THE TURF

Evening Star, Issue 15480, 30 April 1914, Page 2

THE TURF

&£ JGossip by Old JDEjnrtrr.] 55 If Sister Kadius~~ran in the Denrean S Stakes at Svdney last Saturday she failed £* to get a place. She was weighted at 7,7 *■'•* for the six furlongs. Gigandra being top s- '-' weight with 10.4. Averse, the winner, '" • had 7.13, arid she was followed home by ? - Gold Brew {9.8) and Brattle (8.2) - , ■*. The New Zealand mare Maple Leal f£ lasted, favorite for the First Division r i--—adieap at Epsom (Vic.) on the 18th. 5: - «■<» did not get out quite so smartly as * wa»l, but worked her way to the front **.- at the eiid of a couple of furlongs. AU Red was alongside her at the distance, and ficoct had her in trouble. Sir Geo. McLean's 13 Sarto yearlings sent to Sidney realised 962^s s » an average of 74m." The fillies made better prices than the geldings. *-. Altogether 556 yearlings were eoW in Sydney for a total of 88,894g5, an average of nearly 160gs, as against 511' for 69,636£g5, an average of i3sgs, last year. Besidesi the «al« of yearlings, there were sales of stallions, brood mares, racehorses in training, and untried stock. These, added to the amount paid for yearlings, make a jTrand total of realised for" blood stock during the ten days. Boa Ton and Radnor, bought by Mr I*. Falkiaer from Mr S, k . P- Mackay for S,COQgs, have gone into J. Scobie's stable. ' Svdney Tattersall's Club haa a balance in hand of £62,286, including £5,308, the profit made during the past year. The unexpected happened at Randwick on the last day, when both Eadnor and Liryveil were beaten in the A.J.C. Plate. The 'Arg«&* says: If ever a race looked a match this did, but two horses were ttmxtd to boat I4lwen, and Radnor finished no nearer than fifth. Form at Randwick during the meeting was all at aixes and sevens. GoW Brew, Lochano, Lilyveil, Cider, and Bon Reve, all of whom failed to ehow up in the Doncasier Handicap, subsequently won good races; whileCagoa, who only lasted a mile in th*. Amman Stakes, and was but fifth to lilyveil in the Sydney Cup, won the A.J.C. Plate from Aurofodina. As might be supposed, Cagou was at a long price. The betting was, as a matter of fact, confined to two—Lilyveil and Radnor. Both these fcorsse were probably feeling the effect* of the hard campaign they have gone through. Radnor has been at it without a let-up since the early spring. Cagou was not thoroughly wound up when in Melbourne for the V.R.C. Autumn Meeting, and he was still apparently backward at the opening of the A.J.C. meeiuug. He has gradually worked himself into form. A high opinion was formed of Cagoa when he ran away with the last A.J.'C. Metropolitan, but his form since then has been more or less disappointing. The remarkable thing about Cagou'e performance in the Plate is that he made all bis own running. The time (smin 37sec) compares unfavorably with that put up by Trafalgar in 1911 (smin 22i sec), and also with that recorded by Radnor himself in the Champion Stakes (saiin 23isec). The Plaj;e was really not a genuine three-mile test. Cagou has been bought by a Queensland lady for 1,500g5. Radnor and Bon Ton have arrived m Melbourne and gone to Pyfccheley Lodge, where they mil be trained by Jas. Scobie. Both horse* will be eased up for a while. Lilyveil is one of the most remarkable purchase* ever made of an English horse for Australia. He was bought by his importers for "a song,'" won them some races, and was then sold for £3,000 to his present owners, who have also found •lim a valuable possession. Bridge is a verv disappointing horse. He was favorite for the Jumpers' Flat Race at Sandown Park (Vie.) on the 22nd, and could only dead-heat with Radiator, who beat him in the run-off. Bridee was conceding 281b. Rathlea (8.7) was the public pick for the Cooiree Handicap at Sydney, Bon Reve (8.2) third in demand. After passing the ffve furlongs John Porter ran to the front, but after leadinsr for half a furlong he was Joined by Bon Eeve, and they made play into the straight, a length from Rathlea, next. But once in the line for home Bon Reve drew out alone, and though Rathlea challenged a little later, aodbjaiade a bold and generous bid*for the stake, Bon Reve won. by a length and a

