SPORTING NOTES.

Star (Christchurch), 6 February 1903, Page 1

SPORTING NOTES.

•» Stra,thnaiin ia to be given a epell till next season. A two-year-old brother to Halberdier is in training at Haiwera. A half-sister to Advance, by Rangipuhi, is in work at Wanganui. , Mr D. O'Brien has & fine- foal at Isew Ply- : mouth, by Multiform— Heriot. F. Tilly, of Wanganui, trained the winners of six races at the i'otfion meeting. The Sydney light-weight, W. H. Smith, rode three wmuer3 at Rosehill on Jan. 17. . Mr C. O'Connor has been appointed) starter ] to the Horowhenua Hack Jttacing Club. Zeus a recent two-year-old winner inj Victoria, is a 'half-brother, by Hova, to War God. An English inquirer after Abundance was met with the reply that his price was 6Soogs, The eight horses left in I'he Egmont Hack Sires' Produce Stakes represent as many sires. Th« imported stallion Kin'gsky, by Sterling — Hypatia, died suddenly in New South Waie3 recently. The Victorian trainer, J. E. Brewer, will leave, for England at the clo3e of the autumn campaign. Levanter finished second in the CkweT .SteepJecha.Ee Handicap, at "Windsor, at the end of December. At the Calcutta meeting bookmakers have to pay jC26'a day to bet, and the club also has the benefit of the totalisator. ■ Prior to running unplaced in the Viceroy's Cup, Kecord Reign won the Trial Stakes of a mile at the same meeting. Up to date Advance has won £6695 in stakes. Of this amount he captured £3251 as a three-year-old and JE2774 as a four-year-old. Good accounts have been (received from England of the Australian-bred mar© Nip'hetos. She is expected to sun well next season. Gilnockie, who ran unsuccessfully at Takapuna last week, is a son of Gipsy King. His previous efforts had) been in faack company. , Sirius has, so far, proved a good investment for H. Goodman, who has won several races in Otago with tae son of Dreadnought. Irwell, a three-year-old' in the same stable as Wakeful, came in for a lot of support for the Newmarket Handicap before the weights were declared.. The Grafton colt in M'Ginness's stable is galloping well at Wingatui. He is a. very big one, and may not <be seen 1 to advantage till next season. The English-bred foorae- St Ambrose was among the barters, at Caulfield) recency. He is not yet ready for racing, but he created a favourable impression. Mr A. A. M'Master's mare, Irene, dam of Tsaxitsa and Petrovn/a, has foaled a fullbrothei to those two mares, and visits Stepnaak again this season. Airlock, 'by Lochiel— Fiancee, winner of a two-year-old race at Rosehill, New South Wales, is well spoken of. She is a full-sister to Ghoorka, in the Porirua stable. The Victorian jumper Auber, the property of Mr S. Miller, made his first mistake at a jump when he fell and broke his neck in a hurdle race at Caulfieid on Jan. 17. The disqualification of T. E. Arnfield, who wa3 placed under 'the ban in connection with tie famous Parthemopaeus case, has beta removed' by the Victoria Racing Club. New Zealand sires hßve been keeping up their reputation in Australia of late. Hova, ' Russley, Escutcheon and Zalinski were represented by winners in one week last month. Statistics for the year's, racing in Belgium have baon compiled. Added money to the extent of £66,880 has been distributed among winning owners during the 127 days devoted to racing during' the season of 1902. JA Melbourne writer, in dealing with the Newmarket Handicap and Australian Cup weights, thinks the handicappers of the present day. adhere too slavishly to public fozm, and give no play to their own opinions. Captain Scott, who married 1 the widow of Mr Jam©B White, of Kirkham Stud' fame, is expected back in New South Wales again shortly. He is bringing an English jockey wrch him, and intends taking up racing m the CommonweaHh. . . . The famous sire Pilgrim's Progress, together with eight mares,. seven yearlings and fourteen foals* sired by that horse, comprise the lots which will be disposed of next month in Melbourne at the clearing sale of. Mr W. M'Cujloch's breeding gtj{d., v . ' : ,•_..