RACING WORLD

Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 155, 30 June 1917, Page 8

RACING WORLD

£" : : (QBy V2ALEBONE.) '--'J RACING FIXTURES, f nne no—Hawkc's Birr .T.C. Winter. Inly 11, U, 14— Wellington LLC. Winter. A.MSWER3 TO ('ORKESPOXDEST?. Tv VEER —The man who, in my opinion, is entitled t.. tbe term, is i>ne that P la >" s lhe game under all circurnsumces. T»e Maltster filly Agnestes is working again at Ellerslie.'under the supervision pf .1. King. The Messrs. V. and W. Casey have app'.;ed for the name of Informal for the colt by Demosthenes— FormalityJ. Chaafe took Step hack to his rnwi.-r's farm last week, and the son of Mvttituatiou. is to be treated tn a spelL The colt by Benzimian —Dirge, which is n member of I>. Moraghan's stable at KUerslie. will rae< under tho name of Canzonet.

Mr W (';. Mead has claimed the name ofVirst 1 lass tor tlu lilly by All Black— i :as.-. am! Pry Up fur the gelding by JJemostiiem-s —Drc tight.

Provided the weights are suitable. Gluetanus is to race at the Wellington meeting, anil, if he makes the trip, will be shipped south by boat on Tuesday.

Lady Penury, which has been treated to .1 dose of physic ami is having an easy time of it- at present, was yesterd.iv nominate.l i>r the C.J.C Winter Cu;>.

Cm Siing was schooled over the hurdles at Ellerslie ou Thursday morning, giving a satisfactory display, although ho kit one of tho obstacles jjretty hard.

' Loyal Arch was given another turn over the smaller hurdles at headquarters en Thursday morning. She be<ran timidly, but fenced well f< r a beginner after she was warmed up.

P. Jones leaves for tho south by train on Monday with El Gallo, Penniless, Billy Wiggs, and Drown Loch, which are to fulfil their encasements at the Wellington Racing Club's Winter Meeting.

It has now been decided that Waimai and Luperino will be asked to carry silk at the Victorian Racing Club's Steeplechase Meeting, but Tenacious has been withdrawn frum all engagements at the fixture.

'Marconi, which is to fulfil engagements at the Wellington meeting, moved nicely over a round of the sand at Ellerslie ou Thursday morning. C. Coleman will probably leave with the son of fSoult -by boat on Tuesday.

The Ellerslie trainer W. Brown received rather severe injuries recently through being savaged by a gelding halfbrother to Seldom. Brown was engaged clipping the horse when he attacked I irn, and cut him badly about the head.

Tararti Jack. Thrace, and Brown Loch were schooled az Ellerslie on Thursday morniuj. The trio jumped four fences in company, then Brown Loch went on another four by himself, while Tararu •Jack and Thrace afterwards jumped a similar number in company.

According to the ''Dominion," the cross-country horseman W. Bush was fxjitnd in bed in an unconscious condition after riding on the second day of the Napier Park .Meeting, and is now an inmate of a private hospital. His medical attendant states that the injury he is suffering from must have been sustained when Czar-onus fell with him on the first day of the meeting.

Those who saw King Chiara race at Ka-pier Park Meeting were fully prepared io see the son of boult returned a winner at an early date. This expectation was early fulfilled. King Chiara practically making a one-horse race of the Heretaunga, Handicap at Hastings yesterday. The big surprise was the dividend King Chiara returned, his supporters getting a two-figure return lor their investments.

The demand made by the Minister for Internal Affair.- at the instigation of a certain country club fur the further reduction ut' a day's racing in the -Metropolitan area was again before the special committee set up t i deal with tlie" matter yesterday. Nothing definite was arrived at. and although it seems practically I-ertain that the action of tlie rlub in question means the cutting off of another day from one of the Auckland clubs, it is ais,, practically certain that the committee will not sanction the granting of tho day to ilie club which has raised the trouble, but will advise if being given to one of tho clubs entirely cut out. probably Opotiki.

