SPORTING

Greymouth Evening Star, 12 September 1924, Page 6

SPORTING

WANGANUI JOCKEY CLUB FIRST DAY’S RESULTS. (Per Press Association.) WANGANUI, September 11. The totalisator handled £27,567, as compared with £27,502 10s on the opening day of last year. Remaining results: — Wanganui Guineas, 1 mile. —Inferno 1, Ilka 2, Gaillard 3. Also started — Subjection, Motley and The Banker. Won by a length and a-quarter, with half a length between second and third. Time 1.46 1-5. D’Urie Hack Handicap, 6 furlongs.--Fool’s Paradise 1, Lucrative 2, Rehutai 3. Also started—The Lamb, Barn Owl, Te Kawa, Sunny Vale, Kuhio, Muscari, Chairman, Solfrange, Kilceit, Siaosi, Bon Marche, Waetea, Troilus and Esquimeaux. Won by a length add a half. Time 1.15 3-5. Marangi Handicap, 1 mile and HO yards.—Diamond Ring 'l, Irapuka 2, Yoma 3. . Also started —Enthusiasm, Arch Salute, Winning Hit, Halgina, Musketoon, Comical (coupled with Diamond Ring), Sir Burnett, L’Amour, Avola, Stork. Bumptious, Black Cruiser, Snatcher and Askari. Won by ' a neck, with half a length between second and third. Time 1.55 3-5. Flying Handicap, 6 furlongs. — Deluge 1, Royal Divorce 2, Lady Bentinck 3. Also started —Rational, Hipo, Civility, Soliform, Reremoana, Prince Abbey and Awake. Won by. a length and a-half, with a similar distance between second and third. Tune 1.14 4-5. NEW ZEALANDERS IN SYDNEY. SOME SMART GALLOPS. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) SYDNEY, September 11. There are thirteen final acceptors 'or the Chelmsford Stakes, to be run on Saturday. They include Gloaming, Ballymena, Director and Bonaparte. Rivoli is top-weight with 9.11. The Secretary of the Victorian Racing Club has written to Mr. Greenwood, expressing the desire that Gloaming should be sent to Melbourne for the Melbourne Cup meeting. Mr. Greenwood is favourable to making the journey if it is found possible, but Gloaming’s future programme depends on his showing in the Chelmsford Stakes. Nigger Minstel is credited with the fastest times in his morning gallops at Randwick. He did seven furlongs on the middle grass in company with Rallymena. The first half mile was covered in 49gsecs., and the full distance in 1.28£, the cblt beating Ballymena by half a length. Nigger Minstrel’s performance is considered particularly good in view of the fact that rain has taken the fire out of the track. / Gloaming covered seven furlongs in 1.294. ROYAL DESPATCH. OWNER’S APPEAL ALLOWED

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.)

SYDNEY, September 11.

The Jockey Club Committee considered Mr. Knight’s appeal against the action of the stipendiary stewards in disqualifying Royal Despatch for twelve months. It was announced late to-night that the committee had upheld the appeal, and removed disqualification of the horse. The stewards’ decision caused considerable surprise in racing circles in view of the fact that while they had held Mr. Knight was in no way implicated, they robbed him of the services of Royal Despatch. The committee’s reversal of the stewards’ decision is regarded as doing nothing but justice on the merits of the case.

RIOCARTON TRAINING NOTES.

YESTERDAY’S WORK.

(Special to “Star.”)

CHRISTCHURCH, Septeffiber 11.

The weather conditions were again perfect for training work at Riccarton this morning. The No. 1 grass track, on which all the fast galloping was clone, provided splendid going. The plough was also in commission, but it was on the dead side, as the times recorded on it showed.

On the grass Deucalion and Tarleton were conipanions over seven furlongs, run in 1.31 1-5. Rivalry and Escarpment ran the same distance in exactly the same time.

Limelight, who had all the worst of the weight, was going easily alongside Starmist at the close of seven furlongs, run in 1.29 2-5.

'Moorland dashed over five furlongs in 1.1 3-5, doing it well. Ophir and Last Dart were companions over seven furlongs, run in 1.31, the last six taking 1.17 4-5. Revel was slightly in front of Fresco at the close of five furlongs rn in 1.2 3-5.

Petunia galloped half a mile in 52 secs.

Clareina was going better than Lucinette at thq end of six furlongs, run in 1.16 1-5.

Red Wink and a companion slipped over five furlongs in 1.2 4-5. Both had fair weights up. Te Anau Lad covered five furlongs in 1. 2 2-5.

Kukume was almost a length in front of Chickwheat (who was well on the- outer), with Grim Joke four lengths further back, after leaving six furlongs behind in 1.17. Boadicea galloped seven furlongs m 1.33 25, the last six taking 1.19 2-5. Sayonara was slightly in front of Miss Garance at the close of a mile, the last seven furlongs taking 1.32. Giantkiller sprinted half a mile in 49 4-ssecs.

