1940-09-13 — Page 14

Friday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH – September 13, 1940.

"Captain Foster's

Racing Review

RE-COMMENCEMENT AT HAPPY VALLEY

Heavy Over-Subscription for New SEPTEMBER MEETING AT MACAO

Australian Ponies Craigavad May Secure Hongkong St. Leger

WE COME to what nows there is at Happy Valley; the best item being that we are to go on racing with no curtailment of anything and it therefore augurs well for 1941's prosperity.

The list of race fixtures under the auspices of the Hongkong Jockey Club for next season shows that the Annual Carnival week of five days of racing will com- mence on February 15, (terminating on the following Saturday), and there are in addition the usual 13 extra race meetings.

The drawing of the new batch | of Australian subscription grif- finx for 1941's racing has not as yet been announced, but there is reason to believe that it will take place within a fortnight's time. However, it is learned from n good source that the subscrip- tion list (restricted to 125 grif- Ans) has been heavily over- subscribed, and there is no doubt that many new owners will be left in the lurch.

The consignment was serumpanied by a few horsebreakers from the Antipodes, and it was certainly a grand treat to watch these Austro- lian hoops exercising the during the early mornings,

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The Derby Jinx

SOME FATE seemed to have beset Mr. Eric Moller's two Derby winners (Silkylight and Satinlight), for both of them were sent to the happy hamt-

Ing gronds on secount of colle

It will be recalled that afte it most exciting ding-dong race in the Hongkong Derby run un February

1. Sathilight just managed to beat Burford by half length 17 record time of two minutes 60% over a distance of 11⁄2 miler, but the latter gut his revenge in the Chan- piena Stakes.

SELECTIONS FOR SUNDAY Ma Kau Shek Handicap

My selections are as follows:

MA KAU SHEK HANDICAP (FIRST SECTION)

Good Morning

Radium Stor tekka

PARK KAP CHOW HANDICAP

Double Chance

Jack O'Lantern Plain View

MA KAU SEEK HANDICAP (SECOND SECTION)

Moe's Adventure Gallant Marshal New Bedford

Goscombe-O'Sullivan Cup

MA LAU CHOW HANDICAP

Fairy Au

Merry Fatly

Victory Life

STEWARDS' CUP

Hogmanay

Fairy Onset Rothesay Bay

TAI SAM DAR HANDICAP

Black Diamond Cuban Love Sports Venture

NON-EUROPEANS BARRED FROM BOWLS TOURNEY

Committee's Decision Arouses Indignation

IT SEEMS INCREDIBLE that at a time like this and in

Should Provide The

Best

Competition

VERY SATISFACTORY ENTRIES have been received for the September Race Meeting of the Macao Jockey Club to be held at Areia Preta on Sunday, this being their first Meet after the recess. The opening event will be run at 3.00

p.m.

Excepting the "D" class event with only four nomin- ations, the field for the other five contests will be above the average and the best will be seen in the two sections of "E" class China ponies.

Opening Event

Ten Best Sprinters In Ma Kau Shek Handicap

THE opening event will be the

Ma Kau Shek Handicap

+

Special Cash Sweep

In concetion with the Stewards' - Cup, which the adider, event on thecaril;; a spealdi · dollar

sweep limited to 50,000 lekeld is being run, and the firiť prive, I understand, will be over $10,000,

"Y" Aquatics

QUARTER-MILE CHAMPIONSHIP FOR L. A. BENN W. S. Gegg Wins Close Breast-Stroke Race

IN THE ASSENCE of G. T. May, who in on the injured list L.A. Benn had a comfortable win in the quarter. mile free-style event at the Euro- chestnut is another equine to-day. pean YALO.A. swimming champion- Sunshine Suste does not appear to ships last night, G. Arnold, who have summered well and I doubt she was second, was', uiable to offer will make the excursion trip. Rose'serious opposition and was over half Day is looking fit, but it is rumoured

a minute behind.

The 100 yards breast-stroke raco was the clorest race of the evening. W. S. Gega and M. Quickendon fought a thrilling duel. Gegg, nude, use of the "butterfly" stroke, and

that he will not accept.

Ma Lan Chow H'cap

(first section) for "E" cluas Fairy Auk's Opportunity though he gained an early lead, ht

was very nearly beaten on the post when he tired over the last length,

The results were;.

