THE Racing World.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 138, 10 June 1905, Page 11

THE Racing World.

By ' -Whalebone."

' 1 — ] 1 ™ 1 j RACING FIXTURES. ! s j : - j June 3. 7, acd K>—Auckland E.C. Great Nortkern Steeplechase " 1 June 21 and 22-Uawkes Bay J.C. Winter i ? June 23 and 29—Napier Park R.C. Winter : f ; July 0 and T—Gisborne K.C. Wiatcr i>: 1 i The- market showed that it was little sup- j - I posed that Mami.-i would beat Jack o j - 1 Lantern iv the Hurstburc= Stakes at Stock-! . bridge In ISSiJ. f-»r thr- l>ettiug w;is 0 to 1 i .>rt .lack o' anil 10 to 1 ""h:ir one." - " I Manila was the property <-f Tom Jennings. I I j jun.. ;iud lv- said to his friend Tom Cau-| ; uoa before the r:u-i- — "i can't t-ll jou how to ridi- her. Do, I what you rhink best. On [>apt.-r Ja,ik o" | Lantern is surt- to beat you.' Tom t.'antloii i)ondrred for a mcuieut. j "If you cau't win on paper, the thing is ■ togetbw :i false run race." he presently oh- ' served, "Yon know, they can h:'at yon at live fi:rlo!i;rs: sre ifv.vou c;in l»»-at rneiii aii I we. ' i li came off. for when Mamia challenged! ■ Jack o' Lantern, who had cut out the work' ut a slow pace. »Ue had him in tronble opil \ posit? the stand, aud vcou by three quar- ,. ters of a lenirtu. ■I ileu who are accustomed to ride racej horses Iv th«'ir gallops are. of course. - j famiiiar with the movement achieved when c ;l liorst\ while striding out. "changes his o ! legs." Some do this very quickly, and it i does not seem to appreciably affect their • ! speed: while others cannot do it so clevere I ly, and do not always jrive their rider a I jj I j>"iP:is.-int '"feel." i The other mornins :i young nobleman J ■ visited n trainer's st::b!es to look at some - ' horses, and to "Tide r>nt." He greatly fani- : cipfl liis own ability a> a jockey (entirely p without reasom. and tnld the lad after' , jfhc lirM winter that_liejwd rtddw with; - '^-v?e\ir , a I nrt t hpw"i]W The jjoj>p -n wjrji ||| .[.rlM IIOIIJIIJ «in| Ir—t'l) li' 11U Hie' replied tli«> nobleman. »- ; "l»:nji>-. 11.- always tiis leg^-"* c ! "Great I v.'i Fir lie VOflltT change , j tin iv," Siiid thf tniiinr. devoutiy. "for ! rither tend." : H d• An English writer says:—Perhaps uc ,1 I Jockey of uur time «»t.t iiia-if? pro-! , j digfouK efTorts to baulk the onward pro-j 'gross of NatUte developments than Fred.* c I Webb. i g I Artsr he seitli-d down at Xfwniarte:. t v I bis Ion?; walks In't-aiiie a frequent tujiic of I conrei-s.-ition. From Newmarket to Oam-j '* bridge and back ws his usual stroll, and at| y uo jounging jjin-e iliti he travel either. For some time be had Feed. Jeffery as, ' a companion, and subsequently the late. Fred. Barrett used to accompany him on j '- It is "out ;-i ii r l lioiDi* * jonrDi i ys. 1. As often rs not. howerer. Fred pur- i c sued his walk alone, which, of coarse, on j Had poor Fred. Archer adopted this mc- - thod of wasting—tlit! only natural method. n j afier all said and done—he might bare- .; been ali\e vow. ; • r j Webb served his apprenticeship with good j o j o!d Matthew Duwsnu. nmi ha it was who] j really tauaht Fred. Archer the art of rare! J rilling, and the late great jockey cooJdi j nut have modelled his seat in the saddle j p' on better lines. i ' Wrbb had a splendid reach, aud rode; lm j with his h!-a«1 well as his huD'ls anil r- i I<-(rs. What a tremendous tinis h that was ~ j fw-tween the two Preds—Webb and ArI cbrr—on Hampton and (Jlendale respect-: ;1 " r\-ely fer tbe N'orthnml>erl.