Pilliewinkie did a working gallop over a mile, run in 1.48. Count Cavour and Prince F’erouz were on terms at the close of six furlongs. run in 1.16 1-5. Both went well. Rawene beat Golden Spear over half a mile, run in 51 2-ssecs. Le Forte took 1.20 to cover six furlongs. Tresham galloped a mile and a-quar-ter in 2.30. The heavy going h».d him very tired at the finish. Palestrina took 2.25 for a mile and a-quarter on the plough. Jubilant covered a mile in 1.55, and Kenmore ran five furlongs in 1.4 3-5.

RACING NEWS AND .NOTES.

(By “Arlington.”)

The fact that Gloaming lias been paid nj) for in the Chelmsford Stakes, I; 1 , miles, to be run at Randwick tomorrow, will be of considerable interest to New Zealanders. The champion has a pretty stiff task in front of him to shoulder 9.8 in his first outing, and he will have to be well to do it succesrfully. However, if Gloaming is started he can be relied on to make a good showing, and it is just as certain that R. J. Mason will not start the old champion in the face of such strong opposition if he is not strung right up to concert pitch. The running of Fool’s Paradise and Royal Divorce at Wanganui yesterday

was a vast improvement on their miserable displays at Marton last week. The Wellington Racing Club’s stewards’ report for last season states that the financial results of the meetings of the club last season were quite satisfactory. intakes paid totalled £46,200, the largest amount paid out by the club since its inception. The Government taxes amounted to riie huge sum of £45,290 7s sd. The New Zealand-bred mare Deroulede won a race at Ascot at the end of last month. She won comfortably, and pulled up in a manner to suggest that further victories are in the offing. Mr. H. McManaway was so disappointed with Supporter’s running at Marton last week that he gave the Patronus gelding away. Under the heading, “A Tremendous Sum,” the Sydney “Referee” had the following:—“The question is often asked how much prize-money ‘Mr. J. Baron’ has won . in the last 15 years. His total for that period is £90,094. It is an enormous sum, but ‘Mr Baron' spends a terrific amount in breeding and it is doubtful whether he shows a profit.” If the word “tremendous” can be applied to “Mr. J. Baron’s” stake winnings, one might be tempted to apply something even stronger to the figures associated with Mr. G. D. Greenwood’s stake winnings. Since 1908 horses carrying Air. Greenwood’s colours have won. stakes to the value ■of over £121,000. A day or two after F. D. Jones and Al. AfcCarten were disqualified in Sydney, a three-year-old half-brother by Gay Lad to Royal Despatch became ill ana died within a few hours, and shortly after the appeals were dismissed a yearling half-brother by Boniform was also suddenly taken ill. and he, too,died within a few hours. This raises the question was it brought on by shock at the fam'ily being disgraced by the vagaries of the elder member, or was it just one of those queer coincidences, met with in this world?

It is reported that Sunny Loch let his party down badly in the September Handicap at Randwick last Saturday. This and his earlier failures may induce McCombe to try the big follow out as a hurdler.

Tn a reference to the St. Leger. the result of which was announced yesterday, an English writer says: —“Yorkshire is a sporting county, and probably the prehistoric Yorkshiremen used to run their best-bred megatheriums, or whatever breed of extinct monsters favoured the county of broad acres with their presence, against one another at Doncaster, assuming, of course, that the racecourse was then in eyis, fence, and not a submarine algae nark. Certain it is that horseracing has taken place on the famous battleground so long that the ‘memory of man runneth not to the contrary.’ since as far back as 1615 the Doncaster Corporation found it necessary to ordain that ‘for the preventynge of sutes, quarells, murders, and Idoodshed,’ racing should cease, and to that end the stands were directed to be pulled down and the posts pulled up. Rut whether this was actually done is doubtful. ‘As a. matter of fact there is.’ says Air J. F. Fletcher in his “History of the St. Leger,” ‘no evidence to show (hat the drastic order of 1615 was ever carried into effect.’ On the contrary, in the following year twelve pennies were paid for making a ‘way for the horse race at the water gapp.’ In 1764 tho Doncaster Corporation had completely taken the races under its control and voted a sum of £5O for a race to be willed the Corporation Plate—a control which has never been relaxed, to the great benefit of the residents, who, iii consequence of Doncaster being the Afecca of northern sportsmen, find themselves in the happy position of paying lower- rates than those charged by any other municipality in England. The Corporation archives contain detailed accounts of receipts and disbursements, and some of the items are decidedly quaint. The account for 1775 exhibits following:— ‘Paid the person who gave the alarm when tho horses were to start, one guinea.’ Tis services was evidently less esteemed than ‘Lord Scarborough’s French horn man,’ who got four guineas. ‘Air. Shaw, a musition from York,’ who received half that sum, ajirl ‘Mr. TTan-ison and another musition,’ who divided three guineas, while the ‘Town Waites’ had the same amount to cut up among them. The secretary and clerk of the course’s fee was 10 guineas, and ‘two candle-snuf-fers. John Rainey and Son, Hodson to wit,’ were given 9s each. The press came off badly: 'Paid for advertising the races in the London papers £1 7s,' being the comprehensive entry against their names.. Altogether the total receipts were £3ll 18s 6d ; at the present time they usually exceed £30,000.”