THE TURF

Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 3, 5 January 1922, Page 10

THE TURF

(By "Sif Lancelot:")

NOTES AND COMMENTS

Nominations fof all events at the Pahiatua Bating Glut's Ahhiiai Meet= ing, to bo held on 2fltli inafc :j tioae bh Saturday next, at 9 p.m.) with MrVtf: G. Swainson (secretary), Probate was saddled up' three times at Tauherenikau, and ran a good race on each occasion. When she Was", beaten by War Baby, the sister to OupidtjJi was in receipt of two stone, and only just scrambled home. The Annual Meeting of the Foxton Racing Club will be held on 21st and 23rd inst. Owners and trainers are given a reminder that nominations for this popular country fixture close on Friday, at 8 p.m., with Mr. L. E. Free»man (secretary), Foxton. Kinsem and Waimatao ran first and second in the open sprint event each day at Marton. Kinsem has won in her last three starts. ■ ■ ■ % Lord Desmond and Eose of Athens were produced on the second day at Tauherenikau, but the latter failed to get in the money. Banogue, who won one hurdle race at Marton and ran second in another, is a brown gelding by Coronet —Sylvia Park mare, and is owned by <Mr. Dan Hughes, well known up the coast. • When she won on the second day at Tauherenikau, Capping Day paid about six times as much as she did at Awapuni. When going put to do her preliminary on the first day she came in contact with the paddock gate, hit her stifle, and was slightly lame after the race. Probably that was the reason'why she paid such a good. price when she won. ' (■ The Auckland Cup winner, Malaga, is returned in the "correct" cards as a four-year-old gelding by Boniform—Madrid. According to the 1921 volume of the Stud Book, compiled for the 'New Zealand Eacing Conference, Malaga is the 1916 produce of San Francisco and Flame, who in 1911 threw Madrid to Vasco.' The Stud Book gives the first progeny of Madrid as Urgency, a, colt by Clarenceux, foaled in 1918. After racing at Manawatu, Sycorax wag taken home to Hastings, and won the principal handicap event on the 'concluding day of the Hawkes Bay Meeting. ( Ptneus, winner of the Juvenile Handicap on both days of the Wairarapa Meeting, it by Boniform—Blue Lake, and is therefore half-brother to Little River. . The only double winner at Stratford was Income, who took the open sprint each day. 'The Volo-Income combination just failed to materialise on the concluding day. Mr. John J. Corry witnessed the racing on the first day at Tauherenikau, and was then called away to Auckland on business. Other owners--conspicuous by. their absence were Messrs. Shaild and Card-ale (Capping Day), J. Fuller (Ksperance), and W. H. Gaisford (Solstice). . - ■: f .During the past week or two a lot of rain 1 has fallen in the Wairarapa district, and after the downpour on Saturday last the Tauherenikau course was under water. It. came as a surprise to everyone to see the excellent state the racing track was in on Monday, while on Tuesday the going was about as good as it could be; Since he took charge, Caretaker Blake has done a lot of work in the way of improving the property. Jovial (Merry Moment—Sanguine), winner of two events on the opening day at Hawkes Bay.' put up a. similar performance on the concluding day at Stratford last New Year. Jovial shouldbe heard of during the-.Gisborne fortnight next month. ,' Explorer (ridden by Stan.' Eeid) won tile three hurdle races he contested at the Auckland Meeting, and put up, fast time .on each occasion. On the concluding day he carried 12.2, and was credited with, running two miles in 3min 40 3-ssec, The three races were worth ISOO sov6 to the owner of,the winner, and would go a long way towards paying the expenses of S. Eeid's trip from •the other side. ' Cold Steel, who was successful on the rung day at Auckland and the coning day at Stratford, should not be ■ long getting out of the hack clasa. W. Bell rode Printemps in the Wairaxapa Cup, but on the second day when he won L. G. Butler had the mount. G. Price's turn at fortune's wheel does riot appear to have arrived yet. Pam and Enthusiasm filled second place three times at Manawatu, and at Marton they were again in the money on three occasions without registering a win. The successful combination at Wairarapa twelve months ago, viz., Chimera and Esperance, nearly prevailed this year. Chimera tad the same/weight on the second day and did not meet the first day's winner, but did not run 'so, well. Esperance scored her first win thisv season, her last success being at Blenheim last May. ; The Emperor was left at the post and: took no part in the race on the first day at Marton, when his stable mate (Ares) won. On the second day they ran first and second. H. Telford.alsb won a double with Tnboulet, making four wins at the meeting Mr. Archis Wilson, the new stipendiaiy steward, has not been long getting into his 'Stride. He was in attendance at Dannevirko and Manawatu,' where other officials had charge, and acted on his own at Marton. He challenged the riding of C. Stephens, the Victorian lightweight attached to H Telford's Trenth.im stable. The'rider named was suspended for three months. When Ore Ore fell on the concluding day of. the Manawatu Meeting, A. M'Donald got a shaking, from the effects of .which he appeared to quite recover after a few days. He was to have ridden Te Maire in the Hurdles" at Marton, but after he had weighed out and the horse had been saddled up, it. was found that M'Donald was unable to ride and the horse was 'withdrawn. Some £200 was invested' on Te Maire,, whose backers lost their money. Several matters engaged the attention of Mr. J. H. Perrett, the deputy- ■ stipendiary steward in attendance at the ■ Wairarapa Meeting. Probably the"most, serious happening was the injuries received by Waimahoe (the full-sister to ■Waimatoa) prior to the start of the Trial Hack Stakes. She was unable to start at the meeting, and tlie injuries received may prevent her ever racing again. R. D. Thomson (rider of Wakatere) was regarded as having been responsible, and it was decided to recommend the withdrawal of his. gentleman rider's certificate. The time-honoured Zetland spots were carried to the fore by Moutoa's Gift at Tauherenikau. The colours were", the original' property of Lord Zetland, and were carried by Voltigeur in the Derby of 1650. In the /70's they were regis- . tered with the Australian Jockey Club by Sir.Hercules Eobinson, who brought them to the Dominion with a team of horses when he came here in the 80's,, and afterwards for thirty years by the late Sir George M'Lean until he retired from the ranks of owners in 1910, seven years before he died. When Sir Hercules Eobinson camp, to the Dominion he and Sir George went into partnership. At Tauherenikau I was asked what was the last horse that carried the Zetland spots for the Dunedin owner, but could not say from memory. Apollodoris must have been one of the last.