WHERE J< WAIMAI? A Tress Association cablegram dated Sydney, .lunc Ml. says: Sporting writers comment on the mystery suroundingr the w>oreabouts i-t' Waimai. Late New /.calami files announced that iii.s trip to Australia had been abandoned, but it was subsequently reported that he had rrached Melbourne. Inquiries failed to confirm this. Vet his name i? included in tlie first acceptors for the Y.K.t". (.ran,! National Steeplechase.

As far as we at this end of tlie world sn- concerned there is no mystery about the son of Spalpeen. The information that the trip to Australia was abandoned was not given officially, and if the sporting writers concerned only possess a little patience they will probably sec "YYairnai at no d'stant date.

TILE MELBOURNE CXI. The view tlie V.R.C handicapper would take of Uie respective merit of Killjoy and Desert Gold in framing his handicaps for the Melbourne Cup, created a lot of discussion in New Zealand turf circles. Most people inclined to tlie opinion that they would be assessed at about Weight for age, but Killjoy has received 61b above thai scale, while Desert Hold has only 31b, -o that on this basis the mare has 21b the best of il. The task set Desert Gold is not. on the surface. a very difficult one, although in these days of imported horses one can never tell what the middle division contains. Her trainer. I. Davis, is very keen on the trip, but Mr. T. 11. Lowry. her owner, has a number of private matters to consider before he definitely decides on Bending his team across. However, if Desert Gold takes her place in the field she will get a lot of New Zealand support. Kilboy has been weighted up to .his very best form, while The Toff, with 9st, is "harshly treated, and very little inducement has been given his owner 4o let Mm tak# hi&_£lace m-4Jie field. ,

Says the ''Bulletin":—The good! money that has -been fooled a-way and the good horses that have been ruined by the knocking-a-bout most of the two-year-olds get in New South Wales ought to be measured up by- tbe AJ.C. and other racing cluhs concerned. Many ol these young horses are raced week after week, and most of the others every fortnight or so. Tbe juveniles whieii came in early in the spring were kept hard at it until they were played out. Then another crop developed, and these are being kept busy until next birthday arrives. Heaveu knows how many will survive and be of any use, but it is 100 to 1 that ;i fair proportion are not going to be heard of except among the "also ran" brigade. Lately this page saw two or three of the earlier bard-worked lot. The cha.se after the big money on offer lor young 'uns has left them in 11 state of wreck. And it is easy to pick out others running now that have "been galloped to a standstill. The idea that, the rich prizes hung up for two-year-olds is good for breeders i.s a delusion held onry by those who cannot see beyond the end 01" their noses. That it is 'bad for the Australian horse is beyond doubt. The business hadly wants an overhauL

An incident which occurred at the sia-blp.s of the New Brighton trainer, M. Kdward-s. during last Sunday night, may Jiave serious consequences to more than one prominent performer on local trotting tracks, says a writer in the " Lyttclton Times.'' It was Edwards' practice Ito leave many of the horses out at night, in separate yards, and among those so treated were four of his own horses, the-H" being the stallions- Reggie Huon. Wallace Wood, and Dillon Bell, and the. champion mare, Adelaide Direct, holder of the Australasian record for a mile. When the .stable hands went out on Monday morning they found that these four were out of their yards, and all in one enclosure. The yards were all securely fastened with padlocks, and some trouble had been taken before tho gates were opened, either by breaking the padlocks or taking the screws out ol" the hinges. When the horses were found in the morning Reggie Huon and Wallace Wood bore unmistakable evidence of an encounter, as they had injured one another very considerably. while Adelaide Direct also showed signs tltat she had been in a fight. In her ease, in fact, the damage seems to be of a particularly serious nature, and it may mean that the last has been seen of her on a racecourse. Dillon Bell had apparently only got out of his yard a short time before the attendants arrived on the scene, and had not participated in the melee.

