Racing World.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 29, 3 February 1904, Page 3

Racing World.

RACING FIXTURES. February 4—Waiuku B.C. February 10 and 11 -Taranaki .1. February 11 and 12—Glsborne L.C February 13—l'apakuni k.C. February 11 and 13 canterbury J.c. February 17 and 18- Te Arnua J.C February 17 and 18- Lgmont K.C. February 18 and lv—Poverty Kay T.C February 20, 24. and 27—Otahuhu T.C. Febmarv -M — Kotorua J.C. February 24 and 2.0— Woodville D.J.C. February 24. 20, find 27—Dunedin J.C. March 3 and 4—Wanganul J.C. March s—South Auckland R.l . March 7—Thames J.C. March 11 and 12— Waihi J.C. March 13—Corornaudel K.C. March 10 and 17—Stratford K.C. March 17 and IS—Ohinemuri J.C. Sea Lion Ims been entered for the hack races tit Waugatitu. The I'iiinikurri tneelittg takes place en Saturday Week. privileges for the I'apakura meeting are iv be Sold "« i'rhlay.

Nominations for the Waihi meeting go ju'uu I'nda.' . February lilth. Acceptances for th* Te Aroha meeting are due oU February llth. Bookmakers ar p to be licensed at the Taranaki meeting at iO 0/ per day. S"atore has changed bands. The new owner's name has net yet been disclosed. Gladsome is now being talked of as a likely runnel' fur spring '".cuts iv Australia. Mr (' 11, Chavaimes bus been appointed au advisory steward by the Fguiout Kac!:ig Club.

For abusing the V.A.T.C baudieapper. a Victorian owner was lined i.20 by the Mriituue stewards.

Nominations close ~n Friday, February 12tU for the Kotorua, South Auckland, and Thames meetings.

Tangawa! is a name that the owner has been notified must I"- changed. Tbe peiiclllers will noc forget it.

Mr E. J. Watt has sold Spoil to Mr Pharazyn of Walrarapa. and she goes into tile satne Stable With Ciuud lutein.

Acceptances close for Gisborne races on Fridiiv, and oouituatious are due at the a.ime fur several open events.

\t tee Knwakawa races, Peter Simple. P.laircarii-'. Flora. Couia, and I'okaroa tuvke) were the successful ruuuers.

In the list of names of horses engaged at Te Arohu, is that ot LavaleUe, evident|v uiveant for Lavadel. I.avdette Is dead.

Kilmarnock, Eljen, and the yearling colt by Soult from Uoteheriua were snipped to Sydney on Monday by Mr !'. Leslie in the Zealandia.

Tlie Wellington Racing Club intend going iv for alterations to sume of their building and making further improvements to tueir grounds.

The Avondale Jockey CluD, some time ago iieciulred the freehold of property uujoiuiui; their course, and have vow completed the purchase of the whole.

On three occasions only has the same horse won boch the Wellington Cup and Itaciug Club Handicaps the same year. They are Guy Fawkes, Cynisca, and Gladsome.

What a soft thing Gladsome would have had iv the Auckland Cup had she been trained for that particular event! Her owner did not know how good she was thea.

Colonel Brown, of Fiji, who arived in Auckland on Tuesday, brought with him his Sydney bred mare Bother, who is to be raced here, and will be put to cue stuu later on.

The Rotorua Jockey Club have extended the date of receiviug nominations for their Carnival .Me,-tin- to February 12th. The Itotoruu Cup is worth jusovs. There are two ojjcu hurdle events.

A meeting of the committee of the CoroUianUel Haciug Club was held last Thursday, when it was decided to hold a race meeting en St. Patrick's Lay. ana a programme of eight events was arranged.

From Injuries received at the Ohaupo races Mr Scuddamore has lost his raeeljorse Sugtuvaiie, by Freedom from Daphne, fctlgareaiie was full of promise, and Mr Scuutfamore is to be sympathised with in losing tii'a.

The Duchess, w | 1(1 U;lrf |„. W1 imlng unsuccessfully ;ii meetinrs about. Raiigitikei. Mnnawntu, and th.' Wairarapa, is by padlock frcpin Governess, a mare that perforuitii - well In Australia. "Chum" Pearson, at "ne time well known in Auckland us a horseman, came over with her. Several ~r [he niLinci.s at the Takapuna Uieenug huv j dash of the blood of The fainter in their veins. i;,.KI Seal is a graudsun of The Paiutc-r mare bast Chance. Aka Aka a grandson of The Painter marc Mystery, and liippuwul lanotber Jumper) c-laims Th- Paini.-r ujjiv urptiau as hi, QttUl.

