THE TURF.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIII, Issue 283, 15 November 1923, Page 2

THE TURF.

FIXTUBES. Nov. 21— Ashhurst-Pohangina R.C. &ov. 28, 30—Feilding J- C. Nov. 30, Dec. I—Takapuna J.C. Pec 5, 6—Woodville District J.C. November 30. Dec. I—Feilding J.C. Dec. 12—Danneviake R.C. Dec. 12—Taumarunui R.C. Dec*. 26—Waipukurau J.C. Dec. 26, 27—Dunedin J .C. 26, 27—Taranaki J.C. 26, 27, 29— Manawatu R.C. 26, 28, Jan. 1, 2—Auckland R.C 1, 2—Stratford R.C. I 2—-Hawke’s Bay J.C. 1, 2—Marton J.C. MEETING AT PAHIATUA. RESTORATION CUP TO BELOVED. Pahiatua, Nov. 14. The Pahiatua meeting opened to Jay. The machine put through £l2 ,507, compared with £12,226 last January. The following are the con eluding results: — ■ Restoration Cup.—Beloved 1, Trespass 2, Diamond Ring 3. Scratched: Arch Salute, Bitters, Printemps, Goo< Mark. Won by four lengths Time 231 3-5. tKohlni Haek—Bayana 1, Mammas 2, lhapatoa 3. Scratched: Basso Won by a neck. Time, 1.30 2-5. ..'Makuri Handicap.- —Puketoi 1, Moun t'»in Top 2, Reno Mavis 3. Scratched Import, Blonde, Elmorz. Won by a bare fttfd, neck between second and third Time, 1..2 S-5. .'.President's Handicap.—March Od 1 Waipatu 2, Bachsheesh 3. Scratched Diamond Ring. Won by a neck. Time I'.lfi 1-5. Eketahuna Welter. — Basso 1, Rec Cherry 2. Radiac 3. Scratched ftideaux. Won b ya length. Time, 1f.32. WINTON J.C. MEETING. ■. LOUGHREA WINS THE CUP. Invercargill, Ndv. 14. ■The Winton Jockey Club’s annual tture was held in perfect weather. , e tote handled £16,707 10s, compared with £14,918 on the corresponding day last year. Results:— S Trial S'takes.—Fairy Ring 1, Oblige 2/ Stringency 3. Won by a short neck. Tame,'l.l6 2-5. , - Hokonui Trot.—Ada Bell 1, Little Bain 2, Hylas 3. .‘Winton Cup. —Loughrea 1, Baldowt, 2, Lady Blissful 3. Won easily. Time, 2.5 2-5. a record for Otago. Southland Steeplechase. — Romance 1, Noble 2, Juan 3. Won by five lengths Time, 6.6. Flying Handicap.—Rose Lady 1 Anomaly 2, Counterstroke 3. Won by t neck. Time, 1.13 4-5. Barkly Hack Handicap. — Maste Sanstone 1, Maytime 2, Bloom 3. Woi by two lengths. Time, 1.5. Otopiri Trot.—Mentor 1, Rosedale 2 Darkstream 3. - Tradesmen’s Handicap. —Miss Milriel 1, Sir Otway 2, Counterstroko 3. Wor by two lengths. Time. 1.41 1-5. CHATELAINE FOR THE STUD. Melbourne, Nov. 14, Mr Oldridgc, South Australia, hal purchased the mare Chatelaine, win ner of the 1921 Melbourne Cup, fo £5OO, for stud purposes.—(A. and N.Z.

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The ex-Hawke’s Bay gelding Anomaly (King Mark—Hoy) who, in Stuart Waddell’s hands, did Mr. J. D Ormond such good service, started yesterday, for the first time in the colours of his new owner, Mr. L. Haslett, in the Flying Handicap at Wilton. Fie, however, could get only second to Rose Lady, a five-year-old mare by Rose Noble from ' Red Charm, who last season scored three wins out of five

