RACING FIXTURES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 May 1940, Page 3

RACING FIXTURES

May 11. —Otaki Maori. May 11. —Ashburton County. May 11. —Southland. May 11. 13. —Poverty Bay. May 16, 18.—South Canterbury. May 17, 18.— Manawatu. May 18, 20.—Waikato.

Disdain Makes Amends. Since being purchased by Mi' A. Young, of Christchurch. Disdain has been ridden in most of her races by L. J. Ellis, but although he won a race on her in Melbourne last autumn. Saturday's win at Amberley was the first in New Zealand he has had on her. He has tried her out in her races in many ways, but had been unable to get her to show what she is capable of doing until Saturday, when he kept her well away from the leaders, and did not ask her for an effort until the straight was reached. She then showed marked gameness in wearing down Wild Talk; in fact, she did not show any signs of shirking her task at any stage of the run home. Probably Disdain may continue to show such form, and so help to recoup the losses of those who have consistently supported her in the last six months. A Stayer. Lockit’s easy win in the Brackenfield Highweight Handicap at Amberley on Saturday suggested that he would have been a very difficult opponent for Disdain and Wild Talk'in the Amberley Handicap, in which he had 7.10. Lockit bids fair to figure soon as a winner ofi big handicaps, and is entitled to be considered one of the most likely New Zealand Cup candidates seen out during the autumn racing. By Siegfried (whose record as a sire of stayers is well known, his list including Wotan and Yours Truly, winners of the Melbourne and New Zealand Cups respectively). Lockit can claim also some solid breeding on the maternal side, his dam. Polly Peachum, being by Feramorz (by St Frusquin) from Trcssida, whose other progeny included Runnymede, Ganymede. Raasay, My Own, and Happy Landing, all high-class racehorses. Glenbevan’s First Success. Gienbevan. a three-year-old gelding by Musketoon, from Country Lady, registered his first success in winning the Otaua Handicap at the Franklin Racing Club’s meeting. On the track he has shown that he is possessed of an abundance of speed and for once he reproduced it in a race. His only other placing in a race was at Rotorua last February, when he was third to Lady Acushla and Loch Acre in the Flying Stakes. Grand National Meeting. .At the monthly meeting of the committee of the Canterbury Jockey Club the total stakes over the three days of the Grand National Steeplechase meeting were fixed at the same amount as at last year's mooting, and the following alterations were made in the programme on the first day:— The first and sixth races, the Trial Hurdles and the Enfield Steeplechase, will bo transposed. The latter race will be for hack steeplechasers and qualified hunters, and the distance will be about two miles and a half. The second and fourth races, the Paparua Handicap and the Cashmere Plate, I will bo transposed, and the latter will be restricted to three ahd four-year-olds. The Hunt Cup, previously the first race on the second day, will be the first race on the third day, taking the place of the Aylesbury Steeplechase, which will be struck out. The first race on the .second day will now be the Aylesbury Handicap, of £3OO. six furlongs, for maiden three-year-olds and upward. The stake for the Beaufort Steeplechase has been reduced from £7OO to £5OO, and the race will be restricted to horses that have not won a steeplechase to the value of £4OO to the winner. The stake' for the Islington Handicap has been increased from £450 to £5OO.

On the third day the distance of the Longbeach Handicap has been increased from six to seven furlongs. The slake for the Heathcote Handicap has been increased from £450 to £5OO, and that for the- Lincoln Steeplechase from £7OO to £BOO.