TURF NOTES.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 272, 15 November 1919, Page 18

TURF NOTES.

(Br "WHALEBONE.") A new rule of the A.J.C. with regard to apprentice riders that will come into operation at once, states that no bay under 14 years of age shall be eligible to be bound to a trainer, and an apprentice rider shall be required to be bound for five years before he may receive a jockey's license. Hitherto a three years' apprenticeship was all that was required. Artilleryman met with a mishap in the V.R.C. Derby that was derimental to his chance. At one part of the race he received a heavy blow on the eye from another rider's whip, and it was very sore afterwards. The inflammation his not disappeared, but there is some swelling, and a nasty mark just above the eye, on the off side. Mr. E. J. Watt had* no luck in the Queensland Derby on Saturday, his two colts. Night and Pershore, run-. ning second and third respectively. However, the big chestnut gelding, AU Aboard, made amends by winning the Brisbane Handicap, and as he ran the mile in 1.391, and won easily, is evidently an improved horse, as when working.at Randwick last month he was no use to Pershore and Bright Night on the track. All Aboard, which is a big, striking customer, and looks an ideal jumper, is a good performer, as Saturday's Win " was his fifth out of seven starts, his : other two runs resulting in two seconds. . /. j Bradfield, who put up a record in the Caulfield Cup in training the three placed horses, has been training at Flemington for nearly 30 years. He is not now tie believer in long-distance gallops he used to be. Especially is this so with his charges imported from England. Hi 3 gallops now rarely extend beyond H furlongs, and mostly they are confined to even shorter distances. He does not believe in the New Zea< land custom of shoeing his horses lightly, so that they will make record times' ii training, and he does not believe in tot much artificial treatment, and hi* charges are frequently allowed to rm" . in small paddocks, where they can enjoy their freedom. Bradfield has also trained hurdlers, Regret being his best. A. Wood, the rider of Richmond llain, which won the Y.R.C. Derby, said after ; the event: "It was a great race."l WM always doubtful till the last halfrfufr | long. I was a bit frightened of Surveyor. "Although Artilleryman was in front, I thought Surveyor always had his'inea-. ■ sure. "I was going hard till I got to the' front, when I had no doubt. I made my run in the last furlong, and had a bit up my sleeve at the finish. "I never used the whip at all." Harrison, who rode Artilleryman, said: "My mount pulled hard all the way, and, 'beat himself. I had Surveyor well beaten, but Richmond Main beat the two of us. . " .-..-.'; "I lost the race because Artilleryman was too eager. The fact that there was not much pace in the early part wai against mc. If the pace had been fast all the time I would have won. "All the same, the race was well run, and I met with no'interference at any stage." Among the rank outsiders to (win tho Melbourne Cup, Glenloth, perhaps, looms , largest for many years past. He started j nominally at 50 to 1 when he won one ■of the Tvettest Cups in history. That -was in 1892. -.Tarcoola (1893) was an- "; other outsiderrhis price at the post being '40 to 1. But Tarcoola, despite his for- - lorn price, won his stable connections • : big stake, most of which was obtained "on the eve of the race at 1000 to 15 and 20. Mr. H. Oxenham will remember the occasion, for it was he who accommo* dated "Tarcoola's backer" with the bulk of the stable's winnings. Speculator* on the Melbourne Cup were not much more successful in 1894 and : 1895 than they were in the two years preluding. Patron and Auraria, the respective win* ners, being but little fancied at the port. . Auraria, however, took much money out of the ring. She had been well backed at an early stage of the speculation Ot j the Melbourne Cup, but because of being beaten by Wallace and Osculator in thl Derby went out of favour in the bigge: event, and was with those which started at 100 to 3. She beat the favourite, I Hova, by a neck. The Victory "was about I the longest-priced winner of the Mcl, bourne Cup since Auraria, and he rat in the interests of Messrs. Clark anc " Robinson, the owners of Lucknow. . Racing has come into its own in Eng - land. Hotspur, in the London "Daily Telegraph," writing on the St. Legeri 6aid: "This has been an amaidng Sfc Leger Day. I really belive that the . crowd was even more vast than we art accustomed to see gather on Epsom | Downs for the Derby. The range of stands here is far longer than at Epsom, and they were packed. The other side of the course was just a tightly-wedgeo. mass of people, hundreds deep, and exj tending en masse for half a mile and more down the course. °I have never seen anything like it at Doncaster before, I and certainly I have never seen so many I people gathered in a smaller compass. The town was a wonderful sight, too, during the morning hours, and for long j after racing. The railways must nave done heroically to have .borne so well their share of the burden, but thousands, of course, came by road from distant parts. The last of the season's classics is over now, and all the honours belong to Lord Derby, his mar e (Keysoe), his. trainer (the Hon. George Lambton), and his jockey (Carslake). The combina* tion proved utterly irresistible, and bjf no less than six lengths did the marewta the St. Leger, after making practically the whole of the running. The favourite, Buchan, was third, beaten two lengths from the second, Dominion, and Isst but one was the much-vaunted Cheap Popularity, who, considering his record," started at an astonishingly short price;_*. But then the Irish visitors were on hhh, and their confidence infected many Englishmen, who wanted to find something 'to beat the odds-on favourite."