TOPICS OF THE TURF

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 89, 17 May 1929, Page 3

TOPICS OF THE TURF

(By ''The Squire.")

JOTTINGS DA¥ BY DAY.

By winning tlio Wanganui Stceplecliase vo.^tcrday Brigadicr Bill now shares with Aluscatel, Braeburn and Bootles tlio credit oi a dual in the event. % Like Alu^catol lie ivon in seciuence. a year inteivening as rcgards Bootle-s and Braobuvn. The fonuer of the pair did nut have the elean eut victory in liis initial seoi'c tliai eharaetei'ised tlie victories *ol the other trio, as in liis lir.st annexation lie was dead-heated •vith Xamaki. = A 'M Altbou^b Brigadier Bill did not inerea.se liis ini]jost in thc Greut Xortbern Stcepleeliase by liis vietorv in the Adalnson Stoepleehase. at Egmont last week. it is nearlv a certainty tliat liis inipost in the Clreat X'orthern Steepleeliase will be added to the 10 stone set against hini in tliat event. or nine pounds less tlian be earrie'd yesterdav. % % C A Followers of form will no doubt now incline to the prospeets of Brigadier Bill in the big lepping event at Ellerslie next liionth, as in ]irevious seasons upon five oeeasions Avinners of the Wanganui Steeiileehase have also seeured the Great Xortliern Rteepleehase, tb'iso wbo aeeoniplished ihe feat being Glneiiot, Corazon, Afuseate], Aloifaa and The Gnard. ^ * Oihers wbo won the cliasing; double above referred to wero Jlaydn, Aloeeasin and Coalition. but there were interval.s between tlicir captures. * V Brigadier Bill was one of the oompetitors in the Great X'orthern Steeplecliase last season, but was not included in the ])laeed horses at the finsli. v * * Auother winner at anganui yesterdav, in Alister Gaiii]), will also eonie under review from the liandieapjier in eoniieetion witb the Auckland nieet- j iug. as the Australian-bred son of | Bronzetti and Brollv is in tlio Great j X'orthern Tlurdles witli flst (51b. He | won tlio Centurv llurdles. carrving J Ost. BHb., wlien Gomical. wlio finished | seeond, was allowiiijT him 2(1 jiounds. | As the weights now stand in regard j to the Great X'orthern Tlurdles, the i sanic poundage scpa rates tlie pair. j * * * ! Considering: tliat yesf'erday marked | the lirst appearanee over tlie ohstaelcs j in a ]ilaee sinee he won tlie Grand ! Xational Tlurdles in tlie 1026-27 | season. it foreihlv asserts tliat tlie j anc'ient son of Aferrv Aloment and Mint Queen is nn haek nuniher. despite tlie reality tliat he is now rising twelve years of age. * * * 1 Adlierents of reeeut fonn sliould liave got out of financial clifficultics yesterdav at Wanganui, as winners at , tlie reeeut meeting at I'lgmont in Brig- j adicr Bill. Paitonu and Keddar were j again vietorious, wliile 11 igliwavnian, i who scored at Tigniont, finished in see- j ond position in tlie ITaek Steeple , chase, as did Limited. a winner at j Mftinont, avIio aeted as runner-up to i Keddar yesterdav. j * -y - I The winner of the Kaitoke llurdles, j Gala J)av, was not iucludcd in tlie list | of acceii'tors tliat were puhlished. lie j i an aged son of Quin Ahhey and Bell , Crispin, whose only win tliis season, j jirior to liis success yesterdav, was in | Ihe Ruakaka Hurdles at tlie nnnual I gathering of tlie Te Aroha Jockey t lu'u ■ last February. :K The top hole dividend prodneer at Wanganui, wlio ]>revailed in tlie secrnd division of tlie Purua Haek, is one of the Chief Ruler clan. liaving lieen sired hy him irom C uslila, the lntter lieing' a half-sister by Hallcwmas to Galliard, Dermod and Kalia. * * * She was seen out contesting at- the late Autumn meeting of tlie Hawke s Fay Jockey Clnb, wlien slie registered a seeond and tliird placing. * * * She lias previouslv tliis session heen seen as a winner, tliis oecurring wheit she won tlie Urenui Eleetric Haek nt the Summer gatliei'ing of tlie Taranaki Jockey Club, her supporters 011 tliat oceasion also liandling a good sized dividend. She is a stablo .eomrade oi Reremoana, bcing trained hy 0. Cox Toi lier owner-lireeder, Mr J. Donald. 5{c *•* Tlio concluding day of the Wanganui lixture takes plaee to-morrow, wlien the prineipal event to he decided will . lie the Grandstand Steepleeliase, about 2a niiles, an event tliat last season was } eaptured bv Puwhero. witli Alixed ; TTcather aiid Son o' Aline seeond and : tlnrd respeetivcly. | * * * . There will he an ease-up for raeingj lolks next week. as during that tinui J there will he hut one meeting to en- J oioss tlieir attentions, and as it is ai ltuig way from tliis distriet it will not , e\cTte mueh attention from loeal Toi - , biwers of the spovt. It is tlie Autumn j meeting of tlie Ashburton Raeingj Club. It will have to be an improvenient on tliat of a similar hxture last season to prove profitahle, as 'i_poii that oceasion tlio small sum of L0J88 was inve.sted on tlie totalisator. Haudieaps for tlie first day of the Winter venture of the Dunedin Joekcv C'juh should he availahle to-morrow. * * * j Tlie Waikato Hunt Cluh, which lias lueii racing 011 Lahour Day for some timo, will not he ahle to hold tlieir an- j nual fixture 011 tliat date next season, as thov liave heen notified hy tlio j .vnekland Distriet Gommittee tliat j Lnhnur Day lias heen allotted to thc Waikato Racing Cluh. wliicli tliis season lield tlie first dav of tlieir Spring liueling a c-ouplc of days in advanee of Lahour Day.