GOSSIP FROM ALL PARTS.

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20278, 21 August 1937, Page 22 (Supplement)

GOSSIP FROM ALL PARTS.

Sergia has returned to the aotlve brigade at Te Rapa, looking in good order to enter on a spring preparation after a three months’ spell. Starter at Waverley. Mr M. Crimmins, of Te Aroha, will officiate as starter at the Waverley Racing Club’s meeting next Labour Day. A Game Horse. Clarion Call was a bit sore when he went out for the Sydenham Hurdles, at Riccarton, and ran a game race to fight on under a long finish to beat Redolent for second place. Not Good Enough. It was reported that Lycldas was 'booked to travel to Ellerslie to contest the Pakuranga Hunt Cup, but his form at Riccarton was not impressive enough to justify the trip. An Unusual Happening. A. E. Ellis and ‘L. J. Ellis went through the Grand National meeting without a win, a most unusual happening at a meeting at which these two horsemen are In action. In Good Shape. Wild Chase and Paper Slipper are in work at Riccarton and both look in fine lusty condition and ready to train on for spring engagements. Wild Chase has furnished Into a fine colt, and Paper Slipper seems sounder in front than when racing last season. Addition to Team. The latest addition to R. S. Bagby’s team at Ellerslie is the ten-year-old hunter Taonga, by Potoa froh Fraisette, an imported mare by Valais, sire of Heroic and many good winners in Australia. Taonga is a little backward and may require time to reach good racing condition. Sister to MartarA. Latest reports from Paeroa state that Marheke is shaping well in her work, and is expected to develop into a smart galloper. This Ally, who is owned by Messrs J. and P. E. Brenan, is a fullsister to Martara. She was in work for a short time last seasou, but has never raced. Success In Australia. The former New Zealander Royal Guy, a son of Royal Divorce, won his seoond hurdle race in succession in Western Australia when he scored a fortnight ago at the Helena Vale Meeting. His performance was a particularly good one as he was interfered with by a riderless horse. For Melbourne. Willie Win is booked to be shipped to Melbourne direct on September 2, and will probably have another horse from the stable to accompany him. His first important race will probably be the Cantala Stakes to be run at Flemington on October 30. Boomerang. Boomerang was well liked by his party on the final day at Riccarton last week, but an outside draw was of early disservice to him, and after drifting to the rear lie was knocked all over the place when he tried to go up through a next-to-impossible opening at the top of the straight However, there is the consolation that nothing could have beaten Willie Win. Crack English Juvenile. The Aga Khan looks like having another crack juvenile in England this season. This is Mirza 11, who at latest advice had won all three races in which he had started. He is by Blenheim out of the brilliant Mumtaz Mahal, one of whose earlier progeny was Mali Mahal, dam of last year’s Derby winner, Mahmoud, also by Blenheim. Bred on Speedy Lines. The yearling by Spear Dance from High Finance, owned by W. Kemp, has been named Young Finance. This youngster is bred to gallop, as his dam is a daughter of Paper Money and Rebekah, by Bezonian from Snowstell. by Clanranald from Safeguard, who is descended from the noted Waterwitch family. High Finance won the Wellesley Stakes at Trcntham in 1926. A Prospective Hurdler. Backblock, who has been leased by H. Rama to a patron of E. Malcolm’s stable, is to be given a trial as a hurdler, and with that object in view he has had some schooling recently, acquitting himself in a satisfactory manner. As Backblock comes from the same family as Free Air, a useful sons ago, he may make good iu the new department.

