TURF GOSSIP.

Auckland Star, Volume XVII, Issue 286, 4 December 1886, Page 4

TURF GOSSIP.

[By Himona.]

The Auckland Cup and Steeplechase acceptances and late turf items will be found in another portion of this is3ue.

For once in a way " form " triumphed at the Takapuna meeting on Saturday, and those backers who followed it must have been on good terms with themselves at the conclusion of tho afternoon's racing. Tho meeting' waa certainly ono of tho most enjoyable of the many gatherings that have taken place on the course, and the way nil of the officials worked throughout the afternoon was really a pattern to outside Clubs.

Lovers of a good mare will regret to hear that Necklace's racing career is at an end. After her work on Saturday morning lust one of her forelegs showed symptoms of severe lameness, and an .examination on Monday showed she had hopelestly broken down, aud that it would be useless for Chwile to persevere with her any longer. During the time the daughter of Musket has been 03 the turf, she has proved honei one or the fastest and gamest bits of stuff that tho colony hae produced, but by soruu moans or other something always turned up to pul; hoy out of annexing one of tho big New Zealand handicaps The p*rty behind Necklace were rather sweet on her ohanse for the Auckland Cup, and it is pretty certain that had Chaafe succeeded in bringing hor to the po3t in her last season'ii form, f-ho would have playod a prominent part in the equine fray. I am told that King Cole is to ba selected to mate with Necklace.

When Guy Fawkes' half-brother Silvio first made his appearauco this season I prophecied that it would not bo lonß ere a good race was recorded to in« credit, aud this he verilied in the Takapuna Steoplochnse on Saturday by showing his opponents a clean pair of heels throughout tho journey. The little horse will never shine under heavy weights, but his pace-and great staying powora will enable him to place many more good jumping races to his credit. Silvio'd trainer was by no means sweet oo hid chance for Saturday's event,and badid not even put a ticket on him in the totaliautor.but I was glad to hear that his owners did not iet him slip, and I understand they had something like a "fiver" on between them. The great pace that the race waa run in told on Belle at the finish, and although she struggled on gamely to the last, she waa never able to get on terms with Silvio. There were some who were of opinion that Kae lav a bit too far out of it iv the early part of the journey, but for myself I don't think that lie ever rode a bettor race.

The Hen. B. Mitchelson'a three-year old coit Must Kose and the two year-old colt Whakawai were shipped to Melbourne by the s.s.-Te Anau on Wednesday. They go into Mr W. B. Dakic's hands.

Messrs Duder Broa.' Kate (the dam of Belle) dropped a filly to Ingomar two or three days ago. In connection with Kate there ia a bit of history attached to her which may not be known to the majority of my readers. It appears that several years ago one of her owners and a friend were on a pleasure vielt to the Hot Lakes district, and being in want, of a horee to ride back to Auckland on, pickect the mare up for something like ±'0 or £7. Her new owner, finding that she possessed a bit of pace, raced her in several small local races at the North Shore, which she had no difficulty in winning, and suoaequently she was put to Mangle, t ; ie first of her progeny being Nigger, who on several occasions has proved tnat he possesses a good turn of speed. Marquis was another of Kate's progeuy, and she n\ torwards visited MusKet, when the brilliant jumper Belle was the result of the uniOD, but the following year Kato mis3ed to the defunct son of Toxopholite, and I under etacd on two other occasions she missed to King Quail and Leolinus. The Messrs Duder have rather a nice-looking three-year-old filly by Anteroa out of Kate, named Bosie, that has only been recently taken in hand, and she has every appearance of being a good one. It ia a pity that Kate s pedigree ia not known, but it is easily eeen that ehe is thoroughbred, and a nicer looking brood maro one could not wish to look over. *he only thing that Kate'a owners knoiv about her career previous to coming into their hands was that she was driven from Poverty Bay to Whakatano at the time of the great Maori massacre.

