NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 9817, 28 August 1897, Page 4

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Dummy in to be indulged with a lengthy Sp'-jl. Thn A.J.C. marlc a profit of .CllOO over liiH 1 ., HC.'lriOl). • The Kjjniont Hunt Club races are fixed for September 17lh. It. McTaggart is training Mr J. Colvin'a llooiS lit Wi'.slpnrt. Mr .lamis has he.en re-appointed Ee<TC(;i,vv of the Wc.silu-nd II.C. Mr J. H. .Tuvvitt has rc*ign«.-<l his position on tho committee of the lhmedin J.O. Two Thun<V-rbolU were successful at the Adol-ude K.C. Meeting on August 14th. The Westport .Jockey Club Hie endeavouring to secure Mr J. W. Henry as handicapper. At the last meeting of the committee of the Tinwald R.C. seven new members were elected. The Grand National Meeting left a balance on the right side of between seven aud eight hundred pounds. One, at least, disqualified person was in the paddock at Riecurton on bath days of the National M'-r.-tini;. Tlio Alexandra .jockey Club will give away £153 in stakes at its gathering. During the last racing year the A.J.O. stakes (including sweepstakes, forfeits, &c.) amounted to £3iJ ) 294. Ornament, by imported Order from Victorina, by Orondaga, is reckoned the best three-year-old in America. Tho" Ashburton racing pony Sally has been Bold to siCaristchurchboniface, aud her destination is sai<i to be India. The Trojan ,l>y The Highlander—Maid of Troy, won the Adelaide Grand National Steeplechase on August 11th. Mr Walter Armstrong, owner of Dromedary, has been appointed handicupper to the Taratalii-Carterton Club. Joseph Gardner, the Victorian trainer and jockey, well known in this colony, has taken the Caulfield Club Hotel. 1000 to 25 was taken the other day in Sydney about the .South Australian colt Tapioca, for tho Caulfield Cup. The licensing of bookmakers is a question that will be again discussed by the Wellington R.C at the annual meeting. The proposal which was to be made to the V.R.C. to reduce the fee for losing mounts in jumping races has been abandoned. The tender ot Mr Wilkinson, £116, has been accepted by the Feilding Jockey Club for the erection of a caretaker's house. Ewfilade, brother to Nordenfeldt, was recently sold in Melbourne, and is now the property of Mr A. Cameron, Cranbonrne. The Tasmanian candidate for the New Zealand Cup, Venus, is at Riverton being U-ained, according to our Dunedin ''Special." Fleet Admiral, who is favourite for the 'South Australian Derby, is said to be under a cloud. Tho race ia run for on September let. An Otago owner is thinking of conferring the name of Emerald on a Ruby colt. He should try again as the name is done to death. It is proposed to hold the Wellington R.CV's Winter Meeting after, instead of, as formerly, before the Grand National Meeting. •Greenwell, by M&nton, ran a dead heat with Miss Gladstone for the Kogarah Stakes, six furlongs, at Moorefield on August 7th winning the run off. The tizst two-year-old winner of the season in Australia is Hainaulfc by Pilgrim's Progress, •who secured the Fulham Plate at Adelaide on August 7th. Messrs Naylor and Sprigging are to work the totalisator for the Foxton Racing Club. The club has voted sgs to the Feilding Club for expenses in the cases against the bookmakers. New Zealand Cup candidates, Euroolyefcen, Vonus, Fulmen, Lord Rosslyn, St. Ouida and Mountebank have been engaged at the forthcoming Hunt Club meeting of the Dunedin J.C. , The Westport Jockey Club will give away £430 in stakes at their next meeting. The Westport Cup of lOOsovb on the first day and the Buller Handicap of 75sovs on the second are the chief events. Itienotintended by theV.R.C. to persevere with the proposednewruleprohibitingjockeys from owning horses. The old rule is to be dahered to, wnereby jockeys can own horses by special permit from the V.R.C. committee. Referring to Bloodehot's sale after the Melbourne Cup for £300, a New York paper seta oat the tabulated pedigree of the son of Maxim and Iris and says, " Suoh a horse would easily fetch from ,£I6OO to £2000 in this country." Mr Gollan's luck seems to be out at his Stud farm at Mangatarata, Hawke's Bay. We learn that Fair Nell last week foaled twins to Dreadnought, both dead, which is a bad beginning for the season, especially as she was tho only one of three sent to him which proved in foal. Ticaillcrie and Freda are to be shipped from Napier to Auckland on Friday by the Tsracwera on their visit to St. Leger. Florence; McCarthy, dam of Tiraillerie, is a half-sister of Goltee More's dam, and so a colt got by St. Lcger ouftht to be valuable. Names nave been claimed under the new rule a3 follows :—Gr or br yearling filly by Gorton —Mayflower, Hawthorne ; two-year-old ohestnut pclding, by Kemnenfefdb— Huerfana, Royal George ; and aged brown gelding by Voltigeur—Tamatea, Marco Polo. At a committee meeting of the North Otago Jockey Club held on Friday, the following fixtures were decided on :—Spring Meeting, Thursday and Friday, October 21et and 22nd ; Autumn Meeting, Thureday and Friday, March 3rd and 4th. Tho Gore Racing Club made a profit at each of its gatherings last season. This season it is expected there will be nn income of £>00 from license booths, whereas previously the committee had to stand treat to friends, such item costing the club £24 93. The Yaldhurst raaros Corolla, Bellicent, leh Dien and Marion were sent to Eldcrslie on Thursday, the first three on a visit to Gipsy Grand and the other to Stepniuk. Blue Fire was shipped the same day from Lyttelton to Auckland where she is to be mated with St. Lcger. The programme for the annual gathering of the Ohoka and Ejreton Jockey Club to take place on October 7th is advertised in the Calendar this week. The bill of fare is much the same as that of last season, there being, however, alight advances on tho ralno of some of the stakes. On the first day of the Caulfield Grand National Meeting, Locksmith, a brother to Key, won the Trial Stakoa ; Blue Blood, by tho Musket horse Mana, the Moondale Plate ; and Mr