THE TURF

Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 49, 27 August 1917, Page 4

THE TURF

NOTES AND COMMENTS

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Mount Victoria galloped fivs furlongs with Pall Mall at headquarters on Saturday morning. The Signalman gelding showed signs of Boreness when ho pulled up. 11l consequence, his owner informs me; he may have to forego his Marton engagements.

Acceptances for Uie handicap events at the Marton meeting, also entries for tho Trial Hack Plate, of 100 sovs, five furlongs, close to-morrow at 9 p.m. with Mi-. Arthur Way (secretary). Devotion and Association, who have been spelling on their owner's station at Eototawai since they last raced, return to Trentham to H. Telford's care to-mor-row. ' The entries received for the Dannevirke Racing and Hunt Club's meetings are very satisfactory. There is evidently going to bo no shortage of competitors at the early spring meetings. Most of the locally-trained horses wete sprinted at Trentham on Saturday morning. Trentham Rose did tho best time for three furlongs. It is hoped that there is no foundation for the report that tho daughter of All Red is affected in the wind. The local sportsman who races as Mr. Lance Wood was out at Trentham on Saturday afternoon to witness hiis colt Risingham (Rokeby—Rose Red) spurted from the barrier. Tho colt wen* with the Boniform filly in J. Ayres's stable and Preface, trained by A. Goodrhan for Mr. Whitney. Risingham, who is a Mil brother to Sir Ralph and Red Rock, finished in front. The lato Mr. George M'Beath, whose death at Otaki announced in Saturday's issue, was a very old resident of the district. For a good many years, as long as the writer has been attending tho Otaki Meetings, he kept the Jubilee Hotel, and was equally .popular with visitors to the meetings and residents for the district.

At Trentham on Saturday ; morning Coalition and Silver Monarch jumped the big! fences in company and gave a good display. They are to be sent to Marton.

A noteworthy feature of the racing season to date in America has been the successes scored by horses bearing a strong infusion of Bend Or blood, Lucullite, Campfire, Stromboli, and Ormesdale, whose performances have made them conspicuous, all tracing to the great English sire, the first-named having a double cross of the treasured strain, through Topiary, the dam of Trap Rock, his sire, which was by Orme, a son of Ormonde, while Lucky Lass, his dam, is a grand-daughter of the renowned "horse of the century," as he was termed after his English triumphs. First Flier, who won the Irish Derby, a race worth 3000 sovs, is by Henry the First, from Grey Flier; by Friary—Bird of March; 1 by Marcion—Fallow Chat, by Hagioscope. The colt was bred at the Melton Stud, and was purchased by Mr. J. J. Parkinson, his present owner, for 35 guineas as a yearling. Henry the First is represented in the Dominion 'by Cynic, Henrietta, and Slipstiteh. ' Ohakwana and Menelatts wei'e spurted five furlongs in company at Trentham. on Saturday. They put up lmin Obec for the journey, finishing together. They will probably go to Marton. The programme of the Spring Meriting of the. Ota.ki, Maori Raging Club, to. be held on 24th September, is the same as that of the opening day of the corresponding meeting last year. The principal event is the Teone Makiitonore Memorial Stakes Handicap, of 400 sovs, ona mile and a-quaiiter. , Bairnsdale spurted half^a-mile along the back of the course at Trentham on Saturday morning. The' chestnut moved in his best style, and will probably go to Marton.

From Mr. A. Hafehway I have received a copy of the programme of 'the Spring Aleeting of the Mastei'ton Racing Club, to 'be Held ou 11th and 13th October. Two-year-olds are eligible to compete in the Trial Stokes on the first day. The Juvenile Hancficapj four furlongs, is included in the second day's cardi There . is a hack hurdle' handicap on the first day, and a flat race for gentlemen riders on the concluding day. There are also hulf-a-dozen open, events, to which liberal stake money is attached. The death twiß place at New York on 9th June of M*. Phil Bwye*, on« of the old school of American racing men. Deceased, who wajj in his 73rd year, had been connecft/ed With the sport since 1876, and, in conjunction with his brother Mike took a prominent position ■ in it, but the brothers dissolved partnership in 1890. As partners the brothers owned such famous horses as Hindoo, Sir Dixon, George Kiraiey, Dewdrop, Hanover, Tremont, Longstreat, Kingston, Luke Blackburn, Inspector 8., Miss Woodtord, Runnyniede, Pontiac, Panique, Vigil, and Rhadamanthus, the horse with which they won their first stako at. Saratoga Springs on 15th August, 1576. In the period of their partnership, 1876 to 1890,- the brothers owned 249 ■ horses, who won 747 faces, for an aggregate in prizes of 1,310,554 dollars. Their best year Was 1886, when the famous Tremont swapb all opponents before him, and cleared for his owners 40,000 dollars. Their earnings for that year, aside from speculation, were 208,169 dollars. Hanover, in 18S7, won 80,772 dollars as a three^year-old. The "red, blue sash, red cap," their colours, were among ithe most famous on the Turf at that time. When the brothers broke their partnership Phil retairaed and acquired such horses as Handrpring, Sir John, Bon, Handball; Axiom, Major Dainsjerficld, a-9 a two-year-old, Merry Acrobat, Malissa, and Knight Errant. Although Mr,, Dwyef rarely missed. Ji day at the races he was keenly interested in other sports, particularly boxing. He was stakeholder for the Sullivan-Corbett and Corbett-Mtzsimmoiis prize fig/ats. Information was received in Auckland last week that Luperino won a race at Melbourne the previous week. He was little fancied for the event, and started at a remunerative price.