AUSTRALIAN RACING

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 May 1940, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN RACING

BRISBANE CUP

WON BY TRAGOPAN.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright BRISBANE. May G. •

The chief events on the second day of .the meeting at Ascot today resulted: —

Sires Produce Stakes. 7f: Condor, 8.10 (Munro) 1; Abspear, 8.10 (McCarten) 2; The Ulster, 8.10. (Fordyce) 3. Ten started. Three-quarters of a length; head. Time. 1.261. Brisbane Cup. 2m: Tragopan, 8.2 (Sinclair.: 1; Overdraft, 7.4 (Conquest) 2j; 8.3 (McCarten) 3.Twelve started. Feminist was fourth. Two lengths; neck. Timo, 3.251.

Te Rapa Steeplechase. For the Te Rapa Steeplechase at the Waikato meeting the following weights’ have been declared:—Clarion Call 12.5; All Irish IL7; En Tour 10.11; Mio Lume 10.4; Lucidus, Forest Glow 10.3; Biform 10.2; St Musk 10.0; Flashlight 9.13; Enjoyment 9.12; Dauber Bryce Street 9.11; Red Sun 9.8; SubEditor 9.5; Baldric, Little Briton 9.1; Disturbed. One Whetu, Tutor 9.0. Waikato President's Handicap. The weights for the President’s Handicap. one mile and a quarter, which will come up for decision at the Waikato meeting are as follow: —Royal Appellant 9.0, Sly Fox 8.13, Gold Vaals 8.12, Jack Tar 8.7. Namara 8.2, Hot Box 7.11, Foxsen 7.10, Fox Moth 7.10, Pocket Venus 7.9. Tidewaiter 7.9, Kena 7.5, Valmint 7.4, Jayola, 7.3, Dark Shadow. Day Wind. Silver Cloud, High Sea, Silver Stick. Saccone. Sunny Downs. Susan. 7.0. A Versatile Performer. That such a good class sprinter as Spendthrift has been put to hurdling has surprised many people,, probably more on account of his age —he is only a four-year-old—than anything else. The Paper Money gelding has, however. done a lot of schooling and has shown himself to be very proficient at the game. Spendthrift won a race as a two-year-old but failed to race up to that form as a three-year-old. Before he won a hack sprint at the Dunedin summer meeting he was consistently schooled, while the day he won his first open sprint, at the Southland summer meeting, he figured as an acceptor for the hurdle race on the same programme. While very few of Paper Money’s stock have appeared as jumpers. Spendthrift has much to recommend him on his maternal side. His dam, Fleet Lady, was an unraced mare by Fleetham (a great jumping family) from Miss Signal, by Signalman from Miss Stent, who was imported from Australia some years ago with the idea of founding a line of jumpers. Fleet Lady is thus a half sister to The Smuggler and Signaller, two good winners on the flat and who later made names for themselves as jumpers. while Rioter was another out of Miss Signal. Another very successful branch of this family has been founder by Morse Signal, by Vice Admiral and also out of Miss Signal. Morse Signal is better known as the dam of Trebleack, Doubleack. Waitoru, and Ackemma.

Hurdling Neglected. One department which New Zealanders overlook is hurdling, stales a Sydney writer. At present there is a very weak class of jumper in Sydney for good prizes. New Zealanders in the main tackle Autralian horses when the opposition is strongest. In the winter two or throe useful hurdlers and atcapablc middle-distance horse or ' two would pay handsomely over there. Richelieu Pearl,

Richelieu Pearl, a four-year-old chestnut marc by Black Ronald, from Vuclta, has had four owners and four trainers this season, but so far has failed to win a race.

Prior to the Marlborough meeting she was taken over by M. Conza, who in Die past has done well with apparenlly hopeless propositions. Judging on her form at that fixture, where she ran second to Phil in the Blenheim Hack Handicap and Far East in the Ricton Handicap, it may not be long before she turns out a payable proposition.

Richelieu Pearl was purchased at the Trentham sales as a yearling by Mr C. B. Nash, of Palmerston North, for 45 guineas. Black Ronald, her sire, is an Aus-tralian-bred horse by Magpie, and won the New Zealand Derby for Mr C. Elgar in 1923. while her dam Vuelta, is a half-sister by Panmure to Kinsem, who was a useful winner in the North Island.