50 yards. Goldman (20 2/3: 2 1. Eardley '{fo 4/5); 3. M. "Quickendon 3/5) 2, N. Mcqueen

Bay! 109 yards is 3. D. Lang. G. Saunders $75 400 yards-1. L. A. Bern (630 2/6):

29-Arnold (6.51 4/8); 1 d. Thompson

China ponies and the handicap-

To Make Amends per has assigned ten best aprin- ters to this division. The run in

FAIRY AUX, who has more over five furlongs and the scram- breakdowns than a cheap alarms 5/5) ble looks open.

clock, has cost the public a big Desert Star. the winner of 1038

weighted sum of money and he has a good Valley Stakes, is nicely with only 140 lbs., but this chest chance on Sunday to atone for nut has seen his best days and should his incessant failures. he pass the past first, I will certainly Hopeful Time will have his first oufing in a new company, but I am afraid that the prospects of his being among the first three are certainly not hopeful,

a sporta function where the vaunted and long accepted While on the subject, iwu mure creed has always been that there should be no rank or Winners did not last long and they i were Sir Victor Sassoon's Happy Eve raco discrimination, the Committee conducting the (1037) and Mr Eu Tong-ren's Rose: Goscombe-O'Sullivan lawn bowls shield competition There were a good few allent and umid ones coupled with the squea–

this year should smugly announce that the competition raise my topee. Der p to capture the Hong- Jer, but the most difficult of all to

'this year is open only to Europeans. deaf was the sulky creatures who re-kung Derby? fused to move an inch, while there were Al

buckers. The

soverut

Elect (1939;

The non-appearance of Burford on golden patience, in which the latter of training has forced me to nose in

the course since the commencement | was handled by the Australian lada, was a wonderful display of "good and it seems that the connections temper" without the use of the whip, do not hold out much hope of start- and it did not take them very longing the champion pony in the Hong- to quiet down the sulky ones. Tokong St. Leger on November 10. day, they are as quiet as lambs,

If appearances count for anything, there are several amart youngsters worth having, and though it is ton soon to say much, taking everything in the balance, 1 an sure they wil provide good racing.

Second Half

The bay stallion is on the walk-

Ing list and the gossip is that Bur-

which we all regret to hear.

L. J. SILVA AND

J. F. V. RIBEIRO IN

is

PAIRS SEMI-FINAL

ford is affected with skin-disease. Needham & Brooksbank taking part but who had no hand over half mile, Tim (the winner)

The pressing of Sutinlight coupled with the absence of Burford should bring Craigavad well to the fore us the best stayer in the Hongkong St. Leger and I look to me that Mrs. Taggart's prospects of capturing the big classic are very rosy.

ET us return to the second half racing season, because

************ it opens next Saturday. Of the

most wed by Mr T K L is looking remaining classics, the important ones are the October extremely well.

Handicap. Double Tenth Plate, Week-End Gallopa Hongkong Griffins Cup, Freman- de St. Leger, Hongkong St.THERE have not been

many fasİ

The pony started six times this season and it is to be hoped that Fairy Auk will break the sequence by registering his first win for Mre. Gellion In the Mn Lau Chow Han-

China dicap for "Y" class

ponies over six furlongs.

Strong opposition is sure to come from Merry Fatty and Victory Life.

The Stewards' Cup

|| (7.11 4/9).

100 yards breaststroke, W. B' GOLE (3 3/5); 2. M. Quickendon (83 4)5).

give this meeting' a miés. He has not authèred too well and the owner la probably not going to take any chances.

The pony has been asked to carry 180 lbs. In the Stewards Cup, which is the main event, and the run is

mile.

over a

In his absence Meadow Eve (the winner of the Governor's Cup pro

Needless to say that among the non-European bowlers of the Government Departments there

THE POSSIDLES a highly incensed feeling,

EKKO and Good Morning have They, however, are not alone in DER

nover raced in this section; the their indignation for they have latter is well keyed for the scramble. the support and sympathy of When they clashed in the Hark Shanghai 4 And Meadow sented by the late Governary should

(first section)

be the pick, but this grey is also most of the European bowlers Sha Wan Handicap

Eve Doubtful

under a cloud and the prospects of ww In receipt of eight pounds of

weighing out are romote. Overwhelmed 39-9 in the arrangement of this year's lead from the second pony, Radiura WHILE WRITING this I have

the Or

remaining nominations competition.

