NEWS AND NOTES.

NZ Truth, Issue 59, 4 August 1906, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES.

Delaware is m work again at Plemington. ;■ . Last Wednesday was the birthday of all horses- ' Mr Rutherford gave 500 'guineas for Stronghold. Windy, will be shipped to India m a fey weed's time. . Solution is doing pottering work on the RgMwick tracks. The NjiZi Cup this year will be run on Saturday, November 3. The Gaulfielcl Grand National Hurdlft race' will be run to-da-The'-^ustTralian- horse Boabdil . has arrived safe and sound m India. W. Dav/ies returned from a business trip . tp ; Wanganui last Saturday. It if stated that Multifid will make the trip to Sydney at an early date. Abyity.: has gone wront* • and will not ;be seen out .at the National meeting. . ;. ..Thire iare no New Zealand horses engffgSa 'in either of the Nationals at Cauffield. .Gep. 'Price rode . Cairngorm m the bi^AJiandicap at Warwick Farm on Julfl^tli. VMr^JK::'' Brown has presented his trainee, Higgott, with the aged gelding/ Talune. "Kief new owner of Cuneform is. Mr Harvey Patterson, a Melbourne .sportsman. Mr Henrys has been reappointed handicapper to the Dunedin and Ashb^urton Clubs. .' F. .Lind rode Kuroki when the New jZealander was out at Warwick Farm ■a fortnight ago. '■ The Hon. Geo. McLean's Escopeta, idam of Armamento, is m foal to the !Australian sire Simile. The double Irish and Cuiragno was backed lor a lot of money last week for the National double. Mahutonga has arrived at Randiwiick and is training there m view' of his A.J.C. engagements. The new owner of Melodeon is Mr J. Brennan, owner of Pendant, and the price paid was 500 guineas, j Jos. .Prosser leaves next week for Riocarton and is taking Maui, Gold Crown, Makuri, and Ailsa with him. \ Gingal, a son of Carbine, won the i^t. George's Stakes, of 2,000 soys., at the Liverpool meeting on Thursdhji- last. iJ. O'Driscoll passed through Wellington last 'Wednesday, and the old battler Wahvera accompanied him to Riccarton. •At the handy weight of 10.12, The Shamrock should take a power of settling m the Caulfield G.N. Hurdle j Race to-day.

