TURF NOTES.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 218, 13 September 1924, Page 21

TURF NOTES.

(By WHALEBONE.) !' For three years in succession Tracery ] has figured as the sire of the Goodwood .' winner. Flamboyant, Triumph, and t leresina all being by the Cobhain stallion. 1 Sir Charles Hyde has presented Mc- < Lachlan. jun.. with a silver cup as a . memento of the youngster's success on ] Dark Fox in the fun at the recent i Bilbury Club meeting at Salisbury. After his defeat at C'hantilly by ! Xiceas M. J. D. Cohn derided to take j Sir Gallahad 111. nut of training. "The : Lincolnshire Handicap winner will be j sent to the stud, where he will rest prior , to taking up his duties next season. An apparatus for broadcasting the numbers and riders of the runners for , the various races has been installed on i the main number board at Aintree, and it is intended to extend the innovation to the number frames in the enclosure and \the paddock. < Although Lord Glanely started the j season in F.ngland with a big string of j two-year-olds, Skysail is his tirst winner. The daughter of Skyrocket won the j Henry VIII. Two-Year-Old Stakes at i Hurst Park from end to end. Xevsky Prospect, the favourite, weakened at the distance, and was passed by Kilindini. At the meeting of the Xational Hunt Committee (says the London "Sportsman") the'new rule as to jockeys' skull caps, proposed by the stewards, was adopted, am. comes into operation on October 1. It is as follows: 127. X'o rider shall be weighed out for, or ride in. any race fother than at a bona fide hunt meeting i unless he is wearing a skull cap of the pattern approved by the stewards of the Xational Hunt Committee. The Liverpool Summer Cup, won by Pharos, is one of the oldest handicaps in the "Calendar." It was founded 96 years ago, and was originaUy decided over three miles and a distance. This was reduced to two miles in 1529, and this remained the journey until 1565, when it was reduced to a mile and a-half. The present course —one mile and two furlongs and 170 yards—was resorted j to in 18S7. The race has been won by I many good animals, notably General ; Chas'se, Charles XII., Pretty Boy, Con- j troversy, Maxmilian, Sandiway, Satiety, Veracity, Father Confessor, Xunthorpe, Dinna Forget, Bachelor's Button, Middlethorpe, and his dead-heater Perdita JX

