THE TURF.

Evening Star, Issue 13099, 4 November 1908, Page 2

THE TURF.

'■%, Winton.. November 7 and 9 Auckland.. November 7. 9, and 11 , C.J.C ..November 7, 9, 11, and 14 Taleri November 9 [Gossip dy Old Identity.] Lnpulite ic.to bo ridden at Christchurch by victor Cotton, who has been on this horse before. Andy M'Kay. Lupulite’s usual rider, is talcing Tirole to Winton, and Somatcria will represent the stable at the Taieri. Sarto's list is full. Ibo Hon. G. M'Lean's Ventolcra has foaled a colt to Quarryman. Yosami, winner of the two Hack Hurdle Haceii at the Masterton meeting, is by The Officer. She led all the way in each event. Mildura, well backed for the Firing Hack Handicap, took a while to begin,‘and she finished a moderate' third. | .Twelve started for the Masterton Cup, a mile and a-quartcr. “Gk nccc," from whoso notes I clip these Masterton items, savs; A nice start was etfectrd in front of the : stand, though Silken Hein and Roscal wore i chopped out as soon as the held moved otf. j Sir Frisco, who was installed a slightly ! better favorite than Silken Rein, did not | get a nice position at the start, but Hatch rede a beautiful race on him, and half a j mile from home was within a couple of i lengths of the leaders. Halfway up the straight Irish Rille crossed right on to Sir ! Frisco, hut the latter avoided the hump, I and, finishing well, won hy a good margin. S. Reid, rider of Irish Rifle, was subsequently called before the stewards for crossing in tho stiaight. and severely cautioned. When Irish Rille crossed.* Blue j Ribbon, who wn-s making ;r goed run. was t interfered with, and. iLnished j(;st out of a! place. On ljji& running it looks as if a 1 mile and a-quarter is beyond. Irish Rille, but at a mile he could probably have won. Loirek who won the Pahia'.ua and Woodyillo Cups last season, appears to he com- | iag back to form, as she ran much better than she hao done previously this season. Previous winners of this ‘ Cup ; 1836 Red a, 9.1, 2min 12?scu < IBs.—-King's Bowman, 8.7, 2min ISjsec: 13-*B—Ruamalranga, | 8.12, 2min 18|mv ; 1333 Ambrosia, 7.8.! 2miul4sec; 1900- Gouibmn. 7.4. 2min 18i ! sec ; 1901—--Rimmahanga, 9.3, 2min 16s:c T ; 1902—Cure; 7.5. 2min 13,-. Ec : 1903—Field : Battery. 9.1, 2min 12? sec : 1904—Asteroid, ! 7.8, 2min 35scc : 1905- Flanum, 7.13, 2min 24sec ; 1906—Submur ;ae, 8.5, 2miu lOscc; 1907—Matiiari, 8.4, 2min lljicc. Kiltie Lass, winner of the Maiden Sgjirry. is tho first of Kikhera.u's ptogeny to wiii. The nicest looking colt in the race, and perhaps one of the' best on the course, was Colossus, by iiwbrdiis.il irorn Turituri. Simplex started favorite for tl'.e Publicans’ Handicap, and Oliver gob him well away, but at the finish lie stopped to no-' thing. Polyanthus won by two lengths from Botham with Tea Tuhi third. The ! stewards met after the nue to consider the I running of _ Toil Tuhi. After hearing the } evidence of the horse's owner they ex-' pressed themselves as satisfied that the horse was sents out to win. hut cautioned the jockey (lAmbesrq that in future he must ride his mounts right out. tin the second day mauna'd the surprise i of the meetings, in the win of St. Brandon I in tho Welter Hack Handicap. He was; tho most successful-outsider that has ever I raced at a Masterton meeting. Tho racing [ was attended by two miehaps. Price, rider of King Pest in the .second race, bail a nar- j row escape through his saddle slipping just I as he was linfehing. The jockey was! thrown on to Jus horse's neck, hut regained his seat Vplendidiy. Golden Butterfly fell going over the hurdle--, in the first race, throwing hcavilv. Although severely sunken, the jockey was not otherwise injured. For the President’; Handicap Irish Rifle was made favorite. The race resulted in a i very easy victory for -Sand stream, by Ban 1 Fran—Ua. Ho was troublesome at the j barrier, and was the last to move otf when i the tapes went up. Making up his ground 1 nicely, he took charge at the distance pest, | and made a hollow show of the opposition j Irish Ride, who was on, the mils at the j start, got shut in. before they had gone far. and could not get near tho leaders until right into the straight, when-it was too close tor him to get nearer than