SPORTING.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 17985, 31 January 1924, Page 12

SPORTING.

NjuiUi.iuon.i, for the Canterbury Jockey Club's Summer Meeting close ■:i .H p.m. to-morrow, and at the same time lir.-it forfeits are duo for the Middle Park Plate.

Acceptances for the Dunedin Jockey Chi!/* Autumn Meeting are duo tomorrow, when subscriptions for the D.J.C. Champagne- Stakes also fall due. Nominations for ihe Tologa Bay Jockey Club's Annual Meeting are due to-niyrrow, on which day also acceptances are Aw- U>t the Kotorua Itacing Club's Annual Meeting. K;:mont llac.ng Club's hummer MtfM',, To Kuiti Rai-.ing Club's Annual ...-i.-f.iiig, and Cisborne Hating Club's .Summer Meet.\.ji!iination& for the Otahuhn Trotting Club's .Summer Meeting close tomorrow. A pavmenu of 2 sovs is due to-mor-row üb'i-.oou for the Champion Stakes, to be decided at the Metropolitan T.C.'s Kasur Meeting. Nominations for the Clifden Pacing Club's Annual Meeting close on Satur-

.Nominations for the "Wanganui Jockey Club':-. Autumn Meeting close on Monday. .13v tho Uliinaroa. for Sydney, on Fridav* '.rotlirr to Desert Gold, was shipped r,o Sydney, together -with a number of urn-need young horses and ponies purchased by their shipper during the last, few weeks iji the Waikato. Advent, vi-hr. beat Bonnie Hill in the Poroutuuhao Hack Hurdles at foxton by a narrow margin, was sold previous'to tho race to Mr J. H. Burns, the price being £l5O, with contingencies.

Mr C. E. Elgar, owner of the O.J.C. Derby winner, Black Ronald, is leaving I'or England shortly, and while away ' -will explore the market for wme thoroughbred stock. Oa.ra.woek is a nomination for the jumping races at tho Thames J.C. Ansiual Meeting, but most of the horses are owned in the Auckland province.

Mr W. R- Kemball lias disposed of .several of his horses lately, and All Gold, Semplice, and Kilris -will race in different owners' colours in the future.

Mark Time was kicked by a stable-, mate on the eve of the Wellington Meeting, necessitating his withdrawal from the Cup. It is expected the son of King Mark will be at the post at the Egmont Sating Club's Meeting next week.

Mr P. A. Duncan, a gentleman rider, rode his own horse Ayrovski in the Maiden Race at Foxton, but finished among the also ran. Mr Duncan, it is said, is over 60 years of age. Mr J. 8. McLeod, of Hastings, had the misfortune lately to loso a promising colt foal by Lord Qnex, from that one-time sterling performer Fair Rosamond. Mr McLeod has not had the best of fortune aa an owner-breeder, despite the fact that he has spent a good dead of money and time in the of his hobby. The inter-State visitors at Trentham inchided Mr John Brown, tho Newcastle coal king, probably tho biggest breeder and owner in Australasia, says "Sir Lancelot." His latest trainer is Albert Wood, -whom ho recently started with a team of eight to go on with. Mr Richardson, another visitor, witnessed the first two' days' racing, arid after attending the yearling sale caught the Marama the same afternoon. Mr .Richardson, -who attended the local meeting two years ago, when The Hawk put up the Australasian record, compares, tlfo Trentham track and improvements favourably with anything s>e has seen on the other side. He is a patron of the ex-New Zealander, .Lou .Robertson, hnd has among other horses in work a two-year-old colt by the successful South Australian sire St. Anton from the New Zealand mare Gnidwife (Clanranald —Safeguard). In an interview with another Wellington Pressman Mr Brown expressed the opinion that there will bo a general exodus of New Zealand horses to Raridwick next spring. "I believe racing is going back in New Zealand, due to the fact that there are altogether too many sprints," ho said. Leaving the Auckland express on Saturday, he paid n visit to Trentham, and was' greatly impressed with the quality of the public accommodation, and the general arrangements for the racing. He is convinced that a. number of leading New Zealand jockeys would find a better outlot in Australia, where good riders are wanted.

-Rapine is reported to be quite himself again, and may make his next appearance in the Trentham Gold Cup at fho Wellington Racing Club's Autumn Meeting.

j.hero is ( every likelihood, during the course of the next few years, that an important development with the Irish bloodstock breeding industry will be the opening up of a trade with Sweden and Norway, says a. London exchange. The swedes have placed on extensive order with the Irish Bloodstock Agency for a number of well-bred young mares, who on their arrival in Sweden will be banded over to army officers for sceeplechasmg, and in due course put to the stud. The first draft of mares and geldings to be purchased recently tor Sweden consisted of \h& followingJane Magea (7yrs, by Ben Alder, out of Juliet m brown filly (2yrs, by Loirras out of Albia Bay), mare (6yrs, by Jaeger out of Little Denmark), bay mare ir*fr hy Warml nster, dam by Watershed), ch m (svrs, by Mothers' Birthday out of Miller's Pride), Fly Boy l6yrs, by Flying Orb out of Aidecn), brown gelding (6yra, by General ou„ of Land Lady), and a bay mare" \7yrs, by Brahon). '

