TURF GOSSIP.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19970, 3 July 1930, Page 12

TURF GOSSIP.

Nominations for the Manawatu Racing Club's Winter Meeting close to-morfow. Mr J. T. Lippiat, of West Australia. was present at the Ashburton Meeting on Saturday, and as a result of Garvary'a impressive finishing run in the Moreton Hack Handicap, he has sine® effected his purchase, and the Sutala gelding will be shipped this week with other purchases made, in the north by the visiting sportsman. The brood mare Charmilla, dam of Malmsey and Charmeuse, has been acquired from Mr W. Deans through Pyne, Gould. Guinness, Ltd., by_ Mr G. Hall, owner of Charmeuse. Charmilla is reported safe in foal to Rosenor.

The Reefton owned Tukn is likely to do well at Trentham. should he strike a soft track. He is an exceptionally fast beginner, and can muster up n turn of speed early, but in his recent races has failed to finish on. He n® B done some solid work sine® being under the direction of W McDonald ait Riccarton, but he will be all the better for the race he will have on Tuesday. McDonald is unable to go north # owing to having two other horses in the stable, and Takn will be in charge of his ridir. C; McCarthy. Moratorium is again in active work at Riccarton. He was qualified this season, and the intention is to race him in hunters" flat races later on.

Proud Knight will soon rejoin K. Longlev's strinsr at Riccarton. He was gelded during his recent lengthy spell, and promises to be much more robust as a five-year-old than previouely" 1 The well known horseman J. Campbell, who has been off the scene as a rider for some eighteen months, nut has been associated wjth his wife in the care of her team, has been recommended for a jockey's licence by the Canterbury District Committee.

Although the acceptances in some of the events at the Wellington Racing Club's Winter Meeting thinned out the fields, the total. 120 for the eight races, is only six below that of year.

The following racinsc clubs have made application to the New Zealand Racing Conference for an extra day s totalisator license each during the coming season: —Buy of P'entv Franklin. Rotorua, Thames. Waikouaiti, Dannevirke. Optmake, Stratford. Taranaki, Vfhverlev, Carterton. Levin, and Masterton. 'ln regard to toe Waikouaiti Club's request, the tion has been recommended by the Dunedin District Committee.

Swahilli, winner of the Port Phillip Hurdle Race at Williamstown (Victoria) on Saturday is the * u " n! f favourite for tfie V .R.C. Grand National Hurdle Race, to be decided on Saturday next. If he should capture that event, it will be yet another milestone in the successful turf career of his owner. Mr M. Keleher. Mr Keleher started as a newsboy in the streets of Melbourne, but gradually amassins money, he launched out as an owner of racehorses. In 1913 his candidate Stalwart ran third in the Australian Cup, and carried off three hurdle races in succession in the early part of 1925. Another hurdler .he owned was The Governor. Swahilli will not suffer for lack of good horsemanship in the National, as nis rider, W. Howson, is at the top of the cro«scountrv jookevs' riding list in Victoria this season.

Sydney papers to hand state that Tom Pinch is one of the most discussed candidates for the Epsom Handicap, and is also on the front line of the "long-shot" Caulfield Cup quotations (before the weights were declared) in companv with Phar Lap. Others well in the Caulfield Cup fibres are Amounis. Glare, Carradale. Limerick. Nightmarch. Soulton, Tarsho.and Paquito. For the Melbourne Cup Phar Lap is lone favourite, followed by Calmond (brother to Mollison), Carradale, Chide. First Legion. Limerick, Nightmarch. and Veilmond. Since the New Zealand a Stud Book (Volume 1) was published in 1900, the cost of printing and compiling the eleven volumes to date, including that now being printed, has run into £7763 3s 2d, while the proceeds from sales have amounted to £4455 14s lid. The value of stock on hand is assessed at £2330 6b. bo that the net cost to the Conference, providing stock is worth nominal valne, ha« been £977 Ss 3d.

At the monthly meeting of the Canterbury District Committee this week, a provisional trainer's license was recommended to R. B. Berry; jockey's licenses to James Callahan, James Campbell, and W. C. Fielding (the last-named conditionally for three months); and a permit to train his own horse without a license to T. J. Wallis. A. E. Lee's jockey's license was cancelled.

The transfer of the two-year-old filly Arajean, by Arausio, from Jeanne Laddo, from C. Jones to J. Sullivan, was approved. Programmes were, approved for the Brackenfield Hunt Point-to-Point Races (July 26th) and the Chatham Islands Jockey Club (December 29th).

In New Zealand the idea must obtain (says the Sydney "Referee") thai there are trainers who tell more than they should to people other than the owners of the 'horses in their stables. As a result the following motion, proposed by the Licensing Committee. is to come before the Racing Conference: —"No trainer shall give any information respecting a trial or regarding any horse placed .under_ his or any other' trainer's care, training, or superintendence .to any person other than the owner or trainer of the horse." This will also hit those owners who spread their horses round various stnbfes, with the idea of gleaning knowledge concerning other owners' horses. But if the trainer wishes to tell someone who is not entitled to know—perhaps a punter —how is it possible to «top himP The recipient of the information in certainly not going to divulge its source. E. Bartle's three winners at Rosehill on June 21st raises his tally for this season to 68 wins and four deadheats for first. That is easily a record for a jockey on Svdney courses, as last season Bartle just reached the 60 mark in straight-out wins, that also being a record. Bartle is so far ahead of the next on the list. W. Cook, that he has no chance of being displaced before the end of July. Cook has ridden 88 winners in Sydney, and W. Johnstone is third with SO winners, and three dead-heats. McCarten (30J), Simpson (2iu/. and J. Pike (20) have done best of the others.

Some of the races decided in France have unusual conditions, and the Prix Daru, run at Bois de Boulogne last month, was confined to three-year-olds, the progeny of imported mares. The value of the race in prizes and breeders' premiums was £I2OO, and the fact of the original entries totalling 360 gives an idea of the extent to which French breeders have bought outside their own country of comparatively recent years. Potiphar, a colt by Teddy from the English-bred mnj« Lady Clovelly (Clarissimus —Elisalexi) won easily. It is interesting to note that Balaton, advertised in Thb Press on Tuesday, is by Clarissimus.