TURF TALK FROM THE SOUTH.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 201, 23 August 1905, Page 6

TURF TALK FROM THE SOUTH.

{By Telegraph.—Special to "Star.") CHKISTCHURCH, Monday. On the whole Mr Henrys seems to bave made a good job of the haiuiicaps for the .-."rw Zealand Cup. He does not appear to

| have thrown in any one horse, or to have j over - weighted any . other. Perhaps Act-Lies might _aye been let o£C a pound or I two lighter, but it cannot be said that the l crack is ov.ra--lc_i.e_., 01 that be will not ; iiuu pieuiy of _.uck_,_ it he goes to the j pjst dressed iv i_i_ best. As a proved j -rarer, up tc any a__u_ut of weight, aud i vviui a good record, Alahatona-a is not bad»y treated, and for a tuare of Her briiliancy A'ighttail is not harshly used with B,l_Bo: \ ladirair Is a very uncertain staiter and his victory in tbe Great Autumn Handicap hardly entitles him to 5.9. Nonette may be discarded as a '•back-number,*' but Quarry_o__i has not been over weiziited ana certaimy contrasts favourably with v:adimir. If Maniopoto is as good as r=i ortec, and can stay, tie should n-ariy .yin, and Gladstone leads particnlarlv wel; with 8.4. Orloff is unsound, but Scotty may be classed among the probable starters, and has certainly escaped with a pound or two less than his performancejustlfy. Patroness, I nnders-Eiid, is uoi being trained. Paratutu is about in tv, proper place, but C-o.d Crown has obviously been handicapped on the assumption that ac cannot stay. Meioueon, If a; his be«r <_u<i iv __c n_ht mood ou tlie day, would o da "Serous but it is too much to expert tha. tr Michael will stand a cup preparation, if Bulawayo can be trained he will pike no end of beating, and Koseal has not Ueu over weigh!ed, but I have uo fancy t--- X? 00 a ' and ,«»e discredited Goideu *__i_ht is too much of an enigma to trust lor a race of this description. If a mare is to r,m it may be Jeanne d'Are. and of tav remainder of the other division. I likRoirt sirtSnt* C^ an T i roie ' p »a«ea, aud l«t--__mJJ h? \ mUSt ° onfeSS that la-.-aamed has done uothi_a of late to t , hat , he taa - race .l-e tae New Zealand Clip. Manawaru "onga^Vth^T l t0 be *"«■ thanXanlhe S belief hi? was any justification for mVw I. ' , c stable companion must either have improved enormously or she must have greatly deteriorated; if she is j oat of It" with 6.7. Of the three-year- ] hall f_2__*v.# be . no less than'to" nan rrom Ya.damst. Of the four I nrefer fnngod. though I am quite prepared t° S__.r_*s_r*s__fSS ■ot' o'__ l ™ aaa Ga >" SDar k are He failed to get Tnd ™*?S£ flshlT M a mule. He is eitherTvery bad was > rse ' So Appointed -V. -3/ „ S , tead w!tl1 hjK Performa-ceslhat £* f£ d h if? on Satm-Jay 1 to Mr G . C \ S?lf_ bb J he tea^ D of Wallace has joined i^_ t «„_^i aa - °u WEer ' ?enerallv take ththe Grand m ° *«« « on? .w d ' 5,& -ipps tbor \*-„~ el _:n_. Of twenty-four • e^rtV 0 !, 1 ?* H" 8 Capfain Campbell', e.o.d of last week i s beaten. With hi-%»-sß?'-a___siTK Of all the competitors in the open iumn--nH%T v R , leca «2? last weekonlv tee ™-fJ th Nollons w eeds, and Pipl - pot ou_d the course without a mistake Pini has run In eight steeplechases atßiccarton and won two of them. -nc__.ri.uu The majority of the visiting horses who 00k part in last week's n.eitin, left for wU°Vt° nday _ rather uietJ - v - without onrisn of trnmpets. Haydn was shipped for Sydney on Friday o run in tie Steeplechase at "the Anstm- := n Jockpy Club's Spring Meetins. The of son -wester was none the worse for 'tis recent exertions.

Durable is making a stood recovery from he Injuries he sustained In the Grand Va-:ic-nal Hurdle Race.

Mr G. Palmer last wetk made an offer or Wet Reef, but the horse's owner de•ined to deal.

Sir George Clifford's mare Brave Heart. ">y Clnnranald—Safeguard. Is to accompany ...r Ormcnd's horses back to Hastings, .vhcre she is to visit P-irkenhead. Gay Spark and Snowsheet. two members if Cutts" ti-sm who were on the sick list, aave resumed work.

The following are the local quotations 'f»r the Nr-w Zealand Cup:—l 4to 1 Achilles I- to 1 Mahutonga. 20 to 1 Nightfall. 33 tc 1 Vladimir. 100 to 1 Nonette. 16 to 1 Quarry "'ii, 16 to 1 Maniapoto. 16 to 1 Gladstone !<*> to 1 Orloff. 25 to 1 Scottv. 100 to 1 P.itronus, 1C to 1 Pnrit-tu. 2, to 1 Gold Crown. "■•'< to 1 Melodcon. 33 to 1 Convoy. 100 to 1 -t. Mi'hael. 33 to 1 Ruluwayo. 50 to 1 P.n---fll. 33 to 1 Ghoorka, 25* to 1 Golden Knight. 33 to 1 Jeanne d'Arc. 25 to 1 Ncc-•r-iform. 33 to 1 Melwood. SO to 1 Pl_<-fc Reynard. 50 te 1 General Symons. 23 to 1 Veneer. 33 to 1 Lady Wayward. 25 to 1 Sunrod. 2." to 1 Sir Tristram. 33 to 1 Bo«ra>rang, 33 to 1 Porcelain. 33 to 1 Cuneiform. 100 to 1 Motns. 33 to 1 Shrapnel, 100 to 1 Finn-en. 33 to 1 Calibre, 33 to 1 Probable. 20 to 1 ApoloOTe. 50 to 1 Apollodoris, 100 tc l Gay Spark, 100 to 1 Joe Chamberlain. S3 to 1 Armistice, 100 to 1 Douche. 50 to 1

Keau Seaton. 66 to 1 Clan burn, 66 to 1 Mystification. 50 to 1 St. Joe. 66 to 1 Blythemaid. 100 to 1 Thundarer. 100 to 1 Heroism. 100 to 1 Royal Crown, 100 to 1 Ropa. 100 to 1 Secret Society. 100 to 1 Stepdancer. 1,0 to 1 De la Rey, 100 to 1 Ngatarua, 100 to 1 Ability, 100 to 1 Heywood. 66 to 1 Lyrist. 100 to 1 Grenade. 100 to 1 Manawaru. 100 to 1 King's Birthday, 100 to 1 Rosegrove, 100 to 1 Armamento. 100 to 1 Assegai, 100 to 1 Sweet Helen, 100 to 1 Loiret, 100 to 1 Tsitsihar, 66 to 1 Multifid.

A large number of horses were offered at the Grand Xational sale on Monday. Makuri. who won the Hunters' Hurdle Race last week, was purchased by Captain Bingham at 6Sgs: Magnificent fell to Mr W. H. Norton at 40gs; Lurcher to Mr F. Douglas at 4Sgs; the brood mare Leonie, by Seaton Delaval —Leocant, to Mr W. G. Stead at :;ogs; Bill Bailey, the winner of the Ladles' Bracelet on Saturday, to Mr G. Smith at -lugs; and Met liven to Mr W. Marshall at 21 gs.