THE RACING WORLD

Auckland Star, Volume XL, Issue 17, 20 January 1909, Page 7

THE RACING WORLD

(By WHALEBONE). RACING '■'•■ January 20.'22, ana 28 -r- WeUlcgtcn B.g; . Summer " - -*•-'";. ■:_*. Jan. _Z and 23 — Foxtoh B.C. Annual Jan. 27 — Pahiatua Racing Club (Annual) January 29, SO, Febrnary 3 — Takapuna . J.C... Summer , '«• Feb. 4 and .6 — Gisborne Racing Club Bummer) ■ S e v #53 6 — Canterbury XC. Summer geb. A io, 13 — otahuhu Trottinc Club St 1° »«>d 11 — Egmoht b:c. Summer F ' b ..1J.. 12 — Poverty Bay Turt Club (An* nual) • - ...... F * b .-"i"JI *nd 18 — Woodvllle District J.C. Autumn Feb. 24, 25, and 27 — Dunedin J.C. Antumu Feb.:26 and 27 — South Auckland R.C/s Annual M-t eh . d $ ~ Wanganui J.C. Autumn March .17 and 18 — Napier Park B.C; Autumn. ...... The Foxtori Cnp comes up for decision on Friday. The Manawatu R.C, cleared nearly over their summer meeting. The next Wanganui Cup will, be worth £650. It will be run on March 4th. Thorlna, the winner oi. the Perth Derby, Is a half-sister to that * fast sprinter Lord Carlydn. G. Stern tops the winning jockeys' list for the past season in France, with 142 Wins on 556 mounts. During the Christmas and New Tear holidays no fewer than 26 meetings took place In the Dominion. M Longner won four races but of six starts during the WoodvlUe, Manawatu, and Rangitlkei meetings. Dudu, the dam of Stratagem and Strategist, has got a fine colt foal by Terrapin (Clanranald —Terediha). A Southern Writer says that California pulled up badly after the race he won at Hastings at New Year. Handtcapper Henrys has a remarkably good memory, and finds It prove very useful at times, says a Southern exchange. The recent pony meeting at Mlramar was, financially and otherwise, the most successful held this season by the W.P. and G.C. The programme for the Dunedin Cnp meeting is the best Issued by the D.J.C. since they made Wlngatul their headquarters. Satisfactory racing is hot by any means entirely dependent upon the haridlcapper's work. The contestants should have their heads loose as well. At the \'errlwa (N.S.W.) races on New Year's Eve, George Stewart rode five out of the six winners, and dead-heuted in the Sixth for first place. In the opinion of a Southern writer Motoa and Penates are both sure to be well taken care of by the V.R.C. handtcapper In the Newmarket Handicap.

At the sale of the Mongatiarata yearlings, which was held at Hastings, xne top price* 104gs, was paid for a colt by Waiuku—* Primula, the dam of Probable.

The statement which has appeared In print that Mr W. F." Mcßeth had received an, offer of £1400 for Crucinella is purely Imaginary, says a Southern exchange.

A hack sprinter at present on this coast (says a Southern writer) never 6eems to run prominently unless he. is quoted at fives or sixes on the bookmakers' boards.

The Manawatu Club has decided to extend support to the movement Of the"Wangamil Club towards the appointment of stipendiary stewards, providing the system is adopted generally.

The "Australasian," dn a leading article* confirms what was said some time ago with regard to the faking of scales. That paper admits that the scales at Fiemington were tampered with.

