GOSSIP FROM ALL PARTS

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20738, 23 February 1939, Page 15

GOSSIP FROM ALL PARTS

Splendid fields have come forward for the opening day, Saturday, of the Te Aroha Jockey Club’s annual gathering and indications are for keen racing and record totalisator figures. Last year the machines handled on the first day £56,257 and for the two days the fine total of £93,720. Midland’s Chance Midland will have his opportunity to make amends for his defeat on either day at Te Rapa when he lines up for the Waitoa Handicap at Te Aroha this week. He was a trifle unlucky in meeting Odtaa and Yal Lu here. Qay Talkie’s Success Advice has been received by Mr A. D. Potter from the Maharajah of Idar, for whom he purchased Gay Talkie, that the horse won the Byculla Cup, one mile and three-quarters, at Bombay recently. Royal Bachelor Royal Bachelor made a determined bid to carry off sprint honours on the latter day at Te Rapa and though he faded into third on the post lie was by no means disgraced. He is to contest the Waihou Handicap on the first day at Te Aroha, an event in which he was euccesful last season. To The Stud The Night Raid mare Accomplice has been retired to the stud and she will be mated with the Blandford horse Bulandshar. Accomplice is a winner, but more importers! she has the blood and build to make a firstolass brood mare. Small Stakes The race won by Mr G. J. Barton’s two-year-old Bursary in Melbourne recently was worth £2O to the winner, but as the colt was second favourite at good odds, the stake would not be the main consideration. Bursary won by a neck, and covered five furlongs in imm. 2. j sec. Qaflope Fast The two-year-old Esquire will advance m favour for juvenile events at Te Aroha as the result of his brilliant trial over three furlongs the other morning at Takanini. With a light boy up he dashed over the distance in 35 3-5 s and impressed by the manner in which he was going on with it at the end. He should bear watching with 7.5 in the Juvenile Handicap on Saturday. Fojrmond 8 h apes Wefl Foxmond shaped well for a meritorious third among the two-year-olds on the first day of the Waikato meeting and on his home track on Saturday he will not be without a strong fol- ! lowing in the Juvenile Handicap at Te Aroha. This son of the imported Foxbridge is a bold galloper and should be all tho better for the race he had at Te Rapa the ether day. Master Brlerty Master Brierly. who won the Herries Memorial Cup the year before last, is an acceptor again this year, and following his forward showing on either day at Te Rapa he will have to be taken into account. He carried 8.3 when he won narrowly before from the rear of the field so that, with 7.12 he appears to have good prospects of repeating his achievement of 1937. Team of Sixty-three Captain C. Boyd-Rochfort, V.C., who has headed the list of winning trainers in England for the past two seasons, started this year with 63 horses in his stable. They were the property of 21 owners, and were made up of 11 four-year-olds, 22 three-year-olds, and 30 two-year-olds. The three-year-olds included the unbeaten Panorama and Foxbrough 11, the latter being favourite for the Derby. Taranaki Nominations Nominations for the Taranaki Cup are as follows: —Tahurangi, Prince Rang}, Sergia, Cheval de Volee, Aussie Ra, Xamara, Wojan, -Red Sand, Rustem, Royal Choice, Play On, Beaupartir, Winsome Lu, Taitoru, Jonathan, Peerless, Silvanus. After the first forfeit, the following remain in the 25th Taranaki Stakes:— Racecall, Oratory, Lexden, Smoke Screen, Millament, Varimond, Olympus, Fils de Vaals, Footloose. BCOTLAND Scotland has come into his own again and his Impressive victories at Arawa Park and Te Rapa point to his being as well now as ever he was. In which case there Is every reason to assume he may continue his winning way and with the handy impost of 7.12 he certainly has much to commend his claims In the Herrles’ Memorial Cup at Te Aroha this week. Winning form is undisputably good form and Scotland appeals, at this stage, as being one of the hardest to beat in Te Aroha’s big £IOOO handicap. Scored Attractively Following the attractive nature of Pyrenees* success at the Auckland mid-summer meeting he will not lack an optimistic fallowing in jumping events at the forthcoming Te Aroha fixture. Capably handled by B. K. Thomson on that occasion at Ellerslie he drew to the front at the home turn and soon placed the issue beyond doubt. In his present condition the Cambridge jumped should take a power of beating. Mounts for Te Aroha The following riding engagements have been announced for the Te Aroha Jockey Club's meeting next Saturday and Monday : K. Manson. —Broadway Rill. Surveyors Lass. A C. M ty>.—Jonathan, Inver. Te- • S. Tremain.— Star Yaal. Foxmond, Golden Sheila. Aynho. H. N. Wiggins.—Royal Abb. N\ R. McKenzie. —Mint law. G. Cameron. —Tooley Street.