-ir.d Plate. ir After pnllins up and turning ronnd fo ,f ; return to the paddrx-k Archer said. "I tbiric, ,r ! r rp w,>n ;1 b °3d "f n neck." "I think yoa i I did." answered the elder jockey, but the I it iusrunt Archer caught sight of tue s number l«oard. and s.il«l. "No. yon're beaten mc. Kred. I shouldn't havp thought it." No more did hundreds of the spectators r who were nearest the winning post. ! t : t j That good all-round Kportsman. Mr <;eo. ,f Hodirson. writes soinethius interesting in j connection with the life of the late Mr Geo. ; Mnleaster. the ('umberland trainer. Muls j casfpr started as a trainer in the seventies. 't at Easton lark. in Suffolk, where he had , charge of the then Dnke of Hamilton's stnd of steeplechasers, which incladed the crack •• racing hniitrT of the day. The Bear. This p home had been so highly tried that the trainer hail assured his noUie master that success on a certain occasion was only a ; - question of The Bear standing up, but the ;, goiMl thins, vrirh Marsh mow til? King's j trainer! ridinir. failed to materialise, to the ' ! dissusT of the owner and ilisu-ouifiture of - j the trainer, who was satisfied the form was £ j wroug and prorprf it to be so in a subsequent trial at home. On the horse's next appearauce iv public Mnlcaster"s confidence was not shaken, though the resnit. with the same jockey up. was as disastrons as be- - fore. Asain was The Bear taken hoiae anil it j tested so well that the Dnke sarcastically g ! remarked that a horse of sneh excellence ! should nt>t He kept at Eastern, but at Newe j market, ami instructed Muleaster to send 4 j him to Blantou. who trained his Grace's j : flat racers, and who will be remembereii as | ! the trainer and part owner of Itobert the " J Devil. The bear was therefore seat tn d NcK-market. and arrivei! there in Blucton's 4 rempornry absence. "What is that?" in- j quired the genial Charles at eveuing stables. c "The Bear, sir." replied the lad who had •t brought him fro»n Eastrm. "Then yon can r I take him home.'" said Blanton. "for I don't j I want any hnnters in my stable." The ' s Bear was then returned to Mnlcastcr. who l. beggpd to be allowed ro ride him himself I; on his next pnblic appearance, and the re- ' j quest granted, the private form of ! the bnrse and Mnlcaster's judgment were S- I vindicated l>y a win. The horse's previixis k failures, however, had created some sorel_ J ness, and after Mulcaster had justified himI he resisnfd his post and went to Burgh- ! 1_ I by-Sands, in Cumberland, where lie comd niemed as a public trainer and achieved ._ , many successes. This resignation was [ Marsh's opportunity, for the latter took i " i over the Imke's horses ar.'l started that >- J career a-" a trainer which has carried him lt ;in the top of his profession. The connpe- | tion between the Pufce of Hamilton aud j I Mulcaster Tvas happily nnt severed, for j is j rhrre were freorently three or for.r of his , v . Grace's horses at Burgh, nnd p;-obab!y one . j of the proudest days of "'Old George's" life ls i was at Sandown Park in Aprii. IST«>. when, dI on the same afternoon, he vron the Mami- ■ motli Hunters' Steeplechase with the Duke . ' of Hamilton'n Weatherwitch and the Inter- , ! iiatioual Steeplechase viitli Mr Rutherford's I y I M.r. c i -^—— "Vigilant" in the London "Sportsm.'in" I>eiis t!ie following:—There are some good I judges who tulnk that JCutbush was abso- ,] : lutc-ly the fastest animal for half a mile * . lh::t the Turf !ias ever known. Her first '- ■ appearance in pnblic was for a race in rt ! which she was entered