great Northern Guineas, for three-year-olds; one mile. —Windsor Chief, Philcourt, Coronation, Te Hero, Vaalstar, Gay Hussar, Eastern Heir, Olympus, Jayola, Hot Box, Gay Son 8.10, Homily, Russian Ballet 8.5. Shorts Handicap, six furlongs. — Orate 9.2, Golden Sheila 8.13, Gay Seton 8.9, Silver Jubilee, Royal Bachelor 8.8, Arvakur 8.0, Marie’s Acre 7.12, Alyth 7.9, Palustre 7.6, Glen Abb 7.5, Fidelis, Huntingmore 7.0. Mitchelson Cup, one mile and a half. —King Rey 9.5, Master Brierly 9.0, Quadroon 8.7, Kilonsa 8.6, Francis Drake, Kena 8.5, Mazir 7.13, Malagigi 7.12, Cheval de Volee 7.8, Knight of Australia 7.6, Gold Vaals 7.4, Happy Landing 7.2, General Ruse, Barrister, Shy, Auto Sweep, Palmint 7.0. Hunters’ Steeplechase Handicap, two miles and a half. —Salon 10.4, King Rod 10.2, Pyrenees 9.12, Aramis, Sirrom 9.7, Electric Flash 9.5, British. Sovereign, Drag Hunt, Mana, Ureklaw 9.0. The Welcome Stakes, for two-year-olds; five furlongs.—Noble Fox, Orelio, Sir Lysander, Buccaneer, High Caste, Beau Repaire, Hunto, Koratoki 8.5, Gay Movie, Anopheles, Royal Tray, Silver Bat, Thurnavaals, Meliora, La Vie, Korreta, Tableau 8.0. Gordon Handicap, six furlongs.— Sly Fox 9.9, Dragon Moth 8.7, Pirate King 9.1, Balinavar 8.13, Paddy the Rip 8.12, Prival 8.9, Noitaro, Hunting- . more 8.7, Ohmaha 8.6, Silver Glow 8.5, Bright Wings, Royal Vaals, Valspear 8.4, Advance Acre, Miss Te Koura 8.2, Fleetwind 8.0, Maxam 7.12, British Nation 7.10, Milanion 7.9, Gold Eagle, Valdene, Inquisitor, Knightsbridge, Norse Lady, Miss Lovelock, Master Vaals, Te Maranui, Sir Robin, Manawahe, Bonny Belle, The Trimmer, Summary, Games, Poland, Friskland, Bronze Emerald, Kenspeckle, Royal Abb, Electric Spear, Eudorace, Pocket Venus 7.7. Flying Handicap, seven furlongs.— Whirling 9.10, Kelly 9.3, Round Up 9.0, Silver Jubilee 8.8, Royevrus 8.4, Dark Shadow, Triune 8.1, Birthday Boy, Trilliarch 7.12, Rulette 7.11, Inver 7.10, Du Maurier 7.7, Gay Sister, Barrister, Land Girl 7.0.

DUNEDIN RACES FIELDS FOR THURSDAY. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, September 30. Acceptances for the first day of the Dunedin Jockey Club’s meeting on October 6 and 8 are: — Spring Hurdle Handicap, one mile and a half. —Mount Vai 10.0, Delrain 9.10, Song Boy 9.7, Grand Finale 9.3, Vantoon, Night Scout 9.0. Trial Handicap, six furlongs.—Colonel Rouge 8.11, Our Pal 8.10, Pride of Central 8.9, Withdrawal 8.7, Chirp, Lord Ouyen, Douoieack, Green Boa, Avenal, Moonraider, Poetic, Atua Rere, Denis Dowling, Gold Don, Attractive Note, Pilot’s Love, Neptune, Jedburgh, Vallock 8.5. Maungatua Handicap, one mile. — Ardchoille 9.7, Rousseau 9.0, Cintilla 8.10, Sparkle 8.4, Thermidor 8.2, Passaform 8.1, Straightdel 7.12, Hunting Chorus 7.8, Gay Vixen, Harwich 7.7. Electric Handicap, six furlongs.— Silver Streak 9.2, Defaulter 8.9, Janet Gaynor 8.2, Valmarch, Viking 8.0, Moneyless 7.8, Dissemble 7.3, Norseman 7.1. Mosgiel Handicap, one mile, two furlongs and a half. —Alma 8.9, Last Refrain 8.8. Milford 8.7, Valantua 8.2, Petersham 8.1, Pink Robe 7.10, Balmenter 7.6, Made Money 7.5. McLean Stakes, four furlongs.— Brandon, Bulldog, Dark Flight, Gold Salute, King Gustavo, Moneymore, Nigger Boy, Royal Money 8.5, Blissful Lady, Fancy Phil, Janefield, Lady Don, Winning Rival, Mondello 8.0. October Handicap, one mile. —High Glee, Petersham 9.3, Osculate 8.11, Swordstick 8.6, Nightwings 8.3, Silver Slipper 8.0. Taimo Handicap, seven furlongs.— Lord Nuffield, Kilrobe 8.13, Density 8.5, Violenta 8.3, Thermidor 8.2, Straightdel 7.13, Auctor 7.11, Steer Clear, Lady Sincere, Toro Koura, Great Flight 7.7. After declaration of forfeits the following remain in the Dunedin Guineas and J. B. Reid Cup, one mile. — Defaulter, Dunstan, Tor 6 Koura 8.10, Density, Withdrawal 8.5. NEW ZEALAND CUP FIRST ACCEPTANCES. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, September 30. After the first aceptances the following remain in the New Zealand ~ Cup, of £2000; two miles. —Argentic 9.0, Willie Win 8.12, Trench Fight 8.8, Padishah 8.6, Wotan 8.5, Cerne Abbas 8.4, The Buzzer 8.3, Arctic King 8.1, Siegmund 7.11, Quadroon 7.10, Ponty 7.9, Tidewaiter, Maligigi, Milford 7.5, Boomerang 7.4, Mungatoon 7.3, High Glee, Happy Night, Shy, Parquet, Cricket, Sparkle, Sly Fox, Ardchoille, Happy Landing, Rousseau, Made Money, Valantua, Pink Robe, Wagner, Cape Gabo 7.0.

