TURF NOTES.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 254, 23 October 1920, Page 18

TURF NOTES.

(By " WHALEBONE.")

It has been decided to give Chrysolaii3 a lengthy spell. He is not likely to he raced airain before the autumn of next year. It is understood that the A.J.C. Breeders' Plate winner. Vaccina, will not be asked , to race again for several months. The intention is to give him a spell from training for some week?. The steeplechaser Toefield met. with an accident on the Deloraine course, in Tasmania recently, and was Jpft for dead. Two hours later he staggered back to his stable. Prince Ranjitsinhji, the famous cricketer, who ha« Ismg been a patron of the turf in a small way. purchased the English performer, Western Wave, not, long since. He intends to race. Western Wave in India. The price paid is given as 9,000 gns. There was such a shortage of jockeys in Durban (South Africa.) about the end of August that it was expected the result would be small fields at a couple of meetings to be held in that city about the time mentioned. It was reckoned that, inclusive of apprentices, it would be possible to muster only 20 riders, owing to the departure of jockeys for Johannesburg, England, and Mauritius. Should Pershore succeed in winning the next Melbourne Cup, he will have taken a double that has not been won : since 1867, when Tim Whiffler appropriated the Metropolitan and the Mcl- ; bourne Cun. But on Several occasions ' Tim Whiftiers record was all but equalled, notably by San Fran and naquhair. Both these horses won the Metropolitan, and subsequently ran second in the Melbourne Cup. Mr. F. W. Xorman, who owns Sister Olive, winner of the fillies' division of the Maribyrnong Trial Stakes at the V.U.C Meeting the other day, acquired that filly in a roundabout Kind of way. Sister Olive is by Red Dennie out of Jubilee Queen, and the mare and Sister Olive, when owned by Mr. Norman, were sold to Mr. D. J. Bourke. When a yearling Sister Olive, was put into the ring, and bought by Mr. Xorman at an outlay of 160gns. Count George Leindorf, whose "Horse Breeding Recollections" ie considered to be one of the classics of turf literature, had no freak theories or systems of breeding winners, but endorsed the simple rules followed by Lord Falmouth in using none but tried performers in the stud. He condemned the practice of the elder Sir Tatton Sykes, one of the most extensive breeders of modern times, in allowing hio lli'Uies to grow up wild and untried on the Turf and selecting such of them as best pleased his eye to keep for breeding purposes. The outcome was a stupendous failure, Lehndorf says. It is interesting to mention that, under the rule of racing relating to fees, jockeys who rode winners at the recent meeting of the A.J.C. received in that way a total of £1630 If)/. Of this sum, M. Connell's percentage amounted to £497 3/. and that received by J. Killorn £281 14/. K. Bracken's share was £163, F. Dempsey's £79. J. King's £63 8/. A. Wood's £74, L. A. Walkers £57 14/, E. J. Mooney's £55 16/. J. Callinan'a £55 14/, G. Davis' 754 14/. E. Moon's £54 10/. G. Meddiek's £36 16/. L. Simmons' £35 18/, J. Pike's" £33 10/, T. O'Bryan's £33 6/, H. Cairns' £30 IS/, find J. Mahoney's £29 17/. It is safe to say that in some of these instances, presents more than doubled the amounts stated. As no mention of Chrysolaus was made in the description of tile race for the A.J.C. Epsom Handicap, it was generally surmised that he was not a starter. According to a Sydney writer, t'hrysolaus ran a really good race, when all the circumstances are taken into consideration. After knocking himself at Eosehill, his training was interrupted. When he appeared at Randwick he was wearing an elastic bandage on his off foreleg , . He never looked a winner in the race, but did remarkably we'll to finish so close to the placed horses. The grey was limping slightly when he was led out of the saddling enclosure. It must have been a hard blow io young Brown, the rider bf the Epsom favourite, Remmon. when hie mount, which had dra,\vn Xo. 7 position at the barrier, was sent to the extreme outside of the field because of his fractiousness (says a Sydney writer I. It is stated ttuit Brown was laid .&1000 to nothing in the extent of RerKmon winning the race. The loss of the post position mades a great deal of difference to Rcmmon's chances, and, as he was finishing very fast in third place, the probabilities are that he would have been in it right up to the neck at the finish had he not boen asl<ed to cover the extra ground iv t"c early stages of t''e race. More ]ong"-dwtaiicc gallops have been, indulged in this reason in anticipation of the Derby and Metropolitan than has been the ea--e for some years, sa\s a Sydney writer. As a rule trainers are content to let their horses Jo most of their in races, and if not, try them out at their beet pace over shorter courses than they have to race in. There was a time when trainers held the view that if a horse wae •engaged in a longdistance event lie should be sent the journey two or three times before the race, but in latter years this practice ha« been dropped. But this season tis-e old custom has been revived, and it may be that as the distance of the Metropolitan has been lengthened by a furlong (now one mile and live furlongsl quite a number of middle-distance" tfallopa have been done. I Unless something unforeseen occurs in the/neantime. says a Sydney writer, the -Melbourne Stakes this year should be on« ol the most interesting races of tha spring, notwithstanding tiiat ill-luck has oarred from cr>mp;<tition -rme performers oi the highest ,!.,„-. Had m i,fortune not been so Inwy among o; note. Richmond Main. <W..; ; ,r,,i. and Gloaming might have been in the field, but. even with t.iat disa-truns result, there is a nrospect uf Kuryti-.inic. Rnmark KcnnaMuhair. Millieuu.. r.-kn-]. C, l : fl .,e, and Oreenetead. as well as of.iers. being produced ior the mil, ami a,,uarter event named, and h, that case „ genuine treat should be in store for th..,.. w i, o are fortunate enor.gh to witiu-s it \ vi>ar ago there were omy f, mr barters in the -Melbourne Stakes, ami t :•■ place* were occupied by r e t;-rni.. WoUr.- and TVmco \ iridis in that order, tl ther -tarter being Xhrhtwau-h. It was the second occasion on which Cetijjne iia.l won t>e race, and. in the event of takin- it again, he will equal the record of Wckeful, which won the Melbourne Stakes Oα three occasions.