Notes.
On reference to the advertising columns of this journal it will be seen thatPurimu is for sale. He is well enough bred, for his sire, imported Vasco di Gatna, is a full brother to Pero Gomez, A?ho in his time was one of the fastest horses who ever looked through a bridle in the Old Country. Scylla, the dam of Purimu, is by The Painter, whose descendants figure well forward at the present time as the progenitors of winners. Minos, who showed a lot of pace woen he was racing, was a half-brother by Turquoise to Purimu. Properly placed, Purimu ought to win races, for he is endowed with a good turn of speed, but I fancy the company he has been running in of late has been just a trifle too strong for him. Cut your coat according to your cloth is a well known axiom, and race your hoise in his own class if you desire to annex the bullion is just as true, though not quite such an ancient truism. Fred Stowe hasstruckout inanewline of business, and the training of horses does not bother him now. Consequently X Jam, who has been an inmate of his stable for over a year, has been handed over to J. Cameron. This mentor has Alo.igoiiui, the half-sister '.o Seahorse by Carbine, in work again. For mouths past she has been enjoying herself on the good pastures of the Te Mahanga run, and the respite from toil has apparently done her a lot of uood.
George Collelo was offered a substant a increase on the price he paid for the Dreadnought—Gabble mare by Mr R. H. Skipworth, and evidently considering that a bird ia the hand is worth two in the bush, he disposed of her to that trainer. A fortnight back in referring to the sale of Jabber's relative I did not give Collelo the credit of having bought her. He, however, informed me the other clay that he was the purchaser, and lie ought to know.
W. Davidson, who was Mr R. J. Piatt's right hand man for a long time, has joined the retinue of the Squire of Karainu's racing es'ablishment. He is occupying the position recently vacated by Alick Smith. Last week D. Munn quitted Mr W. Rathbone's employment and has accepted the post of trainer to Mr VV. Robinson, whose team for several months prior to last February were under his control.
Coolgardie is being schooled over the hurdles on ihe track, and the Derringer gelding is performing really well over the obstacles. It may not bo generally known that Coolgardie made his first appearance in the role of a hurdler at the Poverty Bay Turf Club's meetiug in the spring of 1897, when he ran second with 9-0 to Opou (10-0) in the Hack Hurdles. Mr P. Neagle's many friends will be glad to know that he is recovering fast from the effects of his late accident at Gisborne. A younger full brother to Roller is being put through the initial stages of his education by F. Carrington at Karamu. The statement that appeared in print to the effect that Mr W. Rathbone was retiring from racing is not correct, for that sport has iuformed me that the report is unfoundt-d, and those responsible for the pub ication are entirely wrong in the conclusion that they jumped at that he was about to sever his active connection with the pastime. I have at all times found the V/aipawa owner most obliging and courteous in supplying me with particulars regarding his racing establishment, and I am perfectly sure that had he been asked by those who gave forth to the district the canard, he would have been only too willing to set them right. In the paddocks attached to his residence on the Hospital Hill, Mr Richardson has a couple of juveniles running, one being First Foot, a rising two-year-old half-brother by Robinson Crusoe to First Blood, and the o< her a coining yearling colt by Gold Reef from Seal Brown, and therefore half-brother to Robin Adair. The former of the pair is a fine lengthy gentleman, who is constructed on somewhat similar lines to his relative. His appearance denotes speed and stamina, and that bold determined head of his in<Hca'es that he has gameness as wed in his system. The Gold Reef baby is a sturdy,.well set up specimen, with plenty of size but no approach to oourseness,'which is too often predominant in samples of the big racehorse. The registered owner of the blue and orange livery only wants a bit of luck (whichfeatures, by the way, has not been his long suit for some time past) with the pair for them to do him good service in the future.
Waihora, dam of Wuiraka, who returned his supporters the substantial dividend of £34 4s in the First Hack Handicap at Wellington on Wednesday, is a half sister to Rosefeldt and Amoureux by Lord Maudeville. Says au English sporting writer:— " In days of old they used to sweat racehorses and then bleed them. And now, with increased education and free evolution, the racehorses work a similar system on their owners." At the sale of thoroughbred stock on account of the executors of the late Mr D. S. Wallace, the New Zealand bred brood mare Fancy Free, by Musket— Fancy Free, only brought 32igs. High prices did not rule during the 3ale, for by Calma —Duenna (dam of Amberite), with filly foal by Wallace, and Spectre by Calma —Fancy Free, with colt foal by Bloodshot, headed the list at 50gs each. A London cable states that at the Newmarket Second July meeting Mr J. W. Larnach's Strougbow won the Dullingham Plate.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 9820, 20 July 1900, Page 5
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