IF. Kiggott leaves next Thursday for !me scene of the Grand National and U; taking Hydrant, Mocassin and To.gds with him. \ Great surprise was expressed when it was found that Hautapu had not accepted m either of the big events at Riccarton. Equiform, who was purchased by D. J. Price from Mr G. G. Stead for a Melbourne owner, is being treated to a long spell. F. Lind will arrive m Wellington on Wednesday next and then go on to Riccarton to ride Eurus m the G.N. Steeplechase.Notus is reported to be doing good work at Wingatui. and the Hon. Geo. McLean's horse is expected to win a &ood race this season. i Old Haydn has been allowed to • forfeit his Riccarton engagements and ! we have probably seen the last of the old chaser on the tracks. The N.Z. horse, Starshoot, was backed for a. lot of money m the Rosehill Handicap but he was very dirty at the post and ran badly. The sum of £10,000 was voted towards the relief of the sufferers of the San Francisco earthquake and fire by the American Jockey Club. The Grand National Steeplechase m connection with the Victorian Amateur Turf .Club's meeting will be decided at Caulfield next Saturday. Tim Howard, who rode Inniskillen to victory m the Grand National Steeplechase last year ? will have the mount on Kiatere m this year's race. After the first acceptance 29 horses remain in' the Winter Cup, and it looks as if the field. this year will be the largest that has ever taken part m the race. Ernie Stevenson is getting rid of all his horses. Seamoon, the full sister, to Seahorse, was recently sold tb Mr E. R. White, of Merton, N.S. W.. for 250 guineas. Kuroki was beaten again m i\ie Hurdles at Canterbury Park last Saturday, and it looks now as if the New Zealander will be brought back without winning a race. The Ellerslie trainer J. Thorpe leaves oh Monday for Sydney, taking with him the two two-year-olds Canro'het and Hierairch, also the pony So-, noma, who will be offered for sale m Sydney. There is some doubt as to whether T. Williams will be able to accom-pa-nv The Swimmer and Putty to Sydney, and if he is unable to they will be placed m charge of Frank McGrath. The popula:: Feilding sport, Mr A. Dunbar, has generously offered to present a mounted whip to the rider of the winner of the first classical event m Feilding, -to be run m November next. A cablegram from Sydney states that Solution and Jim Dorset are equal favorites for the Epsom Handicap at 10 to 1. The latter is a good sort of four-year-old and showed winning form at Rosehill last month. I have to acknowledge the receipt of Messrs Barnett and Grant's "Form at. a Glance." The booklet is as usual full of information, and the publishers will be pleased to post it to anyone on receipt of their name and address. Writing me of a gallop recently performed by Waiwera, a New Plymouth friend says that iii is quiite on the cards j that the old horse will, repeat his performance of 1903 when he won the G.N. Hurdle Rice with 11.4 on his back. That great horse, Nonette, was allowed to .20 dirt cheap m Melbourne, only realising; 450 <mineas. His new home will be m Queensland and he will be used by Mr F. Fairbairn as a station sire. What a pity such' a great horse did not , get a chance at a ,good stud. At Flemington, early m the month, the N.Z. Jockey Hewitt had the mount on a mare called Pallindrome m the July Handicap. -He. won the race but was disqualified for foul ridimr. and Melbourne papers assert that he was very lucky not to have been put out for a few months. They don't allow the boj's to be dealt with m Melbourne. For a breach of engagement with A. Bennett to ride Bombastes m the Grand National Steeplechase on Saturday, F. W. Allan, was ordered by the V.R.C. stewards to pay the jockey £10, the amount of a losing mount. At the Canterbury Park meeting on Saturday last the big" handicap/ was won by Starshoot. The winner was favorite, starting at 2 to 1, so evidently his connections had a good win. Probably the winner was ridden by G. Price, unless he got down to ride Cairngorm, on whom he was successful three weeks ago. Fred Dunn, who rode Wakeful m the majority of her races, died m the Melbourne Hospital at the end of last week from an attack of pneumonia, and was buried on Sunday. He was little more than a lad at the time of his death, but, like many another jockey, his success did not conduce to his longevity, and he set too warm a pace to last. The owner of Solution has been'advised by letter that his mare arrived safely- at' Sydney after a splendid passage. She was stripped at Randwick a couple "of mornings after her arrival and a iarge crowd gathered round to inspect her. Already the ridiculous price of 8 to i is being accepted about her, but the owner states that so far he has not a shilling invested on her arid is not sure yet what she will start m. Mr Henrys, the C.J.C. hanriicappea 1 , has every reason to be prou'u of hi? work m connection with the National Steeplechase and Hurdle race. Twen-ty-six horses were weighted m the Steeplechase and nineteen have accepted. In the Hurdles forty-one horses had imposts alloted them and the owners of twenty-two of them have signified their satisfaction with the hadicappers work. Probably the fields this year will be the largest that have- yet contested the race. According to Westralian jockeys presently riding m S 'Africa, matters are none too good i-n Boerland, though there is every indication of a good time coming. Losing fees are set down at £3 35.. of which 3s is alienated by the clubs for the task of collecting the amount. Figures' "Uoted do not make S'African owners out to be any way generous m. the way of payments for winning rides, notwithstanding that the stakes are good. Winning races m Westralia appear to be far more profitable than winnin- races among the Chows on the Rand.

One of the most imptident hoaxes that have been put up on any section of the public for a long time was perpetrated m connection with the. V.R.C. Races last month. In the Footscray Steeplechase, Error was the winner, but a telephone attendant on the course wired the name of Blue Jacket to the Universal Press Agency, which is the source m Melbourne from which the various beiiting shops m the metropolis and suburbs derive their information. This boy, Victor Lobb, held out stoutly all the week, up to Thursday, that he had telephoned the correct result, but Detective White, of the Postal Department, caused him to own up, under pressure, that he had sent Blue Jacket. This impudent piece of business caused several of the tote shops to va,r out on Blue Jacket, while confusion was caused m other miarters by the hoax, which is generally supposed to have been instigated by an ex-post official, who has been arrested and will be charged with conspiracy to nfefraud.