SPORTING

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LIV, Issue 9179, 10 May 1926, Page 4

SPORTING

FIXTURES April 29 and May I.—South Canterbury. April 30, May 1. —Hawke's Bay J. C. Autumn. May 1. —Nelson Jockey Club. May 1, 3. Waikato Racing Club. May A.—Wavcrlev R. O. Winter. May 7, and B.—Marlborough R. C. | Autumn. | May 13. and 15.—Egmont R. C. Win- | ter. | NOTES. i The veteran Victorian horseman and j now successful trainer, J. Scobie, re- ; cently disclosed to a Sydney pressman I bis ideas in connection with, the pre- ! paration of racehorses, adding “Thorn are some trainers to-day whose one idea is the watch. With a featherweight boy and light shoes, they get wonderful times. Running fat horses illt,o condition is not training. Galloping or racing a horse who is not lit. means overtaxing him. In training stayers. I stick to the old ideas and follow the method* of Jam«s Wilson, of Geelong, and Tom Wilson, of Ballarat, the two greatest trainers of longdistance horses 1 have ever know n. It is not exactly time that I wish for a gallop. I want to bee the horse do his task well and come homo well. The proper preparation of a horse for such a race as the Melbourne (Tip is reallv a story with a prologue. You have first to work him up by solid, steady work to a certain pitch, so that ho is in tbo right condition for the hard galloping that I consider a necessary part of the preparation. Long gallops then, and plenty of them. 1 believe in. A house got fit in thife way will generally remain fit for a long time, whereas a. lior.se made ready by a hurried preparation, will lose condition quickly," Dressing. Scohi© considers an important part, of a horse's preparation, and there is a great deal in feeding. “If a' horse won’t eat one thing,” ho added, “give him something that he will eat. Get as near nature as you can. Employ common sense and use your head. That is how I would put it.” Scobie has led in 15 Derby winners in Sydney. Melbourne. Adelaide, and Perth. The Melbourne Gup has fallen to him three times

Though Germany has not always been able to acquire by purchase) Eng-lish-bred horses for use as sires, tall figures are connected with recent transactions in that respect by their agents. According to a, state intent made in answer to a question! in the Prussian House of Representatives, tire sum involved in the purchase- ol the stallion, Poisoned Arrow was £30.000. Poisoned Arrow was got by the English Derby winner Spearmint, and he ranks as a grandson of Carbine.

In these days of speed and the almost magic of wireless, one really should not he surprised at anything (says the Wellington Post). One of the real wonders, however is the rapidity with which the news of a 1 good gallop at Treutlmm travels into ‘Wellington, to people very interested in racing. Some trainers arc inclined to look askance at newspaper men as their natural enemies, but it is becoming increasingly evident that trainers have little to fear from newspapers iln the broadcasting of information about good gallops. The news is received in tbo city before tbo newspapers’ representatives have left the course m* tbo morning’s work is completelv disposed of.

Tail. Who is trained locally. met with a serious accident through barb wire mi the 3rd inst, and it is feared will have to ho destroyed (says the Opotiki Herald)

Siir-o the Sydney Easter sales George Price has secured two new patrons in Moss's S. Brnntoni and N. Falkiner. For the former he will train the Kossend de--Mallinc (illy, and for the latte 1 ' Ihe Magp : e —Queen In god a filly. J Icioie. states an Australian paper, is going to Adelaide for the welgTil-for-age races, and he should win any in which he runs. There now seems little frar • of his being left at the start in anything, ('turns thoroughly understands him, and in one race at Ilamlwick, demonstrated that it was unnecessary to have him directly facing the harrier in order to get hint away smartly. When l the other horses Jmimed, Heroic, although at a slivlit disadvantage, went with them. Still another good two-year-old Invalids lias been discovered in Victoria. This is It a rou, who won a race at Caulfield recently. He cost KKX) guineas as a yearling, and his dam.Payferro is a sister to Poitrel, by St. Alwyn-e—iPoin-ard. by Metal —Pona, by Gozo. The opinion is offered that Karon will develop into a Derby colt, and it will cause no surprise if he makes a name as a stayer, as he comes from a family which has been noted for stamina