u> lie sold for £&J". ~ • Her weight was 4st K)!b. She was not I hacked, and ran accordingly. Clearly she • T I wa.s being got ready for the Portland Plate >i I at Donc&stPr to which at that period twof. j year-nkls were admitted, and in a tield of I '.V she started second f.tvonritp at S to 1. ™ I Tv/fi-ycar-olds were lirst and third, but she ■d I jvas not one of them, and in a.l likelihood I- j dirt not get off. After this sbe won four i races '"off the reel." It vras in the autumn lof her three-year-old career, however, that ? - j she achieved her great fame. "I think I m i have stopped her this time." said Admiral I Rous, when be put lOst 4!b on her threei year-old back, and made her give nearly ls I 3st to old horses in a handicap at Newy- J market: bnt he had not. Fordham got well jl ! away with her. and won by a le-ngth frt):u ! Lord Stamford's Lava, who was carrying '" K4lb less. Karlier in the day Lava had won -- a go<id race. Nlltbush began her briliianc if career that autumn hy L-nrd Stamford's r-elelirated filly. L-ittte Lady, in a ' match for £500, and so gand was tjir- match ! i-onslderetl IUaT tlie betting was even. Next It , day. In a handicap for which she carried ~ ; Sst lL'lh. she won easily, giving Little Lady ' SIV more than she had done in the mr.teh. II I A tew days later s*fce gave lC"b to the flyin ', ing Flesper. and beat him easily. Ijttle le ; !-idy, this time in receipt of 12!b. not being I placed. What a gorel thing the match must c ~ i have beent Loru Stamford theu had a cpri tain amount of revenge, as Nutbush. in tryi( j ing to give Blackrock. who was a smart ! two-year-old. 3st. was beaten by a head. Blackrock, we may remark, having not lons to I 1-efore beaten a Beld of good horses. Xot^ o\ ' tmish haviag made light of lOt-t 4!t>. as stat- _+ I ed abovp. Mr lieorge Payne, determined t>. ■ s?e whether it was possible n> -jpr :<> t!i»-

I horse of her nwn a;». mat--hed Gshard-ne. with whom In- had woa focr Thar season, against her fer £2>*"J. t* I carry 9st 4!b and Gabardine Orx. The rfj suit was the samp as in the r.iier nn-es, : Xntbnsh. with Fordhain on her hack, ener- ; ing :i clever victory. This EizO six riei lories ont of seven races, asd Th»- «r»-niA !as £f"«I .-is a victory. The lnir-ii she- na I againsi Gabardine wa* her last apjsearano jin public. At thf stud she was no: «!:t»v-iJt 1 a sccct-ss. hnt her daughter. Haziedean. distinguished herself 2* d«in of Kennee*;*. • who was the host animal I>'T>l j ever owned. i --Tlse chief .-au**- why twy* do not .ret ■on and b-.»cuine J.ickpr* is that rb-y half ju i ambition." s=" writes "I»ani:r" Maher ■ i:i the May ""Badminton.'" j "To be a z';otl jo-.-key yon warn a Iβ! •.>? ■ amliirioii." ije adds. "Boys ;«rl wur ! For the Srst f~w wr»ts rie;i ■ they so into a stable rhfcy urr- perhaps j keen to laake a success. r«» groir icta j joc-ieys. Nothing iia;-jJcD=. they j ntOit likeiy have iio sensible frl*isd !•» ! a-avise them and fce*-p them nji fo t&e mark. us I had itn uai-le to advise and help mc, and so They go t>a frora week tv weft and mouth aad aevw advance tiicmseires. Ambition is the nrst necessity."' Maher thinks Rock Sand tbe best horse he was ever on. 'though it most aot be fotgottea that lie has ridden Prrtty Po!sjr— tn=: only occasion on which sb* -was bear? a —in France. To his mind, hoover. Ro--fc Sand must sure.? b* oae «f the garaest hursts that ever stood on four legs. He did a troincndons lot of wort, and always had a bad lot of le?s ;o rto it «a. j "It was rheumsucs. we suppose, that be j snffefed from. He always nari tfcar hol>b!ey sort nf action when he fiist ■■ame OBI» but b.