THE TURF

Evening Star, Issue 18336, 25 July 1923, Page 9

THE TURF

Gossip bx Old Identitx. Three more fixtures and up _ goes the donkey—in other words, tho racing season ends. The last meetings arc: W annate, July 26; Gisborne, 26 and 28; Poverty Bay trots, 27. Dunedin horses engaged at tho Grand National are; General Advance and GavtuODiin Christie's stable ; Palencia, Londonderry, and Mngbora. in Lilis's stable ; Stall Officer, Twinkle, Matatua, Orange Bitters and Tinmark in Shaw’s stable; im-ursio, in While's stable; Happy Warrior. in Wilson's stable. All of tho above, except Londonderry, Magbern. Twinkle, am! Happy Warrior, are engaged at tho C hris'church Hunt Meeting. There was Dunedin money for Rornfnrm in tho first race at, Timaru on Saturday, but he did no good. Omalm jumped big in the South Canterbury Steeplechase, but generally showed good form. General Advance started the outsider of tho firtd in the Claremont Welter at Timaru.

His stable mate Cartoon did well In Cig second to Silk Rein in the Tfadlow les.

Rhnboro, winner of a double at Timaru, is one of Canute ('bid's get; his dam, Nodeen. a daughter of Waterloo. The Signor mare Crncelle lias broken down, and as the lease, bad only a month to run she is to be put to the stud. An Auckland writer states that First Born was sold as a yearling for about 100 guineas. The progeny of Alicia, his dam, were generally unlucky, hut apparently the snrll of misfovlnne ended at tho advent, of First Born.

So far ns the present season has gone, 1.171 horses have iron money in events under tho Rules of Racing. Of this number 110 have earned £I.OOO or over.

.1. U, .TelTerd li'ft for Sydney by tlie Manuka with seven horses. His team consists of Ranine, Grotesque. King’s Tnunneter. Bathos. Giggl? (‘Absurd—Chuckle), an Absurd —Ptarglow youngster,’ and t'no Sol ferine —Grey Linnet toil Kedpolc, winch has been purchased by J. M’Cann, and will bo delivered in Sydney. The purchase price of the last-named was 700 guineas, and ho cost only 450 guineas at tim yearling sales. Tt is tlge intention of JefTeVd (savs “Glencoe”) to rare the team at Hardwick and the two big .Melbourne meetings. and meantime he will quit them if Im can. All the horses look well, and pbo'ild find a market if the prices asked arc reasonable. The slowest to go off will probably be Grotesque. Ranine lias only it..} to keen sound, and such a proved slaver should hold bis own in weight-for-age company at Flemington. but it will most likely be Flcmington before Rapine is al his best. «

Raimi's acceptance for the Grand National Steeplechase was received about a quarter of an hour after the closing hour.

According to information from Sydney, R. ,T. Mason has disposed of Vespucci, and the Varco gelding will probably bo raced in Queensland. Amythas is still being spelled on his owner’s farm at Foxton, but is to bo pu‘* info training again shortly. The Earl of Rosebcrv. who recently won the Two Thousand Guineas with Ellane wan. was seventy-six years old on May 7. A London exchange says the story is often told how in his Eton days the earl remarked that his three ambitions were to wed an actress, attain the rank of Prime Minister, and win the Derby, and these ambitions were duly satisfied 1 in every instance.

To.aire some idea, of how they encourage stayers in France, it is only necessary to draw attention to a programme got off in Paris on Sunday. May 6. The card opened with a. 2,ooCsovs stake, to be run mw a mile and three-quarters. Tt was fo’-owed bv a seven-furlong race for a 600sors stake. A special race for ihree-yeu.r-olda was worth I.6Cosovs, and run over ten furlongs. Then came the principal item on file card, a race over three miiis for a A.OOOsova stake. Two other events were run over a mile and a-half V’d a mile and' a-quarter. A Sydney writer, in commenting on the *1 rurrglc between Mnnro and Toohcy for tbf/jm-brv premiership, says there is nothing like encouraging the individual to bring about any given set of circumstances, and suggested that a bonus of £SOO be offered to the jockey who rides the larger number of winners each year. Some northern writers conjecture that Pamplona was scratched for the Grand National because bo is amiss. _ Quite wrong. The horse is well and in work, but the owner was not satisfied with the weights.

. The South Canterbury gelding Carmine is freely mentioned in Christchurch as having pood prospects in the Winter Cup.

In referring fo iho lair; Mr Alfred Drake, who died recently in South Australia. an Adelaide; writer remarked: Twenty years aco he settled in Adelaide, and wont into business as a publican in the. Norfolk Arms Hotel, Dandle street. Prosperity cam© to him, and seven years ago he had the old hotel demolish eel and erected a. new building on the site, the greater part of which was devoted to the Grand Picture Theatre, an enterprise which has proved successful.