Star, whereas en Sunday they are to not as yet been able to get a Hogmanay is undoubtedly the best battle on level temps. On the book L. J. SILVA and J. F. V. It is certainly a situation an-

given to an with Fairy Ousel and Rothesay racebook, but I was Radium Star is a good speedy mer. chant Dver Ribeiro became the first couple precedented and most distaste-

short distances and he understand that Shanghai 4 will Bay for the minor placings. Last Event the favourites. be racing under new colours and in the Open Pairs lawn bowls ful in the annals of Hongkong'e should be one of

Last Tuesday Dow-Jones was Mr. G. W. Cooper is the new IN the last event, the Tai Sam Bar championship to enter the semi- lawn bowls history.

exercising with a heavy finnnel, but

Handicap for "X" class China panies finals when they trounced C. F. As # result of the ruling. the I am inclined to believe that the owner. Needham and A. Brooksbank Harbour Department withdrew their grey is still on the fat side and in

flowever his last acting was a over six turlongs, Black Diamond,

Love fourth in the Wan Chal | Cuban poor

and Sports Venture the circumstances I do not fancy him 39-9 at the Kowloon Bowling rink from the competition, while the

intended CS.O., who had

entering for a place.

Stakes run on May 5, and there is should cross the bar, in the order.I Green Club yesterday.

two teams "A" and "B", have Dow My best three are Good Morning. a possibility that Shanghal 4 will have named: only one,

Delo and Radium Stor. King'a Worthy is good for big money.

The Recrema pair were undisputedly the superior Three 5's testined to that, and though it might have bren gallops over the week-end, but that with the position so hopeless on Leger, St. Andrew's Stakes and there were few polished perfor- the 18th head, when the scores were the two Autumn Champions for mances run on Wednesday. Among 28-9 the losers relaxed, nevertheless, Australian and China ponies.

the Australian pontes Connieber over those last four heads, the win- covered a mile in 1.55 romping home ners clatined no less than 14 shuts Autumn Champions

with 28% reconds for the last quar- Of the ter and this was the best. W WITH Burford out of the road, I China class Victoria took 2.12 over cannot at present figure any a mile while the stable companion thing to beat Confusion Eny in the Humdrum Eve registered 1.37 over Autumn Champions over 1 miles, six furlongs. Fireworks will be seen) and the bay gelding which is now to-morrow morning.

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Scores were;

J. Kilva and

C. F. Needham d

F. V. Ribetro

A. Brooksbank

Singles Matches

Non-Europenas have participated In the competition before, and the

new autocratie ruling seems beyond Park Kap Chow 'cap

reason,

in for the shot, Overy was equally consistent in his bowling, and the match went is 28 heads, the final meore being 21-14 for Ward.

Only Four "D" Entries

OWING to the fact that "D" class China ponies are well pro- vided with contests at the com- 2 anding meeting of the Hongkong maintained his lead until the 7th Jockey Club, and also on both head when the score was 5-4. On

Ward commenced will

the 8th Overy registered the highest days of the Double Tenth Carni- score of the match a 3-but by the val, the Park Kap Chow Handi- 12th end scores were level 8-all cap has not been able to attract From then onwards, however, Ward more than four "D" class raters. had the slightest of advantages, and

Being a short jaunt over half mile, was never led again.

it is more than certain that all will Overy final time of being on make the trip and the order of finish equal terms was when the score wus should be Double Chance, Jack 11-all on the 17th end, but even O'Lantern, Plain View and Fe! Ying. to as late as the 25th end, when Double Chance has summered well Overy scored a single, the margin and furthermore the dun loves the was only 3 shots, the score being Macon course.

17-14 in Ward's favour.

Another single on the 20th for Ward put hir 4 shots in the lead, and the game was more or Jess ended when on the following end

APART from a 3 and 2 scored, by jhe drew for and scored' = -2. II. Overy and four 2's · scored" by W. Ward, the match between these two in the First Round of the Singles

EARLIER RESULTS

At Kowloon Football Club on Wed-

Championship at the Kowloon 1.G.Cnesday C. G. Silva beat V. Atleaza lant night was very close. Thơugh 2159 and A. E. Contes beat T. Coleman Ward was shle on most heads to edge 21-16.

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Ma Kau Shek H'cap

(Second Section)

A GOOD FIGHT should be seen in the second section of Ma Kau Shek Handicap for "F” class China ponies over five fur- longs. Gallant Marshol and New Bedford head the list of handicaps while Old Fashioned, Persian Cat and The Spirit of; St. Louis are at the bottom of the ladder.

On the strength of his fine per- formance in his last outing New Bedford has plenty of lead to shoul- rier and no doubt the "young shover". F. A. Sequelra will And the opposi- tion strong.

Gallant Marabal is, in my estima- tlon, the most dangerous contender, and the moke is in ne fettle.

Mad's Adventure has the bad habl of letting one down for no earthly reason, but I fancy him to win, and my Масло Informant tells me that the fron gray is hard | to beal.

OUTSIDER

To upset the applecart I would re- commend punters to back King's Envoy. I was much impressed with hia running in the Hark Sha Wan Handicap (second section) when he finished third, behind New, Bedford' and Mac's Adventure, and, the liver

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