TURF NOTES.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 301, 22 December 1923, Page 8 (Supplement)

TURF NOTES.

(By WHALEBONE.)

I A brother to the A.J.C. Derby winner, Mountain Knight, is now being trained :at Randwick by R. O'Connor. The new ! arrival has been named Mountain Chief. j Owing to dry weather in the north of i Xew South Wales, race meetings are j being cancelled. The last fixture to be j abandoned is a two days' race meeting which was to be held "at Guyra. The ! entries received were not sufficient to enable the club to proceed. Mrs. E. L. Ralli, of Woodlands Park, Leatherhead, will join the ranks of lady owners next year. Mrs. Ralli has sent Stanley Wootton at Epsom two yeari lings purchased from the Cobham Stud, j The youngsters are Grey Cub, a grey ! filly 'by Grey Fox IL—Cooya, and | Friendly Pat, a promising chestnut colt Iby Radiant—Modify. I The Maharajah Jam Sahib of New- | anagar gained his first success on the I turf when Raysdael won the Harewood i Handicap at Doncaster on October 25. I "Ranji." as he will always be affecj tionately known, is not the only famous cricketer who has owned horses, others I including Mr. E. M. Crosse, the Northants captain, and "Ted" Arnold, the former Worcestershire professional. Zev will probably go to England next year, according to a promise made by his owner. Mr. Sinclair, at a dinner given by Major Belmont to those closely connected with the race between Zev and Papyrus. He said he would try to send his" horse over if England wanted him and Zev was in good condition. Admiral Grayson, the owner, of My Own, in a telegram expressing regret at be in. unable to attend the dinner, stated that he hoped My Own and Papyrus would meet in the Ascot Cup next year. Such nomenclature as that of the Sandown Foal Stakes winner. Daughter-in-Law, is perhaps hardly to be commended (says an English writer), as, with each succeeding process it becomes more involved. She is by out of Clerical Error, a daughter of ! Stolen Kiss, dam of the good two-year-lold-Straitlace (also by Son-in-Law), and j the Newmarket Stakes winner, Somme I Kiss. Formerly she carried the colours lof Lady Compton-Vyner. but it is at least appropriate that she should earn |her important success for Sir Abe I Bailey, who, of course, owns her sire, ; Son-in-Law. '■ Zev the conqueror of Papyrus at Belmont. Park, was beaten by In Memoriam on November 3 in the Latonia Championship for a purse of 50,000d01. on a muddy track, at Louisville. Kentucky. The race was run over a mile and six furlongs, and Zev started favourite. In Memoriam got away first, then gave place for a time to Zev, but eventually succeeded in regaining the lead, and won by four lengths. Zev finished second, and My Own, the "reserve" for the Papyrus match, third, another six , lengths behind. The winner's time (says the "Central News") was 3.0 4-5. Arcade, the first conqueror of Mumtaz Mahal, made his reappearance in the Dewhurst Stakes, at Newmarket on November 1. but three others were preferred to him in the wagering. They were Hurstwood, Bucks Yeoman, and Salmon Trout, and all finished in front of Arcade. Salmon Trout, who had just scrambled home from Windward at the last meeting now showed himself in a much improved light, making all the running and winning very comfortably from Hurstwood. Thus did the Aga Khan's colt take his revenge upon Arcade for the defeat of his more distinguished stable companion, Mumtaz Mahal. If a vote were to be taken on the question of which is the worst racehorse in training, probably Sea Princess would be returned at the top of the poll, says an Australian writer. Now an aged mare, she has raced four or five seasons, yet is still a maiden! The optimism and pertinacity of her owner certainly deserve better reward. Sea Princess is now being tried over hurdles, but she promises to be an even greater failure— if that were possible—as a hurdle racer than she has been as a flat racer, and there appears to be nothing now for her but the shafts of a buggy, or retirement to the stud. Sea Princess will never make a jumper. She scrambled over several hurdles recently, tailed off before half a mile had been covered, and then baulked and lost