THE
CHINA MAIL.
THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1934.
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BRILLIANT STAR FACED WITH STUPENDOUS TASK ON SATURDAY
MATA HARI
FOR KENTUCKY
·DERBY CLASSIC
Covers Mile In 1.39.1
FIRST FILLY CHALLENGER
SINCE 1915
Louisville Ky., April 18.
It was reported to-day that Mata Hari, filly, present favourite | 'to win the sixtieth running of the Kentucky Derby, blazed a trial run over a mile in 1.39.1.
As a result of her performance, the filly became more promising than ever, despite the fact that nel since 1915 has a filty won the caveted Kentucky prize.
Mata Hari is expected to be at least 4 to 1 on Derby Day. despite the fact that she has been quoted at 10 to 1 in the
winter books.
The ally went to the starting post eight times in 1933, winning five times, being unplaced on three other necasions. She brought her owners a total of $55,364 in stakes last year. United Press.
CHARMING STAR IMPROVES.
Waiting For Transfer
To Shanghai.
Messrs. Kong Bros. Charming Star, which strained a fetlock in the Jockey Cup at the Annual Meeting, is slowly improving in condition.
A group photograph of jockeys taken recently at the Valley, Reading from left to right (stan-' ding) Mesers. G. A. Harriman, P. P. Botelho, W. G. Poy, S. Y. Liang, H. M. Pih, ip" Kul Ying, 8. W. Tang. S N. Pan and C. Taylor (seated) F. Marshall, H. Va Pearse, S. Y. Sun, T. L. Wong, A. J. P. Heard, R. H. Charles, Y. S. Chang, and D. S. Li (in front) E. O. Butler, L. G. Frost, B. A. Proulx, A. A. R. Botelho, J. C. A. Ingram, Tang Man Wa, and II. P. Chanson.
Soldier of China, which is likely to be a distinct menace in the St. George's Plate on Saturday, winning the Hongham Bay Handicap from Bright Star and Electric Star at the last Meeting.
36,000 TICKETS NOW SOLD IN SWEEP.
$1.00 Lottery With Prize
Of $42,800.
The number of tickets sold for the big sweep on the Juling Stakes, Although this pony will never to be run at the Sixth Extra Race be able to race again, the owners' Meeting at Happy Valley on June state that it will not be long be-2, is creeping up. 36,000 having fore it is able to canter a little. been sold up to yesterday. When it is fit enough for the) The anticipated value the journey it will be shipped back first prize in this mammoth 31 to Shanghai for breeding pur-sweep is somewhere in the region
of $42,800. poses,
hard
This pony has a very mouth, and it will be remember- ed that after winning the Jockey Cup, when ridden by Mr. Yoe Shun-with, it bolted, and, after galloping round the track twice, slipped in the mud and fell heavily.
MR. PAUL BOTELHO LEADS AT MACAO
Three Winners Recorded This Season.
COMPLETE RECORD FOR
OFFICIAL RACES
Mr Paul Botelho leads the Jockey's list as the result of the two meetings of the Macao Jockey Club held this season. The following are the complete records of all jockeys in official
races:
P. F. Botelho
E. Q. Butler
N. Dellz
8. Y. Liang
S. N. Pan
Ip Kui Ying
A. J. P. Heard
LI
Li Fook Fai
Y. T. Fung
H. Y. Liang
Yur Shun Wa
Choy Wing Chiu
G. Harriman W. Poy
W Yeh
W.
F. Li
A, Coppin
Dr. 8. K. Let
LA G Hin
Teog Man Wa
Ice Shul Ree
J. Barrow
A. Botelho
H. Remedios
C. Kong
Totals
1st 2nd 3rd Unp
0 4
3
3
ง
of
MR. LI TSE FONG'S LOSS.
Pony Which Secured
Two Places.
All race-goers will 'sympathise with Mr. Li Tse Fong over the loss of Sporting Life yesterday.
SAMMY JUDAH'S BAD LUCK
Second Trial Spin Ends Abruptly.