Tho sensation of the Wood-stock eales week at Newmarket in' December was t.be Manton sale, and it is truly remarkable that tho late Lord Manton should have laid the foundations of such ;i phenomenal success as the result of ■his first adventure in yearling bloodstock, says 'Tho Special Commissioner" :n tho London "Sportsman." So cood were practically all the mares that it was almost impossible to discriminate amon K them. Tetrabbazia made the highest price when Mr E. H. Leach bought her for 9000 guineas, andshe certainly is a beautiful mare. On the other hand. Love in Idleness, Vith her 7-l M ° r<l ' Was com P--«-atively cheap at ,GOO guineas though she was not £ foal Her foal by Gay Crusader was bought by Lord Glanely for 1700 \j n \ h ? lf inclin «d to thmk that Lord Woolavington cot the hf>si bargain m Blue Lady at 7400 guinea! she came Up first of the really sonsl twnal marcs, and buyers had notSe warmed i;p to thoir work. Later on eho would certainly .have topped 8000 .oewai y. ill not find cause to rerrrot hj£.n ß bought Lady Juror-4?en ffi'Xf value when he »£ti»r .n Law for 8500 suineas. Two %X-mi*;? 11 housh t hy Basil Ja^° Pw™ B ", l,icas —P«rhaps as a mate for ■lapjrus the year after next, and it SS° 5 WUl J isifc Tr«~4 Reason as also may Sister j n Law i-iiere has never been such a sale of mares and foals in this or any other tK7' * a ??, such , records «s that of the K,« a t Falmouth sale fade into inMgmiicanco by comparison with this.

Lag* In reviewing .the flat-racing scasoi Hm iu Tyißluiid, wuch closed'at the one mm <* "Augur," i u the LonH '*««••««« Jim the fbllo"11111 . l .ox.Peotx .Peot that at Whatcomtx. Hi Wm", IS £ tlC f to , tho bought" * bJlt Mumlaz Mahal will train on into

a good middle-distance performer, for the Kempton reverse, though met with i]i very heavy going, must have struck a doubtful note even in the stable, and there is that in the breeding of this charming grey filly which inspires the notion that she may be just one. more to the ranks of brilliant sprinters, yet easily able, like Jthodora and Diadem, to win such a race as the One Thousand. True, The Tetrarch is tho sire of two St. Legcr winners, but even if it be granted that Caligula and Polemarch stayed the Doncaster course better than did others in their respective years, that may not be saying a deal in their favour. In early three-year-old days The Tetrarch was credited, by Persso himself, with being able to liken a stable companion, Land of Song, who was afterwards exported to Australia whore he won the Si. George Stakes at Caulfield and Kssendon Stakes at Fleniington, unto a park hack over a milo and a-half, and Land of Song was useful in public, though ho may have been a laggard at home. But whether Persse or Donoghr.c, who had opposite opinions on the point, was right as to TheTetrarclrs ability to stay the Derby course, ho was a very fast horse. Sundridge .and Polynvelus >eaeh shjowed speed in excess of stamina also. Neither mus a Derby horse, but anon Sundridgo gained fame through Sunstar, while Polj-meius is represented by three Derby winners, although one easily remembers the prejudice there was against Sunstar and Pommern at "the outset, because they were by non-stay-ing .sires. That having been outlived by tiie deeds of the sons, a large number of breeders became impressed by the potentialities of sires which had shown speed on the tracks, and The Tetrarch, upon his retirement to tiie stud, was at once booked up. His contribution to the Turf as a sire of winners of stayers', races, however, stops short at Caligula, Polemarch, Puttenden. Tetrabbazia, Glass Idol, Herod Philip, ,-uid Snow Maiden, which is not an imposing array, while Mumtaz Mahal is the product °f an alliance with Lady Josephine, a pure sprinter whose ancestry is almost solely identified with sprinting. Probably the grey. filly would have won her Kempton race in October comfortably on tho "top of the ground.-"' The soft going seemed to put the brake on her speed from the start, else she miisi surely have stepped further ahead of an animal like Tilphos'sa, notwithstanding the weight she was conceding. The quk-t collapse at the finish it was, however, which .more clearly demonstrated her deficiencies, and I fancy we shall hear, some time during the spring, that, after three-parts of a mile, the stable companion Diophon becomes decidedly the better animal." THE LAKE COUNTY CLUB'S PERMIT. HON. R. F. BOLLAND'S STATEMENT. Mr J. C. Thomson, M.P., who wrote to the Minister of Internal Affairs (the Hon. E. P. Bollard) -with regard to the granting of the permit to the clubs in the North Island, has received the following reply and handed it to the president of the - Eiverton Eacing Club:—

