THE TURF.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 26, 31 July 1911, Page 2

THE TURF.

MIXTURES. Aug. 8, 10, and 12— Canterbury J.C, Grand National. Sept. 6 and 7— Marlon J.C. Annual. Sept. 13— -Dannevirke R.O. Spring. Nov. 4— New Zealand Clip. • NOTES AND~COMMENTS. (By "Sir Bedivere.") Present yearlings will be two-year-olds to-morrow, J. Lowe will leave for Riecattbn this evening in charge of Effort. On Tren« tham form 'Advance's daughter can have no chance of success in the Winter Cup. .The going was very heavy at the Wel« littgton Winter Meeting, however, and Effort is expected to shape more credit* ably at Riccarton.. Nyland evidently pleased track watchers on Saturday, and is now A firm •favourite for the Winter Cnp. Turf his* tory has, it' must be admitted, a distinct tendency -to repeat itself. J. H, Prosser has made arrangements to ship his team for the National Meeting South to-night. Lovell and ftibstone Pippin will be two memtes thereof, and probably Kopek, Tnrna,, , Salopin, Hawick and Dearest will be among the company. , The 'Porirua stable shelters no particularly capable jumpers at present. [■ Mr. T, H. Lowry is expected to re* turn to New Zealand shortly, He was present at the Singapore mpetijjg when his caA^Gff Chanteuße won. the Cup. ' Morikiko, ft gelding by Catesby, who "won the Hunters' Hurdles at the Hawk&s Bay Hunt Club's Metting last week, id expected to turn out useful. He is not nearly ready at present. Kildonan, who came to be regarded a» a likely Grand National candidate after putting up a record on the Hastings tracks' 1 about a week ago, will be piloted by C. Cress. It is more than probable that Mr., C. Pharazyh will take two or three yearlings as toill as Longstep back to "Sydney with*' him this week, end that the learn 'may be placed in. charge of H. Goodman. Wirral, who, narrowly defeated Hoahgft at the Napier Park meeting, will contest the short dietance Bteepk« chases at Riccarton. Antarctic's performance In bea-ting The Native over a mile and a-quarter on the flat on Saturday morning was ■ an impressive one. He evidently has plenty, of pace, and, as he is a fine jumper, he promises to be a very hard horse to beat to-morrow week, Then D'Nil (Rahgi Thomson), Cap. tain Jingle (Joe O'Connell), Yasmak (Cress)) Le Beau (Pinker), and Corazon (Hercock) set put together for a schooling task over the country. Commencing over the double D'Nil and Captain Jin> gle led the way with Corazon. pulling hard, bringing up the rear. All fenced well, and after lahding over the double the second time Le Beau and D'Nil were pulled up, leaving the other trio to go on for another circuit, Captain Jingle, who was fencing capitally, led through* out. Yasmak and' Corazon both fenced faultlessly, and tho latter was. galloping sa..4j.rongly throughout that his pilot had some, difficulty in keeping. him in the Tear. It wa-s a nice piece of schboling work, ahd all came through the tafek with credit. ■ Continuance (J. Jones) and Paisano (G. Jones) performed a schooling task over four flights, maintaining a very solid pace throughout. > Continuance, who fenced really well, finished slightly in front of Paisaho over the last obstacle. Paisano's effort was also a pleaß* ,ing one, and left little to be desired.. .Dogger Bank fenced correctly over four flights. Master Paul ran six furlongs in lmift 25sec. The Gunner (H. Coker) and Red M'Gregor (Cochrane) negotiated a circnit over the big fences, commencing over the post and rails, The Gunner gave a good display, but Red M'Gregor lost a good deal of ground at the fences, and his performance was scarcely pleasing, Honest Tom (wetter) and Silver Blaze (Lloyd) gave their usual- safe display once round over the fences, ahd Milo (Hegarty) negotiated a similar task safely, but his fencing is still susceptible of improvement. True Blue put in half and three-quarter pacing over two circuits^ and was subsequently showing unmistakable signs of lameness while trotting round the track, It is generally understood that he 13 'giving his connections softie trouble. King of Trumps (R. Wilson), Revenge (Hegarty), and Northern Star (Parker) set out for a schooling tif.sk over the 'fences'. After goihff a little distance Parker's stirrup-leather broke) and his mount was pulled up. The other pair continued on and completed their task without mishap. King of Trumps fenced very well, and Revenge also performed creditably, but showed a marked tendency to hang to the inside while negotiating the jumps. King Try (Jarvis) and Ito (ftetter; eet out to perform a schooling task over the hurdles, but at the first obstacle the- former ran hii companion off, and subsequently could not be persuaded to approach an obstacle. Subsequently he was given sound pacing, on the •flat, and Ito negotiated four nights of hurdles by himself, fencing pleasingly. Tyrannic negotiated four fences. 1 While working on the flat afterwards he slipped and fell, but the "rider and horse were none the worse for the mishap, • The ahttuat report' and balance-sheet of the V.R..C, to be presented to members on 7th Augtist, shows that during the pa.st season the club made a profit of £9316. The club has a reserve fund of £20,089, Thift, however, falls a long way short sf that held by the A.J.C., which amounts 'to something like £60,000. ' Mr. H. Levieh's , Bill to legalise the totalisator in New South Wales will, it is anticipated, be introduced in the Ne'v South Wales Legislative Assembly next month. Mr. Ivevieii estimates that a revenue of £300.000 would be obtained from it by the Government, which vvould defray half the Stale's CNpeiiditure on charity. The V.A.T.C. handicappei, apparenth 1 assuming that Bribery hg* lost hi B form, has dropped him to 11.3 for the *p. preaching Australian Steeplechaw. Mr. \Maitland. sajs a Melbourne wiiter, l;?e undoubtedly taken a liberty ir, dropping Bribery in thi* wholesale' fashion, but circumstances may favour him, as Bribery, though he has been working, hai< been lame off and on since he ran in the y.R.C. GrAna* National Hurdle Race. Price will therefore have his work cut out to bring Brrbety tt> this poet, m binm* condition for the Australian Steeplechase. This is an, event in which anctcnt liorßes have always done well. As a matter of fact, since its establishment in 1882 it has only on two occasions been, won by horses under seven ve&re old, the exceptions being; Bhw> tfovMi. tain (»ix year*; §M Chelsea (five'jeAi*). ,