RACING FIXTURES.

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 34, 10 February 1927, Page 9

RACING FIXTURES.

February 10, 12—Dunedlii J.C. February 10, 12—Poverty Bay Turf Club. February 12, 14—Eotorua B.C. February 16—Cllfden It.c. February' 17—Tologa Bay J.C. February IT, 19—Wanganui J.C. February 19—Canterbury J.C. February: 23, 24—Gore R.C. February 23, 24, 26—Nelson J.C. February 24—Walapn K.C. February 25, 26—Woodville District J.C. February 26, 28—Te Aroha J.C.

■i. fr •r«'anakl'- Stakes on. Saturday should well reward the Taranaki Jockey Club for keeping the race-"on its programme. At present it looks as if there will be six runners-^-Grand Knight. Keremoana, The Thorn, Oration, Melissa, and Silver-Mine. Grand Knight should beat the older horses at six furlongs, for iJerernoana apparently is not so good as he was. Mr. G. M. Currie in-a worthy manner patronises the classic-races, but JLne Thorn-hardly .measures up to Grand , Knight, .atj weight-for-age. Oration does Bi°> 3? peal,m the class > an^ the two-year-old Silver Mine should be Grand Knight's chief obstacle; The English horse should Play his part well. .••That; arch-rogue Little River'lias tried out many trainers, and the latest to take torn unhand isi. Knapp, of Feilding. Jlnapp^is a great hand' with a jumper, but he should have his work cut out with •Little Biver. '' •' ■ ±A number of dignitaries of the Anglican Ururch>have accepted the invitation of the stewards of the Taranaki Jockey Club to be present at the, meeting on Saturday. .; fwelve months ago Bright Knight was W3? redr- by a fail contesting the collided when training on the same course" and received further injury . \ _It is,reported that the price paid for aea Bell was 700 guineas. This reads like a bargain. . .. So far there is no sign of, The Hawk ttS& IfT* C°nteSt tlle Tawnaki _ btat.es on Saturday. ~*\. Ti%'s'nominations for the Egniont Meeting .miscarried and were delivered at " hadOfclosed HaWera °lub afto the .After running in the Taranaki Cup Te Monanui will not.be seen out in public again until Easter: Probably he will then be raced at Ellerslie. .Nominations for aU events at the WoodS&^d^ close tO-m™. jSfSon^ond^ : *"**** 'ir^t^T 68 / Oi' the Wanganui Cup ■ 2,1' ng close to-morrow night '" Tt , titTi" anaki <. Dunedin, and Poverty irda. eetmgs vria be concluded on Sati There is a lot of racing in Ronniania, '.tut jockeys are not overpaid." The average, rate is _10s for a losing mount and il.for a .win. There are several English trainers in that country, but English' 3°°k,eys areunlikely to he attracted. _ The William Keid Stakes at Moonee galley -won.by Heroic, provided an interesting legal point in regard to the conditions of that race: So that the position may be explained, the conditions of the race were as follotf—'-'The William Reid Stakes, of „£IOOO. ■ Second ,'horse' to receive £250, and the third horse £100' from the stake. Weight for age. Winner of any race other than a handicap of th* value of £1000 to the winner to carry 91b extra. Horses that have not up to the time of starting won a handicap flat race of £1000 or -upwards, or: a race •°theJ than a; handicap of £500 :or upwards allowed; 71b. No allowance, under %i shall be made to any horse sired north of the line." The English horse comus was nominated, and as the rules of racing distinctly say -that it is incumpent upon owners and trainers to claim allowances or notify penalties, C. T. Godby, -rtha- owner of Comus; was* doubtful as to whether Comus was entitled to an allowance. had . recently won the ; Hopetoun .Handicap at Gaulfield that car-1 ried £1300 in stake money; but Godby's .share of the prize was £1000 less the amount of sweepstakes and nomination which amounted to £11.. It was argued >\ ■ that as Comus had'not won^a race of the value of £1000 to., the winner he was eligible for the 71b allowance, but on reading the conditions divergent opinions were expressed, and it was pointed out- that the conditions did not state of thp' value JNnS 6 ™ncr °f £1000, but simply of £1000-or „upwa rd s. As; the. Hopetoun Jlandicap earned .£I3OO in prize .money it seemed to me that Comus was not entitled to the allowance, although his owner was of a different opinion. . .The-Moo-nee Valley Club did not desire that there should be any uncertainty, and they obtained counsel's opinion on the point The .reply received read: "In my opinion the correct interpretation of the conditions ,'OE this race is unfavourable to the claim made on behalf of Comus for an allowance of 71b. .The"expression, 'handicap 4 ,fl»t race of £1000' has a definite meaning among racing men as'appears from a perusal of the usual form of programme and advertisement. It means ■ 'handicap f<? VfiSSi™ h- *h! totai money offered' 3s ±.iuw. ihis is strongly supported by the use, earlier in the conditions, of the . special phrase 'of the value of £1000 to the winner;' In other words, the conditions are, where they desire to distinguish between individual prize money and Total prize money, careful"to do so by express language.'? That ended the edri■forT"- 81 and \Comusxlul y carried weight .Michael Tighe, the steeplechase jockey, ■nas, Killed in a motoring accident on the mam Horsbam-London road as he was oil his way to Gatwick races on 23rd De- . ceraber. Four motor-cars were involved ■ -™,l £ B'\ lA SK V; You »S, the trainer, and B. Vinall the jockey, were also m the car. with Tighe. Young, whose training establishment ■is at Findon, near. Worthing said to a "Daily Mail" reporter: lighe, who was sitting in front with ■the driver, was going to ride Ibstoek in the 2.0 clock race, and Vinall was riding Craggie Rock m the 1 o'clock race We could, not go fast because there were four cars in front of us. As two smaller cars approached us, the car-ahead of us stopped dead. Our driver applied his brakes nut our car skidded and crashed into the otic in, front We turned .right over on our side. Tighe was^ thrown oub and the car fell on his head, killing him instantly. \| nail and myself were pinned in the saloon lighe, who leaves a widow and ■ .several children, began his career in the employment of Mr. J. J. Maher in Irc■vJiiiKl On coming, to' England he became ■attached to the stable of T. Young, the . lather of Cecil Young, at Findon, and for iinn rode many winners, including a notable performer named Lad? Friar. Although he had never ridden the winner of a big race, he was a clever and consistent jockey. . . : ..Mr. :H. M'Laren's Autumnus gelding Vesperus has run himself out of the hack ranks and m future will have to race in :Sn C°St PaT y£loI S -"**** date ti»3 • J. Scobie, the well-known Flemington trainer, is progressing favourably after an operation for an .internal complaint. T? *r£- Balboa an<l Cupiclon, members of jt. MiSays string at Invercargill, are both amiss. The former was expected to ■ get on the winning list at the Wingatui Meeting, which opened to-day Halwna who ],as been spelling since the Karton Meeting, has rejoined the active brigade. Diamond Ring is another who has resumed work after a brief rest When the tracks are softer she should be heard from. .N..C. Dwyer, who died as a result of , injuries to the head received through a fall at the recent Takapuna Meeting had only just completed his apprenticeship with the Invercargill mentor, J. A. Rowlands, ; and a fortnight ago was granted a jockeys license. He was a most capable rider, and a good future was predicted for.him. His "death marks the first fatal a.ccident on a New Zealand course this season. ■ :