. "I am in receipt of. your letter of tho 10th inst., enquiring the reason why two racing days were taken away from the Otago district and given to the i Auckland Province. In reply I have to inform you that the Lake Couuty Jockey Club, which has not raced for two years, found that it could not successfully carry out a two-day galloping meeting on its own racecourse, and stated that it would be willing to exchange its two-day galloping totalisator license for a one-day trotting license. I referred this proposal to the presidents of tho Racing and Trotting Conference respectively. The president.of the New Zealand Trotting Conference was absent from the Dominion, but the acting-president, Mr John Rowe, wrote mo in reply to my communication to him, agreeing to the proposal, and stating that -he felt certain no objection would be raised, providing the Lake County Jockey Club comforms to trotting rules. The president of the New Zealand Eaeing Conference was, however, not favourable to the proposal, and was of opinion that no permit for racing should be transferred to a trotting meeting or vice "versa unless such transfer was approved by both the Eaeing and Trotting Conferences. The next Eaeing and Trotting Conferences will not be held until July, and to await their decision would mean that nothing would be done during the current racing year, which ends on July 3lßt next. Very pressing demands have been made on me by several racing clubs for an additional day this year in order to get them out of serious financial difficulties. The Cheviot Racing Club forewent its one-day totalisator permit this year, and I grafted it to the Waverley Eaeing Club, which was financially embarrassed. The Dunedin Eaeing District Committee recommended that the Lake County Jockey Club's two-day totalisator license be allocated to the Eiverton Eaeing Club. The position is,. however, that tho Dunedin Eaeing District has already five days' racing, in excess of its quota. In these circumstances I could not agree to the Dunedin District Committee's recommendation. Tho two days have not been permanently taken away from your district, but have been allotted to the Franklin and Matamata Eaeing Clubs for this year only. I agree with tho opinion expressed by you in the last paragraph of your letter that the only satisfactory solution of the whole question of the distribution of totalisator licenses is a reasonable increase in tho number of days racing.'' TE KUITI R.C.'S ANNUAL MEETING. (PRESS ASSOCIATION TFJ.EGRAM.) AUCKLAND, January 30. The following handicaps have declared : TE KUITI CUP, o£ 350 sovs; lim—Kuapupa 9 8; Sir Burnett 8 i; Royul Box 8 3; Numutere 8 2; Prettymsn 8 2; Alfort 8 2; Royal Abbey 7 4; Gold Bud 7 4; Tinohoro 7 4; Glencairn 7 3; Tinokaha 6 12; iiarble Slab 6 12; Infante 6 11; Activo 6 8; Souiterina 6 8; Smoko 68; Sycorax 6 7. STEWARDS' HANDICAP, of 175 sovs; 6£ —Torrleton 9, Finelli 9; Prince Abbey 8 12; Golden Bubble 84; King yum S; iiegent 7 12; Tama-a-roa '7 10; Tinokaha 79; Jolly Gay J 8; Va'xination 7 2; Stammer 7 2; Arran 7 2; Active 6 10; York Abbey 6 10; Pagoda 67; Loca Abbay 67.

FAREWELL HANDICAP, of 125 sova; 5f —Finelli 99; Prince Abbey 95; Go.den Bubble S 11; Gold Kip 8 10; Some Fashion 8 10; King Quia S 7; Tme-.iajia 8 2; Jolly Gay 81; Heisler 79; Vaccination 79; Stammer 7 9; Smoke 7 9; York Abbey 7 3; Shortland 73; Pagoda 7; ~Waip:>to 67; King Neva G 7; Peter Rosa 6 7; Sunny JRO2 67 ; Kiarito 67; Kilcoo 67 ; ilultit 67; Lock Abbey 6 7; Aman'a Queen 6 7; Penduvies (5 7; Erio G 7. HACK HURDLE HANDICAP. of 125 sovs; l^in —Prince Ruius 11; Lari: Hail 10 11; llahgoloiro 10 i; Eoaullua 10 4; Waikawa 9 12; Starland 9 12; Ravrnond 9S; Capstar 9 8; Lady Hill 9 5; Landbkd 9 4; Gay Boy 9 4; Bright Light 9 2; Sam 9; Gay Paris 9; Gallolo 9; Indemnity 9; General Abbey 9; Finlay 9; Kilcoo 9; Colonel Abbey 9; Lucullont 9; Awareka 0; St. Waipa 9; Take Take 9; Salvor 9; Ripplin--9; Pikatmke 9.

MAIDEN HANDICAP, of 100 sovs; 6£— John Dix 9; Wuipoto 8 12; Sunny Rao's 11; ■Whetunui 8 10; Multivo 8 8; Rarakau 8 5; Fiery Lad 83; Colonel Abbey 83; Monastery 83; Wyctta 83; Gold 83; Mxpiu 83 • Streak S3; Major Abbey 83; Rjya! Bonus 83; Quintillian 83: Amana Qjeen 83; Lady Comet 8 3; Monday 8 3; Muri Aroha

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