TURF NEWS & NOTES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 January 1939, Page 9

TURF NEWS & NOTES

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SMART THREE-YEAR-OLD FILLY

(By

“The Cynic.”)

Jeanne, who won three races at- the Wairarapa Racing Chib’s meeting, is a smart three-yearAold filly by Lackham out of Jean Ladosio. She had started twice previously this season, once at Levin and once on the first day at Woodville. She was ninth favourite on both occasions and did nothing to suggest an early success. At Levin she was in a five furlongs event and was not in the finish. At Woodville she was in better company, the race being won by Red Cat, from Hagen and Millament. She was three or four places further back. She showed good promise as a two-year-old, being out of a place only

On the second day, the winning margin in five of the races was so small that winner and placed horses may be considered as almost of equal merit. Particular interest attaches to the result of the Summer C’up, won by Royevrus by half a head from Paddy the Rip. At Auckland. Among the two-year-old . handicap winners, Beaurepaire, Konneta, La Vie and Lutanist, the last-named gave the impression that he was susceptible to most improvement, although at the weights, Konneta was quite the best of the four at the meeting. Asked to concede 201 b, she went down to Lutanist by only half a head in the Sylvia Handicap.

twice in 10 starts —one win, two seconds, and five thirds. Her one win was in the Nursery at Waipawa. Her owner, Mr A. W. Akers, raced Catalogue in partnership early in the Melbourne Cup winner's career. Stable in Form. T. R. George’s Trentham stable was very prominent at Wairarapa at New Year and took four events. Hinerawe was a dual winner, winning on both

Probable Improvers. Most impressive of the non-winners in the two-year-old races were the Marconigram filly, Heroic Maid, Lady Fox and Classic. Heroic Maid is very brilliant and the experience at the meeting should do a great deal for her. Lady Fox has made gradual improvement and the half-sister to Marie's Acre and Philcourt should gain winning honours before she enters her three-year-old career, which should be a useful one.

the first and second days in convincing style. She has furnished into an attractive sort and should be heard of again before long. A well-bred mare, she is by Robespierre out of Orator. The other stable winners were Dorak and Dungarvan. Dorak was an Australian purchase and after failing to go away in the Juvenile Handicap at

The Siegfried colt Old Bill is still a maiden galloper, but his performances at the meeting disclosed great possibilities. After finishing second to Beaupartir in the Queen’s 'Plate, he was little more than a length from Defaulter when he finished fourth in the Derby, for Peerless beat him very narrowly for third. It is thought likely that next season he will be ready to match the efforts of his half-brother, Quadroon, in middle-distance events. Palustre. Palustre was subjected to two severe tests in winning the Electric and Newmarket Handicaps and in these is the prdbable explanation of her early capitulation in the Bowen Handicap. Nevertheless, she did not run a bad race and, although she will be allotted a good sprinter’s weight in future, she should continue to win her share of the spoils. Jumpers Resumes. Courtyard is rapidly getting back to good form. He has been nominated for high-weight events at Trentham, after which he should be ready to show his best in the brush hurdle race at Riccarton next month.

Marton in September, 1937, for which he was second favourite, he had to be turned out because of an injury to a foot. This was his return to racing and it was auspicious. Dungarvan relished the light weight of less than 8.0 and looked as though he has found some of his long lost top form. Also from the same stable Floral Robe, Daregain (3), Drachma, Batsham, and Galteemore won place money.

Suspended. The ex-New Zealander, Ashley Reed, was suspended for a month for causing interference when riding in a race for two-year-olds, run at Williamstown on December 24. La Vie. La Vie, the winner of the Mid-sum-mer Handicap at Auckland, was got by Night Raid from Royal Flavour, by Claro —Forest Witch, by Linacre —Bewitch, by Birkenhead. Round Up. 'Round Up was got by Lord Quex from Nukerakau, by Wormwood — Kooya, by Signalman—Koriano, by The Possible. Wormwood was got by Maltster. Fakenham. Fakenham, the winner of the Villiers Stakes of £l3OO, traces back to an Elderslie stud source. He carried 8.3 and won over a mile in Imin 36sec. Fakenham was got by Magpie from Castile, by Linacre from Charlotte by Charlemagne II from Nithsevo, by Stepniak from Shepherdness, a mare bought in Australia by the late Mr J. B. Reid. Charlotte is a sister to Charleville, the dam of Windbag. Stepniak sired no end of winners at Elderslie, and Charlemagne II got Carlita and other good winners there. Nithsevo was bred at Elderslie. Best Performers. Cup Day of the Auckland Racing Club’s meeting was probably as informative as the three subsequent days in revealing the quality -ef the best horses at the fixture, for on that day High Caste won the Great Northern Foal Stakes, Defaulter the Christmas Handicap, and Disdain the Railway Handicap. In their respective classes, these three were outstanding.

Winners in India. Private advice has been received in Auckland that the New Zealand horses Martara and Gay Talkie were recently successful in India. Martara won an important race over one mile and a-half at Calcutta, and was second at even weights in the Viceroy’s Cup to Finalist, who is regarded as champion of India. Finalist had previously won the King Emperor’s Cup in Imin 38 3-ssec, carrying 9.3. Gay Talkie won the Sandown Plate, worth 7000 rupees. It is run over a mile and a-quarter. Gay Talkie won in 2min Bsec. Padishah. Padishah, one of the best all-round horses to race in New Zealand for a long time, is to be retired from flat racing. His owner, Mr J. A. Hennah, made this decision after the Auckland meeting last week, and Padishah will be returned to Hawke’s Bay to prepare for a hurdling programme in the winter.

Unreliable. The form of Wotan at Riccarton did not come up to expectations and he failed again in the Auckland Cup and the Stratford Cup. The pace at which the latter race was run in the early stages did not suit Wotan, but at the same time he appears a horse that shows his best only at long intervals. Riding Feat. Outstandingly successful among the jockeys during the holiday racing was H. N. Wiggins, the Auckland lightweight, who won seven races at the Auckland meeting and one at the Taranaki meeting, eight in all. This reminds me that about 10 years ago Wiggins rode five winners in succession at Dannevirke and finished the meeting with six firsts and a second out of eight rides. Roy Reed once rode seven firsts and six seconds at a two-day fixture.

W. Thomas rode seven winners in one day at Townsville, Queensland. In the first three days of an A.J.C. meeting. the Sydney jockey, J. Munro, rode six winners, and his winning percentages alone exceeded £B3O. He brought the total of his successes to seven before the meeting ended. George Young once rode eight winners at a meeting, and F. Kuhn nine. J. W. Nixon and L. G. Morris, both of whom are training now, are credited with six and seven successes respectively at Poverty Bay meetings. Albert Whittaker won seven races at Huntly one day. and at Rotorua J. Conquest had six firsts and a second in an eight-race programme. L. H. Hewitt and H. Gray both had the experience of practically "cleaning up the programme," and an unusual feat was that of J. Dooley, who on the first day of a Beaumont meeting, won all six galloping events, and on the second day finished second in cwery galloping event. The other feats might be eclipsed, but Dooley's might stand for ever.