THE TURF

Evening Star, Issue 18667, 23 June 1924, Page 10

THE TURF

Gossip bx Old Idbntitx The important news about the fall iu the King George Handicap Is that Andrew MfKav i.s recovering. Of secondary importance. is the tact that Bonnie Winkle does not fw,m to have been hurt by his capsize. The cause of the trouble is put down to bo that lie was rattier suddenly

swerved to get. a better position, and that the screwing of bis head and the jockey s two stone of load acted in combination to overturn the horse.

Mr [,. C. llazlett intended to nominate lougbrea for the Melbourne Gup, but overlooked tho date of entry. If entered and ai all fairly weighted bo would have

cone over'. As it. is, the chances are that Lougbrea will next race at Dunedin and Mien at Auckland, lie. will not be. nominated for the. New Zealand Cup. I have the owner’s authority for that announcement, so as io save early .backers from being slipped up It is decided by the appeal case of Barrio v. Brown at Napier that it is illegal to make up a ticket in a totalizator in vestment, and that a person who does stand in with such a transaction cannot recover his share of winning. l ; if the one who collects sticks to the money. That is how I read Mr Justice MacGregor’s judgment. It, is useful to know the law on the subject.. But it will not create a feeling of distrust amongst the. racecourse crowd. Such a crowd'is characteristically confiding. Jt is practically unknown at Forbui v ami VVingatui, and T suppose other courses, for a partner in a, ticket to swindle his follow-investors. Tho code of honor is high. Think for a moment of the scores of persons who hand money to a chap they know who is approaching the ticket window, ami Hum walk away, trusting to the, chance of meeting him later on if the horse they wished to bark has won, nnd yet we never hear of this confidence being abused. 1 go so far as to say that the habitues of tho turf are proof against the temptation, and it is that knowledge that maxes me indignant when they are referred to us persons of low character. Nobody who knows them would utter such a slander.

A racegoer asked “Kir Modrr.fi” (lie other day why there aro more bookmakers in action to-day than then-, wen; some years ago. The answer, he replies, is easy. The Jaw does not permit money to be rent openly through the Post and Telegraph Department lor hi vestment on distant courses, and the. publication of total)sator dividends in newspapers is forbidden under dire penalties. Although the law says there aro no bookmakers, the public know different, and they flock in thousands to the wool brokers to invest their wagers i',n far-away events and ascertain dividends at the same time. Thus the law is flouted, the racing dubs deprived of their just profits, money is lost to the Government, and the public are deprived of the publication of their legitimate dividends in the daily and weekly newspaper at the instance of persons whoso joy of existence appears to be interference with the pleasures and pursuits of their neighbors. That there are more bookmakers, turf agents, etc., nowadays than was the case a few years ago does not admit of any doubt, no matter wJiat the spoil-sports and self-righteous may say and think. Tho New Zealand-bred three-year-old The Monk created a most favorable impression at Fiemingtou on the 7th in his performance in the lloyal Handicap. “Touchstone” says that Tl|o -Monk carried his 9.4 home in line style.. He was ridden by IT. Cairns, who looked none the worse for bis sensational enprtumer in a motor car with a petrol-hull n lorry the evening before. The strapping, fine son of Absurd is beyond doubt the most brilliant three-year-old of the season. Ghrvsostom carried 11.9 wbcu he won the First Steeplechase at llandwick on the 7th inst. Carawock, the New Zealander, who was ridden by A. Wonmald at 10.10, started favorite, but did not fence cleverly, and wars third, a do/.en lengths away, at the finish. At the end of the first furlong i’. Gray had Chrysostom in front, ami from that point out ho had the race won all the way.

For the Second Stcenlccbr.se-, on the 9ih, Chrysostom was raised to 11.9 and Carawock to 10.12. Carawock hit very hard sis furlongs from borne, but he made a good recovery, and again ranged up with Chrysostom, who continued t-o lead the field”. Over the last three furlongs Chrysostom had the race won, and. finishing splendidly, won by four lengths, beating the previous record for the course by 8; sec.