Some of the big Turf patrons In New Zealand (says a Wellington paper) set an extremely bad example to the small fry in the carping criticism they level at fearless paid officials. The single flimsy tape Used at the barrier on New Zealand courses is a frail article by contrast with the webbing used at Fiemington, and its method of ascent is altogether different. Dame Fortune has of late been niggardly in rewarding the Hon. J. D. Ormond's turf efforts. So far this season, no event of any importance has been captured by bearers of the "all cerise." The keynote of the address to be given to the jockeys at Trentham should be: "We are determined to make an example of the very first "Jahnny Armstrong detected." — "N.Z, Times." A Wellington scribe thinks that Gold Crest was never In better form In his life than at present, and that if he attacked the New Zealand record of 46 l-5s for four furlongs he might break it. The pony meetings at Miramar are distinctly on the up grade (says a Wellington paper), and in the opiulon of most people have come to stay, provided always j there is no relaxation of vigilance. »_ The promising Persimmon filly Perolina has not done at all well since her first nnd very promising efforts With the colours up, and may have to be thrown out of work, according to a Wellington exchange. The proposed conference of various clubs Under the jurisdiction of the Wanganuimetropolitan body, wbich was to have been held nt Palmerston on the 21st inst., has been postponed until some time In February. In a two-year-old race run In Adelaide recently persons Vvere betting in the totalisator when the horses were passing the Winning post. The committee of the racing club are to make special inquiries into the matter. The 1904 Melbourne Cup winner, Acrasla, Is to be next mated with the imported horse I Orzll. She arrived in Sydney last week, accompanied by her San Francisco foal. The yearling foal by St Ambrose is still In the country. Ont of the £3750 prize money won by Mr P. A. Connolly at the recent W.A.T.C meeting, he donated £50 of it to the charitable institutions. It is seldom we hear of any New Zealand owners acting In a like manner.

In the opinion of a Southern Turr scribe, at least one member of a judicial committee should be stationed near the fivefurlong post, and another at straight entrance, as noU-triers are invariably revealed thereabouts.

To a comparatively insignificant organisation, the Lurnsden Hack Racing Club, belongs the honour of being the first to appoint stipendiary stewards. Two have been chosen to act at their next meeting on February 2. >

The Manawatu Racing Club has Impounded the stakes In the Grandstand Handicap, pending an appeal being heard from Mr W. C. Vincent, owner of Passive, which was disqualified for her rider being overweight on weighing in.

Says the Sydney correspondent of the "Australasian": The summer meetings were evidence of the poor quality of horses we have now. Really, the fields seen- out for the Carringtdn Stakes and Tattersall's Cup were no better than what we expect at the Saturday proprietary meetings.

Says the Sydney "Referee": The exNew Zealander English made some amends for his defeat In the jumping events at the recent, Tattersall's Club races by' crediting his owner with a dead-heat for the'Burrungu'rrdplohg Plate, li mile, on. the opening day of the Tiranna Picnic 8.C." meeting. There were only three startersfor the event.

