THE TURF

Evening Star, Issue 17528, 7 December 1920, Page 8

THE TURF

[Gossip bt Oed Identity.] Forbury Park seemed stiff with men and women on Saturday, and the gate returns show the attendance to have been neariy as large as on the Saturday of last February. The effort to Taise a guarantee to the Railway Department for a special train to Christchurch on Saturday, to take trotting men and horses home, failed by £l2O. C. Gieseler is now training Bothnia (Finland —Mystical), winner of the Maiden at TimaTti. Lawsuit, though quite well, is having a short rest. The yearling by Boniform—Margarethe, purchased by Mr A. Murdoch, has gone into E. Scoullar's stable. No fewer than 37 failed to accept for the Auckland Cup. The list is now unite a sober one, but promising a large field. The Aucklanders seem to think more of Uncle Ned than Oratress. James Clarke, who trains Micky Marr and rode hhn to a win in the Suburban Handicap at Forbury, was years ago the clever half-back of the Dunedin Club's fifteen. Warlike had ground to make up at the finish of the Methven Cup, and he just did it. The death is announced from Sydney of Mr Frank Reynolds, who owned the Tocal Stud. The ' Australasian' remarks : " Mr Reynolds was really responsible for the late Mt Bruce Lowe's book, 'Breeding Horses by the Figure System,' being written. Mr Lowe's original idea, in order to identify leading thorough-bred families, was to name them after a color, such as Ted, blue, and brown. Mr Reynolds persuaded him to work on the figure system. Mr Lowe at one time condemned Grand Flaneur and Carbine, and it was Mr Reynolds who induced him to change nis opinions about those horses.

According to a computation made bv "Pilot," of the Sydney 'Referee,*'' Cetmge is still second to Carbine in the amount of stakes won, the amount down to the credit of Grafton's veteran son being £26,756. " Pilot " adds : " Cetinge may augment his total, but I am afraid few, if any more, first in weight-for-age races will be credited him. At a mile Greenstead will be a stumbling block, and at nine or ten furlongs EuTythmic will also be in his way. It has already been demonstrated that a mile and a-half in first-class company is beyond Cetinge, and, as he has turned eight years, it is late to look for improvement in him as a stayer. In handicaps up to a mile and aquarter he may still have to be reckoned with, but, even if he does not win another race, his record is a great one." Gloaming's backers in the Feilding Stakes were content to take a " DeseTt Gold" dividend

In the Manchester Handicap, at Feilding, Marqueteur was the pabEo choice. Tenterfiekl made the running for six furlongs, where Depredation headed him. The favorite joined them a furlong from home, and Dusky Eve and Bonetter also put in challenges. In a good finish Depredation won by a head from the favorite, with Dusky Eve a neck away: B. Deeley had frve wins at !Feilding. Accrington, half-brother to the Grand Prix de Paris winner Comrade, racing successfully in Australia, was bought at auction for 250gs by the Victorian sportsman who races under the assumed name of Mr E. A. Reid. So far Accrington has won £4,205 in stakes since he changed hands.

Good Hope got a leg injured at Methven, and will need a, long spoil. In the Lowther Stakes, run in England last-October, there were only two starters —ToreLore, 9.8, ridden by B. Carlsake, and Pomme de Terre, 10.2 (Rabbins)—and tne distance was a mile and three-quar-ters. . Strangely enough the betting was evens against each of the runners, and after a desperate race they dead-heated, the stakes being divided. This is said to be the first time that two horses, starting at evens, had run a head-heat in England over a mile and three-quartersT^ There is said to be a prospect of the crack American three-year-old colt Man o War being taken to England next year to run for the Ascot Gold Cup. Man o' War is credited with having run 1m 5f in the Laurence Realisation Stakes at Belmont Park in 2min 40 4-6 sec—a world's record. The Middle Park Plate, one of the bis young races in England, was run just b£ fore our last files left. There were eight starters and a hot favorite in the Lemberg colt Lemoriora created a surprise bv running unplaced. Monarch won bv a neck from Humorist. The winner who was bred by his owner, Sir H. Bird was got by Tracery from Teofani by Black Duck from Cigarette by Marco.