THE TURF

Evening Star, Issue 16781, 9 July 1918, Page 7

THE TURF

[Gossip by Old Identity.] It is proposed to give John Barleycorn a uh in the Welter at Timaru. Bon Revo is said to bleed a bit now after .lis working gallops. " Comet " reports that Clynelish, who is now one of H. G. Collar's team, frequently 'hows a strong disinclination to going on tho track, and, tiiou;,'h now" is gelding, is one of ■he. most wayward horses ever seen on the Southland track. This will seriously hinder .is uumer in getting him into form. It is said that Mr" W. E. Kemball's team i'or Australia will not leave New Zealand until January. His representatives will probably include ilyir.estra, Nmina, and a pair of two-year-olds. The winner.; at the Phoenix Park (Dublin) meeting in April included a two-year-old filly named Snow Maiden, by The Tetrarch, from Snoot. Odds of 3 to 1 were laid on her for the Gru'r Plate, and she beat the other nine runners ;ia she pleased. Like her sire, she is grey, ;:nd was only the , second of his progeny that had started, the i other being Telrnc'im (another grey), who won earlier in the season in England. The ■ fact of his first two runners being winners ' jives The Tclrnreh a splendid send-off in his stud career 'i Indian buyers'continue to pay high prices I for horses in England. One of the latest i purchases mentioned is that of Rocksavago I (Flock S-nid—Manuk"). for whom £I,OOO was I paid, with the contingency that he was not | to be delivered until nfto- the Two Thousand 1 Guineas. Eocksavc.ge ran in that race, and ! finished fourth. An American three-yoar-old named Papp has won seven races p.ml 7,37750va in stakes, including the Futurity Stakes, worth 3,140 sovs. I-Tj'3 pedigree goes back to Darebin (by The Australian Peer) on one side and Sir Motlred thy Traduc.-r—ldslia) on tho other. Another successful performer in I America in the two-yeir-old colt Esco'ba, i who goes back to Ricochet, a Musket maro sent from Auckland to America. The recently-published Vol. XXIII. of the English Stud Book contains the information that in the three years prior to its appearance 540 horses were shipped from England to Australia and New Zealand, but the Dominion's share was only about .~0. The imported English-bred stallion Merry Moments, by Count Sehomberg from M"rry Gal, died recently in the North Island as the result of injuries sustained through getting m'xed up in a wire fence. G. M. Aysnley has decided not to persevere with Wrcd-ncer, and the son ef Martian has now been turned out for a lengthy spell. Meltchikoff was tripd over the sefcor>!i:i<r hurdles at Trent'-am week, but showed a strong dislike for the business. John Fountain T.unn, whose death is reported from Xew Plymouth, was well known among raeiu'j men in virions parts of New Zenland, and particularly at Eieearton, where his mother. Mr.< John Luun, s i: il re- ! s'des. He was employed for some years as stud groom at Sir George Clifford's Sfonyutirst stud, and was enrar-ed at. other studs, prior to serving in tlie Expeditionary Forces as a member of the Veterinary (Jorps. Battle Eve has fiirshed his racing career, and will go to the stud.