THE TURF.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 440, 24 February 1909, Page 5

THE TURF.

[By Glencoe.l

REMINDERS. Nominations for all events at tho Shannon Hack Racing Club's meeting, to be held on March 17, close at 8.30 p.m. to-day (Wednesday) with the secretary, Mr./ A. Ilawle, P.O. Box 34, Shannon. Acceptances for the two priricipal events, to be run at tho Miramar l'ony Races next Saturday, close at 3 p.m. to-day, with tho secretary, Mr. J. M.; Gumming. In connection with tho autumn meeting of ; the Napier-c Pnrk : Racing Club,: owners., are reminded that nominations for all events, except the Trial-Hack Stakes and the Maiden Hack.Scurry, close at 9 p.riv tomorrow with the secretary, , Mr. J• Gleadow. ~-• - . . - Acceptances for the: first day's events at the' Wanganui Jockey Club's meeting and also subscription for the - Jackson . Stakes ■blose on Friday next. .

NOTES AND COMMENTS,

' the Dunedin Cup will be run at Wingatui this afternoon, and if .the weather is lino there should be about a dozen starters for this race. Glenculloch, who has not \Vo_n- a race either-this or last season, is top-weight with ;85t."41b., and the only other candidate to carry fist.' is Prim, .who has lib. less than Glertculloch, so- that' the company. is, on. the whole, very moderate.

' Prim is a four-year-old half-sister to Artilleries and judging by her recent track work, she is in good,form just now. Already this season she lias won a couple of races, being successful .in a welter event ■at ./the - Grand National, meeting at Riccarton in August, and. also- winning the Midsummer Handicap at Riccarton'early in the.present month.,

Iranui, who will represent J. Lowe's stable in the Cup to-day, receives 61b. from Prim.' Provided; Truganini does not • start, Hatch will pilot . Iranui, and this'; should enable, the Soult mare to do her best. At tho Wellington - Cup meeting, Iranui did not make too good, a showing over the long distance, but it is well to note that:she zwa;s a very late foal, and as she is only a four-year-old, it .is: reasonable' to 1 assume that she will make .considerable improvement this season. .

>,Effort, is a':class. the hacks she.will' :.have to meet at AVanganui and she has to '.concede.;the .majority of ~ them . considdrable weight. She has been accepted ; fo'r 'in two races on to-day's card. • -■

~ Bookmakers are notified. by- advertisement, in this isßue that applications' for licenses; to bet at tho Wanganui Jockey Club's autumn meeting must be- made on the forms supplied; by the- club, and must be in the hands of the . secretary not later thUn Tuesday, March 2. . - '• ■ " ■ -

" Tho i Gipsy King gelding, Tinnesseur, was schooled over the hurdles at' Feilding on Saturday ;by H. futcher.:..He jumped well, : and will probably be; entered for the hurdle race' at the Warrengate fixture.

.Marguerite's sister, Amboise,, won a six-' furlong race at the Co'otamundra (New South • .Wales) meetings fortnight.;ago. : Tho Stepniak mare has-a lot 1 of pace,- and, now- that she.; has form, may. do well on tho other sido. ' / :

! ,' Rookby went sore „on the eve of the/Wood- . villo races, and that is why he did not competein the hurdle events at that fixture. /., The most notpble defections from the : New: market Handicap at the final . acceptance, are ■ Prophecy; ; Neithj Togo, and -Bright Steel.: Last year there were twenty-nine starters in this race, but, for .next Saturday's contestonly twenty-three horses have made the. final: payment for tho rich stake. : '' " ■'•

,'/Ronald Cameron rode another winner at the Victoria Club Races, Sandown Park, on Feb: ruary 10. This was who started', at ; an ;: outside - price, and, beat', a: field of:, nine! ; Cameron will be. ridiiig Signor in the Essendon Stakes, one mile and a half, at Flemington next' Saturday. ;-.,/■ : • ';

. When Genuine won on the second day of .the Woodvillo Jockoy Club's meeting he,gave 'his party the biggest , win they, have -had so far, and/it/is :now. contemplated taking :.;the Bona' Fidts' gelding, to Sydney, : in', which case' he : will be accompanied by. Whetuiriarama'. If it- is .finally .'decided; to make the trip,, the pair, will bo shipped, just prior , to/the/Wa~ nganui Steeplechase. meeting : ..in. May.,, .They, seem ;a .likely/couple' to pay thoir way at Sydney suburban meetings. >:-;V

:. H. Sweeney, who used to ride at .the Miramar: pony meetings, ,went over. some time ago with Herculean. '~ He was granted a jockoy's liconso by the pony authorities there, and, was- riding at Asoot last Monday .week, but his display, on..Herculean was of ' such ."a .nature as to cause- the can-' collation of his license. v . ••• '.'

■Galteo Moro's, sire, ' Kendal (Bend Or— - Windermere) j cliod in the Argentine in December,; and South . American breeders thus lose the services of one of the-best, horses ever: imported to 'their- country.'' Kendalshowed' good .form ihe only, season lie raced;' winning fivo out- of : .eight races/ .He was sold for: £18,000 in: .1893,. so. that it was after, that' that Galtee More.made him famous. In:1901> be was purchased ; for South America at 10,000 guineas, and quickly came into prominence there; beifig second on the winning -sires': list in 1907, and head';-of the list" 1 last "year. 'V:> ■' Mr. W.', E. Bidwill, hearing that Consola-tion.was-being backed in doubles at the Wanganui meeting, writes to say" that .he scratched: the Birkenhead; maro for the Fly--ing: Handicap early, last week: Mr. .Bidwill •naturally concluded . that.; this , information' would have been supplied to the press, otherwise he - would have advised it earlier.

