TURF NEWS AND NOTES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 June 1939, Page 9

TURF NEWS AND NOTES

—J—CURRENT TOPICS FROM STABLE AND COURSE

Jockeys Do Not Fill Themselves with

“Dutch Courage”

SYDNEY OFFICIALS KEEP CLOSE AND STRICT

WATCH

AJAX ENTERED FOR CAULFIELD & MELBOURNE

CUPS AT LAST MINUTE

(By

“CARBINE.”)

Allegations that jockeys are allowed too free a rein during a race meeting and that they often fill themselves with so much “Dutch courage” and are often on the border line of being intoxicated when they take part in their races is denied by Sydney officials. Officials state that a close and strict watch is kept over Sydney jockeys and if the slightest sign of inebriation is discovered the offenders would not only be prevented from riding in the race but would be severely dealt with besides.

Strict supervision, too, is not lifted in the jockey’s room. An official is always on duty, and he is empowered to report to the stewards the slightest misdemeanour on the part of a rider. Sydney jockeys are not perfect. Some rather “tough eggs” have licences from the A.J.C. But it is the same' wherever racing is conducted, and as a whole, the Sydney lads more than rival any set of jockeys in docent behaviour. Last Minute Decision. Ajax has been entered for the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups. According to Australian’ advices it was a lastminute decision to put him in. Won 0ver:£1000 This Season. 5 Horses which have won £lOOO or over in New Zealand to date this season include Defaulter £4555, Beaupartir £2895, Round Up £2775, Cheval de Volee £2765, Beaulivre £2195, Peerless £2160, Llangollen £2040, Charade £1985, Siegmund £1945, Arctic King £1925, Valamito £1730, Trebor £1720, Lady Montana £1720, Survoy £1655, Gay Son £1620, Royevrus £l6lO, Mazir £1550, Padishah £1485, Homily £1470, Foxlove £1445, Queen of Song £1430, Balinavar £1430, Majority £1425, Paddy the Rip £l3BO, Golden Sheila £1365, Thermidor £1355, Cocksure £1335, Sly Fox £1325, Beau Vite £l3OO, Jayola £1290, Gold Wren £1265, Toro Koura £1260, De Friend £1240, Rabble £1235, Haughty Winner £1230, Brazilian £1212, Erination £l2OO, Submission £ll9O, Stanstead £1175, Nightdress £ll6O, Mittie £ll6O, Clarion Call £ll5O, Passaform £ll5O, Meamea £ll3O, Counterblast £ll2O, Wild Chase £llO5, Riotous £llOO, Taurangi £llOO, Black Thread £1075, Galileo £1045, Milford £lO4O. Old Bill £1035, Second Innings £lO2B, Paper Slipper £lOlO.

Among the Racing ClubsThe next meeting of importance will be the Wellington winter meeting, taking place on -July 4, 6 and 8, and then comes the Grand National meeting on August 8. 10 and 12. Taxation in connection with the Auckland Trotting Club's Winter Meeting, amounted to £6.897 19s 3d, made up as follows:—Totalisator tax, £3,229 2s; dividends tax, £3.531 ss; amusement tax, £97 12s 3d; and stakes tux, £4O. The South Canterbury Hunt meeting to be held on July 22 will distribute £970 in stakes, and the programme includes three steeplechases and a hurdle race. The South Canterbury Steeplechase. £2OO, is an open event run over two and a-half miles. JOCKEY’S PREMIERSHIP. BROUGHTON IN THE LEAD. W. J. Broughton, who. with 71 winners and the season well-nigh closed, is assured of the jockey’s premiership for 1938-39, has been in the public eye since ho was little more than a lad. As far back as 1933-34 he piloted 59 winners, to finish third in the list to L. J. Ellis and Keith Voitre, who met an untimely end a few months ago in a race in Melbourne. A year later Broughton was more successful. He had 85 wins. This time only L. J. Ellis beat him. The 1935-36 period was a bad one for him, an acci- ; dent keeping him out of the saddle for several months, with the result that his winning total was limited to 17. Then came the realisation of an ambition, he headed the list with 63 wins, C. G. Goulsbro taking second place. Fiftyone winners was his next total, and now he is on top again. The season does not close until the end of July, but in that period, with all the meetings featuring a bigger proportion of jumping events, the chances of H. Wiggins, Broughton’s nearest rival, overtaking him are light. Wiggins scored' on Valmint at Ellerslie on Wednesday and brought his tally to 63. The fine performance of A. Jenkins in riding five winners at the Auckland Racing Club’s winter meeting revived memories of the excellent feats of S. Henderson in the years 1927 and 1928, and J. Fergus in 1937. Henderson piloted six winners and two seconds in 1927 and five winners, two seconds and a third in 1928. Fergus rode five winners, three seconds and a third in 1937. Henderson’s successes at the 1927 meeting included the Jcrvois Handicap on Town Guard, the Cornwall Handicap on Lomint, the Ranfurly Handicap on Golden Krist, the Great Northern Steeplechase on Beau Cavalier. the Orakei Hurdles on Kamehameha, and the York Handicap on Master Doon while he rode Archibald into second place in both the Great Northern and the Remuera Hurdles. In 1928 Henderson won the Hunt Club Hurdles, the Great Northern Steeplechase and the Winter Steeplechase on Glendowie, the Green Lane Steeplechase on Kamehameha, and the Great Northern Hurdles on Beau Cavalier, besides being second on Kamehameha in the Tamaki Steeplechase and on Aberfeldy in the Remuera Hurdles and third on Oscar in the Fitzroy Handicap. In 1937 Fergus won the Hunt Club

