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_Thero is just a suspicion that Rorke*s Drift has more than once of late shown slight signs of soreness, writes "Sir Modred." However, now that the sting i? out of the ground hj may be found •that all is goinS well with him. It has yet, been finally decided to take Rorke's Drift to Riccarton for the C.J.C. races. The 'Pwsa' states that M. Hobbs contemplates making a trip to Australia Jihortly, his. intention being to leave within the next two months-, and to remain in the> Commonwealth five? She winter. He will take his own four horses—Com'©, Peg, Deltonio, and Down, and will race them during the ' *"£' Cherubini was honored with top weight of 9.12 in the Onkaparinga (S.A.) Cup, but he is not to start. Terlinga " writes: Some funny things have happened at OWfoparinga, In the early days there was a road double, and on each side of the loaxi a hiwh hedge. It is long odds that when Gunn won he ¥ waited in that lano while the others crossed thohill, and then joined in for the final dash round the course proper. He gave the others a good -start in the last mile, bnt ran over them like a fresh horse. And he got the race. A trooper who said he was in the lane while the race was being run told the stewards Gunn was not there, and his evidence settled it. And to this day Mr Ferry will not express an opinion as to whether Gnnn did or did not go the course. Next year the hoot was on the other" leg with a vengeance. Trigger ran round the logs right in front of the stand, but he kept going, and won, with Gunri: second. Mr 1 Ferry, like- most people, saw, but forget, and his belated protest was- dismissed, the local horse scoring, to' the' great satisfaction of the multitude. I was " reading" that race to a shorthand reported, and, according to the notes Gunn was not with the field as they went over the hill in 1880, and "Trigger ran off the logs in 1881." These incidents show what a lot of luck there is in racing. Mr W. Allison has the following: Carnage might or might not have proved a great stallion. He was three-parts brother to Carbine, and certainly a truer made horse, besides being a first-class winner. I bought him for 3,soogs—if I remember rightly—from the late Mr W. R. Wilson, and after he had been only a season or two in England Count Lehndorff resolved, to buy him for the Graditz Stud. I quoted 10,000gs as the price, and the Count came over with his son' to see the horse. They subjected him to. a most crucial examination, and finally gave 7,500gs and old St. Gatien for him. For St. Gatien Mr J. B. Haggin subsequently gave 1,500g5, so that Carnage realised a total of 9",000g5, which -Was- s,soGgs more than he harl cost. Mr Allison mentions' that the best of Trenton's early Ehglish-bred colts, Longy and Eccleston, were unlucky. Longy was Turned by drinking Ifcd water when he was sent oh an itt-fated expedition to Baden Baden, and 'Eecleston's owner was killed in the Boer War,' so that the engagements were void, and the colt was sold to an Austria%>,b*eiftler. W. H. M'Laehlah, who recently returned to Sydney from New Zealand, lost. no time in putting in an appearance at the Randwick tracks. His license has been restored by the A. J.C. Subsequent to his suspension he announced that ha., might possibly drop out of the game altogether as a jockey, butt he has not adhered to that intention. Cetigne carried 9.3 and won the April Handicap atßose'hill (N.S.W.) on the Ist inst. "Terlinga" writes: This fine Grafton colt looks very like finishing off the Season in brilliant style. Good he has always been, but Wallace Isinglass outpaced him at the finish of the Rosehill Guineas last spring, and Patrobas outstayed him in the Victoria Derby. Cetigne yopaid Wallace Isinglass with two good beatings a little later on, and now he seems to be better than ever, while Patrobas, if not exactly under a cloud, is not working well, and hie Tecent form in public was not as good as in the spring. At the recent races of the Broken Hill Jodkey Club, 10 o'f the 11 horses engaged in the Trial Stake's were late to the post, and their respective riders were each fined £l. The joekeys objected,' on the score that they' were -not to blame, and threatened fee strike if the fines were insisted
•upon. The stewards advised that the fines • should bff transferred 1 to the owners, and this was done. Nightowl, a half-sister to NoctuifoTm, owned by Mr .£. J. Watt, died on the way from Sydney to New Zealand. The withdrawal of Multiply from the Trent-Bam Gold Cnp left in three runners. On his form with Balboa in the Auckland Plate and Indigo in the Napier Oup; the race_ looked the best of good things far Eligible. So it proved (writes " Sir Lancelot"), and under the circumstances his backers got a gocd return for their money. The instructions to th© rider were to go out and make the pace. Eligible ran wide to get the good; going, and covered more ground than his opponents.. Passing the stand he led two lengths, with the others almost level. Racing along the 'hack, Balboa drew away from Indigo, but the latter closed -up the gap six furolngs from home. Eligible entered the straight full of Tunning, and although Balboa closed On him just below the distance it was a ;snal effort, as Eligible passed the post with three lengths' advantage. Indigo was half a dozen _ lengths away. Balboa and Indigo were similarly placed behind Warstep last year._ Eligible thus equalled,the performance of Merrie Roe two years ago by winning the St. Leger and Trenfham Gold Cup. Eligible has" done remarkably well this season, considering he has avoided De&Srt Gold, whom he only met on one occasion, in the Great Northern Derby. He has won about £4,000 in stakes th'is season.
Quairneta, in Mr J. Baron's stable, has come into prominence for the A..T.C. Doncaster by winning a seven furlongs race in the .country in 1.27. . Legend, who was mated only three times from 1842 to 1847, and gave birth to twins each time, by different sires, may find a serious rival m Lady Black. According to the last English Calendar, Lady B?ack gave birth to twins by Tredennis'in 1914, and also in 1915.
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Evening Star, Issue 16088, 13 April 1916, Page 7
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