Saturday after Satmdav, nags go the various siil.urbu.i curses,'particularly far-1 ourltes. when their owners or trainers have! lot the slightest Intention of starting: Wem. says the •■Rulletln." A compact is entered into with ur n. „,. , nor( . -shops" notorious for dealing in "stiff 'uus." that the Dorse is to tf o |,j u, H course to induce late wagering. Surely the A..1.C. can devise some scheme f l>r coping with this barelaced rubbery. /mall wonder, -ays an exchange, that Inleased f,.,. s fr,,n, N.S.W "books" tire diked ~f „h..,i 'tis ~,,,,.,1 , hat . al 113 re- ,!'.',- , mi -'' u »g. W.A. Turf Club gathered *-'00 t,,,,,, ~J at ~,„,.,.,.. g ra „rt s taud riiig-j »*'• suiiDllcd C 74 lo . a.el outsiders £37 '•' each. These hum- charges and tote •fP« s '«l..h ...■!withstanding, the b',ok 3 arc; said to bur, dune w.-ll " S:, - v - i.•.■ "Bulletin:" "The £50.000 put urou»!, ,i„. ~,,,. ~, ~,,. ..,„.,.„, j> er th meet"B 's '.iithiied as ;. record for the machine hi the Commonwealth. Twenty years ago a tbr-e days meeting in Adelaide saw £40,IW put through the machine, then In its etnhrye stacc; and In Maoriland. a five any meeting, with eight events a day on the card, ofi-ii sees a j.r.n.uun tigiuc reachM But tlie bookmaker has 1 n killed on M-L. courses, not in.-r.iv bled." "The Hulli'tln" | 3 wr.mg in saving we have live day meetings. T | u ,,.,, ~,.,, ol|lv tW(J ~|u bs , hu , Bo 'rl meeting* extending over four days, • n «l the heaviest speculation of the year "Res place over these v lings, bookmak"s being i„ U rh in evidence.

Nominations for the Stratford meeting close on February Sth.

.Sally I'ort will likely give a good account of herself iv the Taranaki Cup with her lia.ndy impost.

The totalizator turnover on Friday at Takupttna was £'-i.A more than on the corresponding day k*.st year, but on Saturduv tbere was r. big falling-off, as only £7598 was passed through as against £8798 last year—a "shortage of £1206, or for the two days £871.

A welcome rain in on Monday morning, tend did some good to the surroundings of the Elk-rslie racecourse.

Tradewkid will go into F. Matmanemin's stable after Taranaki meeting.

Treadmill, Gladsome, and a number of others still remain in the New Zealand St. Leger.

Te Aroha handicaps are due on The Ctu. Good nominations have been received.

Waiuku races to-morrow. A steamer leaves Onehunga at 8 a.m.

The official time for the Takapuna J.C. Handicap was returned at 2m us, but private watches made it longer by more than 2sec.

That good ponies can hold their own with big horses ou the Takapuna course has been amply demonstrated frequently. Tbe turns don't trouble them so much.

Moifaa, the Great Northern Steeplechase winner, is expected to run this season iv English cross-country events.

The Special Commissioner of the "Sportsman" .said recently that Qttarryman. who is out of a Trenton mare, was the best three-year-old in New Zealand.

Liss.t, who won both hurdle races at the Pahiatua meeting, is owned by Mr Jerry Braooviteh, who was a spirited bidder for yearlings at the Wellington Park sale three years ago.

Spalpeen, by Gossoon, seems to be tbe best hurdle race horse in New Zealand jtut now (says a Sydney paper).

When the time. 2m SJs. was hoisted on the board at Takapuna after the mile and a quarter handicap won by Annoyed, those who know tbe course and have never known of better than 2m II 3-."s being done there in a race shook their beads, and privato watches were consulted. Abundant evidence was forthcoming that th" raiv occupied longer by over Usee. Under tbe circum stances, will the official time be accepted for future reference purposes?

Some whose knowledge of racing usages is limited, and whose sense of jusrice°iu such matters is not comm°ndable. were found arguing against allowing luchcape's rider to be weighed with the weights that had been seeh by scores of people slip from that gelding's back after the finish of the hurdle race at Takapuna. It was pleasing to see the stewards do the right thing. We will suppose that tbe rider of Khaina had come off after passing the post. Would the same people have objected to his jockey being weighed iv? Perhaps they might have done. Some people will quibble over anything-. Khama's win was very popular, and Hall rode a fine race on him. as did Hart on luchcape. On Saturday the lastnamed, who has done all his race riding over obstacles on Inehcape. rode that gelding- nicely in the Steeplechase.

