SPORTING

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 246, 16 September 1929, Page 10

SPORTING

FROM STABLE AND COURSE

(By “Binocular.”)

Racing at Napier, Avondale*and Ashburton next Saturday.

Andy, winner of the Otago Hunt Club steeplechase, is a half-brother to Fabriano.

Llanfyllin has been- selected as the name of the yearling half-sister by Gainscourt to Eisteddfod and Llandudno.

Delude, who showed distinct promise in the hurdling game at Dannevirke when he won on the opening day, is being treated to a spell.

The Limond-llomage filly Courtesy is reported to be doing nicely in Hawke’s Bay, but is not being hurried.

White Fang is being kept up to his work at Hastings and he may go to tho Avondale meeting. This horse usually shows good form at this time of the year.

A Hawke’s Bay writer states that, judging by the way ho looks and the style in which he is moving at Hastings, Great Charter should be seen at his best this season.

When Nincompoop, by Absurd-Cheloma, won the A.J.C. Breeders’ Plate at Randwick as a youngster, a good future appeared to be in store for him. Such has hardly materialised and his racing may now bo confined to hurdling.

Mr A. B. Williams’s imported mare Sweet Charity has foaled a colt to Shambles in Australia where she has gone to be mated with Gothic.

The southern breeder, Mr 11. M. Reeves, had the misfortune recently to lose his brood mare Sleepy Head, who died after foaling a coldt to Shambles. The bad luck has gone further for the colt has since died.

Mr T. 11. Lowry’s two brood mares Symbolism and En Parole were railed through to Palmerston North last week on a visit to Hunting Song whom Air Gaine Carrington has now at A\ hakarongo.

Kahn Ariki, who displayed a lot of speed in races last season, ha 6 been brought into light work at Hastings. With a view to improving his faulty respiratory organs, he is to be operated on shortly.

Curies, the Lord Quex-Martian mare gelding, recently trained by J. Hall in Hawke’s Bay for Mrs Campbell, has been taken over by W. Stone, of Te Awamutu. Curies is a plain sort, but undoubtedly possesses galloping ability.

The thrce-year-old Meprisant, by Paladin from Disdainful, will have his first race this week when he will contest the Trial Plate at Ashburton, Southern reports state that he has great speed, but lack of experience may b.e against him.

Tahoma, who opened his winning account at Dannevirke, is reported to be looking very well at present and he should turn out more than useful. By Hunting Song from Kowerewere, the three-year-old is a halfbrother to that one time useful performer, Koodoo’.

The well-known brood mare Miss de Yal died at Trentham rcecntly. She was a daughter of All Red and Northern Rose, and. besides being a very speedy galloper, sho gave to the turf Rose de Yal, Roi de Val, Degage, Aro de Val and a two-year-old sister to Degage at present in work at Trentham.

L. Alanson, who does a fair percentage of W. Kemp’s riding, will pilot the two-year-old Ruling King should he run in the Avondale Stakes. E. Ludlow will ride Grand Spirit, while W. 11. Jones will steer Sileiie. Vanessa will have R. McTavish’s services in the saddle, all claiming the classic engagement.

It is related by a Sydney riter that one backer (familiarly known as “the Polar Bear”) had good'cause to rejoice over tho victory of Limerick in the Warwick Stakes. Undismayed by tho views largely expressed that the mile race referred to was at the mercy of Mollison, he backed Limerick and as a "result relieved the peneillers of £3OOO. Since being recommissioned after a spell throughout the winter months, Gemlight has made steady progress under J. Williamson's supervision, states “Whalebone.” The Treelaire gelding has thickened out a good deal since he raced as a two-year-old, and he looks like developing into a good sort during the present (season. Ho has been given several short sprinting tasks during the past couple of weeks, and it will not be long before he is in racing trim again.

Royal Tractor .is such a fast galloper that it is a pity ho is troubled with a throat affliction. According to information from Washdyke the big upstanding son of Tractor hao been operated on for respiratory trouble, and is now enjoying a spell preparatory to being put in work for summer racing. Boy, a stable mate to Royal Tractor, also is on the resting list. When the Kitboy gelding resumes training he will be given a course of schooling.

