TURF TALK FROM THE SOUTH.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 113, 14 May 1902, Page 3

TURF TALK FROM THE SOUTH.

CHRISTCHURCH, Tuesday

The weather on Saturday morning promised none too well for the Christchurch Racing Club's Autumn Meeting, but it deared before noon, and remained fine throughout the afternoon The attendance was larger than usual and the i. acLng was fairly interesting, but the heavy coing contributed materially to upset form foi pmunce, the West Coast representative A'oydos, who was made a snsssf^ss s °J? «;«< ? "Xiy'S, X VrnTlt., was favoured °y LI"- ny, c ... ,■„« mm the auestion ot tigone. Before tne race tne q Ufled Abydos' connection wnn ah trainer was enquired into py _i. ards, with th^ res. U that a^ougn at v stewards accepted he assure amounted to nothing, they had ge trainer removed from the con ■ tQ other horse whom t*« gojnjr app o affect wa* Dunda^- The last Autumn wa p second in demand i a£ter g^VKc'SS bLi covered. per had injured oDfoIM. pa . on latest information he was lam^ accident is a Piece of bad HarriS^f h^ n^gements at Ashburton -d° Du'nefn hfs^nth gety, but though P'»PPOrte«i Dy nections. be. companion Huku h ; s le ss-fancied staDic finished thifd' Ket okoto. both by the Calotype and KOtoKo ftnlgh T . och iel horeßefl '^^atcap to themf„ r the HIJW promising threeselves Bl n \\ P by pprWn Warbeck- IL. year-old colt by J Tuawcli ln the 5f a M n T>£tJ P w*° is rarely bred Maiden Plate. J.£. Apre niont from the taJSFES tlm r are yjus?ice. by Win-resS-wartoo good for the _ Welcome Sfxed the Welter Handicap, beating a large field. . The two tmtting events were accounted for'bv The Orphan and Van Diemen respectively, both of whom are by van Cleve. The Ashburton County Racing Club's Autumn Meeting on Thursday and Friday promises to be a most enjoyable gathering-. Cruciform is announced as a certain starter for the Ashburton County Stakes, a race for' two and three year olds, and she is likely to be accompanied to the scene by her stable companions, Grand Rapid and Siege Gun, the latter of whom is an untried three-year-old full brother to Lancaster. Cruciform. If she starts, must have the stakes at her mercy; but although Rieere Gun Is said to be sound, I scarcely care to trust him for the Ashburton Handicap, in which he is engaged with 7.12. Instead I prefer to rely on Lady Lilian and Huku. Abydos or Bill Perkins may win the Flying Handicap, Mercator or Princess Perkih the C-allon Handicap. Scottish Minstrel or Lapidary the Fairfield Handicap, and Pallas or Magnificent the Grove Farm Handicap.. Recent arrivals at Riccarton are a halfsister to Lady Medallist, which has joined Lewis' team, and a full sister to Roseguard, by "Vanguard—Rosebud, which has gone into Pine's stables. A. local backer had a bit of bad luck over a recent North Island meeting. He wired the secretary of the club £4 to put on a winner which paid a dividend of £30, but unluckily for him the wire reached it<? destination after the race had started. Mr H. Craig, a well-known Otago racing man, in whose colours Buroclydon achieved all his victories, has left on a visit to England.

Among the horses that have recently put in an appearance at Wingatui are Jupiter, Nihilist, and Mosca, The firstnamed will not be fit to race for some months, but Nihilist is well forward in his preparation and'is expected to play a prominent part in the Tradesman's Handicap at Dunedin next week. The Southland Racing Club made a profit of £120 over Its Autumn Meeting., McGinniss, the Dunedin trainer, is breaking two yearlings bred by the Hon. George McLean. Both are by Lord Roslyn. One is a colt out of Mistral, and the other a gelding from Tiara. Mr Carncross, M.H.R. for the Taaerl, who has acted as secretary for the Taieri Amateur Turf Club for some years past, is about to remove to the North Island. The Dunedin Jockey Club have received capital nominations for the minor events to be decided at their May meeting next week. The number exceeds last year's total by twenty. Good reports come to hand concerning Pampero, and for the present I shall rely on the son of St. Clair for the Birthday Handicap.