- -oi>a warnied i-p. and h-s ra<-*s j speak for themselves. In mnn r.f them Bj t.ad to tuafef in* own runriinf; lint ia iiij I last race. t'.-e Jockey , st^fcg^jobg if'Tr'T ,, "" 7 ! ™* " a s lL but r?ai!.r_lliat jusi m»-_«r» |- » - j»» /J utm mi iioiimr nk m«. "rhenjrh I jaaU i*> <etnMdfc him. aod '•r-t-*- T ■w-»«" 1 * -iiTTJ wS "_sa mv whip. B«-for«- I hit a nors? I aJwaTj try what 'tipping' him— fijr-kias at fiia'i bit. rou know—will d-x and maa-.- fc«rsj>*. j if yon fe«»i> on tipplas th»ai. -k-jJ] »o i»eri.-r I ilian if yon bit tiwm. Xh»T carl Tip if tiipy air bit hard, and lak? the tippia-ir '2i a stron? him that thej- mast <!«> Ui-ii J Maber liiiak* Ihe ESgUft jlri«- ""prellT, .lud :11l rifht when you are soius s'.ow!" i But short slirmi>s art- n-ant»l Tor nev [ ri.Jin^. : "Arrhor w.in a irt-niendous 'ot of races. I I know the say si. and rrrr liki-iy another i Archer, if there were un» who roa»» a= w»ll I and ie the aae <tr:e. wuniil w:a a lot ; now: but norhing woaid erer iaduf-e mc t« • i-bange. \oa hare better ha'aacc aad beii !or control of your hnrse—a sreat auay . people think j-oa' havea'f, bnt you hare. i Ridinj short you jet a sert of Vre-aja ! asaiust your irons, and that ;iw ™a mo% i £>».wcr." •Rapier." in tin- ••.Sportin- aad Drsunat* .?*»r"'- ?a^s: — A frieod. «he bnows more of MoKaa th«n anrone e!se. rcrr ii-.--i.i-stnds mc the most laterestiii : letter. It wl!i be gathered that the wrii»? is connected with the "As yon were not a: the Liverpool. I am aaßas Ton a line r« MotTaa, berore the !a*t Graial National i< qnit- forgotten. Of i-<?or<e I I wished to see the t to iTapottat'ons first i and sevoad—iiotoin- less: Seabors- li. Mooted lianl-a? naiis. Moifit, despite rej dn.-ed niano and tail. looked r»rr litht ia I ius clothes, but bright ia hU "\« -> hi* preparation, and the jockey. a"l sorts «f rnmonrs flew. la answer tc 'mj- qnerr * ; ebreord Newmarkel man. who Jsad backed Motfaa .:t Sandown. sa!d. -The o'd hors«- ---■ n.-.s that fhauie - ihere be Sis j Ucgers). -He has been bolting three moreI L ns ' a , week -' He snipped the [ boi-se I remember to hare been: and ta» j Maoris train thria light oceasiosail-r! The j eocrse was fast and rhe fences easier thsa rear (effect of outcry). Moifaa lay j well up a≤ previously, faltered SO yarde or so before the water, jumped it clean, landed heavllj-. and was -stone cold" ax the road wiiere last year he led on the Insid? with the race apparently we':! won. • The poor eUI chap, though treaWjs * rat. went to Becher's. where iw> .'plfr/, sheer exhaustion. Eetnmiag he n< as dry as a b-jne. wita coat on .end lite a. dead animal. The -btautlfnJ LloonT wa» ?«"•■ The Natarors are a rerr enrioas fsmiiy indeed. Had Hir-key. Pape and his late owner not known them welt th<» horse would out hiTe won tht I!*M Lfr*rpnol. iloifaa. wh-» a great, affectionate tiaby. has been a pet all his life. Xo doubt Ue went u< Npwmarfcct a* a m<>?ber"> hoT to school, and fretted baoJy. I can i-uaz'-'i' , him missing Inge's gentle hands aad voice on the doKOi. hi« lad in tie stable. ta-» rerrier. the cat. and old Jerry, the Irish hunter. A flat race stable is no pU.-e for a j If the hot stable cot make him a roarer meanwhile. I hope we sha!! not see a mistake made ia a new ilirectioa next year. If oui> is made, the year, I oipc-ct ho will be well, and som?rh:ns jnst pop up and beat him. St. Hnbert was said to hsve mii tfce hnnr» rai.