SPORTING

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7277, 3 October 1933, Page 3

SPORTING

EB-HANDIOAPS. • AVONDALE MEETING. AUCKLAND, Oct. 1. Ee-h&ndieaps for the first day of the Avondale Jockey Club’s spring meeting on October 14 are:—• Kingsland High-weight Handicap, !£ miles: Cape Fair, Sib'., making 10.4. Flying Stakes Handicap, 6 furlongs: Foreign. Queen, 31bs., making 8.5. DUNEDIN MEETING. DUNEDIN, Oct. l. ; For the first day of the Dunedin Jockey Club’s meeting on October 5 the following. re-handicaps have been declared:— Maungatua .Handicap, 6 furlongs: Uoiran 9.10. Mosgiel Handicap, 1* miles: Polydora, 9.1. October Handicap, 1 mile: Palantua, 9.7. Taioma Hack, 6 furlongs: Doiran, 9.3. MASTERTON WEIGHTS. Handicaps for the Masterton Eacing Club’s spring meeting have been declared by Mr. H. Coyle as follow: NURSERY HANDICAP, of 55 sovs.;

NO GOOD IN ENGLAND. Swimming is often resorted to in training a'horse that lias a bad leg. Some have won in a swimming preparation, but, according to “Mankato” (an eminent veterinary authority), in lvis notes in the Manchester Sporting Chronicle, that treatment has not been productive of good results in England.

He says: “No horse which had been trained swimming ever won the St. Lcger or any other high-class race in this country, but many a dicky tendon has given away the first time a horse has done a gallop on the turf after an attempt has been-made to train him by swimming exercise.”

HARD TO RECONCILE. " It was difficult to reconcile the official time for two races at. Rosehill (states the Sydney Referee). Polly Speck was credited with running seven furlongs in'the-Rosehill High-weight Handicap in 1.25, against Inflation’s. 1.251 in the Camellia Stakes. Time to the contrary, it is almost unnecessary to suggest where Polly Speck would have finished ia" the Camellia Stakes if he had run in that with the 9.9 he successfully carried,in the "Welter.

JOCKEY PIKE’S RECORD IN THE EPSOM. J. Pike has ridden in the Epsom no less than 20 times, the two wins secured by him being on Chatham. His record is as under: 1907: Lord Beauchamp, unplaced. 1908: Proportion, unplaced. 1909: Son of the Marsh, unplaced. 1910: Bobby, unplaced. 1911: Sequarious, upplaced. 1912: Beverage, unplaced. 1912: Golden Hop, unplaced.. 1917: Quinologist, unplaced. 1920: Cbrysolaus, unplaced. 1922: Gilray, unplaced. 1923: The Hawk, fourth. 1924: Otacre, unplaced. 1925: The Hawk, unplaced, 1926: Fuji San, second. 1927: Fuji San, unplaced, 1928: Fuji San, unplaced. 1929: Fuji San, unplaced. 1931: Pentlieus, third. 1932: Chatham, first. 1933: Chatham, first. Of these The Hawk, Pentheus and Chatham were favourites.

UNUSUAL OCCURRENCE. Just as the stablemates Shakuni and Blixten turned round in tbo straight to do a preliminary for the Eosehill Guineas the latter suddenly whipped round under Blixten’s neck. Shakuni got rid of O’Sullivan, and though McCarten tried hard to say -on Blixten ho came off Fortunately the riders landed on their feet, and got hold of the reins of their respective mounts before either attempted to get away. For a second or two there was a possibility of a •sensation, but luckily that was avoidStead had scarcely got on Shakuni again, before that colt again got rid of him, but without any damage resulting.

HOW EQUIPOISE WON. When the American champion, Equipoise, won the Arlington Handicap,;. li miles, at Arlington Park (Chicago) at the end of July he carried 9.9, and beat six others. , Equipoise, who was at a shade of odds on, won easily by a length and ahnlf in 2.2 2-5, second place being filled by Watch Him, while Gallant Sir (5.13), who was ridden right out to get third place, was five lengths further away. The fractional times were: Quar-ter-mile 23, half-mile 47 1-5, three-quar-ters 1.11 4-5, mile 1.37. This was Equipoise’s fourth successive win of the season, and increased his. earnings to 294,800 dollars. Subsequently he won the Hawthorne Gold Cup, which carried 25,000 cd money, so he is now third it not second —in the list of America’s greatest winners. Sun Beau leads with 376,744 dollars, and 'before the Hawthorne Gallant Fox was second with 328,165 dollars, and Zev third, with 313,639 dollars.