England expects every man to do h_3 lutv, and an Aintree crowd expect.ord Derby's colours to figure promilentlv in the chief races there (remarks he "'Sportsman"'). On July 25 the table rose manfully to the occasion, iurnt Sienna winning the Croxtetn -takes and Pharos l'terally cantering iway with the Summer Cup. Four silver hunt racing cups have >een stolen by thieves, who entered Jreat Wilbraham Hall, Cambridge- ■ liire. The cups, which are the pro>erty of Mr. George Long, are inscribed -espectivelv,' "Xewmarket and ThurloW Li<'Tit-Wei-ht Race." "University Drag steeplechases, Graffham, 1922," "Lady ~t. Ives Challenge .Cup." and "Pandigo First Cup at Caxton. 1014." The question of adopting the startingrate for races under Xational Hunt. Rules was considered at the meeting of :he X.H. Committee in England recently, md it was resolved that on and from 3ctober 1 next all races at meetings set out in Appendix A to the Xational Hunt Rules be started by a startingsate approved by the stewards of tho National Hunt Committee. The entries for the Irish classic races of 1925, which closed at the end of July, are highly satisfactory, and slightly above the average of recent years." Substantial English support ha 3 been accorded all five races, there be'.ng 140 from cross-Channel owners, and amongst the nominators are Hi 3 Majesty, Lord Astor, Lord Londonderry-, ": rd LasceTes, Lord Furness, and air Edward Hulton. Mr. G. M. Currie, of Wanganui, has received a letter from the British Bloodstock Agency, stating that Old Pip, by Limond, has won two more good race 3 in France, making- three times thi3 season—one on May 10. at Le Tremblay, the Prix Solon, 0000 francs, 2000 metres; and on June 11 at the same course, the Prix Mesine Aguado, 20,020 francs to the winner, 2150 metres. Old Pip is apparently a good colt. Pharos, looking marvellously well, better, in fact, than at any time previously this season, was a strong favourite for the Liverpool Cup, and fully justified the confidence reposed in "him. In the race he wa3 always with the leaders, never be : ng out of the first three, and entering the straight he pulled his way to the front and came right away from the rest oi the field, Weston standing up in his stirrups as he passed the judge's box. Diophon would not proceed to the post for the Sussex Stakes at Goodwood recently until he was piloted by a policeman's charger. He got off all right, but lost a little ground nearing the top of the hill. However, he made this up, and although he once assumed command, he failed to retain the advantage, be'ng run out of it by Burslem. On that form it would appear (says an English wrtier) that George Hulme must have been lucky to win tne Two Thousand Guineas on the Aga Khan's chesnut, who would not. appear to be in love with racing. The Aga Khan was not present at Goodwood to see Teresina lift the cup. Victor Smith rode a nicely-judged race on her, tracking the heels of Xorth. Bucks and Leonaido until making the hill in the line for home, where he sent the daughter of Tracery up to Leonardo, and once Teresina had Eecnred the mastery she never looked like being beaten. Smith has quite a style of his own (says an English writer), but, 'though not as elegant in the saddle as either Sloan, Danny Maher, or Donoghue, he Is nevertheless effective in getting the best out of his mounts, a3 he unquestionably did on the What-eombe-trained filly. Georjre Archibald, who rode London Cry, belonging to His Majesty the King, to victory in the Goodwood Stakes recently has seen as much of the world as one here and there, having ridden in America, the land oi his birth, and several Continental cities. A couple of years ago he went to England as first jockey for the Clarehaven stable. He was not long in making good, as he won the City and Suburban on Paragon, following this success up by another on St. Louis in the Two Thou/and G-aineas. He was, of course, also on the back of the disappointing Town Guard in the Derby and other races. It is only recently that he has worn the King's livery, in which he won the July Stakes at Xewmarket on Runnymede. Mr. L. Schaveriec, who won the Stewards' Cup with Compiler at Goodwood recently, does not race on an extensive scale, and the Goodwood victory is his most noteworthy so far. His trainer. Sir Charles Xujent, has, on the -other hand, had a lengthy rareer. Sir rharle-, trained Drnmcree, the Grand Xational winner of 1903, but during later years he has devoted his : attention to Tllurninaror, the w : nner of the Royal Hunt, Cup of three years j aero. Lister, who rode Compiler at ' Goodwood, and al-o when the colt won at Newbury this season, has ridden for several sta'r-les. He w2s apprenticed to R. Day. for whom he ro<:e seve.-al winner-, while he was al-o as.-ociated with Lines' hor=es. Nowaday? he mostly rides for Sir "Robert Jard'ne and Sir Charles Xugent's patrons. Last year , Lister rode 25 winners, while hi- "suc- | tesses to date this -eason total fifteenWhile "Cup Day" retains its position as the greatest of the four, in the view of those who rejrard Goodwood more of a,social than a racii !:r function, the race I itself seems to have shed some of its former .lory (remarks "Sporting Life"-. The trophy is certainly not coveted by owner? to anything- like the same d«_Tee as that at Ascot, and we r.o longer have fields of the highest type of" stayer. Teresina (who won this "season i proved the best of tiie half-dozen competitors who were nothing better than handicappers when all is said and done. Certainly, the best of them would not' be placed on the same plane as many I winners or the past, amon. whom maT |be included Priam, Virago, Favonius, - , Doncaster, Hampton, Kinesem, Isonomv , St. Simon, The White Knight, Radium and Son-m-Law. The Goodwood Cup v S am ° ng the oldest ™ the Calendar," having been initiated in A. feud between two bookmakers had intenered with the harmony and ou s i____ induced r^ g " - At last a Pacemaker induced the pair to meet at a little tC'r; the stage of afL P^ OC \ " gS Came ' the mediator, alter much pressure, persuaded ore of the couple to propose the health of the other, which he did in- savin- too graciously: * ' "Here's wishing GohLiein en-rvthing he wishes me.'' ' There he goes," shouted GoidsteiHi "_*g___i_u_ it ail over ~