TURF NOTES.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 89, 15 April 1922, Page 18

TURF NOTES.

(BT "WHALE-BOXE")

Refraction, a sister to Gloaming, _ ai been mated with the Victoria Derby winner Wolawa. Refraction, which has been retired to the stud and carried the colours of Mr. Ernest Clarke, showed a share of speed wTiile on the turf, and finished third in the Oaks won by Mufti.

Diamond Jubilee (which won the Derby for King Edward when Prince of Wales in 1900) is at the head of the list of winning stallions in the Argentine for 1921, and though he is now twenty-Aye yeans old be is very well and as vigorous "as ever. Xo fewer than twenty-three of his progeny faced'the starter last season. Cyllene is next ia order, and Craganour third.

The crack American jockey. G. Archibald, who has been riding 60 well ia Spain as first jockey to King Alfonso, has arrived at Newmarket. England. Ia pre-war days Archibald was riding in Germany. and now has a retainer for Gilpin's "stable. During his saddle experience Archibald has ridden well over a thousand winners, and it will be interesting to see how he fares on Englbh racecourses.

The stipendiary steward, says an English writer, has been known in Australia for some years as the ''stipe." This brand of steward vs. according ia his advocates, a very superior type, teener of eye, and with heaps mora knowledie of evil ways than most of the gentlemen who act as stewards at race meetings here. The "stipe"' would not be afraid to come down on the evil-doer, we are told. M'yes. But there are Other sides to the que.-tion as well.

Tbe ex-New Zealander, F. W. >'=- Cabe. was at Liverpool in time to seethe Grand National. In England he :_ doing very little riding outside the two horses which he trains, and the horses belonging to Mr. H. Miller. Last summer 'he was iv Paris for several months, where he had two rides over hurdles, and he formed the opinion that Georges Parfrement and W. Head stand alone over ! jumps, while Geo. Stern, Frank o'_.eil, land MaeGee could learn nothing about [fiat -race-riding in any other part of ths j world. A horse, he thinks, that could take the jumps at Riccarton would be able to take the course anywhere in England except Liverpool. So far as this ! latter course is concerned, he considers j the difficulty of the jumps out of all I reason. With Tegard to his future plans, IMcCabe intends either returning to ) France at the conclusion of the English | season, or else -he will go bade to India. In a letter written a few days ago, the ■New Zealand jockey expresses the opinion that unless a stranger has some influential English sportsmen to promote his interests, and to introduce him to suitable owners, his chances of engagements are very meagre.

Melbourne advices to hand state that Mr. E. E. D. Clarke has made an important addition to the Melton Stud by t_s purchase of the English-bred sire Ckylon, a son of Spearmint, and, therefore. grandson of illustrious Carbine. Apart from the fact of Cyklon claiming descent to the greatest horse that has so far figured in these lands, a special interest attaches to the horse destined to find a home at the Melton Stud, for it was a string of extraordinary circumstances that left him in the hands of Britisher.. Cvklon was owned by the German Government, and he was raced in England in their interests. When the Great VI ar upheaval came in August, 1914, Cyklon wa__ located in an English stable, and he i was at once seized by the authorities and sold. Transported to Australia, he raced in the nomination of a South Australian lady owner, Mrs. R. M. Hawker, in whose colours he won a number of unportan. races, which included the Adelaide Cap. Cyklon was foaled in 1011, so that he b now in his eleventh year. By ad accounts Cyklon is a very fine specimen of the thoroughbred sire, and, though M will be located in an establishment witn a great rival in The Welkin, be is sura to have the opportunity of making* name for himself at Melton, as MrClarke retains a number of daughters or the famous Flying Fox horse.

In some rer___n.scences of the late Mr. Porter. whose death occurred recently. an English writer says:-"Porters great year was in 1899, when horses trainedhhy him earned in stakes close upon £S<,UW. Of this huge total Flying Fox was responsible for 37,41550v5, the events won by that colt being the Two Thousand Guineas, De_bv. St. Leger, Eclipse is take?, Princess of Wales' Stakes, and -Toe"? Club Stakes. -Sa a three-year-old Flying Fox had an unbeten certificate. In the ' same season Manncns won for Porter tss I Prince of Wales Stakes at Ascot, and ifchc Great Yorkshire Stakes; Calveley the ! Chester-if-ld Cup: Goblet ran a dead-Sea» | with Lord Rosebcry's Epsom Lad for* | Biennial at Ascot; and others who I helped to swell the total were .Good Luck, Frontier .'Ascot Derby). Elopement, Simon Dale, and La Roche. Frontier was subsequently sold to the French Government for UOOOsovs. The Duke oi Westminster headed the list of winning owners in that year with £-3,965. and lit was 'but a few days subsequently to the termination of that particular racing season that his Grace died. Flying Fox did not again appear in public. In. the followine March the colt was*sold t.) M. E Blanc" for 37,.i00._rn5. and his success at, the stud was from the fir?t remarkable. The Duke's horses in training were sold at Kingsclere. and for nineteen lots 70,440gns were realised. The actual amount earned by Flying Fox during mo two seasons on the Tun" was 4_.09&.0v., his only defeats being tbe two mentioned. As may easily be imagined, the deata of his owner considerably affected the Kingsclere establishment, particular." I the rule which renders void all nomina-

tions. Tt may be interesting to here that from 1882 to 1599 inclusive, I during which time Porter had charge i>_ I the Duke's racing stud, the yellow jacket and black cap had been carried Ito victory on no fewer than 2ii4 occasions, and stakes were won for the Duke amounting to £260.281, this sum. of course, being in addition to the largo amounts placed to the credit of the other patrons of the Kingsclere establishment. ! During the many years that Mr. was master of the Kingsclere stable ha prepared many famous horses, the greatest -being the mighty Ormonde. His first Derby winner was Sir Joseph Hawley's Blue Gown, in 186 S. Then came tho late Duke of Westminsters Sriotover (ISS2), Sir Frederic Johnstone's St. Blaise (1883), the late Duke of Westminster's Ormondo (1888), Sir James Miller's Sainfoin (1890), Sir Frederic Johnstone's Common 1891), and the late Duke oi Westminster's Flying Fox (1890). Ormond. and Flying Fox also won the T»'o Thousand Guineas and ..t. Leger. Ormonde was never beaten on a racecourse, and was sold to Don Juan Boucan for £12,000, and resold to Mr. J. O'Brien Macdonagh, an American, for __ 31,250.