MAKES A DIFFERENCE. In Sydney at one time any successful trainer or jockey could get a member of Parliament to fight for him if he got into trouble with racing authorities. More particularly did this apply to those who followed their calling at unregistered meetings. Iu Melbourne a member of the Legislative Assembly has asked that the Government should direct the Victoria Racing Club to hear in public the charges made against the successful apprentice, H. Skidmore, who recently came into collision, with his employer, and was suspended. Wonder whether that member would show as much concern if it were merely a case of a dispute between, say, a carpenter or plumber, and his apprentice J— Sydney Referee.

MELBOURNE’S RICH PRIZES. The value of the 1931 Caulfield Cup will be £6500, and for the Caulfield Futurity Stakes of 1931 and 1935 £2600. This year’s Caulfield Cup carries £SOOO and a trophy of £l5O, While it. has been impossible- for the A.J.C. to avoid retrenchment, it seems as if it will have to launch out in connection with next year’s Metropolitan in order to avoid being completely overshadowed by the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups.

RACING DATES. October 5, 7. —Dunedin J.C. October 6, 7.—Otako Maori R.G. October 11.—Masterton R.C. October 14.—South Canterbury J.C. October 14, 16.- —Avondale J.C. October 19, 21, 23.—Wellington R.C. October 21, 23. —Gore R.C.

4-furlongs. 0 Bazains 8 5 Confiscation S Tutor S 5 Peggy’s Joy 8 0 Golden Choral 8 0 Chance 8 .5 Brown Betty 8 0 Contract A t) Redeem 7 12 La. Madeleon 8 0 Morbury 7 12 HIGH-WEIGHT HANDICAP, of 80 sovs.; 1 mile. Esteem 10 9 Flower 9 5 Ankara 10 .7 Marinin 9 5 Chock Say 10 0 ■ Chile 9 5 Forestry 10.. 4 Lovecourt. 9 3 (Swift and Ramuna 9 0 Sure Palace 10 4 9 11 Owlsflight 9 Miss Holly ’ 9 0 0 Walton Park 9 8 Hazoor • 9 0 Air Laddie 9 S Rhea 9 0 LANSDOWNE HACK HANDICAP, of 70 sovs.; 6 furlongs. Might Normandy La.dv Ronah 9 4 Prostration 7 3 9 1 8 3 Grand Blow 7 White Squall 7 2 5 EmbtiOn'- '12 . Bettwyseoed 7 . o Xjand Tax 7 11 Movietone 7 0 Pheon 7 7 Anita May 7 0 R masterton handicap, of no sovs.: miles. Havering 9 3 La Poupee 7 9 Retract Brambletorn .8 6 8 fi Little Doubt 7 Saltpot 7 o 0 Chopin Cluny 8 3 S 2 Courageous 7 Thrasher 7 0 0 Takakua 7 12 Lyrical 7 0 |,P LAWN HACK HANDICAP, of 70 sovs.; 1 mile. 0 Passion Sage 7 Fruit 9 3 Red Top 7 0 Thrasher 8 b Oscillation 7 0 Kalmuck 8 3 Milnrow . 7 0 .■Revision 7 11 Dignified 0 0 Epigram Snootist 7 S. 7 5 March 7 Quebec 7 Lovecourt 7 3 Rainuna 7 0 Snowball 7 0 GRANDSTAND HACK HANDICAP, of

70 sovs.; 7 furlongs. Copper King 9 2 Bettwyseocd .Zetes 7 7 0 0 West Tor S 6 Red Top 7 0 Yvette 7 7. 7 0 Thomond palace 8 3 S 0 Oscillation ' Milnrow 0 9 Emotion 7 12 Movietone 7 0 Land Tax 7 11 Platter 7 0 Bonnie Vale Hazoor 7 5 7 3 Dignified ■ March 7 0 Owlsflieht. 7 0 Go ELECTRIC HACK HANDICAP, o± sovs.; 5 1 furlongs. Haulbowline Hunting 9 0 Dollar 7 Princo 7 Lodtre 8 6 Sir Spear 7 2 Lndv Ronald 8 5 Secrecy 7 0 Acceptable 7 12 My Ideal 7 0 Gipsy Love Pheon . 7 11 Rene Belle 7 0 7 7 White Squall 7 0 Grand Blow 7 3 First View 7 0 Movietone 7 .0