CURRENT TOPICS FROM STABLE & COURSE Views on Racing Facts and Fancies DEFAULTER AND DUNEDIN GUINEAS (By “The Cynic.”)

In some quarters Defaulter has been proclaimed as the best two-year-old of last season, but he came on the scene when some of the most successful of the early runners had been sent into retirement for some reason or other. There is no doubt that Defaulter trained on during the season and now some are presenting him with the Dunedin Guineas. Defaulter has not, however, the exclusive right of making improvement through the beneficial strength acquired by age and he may find something able to extend him at Winghtui. As a two-year-old Defaulter started 12 times. He began with two unplaced performances, and then won the Irwell Handicap with 7.11 by a length from Surmount 9.6 and Ortyx 8.0 and others. In the Pioneer Handicap Peerless 9.0 beat Surmount 9.0 by half a length, with Defaulter 7.13 a neck away. This means that in the spring Peerless and Surmount were over a stone better than Defaulter. In the Wellington Stakes the placings were Surmount 7.0 J, Brunhild 8.0, and Amigo 7.10, with Defaulter 7.1 J unplaced. At the same meeting Defaulter won the Nursery Handicap with 7.10 J from Amigo 9.7 by tnree lengths in lmin 11 2-ssec. Surmount 9.2 was unplaced, but note the handicapper’s opinion of the form. Defaulter then won the Middle Park Plate against a by no means strong field. He then put up a good performance by winning the Pacific Handicap with 9.1, but at that stage all the best two-year-olds had left the scene.

Defaulter next won the North Island Challenge Stakes with 7.9| from Oratory 9.8 and Icing 8.8, and Surmount 7.6£ was unplaced. This was only what a fairly good two-year-old should accomplish. Surmount may be explained by the fact that he came early and went early. Defaulter followed by winning the Manawatu Sires’ Produce Stakes with 9.0 from Russian Ballet 8.2 by half a length in lmin 28sec, and finished his first season by winning the C.J.C. Champagne Stakes and Challenge Stakes. The Champagne was an easy task and in the Challenge he won with 7.11 from the dead-heaters —Paper Slipper 9.10 and Netherlea 6.11. Defaulter won seven races on end at the finish of the season, but he had a good deal in his favour at times and there is no reason why the Dunedin Guineas should be considered a walk-over for him. Defaulter will no doubt start a short-priced favourite as he has been training on but it is to be hoped that owners of others engaged will not accept defeat long before the field reaches the post.

Another Wotan. Melbourne critics are enthusiastic about the three-year-old colt Crojick, and think he might be another Wotan. Crojick is by the same sire, Siegfried, and is out of Top Flier. He has been given plenty of time, having only one race as a two-year-old, and that as late as July, which he won, and his form this season so far has raised high hopes. Crojick’s dam, Top Flier, was bred in Australia, and is by Top Gallant from Skyline, by Skyrocket. She was owned by the late Mr F. J. Nathan, who bred Crojick. A Penny Profit. In the way of a small totalisator dividend for a win a record for England was created at Bath on August 17. There were only two runners for the Apprentices’ Plate, and, with investments totalling £6OO 12s, the winner, Le Pommier, paid 2s Id for 2s. Profit of Id scarcely repaid the trouble of collecting the dividend. Great Record. The crack English jockey Gordon Richards began riding as an apprentice 18 years ago. In the last 13 years he has been champion 11 times —illness caused the hiatus. In that time he has ridden 2360 winners and has beaten every record set up by Fred Archer except one, the total of winners. Archer rode 2748. Affected By Fall. Bachelor King has made progress, and the Lapidary gelding is improving in condition. He is among those nominated for the second day of the Auckland meeting, and if all goes well in the interim he may have his first race for the new season at this fixture. Bachelor King suffered a bad fall in the last Railway Handicap, from which he never fully recovered, but he has since enjoyed a good spell, and he may soon prove capable of reproducing his best form again. Will Do Better. Round Up’s two efforts at Avondale were not productive of the form which he is capable of showing, but it is confidently expected that the racing he had at the meeting will prove very beneficial, and he will not be so easily disposed of at his next attempt. Round Up is a northern handicapper who is a noticeable absentee from the Mitchelson Cup nominations, but he is engaged in the ten-furlong event on the second day of that meeting. Win Soon. The good-looking three-year-old, Eurotas, has still to get on the winning list, but all his efforts have been highly promising and his turn cannot be far off. He has not struck a really good track yet and flounders badly otherwise. The state of the going was responsible for him failing at (he Marton fixture, and in the circumstances he did well to be fourth. Good Hurdler. High Quality is shaping up quickly as a result of useful work being allotted him, and it may not be long now before he makes a reappearance under silk. The Acre gelding was fired some months ago and given a good spell, so that if he survives training he should again make his presence felt in hurdle events. . Waitaka's Improvement. Waitaka has improved a good deal during tne season he has been in the stable of F. Roberts, and he will start on the serious stage of another preparation shortly. He may be raced at