fourth. BiPi-Frisco. by wim-ing the Pearce Handicap and the Muetert-n Cup. has, says the sporting of th* 'Post.' confirmed the high ..opinion formed of the son of Ban Francisco' after his Success in the Pari in-’ roentary Handicap at Trcntham last June. I It no[W look® as if a irplendid chance of t landing a big stake was thrown away wln-n I Sir Frisco was not ftiken across to’ Rand- | wick to run in the AcJ.C. Metropolitan, in j which his weight, inclusive of penalty, was only 7.3. It is nop generally known that! during tho Wellington winter meeting Mr i Moore declined a -very gcod offer for the ! colt, an Australian l/uyer being prepared to i go to a thousand tor’him, with a view to! a dash at the Sydney long-distance handicap ' and its big betting possibilities. j Merganser, by Nordenfoldt—Albatross, I who was a great performer in her dav, and I one of the tine-t gallopers I have seen bar Maxim, died recently when on a visit to I'.'evntmn. Her greatest- performance wa.-, accomplished in the C.J.C. Gicat Autumn Handicap of 1895. when she carried 9.8 and won. A very likely mare to win a long-di.danee handicap is Blue Ribbon, says the ‘Post.’ In the Masterton Cup she was going beautifully five furlongs from home, being just on Skye’s girths, hut must have hcen'iuteifered with at this point, for she suddenly lost her iplacto and dropped hack fifth or ■ixth. Carroll got her going aim in. and tim half-sister to Parilutu was making up hr lost gfiptir.d in rare style, and cut. ring the straight was galloping so freely that he'* chance? looked gor.d. The scrimmage that took place at the distance settled her; nevertheless, sho ran a meet encoma"ing fourth-.. Thedwcll-known sire Lonsdale, who as a two-yefti-old won the Maribvrnong Plate in 1887, teas- badly kicked norno days ago bv ;i man(,,.and had to be destroyed. ' In a* letter to a Melbourne friend B. Caralako states that Count Batthvany. the ex-chiUiman of the Hungarian Jockey* Club, i* takbg a trip for the benefit of his*health! and that lie will arrive in Aivrraiia at the end of next month. He, will be accompanied by M. I’achf, a prominent Hungarian owner.' Count B.itfbyun.v is a son of Prince BatHiyany, who won the Kmdrib Derby in 1875 with Galopin. Ho hj s 'long been one of the leading Hungarian owners! and won the Austrian Derby with Garni (a son of Galopin), and in 19C0 Gagas son Ando won the same race. Count Batthvaiiv has always been inteie.sted in. Austiiiliaii 1 racing affairs, and one of the object,, of his visit to Australia (according to an exchange) is to study Australian ratocom-s#, mamomment. t Tho first Mexican Derby. tr> 1 ; . , Un j n 1810, will t>e endowed with 15.000d0l and half the entrance foes. Imported Imis-s may he entered, hut these must icmain in Mexico from the date or entering to the time of the race. , Colts or filliee !,., ru j R Mexico will get an advantage of lOlh. I,! I the Derby of 1910 all are eligible, whetlie-- 1 imported or native.-bn-d. hut in the lltrhv of 1911 only native-bred homes will be allowed to enter. Malatua, tire of Maramri, was a fcw months ago sold in Sydney for lOOgs, bio putclniaer reselling him* the's.uim da/at an advance of 20g« to Mr F, Pollock. The horse is located at Grafton, and, a a llm sire of a Caulfield Cup winner, should now command a fair amount of palroinn'e. The New Zealand oteepleehaser” Pilot is now in charge of W. Chaafe at Randwiek. No fewer than ten Dmhya were nm in America this year. A colt' named Meeliek won three of a-total value of about R3.5C0 ' The most important, that nm at Brooklyn and of the value of £2,675, went to Fair Play, ridden by K. Dugan, who was also on Meeliek in two of the races won by the latter colt. Meelick’e thme victories were achieved early in the year, and be was completely knocked out when bo arrived at New York in order to compete for the i _ Brooklyn Derby. Woolwinder. tho Doncaster St, Leger ' - - winner of 1907, was recently placed under offer to tho Hungarian Government at £25.000. No deal rc.dilted. ’Sat highest price lealisod on the concluding day of the Newmarket (England)