-e in record time. w»iieh it was net by a long way. Record Rtiga carried list Vsi» in the Xew Zealand Grand Natinaal •Hurdles, and won in 4aiin 4e«»-c. l= =«Wlt?on the latter ren ou a ronrsp 3ft from the raiU. and over iannaßeral» r « hardies, whereas at I-irerpoo! the c«ar» is m»-asiired in the frenire. for some aaknown reason, and the hurdles are easi'T knocked down. I thought Seahorse hi* won the Liverpool a mile from berne <witi Phil Mdy s-.f-..ndi. when he t-r-ok net :•>• ™.^ s " f two f, " nr<,:= - witbont. fc'.w-Ter, -Rapier" writes «5 f«llow ?: _Ttere mar be some people who appmre of half-mil- , races started from a stand, buf if I hay» not <-ome a<ross any of Very mrn-i • m the I hear them uarVenca!rr condemned. Sometliinjr jump* off and «-on-■w-ycently wins, a ?;etter animal dwells a I moment when t!io barrier flies Uμ. is t.nmpjen or crossea. and «-onse<rai?nt!y I<wc f r re he starts ?allr.ni c?: 'f nr there i= no j time to make up for a mishap. "Pitcli aa«J j loss is a same at whir-a yisa ran -et a mn.-h safer line than half-mile races started with j ihe ma.Jiifie." z backer of whai sionld hare i <M-en a good thing bitterly remarked t-> m* ! the other dar. ■β-hec. as ;he wei« were i raised, his horse was knocked sideways by its neighbour. We all know, of <-oors<?" tbat many two-year-olds tire Iv tfce last a*» yards of a fire-furlong race: bat if it "be thought undesirable to alluw immatiire animals to jrallop so far in the early months lof the season, infinitely better than :be«e SSO yard« scrambles would be the postpm**j meet of twc-Tear-old racing Jill Juue or j Jnly. or. as in France, til! Au<m-=t. The ! object of raeinjr is to ascertain whit-h is the be«t hors«?: in many of these half-mile sour- • Hi-* the only thing you find oat i« which has had the luck of the start, and when j 3'ou know this you hare not made any ■ marked progress towards the falfilmpnt i'.t I tht> professed pnrposi? of the sport, the imj l»roretnent of the thorousbbr^L I While talking of starts, by the tray. H h« frpqaeutly. or at any rate "not seldom, the i-ast- that the starter is blamed for what ! is really the fanlt of the horses, or of Ui» I jockeys, or ..f Ijr.t'n. 1 rode down to sf-*> a -•tart ut Newmarxet some time siiK-e. and watched a bi s field.jamp off in an alnsnet übsoiiiri? Hue. One. Tii.rse was jest jup to lake his plarc whe:i Jα*- starter let j them go. in «r four strides he j was n =««.d Ipugth in front: a eenple of j <ithers struck the sround. and in close j pursuit: two or thret nsore Wgan slowly i anil Trf-r<> a distance iv the j r?;ir when a hundred yanls \nr so had been , eorered. A better start, howerer. there ; <-on!d not bave b»r::. I retariio:l to the i rueloKcrc- and fmnU » :naa—he bad not • the rrinn,-r. I prevntlv 1.-am: aud ! ini!e»-<!. bad suspettw!—rnrieuslr dtatooacj thf starter. thi> aiithoriries who allowed ; him to fill that «&v. aiid ail wagtm t-i vthet i people iijcidrijt.-illy. He had never <?;*•» j a bnrif-sqac. The winner, he a«are«i I ujp—it was rot the one .-.war t-t o«r ! j six or eight leimths to the good. sonTethins ; j cisc was tnrned right roand. a-ad half a I oomn were left altogether. catas- • tro ? hes. he dociared. he had distinctly seer • I through his glasses, and he was quite anTr j with mc for sayinz that my own impression rf the start — formed in tie onir plac« ? j where it was possible to form i* a^cnrste ; T -I —was entirely different. It is a daily ac- • i currer.ee for horses thst strike tht -round • qnieklj u> «c described :*s baring r«*away • :,-:.! for to In „.