The Tipper weighf-s for the V.R.C. Grand National Hurdle "Race on July 5 are :

Halida was the public's first pick, Mnemar and Moogana (9.5) being the next fancied. The. V'.'R.G. Grand National Steeplechase is to be on July ,12. Tbo higher weights are:

: i ledstone was at- (he head of lire 1 tjrf after (be -weights appeared, and Haoma, i insn Hu ins, ChrvEoWom, ami Abwbsir each had admirers. Loudon papers to hand show that Mr Robert Sievier is once again ;n lim limelight. This tine ij tabes the share re’ a return hy the official receiver, who has charge in Knglaud of his affairs. This shows that the liabilities arc jCoV.CCO. mostly borrowings from money-lenders, and also that, there is a. long-standing debt, of £120,000 for which the creditor has not pressed. The assets are £SO, consisting of a. paid waU-h. When Sievier bought Sceptre as a yearling for ID.OOOgs ho created a stir in the turf world, for such a. .sum liad never previously been paid for I a young thoroughbred. There is a story fold of a Scotsman who attended an Knglish race meeting for the first Lime hi Ins life, and after a few races had been run his friends persuaded him to put a shilling on a horse. Very reluctantly, and without conviction, lie tendered the coin to (he bookmaker and] awaited the result or (he r.-ne. To his amazement his horse won at 10 to 1, and he dashed to collect his winnings. The bookie paid him eleven single shillings, and the Scot hit each one carefully

" Wot's uii?” demanded the bookie. indignantly. “ D'ye fi-nlc my money ain't. Rond?”

“ Nil. nil. nv.i inarm le.” responded t;he Sootsman cautiously, ” bill T jnist warded to mak’ sure that, the shillin’ ! gave ye wasna arming them." One of Ihe most interesting stories of (.he English Derby concerns that of Viol, won by Blink Bonny, who was l.be second filly lo win (he Derby and Oaks Double. She won from a 200 lo I chance. Clark Tommy, and fieorge Ilodcman, in his ‘ Sixty Years on ilie Turf.’ tells the story of this Derby. Tie says Mr Drinkald, owner of Black Tommy, wars one of the most extraordinary looking men he ever saw, and the strangeness of his personal appearance was hehrMrned by the conspicuousncss of his clothes, f'lieh a contemptuous opinion had Harry Hill —the leviathan bookmaker of the period—of Black Tommy that ho laid the

owner a genuine bet of £IO,OOO to a suit of clothes! Surely this must bo the longest-priced bet on record. Hodgmau says; “ I was at the moment of the finish for the Derby standing with Mr Drinfcald in Tattersall’s enclosure. Ifis Black Tommy, on the upper ground, flashed past tho post, looking all over a winner. In truth, it seemed any odds on him. Thinking tho slake in his pocket, Mr Drinkald shouted out; “Thank God! I've won the Derby, and not a soul is on hut myself!’ ‘By heavens!’ I said, ‘they h.wrart put your number up, Drinky! They’ve put up Blink Bonny's.’ I never saw a man turn such a sickly color. His swarthy cheeks seemed blanched; and he gasped as if he, had received a heavy punch under (ho heart. By a neck had the spoils gone to Malton, and instead of receiving £IO,OOO from Henry Hill, Mr Drinkald was tiro loser of a suit of clotlics.” The entries for the Melbourne Cup number 549, or fifty more than last year. Tho composite word “ Iropertow,” that denoted the first three in the Derby rn the American year, was in the New York chilis a few minutes after the event. The word quoted give in abbreviated form tile names of the first three which passed the post in 1881 —Iroquois (the American colt, owned by Mr I’. Lorillard), Peregrine, and Town Moor. A pony named Mofly Cyrus showed an astonishing turn of speed at Brisbane recently. She lay twenty lengths to the bad after going a furlong in a six-furlong race, yet got up to win by a head!

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