THE RACING WORLD.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 12, 14 January 1905, Page 6

THE RACING WORLD.

IBY WHALEBONE.) RACING FIXTURES. February 8 and &—Taranakl .T.C. Summer February !> ami 10—Gisborne R.C. Summer February '.' s.nd 11—Canterbury J.C. Summer February !•> and in—Egmout X.c. Slimmer February Hi and 17—Poverty Bay T.C. Annual Otahnhu Trotting Club Summer— February is. 22, aud 27>. February. _■_*. Ll. and 27, — Dunedin J.C. Autumn March L' and " —Wanganul .T.«d Autumn March L ami 4 —Westport J.C. Autnmn Mssr.-li 7 Akaroa County K.C. Annual Mar-ell 11 Walhi J.C. Annual March IS —Northern Walroa X.C- Autumn March 17 aud is—Ohinemuri Jockey Club Annual April 1 and 7 —Avondale J.C. Autumn Mure!: .:<> and April 1— Wellington K.C. ' Autumn A|.i-i! L--'. Ll. 2L—Auckland R.C. Autumn ANSWERS TO COKRESVONDENTS. Wager. The iist <.f winning jockeys lias net been published for a number of years, bet if you can give the exact year required we will endeavour to give the lufurmatiou asked for. Mahut.ong.-i was shipped South by tho Talune to-day. Settling over flic A I!.''. Summer Myelins, has Iwcn very satisfsici ory. Fori li is now a member of j. Thorpe's tcsiiu sit Ellerslie. Nominations fur i In- Poverty Buy Turf Club's meeting clone to-day iSaturdayi. J. Lis Rao hsis had si couple of additional hoses built to his already extensive stables. Sally Homer is for private sab 4 . Fnrtiticuiars arc to be found in our advertising Culumns. Trainers out Ellerslie way arc already Kindling sonic of the yearlings purchased oi tin- rccenl sales. Royal Artillery's brother True Rlue. is it. sire of nine Spec, winucr of the Perth ' din of l_oUsovs. Final payments sirs 4 Luc on Monday for (the Wellington ('up. Wellington Stakes, an 1 Wellesley Stakes. K'aek Reynard. recently purchased by Mr Pugald Thompson, lias gone into ,T. Mailer's Lsiiirl-s in Palmerston North. An effort is tr. In- made to set- another r:i<- t of Cannongnto. and he was put into work again ou Thursday. The colt by Ptroplms Apollo—Bangle, purchased .-ii the List Wellington Park sale by J..hn Thorpe, has been added to the list. Mr E. P. O'Rorke is undecided whether ] to leave ITipstonc iv Anckland to be raced or to fake liitn io England with him and race him Lhere. Te Aroha, who has been indulged in a spell for five or six weeks, is again in work nf Ellerslie. sSho is stM! an inmate ot Frank Macmanemln's si abb-. Kaiiihridgo. the English horseman, had his liisi ride on si colonial horse on Thursday, when he rode t.'nnuongsito slow work at Ellerslie. .1 Melfugh. who lias f-sidy Rose and the cells by Souk —Lady Musket and Swordlish - P.ottty in bis .-arc. is working his charges lv s: paddock close I>. ihe Veterans' Home. The Papakura Pacing club are oul wirh tin programme 'for their annual meeting. ■r r-.-h i> fixed for February 11. Part lonian. an- advertised in another column. j St. Ifsil-p is now sm iiiimite or W. liall'it stable at Green Lane. liiiving been leased i-y si psiiron of Call's from his owner, si Waikato r.-iib-nr. It would occasion \ cry little surprise if R. .T. Mas-on lakes a string of horses to Australia in the autumn to linsj Muhutnngn ss one of the members of the team. Private advices re.-eivod in Auckland F-.ite rh.-u Wairiki is .retting on splendidly, and, all going well in 'he meantime, he will he shipped home sit 'h.e end of March or early in April. Rongoa, who was taken South si few months ago by XI. Franks, won rhe Hurdles anil Welter ai the Kaikoura Racing Club's , .-iTniiis.l meeting. lie was riibleu in both his races by the ex-Auckland lmrseinan, C. Hart. T.usilla. by Hotchkiss— Sr. Mary, who was Pold cheaply at auction in Auckland last November, opened her winning account sit the recent Opuuake lnecllng, winning tbe Final Stakes of tive furlongs. Lunlla was favourite, and won easily. Mr F. Ti. G'Rurke. tbe well known local •sportsman, who is lesiving for England in March, has made a present of Mars to his ©'ri trainer. John Rae. tine of the conditions imposed hy Mr O'Rorke was that the •Id gelding was not in be raced again. A Southern exchange chronicles the death of Mr E. Woods, wbo was well known in ra.