her rider at the back of the course. There has been an important development in regaid to racing in the Riverina of late. Formerly, though the big clubs, Albury, Wagga, Cootamundra, etc., worked tinder A.J.C. rules, the majority of the small centres were affiliated with the A.R.C. Latterly, however, there has been growing dissatisfaction among these clubs, which culminated in a wholesale breaking away, many clubs leaving the A.R.C. and joining the A.J.C. Lately Griffith joined the latter organisation, and Leeton and Yenda followed suit. Barellan and Whitton intend to join it also, and within a few weeks there will be a chain of A.J.C. clubs from Cootamundra South and from Junee to Hay. This will permit of the running of "a series of meetings, enabling the clubs to secure better entries and horses. Australian racing has lost one of its most prominent figures in the death of Dr. W. 11. Lang, who died after a short illness in a private hospital at Wangaratta. Dr. Lang, who was a brother of the famous author, Andrew Lang, was born in 1850 in Scotland. He came to Australia from Selkirk, Scotland, over 30 years ago, and settled at Corowa, N.S.W . He built up an extensive practice in that town, but had to retire owing to declining health. While at Corowa Dr. Lang formed the Brocklesbv Stud, and bred a number of horses, including Key Cross. Key's Master, Fotheringav, and Port Cullus. Although a keen lover of horses, the late handieapper was never known to bet. Re was originally appointed handieapper to the V.A.T.C, and in 1010 was given a similar position in the \.R.C. which he relinquished on liecomin- handieapper for the Williamstown Rncin. club. He retired from that club in 191(1. and again took up the posi- • ion of handieapper for the V.R.C bringing out the wei.ht* for the Melbourne tun in the same year. He continued to handicap for the latter club up to the .time of his death.

Acting on the advice of a London specialist, Herbert Jones, the Kin-s jockey, will go to South Africa tins winter to recuperate. He intends to return to England about April, and. all going well, will be seen in the saddle again next season. Sword Play, with Donoghue. fresh from his American trip, in charge, was ■ expected to carry top-weight successfully in the Old Nursery at Newmarket on : j October 31, but he made no show, while ; j another much-fancied one, Mr. Bliss, was ! j left with too much to do, and could ; i never get on terms with Paddy, trained .: by Basil Jarvis, who had returned the , j previous day with Papyrus from the States. The colours of the Earl of Coventry, . I who won the Cambridgeshire on October . j 31, by aid of Verdict, were first re»i- ---; | stered 66 years ago (in 185S) as the loTn* | familiar combination of "brown, blue ; i cap," which, iv the early "sixties." was I I carried to victory in successive Grand . i Nationals by Ertiblem and her own ' I sister, Emblematic. No more popular i victory than that of Verdict, could ever have been achieved. The winner is by • the "H.B" horse, Shogun. The narrow-margin defeat of Epinard • in the Cambridgeshire was a bitter disappointment to the French visitors, of i whom there were perhaps a large number i of both men and women than have ever : j before been seen on an English race- , course, but as a result of the raiie a • bigger amount of money, which would otherwise have crossed the Channel, re- . mains here, for everybody connected : with Epinard had been'particularly con- , fident. Legend, who is a splendidly-bred colt, , by John of Gaunt out of Lesbia, used [ to belong to Sir Hugo Cunliffe-Owen, , but that gentleman, tiring of his eccen- • tricities, disposed of him privately to i Mx. James de Rothschild, for whom he , carried off the Duke of Cambridge Han- [ dicap at Newmarket in July. Though i not favourite for the race he won at Newbury, the Beckhampton Handicap, on October 23, the colt was well backed, , and there are far more unlikely con- ; tingencies than that he will follow the . example of his owner's previous Cambridgeshire winners, Brigand and j Milenko. ; One of the most gratifying features .I of the season is the success of the bor»e3 I carrying the Royal colours. His , Majesty, at the end