W. R. Wilson's Elensive, by Trenton, the Balaclava Stakes. Response finished one of the hut in tho Grand National Burdle Race. The Alexandra Jockey Club is out with ite programme for tho Spring Meeting, which is set down for Ootober Bth. There are eight events oa the card, and a point is made that each race is tcr start at the advertised hour. The beat race is for a £30 prize. The full programme appears in tho Calendar. As heretofore, the Wavorley and Waitotara Racing Club will hold its annual gathering on the Prince of Waloa's birthday. The programme for the same, which is i'iveu in full in the Calendar, is identical with that of last season, £325 being the sum set down far distribution. The raeciing is confined to "hacks." " The Australasian Turf Register " is out rather earlier th&n usual. A copy of the work reached ue this week. Tho Register this time is now compiled, like the "Now Zeahuid Turf Register," more on the lines of " Ruffs Guide," and the latest volume is therefore something like 250 pages less than previous season's. As usual the book is wull got up. The Tinwald R.C. have decided to hold a two days' meeting at New Ye»r, January Ist and 3rd. 262aovs will be given on the firet day to eight events, and 222sovs to the same number of races on the second. The Tinwald Cup, of 60sove, and the Domain Handicap, of 50sove, are the principal events. Full details will appear in the Calendar later on. The programme for the QeraJdine Racing Chib's Spring Meeting is to bo found In the Calendar. There is an increase in the prize money ac compered with last season, and the re-institution of hurdle racing will be hailed with satisfaction by many. The Cup ia endowed to th« extent of 50 Mm, and the leading item on the second day is a £40 stake. H. Knight, owner, and Moran, jockey, OMquali&ocf'at Hokitika over the PoinaettiaWreath nfifair, have been approaching tl»e W cstlami Racing Clab with a view to the /emovia -tit the ban, but as the C.J.C. had Vbe Button to remove MarauV

disqualification, the Westland Club decided it could make no recommendation on the application. Mr Wi Pere has disposed of his interest in the racehorse 1 ? Mahaki and Tanhei to the Hon. James Carroll. It is not the honourable gentleman's intention to race the horses, Iml to keep them for stud purposes at the close of thnir racing career. He therefore, prior to his departure from Gisborne for Wellington, leased them both on satisfactory terms. The son of Ingomnr and Stoppe, Mr Carroll (who is well up in pedigree lore) looks upon :t p < likely to jirov« <t very great succosh at the stud. Tauhei should distinguish herself as a brcod marc, descended as she is from one well represented in colonial stud-boobs, vj;- : AUtuea, the dam of Deoch an DHoris, Dainty Ariel, &c. The president of tho Poverty Bay Turf Club, in moving the adoption of the report at the annual meeting, said :—lt had been the rule on all courses that licensed jockeys got paesea, and the number who got in free, such as trainers, attendants, Ac, was very great. He noticed the chairman of the Conference was forwarding a circular to the Metropolitan Clubs, asking them to notify all the clubs working under them in future to grant passes only to jockeys who were engaged to ride at the meetings, so that the number of free passes that would be given to jockeys would l>e considerably decreased*. It "was also suggested in the circular that any jockeys who did pay a fee and got on the course, and were legitimately eugaged during the day, should have their money refunded. That seemed only fair, bno heretofore the number of these passes granted had been very large, and, no doubt, a number cf the"boy 3, wlio probably did not get one ride in the whole year, had been travelling about from course to course, getting free parses, and making money in other ways on the course, taking advantage of the club and doing harm to the machine, and in other ways. The rule seemed to him to be a good and useful one, and when the circular was received he had no doubt it would be acted up to by the committee. A conference of delegates from unregistered clubs in the Taranaki district was held at Stratford on August 12th, those present being Messrs Stoddart and Hastie (Kaponga), Canning and J. Lynn (Te Roti), Crocker (Okiawa), Lucas (Tarata), Kelleher and Pearson (Toko), Phillips and Meredith (Strathmore), Kaye and Pollock (Stratford) Mr Stoddart was"voted to the chair and Mr Canning appointed secretary pro tern. It was decided that an association, to be called the District Racing Association, be formed. The following resolutions were then carried :— That any horse nominated for a registered meeting within nine months of any unregistered meeting cannot run at such unresisted meeting ; That the meetings be left open to any horse ; That any club giving over £50 in stakes pay the handicapper 5% of the stakes and that no fee from any club be less than £2 2s ; That Mr Crocker be appointed handicapper ; That no pony be allowed to start unless the owner can produce a certificate of measurement from the handicapper and that such certificate of measurement shall be good for twelve months from the date of issue except in case of horses under four years of age ; That a iockey's license fee be 10s 6d, obtainable from the secretary of any club, the said fee to be paid over to the secretary of the Aasooiation towards its expenses ; That each affiliated club contribute £1 Is to the funds of the Association, that protests be £2 and if not upheld shall, together with fines, become the property of the Association ; That the minimum weight for ponies and hacks be 7st and hurdle racers 9st; That jockeys riding fees shall be 15% for winning mount in hurdles, 10s for a losing mount, flat races 10% for a winning mount, with a minimum of 5s for a losing mount ; That each bookmaker should be charged £2 2s for entry on a course; That three members of the central committee be a quorum. It was fixed that meetings of the Association be held in Stratford on the last Saturday of each month.