TURF NOTES.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 242, 9 October 1920, Page 18

TURF NOTES.

(By WITALF.KOXE.) A short time- ag" a syndicate of Iri*h breeders was formed to purchase the successful fire, Cl.arl.-s O-Mallcy, by Desmond out of Goody Two Sho«._l>y Isinglass, in order to prevent hi* beinß sold out of the country. The prim asked for the horse was not far short of £50,000. An English paper mention.- that at thr Alexandria races on July M. « punter staked £1 on a six-horso accumulator. The first five horses won. and the punter had £400 winnings accumulated to go °" to the sixth horse. Ainvar. Hurriedly approaching the owner, the punter purchased Anwar for £4011. and immediately scratched the horse, thus making K oorl his bet and being left in possession of the horse. The stewards fined the punter £50 for scratching late. The highest price ever paid for a two-year-old in America was recorded recently, when Samuel C. Ilildreth obtained fnehcape, a ehesnut colt by Friar Rock and Rose of Hold, for 125.000 dollars. An offer ot 100,000 dollars made by Mr. Ilildreth nfter the colt's victory in the Tremont Stakes was refused by the trainer, Fred Burlew, acting for his employer, Mr. J. 11. Rosseter, the California shipping magnate and horsebreeder. Inchcape was started twice this year and was successful on both occasions. He was bred in California. Mr. J. Oalstaun, prominent as an owner in India, has been supplying BOrne sensations in connection with selling races in England this season. He is a very heavy better, and after buying a two-yea-r-old named Corporal out of a selling race for UOflgs. bought him in for lonOgs when he won a similar race a few weeks later. At Kempton on August 11, Corporal was the medium of another plunge on the part of Mr. Galstaun. In a field of seven he backed him down to 9 to 4, oil for a two-year-old selling race, and. after he won. bought him in for ISoOgs, against the £ 100 for which he was entered to be sold. This is the period of the season, says a Sydney writer, when horse owners would have no difficulty in disposing of those of their well-engaged representatives that are equal to a display of good form, either in private or in public. Pottrel and Richmond Main would command particularly high figures if their owners were prepared to sell, which they are not. and there are others for which liberal amounts would be forthcoming if they were in the market. Attempts have already teen made to acquire Eurythmic, but without success, while an offer of 3000 guineas is said to have been turned down with regard to Chal, and a similar sum was refused for Crescendo. And there will be other big bide refused before the big spring meetings are entered upon. M. Connell, who rode Greenstead to ictory in the Epsom Handicap, had his first mount in that race on Kyadgerie in 1909. His Epsom record is as follows: 1909 —Kyadgerie, fourth. 1910 —Lady Ruenalf, ninth. 1911 —Sunlike, nowhere. » 1912—Mavus, nowhere. 1913—Sir Willie, nowhere. 1914 —Gigandra, third. 1915 —Fend, nowhere. 1916 —Polycrates, second. '017 —"Wedding Day, seventh. 1918—Publican, sixth. 1919—Greenstead, third. Connell has been more fortunate in the A.J.C.'s other big race, the. Doncaster Handicap, having won that on Broadsword and Wedding Day. It is not often that such an institution as the London Tattersall's Club finds it necessary to reserve its decision. But such a happening occured in connection with the last Grand Prix de Paris. There were backers who had supported "Mr. Gilpin's" stable—Comrade and Spion Kop—for the Grand Prix. Comrade won the race, and Spion Kop ran unplaced, and on being appealed to by the backers of Gilpin's stable for a decision, the committee of Tattersall's Club ruled that they had half their stakes on each horse. Upon Ibis being disputed, the committee reconsidered the matter, and decided that the backers referred to must be considered to have had their stakes on Comrade and Spion Kop coupled, and not half their stakes on each horse. The committee gave as their reason for the -hanged dre-sion that they were not previously aware that official Pari-mutucl returns of m-ices in respect of non-winners as well as in respect of winners are issued. Commenting on the Rosehill Guineas a Svdrey writer says there can be no two opinions in regard'to Strathredole. An awkward horse in a big field. Dempsey experienced great difficulty in keeping' him within striking distance of the leaders. By dint of hard riding he was well up for'half a mile, then lost ground, and wJs obviously in difficulties four furlongs from home.' But his backers were again on good terms with themselves when he settled down into a long, smooth stride at the turn, for he gave promise of quickly overhauling the leader*. Unfortunately Dempsey allowed Stratlmnlole to be pocketed on the rails, and lie failed tn got out of the ruck until almost a furlong from home. All thi-i lime In , had been eager to stretch out. Imt could not. When he was ultimately released he galloped in moet determined and attractive fashion, and rapidly gained upon Wirriway and Svc-p Knicht. Hut the post was too close at hand to permit, of his overhauling the leaders, and lie had to be content with third place a length and α-half behind the winner. lie will improve upon this torn.. Whatever interest there was in the question as to whether it i« advisabl" to rait-e the- weight of t.h,> highest horse accepting in a handicap or division of a '■andirap to !>st, when it happens to l>o below it. appears to have died out, the assumption being that the A.J.C. com- . mitfee will decline tv again amend the law. Many trainers who have large stu'i'ics and employ apprentice?, and who shon'il be able to form a very good idea of what is hest in the interests of rac n<y are dwidi-dly i>|ipim>d to any change in the rule. They point uttt that in the lengthy array of apprentice riders comparatively few can go to scale at <>>t 71b, and if the arrangement with regard !o raising the top Wright to fl>t is done away with it will be necessary for them to carry overweight, instead (if benefiting under the rule respecting allowances. This is quite apart from the fact that a return to the old law will ~n oeca.Monr bar accomplished jockey.* from net-opting mounts. No objection is taken In I hi , weights that two-year-olds are callrd upon to carry in' l.he dast-ic. races nt their time, and. therefore, it i<. dillirult to see where the hardship exists in asking old horses to handle very considerably lcse.—Exchange.