.Provided 'all'goes well with Provocation durijiy the' coming-week, lie; will ,-cnrry 'Mr'. Bidwill's colours-in the Jackson .Stakes at Wanganui; and all sportsmen willbe glad..tosee this magnificent gaUopercompetingagain.' Ho.was really unlucky to be beaten in'.'the Welcome/.Stakes at - Ric'carton.- for ■ after coining"on rto the course- proper,, no.ran.out the ; rails and-; finished very, wide, ; but with -his :101b. penalty it; wasi a great -per T formance. to'be only 1 beaten by. a neck by Nautiform.' ■- Iri the Feilding "Stakes the same month, Provocation ran, well, .but he was beaten by a smashing good sprinter in Gold Crest. Should, the latter be at his best -in Wanganui next weck, his .second meeting v.'itli Provocation will,-be'very-interesting.- It will' be remembered that last year Mr.'Bidwill won the Jackson Stakes with Gravitation. ~

TRAINING AT FLEMINCTON.

|BT TEI.EGBirU—MESS ASSOCIATION—COPTRIOHT.) " ■ *\ Flcmington, February 23. ' Dhobi did six furlongs in lmin. ~lßsec.; Boastful and Virtu the same; Perkeo and Wooloomooloo nine furlongs; in 2min; -3sec'. 1 ; Trentham, tori -furlongs in' 2min. \lßsec. rEnchanteur, five furlongs in lmin., ssec. Dyed Garments beat Trafalgar over .12 furlongs' in 2miri. 50scc. ; Golden Gate did the same distance in.tho same time. Ld Jeune and Somnambulist 12 furlongs in 2min. 42sec. ; Jack Smith the -same'; Snapshot -121 furlongs in 2min. 49sec. ; Pretty Peg, six. furlongs .in lmin. 20sec.; True Scot six : furlongs ', in lmin. 21sec.; Nushka nine ■ furlongs ■,< in 2min. 4sec. ; Neith a mile in lmini'4Bsec.; Featherstitch five. furlongs in ,lmin. 6sec. ; Cithara .beat: Bright Steel oyer' five furlongs in Train; 7se.c.; Ballantrae did half a mile in 52sec. Togo, Prophecy, and Curtain Lecture are all under suspicion. t' ' .

NEWMARKET HANDICAP

(BY TELEtmAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPTRIOHT.) (Rec. February 23, 6.55 p.m.) Melbourne, February 23. The following are the final paymeuts for the, _ ;■■■';, ■ NEWMARKET HANDICAP, a sweepstake of 25 sovs., with 1000 sovs. added. Six furlongs.—Soultline, 9st. 111b.; Lord-Carlyon, 9st. 91b.; Scotland, 9st. 91b; Parsee, Bst. 111b; Virtu,. Bst. 111b.;Enchanteur,\ Bst. 91b.; I(egation, ,Bst. ' 81b.; Truo. Scot, Bst. Sib.- j Golden Slipper,, Bst. lib. j Citnara, Bs't.; Maltine, Bst. : ; Irishman, 7st. 131b.; Bobby, 7st. : lllb.; Peterhof, 7st. 51b. Kerlie, 7st. 51b.} Curtain Lecture, 7st. 41b.Dhobi, 7st. 31b. Featherstitch, 7st. 21b.; Dunolly, 6st. 131b.; Boastful, 6st, 91b.; Ngaruahoe, 6st. 71b. j Pretty Peg, 6st, 71b. j and King Berry, Jat, 71b. .

AUCKLAND'S HEALTH,

A SATISFACTORY REPORT, (BY TELEGRAPH—SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.) Auckland, February 23. An interesting 4etter concorning the public health of Auckland City has been forwarded by Dr. Purely (District Health Officer) to the Mayor (Mr. Arthur M. Myers). In the course of the letter, Dr. Purity remarks that tho Mayor in vacating office would be interested to loam that never as far .as statistics could show had tho city and surroundings enjoyed such a healthy record as during the past year. Taking tho evidence of enteric fever as a measure of the general sanitary condition, and reviewing the figures compiled by the''Health' Department: for tho'last' seven years,' ono found that the average number' of cases of enteric' fever during, the last' three years had been 50, as contrasted with, ■98 for the four years ending .1905, and this notwithstanding: that':' in.vthoL first";, three; ■months,.of last year there was. an unusually severe epidemic. Since that epidemic, which originated in one of the suburb's that at that time was dependent almost entirely on ah .'unsatisfactory. sanitary, service,, : there had, been ojUy 25 cases:of enteric: notified within the city boundaries, a fairly satisfactory record.', 'AVith regard to scarlet fever,' there had only been 24 cases recorded-during the past.eleven months, as contrasted with an annual case rate of; 73 in the city for the 1 previous seven years, ending March 31, 1908.', Similarly, the average case: rate of diphtheria: had fallen from 33 to 18 during the past eleven months; The general death-rate "had also fallen from an average of 13.12 peT 1000 for the first; seven years of this'century to 12.49 sfor. the last year;' That of tho 76 great towns of England- and Wales was .15.0. " Auckland's satisfactory record as to hirth-rato was also maintained,. - that for. the'last. year being. '30.76 per 1000; as contrasted I 'with 27.9 per 1000 .for. the other three chief centres. In 1907 ! iu Auckland and suburbs, .both those : within tlie county of Eden and- the marine suburbs, there was a population of 100,664. The Health Officer concluded by congratulating the' Mayor; and the council and staff on the satisfactory state of affairs.