THE TURF.

Evening Star, Issue 14532, 7 December 1910, Page 3

THE TURF.

[Gossip by Old Iqkntitt.] Mr Meirose's raking njiare Magneto, daughter of Merriwee, ran unbacked, the outsider of the party, in the Victorian Club Handicap, ou the 26th ult., and dead-heated with Yuranigh's Daughter. Mr Melrose thought she was not forward enough, and it was a surprise to him that the 6aw the race out. Bayardo's subscription in England is full at 300gs for next season. Ho will eland at the Manton Stud. Mr J. L. Purves, K.C., died in Melbourne a couple of weeks ago. One of the first horses he owned was Waxy, who fell in the Melbourne Cup of 1877 and brought down Savanaka. Dryope, by Kilcheran—Bivalve, won the two-year-old race at South Australian TattersaH's on the 26th November. This is a New Zealand youngster. Linda is one of the most useful secondrate mares that we have in training. She captured the two principal events at Faseby, giving 221b to Pretty Face on the BBcond day. Buff Gauntlet broke his duck at Naseby. and will probably win again in the autumn. At Sandown Park on October 20 Lemberg finished his racing this season by winning the SaiiUown Foal Stakes, of £1,724. He started at 100 to 7 "on." and won ai» bo liked in a field of four. Ip India it is reckoned that nothing outside of one of the recent importations has any chance of beating Fizz in this year's Viceroy's Cup. Frank Woot ton's apprenticeship to his father ends) this year, and next reason Lord Derby will have th.-t and -Mr H. Lythani eecond call on his services. He could have eecured a retainer for third call, hut declined to bind himself to mure than two employers After Borrow won the .Mi.idle Park Plate from the dead heaitevs Pietri and Seaforth last month. Band-ill. who had the mount on the latter, piotest.'d airainst the winner on the score of interference. The objection was dismissed, hut the occurrence gave the •Winning Pitt' room to remark: "One thing is ohviou.-—namely, that the monkey-crouch is such that the coarse at Newmarket, which i«= the most open and widest in the world, is vet iint wide enough for three horses ridden by mankey-crouchers."

In Frame many l>iu r owners are (lis satisfied with totalisator bettinir. and are working hard for the reinstatement of the bookmaker. The question has been taken op by the Syndic-ate of breeders as well as the Syndicate of O-.vners. and the Government have l*e:i formally approached. li. M/Kay Ins a recruit in his stable: a yearling filly by Monofrni' ibrother to Multiform) from Lailv Thoirton. Thev sav that .Mr W. Crossan backed Pure "Gold" for each of the races she won it the Maniototo meeting last week. It. MDoruld has improved Multifoil, jnd this colt managed to win a race at Nasebv.

Optimeform loi>ks like a racer, and now that he has soivd. in the Mount Ida Hack Handicap, he may pay his way. Cylleue headed'the' winning stallion list in England last year, and it is certain he will again do so thl-i season. Up to October 17 he had £34.768 credited him, St. Frusquin. with £22,180, coming next. An English huntc named Moorside was sold for £1,200. He was originally sold in Ireland for less than £IOO. The Cambridgeshire Stakes winner, Christmas Daisy, i-? a gelding, and ly latest flies to hand he started at a much shorter figure than when he won last year. The winner was ridden by Donoghue, while D. Maher was on Mustapha (second). The English Jockey Club have decided that at race meetings where National Hunt rules are observed there are to be at least twelve fences in the first two miles on ell steeplechase courses, and in each succeeding mile sis, exclusive of hurdles, the water jump to count as one. Kopu and Advocate are rather better favorites than Diabolo and Bridge for the Auckland Cup. .Mr Melrose's Advance won a small race at Bendigo. '• Brownie" Carslake and S. Ferguson, two Melbourne jockeys, are returning for a holiday in Australia", after riding in Austria for Baron Springer. I.emberg's time when winning the Derby (li miles) was 2min 35£ sec. His time when winning the Sandown Foal Stakes (1J miles) was 2min 42isec. No wonder (says a writer) that a policeman on his hack, when goTng for the ambulance for an injured jockey, was able to almost keep pace with them. Occasionally a jockey is more approachable than the trainer of a horse, but, writes ■" Pilot," it is improbable there is anything near as much done in this line as some followers of racing would have us believe. Borne jockeys—especially a few old-timers —may have mvle matters rather warm in ♦his direction, and 1 remember a trainer relating that on one occasion, when he could soe theie was "something doing" in connection with one of his horses, and, not wishing to be left out ; n the cold, he Esked his rider just before he left the pad dock "How is it?" "I don't know yet," was the cool reply. " Well, put me in it, whichever way it is," said the trainer. " Right," was the answer, and as the horse won everybody concerned was satisfied. Perrier, who onco carried the late King Edward's colors, and is now owned in France, takes a good deal of heating as a jibber. He was sent over from France to run in the Cambridgeshire Stakes, and on tho day before the race defied all attempts of his traine" to make him canter, and he returned to his stable master of the situation. In the race Perrier stuck his toes in the ground, and refused to leave the mark.