Mr A. Snider has returned to New Zealand from Melbourne, and is following his old occupation of laying the odds. The Dunedin papers state that on bis arrival there a large crowd of old friends mustered at Court's Hotel to welcome him.

There were one or two horses that ran at the Takapuna Jockey Club Meeting on Saturday that will repay watching for coming events. . Among them 13 Guy Fawkes' full brother Omata, and the way he ahaped in the Steeplechase shows that the greenness he exhibited in the Open Sleeplo chase at the Pakuranga Hunt Club Moat-' ing is wearing off, and his trainer has evidently been treating him to some schooling exercise. I was also taken with the three-year-old ally Jessie (full sister to Louie), and when she gets a bit more condition she should reward her owner by winning a race or two.

Yatterina (dam of Matchlock, Kingfieb, .Fusilier, and Libeller) has this season produced a coltto Torpedo. Mr Walters tells mo that he intends putting Slander, daily •xpected to foal, to Nordenfeldt.

"Sir Launcelot" selects Nel?on, Waitiri, Disowned, Cloge, Victoria. Rivulet, Mystery, and Victory to supply the Auckland Cup winner. For the Steeplechase, he is partial to the chances of Petei' Osbeck, Belle, Guy Fawkes, and Macaroni. Mr P. Butler has purchased the crack Southern hurdle race*r Master Agnes, for £150, and Mr D. O'Brien, who was the lessee of Peter Osbeck from Mr G. Batherford, haa purchased the grey son of Perkin Warbeck outright

' Says a Napier papor :— On. dit that the Hon. W. Robinson has offered £300 and a third of his winnings for half share in Pacha to take him to Melbourne, to' compete for the great autumn prize of the sister colony.

The recent Wagga Wagga Meeting seems to have unearthed a really good colt in Mr P. Hann'a Invermay, a three year old son of The Drummer and Waratah (the dam of that gay deceiver Maori). In addition to rompiDg home for the Cup, on the second day of the meeting Invermay secured the Derby from Tamarisk, and later on in the afternoon ran second to Paladin in the Grand Stand Handicap, while he njn a dead heat for first honours in the Ladies' Bracelet. Invermay is engaged in both the A.J.C. andV.RC. St Legers to be decided in the autumn. He waa bred by Mr A, Town at Hobartville, and at hia annual sale of yearlings was purchased by Mr A. Beneon for 65 guineas. That gentleman sold the colt to Mr P Harm, the present owner, for a larger sum. The first race run by the son of The Drummer was in the Richmond Stakes, won by Acme; His previous pc? formancea are fairly good, including the following wins:—Two-year old Handicap, at Albury; Shorts and Flying Handicap, Murrumbidgee Turf Club Autumn Meeting ; Railway Handicap, Karandara Winter Meeting.

' Judging from the running at the late V.R.C. Meeting (writes "Augur") the Champion Stakes promises to be r duced to a match botween Tridont and Trenton, with the odds greatly in favour of the three-year-old. The youngster has the advantage in every way, and, should nothing happen between this and the eventful day, he will go to the post quite as hot a favourite as Martini-Henry did when he cut such an inglorious figure.

A curious incident is related in connection with the victory of Ben Bolt at Caulfield, whore the three lessees of the animal who had given £250 for a year's rental of him won £40,000. On the morning of the races one of the lessees received by pest from a friend in Queensland a perforated threepenny bit, which had belonged in succession to two persons, each of whom had been shipwrecked and had escaped from drowning. The coin was attached by its recipient to the martingale of Bod Bolt before starting for the race, and the horse won.

Trenton's deeds at the V.R.C. Spring Meeting have not been looked on too lightly by the- New South Wales handicapper Mr J. A. Scarr, for in the AJ.C rSummer Cup.lJ naile.he lias awarded the son of Muaket lOst. For TattersaU's Cup, 2 miles, fee U asked to carry Oat 121b, and in the-Carrington Stakes lOst. Since Trenton's •jreturn to llandwick, Lamond has been working him left-handed, so that it would appear he is to receive a special preparation for the Champion Race, run in March xiext.