WINNER OF SHANGHAI CHAMPIONS
HYDROPLANE'S FIRST TRIAL ON DRY TRACK
SOLDIER OF CHINA MAY CONFOUND CRITICS
RECORD LIKELY TO BE BROKEN
IN AUSTRALIAN RACE
SA
(BY RAPJER)
|FLOURISHING STATE OF BRITISH TURF
Stakes Above America's
GOOD NEWS ALSO FROM FRANCE
London, Apr. 14. A comparison of the stake.
(ATURDAY'S FOURTH EXTRA MEETING WILL DETER
MINE MANY QUESTIONS WHICH ARE NOW BEING ASKED IN RACING CIRCLES. THREE OF THEM RELATE TO ONE RACE — WILL BRILLIANT STAR RETAIN HIS 100 PER CENT. RECORD BY WINNING THE ST. GEORGE'S PLATE OVER 1 MILES, A DISTANCE OVER WHICH HE money in America with that to be HAS NOT YET RACED AND OVER WHICH HE WILL BE obtained in this country reveals CARRYING 168 LB.? HOW WILL HYDROPLANE, THE the prosperous condition of the DERBY WINNER, REACT TO A DRY COURSE OVER HIS British Turf. During the last four BEST DISTANCE AND WITH A WEIGHT IMPOST OF 165 years, the stake money in America LB.? CAN SOLDIER OF CHINA CONFOUND THE CRITICS has been reduced, while the aum-. BY ESTABLISHING HIMSELF AS THE BEST GRIFFIN OF ber of races has been increased. In 1980, there were 11,498 races, and the first money distributed to The Australian "A" Class event may possibly witness a new record time for six furlongs with Bronze Era, Just That, and Able owners amounted to £2,053,360.
Last year, the stakes showed a Amazon striving for the honour.
RAPIER'S
SELECTIONS THE YEAR BY WINNING THE 1% MILES EVENT?
SATURDAY'S RACES.
Race 1
Race 2
SOLDIER OF BRITAIN COSSACK'S BEAUTY KING'S JUSTICE
WONDERFUL STAG ROYAL FLUSHI SOLAR STAR
Race 3
BRONZE ERA
JUST THAT
ABLE AMAZON
Race 4
BRILLIANT STAR
SOLDIER OF CHINA HYDROPLANE
Race 5
NATIONAL-DAY CAVALCADE
CLASSIC HALL
6
morn-
MAYFLOWER
ing, it being only his second) trial spin on the Happy Valley
BLUE STAR
OAK BAY
track.
Race
7
Mr. Judah is no newcomer to
2 record racing, and has
inf Shanghai dating back a number of years.
DELIGHTFUL CHANCE IN GOOD TIME
Race
8
ATLAS
DINTY
Mr. "Sammy" Judah was par- ticularly unlucky to crash On Race Sporting Life yesterday
In 1933 he was the winner of the Shanghai Champion Sweep- stakes, bringing home Mr. Mat- sumoto's Nationalist III.
Mr. Judah's record in Shang- hai since 1930 is:
1930 1931
1st 2nd 3rd Unp.
13
11
12 156
3
5
27 22 18 115
28 25 27 138
Mr. Li Tse Fong is the owner 7932 of five other ponies, Gold Bullion. 1933 Currency. Gold Vase, High Life, and Managed Currency.
at the Annual Meeting, his two He has had two firels, one places being with Sporting Life second, and a third this season. which secured a second at the The two wins were with Gold Annual Meeting and a third af Bullion and Gold Currency, both the first Extra Meeting.
Race 9
LITTLE BEAUTY
THE GOOSE
BISTRE
RACING BOY RACING TRIUMPH
DAILY DOUBLE
BRONZE ERA AND
DELIGHTFUL CHANCE
LONG-SHOT DOUBLE
JUST THAT AND
LITTLE BEAUTY
GILBERT HARRIMAN'S COMEBACK
Champion
Jockey In
1924 Season
FT is good to see Mr. Gilbert Harriman, one of the "old- timera" making a comeback. He was champion jockey ten years
ago.
It was in 1920, back in the days of the pure-bred China | ponies, that Mr. Harriman start-
ME. G. A. HARRIMAN.
ed racing, his first win being on in comparison with the present St. Chad in a distance handicap. events at the Valley,
many a
27 Wins In Course of
In what promises to be a bumper meeting I have selected diminution to $1,286,500, but the Bronze Era and Delightful Chance for the "daily double" with number of races decided had In- creased to 12,662, of which many Just That and Little Beauty as the long-shot combination,
were of less value than £100, the Several ponies have shown very much improved form this week, minimum amount which an owner among them being Night Star, King's Justice, Dinty, and Alacrity, can receive under Jockey Club and everything points to a very open meeting with prospects of se-Rules, veral major upsets.