A private letter from England, received in Sydney, states that next year Mr R. Wootton will probably have one of the biggest strings of racehorses in training there. Recently he hns bought nearly £7,0C0 worth of horses, including Mouche Blue, for 1,350g5, and Lomond, by Desmond from Lowland Aggie, for l.fJOOgs. Desmond is by St. Simon from the Oak.s winer L'Abbes.-*; do Jouarro, and he stands at the Fort Union Stud, Adare, Co. Limelick, where his list quickly filled for this season at 250gs. F. Wootton, who is at the head of the list of winning jockeys in England again this Benson, has never ridden in a race in Australia. His father, R. Wootton, was established as a trainer at Randwick for some time, and afterwards went to South Africa, where young Wootton had his first ride in public. W. H. M'Lachlan, the most successful rider in Australia at the present time, was an. apprentice of Wootton in Sydney. On averages, Maher's record, as was the case last year, is better than Wootton's. Maher is a heavier jockey, and his opportunities of securing mounts are therefore not so numerous as his great rival. It is not often that an English Middle Park Plate falls to a gelding, but it will be recalled that the winner of 1899, Democrat, was unsexed, and was, moreover, like Borrow, of American breeding. With the famous "Tod" Sloan in the saddle the son of Sensation and Equality was practically invinciblo in the year named, for after failing in his first three races he was only once beaten in eight subsequent outings. Borrow, being a gelding, is not eligible to run in next year's Epsom Derby. For once in a. way Mr Allison has a poor opinion of the Knglish two-year-olds. Writing after the Middle Park Plate, he said: "It certainly seemed sound business to back Seaforth, but he is rather lathy for a classic colt to look at, being somewhat on the leg and inclined to run up light. These are faults from tho foreign point of view, but if breeders are ever going to have another chance in this country the time has surely como for recognising that the stereotyped fashionable lines of blood are, to say the least, insufficient. We want other lines, and plenty of them, and this 1 shall persistently maintain, though my voice should always be disregarded as that of oue crying in the wilderness. What has happened in existing cir- , cumstanoaß? Aj^ju^^bis^^u^

seen perhaps the most inferior Middle Park Plat© field that ever went to the, post. I was quite prepared to welcome either Seaforth or Pietri as a champion, but when they can only run a dead-heat behind the non-staying Borrow, what oxo we to think of them, except that they are moderates? There is no doubt, I think, that Seaforth should have won, but it would not have been an easy win in any case, and then there was Pietri running a sulky race all the way after doing his l«st not to start at all. The best colt in the field was. I think, Lord Derby's, who finished a close fourth. As to the winner, Borrow, he only served to show the_ poor class of those whom he beat. Where, then, can we find a good two-year -old t Is thero one at all?