Racing circles are apprehensive regarding the, probable effect the Victorian proposal to restrict racing will have ion the sport in Sydney if it becomes law, says' an Australian exchange. That there will not bo a great influx of horses from Melbourne to race regularly on A.J.C. tracks is the general opinion. '’Nor are trainers and bookmakers licensed by the V.R.C. likely to apply in .force for the right to operate on Sydney's horse courses. The outlook so far as pony racing is concerned, however, is somewhat different. Already this branch of racing is in a more advanced stage in Sydney than in Melbourne, so if its attractions down south are lessened by Parliament the natural result would be the flooding of Sydney’s pony tracks with Melbourne horses. Whether bookmakers would follow the horses is doubtful, for the simple reason that they would experience considerable difficulty in securing permission to field at Victoria Park, Ascot, Kensington, and Rosebery in any great numbers. Mr J. Underhill, secretary of the A.R.C., declined to comment on the position. His attitude is that it is advisable to wait and see if the Victorian Bill becomes law. It may be accepted, however, that he would not welcome any incident which would add to the size of the programmes arranged for A.R.C. meetings. Regular fixtures of sixteen or eighteen races would probably result in action on the Victorian lines being taken by the New South Wales Goveminent.

Limerick showed a memorable comeback in the Warwick Stakes, in which he easily accounted fior the brilliant Mollison (says the Sydney Morning Herald of September 2). From the time he made his dash at Mollison in the straight until his rider dismounted there was extraordinary enthusiasm, and it was evident that the great admiration earned by the New Zealander had not abated. It was thought this time last year that Limerick’s galloping ability was on the wnne, and as Mollison had beaten him comfortably in the AllAged Stakes, the Victorian would do so again.’ When in the enclosure on Saturday many people expressed the opinion that Limerick was not the Limerick of old, but they soon had to modify their view. His finishing run was characteristic of a number of his outstanding efforts at Randwick, when he gained the measure of Miollison in the last furlong in the Warwick Stakes he simply bowled along in the manner that gained him fame toward the finish of long distance races. Mollison was always at odds on, while Limerick eased. The advantage of a. 51b. allowance influenced a number of people in supporting Aussie, once conqueror of Limerick in New Zealand, and they were the horses befriended. (Aussie was ridden by R. Reed). Mollison shot to the front early, but did not get far away from Parkwood, and with five furlongs to go Limerick has about fourth or fifth. Here he made a forward move for a few strides, then just maintained his ground, and approaching the turn he began to gallop in earnest. Daniels evidently realised that Mollison was not going so freely as ho would have liked in the teeth of tie stnong

wind, and he rode the Victorian with vigour. It was unavailing, however. Limerick gradually gained on him, and continued on to a comfortably victory amid the cheers of the crowd. The mile was run in three-quarters of a second outside the record, and it was interesting to see Winalot and Crucis going at their best at the finish. Aussie again disappointed badly, but one of the surprises of the race was the three-year-old Phar Lap, who only narrowly missed third place. (Photographs of the finish of this event show Aussie “down the course,” about 10 lengths or more behind the winner).

Riccarton trainer G. Murray Aynsley commenced last season with a couple of novices, Chide and Quaecee, who were being got ready to carry his own colours, comments a southern writer. They were closely related, both being by Paladin, from Reproachful and Disdainful, who are sisters, by Bonney Glen from Lady Disdain, the dam of Bee and Snub, two good performers. Chide was unplaced in his first outing, after which he won four races on end and now he is undergoing a New Zealand Cup preparation. Quaecee had a brief career. She ran second in a race at Ashburton, but soon afterward sho had the misfortune to break a leg and she was destroyed. It was a piece of ill-luck for her ownertrainer, as she was an exceptionally brilliant galloper. Included in G. Murray Aynsley’s team this season is Meprisant, a three-year-old brother to Quaecee, and he has done a lot of useful work lately. He has not shown the extreme speed of his sister, so far, but he is a 6tnart galloper who looks certain to pay his way. He is well forward in his preparation, so that he may be ready to show some form at one of the early meetings.