Trentham next month, and his form in the Winter Cup, in which he had the bad luck to be beaten by Catalogue in the last few strides, suggests that he will win a worthwhile handicap race this season. Colt Foal. Erinagh, dam of the good jumper Erination, last week produced a colt foal to Hunting Song. Erinagh, by Elysian from Crecy, was foaled in 1914, so that she is 24 years old. She is now owned by Mr W. C. Flexman, of Pokeno. Auctor. Auctor, who won the Wainui Handicap at Orari on Saturday, races in the colours of his trainer, D. P. Wilson. He ran second six times last season, so his success was overdue. He is a four-year-old by Balboa from the Eng-lish-bred mare Spean Bridge. Bad Jumping. The Sandwichman paid over a-quar-ter of a century to win supporters at Ashburton, but at the Geraldine meeting he spoiled a winning chance both days by bad jumping, finishing fourth and third respectively. However, he is unlikely to have beaten Top Rank in any case. Last Tributes to Voitre. Thousands of people lined city streets, and traffic was held up this afternoon (states the Melbourne “Herald”) as the funeral of Keith Voitre, the New Zealand jockey, who was killed at Moonee Valley, 10 days ago, passed through Melbourne on its way to the Fawkner Cemetery. Not for many years has such an assembly been seen at a Melbourne funeral. Crowds more than six deep were on the footpaths and out on to the roadway in Swanston Street from the south side of Princes Bridge to Victoria Street. For half an hour before the cortege passed the operation of traffic lights was suspended, and traffic handled by special police. In the central block from Princes Bridge to Lonsdale Street, people overflowed the footpath, and as the cortege approached, rushed to the tramline. Hundreds more watched from verandahs and windows.

Waited 3 Hours. Practically the whole of the eightmile route from the city was lined by people. At Coburg the people were three deep. Even the children at some of the schools on the route were lined in ranks, waiting for the procession to pass. At the cemetery, before the cortege arrived, the cars of mourners spread for half a mile along either side of the route. Some of those who had arrived beforehand had been waiting for nearly three hours. At Sleight’s chapel in St Kilda Road a throng massed round the gates, spread across the road and impeded traffic. It included leaders of the Australian turf, sportsmen of every rank, men who had ridden with Voitre and thousands who had followed his career from enclosure and hill. The riding whip which Voitre used when he won the Melbourne Cup on Marabou in 1935 lay on the coffin in the chapel. “A little Christian gentleman,” was the description applied to Voitre by the Rev T. Wilkinson, of Preston, in his address at the funeral service. “This lad flashed into my experience and flashed out again within a few days,” said Mr Wilkinson. “I had never met him in my life until two Sundays before his death. “A little car drew up to All Saints Church at 8 a.m. one Sunday. A little gentleman stepped out. He looked rather like an intent business man. “He went into the church and knelt down. Everything he did was evidence to me that his was not a casual visit. He was quite at home in church, and seemed to understand the service as well as any of us. “I met him at the door, and he told me he was living in Preston just for a little while. “I said, ‘What is your name?’ He looked up and said, ‘My name is Voitre. I asked him if he was any relation to the jockey, and he said ‘I am he.’ Reverent—Dignified “So I gave him a warm welcome. Later I saw him go through his Masonic initiation service. Voitre set a standard for all candidates; he was reverent, decorous, dignified and thoughtful. “The following Sunday morning, while I was in church, the news came through of his death. “Voitre made a great impression on my life,” said Mr Wilkinson. “His loss turned out to be not only a loss to the fraternity, but a deep loss to me. I conceived an attachment to him much like that of a father or brother.” Those groups which knew and respected Voitre were well represented by his pall-bearers. They were: — Mr A. V. Kewney (secretary of the Victorian Racing Club), Messrs A. Cuttriss and W. Merritt (Freemasons), W. Box and J. Barry (jockeys), R. L. Hatch and S. V. Delaney (friends), and L. Robertson and L. T. McGrath (trainers and owners). Voitre’s father and mother, Mr and Mrs Ernest Voitre, came from New Zealand for the funeral. Hundreds of wreaths were received from all over Australia and New Zealand.