quarter. Seeing that RadnoT and Beragoon stand out from aH others of their age, and are -old opponent*, it is inieresteing (says an J* Australian writer) to compare the farm. * Offhand it will probably be said thai - figures aav mpst for Beragoon, ho having won £ll ,"920 in. stake?, as against Radnor's £ll-134 9a; but they do Ttot. Leaving the Melbourne Cup out of tha question, because neither ran into a place, Radnor and Beragoon have met in seven Taces, and, while Radnor won three of Ibem, he was twice second and a similar number of times third. On the other hand, Bexagoon won two of those races, he was three times second, once third, and once unplaced. Imshi, a two-year-old winner at Randwick, is spoken of as a likely Derby colt. He is by Persian Knight, who was bought in England for 35gs. "Terlinga" says: that Ravello, bv Positano from The Parisienne, by Trenton from Mario Louise, by Gang Forward, is another promising Derby colt. He is The PaririemneV first colt by Positano. and he has not been seriously trained yet. •". Toseph Buxton had just been giving him goodwork with a view to three-year-old engagements, and his win in the Mile Nursery was a pleasant suTDrise. Mountain Kniaht is another good-lookrnii cr.lt. He is rather lanky at present, and likely to improve. His"dam. La Virile, is by Mostyn, whose name in a pedigree does not set ono thinkiiwr of a T)erby winner, but La Vielle is out of Viml. by Trenton from Nightmare, from Panic, which is , very much in Mountain Knight's favor. 5 Mr A. Knox owns a fine lump of a colt i : in Indiscretion, a-nd he shapes like a * Bercola is said to be dome well on the j Hawera track, and .considering, the poor. diss of 'chasers likelv to bo seen out this I year, he should again have a successful •Snainas. H« is engaged in the Wangamii Steeplechase, and will probably be sent i there shortly for schooling Cefflanentina on the New Zealand St.; Leger at Wellington, the ' Dominion' says: Cherubim, who had won the C.J.C. Derby, tha Great Northern Derby, the Canterbury Cup. and the Auckland Plate, ■Was made favorite, and carried more than half the money on the machine. He looked quite fit, but in some quarters it was predicted that he might prove short of a race, seeing that he had not sported sflk «noe January last. His most formid.able opponent was undoubtedly Merry - Roe. but, bv the majority of those pre--sent. her brilliant record was not considered "£good enough to justify the hope that she - would beat a performer like Cheruhini over " a Brile and three-quarters. And when it came to the race, and Merry Roe, after going to the front, was overhauled and Headed by Cheruhini, it appeared to be only a- matter of collecting the dividend on the feforite. Entering the straight, howewr, Merry Roe came with such a brilliant run that inside, the distance she was about half a length in front of Cheruhini. ' The .latter responded to the efforts of his rider, aad gradually reduced the gap, but he wk I mabT» to recover all the lost ground, and the fißr passed the post a head to the. zoed. v> *« * fin* performance for Hetty Be*, aad a well-judged race by her iockev- Indeed, the opinion was freely expressed that it was BcK&aaaa'* horsealoae that won the race." ,'"■ The Trentham Gold Gup on Saturday toad* Qfettrvers less inclined to excuse -.'. acd it is now commonly be*«Jla**£ that Merry Boe is better than him. ;.Tb* 'Past' thus describes the raoe: Rain *'" was Vrtaaujg and the sky was dark. Chera- ■ bini, whose ability to gallop through the mad bad to be taken on trust, was made ' a h*t favorite, and largely because Sir v Solo bad previously won in heavy going, ~ he was better supported than might have ■M been expected. However, he never seemed ' to be going smoothly, whilst Merry Roe, <*l tearing alogig ie front, seemed to find the " coißft&m jt»t to her liking. She ran *,. the various stages of the race as follows:' '" —Two fatkura, &£sec ; half-mile, 54$ sec; "'. six lmin aOteec; one mile, lmrn, '" = -.49seei *e» furfoags, 2min 16sec; twelve furlongs, fimin 46|secr and the last halfmile in oßsee, The fast pace she feet out «A *aJt* demoralised the opposition, and

although people began to cry out "llWHk' he copies!" .-when Cherubim Traced tt» gap fivo. {urkwigs iwwd home, otlt««, whx* had good glasses and perhaps mew* perieiw, plainly saw that Mr Greenwood's col& ww traveUhig anything bub happilyThis soon became apparent to all, for th* filiy shot away again in effortless ftiylftj and it was just a question of by wh*t margin she would win. This was about eight lengths, but- Buchanan began pulling her up almost as soon as he got inside the distance, and it is not improbable that she could have won by as far as Cherubim was ahead of Sir Solo. Whether the result would have been the same if the race had been run on the top of the ground nobody can definitely say, but it was a great performance on Merry Roe's part in any case, and in recognition of this she received the greatest ovation ever accorded a winner at Trcntham.