The British figures show a much more cheerful state of affairs. The He is riding at the same
total stakes, as represented in first weight on Saturday and with
money only, distributed in Eng- Mr. Deltz in the saddle should
|land, Scotland, and Ireland be- be very close.
tween 1930 and 1933, has dropped His only other success was re-by less than 10 per cent. In 1930. winger, corded at 161 lb. when he won the there was a total disbursement of
The St. George'a Plate, won last! year by Mrs. Pearce's Trentbridge in 2.35.2, ha attracted all the season's best griffins and a most open race is assured.
This
year's Derby
Hydroplane is going out at 165 b.. American Club Cup in 2.23.1 over £823,770; in 1991 It was £810.189; but the weight is likely to prove the mile and 171 yards. Prima
In 1932 772,096, and in 1933 too much for him. Mr. Benay Donna, out at the same weight, was £735,577. Proulx WOR unplaced on Mr.third in this race.
Prima Donna covered 1% miles
- Newmarket Flourishing Plane's candidate in the Wuchow-
Prospects for the future Handicap over a mile when carry-lin 2.40.4 to win the Sugar Loaf Jing the same weight.
Kandicap at the Easter Meeting. equally refreshing. From New- The pony has not, however, been On the same day Hydroplane, with market comes the news that unem- alb. advantage at 160 lb., won ployment is practically unknown, seen out on dry course!
his race over the same distance in unlike a few years ago, when many
atable lads were 2.42.0.
out of work in
Hydroplane's best time over the distance was recorded in the Trial Plate when he won from Soldier of China in 2.39.0 when carrying 161 lb.
aro
Prima Donna is no mudlark like that town. Hydroplane, and under Mr. Gilbert French racing appears to be in Harriman may prove a very pro-much the same state. La Societe fitable outsider-Mr. A. M. L. de Sport de France has decided In the Nicholson Handicap the Soares' black mare is carrying only upon some notable increases In Derby winner again beat Soldier 145 lb. en Saturday.
of China, carrying 160 lb, to clock Mr. Hem's Gladiator cannot
2.42.0
added money to certain important
be races decided at Le Tremblay, and loverlooked at 148 lb. He will be there has been voted a consider- Yesterday Hydroplane, with Mr. taken out by Mr. S. N. Pan. Yes-able addition to the amounts of Proulx up, had Wayward Stag (Mr. terday he did a fast mile in 2.06.0 the breeders' premiums awarded in Ip) as an amah and finished hin It is going to be exceedingly dif- certain big events there. Laat gallop with a 0.30.0 last quarter. cult for the top-weights to He was moving very nicely.
▼
Brilliant Star's Record
Brilliant Star, as yet unbeaten,
Mr. Butler's mount is likely
to
his
he
off what promises to be spirited challenge.
a
•
*
+
Distance May Be Too Far
stave year, the breeder of the winner of
very
the Prix Citronelle received Fr. 5,000; this year he will receiva Fr. 15,000 francs, and in addition there will be an award of Fr. 3,000 for the breeder of the second horse
Gladiator has not been placed in in that race.
is carrying the tremendous weight
In England, the Jockey Club import of 168 b., and, although any race over a mile, and I am
just a little afraid the distance does not consider that the breeders will be too far for him. A slow race of the winners of the One Thou- will, however, greatly enhance his sand and Two Thousand Guineas chances.
deserve any recompense; in fact, Hie best performance was in the there are few races at Newmarket Kellet Handicap on which
in which the breeders of the win- sion, he negotiated the mile
ners In
receive premiums. The
occa-
2.07.1 when carrying 154 lb. Inbreeder of the Derby winners
have the public's confidence, jockey will have to show all knows to retain a proud record. Messrs. Kang Bros' crack has not yet raced over 1 miles, but he has beaten Hy- droplane on the only occasion they met. Brilliant Star, considered by Mr.1b. more, D. S. Li as the outstanding griffin of the year, carried 158 lb. to vic tory in the Racing Stakes, negotiat-
Three Years in the mile and 171 yards in
2.21.3.