Esteem’s Prospects Esteem, who heads the handicap for the Ruakaka Hurdles on the first day at Te Aroha, has good form on the Taranaki holiday circuit to endorse his \t - rd d ng l New Year he won Hie Ohuru Hurdles in a great finish with Airam getting up in the last few strides to snatch victory by a nose. Esteem carried 11.3 on that occasion so that with a lib more on Saturday he would appear to have good prospects. Odtaa In Form Odtaa put up a sterling performance on the first day of the recent Te Rapa meeting when the Acre three-year-old. after being seemingly hopelessly placed at the home turn, finished with a devastating run that took him to a well-deserved victory. Withal it was one of the most impressive successes of the meeting and he will need only to go into the starter’s hands to command a firm following in the Waitoa Handicap at Te Aroha on Saturday. Full-brothers Win It is not often that full-brothers win on the same day at a meeting. This was the case when Odtaa and Scotland won the Trial Stakes and the storey Memorial Handicap at Te Rapa respectively on Saturday. Both these horses were bred by Mi- X. R. Souler, of Hambridge. and are by Acre from Bonny Mabel, by Robert the Bruce from Little Mabel, by Medallion from Kiltnorey (imp.', by Kilwarlin. Scotland has been a great performer in Auckland and his recent return to top form —two wins in his last two starts —has been a pleasing feature of recent racing. Odtaa is only a three-year-old and appears to have a bright future. He bears a striking similarity to Scotland. Progress of Stansted Stansted has been making steady progress on the tracks at To. Rapa and is to have his first start for a spell at the approaching Te Aroha gathering. Earlier in the season Stansted performed consistently over the obstacles, starting on eight occasions for three wins and three seconds. While { he may be all the better with a race i into him he will, nevertheless, have j to be taken into account in the class j engaged in the Ruakaka Hurdles on j the first day at Te Aroha. Suleiman Suleiman, who was not produced at the Waikato meeting, is an acceptor for the open sprint on the first day at Te Aroha, and if he takes his place hi the field is sure to be one of the fancied division. Suleiman, at his only start this season, won the Zealandia Handicap on the first day of Hip Auckland mid-summer meeting, leading all the way to score in 1.12 2-5. A repetition of that form would suggest an excellent chance for him at Te Aroha. He was officially scratched for his Waikato engagement at 2.58 p.m. on the day of the race. Backed for a Fortune Backed by the stable and the public for a fortune, Respirator, trained by J. T. Jamieson, appeared to have , Ihrown away his chance 50 yards from the winning post in the Carlingford Mile at Rosehill this month. Respirator was then issuing a determined challenge to River Xamoi. Suddenly he darted in. and from the stands he appeared to savage the leader. Bartle had to stop riding him and straighten him up. It seemed impossible that he could regain the lost ground, but with one of the most remarkable finishing bursts seen at Rosehill the colt caught the leader again on the post and won. Immediately Bartle dismounted from Respirator he was questioned by the stewards. He explained that Respirator did not try t,o savage River Xamoi. The trouble was caused when Bartle hit Respirator with the whip on a touchy spot. Respirator immediately flinched and veered in sharply but he did not touch Jhp other horse. By his win Respirator proved a worthy contender for three-year-old honours in the autumn. He has shown no recurrence of the trouble that kept him out of the Melbourne Cup field, and as he is essentially a stayer he will probably be taken to Melbourne for the V.R.G. St. Leger.