THE TURF

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XX, Issue 180, 19 July 1930, Page 2

THE TURF

RACING FIXTURES July 17, ,19—Gisborne R.O. July I'J—Waimate Hunt. July 26—South Canterbury Hunt. July 31, Aug. 2—Manawatu R.C. Aug. 2—Christchurch Hunt Club. Aug. 2—Poverty Bay Hunt Club. Aug. 12, 11,16—Canterbury J.C. Aug. 23—Pakuranga Hunt Club. Aug. 23—Hawke’s Bay Hunt Club. Aug. 27—Dannevirke R.C. Aug. 28—Dannevirke Hunt Club.

BARGAINS IN JUMPERS RECALLED BY “PHAETON.” The signal success over sticks and fences that has attended a “cheap lot 1 ' in the V.R.C. Grand National double winner Mosstrooper recalls some notes on Maoriland bargain jumpers written by the Auckland veteran turf scribs “Phaeton” some few weeks back ns the result of conversation with some other old hands. “Liberator, holding the record as the best all-round horso that has figured on the New Zealand Turf, was not overlooked. The price for which the black son of Betrayer was bought was a point on which there was some disagreement, and I could help tho 'disputants only bv saying that 1 had once seen it stated in a southern journal that he was sold for £l5O prior to winning his first Grand National Hurdle Race at Uiccarton in 1893, and that some little time after recording that victory he was bought by Mr. P. Butler for £5OO. As I left my friends thoughts came to my mind where I could be tolerably sure of the l correctness of tho figure; involved in tho purchase of certain noteworthy horses that have earned fame as jumpers. “The case of Levanter quickly presented itself, as related to me in the winter of 1896 by the sportsman who raced under the iiamo of “Mr. C. Archibald.” Levanter was not favourably regarded in his early days and he was handed over to a drover to be hacked about. Levanter—then simply known as the Captivator —Steel All gelding—was bought by “Mr. Archibald' 1 for £5O. He won the Great Northern Steeplechase in two successive years and a New Zealand Grand National Steeplechase is also down to his credit. “Mr. Archibald” also bought tho New Zealand Grand National Hurdle Race winner Tresham for £5O. “Despised, the one-eyed son of Cap-a-pie, holds a prominent place with bargains of the jumping class, and his career was well tinged with the sensational. Within a few days of being bought for £6O he won the Groat Northern Steeplechase. Later Despised won the treble at the A.R.C. summer meeting of 1893-94, comprising two hurdle races and the Auckland Steeplechase. “Gluepot, who won tho Great Northern Steeplechase of 1917, is another who was paraded in the salering prior to winning a big crosscountry race at Ellerslie and who was fairly scouted, and he was bought for 18 guineas by the late Mr. W. H. Windsor, under whose colours he won the Wanganui Steeplechase and Great Northern Steeplechase in 1913. “Sea De’il, who brought off a surprise victory in the Great Northern Steeplechase of 1922, is reported to have been sold for £lO some time prior to winning that race, and two years subsequently he led tho field home in the Great Northern Hurdle Race. The values attached to those two races alone amounted to £2950.

“Oakleigh, who has tho distinction of winning the New Zealand Grand National Steeplechase in two successive years, was bought for £6, and that investment brought a return of over £BOOO to Messrs. G. and F. Peach. “Beau Cavalier can also be cited as a sensational bargain. In 1925, at which stage he was five years old, the bay gelding was bought by Mr. A. G. Quartley for £55 after winning wing honours at tho Auckland Show. Beau Cavalier was ostensibly bought with a view to his use as a charger, but he was destined to play a very different role. , Displaying an aptitude for jumping, Beau Cavalier was given an opportunity of carrying silk on the racecourse, and his record includes victories in the Great Northern Steeplechase, Wellington Steeplechase, New Zealand Grand National Steeplechase, Great Northern Hurdle Race, and Winter Hurdles at Trentham. The £55 invested in the purchase of Beau Cavalier brought a golden return to Mr. Quartley, for the earnings of the bay gelding reached to over £6700.” GENERAL NOTES The altered rule on tho subject of the nine-stone minimum, under which it will cease to operate each yeai on 15th August, will have an effect on the Grand National Meeting this year. The nine-stone minimum will be in force for tho flat events on the first and second days, while on the concluding days these races will bo run under the sevenstone minimum, as it applies during the greater part of the season. * * * C. Emerson is a daily visitor to the Riccarton tracks with the yearling filly by Woodend from Glentrnin, who is a shapely youngster. Two other yearlings, both by Rosenor, have gone into Emerson's stable, to bo trained for Mr. A. Cambridge. R. Ellis has taken To Awhina in hand again.', and will get h«f ready for spring racing. The Paper Money mare is reported to be look! ig well after her spell. » # » Whamcliffe was out on Thursday morning at Riccarton doing useful work on tho flat. Ho is said to he looking* in good order to tackle the final stage of his preparation for the Grand National meeting. • • • The lircns’iig committee of the New Zealand Racing Conference last

week decided to grant F. Weston, of Ellerslie, a trainer’s license. During recent years Weston was head man for J. Williamson.