gets £500 and the breeder of the Tientsin Stakes, also over a mile, he won in 2.10.1, carrying 4 the Oaks 2400. It would be a good thing for racing in this country if there WAS a premium for the breeders of the placed horses in all classic races. The breeder of the Eclipse winner receives £500,
Record In Danger
Bronze Era la as fit as he can
be, and I would not be in the least the breeder of the second $200, His best performance and one bit surprised if Mr. Gilbert Har-and the breeder of the third £100. carly nineteen Twenties. In that has marked him as a smasher riman got away to a flying start Reuter. those days they all stood about was his 2.03.3 mile in the Wuchow and won in record time, in spite
12 hands, and many of them were Handicap in which Hydroplane of the classy field and the fact Lincolnshire brought to the track as 4 or 6-(165) Soldfer of Chins (168), and that he is riding at top weight. year-olds, without any prelimin-Prima Donna (157) were unplaced. This race constitutes the first leg art training. Their mouths were Brilliant Star went out at 168 lb. of the "double," hard, and runaways were not in- on that occasion. frequent..
Brilliant Star's third success was Harriman's pony El Dorado bolled in 2.003, Gladiator, also going out Al the start of ・ one race Mr.]in the Lusitano Cup, which he won
clean through the fence, and on at 165 lb., being third.
Prima
His second win was on his own stern battle was fought. pony, named Dempsey, after the 1924 there was fierce competition Eye jibbed at the start and bolted lb.
another occasion his 'mount. Glad Donna was unplaced here at 161
In
for the championship among
An accident in a training gallop Mr. "Ferdie" Soares, Mr. T. W. back to the stable, neither the
0
i champion boxer.
0
D
0
Winner £31
";,
Seven National Horses For £97,000.
Able Amazon (Mr. Butler) and Just That (Mr. Deltz) are the two dangers of the two I like the latter. He has been doing especially, well un- der Mr. Deliz, who formerly Bought for £$1, 108-a price that rode
would not be dear for a good cart Bronze Era, having equalled. Able Amazon's r6-
hors-Mr. M. L. Simon's Play On won the Lincolnshire Handicap, thus de cord for Ave furlongs.
feating the great French coup planned Able Amazon, however, holds with Quartz 11. Toe Dines rode
The fact that Mr. Norman Delta the record for Saturday's sprint perfect race.
is taking out Soldier of China and record, but he is carrying 5'1b, extra
in November 1920 put a stop to Doyle and Mr. Harriman, and it horse nor the rider stopping until Soldier Of China's Challenge Mr. Harriman's racing until 1923, was in this year that Mr. Har contact was made with the stabla ---- 11 11 11 4 When finishing a training gallop riman won the jockey honours, wall, Fortunately no damage was
donc. on St. Anthony he was pushed in- In 1924 Mr. Harriman won the In another race Orient Dahlia not. Soldier of Britain, Note: To Kui Ying ran first in the to the fence and sustained a frac- Aggregate Stakes, securing six bolted round the track twice generally expected, is significant. Spring Handicap, but was disquallA-
wins on Mr. Carrol's Fernleaf. ed, and P. Botelho was disqualike tured thigh.
with Mr. Eric Muller before the The pony's 2824 time
over 11 after running second in the Macho. There was very keen compet! There is a great difference be- start of a race, and then succeed-miles, when carrying 151 Ib, at the Derby Stakes," belk dinqualificatioun | were for crossing, no faull being found tion in those days, and, although tween the present-day China ed in winning by a nose! last Meeting has placed him right with the Jackaya.
the races were like a gymkahnaipony and the China pony of the
(Continued on Page 5)
lin, the running,
1.5. was and is conceding 8 lb. to Just aggregate of £97,000 in the Grand Seven, horses were backed to win an That, who is every bit as his rival, National. The following are the-sums It should be a most interest- the leading candidates "were supposed ing race in which the draw for to win: Golden", Miller" '(winner); position will play no small part. Really True 217,000; Ready Cash £15,000, Dalaneiga: (second) £20,000; (Continued on Page 5) £18,000; and Borley Boy £15,000.
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