RACING FIXTURES.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 173, 22 July 1903, Page 6

RACING FIXTURES.

j&agnst 11, 13 and 15— N.Z. Grand National November 7—C.J.C. Metropolitan (New Zealand Cup) » jKor'-west, Svho is in his eleventh year, fcext to Orient, is the oldest "chaser that lias won the Wellington Steeplechase. ■ r At a meeting of the "Waverly-Waitotara (Racing Club held a couple of weeks since, Mr G. Morse was appointed Uaudlcapper, In place of Mr Henrys resigned. Jack o'Lautern has made a fair recovery ! since the Napier Park meeting at Wangaaiui, where he is trained, and may go to ".Canterbury for the National meeting. <~ Taranaki, the half brother to Kaimato, Sumped well at Wellington, but did not display any great dush of pace, though lie ha"s occasionally done so In private. 1 Nor'-west was shipped back to Auckland to-day from Wellington, from which it can bo inferred that he will not take on the iNew Zealand Grand National meeting. ! The owner of Highlow, Mr D. Craig, of aiahaia, on Sunday received a bail raj. Ifroni that gelding, who ran away with i and finally bucked him off on a metal 1 froad. • . 'A number of horses were offered by auction on the course on the last day of the Wellington Meeting, but failed to find bow towners. Boko and Kaloo. both winners, Svere offered. Hautapu (late Meteor) Wne were {shipped by the Tarawera to AueSland from [Wellington on Monday. St. Olgu wus slapped by the Wainui, and went by-way of Kelson on Sunday. '!A New Zealand Cup candidate that has fcoen greatly benefited by his spell is BingSian, who badly wanted the rest ho lias bad Ringmnn is doing half pace woik at the Hutt. The son of Castor has not yet •been mentioned in connection with Liip fcetting. : 'Ard Patrick's victory in the Eclipse Stakes over Sceptre, and subsequent sale for £20,000, are matters that interest New •Zealanders, seeing that we have a good Weal of the same biood in this colony Aid (Patrick is of the No. 5 family, and comes of the same line as Florence McCarthy, ;who gave us Tirailleur. r The Wellington Racing Club, despite a fcoor meeting in the spring of the year, have had a successful season, the Summer,Autumn, and Winter Meetings having reSuited ao much better financially than the corresponding meetings of last season that losses over the Spring Meeting were toore than made up. G Watts broke his collarbone when Rags dislodged him in the Final Hurdle race at the Wellington Racing Club s meeting on Saturday. Watts has had a similar experience four times. Dan Moiugan had his collarbone broken also when Sultana fell with him on the second day of the meeting; and A. Hall ha£ ins,shoulttet badly bruised when Scallywag toppled over. During the 19 years the Wellington iR C. Steplechase has been run for, only two horses have won carrying over li.o, the weight Nor*-west succeeded under on Thursday. Plain Bill won in 1900 carrying 12.6, and Denbigh in 1880, with 11.0. Horses carrying between 10.0 and 10.10 Lave won nine times, and between J.U nnd 10.0 eight times. ' nayuii will journey on to Canterbury Irom Wellington. Battleaxe nud Tupara «o on to tbe N.Z. Grand National Meeting this wwiU from Wellington. Sandy iwas sent home to Taranaki on Monday, in Company with Silver Star, Durable, Maro, Taranaki, Waiwera, and Commonwealth. Most of the Napier visitors returned on the same day. C Jenkins has fiuished up the racing fceuson with 85 wins, the largest number any horseman has put together in this colony. Last year he was on top witU Oi twinning rides, and the year before that, when he spent three mouths in Australia, be had 30. lie has been riding for eleven years, and no horseman in this country nas a liner average of winning; and place * achievements. Next to Jenkins, H. Donovan of Canterbury, stands out and must have won about CO times during Uμ* year. Weights for the leading events of the New Zealand Grand National meet ng made their appearance this morning, and with fifty in the Winter Cup, tv»ent> XSt in the New Zealand Grand National Hurdles, and thirty five in tbe Steepg chase, it may be expected that the acceptances next Friday will be large. J. expect at least thirteen to be paid up for in the -big cross country event, about twenty in the Hurdle Race, and not far short of thirty in the Winter Cup Mr Henrys will have cause to be satistied should his work result in an acceptance of half. Nearly all the best horses engaged are in commission, and there will be a large muster of North Island as usual, and prospects look bright for a successful meeting. Reminiscences in the life of a jockey. IThey were talking of old times, when a now prominent jockey related how, when only a novice, he was tola by the owner of a horse to ride a losing race, and after b hard and exciting finish, got his mount Jiome by a head, to the great surprise and annoyance of the owner, who had backed something else. Questioned as to why too had not" obeyed instructions, he to)a nig ninster that before leaving home he Siad been instructed by the master's wife to do his best and win a race with the iiorse, and had promised to do so, and on KOlug to the starting post, had weighed the matter out in his mind, and elected to go straight. It was this way, he said, 1 could always get a sixpence for a packet of cigarettes on Saturday night from her, and a shilling of pocket money now and then but the boss never gave me a bean.