IMPROVEMENTS AT F^LFJLSLLE. Taking advantage of the long interval between the racing at Ellerslie caused by the cutting out of the spring meeting, the committee of the Auckland Racing Club have decided on having a number of improvements effected. Already a number of trees have been cut down, so as to give patrons of the outside stands a bettor view, but the principal work, which is to be put in hand at once, is the banking of the turn leading into the straight. This will be carried from tho mile and a-half post tip to the twofurlong post, and will be graded 1 in 30 which will give a fine sweep. There is abo a possibility that if this work does not take too long the turn out of the straight will also receive attention, but nothing in this direction has vet been decided on.

HAWKE>S BAT JOCKEY CLTJB.

THE WINTER MEETING

JACKJJAN THE STEEPLECHASE. (By Telegraph— Special to "Star.") HASTINGS, Friday. The Ilawke's Bay Jockey Club's Winter Meeting was opened to-day in dull weather. lliere was a fair attendance, and tlie totalizator bandied £14,980, as against £10,000 last year. Results:— lIAWKE'S BAY STEEPLE CHASE. Three miles. s—•Tackrmm. 0.7 (A. Wurdi....„ , 1 ■•— Sandy Paul. 10.3 2 2 —St. F.lmn, 10.7 - 3 Also started: 4. Soporific. 13.1; S. Marfan. 10.7; 1. Ref-ord. lo.T: 0. Merry Lad. 10.0; y, Nita. !i.7: 7. Fagot, 0.7: 10, Bunress, 0.7. Soporific fell, and later on Merry Ixid, Nita. and Burgess also «iaic to grief. Sandy Paul was in the lead entering tho straight the last time, hut Jacknmn put in ;i strum; run anil won by six lengths, the third horse being three lengths away. The favourite was uever prominent. Time, (;..",;;.

WINTER HACK HANDICAP one mile and a-quarter, 10—Ilythread. 9.8 IA. Iteid) 7 —.'.Mss Satiou. 0.9 I—(Jroiid Idea. 10.5

Also started: 14. Kiltess, 11.S; 4. Sar Ralph, ln.'.i; v. Uexton. lu.S; s. Dingle, 10.4; 13. Multivc. 10. I: 10, Lord Laddo. 0.12; 5. Maraetotara. 0.11; 0, Hststie, 0.8; 2, Roiigora. 0.5; 5. Oluelam, 0.3; 12. Golden M-areli. 0.0: 10. lire Ore. 0.(1: 14. Manhattan. '.Mi: in. Miss Percy, 0.0; 15. Cross Words, '.i.ii; 17. I'ai-ariT-s. o.O; 0, Maorilander. ».u; is, Eralf. 0.0; 2n. Belgian iMaid. 0.0.

■Maraetotara was in tlie lead until the straight was reai-hed. when illytbread aud Miss Sarion i-aine away a-nd fought out a desperate finish, the former winning by a bead, tin- third horse being -tnree lengths away. Tome, 2. IS.

LADIES- BRACELET. One mile and a-lialf. 1 - Midnight Star. 11.2 (MoOonnick) .... I ■■V~ Flash Lady. 11.4 2 I—Sleight of Hand. 12.1 5 Also started: 2, The -Sum-mir, 12.1; 5, Rumania. 11.4.

Sleiu'tit of Hand and Flash Unly meed to tlie straight. At the distance Midnight Star challenged Plus* Lady, and won by a neck, the third horse -being two lengths

lIKHETAUNOA lIANDICAI ISix furlongs nnd a-half.

S Kin_ Clilara. O.G (11. Robinson. 7—Hyllui. 0.2 S—l-adv Middlctou, o.:>

.\:>o started: 2. Parisian Diamond. 10.0 10. Marsa. 10.4; J. Sim 10.1: 4. ouira 0.13: !i. Oh.iw.la. Sl.lU: 14. Chr-rrv Blossom O.Hi; :;. Toki. 0.0; 17. Antwerp. 0.8: 12 Undecided, !).S: 17. Ardent. 0.7: 15, Settler D.5: 5. Black Ada. 9.0; ID, Dispatch Carrier '.Ml: 13. Kio. 'J.i.i; IS. Pall -Mall, 0.0; ti, Sun shade. 0.0.

King Chiara led all tie way. and won by four lengths, half a length separating the second and third horses. Tome, 1.27.