SPORTING.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20040, 23 September 1930, Page 12

SPORTING.

RACING FIXTURES. goptoasbtr 85, 27 —Geraldlne R.O. September 27—Hawke's Bay J.C. October 4-—Napier Park R.C. October 4—Kttrow J.C. October 4, B—Auckland R.O. October 9, 11—Dunedin J.O. October 10, 11—Otaki Maori R.O. October 10, 18—South Canterbury J.O. October 18—Masterton R.O. October 25, 27— Wellington B.C. October 2T —Waverley B.C. October 27—Walkato Hunt. October 27 —Walpawa County 8.0. October 27 —North Canterbury R.O. October 27, 29—Gore R.O. Otobar 80, November 1 —Poverty Bay Turf Club. TROTTING FIXTURES. October 4—Methven T.C. October 11—Walkato T.C. October 18—Northland T.C. October 25, 27—Greymouth T.C. October 25, 27—Auckland T.C. October 27 —Oamaru T.O. TURF GOSSIP. Acceptances for the Kurow Jockey dab's Annual Meeting are due at 8 p.m. to-morrow. Baroßcope, winner of the Nursery Handicap at Avondale yesterday, gave hia sire, Weathervane, another winning turn. The youngster was bred at the Elderslie stud, and is from Tortrix, by Martian, from the New Zealand Cup winner, Tortulla, thus being a halfbrother to Page Boy and Caterpillar. Baroscope was purchased as a yearling at Trentham by his present owner, Mr E. H. Cucksey, for 300 guineas. Another of Weathervane's progeny in Lady Vane from the Vasco-Elysium mare Panama waß narrowly defeated by King Colossus in the Avondale Stakes on Saturday. She was bred at the Burnside stud, Oamaru, and was sold privately after the Trentham sales, for 75 guineas. By winning the Bosehill Cup on Saturday, Cragford registered hiß fourth successive event in as many starts this season, his previous wins being in the Crimea Plate at Caulfield last month, the August Handicap at Flemington, and the Heatherlee Handicap at Caulfield ten days ago. Among the passengers by the Bangitata from London, due in Wellington on October Ist, is Mr 6. N. Magill, of New Sooth Wales, who owns Nottava, the <>m of Gesture, now on a visit to Chief Buler. Mr Magill will probably spend some time in New Zealand on his arrival here. He is now one of the shareholders in the Elderslie stud, so has an interest in New Zealand bloodstock. Mr Magill has several young Chief Rulers in training at Sydney, and was formerly a part-owner in Oatendale, who was second to Strephon in several of the elassie races. Mr T. Wilson, who bred and owns Wiltshire, and also Waimai, is retiring from breeding* and is selling all his Kones in training and stud at Hamilton ob October 3rd. Mr Wilson has a two-year-old chestnut colt, which is a fullbrother to Wiltshire, and said to be a first-class type. He has also two good mares that are full sisters to Wiltshire and also his dam and some half-sisters to him. Most of his young stock are by Day Comet, and the mares he has been breeding from are mostly by Spalpeen, who was, of course, the. sire of Waimai. Mr Wilson is now at an advanced age, hence his reason for going ont of the game. His stud, which is callqd "Waimai," is at Waingaro, near the Waikato mouth..

Both Marton and Wanganui have had their first experience of the drastic cur* tailmeat decided upon in connexion with the issue of complimentary tickets for the racing fixtures. The committees of both club* are deserving of congratulation on the manner in which they stuck to their'guns. The issue of free passes was brought, down to the. irreducible minimum by the Marton Jockey Club, -while the Wahganui reduction amounted, it is said,-to more than 75 per cent, of the original free list. The trouble •with complimentary tickets is that the • bulk of them go to people who are poor supporters of racing, and whose presence only adds to the expenses of a meetr ing. MrP. Spence, of Ohristchurch, owner of King. Musket, who was present at Canterbury Park, on Saturday, Septem- " ber 6th, to see his colt run in the Three-year-Old-Handicap, took ill suddenly in the evening and early on th,e following morning had ,to> be admitted to a private hospital for an operation. Latest advices are to the, effect that he is making good'progress. B. O'Donnell is not one of Fortune's favourites, and he has had aggravating lock with Trtsailian, says a Sydney paper. That horse got into no end of trouble in the September Handicap at Canterbury, and when third last, less tha three furlongs from home, his ohance of a place appeared hopeless. In the last couple of furlongs he made up several lengths, and it was probably fortunate for the backers of Paquito that, earlier in the -race, Tressijian was • squeezed back two or three times. Tres- ' tilian 'b record now, stands.At three wins, ' eight Btconds; and seven thirds. His owner has Buch belief in his staying ability that he recently ended - a couple " of Epsom and Metropolitan doubles' with him. v \ ; v ■ On the advice of the chief stipendiary steward (Mr A. Wilson) the ipokey. C. L. Lewis, , who rode Supremacy (second to Awarere) in the Flying Stakes at Avondale on Saturday, has handed in his license. —Press Association.