-, o- ••'." ->■■ .; 33iere i wijl'be a dearth of gflod thiee^yearolds. for ithe Australian autumn ' campaign! Strata Florida is not in commission, Abundance looks far from being in form, and now comes word lihat Brakpan will . probably have to be given a. spell. The new betting laws have effectually put a stop to shop betting in Adelaide. With a fine of £20 hanging over them if found on premises suspected of being kept for betting purposes, a large proportion of backers wiil not risk going into th*- shops It is stated that the stewards of the Wellington Racing. CM), with the co-operation, of the trustees controlling the racecourse v at the Hu'fct, are renewing proceedings in Ji'he Supreme Court, with a view of excluding undesiraible persons from t!he course. Australian writers have a good word for Scottish King, a two-year-old by Wallace— Boanie Rosette, and consequently full-brother to Kinglike and 'Bonnie Ghiel. He is in the same stable as Wakeful, and is looked on as likely to furnish into a fine three-year-old. The scale of jockeys' fees has been revised by the National Hunt Committee of England. In future the fees will be, in steeplechases and hurdle races of the value of £100 or more, 10 guineas for a win and 5 guineas for. a loss; in all other races 5 guineas for a win and 3 guineas for a loas. .The Australian horse -.' Carrara, sold a couple of. seasons ago, to go to India, has turned out a crack hurdle racer. At the recent meeting at Calcutta, Carrara won three hurdle races in succession, beating in one of them Strathroy, who was a very smart performer on the flat in Australia. A well-known owner of French racehorses his fled' from France, owing to the revelations' which 'have been made in the latesn. Turf scandal. Knowing that his substitution of three English horses for those which he entered for racc-3 must now. come, before the Judge d'lnstruction, he has "quitted." When 'the last mail left England, «n action, in which S. Loates was suing Sir Bhindell Maipl* for his retaining fee, tvp.s to have come on for hearing in t'foe Law Courts. Loates met; with a bad accident last year, which, pre : vented him. riding any more during the season, . and it is understood thie action arises out of that.. From one point of view the result of the Calcutta Cup is unique, as never before have the placings been filled by, -three newly-landed horses. It may also be remarked that, with the winner bred in America, owned by an Armenian, drained by an Englishman, and ridden by an Australian, there was a distinctly cosmopolitan character about it. News has been received from India that the Coooh Behai Cup, .decided . at . Calcutta on Boxing Day, was won By the .South American horse Vasto, winner of the Viceroy's Cup, whidh waa run two days earlier. Acetine, who finished third in that race, wa's second, and Record' Reign, who . wras favourite for the Viceroy's Cup, but failed to gain a place, was third. In the /bar pariouT of a sporting pub they were discussing ilhe . subject of the various complaints which fatally affect horses. .Kidney troubles, nasal disease, strangles, and 'bot flies toad ajl had their turn, wihedi one man said, "I fcaow what's killed more of my horses than anything else I" f'Wot's that, Bob?" asked the main sitting next to him. " Handicappers," replied Bob decisively. Jack Keen, an American trainer, whose homo is in old' Kentucky, ia back, after a | higiuy-suooessful -season in the la nd^ of the I Czar. Asked what the outlook is in that part of the world, Keen said 1 : "If a -skilled American Ihorso trailer is looking only to making money like & Chinaman that cornea to this country, Russia, is the greatest lawd in. tho worLd for him to follow this profession." There is a boom irf Home racing company shares in England. In. London, last month •forty £5 abates in Keropton. Park arealised £30 each, five I £20 original shares in the Epsoln GTand Sbjnd Association- £60 each, 25 new "• thirds " (£6 13s 4d) in, the same company £20 and £19 15s eaoh, 20 fully paid £10 shares in Sariidown Park £13 las each, ■, &w& 750 - fully paid £1 shares in Hurst Park 48s and 47s €d each. ' ■ ■ ■ ' >■ \ The .starter at the. .Charters Towers (Q.) meeting on- Boxing Day had anything but a pleaaanb time, says an exchange. He made a bad start early in the day, and when 'in the lass race he was unlucky enough to. leave the favourite at the barrier,, the crowd got very demonstrative. When "i<he starter got into his buggy to drive heme,. a hooting crowd followed him for some distance, and only for the police he .would have probably, come, in, for a; rough handling. : Some of -the Amerioa-n saving clubs ,axe going in for big stakes at fufruire meetings. At St Louis irexi year there vrill 'be a £10,000 handicap for three-year-olds and upwards, the distance being a mile and) ■» quarter. The second horse is to receive £1200 and i!be" third £400 out of the Btake. According to an exchange, a special effort, will- ibe made to secure an :€>ntry from the King of England, and it is said ' that it is proibable the St: Louis- Fair Association .will Bend, *n agent to England to wori up interest in . tlte big «v«tot, :; ;!;.