* » » Craigmore, who is engaged in the Gand Nation Hurdle Race, won the Trial Hurdles at Dunedin two seasons ago and in his next start ran second in a similar event at the Grand National meeting. In his next two starts at the fixture he accounted for the Spreydon and Sydenham Hurdles. He has not raced much this season, his best performance being in running second to Amorist in the June Hurdles, one mile and three-quarters, at the recent Dunedin winter meeting. - * • Perle do Leon has only had three races since last August and, after running onco unplaced, was second in both tho Century Hurdle Race and the May Hurdles at the Wanganui meeting. He has not started since, but figures in the Grand National Hurdle Race at the minimum. He is not a sound horse, but if he could bo produced at his best in that event he would take some beating. At the Grand National meeting last August he was third in the Sydenham Hurdle Race, two miles, which was run in record time. Horses tracing to St. Simon are leaving their mark on the Wellington Steeplechase in a very pronounced manner. Mangani and Aurora Borealis, who fought out the finish for the cross-country race at Trentham last week are both by Day Comet (son of St. Frusquin and grandson of St. Simon). Mangani is in-bred to St. Simon, his dam being a daughter of Maniapoto (son of Soult). Dating from 1923, no fewer than six of tho winners of the Wellington Steeplechase have been of the St. Simon branch. Oakleigh, who led the field homo in 1923, is by St. Amans (son of Soult) ; Omahu. who scored respectively in 1924 nnd 1925, is by Maniapoto (son of Soult) • Beau Cavalier, the winner in 1927, is by Chesterfield (son of Wairiki); and King’s Guard, winner in 1929, was got bv Quin Abbey (son of Morganatic).

Mountain Guide, who competed successfully at the Wellington winter meeting, was left at Trentham, and will be taken on to Riccarton to fulfil engagements at the Grand National meeting, provided he goes on satisfactorily in the meantime. When this horse fell on the second day at Trentham his rider, J. Sharkey, received injuries to his shoulder. However, he expects to be able to ride at Riccarton next month.

Tho well-known steeplechaser Snowfall had a narrow escape from being destroyed in the early hours of Sunday morning last. An employee on the farm who had been out deerstalking noticed that Mr M. Mouat’s stables and outhouses at Eastern Bush were ablaze and gave tho alarm. Snowfall was removed from tho burning building with a bag over his head. It was a very narrow escape for the gelding. The stables, woolshed, and all the outbuildings were destroyed. Mr. Moua.t is a heavy loser.

Rosshire so impressed one sportsman at Trentham that he made an offer of four figures for the rising three-year-old by Catmint from Lady Penurv, but the owner, Mr. H. R. Mackenzie, refused to part with him. The train journev back from Trentham to Takanini was not without incident, for Rosshire had a sudden attack of colic, but his trainer, E. Pope, was able to cure the ailment.— Auckland “Star.”

Amorist has a lot of pace and is a good quick beginner. He ran well in the Trentham Hurdle Race and was going along nicelv in the lead in the Winter Hurdles on the last day when he fell. He has been nominated for the brand National Hurdle Race, but tlie distance will probably be a bit too far for him. even though he has only got 31b above the minimum.

J. Chisholm has Llanore and Leasehold both going along in a satisfactory manner at Ellerslie, but owing to the heavy state of the going they are not required to do any fast work. Leasehold has grown a good deal since the autumn and he promises to develop into a fine typo of three-year-old.

Te Atiawa who is reported to be doing well under J. O’Neill’s care at New Plymouth, will make his reappearance at the Manawatu meeting this month. In his last four starts Te Atiawa has a record of one first, a second and ono third placing, and is likely to add to that total before long.

In spite of W. Duncan’s absence from the racing track since November last, “mending a cracked neck,” as he puts it, it appears that he is none the less head of the season’s winning jockeys’ list in Melbourne. From 98 mounts, Duncan, before his accident, had ridden 31 winners. 16 seconds and five thirds. He hopes to resume race-riding early in the new season, which commences with next month.

The latest compilation of figures for the jockeys’ premiership in Sydney shows E. Bartlo as “distancing” all his rivals. His tally was 69 wins and four dead-heats for first, while his nearest attendant was W. Cook with 41 wins. Then came W. R. Johnstone, 30 wins and three dead-heats, and M. McCarten 30 wins and one dead-heat.

When Bill Sykes accounted for a selling race at Windsor (England) on May 19, it made the 1000th win credited his trainer, G. G. Poole, who has a fine record with jumpers.

According to recent American files, 60.000,000 dollars (about £12,000,000) passed through the pari-mutuel machines in less than 100 days of racing in the Maryland circuit last season. New Jersey, which does not allow horse racing, is envious of the great amount of revenue collected by Maryland through the turf.