annual blood stock sales was 2,sCogs, at whidr-prico a colt by Ayrshire from Doremi bedmlP'ths property of Lord Lonsdale, who was run to the amount named bv Mr W. otartw» A'colt-out of GoldSeektag Gal,'by Carbine, brought l,Booge, and was put; chased- by Captain Dewhurst. Lady De Btffpe, (known to u» better as Mrs Langtry) gave 166gs for a yearling sister to Yentol, by Hunted—!’ot, who won the Cei-arewitcli 'Stakes this year. the £IO,OOO handicap for trotters, the that important harness race ever given in America on the speed handicap system, was decided at Readville track, near Boston, on August 25. Twenty thousand persons saw the race. The first prize went to the bay stallion Allen Winter, a horse that had never started in a race before.' He is a son of Ed. Winter, 2.12|, dam Miss Que, by Que Allen. There were thirty-three starters, and these were separated into two j divisions of sixteen and seventeen each, j Then the first eight in each heitt came out for the final heat, and were started in the following order; —On scratch. Jay Kay ; 5011 behind, Ralph Wyck ; 100 ft, Kim; 150 ft, Evince C., Peter Balta ; 200 ft. San Francisco. Teasel, The Huntsman; 250 ft, Allen Winter, Btrvaldo. Daniel; 300 ft, Del Coronado; 5501t. Sweet Marie. Through I a system of electric button,), which ran from ( each starting judge to a big ball, it was j'os ihk' for each judge to signal when his own lenses were on the mark and facing the right direction. Ail the judges were unanimous the bell rang automatically. Allen Winter's time was 2min 43sec. The stewards of the Moonce Valley (Vie.) Club on the 26th October held an inquiry into tire accident which occurred in the Moonce Valley Cup on the previous Saturday. when C.anchattan and 0 rial's Daughter were killed and two jockeys injured. The evidence pointed to the fact that Herbert Duggan, the rider of tardy Wilde, caused the accident. Lady Wilde cut sharply atros-s the field at the buck of the course, interfering with Belfry, who cannoned against ('rzil’s Daughter and knocked her on to the rails. Hire fell, and Clanchattan came down over her. The stewards did not think that Duggan was guilty of foul tilling, but. on the ground that he had ridden recklessly, they disqualified him for twelve months. Cordon's colt Ahvwa, winner of the V.11.C. Derby in record time (if the cable is i on-act), did not run in the spring of last year, but nude his tiiiit appearance sk Flcm’.Tvton on New Year's Day in the Criterion handicap, in this he ran nowhere, and he ali.V) failed badly in two races at the Victorian Club meeting and in the Federal Flakes tit Caulfield, whiut in the Alma Stakes ire get no nearer than fourth. Then Ire finished out of a place in the Moonce Maiden Plate. Following this he raced again at Flernington, and carried 7.0 to victory in tiro Nursery Handicap, six furlongs.' Dclenda (6.7) bring erconcl; and, carrying 7.1 in the Hdeet Stakes, seven furlongs, at the same meeting, he won easily from Belinda i6.7i. The latter was, however, on this occasion left several lengths at the pod. Ala was first appearance this seiujr-n was in the Caulfield Guineas, in which he linii.-lied remarkably well, but could net overhaul the winner, I’arsre. He followed that up by taking the Felipe? Stake.;, and the performance was a very attractive one. because he got a bad paiisage. looked hopelessly out of it before reaching the home turn. There were 22 runners for this year's Melbourne Cup. The smallest field was in 1863—the third year of the race—'Banker, wit’n Chifr.°y up. beating six others. The hugest laid war, in Carbine's memorable yiar. 1890. when thirty-nine faced the starter. Lend Nolan, this year's winner, is a Sydney colt, and a near relative of herd Cardi an, the 1903 winner.! .Lord Nsh.n’o actual record prior to the Melbourne Bail was not promising, but he seemed to ■■•how some staying ability, and this gave his party hope about the (CupHe ran four times a,; a. two-year-old, .failing to eocuro a place. He opened hi. winning at count by taking the Jockey Chib Handicap (7.0), ono mile and a-qaarlcr, at Wall send this Hepl-.nnhcr. He finished fifth in the A.J.C. Derby, won by Parsec, ant! cn the second day of the meeting ■easily won the New Stakes limn-Vavasor and Pe'ke i. .V tidl'd to Mooltan and It hire in the Craven Plate followed, and then canto bis race in the P.andwick Plate.,