A racing judge writing in "Badminton Magazine," emphasizes the uncertainty of anyone but the man in the box picking the winner iv a close finish. Angles spoil judgment of spectators, and even these riding in a race cannot tell exactly where the winning post is. Jockey George Fordham kuew this difficulty, and invited a doubted to run gently, or even walk, up the middle c.f the course and try to put a stick in the ground exactly in a line with the two posts. Every time the stick wap a long way out. and subsequent experimenters have obtained the same result. In Englaud there Is said to be one dead heat ln every Ou races.

A serious accident befel James Scobie, the jKcpular Ballarat trainer, on Saturday. He was thrown out of his buggy through the reins attached to the horse, which be was driving, breaking, and the animal bolting. Scobie had both his collar bone and his thigh broken, and did not regain consciousness until Sunday morning. It will, of course, be weeks before he is able to get about again—very bad luck for him. seeing that the autumu racing at Catilfield, Flemington, and Randwlek is within measurable distance. There is a valuable lot of horses In his stable at Miner's Rest' at the present time. Including F.J.A., Sweet Nell, Cmlr. tsyivnrme, anu Paul Pry, not to mention Tlemos, Class, Hautnnve, United States, Fairy States, Annotate, Aurleulus, Royal Oak. and Pliable.— "Referee," January 27th.

The Taranaki .Tor-key Club's Second Summer Meeting takes place on February lotli it ii ii llth. The acceptances for the various events fell due ou Monday There are nine left in the (.'up. Tradewlnd's name appeared through mistake Both the top-weight Convoy anil Romeo are Included. Of the pair we have to judge their form through other horses, and Ihe best line to take is through Gladsome, whom they have each Ip.m-ii defeated by. Borneo (8.1) failed to concede Gladsome (7.0) Olbs lv Uie Summer Cup. Ii miles, at the A.R.C. Meeting. His connections were disappointed and his rider considered him unlucky In the race. Romeo iS.th won the Auckland R.C. Handicap. 1J miles, by live lengths from a fair held. Convoy was handicapped to receive l;;lbs from Gladsome, but, carrying lOlbs h's*. was second to That Ully in the Wellington Cup. 15 miles, and second the next day, carrying 181b.s less than the filly over a mile and a-quarter. which is supposed to be Convoy's favour!' c distance. Gladsome was admitted to be in rare form at Elierstle, but may have been even fitter at Wellington. 1 think it will be admitted that Romeo was susceptible of improvement, and his public form looked better than that of Convoy. It must be allowed that his owner has nothing to complain of at his treatment, through that gelding. Gladsome on th.- day she received Olbs from him. woiild have had no show had she been asked to concede lSlbs instead, as she did lo Convoy at Wellington In the R.C. Handicap. In that .ace, however, she was a bit luckr. Both lit and well. Romeo is iikelv to beat Convoy lv a true run race, aud ou their public showings Ghoorka. with a horseman who can hold him. should have a good chance with Convoy at a difference of U'Jlbs. looking at Manawatu as well as Wellington form. Ghoorka, however, Is not a good stayer at best, and Romeo will give hini 171l>« unless he shapes better than he did at Wellington. Tradewind at his best would have an outside chance, but his name has appeared as an acceptor in mistake. Mara, as fit as he was ln the VYanganui Cup, would have a show, but recent form, although lit is now going well on the tracks at Ellerslie, does not point to him beating Romeo. Heroism, for the reason that he is one of the sort that time would have assisted, may have a chance. Ma-o Is useful and consistent, but has a c-otivract to tax his full capabilities, and Liable, though he may be improved on Raiigitikei form, is another that may be Just a bit outclassed Tupaxa has so far not shown any form of note to reeomnieud him, though lie may run well A filly like Sally Port, bred on' racing lines, with only 0.10 to carry. may trouble the bean: of them If she goes fit to the post. Shrapnel has only to be well to j;*ve a good account of himself in the events in which he engaged, but may want racing into form. Trying to get him ready for the New Zealand Cup knocked him out of time. He r»a a fair race, however, in October last ln the Wellington Handicap, and shorter distances should be in his line.