starts at country meetings. A strong popular pick in Hastings failed badly yesterday when Megan nnished out of a place in the Restoration Cup at Pahiatua. The winner, Beloved, is an aged mare by Gazeley from Hinemahura. The Potoa—Seabird gelding Poanui, winner of both the Century Hurdle Race and the Great Northern Hurdle Race of 1922, and of several other contests over the battens, was recently offered by auction at Auckland, but failed to* find a buyer, the best bid being only 50 guineas. Here seems a sporting chance for a possible cheap resurrection of a good horse, for Poanui is even now only six years old, quite a. juvenile for a juniper. Rapine is now on his way back to New Zealand, and his next appearance it is said, will probably be in the Auckland Cup. A southern exchange states that, after his failures at Flemington, he was submitted to auction, but apparently no one was prepared to renew the offer of 5000gns t said to have been made for him at Randwick last month. “Farceur,” says a Sydney exchange, “has been taken in hand by the Kensington trainer F. Matthews, trainer of Kilkee. Grey Habit, and others. Farceur was a champion in New Zealand as a two-year-old, but has not raced for two years.” Mr. Greenwood’s Absurd—Our Lady colt can scarcely be said to have proved himself a 'champion, although as a two-year-old he won three good races. His most notable success was in the Royal Stakes at Ellerslie, when Epitaph’s long string of successes w’as broken. She was, however, carrying a 101 b. penalty and beginning to off—in fact, did not win again that year. Of A. Wilson, known to his familiars as “Tich,” who rode the winners of both last year’s and this year’s Melbourne Cup for James Scobie, the Sydney “Sun” says:—W. H. McLachlan reduced the winning of cups to a fine art, and his following in such races was enormous. Now a rider, who bids fair to follow in his footsteps, has loomed up. It is the diminutive Wilson, who is only 22 years of age, and is beginning to lake the winning of cups as a matter of course. In fact, he is so used to the experience, ! that when interviewed by a pressman ' after the race, he merely replied, “Oh. ( you know what to say. I had a good ' run, and was never farther back than i seventh. You fill in the rest.” And j what a shrewd young man he is! His i remark after the cup that “it’s the money that counts with me about these cups.’ ’is characteristic of him. i What the “Sun” says about Wilson’s specialising in cup-winning is borne out by his record between his two big successes at Flemington, as during the interval he got home first ! in the Williamstow n and Adelaide Cups ; on King Jngoda, the Australian Cup ■ on Prince Cox and the Gawler (S.A.) I (hip on Anton Rain. It was a big 1 strain for Wilson to get within a pound of Bitalli’s poundage—he rode one pound overweight—and he nearly fainted after the race. He has been riding about five years, and has been connect-

ed with Scobie’s stable all the time. The Hawke’s Bay bred Killashandra, who has created something of a stir on the pony courses of Sydney, was in the limelight again at the Victoria Park meeting last 3 week, when he started a red hot favourite in the 14.2 handicap, carrying 10.5. He was, however, beaten by a neck by another good little one in Little Marg, who started under the substantial burden of 9.8, even after securing an apprentice allowance of 71b. A quiet little coup seems to have been worked on the winner, the bookmakers being lor once caught napping and a fairly big commission being spread among them at double figure prices just before the race started.

At the same meeting another dwarfed get of Kilbroney’s scored a further win. This was Kilwa, out of Divinia, who has already won more than one race on the flat, but on this occasion was given a run over the hurdles, winning easily. Mr. Bidwill’s old favourite Reputation, now at the stud in Australia, was credited with another winner when his son from Enchantress, Last Flutter, got home first in the Novice Handicap at Brisbane last week.

Big dividends were on tap at Hamilton on Monday, outsiders’ chances being apparently favoured by the greasy going after Sunday’s rain. Barometer (Thurnham — Bouvardia)' was thirteenth’ choice on the machine list for the Frankton Handicap, Bitholia (Demosthenes —Rangiao) was tenth for the Kirikirioa Handicap, and Irene Bruce (Robert the Bruce— Sanni) was ninth for the Tauwhare Handicap. AH these dividends ran well into two figures, and Bitholia’s, the best of the three, was getting near to the two score mark. Bitalli’s Melbourne Cup is said by exchanges now to hand to have been the medium of the heaviest and most diffused betting for very many vjjars. Mr Craig, the owner of the winner, is stated to have himself collected some £30,000 in wagers, while another backer is known to have taken some £14,000 out of the ring, and many other big sums are recorded. Yet, so satisfied were the great majority of Sydney backers that Bitalli could not see out the distance, that there was plenty of big money coming in from there for other .candidates apparently better proved. In deed, it is said that on the clean-up, the pencillers, despite their heavy commitments about Bitalli. will have a substantial aggregate balance on their side. A fortune, says a Sydney exchange, could have been won for the outlay of a few pounds if a person had had the foresight to take Wynette and Bitalli for the Caulfield and Melbourne Cup double early. Some of the charts issued early on the two Cups showed, the winning combination Wynette and Bitalli. at 5000 to 1. Several others placed it at 2000 to 1 when "Wynette was quoted at 100 to 1 straight out and Bitalli at 40 to 1. Even in September and early last month ,the winning double was quoted at 1000 to 1. The majority of the early double bettors did not lay the winning double until Wynette came well into the market for the Caulfield Cup. and at the sam e time Bitalli was being backed for the Melbourne Cup. ' Nearly all the fielders laid the Winning double, but mostly at reduced odds. The Office Boy. now fully recovered, says that, bife and all as some of these odds seem to be, they do not represent anywhere hear the real mathematical chance* of picking the two winners from among the two big mobs of horses engaged The 0.8.. since he started running out the figures

for himself, is getting very chary ol doubles—unless when he knows, or thinks he knows, “something special” —and is now content to lay them to himself.

A cable message received in Sydney states that Zev. who delated Papyrus in the recent international match at Belmont Park. New York, is under orders for England for the next racing season, and that My Own. considered the next best of America’s throe-year-olds. may also bo sent •' across the water at the same time.