Mr -P.AL_CbnnoUy complained to the W.A.T.C. stewards on December 30th -that" the Jockey,; Frenkc Bullock, had need abusive language towards him. Bollock, was fined*?.. ■ :■. ■- .'_ '_; ■.-'.-,." The good-looking Great Scot, by Xiochlel from Scotch Mary,/winner of the Australian Cup. ana other' important events, Iβ now doing atnd duty at Cobham, in England. His fee Is 46 guineas...;,. ■- Mr J. M. Cummlng, managing steward for the Wellington Pony Club, is-.not:, easily hoodwinked (lays a Wellington Turf scribe), [and whan he scents fire, promptly gets out the , extinguisher the club's retained Jockey. Mnnlr.poto (says a Hawera exchange) Iβ engaged dally in useful road exercise,, but nothing has been definitely arranged relative to his future movements. Generally speaking, he looks remarkably healthy, .and his legs seem sound. Approached reeeaUy wKh (regard to the prospects of his getting a satisfactory re tarn for Perle DOr, the two-year-old sister to. Golden .Slipper, the Canterbury sportsman, Mr. Ci. D. Greenwood, gave a doubtful shake of the head, and i-a<l<led that he ■was mot quite sure that-he would not take a couple of hundred guineas for the youngster that- cost him ten times that amount. Mr. Donald Freaer recently disposed of a yearling colt by Advance from >I«ady Spec to a Queensland owner, but the price 'nae not transpired. Th* full brother to Advantage U black in colour, without a sign of a white mark on Sim, end Jn consequence lie nae, been called Nigger Johnson. The stallion Advance Is under offer to'a' Queensl&nd breeder &t 1000 guineas. In connection •with a municipal election in the Old Country, a candidate's chairman was handed the follawlng question: "What does the candidate'think will win the Cambridgeshire?" Mr. White solemnly looked at the query, and as solemnly read It out "This is a very Important questMu," he remiarked: "Personally, I think Mai-covll will win, but I wouldn't be 'cock sure' about It!" And Maxcovll won at a rery long price. At Glsborne (says an exchange) there is m good-looking 'yearlong, full-toother to Pink-'un. About August the youngster could bare been bought cheaply enough, hut when the older horse began to Show the Australians how he could'gallop, the yearling's quotations. In Exchange lingo, began to harden* and from a hundred, the price crept up to five times tliat sum. each win of Fink-'un's apparently putting another century on to the value of the younger horse. Mr. E. Atfcfleld, the owner of (Master Douglas,. Informed a .Southern writer that the gelding's mtehap In the first hurdles at Auckland was due to the large crowd of spectators congregated at the last hurdle. On this coast punters are content to remain tn the paddock, Jn preference to strolling down to the jumps, and Master Douglas, unused to the experience, turned ■his attention to the people, wltS disastrous results. Fortunately the gelding was not 'hurt by the fall; btit symptoms of soreness ■showing, 'hie party deemed It prudent to scratch Mm for remaining engagements. 'Says an exchange: "During the iEangitlkei mtetlng an offer of .£BOO for Ijongner, one of the best -hacks on the coast at' the ipresem time. Mr. MoncktQh stipulated for a week to consider the offer, and the deal is apparently dff, since tie week •has elapsed aird no sale reported. Lcogher is another example of a horse growing Into •money. Bred by Mr. C. Buil, of Feilfllng, he.was sold to Wβ present owner for £30, and he has won a Hot ofindhey with hlni. A glance at Longner's pedigree leaves litble room for wonder «b tt* Hie galloping abilities, combining as 'he 15oes the best running strains In the Dominion. He Is by the •Officer from a fjamlsome Jack,mare, grand•dam by old Ahiia, bred by the taite Mr. D. Scott, and a iioted performer both on the flat ami over obstacles;-" In a letter to the "N.Z. Times," concerning his complaint to the Manawatu Racing Club of the way his horses were handicapped by- Mr Henrys at" , their recent meeting, Mr E: J. Watt says: — "Early on I saw that the feeling of the meeting was with Mr. Henrys, and I aid hot see the use of prolonging .theagoay., . Many, of Mr -Henrys' Statements appeared- to-.me to be' halftruths and to.be begging the actual question. I must' state that he comtaitteeS>f the. Manawatu Racing- Club were quite willing to let toe say anything I wanted to at the meeting, and one member had told nic beforehand: 'We are none of us racing men, and not one of us could make ahandicap, , and. I really think he told- the truth." Further, Mr Watt, says, before he left the, meeting the chairman, Mi- v: S. Abraham, said: ''.Well, Mr Watt, we; should nil feel pleased how if you could ell usthat you are satisfied with Mr Henrys' explanations." Mr Watt sail: "All I- can say is that they are plausible." iSay s a Southern, paper: "Concerning the horses which he saw at the Auckland Cup