.Buyers are nibblinK for several younj;fiters by Mr. W. G. Stead's imported sire and announcements of sales can be looked for at any time. Leighton lias proved himself to be a sire of early speed •which is regarded as nil important by some racing folk, and naturally the doings of his iirst crop oE foals, including Cimabue and Paleta, have caused n demand for his progeny. The New_ Zealand-Tored mare Charleville, who ■irill godown in turf history as the ' dam of Windbag, died recently at the stnd of Mr» Percy Miller, She was Jufrer&g from g, canker in one of her

feet, and the trouble affected her to such an extent that it was deemed advisable to destroy her. Foaled in 1911 by Charlemagne 11. out of Nithsevo, by StepniakShepherdess, she won several races in the Dominion before she took up stud duty. A yearling brother to Rampion (Ros-seudale-Royal Pet) is among the lots to be offered at the Sydney thoroughbred sales in ApriL Wilkes and Haydock next week. Jack o' Lantern, owned by the successful Invercargill mentor, F. W. Ellis, met with an accident after exercise the other morning and will 'require a let-up from active operations.

Absurd head* the list of winning sires for the first half of the current year with £12.709 10s. Solferino is close up with £12,336, and then came Paper Money £11,244 10s, Quin Abbey £8784 10s, Limond £8737 10s. Lueullus £7C40 10s, Kilbroney £7322, and Catmint £7134. Paper Moneys total is more than for the whole of last season; the same remark applies to Limond and Catmint.

Commendation, in the first six months of the present racing year has earned £4687 10s for Mr. W.jH.'Gaisford.'Other winners of more than £2000 are Count Cavour (Mr. J. S. Barrett) £3220, Lysander (Mr. G. N. Carrie) £3137 10s, Tanadees (Mr; W. J. Jorgensen) £2900, Rapme (Mr. A. B. Williams) £2075, Footfall (Mr. C. G. Dalgety), Beacon Light (Mr. W. T. Hazlett) £2150, and Rapier (Mr G. G. Holmes) £2135. . Though he now has few representatives ra_cing, Martian is ninth on the list of winning sires for the current i season with £6298, earned principally by Rapine, Star Ranger, and Star Stranger. The progeny of the defunct sires Quin Abbey, Polydamon, Archiestown, Bisbgne, Merry Moment, and Clarenceux have done remarkably well so far this season, their earnings in the aggregate totalling £27.242 10s.

The death is reported from. Sydney 61 Mr. W. Brown, a brother of the gentle-, man who races under the assumed iiamo of "Mr. J. Baron," the Newcastle coal magnate. The late Mr. "Brown, through failing health, disposed of his Segenhpe Stud in 1918, some good prices being obtained, Tressady brought 6000 guineas, and others prices ranging up to 3000 guineas. One of the bargains of the sale was Otford. dam of Manfredj who was secured by thp Messrs.',W. and P. A. Moses, of the Ar-rowfield-'Stud, for 475 guineas. The deceased won the Melbourne Cup in 1912. with Piastre. Booster, who has .been treated to a holiday since > the Trentham Meeting last month, is back in work at Riecartou. King Peg, a, four-year-old brother to. Pegaway, made his debut at Te Kuiti and showed a fan- amount of pace. When more seasoned he should do .well. . The Lueullus filly Lorna Doone lightened up after her exertions at Trentham, and is now enjoying a spell. She has yet to display the .form she showed prior to being attacked by a cold.