TURF NEWS & NOTES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 January 1939, Page 11

TURF NEWS & NOTES

CURRENT TOPICS FROM STABLE & COURSE

Views on Racing Facts and Fancies

STUDLEY ROYAL SHAPING WELL

(By

“The Cynic.”)

Studley Royal is rapidly rounding up into racing shape, and he looks particularly well for this stage of his preparation. Unfortunately he seems to be making more noise than he was when last in commission, but it remains to be seen how he is affected in a race. There has always been a doubt about the respiratory organs of this gelding, but he won a Dunedin Cup and later was perhaps unluckily beaten in the Great Autumn Handicap of the same distance. Jones has Settlement who was recommissioned at the same time as Studley Royal also making forward progress and he should be racing again at the- early autumn meetings. Heroic. Heroic, champion Australian sire, who retired from the stud in 1936, may restirrie his sttid career with a light season this year. This has been announced by Mr C. B. Kellow, his owner. He said that he was basing his hopes on promising reports he had received from Mr M. McFarland’s stud at Rylstone, New South Wales. Heroic

has been enjoying an open-air life since his retirement from the stud in 193 C. and Mr. Kellow says he is now “ciuite playful." Heroic is 17 years old arid was six times loading sire or Australia.

Gay Son.

i The erratic Gay Son is apparently a gross customer who thrives on racing and it is now clear that he tends to run his best races as he tunes up. At the New Zealand Cup meeting this was the case, and agam at Ellerslie he ran his best race on the final day, when he won the Clifford-Plate. Gay Son is expected to go on improving, and should win more races before the close of the season.

Tracing to Pulchra. F. D. Jones has recently received a two-year-old filly by Myosotis from Karioi, by Thespian from Ayah (dam of Inferno), by All Red from Hermosa, by St. Leger. She is owned by hetbreeders, Messrs Kennedy Bros., of the King Country and shapes very well in the easy tasks being allotted her.

Ayah was got by All Red from Hermosa, by St. Leger—Lady Evelyn, by Perkin Warbeck from Pulchra, the ancestress of Multiform. Cruciform and ether good winners. The lino through Hermosa has not. however, been a great sucess. Sovereign Lady. , Sovereign Lady is again doing useful work, at Riccarton. and would make an interesting candidate for the Dunedin Cup. Ortyx. Orlyx, one of the most brilliant two-year-olds of her year, is again in work. She was in work during the early part of the season, but ricked herself and had to be treated to a spell. Useful Work. Benevolent is back doing useful work on the tracks. He had an easy time for a few weeks after racing at the N.Z. Cup meeting. Regular Visitor. Although Willie Win’s name is missing from immediate engagements, he is a regular visitor to the Riccarton tracks although he is now wearing a bandage on his near fore leg. This was not necessary before. Unlucky. Lady Leigh, who has shown solid, if not altogether lucky, form in the last few months, is enjoying a spell, as she has been up the best part of 12 months. Back Again. The champion Australian three-year-old and dual Derby winner, Nuffield, has begun his preparation in earnest for autumn racing, and recently made a reappearance on the track at Epsom, Melbourne. Nuffield is stated to have built up a good deal and his chief mission during the autumn will be the Victoria Racing Club and Australian Jockey Club St. Legers. Lost all Form. Two horses racing at the Vincent Meeting last week, in Song Boy and Violenta, appear to have lost all their form, and will probably be treated to a spell. Being Spelled. Janet Gaynor, who has not been showing any form this season, has been, turned out for a spell. Half Note, in the same stable, is suffering from an injury received through being kicked, and Quick Return went amiss at the Vincent Meeting. Great Dash.

Master Hotspur is putting great dash into his work and when he is required to race ’next month he will be in forward order, although he was not required to race during the holidays. Although the Ringmaster colt won the first race he ever contested —the John Grigg Stakes his subsequent form was not up to standard. Just the same, the colt has never been really wound up as his trainer, T. H. Gillett, is prepared to be patient with him as his belief is that Master Hotspur will be all the better far having a comparatively easy time when autumn events come up for decision. . ,