SPORTING.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LV, Issue 9489, 21 May 1927, Page 4

SPORTING.

TOT A LISATOR DECREASES. The returns from the clubs quoted hereunder from the opening of the season. us compared with their positions before winter racing began twelve months ago. indicate the very considerable shrinkage which has occurred:— Club May. 192 G. May, 1027. £ £ Auckland 707,3(jG 622,271 Wellington 411.85-4 391,533 Canterbury 408,403 457,580 Dunedin 191.942 140,680 Tukapuna -iimOlfc 100.119 Manawalu 205.C71 164,01.5 Wanganui 143,bit- 100,488 [■'eliding 132,023 I05;183 Waikato 122,512 104.083 1 law lobs Lav 104.214 DIM at Marton 117.726 92.003 Taranaki 115,078 95,723 Wairampa 84,070 80.529 Eglilollt 53,873 44,552

NOTES. The hurdler Penury Rose is in work again at Invercargill. Applications for the renewal of jockey’s and trainers’ licenses must 'be lodged by the end of this month. Some of the lading at Hastings is alleged to Jun e been so bail that the horses would have done belter running loose, with the weight made up of lead. There are 26 yearlings at Trenthmn. H. Telford has 8, J. W. Lowe 5, 11. Lorigau 3, Cnpt. Gage Williams 3, S. J. Reid 2, and the following one each —W. Young, T. Young, 11. Pritchard and A. Goodman has just received his youngster, which is a half-sister by Winterbourne to Dainty Step. Winterbourne is a full brother to Danube, being by .Marti:,n —Neva, by Stcpnfak—Whirlpool.

Pilliewinkic, Ballymena and Limerick are from the same family. The Now Zealand trainer, F. D. Jones, topped the list at the A.J.C. Autumn mealing, whore horses under his care won £7611, of which sum Limerick was responsible for £6961 and Battlement for £670. \V. Kelso was next with £7274 and then carnc the ex-New Zealander

George Price, with £2014. Another exNew Zealander, R, D. O’Donnell, also ligured in the list with one race of the value of £732 10s credited to u horse under his charge.

The Canterbury sportsman, Mr 11. A. Knight, who has reaped a golden harvest with Ballymena and Limerick, (wo sons of the V..m> mare Medley, it is interesting to note, bred both Medley and her dam Shindy, says the “Herald.” He can therefore claim an uilrouiul victory. A computation jnade in regard to iho winnings in stakes by Ballymena and Limerick shows that the same amounted to £26,811. In the event of Limerick training on properly, the total is pretty sure to be considerably increased ere he bids farewell to the scene.

It is about as hard to pick a mud horse us to pick a good yearling, but there are a few rules that are worth following. R. J. Mason, who is possibly the must experienced ' trainer now in business, had his own ideas of what constitutes a mud horse, and he founded his opinions on his experiences with Gloaming (says an Australian writer/. “It’s not a matter of stride,said Mason. “I have seen plenty of good mud horses that were long striders. It

is the way that they lift their front feet out" of The mud that makes all the difference. “Take Gloaming, now. He reached out a long way, and when he brought bis front, feel buck lie didn’t bend his knees at

all. He brought his front feel straight back, and fetched about a shovelful of dirt with them at every stride. I could follow’ Gloaming’s track through any field on it wet day by the amount of earth he scooped out of the ground. He never was any good in the mud, and the best mud horses arc those that bend their knees at each stride. As a rule, short-striding round-actioned horses are (he best -"actors in soft going, whilst long striders generally require a linn

foothold. There arc, of course, exceptions to every ride, and it is interesting to read whnt the most successful trainer in Australia and New Zealand has to say in regard to the subject.

'the imported sue SpcUfiome, who arrived m .Sydney recently, was at Messrs William iugus and .Sou’s Newmarket stables prior to being taken to Mr I*. Miller's Kiu-ora Slud, and was inspected by a number of breeders, who were luvourably impressed by Ills appearance. SpelUiurne is a bay, live years of age, st..acting over 10 bauds high, lie is by Spearmint ) the sire of Spearhead, imp.) Ironi Dutch Mary, by William the Third,

Horn Pretty Doily one ol the greatest race mu,res England bus known. Spelmorne acquitted himself well us a three-year-old. Do Umslied third to Zionist and Eoxlaw in the Newmarket Spring Three-Year-Old Stakes, one mile and aquarter, and won the Sandringham Foal Plate, one mile qud a-quarter, the St. George Stakes, one mile and a-quarter, the Duke of York Plate, one mile and aquarter, and the Irish St. Leger, one mile and three-quarters, in Ins races

he carried the colours of Lieutenant-Col-onel Giles Coder, Whose Idly, Cresta Run, won the Thousand Guinneas. Tartan Sash, a three-year-old sister to Reauford, made her first appearance recently in Australian and ran a fair race. Bluefonl has produced three fair winners in Keuilford'by Kenilworth, Blairmore by Shepherd King, and Anambah by Magpie, in addition to Beauford.

At an early hour on race morning the drawer of Bright Sea in the Albury Cup telephoned to a Sydney .Mottling Herald representative asking him to lay the own er £IOOO of the sweep money. An urgent telegram was sent to the Herald correspondent at Albury, and the following reply was ’ promptly received:— Owner Bright Sea appreciates offer, will lake thousand to fifty.” The horse was not placed, but Mr Stan O’Keefe’s (owner) cheque for £SO reached the Herald olfice two mornings afterwards.

The Waikato owner-trainer, H. L. Russell, is contemplating another trip to Sydney with Siaosi, Berinthia, and Mount Marla after the June meeting in Auckland. Siaosi struck himself recently, and is being spelled. The Egmont Steeplechase winner, Llewellyn, is a fine big gelding and IS the ideal ’chaser in appearance (says “Vedette”). When he first appeared it

was pardonable to acclaim him a coming champion, but he lias developed some had habits In races. lie runs about at his fences in a dangerous fashion, and other horses have to give him a wide berth. W. Rennie on Peter Rosa had an uncomfortable experience, tor his mount pulled so hard that he could not keep him behind Llewellyn. The result was that in order to escape being carried off, Peter Rosa was first on one side of Llewelyn and then on the other side. Then Llewelyn carried him right away off the course at the turn. Under those circumstances Peter Rosa, did very well to finish a close second. An inquiry into the happening at the turn resulted in Llewellwyn being excused because he is such a handful. This seems hardly fair to a good-mannered horse who is the sufferer.

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