TURF NOTES.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 213, 8 September 1923, Page 21

TURF NOTES.

(By WHALEBONE.)

Isle of Wight did not make the reserve placed upon him when he came ! under the hammer at Newmarket last j month, but he was subsequently pur- ! chased privately from Lady Cunliffe- ! Owen on behalf of Mr. A. H. Barton. J Isle of Wight joins W. Paynes string jat Burgh Heath to be schooled for ! hurdle races. Senor Unzue has purchased Class i Idol, who this season has won the Great ; Metropolitan Stakes at Epsom and the ; June Rose Handicap at Sundown Fart. i The horse is now in France, where he ! was sent with some of the yearlings i Senor Unzue failed to sell at the First i July Sales at Newmarket. After his [ racing career Glass Idol will be sent to the Argentine as a stallion. The smart Trish horse Irish Hope, who won the Baldoyle Derby, lias been pur- ! chased by the American sportsman Mr. iA. K. Maeomber. who races extensively in France, and whose horses are trained by Murphy, near Maisons-Lafiitte. It is said that" £8000 was required for Irish ; Hope, but the sum paid has not trans--1 pired. although it is reported to be a record figure for a horse in training and running in Ireland. Irish Hope, who was purchased at Ballsbridge sales by Parkinson for his patron, Major O'Malley Keyps, for 135 guineas when a yearling, is not likely to run again in Ireland. He will be shipped to Prance during I the next few days. It is evidence of pronounced degeneration when horses like Goldendale and .Southern are. incapable of winning even a selling race, a task which both essayed Jat Newmarket, says an English writer. At one time Goldendale looked like developing into a first-rate .handicapper, if nothing more; while Southern was talked about in connection with the Derby of his year. By error, however, he I was struck out of the Epsom classic. As la two-year-old Southern won the Grim- ' crack Stakes, as a consequence of which his owner. Sir Abe Bailey, was privileged to make Ihe speech of the evening at the subsequent dinner of the Gimcrack Club. The horse has been a virtual failure since the days of his youth, like many another .before him. J The Aga Khan, the head of the Indian I Moslems, spent a lot of money last year 'in England in buying high-priced yearlings, but it looks as if he is not going to lose on the transactions. In Mumtab Mahal—or, in English, The Chosen of the Palace —he has easily the best j two-year-old filly seen out, and when Diophon (Grand Parade —Donnetta) won the July Stakes at the Newmarket July Meeting, English writers considered that he also owns the best colt. jThe youngster was bred by Lord D'Abernon, and was sold to his present owner as a yearling for 4000gs. He is a halfbrother to that great mare Diadem, who during the war period won all sorts of rich sprint events, but was sadly overworked on the turf. ; Stanley Wootton was having a great time in England just prior to the last mail leaving. He won three races at Folkstone, and then won races at Brighton and Sandown Park almost immediately afterwards. Wootton trains for several well-known owners, and has a very large team of horses in work at Epsom. An English writer commenting on his successes, said: "He and his friends who favour betting at startingprice must have won a great deal of money, for when you arc winning well, as they are, you are not afraid to play with other people's money. Thus did they multiply it several times. One of Wootton'a starting-price commissions must have found its way back to the course, as I noticed that when one of his horses won a race at Brighton he suddenly shortened." ALF. J. McFLINN. Alf. J. Mc-

Alf. J. McFlinn, one of Auckland's prominent "knights of the p i g s k i n." He may not be quite so widely known as Steve Donoghue, but those who put their pennies on any moke Alf. steers are satisfied that thpy will get a good run for their money. Alf. is a versa ti 1 c sort, equally good

*seZf' cither over fences or on llie fiat, and lias a Great Northern Hurdles on Cynic to his credit. He has also ridden Dessert Gold and other star performers on the Hat. Still going strong, he promises to ride maliv more winners.

i As the stallions 'doing .stud duty in ! Xew Smith Wales this season include i ! RarrhcUon (l>y The Tetraroh) and Chry-I solauri (by Kui Horude), the following from the' pen of Mr. F. Becker, wellknown in England and America us a J writer on breeding topic.*, will be of | interest here: 'it can convincingly bo I j demonstrated from the General 'Stud \ j Book that Tin. Tctrarch is not able to j ■produce bay stork to a chestnut mare.! jTlie produce of The Tcirarch's alliance j with chestnut mures without an excep- I ' tion arc grey or cliMtnut. The Tct- j '. rsreh's grey colour, therefore, is musk-j . injr tlir chestnut colour. The same j ! hereditary constitution all superior | prey sons of Le Sancy possess, to name I j only Le Samaritain and Roi Herode. . .Statistics clearly make out that the I grey :iii<l chestnut scions of Le Sancy are a different class from the bays and | ; are much better for that. Likewise, , i The Tctrarch's and Hoi Herode's bays ;are. penerally speaking, inferior to! their preys and cliestnuta —to the class represented by The Tetrarchs two St. Ix-ser winners, the srey Caligula and the chestnut rolemarch." Pilot adds: — '"From this it would seem that when C'hrysolaus's progeny commence racing jwe shall be safe in looking to his greys j and chestnuts for hest results, and presumably it will bo the saino with Sarchedon! The writer I quote says that not one "bay by The Tetrarch has I proved a really "first-class horse." j