of October, oeeupied J'ninth posit m in the winning table, and j! with ordin* ry luck should beat his pre- , |vious best year, 1914, when he won about ,! £11.750. He has approached within £400 of that sum. Lord Derby seems to be assured of first place in the list, as he has a lead of something like £7000 . over the Aga Khan, whose horses have , not done quite _o well daring the . autumn aii in the earlier p_rt of the year. As to the .jockeys, Elliott had again gone to the head of affairs. Lord Astor's colt Bright Knight has all , the makings of a good horse. The son . of Gay Crusader was left with such a lot of ground to make up in the Moulton Stakes at Newmarket on October 31, ' owing to Beresford setting up a long ; lead, that it did not appear possible for • the Manton colt to reduce the gap. Ad- ' mirably ridden, however, and racing j home very gamely, Bright Knight ultiI mately won by a neck, though such a j near thing was it that a leading penciller laid 100 to 10 on Beresford as the two horses passed the post. The King's horse, Bowood, in finishing fifth for the Newbery Autumn Handicap, ran quite as well as was expected, ' and in the next race the Royal livery was actually carried to victory. The successful animal was Resinato, a nice colt, by Corcyria, who had only been out once previously. The youngster clearly profited by that experience, as he wore down the hot favourite. No Quarter, from the distance in thoroughly workmanlike style. , One of the most soundly backed horses I in the Duke of York Handicap at Kemp- ( ton Park, won by Poisoned Arrow, was i Daughter-in-Law, but Sir Abe Bailey's filly who was earring a 71b penalty, i . could get no nearer than sixth. On • October 26th at Sandown Park she easily j won the valuable Foal Stakes after per- , mitting Cherry Brook to assume a sub- . stantial lead. Daughter-in-Law- was . ridden with splendid judgment by Michael Beary. who did not call upon . his mount until nearing the di-..'anec. I A New York message to the '"Herald's" I Paris edition states: In spite of the : j fact that 70,000 spectators, the largest number of spectators in the history of \ | the American Turf, gathered at Belmont Park for the race between Zev and PapyIrus, the Westchester Racing Association realised a profit of only "_-,2015 dollars. The big purse otfeied for the race and the heavy expenses of bringing Papyrus to America cut down the margin of | profits. The receipts were 230,032 doltlars, and the expenses 207,820 dollars. , I Young Ingham showed nice judgment Jon Mosaic in the October Nursery at , Lingfield, when he dashed the Royal colt ilto the front at the start to get the Lest !of the going in the centre of the track. '| Archibald also came away from the far | trails on Hasty Catch, and after Mosaic jihad appeared to have the beating of the . |favourite, Archibald shot out at the disjtance and scored comfortably. High [jCourt was making up a hit ..f ground Jin the closing stage, and should win a |sprint before the season is out. ,! H.H. Aga Khan is almost as suece-s- ---■ I fill in Prance as in Enarland. His colt ;Nieeas by Sundridre —Nike is not quite ,\'va. the first fli.ht. but was sent tc S ii" ■ and won the Grand Prix > >a.nt , Sebastien, worth about £4000. Hi/Highness wen about £14.100 lust -ic-ir in . France, and locks to he doing well t ii* season. He certainly deserves it. us '"c .purchased at lea-t a baker's do/en \carl- . ings last a ear for about _21.00t1, anl l several of them have been returned dinners. The highest price ie paid "- 13 \ £7320 for Dandiprat by Sau_ le -" \ from Dame Marie 11., b Alcantara 11.,- ---. but this one has so far nut starte 1. • Dandiprat's dam is a half-si-ter t • . Grillemont, who won .-omc _o.>d ra-ea [ last year, and is continuing his »icce-ses i -his season. It is a branch of t'.'c No. 14 ! family that has not had many s-ucc.s'cs. . the best perhaps being t c Grand Prix .lv ; f onseil Municipal wirner Os.iaii iv U'lO. . His Highness has won several .-.'liin-' . races with his youngster.-, but he » n:U . lose over Montesa. who m.-i him -254' 1 ;as the race he won was cnlv worth --'"\ . and he was entered to be _old for _*00. (■but was purcha-ed for double that __m-