-in- circles in rhe Taranaki district. Mr Woods was a successful breeder of racehorses, and amongst rhe number bred by. him may be mentioned lonic. Pyroxyleu, Inglewood. Anstralin;.. and Princess Ina. The Whatav.hatsi Racing Club had a wet day r..r their reecnl meeting, the Ihinl in succession. Some clubs are unlucky in the matter of weather: but ihe West Coast .dull whicli had two line days in succesKlon. tin- lirst experienced for 14 meeting. 4 ', must bold tin- record. It is slated tluil Mr Stead may not unlikely nominate some of his horses for the Anfninn Meetings of ihe Victoria Racing I'lub and Australian Jockey Club. Knight Errant, who was temporarily amiss and could not be taken to Randwick iv the spring, and Man ism arc mentioned ns two likely candidates. Somi'Jii" has written statins that Veneer, half-brother ro Mnbutonga. is a belter horse than Mahuionga-was at the same nge. This is not so. bnt there is no telling what age may do for him. The yearling tilly by San Fran from the same mare should make a line brood marc. for. like h»-r dam. she shows si lot of quality, where ns neither Mnhutouga. nor Veneer would be taken for s-sons of hers, as they are not remarkable for tine quality, being of pTauTer mould. Mr R. W. Patterson, of Wellington, has hud a number of horses racing for several seasons past, but has found them unprofitable, for. though lie has won a number of races, including the Ilawko's Bay Cup with Kingman, lie has not been a lin-Ly owner by any means, considering rhe .amount of rsicing he lias done. Mr Patterson is one of th-- few bookmaker-owners I lint have b.-en racing in southern parts of this island, nnd his horses have invariably been run on their merits. lv another column will be round full particulars of the programme for rhe Summer Meeting of the Otahnhu Trotting Club, the 'hues of which an- tixed for February IS. _C. and 2". The club sire giving away no b-s-s than £1«»15 in stakes, which is an in- «■!■• si-.- of £40 011 la-; year's amount, fine pleasing fejiiure uf ihe programme is the ■ lining down of the lime limit.which should bring about more interesting racing and consequently increased public interest. Non'inations go iv on Friday, :4rd February, sit v p.m.

I At the recent Rangitikei meeting, the I three Prices. W., C, and G.. had rhe I mounts on the three placed horses In the Pnfcenui Welter, finishing in the order named. I Evidently Exmoor is to be tried over I hurdles, as his name figures amongst the I nominations for the hack hurdle events at j the Taranaki Jockey Club's Summer Meet--1 in_. ; Kremlin wasted away a good deal during his Northern trip, and it is said is not at I all a good traveller. He has shown bet- | ter form than he displayed at the A.R.C. 1 Summer Meeting. It is entertaining to read of the consistently in-and-out Cannie Chlel being written of as badly treated in some of his engagements, though perhaps we have seen the best of him. 1 'onvoy's place performances in his recent engagements tinder weights ranging from 'J. 2 to U. 9, are, probably from a weight-carrying point of view, equal to anything he aocofl__ilished this season. Uokaria scored his maiden victory over The small fences ou the first day of the Whangarei Jockey Club"s meeting, when he accounted for tht; hurdler. Hakariu was iv with the minimum of Ost. and the field was a weak one. so there is not much merit attached to the victory. The nominations received by the Tnra- i naki .Toekew Club for their Summer Meeting arc probably a record for the club, i Auckland owners have made a liberal re- j spouse, and no less than Ihirty-thrce local- | owned horses arc nominated, as follow: — General Average. Numa, Marshal Soult. Pelania. Loveilnk, San Paulo. Sergius. Ben Blair. Golden Sands. Noteorini, La Cigale, Engraver. Khuma. Glasgow. Hau_upu, Polures, inuiskillen. Mangamahaki, UaUaria. Ambition, trisli. Mauku. Strathavon. Putty, Idas. Gladstone. Zulcika. Pearl Necklet. Le Beau. Alba Rose, Lady Annie, Millie, aud Seotty. In connection with the suspected "dosing" of the racehorse Aurega during the Northern Wairoa meeting. Mr Hillary, the owner of the horse, received the following communication from Mr Slehr, secretary of the N.W. Racing Club:—"Dear Sir.