Is Bteadlly Improving. During the last few weeks King Neptune has hardened In condition a good deal and he should come on quickly with a few fast sprints. Despite the faot that he was handicapped through a tendency to bleed, the form of King Neptune, taken all round, was good, and he Is likely to reach a much higher standard if all goes well with him. This four-year-old will be seen In action at the approaching spring meetings and is worth keeping in mind. Studying the Tote. An Australian sportsman who attended the Wellington winter meeting and the Grand National meeting commented on what he considered the lack of consideration shown toward horses and riders by sending them Into the birdcage and to the post so long before the start of a race. His remarks particularly applied to Trentham, \Vhere the weather was much more wintry than at Riccarton. He thought that in New Zealand the clubs study the totalisator rather than horses and' riders. Returned to America. Omaha, champion American horse', found the English stayers just too good for him. He was set for the Ascot Gold Cup last year, but was beaten by Quashed, and he failed to stand a preparation for the same race this year. His sporting owner, Mr. William Woodward, has now decided to give him his chance to reproduce a champion of his own class. Like Precipitation. Omaha was trained, by Captain Boyd-Rochefort. That trainer’s three best stayers have retired this year, the ITiird being Enfield, who .will go to the St. Albans Stud, Geelong, Victoria. Camera for Finishes. Permission has been given by the V.A.T.C. for a Melbourne inventor to try out at Caulfield a special camera which, it is claimed, would assist the judge in a closo finish. A huge mirror has been erected at an angle to the winning post for the purpose of enabling the camera to detect the horse wliioh may be obscured by the others when on the rails. The camera will take a picture of the finish and also of horses reflected in the mirror. Experiments will be carried out for some days. Raolng Boom In Queensland. Since the passing of the Racing Act last December racing in Queensland has boomed. Club receipts from gales, licenses, etc., have increased materially, while better prize-money has increased the opportunities of owners to pay their way. During .1936-37 £719,913 passed through the totalisator in Queensland compared with £591,721 for the previous year, and while the Racing Act resulted in a decrease in receipts from betting tax, which was drastically cut—by approximately £469l—it had the effect of Increasing the Government’s receipts from totalisator operations by approximately £9IOB, an Increase on the total operating of £4417. Racing Fraud. Impersonating the Sydney bookmaker A‘. D. Holland, a man called the odds on the first day of the Grafton Cup meeting on July 21, and it was not until six unpaid tickets for a total amount of £29 were handed to the secretary after the meeting that it was ascertained what had occurred. The matter was placed in the hands of the A.J.C., who sought an explanation from Holland, who, it was found, was operating at Rosehtll on the day he was supposed to be at Grafton. The man who impersonated Holland must have purchased many tickets and had the mprinted with Holland’s name in Sydney. Mandamus Finished. The trouble that caused Mandamus be put. aside a few weeks ago has been located in the spine and it is very unlikely that he will ever race again states the Dominion. It is most unfortunate for his owner, Mr W. H. Gaisford, who had great hopes of this Llmond gelding developing into a good stayer, and It was his Intention to race him in Australia this spring. F. W. Davis will return to Wooclville within the present month and then will leave for Sydney by the Wanganclla from Wellington on Septembers. His team, as at present arranged, will consist of Francis Drake, Courtcraft. Homily and Aiwai. Mr W. H. Cai-sford’s two-year-old colt Coronation (Limond-Jewel of Asia), who does not suggest that he will come to hand early, is to be allowed time lo develop and ho will not be racing this spring. Struck It Rich. The' luck has set In at last for owner-trainer 11. E. Russell, one of the most enterprising New Zealanders who ever ventured across the Tasman to race ris horses in Australia, writes a Sydney correspondent.. After half a head second in the 1934 Doncaster. with Golden Wings, and seconds in races worth £13,000 .with Mala last spring, the two Derbies, Chelmsford Stakes and Cox Plate, he has at last struck it rich. First be won his £I3OO verdict against the Transport Trust for injuries to Mala; be sold Golden Treasure for 300 guineas, and Mala Avon the first Austoria 'Park Flvin.sr Handicap. The prizr was worth only £l2O. and Russo’ll had but £ I 30 to £IOO as bis share of the betting, but it was the nature ° r Mata’s win as a guide to excellent spring prospects that made the success signitlrent. Since f lion Hussell I has sold Mala for 7000 guineas.

Interesting. Owners with Beau Pere youngsters will be Interested In the recent Bale In England of a yearling colt by Obliterate from Cinna, and therefore a half-brother to Beau Pere, who Is now located at St. Aublns Stud. Scone, New South Wales. The youngster was purchased for 2000 guineas by Lord •Glanely. who the same day gave 4200 guineas for a half-brother, by Cameronlan, to Quashed and Thankerton. Verdict, dam of the trio, lost her foal by Hyperion only the previous day. Verdict. being a halfbred, is ineligible for Inclusion in the G. 5.8., hut that fact has not affected her value as a stud proposition. A Versatile Rider. One of the most unusual riding feats j that has been performed in New Zea- 1 land was that of W. Young, who rode the winner of a steeplechase, a hurdle race and a fiat race In succession. On the third day of the Grand National meeting at Riccarton in 1910 he won the Sydenham Hurdles on Prophet. Next he was successful on Te Aral in the Lincoln Steeplechase, and in the following event, the Redcliffs Handicap, he scored on Penza. That year on the previous two days Young rode Te Arai, who won the Grand National Steeplechase, and Paisano, who won the Grand National 'Hurdles, so that with the exception of the Beaufort Steeplechase lie rode the winners of all tiie big Jumping races at the fix- j ture. =================