GOSSIP FROM ALL PARTS

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21210, 5 September 1940, Page 11

GOSSIP FROM ALL PARTS

Te Rapa horses nominated for the first day or the Avondale Jockey Club’s spring meeting on 'Saturday and Monday, September 14 and 16, Include Black Musk, Midland, C*ppy, Hum-a-Song, -II unto, Sle-g----llnde, Bronze Bird, Beau Repatre, Master Brierly, Raceline, Marshall Hall, Galue’s Choice, Forest Acre, Gas Acre and Acute. Spelling Spanish Lad and Gnohlll are being treated to a spell. Avondale Acceptances Acceptances for the first day of the Avondale Jockey Club’s spring meeting are due with the secretary, Mr J. Raws on, at 5 p.m. tomorrow. Gold Flight The John Grlgg Stakes winner. Gold Flight, Is getting through useful tasks at Riverton. She was sent a solid five furlongs early In the week and apparently will be ready to Tace at the early spring meetings. Foals by Cambria Park Reclpio, dam or Bronwen, Verulam and Cambria, foaled a chestnut filly last Friday to Cambria Park at Mr E. A. Price’s stud at Papatoetoe. Llandovery, dam or LlandalT and Verus, and Towyn, dam CM KUtowyn and Atoerdovey, who are in the same stud, each 'have a bav filly to the same sire. Kaiwaka Fails Kalwaka raced so poorly at New Plymouth on -Saturday that It seems he is beginning to ‘feel the effects of a fairly strenuous campaign, and it would not be surprising ir he is rested for a while. For a hurdling recruit -he did very well, and he should be able to win an Important race or two later on. In Work Again Hunter’s Rose and Water 'Hound have rejoined It. S. Bagby’s -team at E-llerslie. This trainer has an addition -to bis team in Mendelssohn, a six-year-old gelding by Hunting Song from Autuinnia, who showed good form in -the Poverty Bay district. Though he did not win a race -last season he was in the money In nine out of his last ten starts. He is a Tull brother lo Pennycomcqulck. J. Kemp has taken Lady Ac u sill a in hand again. Dannevirke Recovers After having nearly died of tetanus a few days after he had brilliantly won at Flemington in July, 193'8, and having been an invalid for many months, Dannevirke repaid to some extent the perseverance oi j his owner (Mr J. J. Kltson) and his trainer (J. Fryer) when he won the Bpping- Handicap at Moonee Valley last month. When Dannevirke outstayed his rivals to win the Two-year-old Mile hopes were entertainer that he might prove a -Derby colt, but when he ran a nail Into one or his feet and tetanus -set in those hopes faded. In fact. In his three-year-old season Dannevirke could toe raced only twice, and even now he still shows effects oi Ills early illness. Flying Prince in South The Australian-bred stallion Flying Prince, a grandson of Desmond, has been acquired through Wright, Stephenson and Company, Ltd., by Mr F. J. Gordon, of Watrnate, who had Valkyrian at the stud in the South Canterbury district. Flying Prince was brought to New Zealand by Mr E. H. Cucksey, of Te Awamutu, for whom he Avon 15 races, -Including four races as a two-year-old. He has been lightly used in the Waikato, and his first runner was beaten a head at his first start at Rotorua recently. There are a number of other very promising youngsters by him In training in the Waikato and Auckland districts. Tweed 11. Tweed 11., winner or races up to a mile said n-half, has been purchased in Englanu by Messrs Wright, -Stephenson and Company, Ltd., for Mr W. Hosking, or Waiuku. Tweed 11. is a brother to Silverlace 11., a runner-up in the English Oaks, and is by the French Derby winner and good stayer Hotweed, sire also or Peariweed, which also won the French Derby. Tweed 11. is from Staylace, which lias also produced Foxglove 11., a winner of the Ascot Gold Vase, Jockey Club Cup, the Queen s Plate, and oilier races for -stayers. Staylace Is an exceptionally well-bred mare, being toy Teddy from the Oaks winner Stralghtlace, toy -Son-in-law. straightlace won £2 1,131 in stakes, and was purchased toy M. Edward Esmond Tor 17,0uu gns. Cup Favourite Commenting upon Maikai’s favouritism lor the Melbourne Cup, ‘-pilot” writes:— Mailed was a good second with 7. it in the last Melbourne Cup hut, even making rull allowance for all he has since accomplished, it is expecting a lot of him to go one belter this year with 9.4 On A.J.C. Plate running he has no pull in weight over Mosaic. The latter, in receipt ot * pound ‘ beat him decisively, and will meet him only 3lb worse in the Cup. From March to November the weigh t-for-age scale allows for 51b improvement in Mosaic and 21b In Maikai, who is now seven years old. As Mosaic is the younger horse it is reasonable to expect greater improvement in him than in Maikai, and if the w.r.a. -scale is correct, and all goes well with Mosaic, he should again beat Maikai. Mosaic won the Sydney Cup with a pound over welght-ror-age, and, a proved stayer, he is similarly treated in the Melbourne Cup. Reducing Race Date* The Poverty Bay Turf Club, at a special meeting, authorised the committee to inquire into the advisability or racing on lour days in the present season instead f * aj ’ s 35 in Hie past. The president, Mr T. lolerton, said the overdraft limit at the bank had been reached. The returns at the club's meeting had been slipping back over recent years, and on top of that petrol restrictions would play a part in affecting attendances at future meetings. During the past eight years profits had been experienced during only three seasons. The past year's loss to date was £7 37, and with and bad debts--the total would reach over £loou. The dub could not continue its full programme with the present -trend. The club had the support of the public in attendance, but the meeting bad not attracted outside owners to any extent, and tlie totalisator turnover suffered as a result. dropping £IO,OOO last year to £32,000. Nlghtbeam

