RACING NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 72, 24 March 1923, Page 18

RACING NEWS.

(By "WHALEBOXK")

j A fairly successful racing season wag I passed last year in the Argentine, and interest in Turf matters there continues very keen. Enormous sums passed I through the totalisator, of which the | Jockey Club takes 10 per cent. During itbe year the. Jockey Club distributed at the Palermo meetings £302,308, not including some valuable cups. When (lay Scholar made a mistake at .the water jump in the Paddock Selling ! 'Chase at Windsor, states the "Sporting ! Life." il was at first feared that he had ■broken a leg. but after the saddle had 'been removed he was able to walk away. I However. <n the way back to the stables the horse fell on the road, and a veterinary surgeon was summoned, and it waa found that he had broken his back. The six-year-old was promptly put out of Up misery. There are pronounced Grand Hj, tional prospects about Stonemarten, I who at C.Hiilliel.l. on the concluding day, ! faced big limber for the first time, j writes ''Iroquois." Mr. Leslie Stuart, | a Victorian owner of jumpers, purchased j him in New South Wales early this seai son on the strength of an unbeaten career on country courses last season. On one occasion, at Bligh, he won three races in a day, the first with 12st, the second with List 21b, and the third with 1-lst 71b. He is a tremendously big horse, very powerful, and possesses rar« length of stride. There was a sensation in Bombay at i the end of January when it was j announced that by order of the High ; Court the Sheriff of Bombay had attached the Viceroy's Cup winner, Not Much, and several other horses owned by Messrs. Tulluckchand and ShapurjL Mr. Sangedas Jesiram, the original owner of the horses concerned, placed them some time ago with Messrs. Tulluckchand and Shapurji as security for a loan. Subsequently they became the latter's property. As a result of arbitration and on the application of Mr. M. [Goculdas, the High Court passed a decree against Messrs. Tulluckchand and Shapurji for Rs. 27 lakhs. In pursuance of that decree the 24 horses In possesssion of the latter were attached and sold at auction. The highest price realised was £5400 for the English-bred horse BrixnortL (Wildair —Cuptosser), .his purchaser being Mr. Goculdas. At approximately £1366 Not Much was . I generally considered sold cheaply, but |Ih3 is unsound. Quarryman was sold for £1600, Whispering £1730, Starboard £1230, Sassoon £1530, and Ishallah (an Arab pony famous as a sprinter), £2000. The Maharaja of Kollapur bought seven horses at a cost of slightly over £5000. Prior to Caulfield, Stonemarten had won a steeplechase at Aspendale, hut that was only over brush obstacles, and his connections were not quite sure how he would shape against the more substantial fences at Caulfield. Consequently he was not heavily backed, and started at a good price. Whatever doubts liis connections had, however, were soon set at rest. He jumped beautifully throughout, but pulling hard, i proved a handful for E. J. Mooney, and three furlongs from home was quite sll lengths behind the leader, Bunroy. With a phenomenal run, however, he reduced that advantage in a few strideo, and, taking charge in the straight, wro very easily. Stonemarten, apparently, is a good stayer, and such a dashing jumper and weight-carrier should make his name as a steeplechaser; in fact, he is quit* the most promising one has alien sines Mountain God. Stonemarten is by Varco, who, before being sold to go to Australia was at Mr. J. B. Eeid's Elderslie stud. Told at Fuller's.—l went to see the last Melbourne Cup run. Tt was very hot, awfully hot. Saw a man and hi* wife there. He was a fat man, a very fat man, and it was hot, frightfully hot. By and by the man took off his coat, and his wife said: I "You shouldn't do that; it doesn't look well." The man said: "I don't care; I'm hot." A little while later the man shed his waistcoat, and again the wife strongly objected, and said that he. was disgracing her. But the man again eaid: "I don't care; I'm hot.'' After a few minutes' interval the man removed his collar and tie, and the poor woman, by this time reduced to tears, turned her back on her husband, thereby publicly disowning him. "T don't care." murmured the fat man; "I'm hot, damnably hot." | Almost immediately- afterwards [ihe j Cup race was started, and the shout, "They're off," was heard in all directions. The poor woman fell down in a faint. ! Mr. Warren Hill says: T have made I reference to Tom Jennings in my reI miniscences of "Fifty Odd Years of Pacing," and now 1 come to his ; method of d-aling with two-year-olds. Had John Scott, the Wizard, or Robson, the Prince of Trainers, lived five-and-iwenty years later, they would have probably found it a losing game to compete with Mat and Joe Dawson and old Tom Jennings in .he l raining of early two-year-olds. Tom believed that no iiorse knew 'now to gallop until it was .aught, and the -ooner it was taught ihe beitcr. up to a pom;. His idea was that if you had a good one in the rough lie would become better by stretching him oiu. and many a moderate one would become a good one. Even when they were foals .Ley had lo rough it and learn ... take their own part, and it was really an alarming sight to see some eight or nine colt-foals loose together in a big paddock ..n a day when they had been up.et. and were a bit out of temper. Ihe foal- would herd too. .her in a hunch, arid light like bulldogs, biting, kicking, and squealing ilav after day, until I hey had found their king, and knew which was master. No bleeder ever followed this plan more systematically than Count Lagrange, and f have heard Tom Jennings siv that in nine cases out of ten the king and lead-r of the gallops proved the be,t racehorse. Jhe great champion liladiateur was •"til- though :: bad ..car on hi- off fore foot, ihe result of „„,. „t his battles ''•'■'"'" a foal, ,h..wed lo the end of his :'a.y< bow rearly hi- career was nipped m the bud. Xoman in thet history ,„' ,',.■ injr accompli-bed m.-re surprises on the lun than Tom Jennings when he was 'raining for Count La»ran"c who won thereby enormous fortune's at time*. "It never did they !,„„•, ,„„ , ;„, p , n „ n ,, [-' "' '-acker-. „r make the bookmakers "sit up" so utterly as when the .eat t.ladiateur appeared, to -weep tic board of our class:,. raeM . t „ , irin / Toni Jennings to the hi ? he«t pinnacle of tame and our French neighbours to our level in the racing world.