THE TURF

Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 123, 25 May 1920, Page 2

THE TURF

NOTES AND COMMENTS • . / (BI "SIR LASCELOT.") Acceptances for the first day's handicap events at the Otaki Maori Racing Club's Winter Meeting close to-morrow •. at 8.30 p.m. with Mr. 0. J. D'Ath .(secretary). • . The Egmont double winner,- Luke, was placed behind the two dead-heaters in the Hack Steeplechase on the first day at Wanganui. The race evidently did him good, r.s on Saturday he started in open company and defeated First Line and Wirokino, who finished first and second in the •■Wanganui Steeplechase. He • conceded them both weight and a beating. The three horses named are all engaged in the Otago Steeplechase. Luke and First Line are liable to be a-ehandi-capped for the Wonganui successes. The Otaki horseman, W. Bowden. who rode . I uke olid Wii'okini) at- Egmont, also scored three wins on the first named and Patidingtoii Green at Wanganui. Paddiugton "Green promises to bo nioro useful £•<! a hurdler than he waS when racing on the flat. Buatara. (by E'ysian), the only other produce of Polly Perkins (Freedom —Modesty) to race has been a good winner in the Auckland district this season. A rise of 161b did not prevent Paddington Green winning again on Sato: day.. Master Bori." acted aa runner-up each day. ■ ' After, a opel) ot fifteen or sixteen months. Bude came out at Egmont and unexpectedly -won over a sprint course. Some of his -supporters in the Connolly considered .he was unlucky to get beaten. Probably ho. was short of a race over a distance, as he made amends on Sat- , urday by winning the Empire Handicap, in which Marqueteur's successful run came to aji end. Probably the welter weight in the bad going accounted, for his defeat. Bude was purchased by Mr.. W. Duncan at the Sydney sales of 1916, at the same time as Acre and Arrowiield. He is by imported Cyrus, son of Cylleae, and a winner, on the flat, over hurdles, and across country in England, from Clxeeky (Bobadil — The-Saucy Girl), who was a. champion pony, in .India and was .brought back to Australia. Rude was suffering from strangle." •when he Went into the sale ring.. Mr. Duncan started him a,i 100 guineas, and, that being the' only bid, he wss knocked down to him. The Trentham-t-rained Jlisstend raced! consistently on both days ;6f the Wanga- - nui Meeting, but the best she could do was to get espensei. hi place money. Thanks to the race being nvn in tho dark, "Vasilkov got' a- break on the first day at Egmont and beat Tame Fox. The Fordell fiorse defeated Rebuff and others on the .second day. On Saturday the brother to Snub met Tame Fox on 181b better terms than at Egmont, and had again to be content with'the minor place. This made Tame Fox's third successive win and five for the season. Ho .is a well-bred gelding by Volpone, an imported son of Donovan, andagood winner in England. Among the winners Volpoue : sired in New South Wales probably Volsloane (Epsom Handicap) was the best. Humdrum (dam o> Tame Fox) is an imported mare by , Common. Tame Fox cost Mr. W. Duncan 120 guineas aa a yearling. When Lord Nagar won the conclud- . ing day at Egmont the distance fwes a mile and a half. Although he won twice at Eandwick at two miles the distance of the Century Hurdles, two miles and a quarter, was evidently ■ beyond him. The May Hurdles, in which, he was successful on Saturday, v.-.is run over half a mile shorter, journey. The only place-getter in the Century Hurdles Lord. Nagar met was, Goldstream. The best ha had to beat -was Y-anfeea Jack, who was not! among the' competitors on the opening day of the meeting. Lord Hagar has incurred 51b penalty in the Great Northern, which brings his impost up to 11.0. He will be meeting Lochella on 31b worse Sew, and will ■ probably find the task of conceding- weight to the Duiiedin-ov/ned gelding an impossible one. Vasilkov, the half-brother to Sasanof, made his first appearance in open company at Wanganui on Saturday, but the best'he could do was to run third w Income and Kinsem, both of whom were unplaced in the Borough Handicap on. the opening day of the meeting. Income, ' who was also successful oil tho concluding day at Egmont, is a.three-year-old gelding by- Guianforte —Pom- . mery (dam oi Play Off), and is trained at Hawera by W. Pine. Four'of the winners at' Wanganui on Saturday, Lord Nagar. Luke," Income, and Tame' Fox, were also successful en the concluding day at Egmont. Torchy -will, be competing in the crosscountry events later on in the season. On his way to Dunedin this week, H. Lorrigan went through to Qpaki and Echco'led Torchy. Mr. W. B. Kemball's recent purcnases, TeiiterSeld and Lord TJsk, bought in Melbourne by Mr. George Hume, are aboard the ■'TJlimaroa, which has always been a popular stock boat. Punka, who has been travelled and. raced a good deal since she was -purchased by her present owner- at tea Christen arch November sales, has _co far failed to win a race in Mr. G-ais■. ford's colours. She was in the money on both days at Wanganui. _ The three place-setters in the rarewell Hack Handicap at Wanaganui on Saturday competed in the Puraa .Hack Flat on'the first day. .-There was_a general mis ' ap at the start. ra«s]n Through finished in a place, Miss Love being hopelessly left. This pair were separated in the Farewell by Some Fashion (aa aged gelding Ijy feMionable). who is trained si Slleicne. The well-known sire Demosthenes recently purchased by & Ne~ Souc.i Wate breadei, i_3 to b^ shipped to Sydney by its iJJimaroa. on Thursday. He ii'iivii from Napier to-nighi irt charge oi I-ir. Z. O'Brien. junr._, who was to ha.ye saks^ him across, out is not sufficiently recovered from the acci< der.i met with when, shipping Mr. T. Lowi-y'i: ye&riiugs in March. Mr. J. O'Biie.i, seii-r., will take charge of Den:ost'he;i23 en the trip acroeS, and attend fee Royal • Mealing .at Esattorioi-c before returning. The Otaki sportsman -who race* as Mr.' Harvey S-ayner was among the visitors no Blenheim, bui diet not journej' to Sydue? K> see Master Moutca said Fishar race. So iar E. Webster' 'ax had no i-.ic.se <ro iiii irij-.. Master Itlousca- £as :-j.r. t-.vic.;.. ar.d ;,v.stß.ir.cd injuries on his Kconcl ippeaiaice thai necessiistec! r.!3 destruction. ?. Cresi, who-was riding him, aiso fc&ciursd a collarbone. So far, Pishev has nol'started, .sad Ivlr. "Wikon, tbu.nt-.A- Sydney handicapper, spears to be running no risk with ?fcv«' Zealand horses, jadjjing by the way he has treated Master Moutoa. The firit time Jlsitar Moutoa started, he carried 12.4, and wes beaten by Campanifonn., The Istte; stErterl with 10.2,, has won three races oh end, and was on t-ho same mark (12.0) s.s Master. Moutba. at Tattersali's Meetinf;. wiKsra the Otaki-trarcad horss oiif.e to griof. Mr. T. M'Grath. v>-ho lias beea"on a holiday visit to the Dominion for the past- couple oi months, is returning to Australia- by the Ulimsi-a;-,, Icavinjj en Thursday next. Nightraider hwa. been one of th» unlucky horses of the present season. Ho has been I'oiir limes second and twice third.-without- winning a- race, his st»k» earnings for the season heine £745.