! Hurdles and the Hunt Club Cup on 'I All Irish, the Great Northern Steeplechase and the Winter Steeplechase 01

Irish Comet and the Campbell Hurdles on Huskie. In addition he was second in the Penrose Hurdles on Gay Broney in the Great Northern Hurdles and in the Remuera Hurdles on Huskie and third on Valspear in the Ranfurly Handicap. Jenkins’s winners at the recent meeting were Charade in the Great Northern and the Remuera Hurdles, the Green Lane Steeplechase on John Charles, the Hunt Club Hurdles and the Hunt Club Cup on Bridegroom. It was the second winter in succession that Jenkins has done well at Ellerslie as he won three races last year on Full of Scotch. THE SPORT OF KING OVERSEAS. PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE. Catalogue has been freely nominated for spring races in Australia, his engagements including the Melbourne, Caulfield, Moonee Valley and Williamstown Cups, in Victoria, and the Epsom and Metropolitan Handicaps in Sydney. Other interesting entrants for the Melbourne Cup are Beaupartir and Beau Vite. The former also claims engagements in the Epsom and Metropolitan Handicaps and the" Cantala Stakes. Beaulivre is in the Epsom and Defaulter in the Metropolitan, as also is Royal Chief. According to a Wellington report, Padishah has been entered for the Australian Hurdles and Australian Steeples, to be run on August 5 and 12 respectively. This meeting clashes with the Grand National meeting at Riccarton. The date of this year’s Melbourne Cup is November 7; the Caulfield Cup is scheduled for October 21; the Moone Valley Gold Cup for November 28, and the Williamstown Cup for November 18. The Epsom Handicap will be run on September 30, and the Metropolitan on October 2. A punter’s error at Moonee Valley (Melbourne) recently was worth £2Ol to him. He had\to put £3O on Bow Tie for a place, but was instructed to put the money on just before the totalisator closed. Flustered, he asked for win tickets, which the window seller would not change when the punter realised his error. The punter collected £285 instead of £B4. Padishah has been, accorded a nomination for the Australian Hurdles, £1,500, two and a half miles, and the Australian Steeples, £1,500, three and a half miles, run at Caulfield on August 5 and 12 respectively. It is understood that Padishah will be raced at Trentham next month, and it will depend on the form he shows at that fix • ture whether he will be sent to Sydney or remain in the Dominion for the national meeting. According to the Sydney “Referee,” there is a shortage of staying fillies in New South Wales this season, and it is doubtful if the coming spring will produced anything up to Derby form. Here is something new in racing suggestions. The Chelmsford racecouse in England was offered at auction recently, and the idea was put forward that it be purchased by a syndicate which would make it the headquarters for women riders, riding independently and under their own rules, states the Sydney “Sunday Sun and Guardian.” “We have proof of the courage of women in such sports as flying, swimming, skating, and even polo, so why should race riding be the only sport debarred them?” asked the propounder of the suggestion.

RACING FIXTURES June 24 —Ashburton. June 24 —Waipa. June 24 —Otaki Maori. July I—Oamaru.1 —Oamaru. July I—Dannevirke1 —Dannevirke Hunt. July 4,6, B—Wellington.8—Wellington. July 15 —Waimate District Hunt. July 15 —Hawke’s Bay Hunt. July 22—Rangitikei Hunt. July 22—South Canterbury Hunt. July 29 —Christchurch Hunt. July 29— Manawatu Hunt. August 8, 10. 12. —Grand National meeting.