meeting, Mr. 0". Burton, a well-known Syd-: ney .trainer, saia -that, he Considered -All Red arid Husbandman by fat the best-con-ditioned. AH Bed was well, up to weightcarrying, but Husbandman he regarded ac easily the best' welght-for-agfe .horse competing nt the- meeting; "The colt could not Bare been himself wihen he ran ,so badly *3 the ICanterbutry: Cup. Bobtijkoff he could'not regard as a really good weigHtfor age horse, from what-he had seen of the horse himself, and from what he would expect of a horse by 'Finland. He would be, a useful handicap aorse, no doubt, but , if, as statea, .he was a bad beginner, he would not be any certainty for a race like the Epsom Handicap or tne Dohcaster Handicap. Master Soult, was a sterling colt, but looked a 'bit stale 'at Auckland. Royal Soult was a gre*t sprinter for his Inches, but he could not believe that 'he was as fast as Bouitline. Dlabolo he regarded as a moderate only, and the two-year-olds ■Broadsword and Blysian not likely' ones to furalsli Into Derby winhert." There were some extraordinary reversals of form in connection with the holiday racing this year v(eays the "Australasian"). Sydney has been even more remarkable for in-and-out running than Melbourne perhaps, but the changes between Caulfleld and Melbourne form were very puzzling. With nenrly all the runners not much better than good suburban form,: I suppose consistency was hardly to-be expected. As a rule, you caii only expect consistency from good horses ahd two-year-olds. The ybuhg ones . can generally be relied upon,to do their best 0L all occasions. ■ AVONDALE DISQUALIFICATION ENDORSED 3Y A.R.C; COMMITTEE. At the special meeting held 'by .the committee of the Auckland Racing Olub last night to consider the disqualifications Imposed recently upon certain trainers, horses, and riders by the Avondaie Jockey Club, ana the Appeals lodged against those disquaOiflcatlonSi it was decided to endorse the -i-vondale Club's decision in the following cases: S. G. Lindsay (owher-traJfrer of Royal Soult)j t-wo years; Mark Ryan (ridel of Royal Soult), two years; horse Royal Soult, two years; G. W. Pell, 12 months; P, Smith, six months; A. Julian, six months. It was decided to hear the appeals of N. ■Cunningham, A. Whitaker, and. the owner of Luolo ten-morrow. ' . TUKF TALK FROM' THE SOUTH. (By Telegraph.— Special to the "Star.") CHRISTCHUfiCH, this day. «.». Wre !: cl i ed .. weather was experienced all through last week, and training operations have been almost at a standstill. The tracks have not been fit for fast work, and those owners who left for Wellington early res Jc"t W haTe all the best °* nln this Don 'Orsino is being indulged in a respite at Racecourse Hill, while another of Mr H A. Knight's representatives in Lapland is being used as a ladies' hack. The latter will be taken up in a few weeks' time, and should his jumping improve, will be raced over the little sticks at the winter meeting. T. Cotton took a small team down to Pleasant Point last Thursday, and. captured the leading event with Tessera He also won the Trot with the King Harold gelding, Yankee Doodle, whom he subsequently sold to an Auckland sportsman. P. MoGrath, who trains for Mr Buchanan, hat, taken up his- quarters at Gladstone .Lodge. Amongst his charges are a half brother to Bobrikoffi by Pilgrim's Progi ess, a colt that shows much promise. Buccleuch, who went amias last autumn, if to be put Into commission by McGrath next week, with a view to winter racing. " Kautlform is being spelled at his owner's ylace, but it is quite on the cards that the brilliant son of Multiform will be taken up again In a few weeks' time. He has thrown off: all eymptpmi of the accident that put him ont of court in Auckland. W. Pine has'had-an addition to his team In the half brother to Boutade, .a really oroiniflln* sort of colt. . ,

. .Volodla to still enjoying herself In the' paddock, but as she has quite recovered, from the.accident which befell .her at the Chrl.tchurch Racing Clnb'a meeting, she will be put In commission" as soon as her trainer returnt from the North. Two locally trained-candidates In Volodia and Armamento have been taken South to compete at the Gore meeting; They will be ridden la their engagements there by H. W. King. -~ ;'■ The two-year-old Cronstadt, who was hurt In November last, has made a good recovery, and is.now doing easy tasks. Taggart's charges are all having an easy time of.ltat present, y On their-mentor's return from Wellington they will be bnstled along. •'.' y -'!'"*'-.-' y '.* ' The South Canterbury Jockey Club intend increasing the stake money at its autumn meeting By £300. .. . < At its next, meeting the. Tahuna Park Trotting Club intend, hanging up a purse of ..25SOVS for any horse breaking the sent track -record- of ;2m _ 16- l-5s - for themile, In either a race or an exhibition trial.