—The stewards, after hearing your statement and also Mrs Hillary's nnd yonr sou's, feel satisfied that your horse had been tampered with, and sympathises wirh you. but they don't consider that you hsve sufficient proof a .'; evidence 10 cot a eonvictiou at a pod court. Bnt should you be able to ?heer t c action home fo any person, the club w,;i assist you iv bearing the expenses of a prosecution.'' After the last November meeting of th" A.R.C.. when two or three unfortunate accidents which resulted in the death of some of ...ur promising two-year-olds. •' few members of the stewards of the Racing club gave a lot of time and trouble trying to get at the cause of the accidents*. and to do so called a number of trainer.*, jockeys, and officials of the club before them and took a, lot of evidence on the matter. In addition to this they also spent several hours In personally examining the course and surroundings. Tne whole of the evidence, as well as the stewards' recommendations, were forwarded to the committee of the club some time but so far no acknowledgement of the same has been received, nor so far as can be determined have the committee taken any steps- to go Into the matter. Much has been said and written concerning the accident, which hefel Nightfall in the Great Northern Derby, and the stewarris have been severely taken to task fur mil taking steps to inquire into the allegations of foul riding made against Cress (the rislcr of Gladstone in the race), both by Mr Stearl and Hewitt. I hi- ridei of Nightfall. These adverse comments have been keenly felt by the stewards of tin 4 A.R.C, and in conversation with a member of ihsii body, who takes si prominent part in all matters connected with the welfare of raring, he informed mc that hail the stewards had the slightest suspicion that there had been any Interference in tht 4 race .11 had Mr Stead seen tit to have made his complaint to ;he stewards (which as nn official of the Canterbury Jockey Club M;Stead should have known were the proper body to have complained tul. they won d have immediately sat and heard the statrmeiiis of those concerned. As it was. the stewards, who were in an excellent position from the look-out tower on the top of the stewards' stand to view the race. \vre perfectly satisfied that thete was nothing occurred which called for any interference 011 their part, and the first they heard of sinv dissatisfaction expressed by Mr Ste.-.sl i> what appeared in the press on the following morning. That Mr Stead should have taken up the position he has in the matter the stewards .aiiuol understand, and under the circumstances they fail fo ss-e that they have been In any way lax isi the carrying out of thpir duties, which at sill times arc no; of the ple.'isunrest. and which are only made more onerous when they do not receive assisisiuc. 4 from bu-rsi-owiicis. who by virtue of their p.>si»i..n ought to do all in their power to make tinwork of the governing body sts light as possible. WHANGAREI JOCKEY CLUBS j ANNUAL MEETING. (By Telegraph.— u-wu Correspondent.) WHANGAREI. Friday. The opening day of the Whangarel Jockey Club's annual meeting was held turlav. and was si great suoess. The weather was fine and although the attendance was not large, speculation was fairly brisk, the sum of J_.x4'.> being passed through the machines ill 10/ tickets. The day's sport was well conducted by the secretary (Mr R. Demi, everything passing off without a hitch. The later results are:— Whaugarei Cup. —Mr A. 11. Lloyd's b c Sir Gilead. 4yrs. by Gilead—Merry Karc. 'J.(! (Juijani. 1: Mr A. Toomati's b in Bonomlana. 4yrs, 7.7, (.Cotton). 2; Mi A. A. McKeuzie's b g Corporal, aged, &.V2 iGosnell). ::. Calle Iris was scratched. Time, 2.28 •l-,">. Dividend. £'-'• Publicans' Purse Handicap, seven furlongs. -Mr A. Bray's eh in Seatonla. syrs, by Seaton Dflnval—Leocant. D.o (Julian). 1; Mr Harris' 1. g Rainbow, aged. T. 7 (Somweilr. _; Mr D. J.ynoh's eh g Sui/dial. aged, 10.1.1 (Watkin). -I. Time, 1.34 2-. r >. Dividends, £1 14/ and .CI a.'. Railway Handicap. «>ue mile. -Mr A. MrKeuzie's b g Corpoial. aged, 0.7 (McKenzie), 1: Mr M. McLeod's Bras dOr, 4yrs. 7.0 (Searle). -: Mr R. Armitage's b g Lavadel, oyrs. f».."i (Stewart). V,. Time, 1.48 2-5. I Dividend, 15/. Flying Handicap, six furlongs.—Mr A. Tooman's IT" g Bonoininna. hy Soult—Eileen Bawn. S.lO (Cotton), 1; Mr A. Barry's b g Wood-dd, 0.8 (Julian). _: Mr N. Finlayson's eh g Havelock, 7.0 (Gosnelli. .",. Time, 1.'20 2-5. Dividends. £1 At aud $/.