Nominations for tbe Kotorua meeting close on Friday, February oth. Victor Cotton rode Annoyed a la Sloan when she won the Takapuna J.C. Handicap. ' t '^%J >o « y turned out in pink condition oy vv. fcmith, who deserves the bit of luck ™? ~( ' lm e ? ,a way ou Saturday. Armored thin P f ° D ." "* Taka l JU »» Cap. and |t|>^Unr^ n ?- aa T s^\ b r t^

TURF TALK FROM THE SOUTH. (By Teiegraph.-'-Star" Reporter.; Ai,„. , CnRI STCHURCH, Tuesday. or M ra C tV n r ee e d arV a o U '§"2 Saturda >' n * ht Old not lasfufore thfn D n a ' fP i UO h rnlng ' Tt while it fell it p.! ' , n few hours, but « result the tracks ut^i,?, \ eavi,y ' As hi; d ma r« H?^--^ is looking wonderfully well Sh» t. ii.i ' kept go to|f Wlth H y Ti^ J ' We £ b Dnned.n or the Wanganni Cup, in which ever the weights suit her. wuicn-

In the absence of Gladsome from the i tuet will have to be reckoned with although the distance is too far for him at WeUington ° ne ° f hS *<***

Magnificent has started to come on at We.nH may r , nu better th »nTe Z at Wellington, and Terrapin ha* only to reproduce his Dest form to be dangerous

De la Rey failed badly in the Wellington Cup. and on the form shown in that face has httie chance of beating Caunie Chiel He may, however, run better at: H?ecarton than he did at the Hutt. "ictarton

Sir Geo. Clifford holds a stron°- hind in the Filly Stakes, with Tessera and Qhrisels. but yuickfire has shown a bit i>f form in nil her engagements, and Aello an improved three-year-old, is wonderfully well treated. J

The minor events have filled well, and although the Middle Park Plate may be regarded as a foregone conclusion for Mr Stead, there is ample material tor an enjoyable meeting.

Unfortunately for Mr Bead. Gladsome has few classic engagements beyond the New Zealand St. Lege- and the*riawke's Bay Stakes. He will have to rely on handicaps for bis filly, lie talks of sending her across to Sydney next spring to try to emulate Cruclfortn's brilliant performances at the Australian Jockey Club's sprint meeting.

Treadmill has picked up rapidly since his return home, and is now looking and moving iv his best form. It Is a pity that the sou of Bill of Portland if sucha difficult colt to wind up.

a "ah?"' '" Aynsley ' s sUU>le - has gone amiss

Lolah is looking rather light, and in need of a rest.

Sunstroke, the Phoebus Apollo two-year-old in Cutts' stable, has been lame lately, and is taking things easy.

t l \ « reported that Boris is coming South to mini bis engagement iv tbe Mlddlepark Flate. x\s. however, he has not been entered for any of the other races at the C.J.C. Midsummer meeting. I am inclined to doubt the story, and still bopc it is true. The presence of an outsider will infuse a little more interest into the race.

Mr Iteid has decided not to persevere with Rosella. and the daughter of Seaton Lelaval has joiuetl the Canowie stud.

Lady Lilliau and Welbeck have taken up their quarters at tbe seaside, and are being treated to swimming exercise.

G. Matbew. who formerly trained for Mr Reid, has joined J. Lewis' stable.

The jockey T. Fine has retired from Cutts' employ.

Mnskburn. who has been under treatmeut for his feet, is almost sound again, the latter, noticeable at the Cup meeting.

Old Goldspur won the chief race at the Tapanui (Otago) meeting last week.

The Stepniak gelding Kremlin has won seven consecutive races in Otago this season.

The Chrlstcharch and Dunedin bookmakers were heavily hit over Ballarat's victory at the Wellington meeting. CANTERBURY JOCKEY CLUB. The following handicaps have been declared:— Hornbv Welter.—Blazer 10.8, Secret Society "10.3, Lee Enfield 9.12. Djin Djin 97, Count of Kolmar 9.7, Kremlin 9.7, Flower o' Clutha 9.2, Narcissus 8.13. Nell Gwynne 8.12, BUI Perkins 8.12. Clanburn B.JI. Stepdaucer 8.11, Speenlate 8.11. Muscaburn 8.10. Sandy 8.9, Ability 8.8. ordinance 8 3 Cerise and Blue 8.3, Antigone 8 2 Ragabrash 8.10. Natalie 8.0, Reliance 80 Rosiphele 8.0. Cannouite 8.0, St. Roua i^. a lytteltcm B :Malako ff 5.13. Tessera 8.0, Zetland 8.2, Quickfire 7.2, Chrysels ..0, S °Cru™ n. %to Handicap.-Windwhistle 9'i Blazer 8.1:5, Golden Vein 8.0, Secret T lla^e!r Ull VVcd\er.--Kati,erine Gordon 115 Roscommon 11.3. Stepdaucer 11.-, Bin ftrklSTu.U. Fairy Rose. 10.1 L Mustoburn 1„10 Reliance 10.3, Rosiphele 9 13, Bayo vet 9.7. Poacher 9.0, Steelspur 9.0.