There is precedent Tor Mr f. W. Hughes’ hopes that in purchasing .Niglit - beam in New Zealand he has -secured -the 1 940 Australian Jockey Club Derby winner -states a Sydney paper). In 1928 another New Zealand 3-year-old, Prince Humphrey, ran a dead-heat in a Flying Handicap at Canterbury Park, and three

years later he won the Der-bv from Moillson and Oatendale. On August I" Nightbeam won the Flying Handicap at Rosehill, his. second start in Ausiralia. It was not a particularly strong field that lie beat, and. with 8.0, he had 91b less than Prince Humphrey carried. Nlghtbeam. however, could not have won more impressively. Both Mr Hughes and the trainer, .1. M. McCurley, were pleased with .Nightbearu’s effort. -‘tie won like a s-tayer should win a sprint race—rrom behind the held and not through any turn <ff speed,” said Mr Hughes. Mr -Hughes paid £t.)oo to Mrs \\\ D. Graham, of New Plymouth. for Nightbeam, a contingency being that this sum >hould be increased by £SOO should the colt win the Derby. .Vs a yearling. Nightbeam, who was bred at the Elderslie Stud, was purchased bv Mrs Graham Tor 325 guineas, ami before his sale bad won £1295 for her. Death of Paper Money The English stallion. Paper -Money, met with an accident last week, Injuring his pelvis, and. though veterinarv surgeonadvised Mr J. -Faulks that the‘lire of the horse could toe saved, the owner would not risk his suffering anv pain and ha \ him destroyed. Paper Money was foaled in 1916. and was I mpor.ted tn Nc\v Zea! and tov the lato Mr J. R. Reid Arter being located at Elders lie -for some years lie was sent to Amborley district f.two or three ,v ear-, where lie got \\ ilil Phase and Paper 'Upper, two of the be-t or his progeny. Then lie went to the Salisbury stud arid Alma ami Roloyn-a -were two of the’ best he left, there before going to n,o wanaka Mud where he remained until his death. In addition to the horses already named. Pap< r Money left outstanding performer* in Inflation, -liver Coat, Silver Paper, Mirer Mreak, Paper Note. Au-teoav. Money Mine and others. n computed that during the j , seasons his . p"ogeny have been raring thee have von races m m** ' t,h> sta * ce n.on-y aggregat-