TAKAPUNA ACCEPTANCES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7374, 28 January 1902, Page 2

TAKAPUNA ACCEPTANCES.

Auckland, January 2.

Hobson Handicap.- Grey Seaton, Gladisla, Austerlitz, Mary Seaton, Loch Fynn, Ba?tion, Rondoletia.

Takapuna J.C. Handicap. — Bluejacket, Coronet, Sparkling Water, Defender, Blue Paul, Golden Bose.

Anniversary Handicap. -Keolaimer, Sundial, Bed Lancer, Highlander, Balbirnie, Defender, Lady Avon, Cavalry, Scotty, Hikipene, Donnybrook. Suburban Handicap.— Takapuna, Reclaimer, St. Olga, Landlock, Tolstoi, Jewellery, Zulieka, Sly Miss, Scout, Rosephele, Donnybrook, Despatch, Nereid, Cuirasette. Wellington, January 28.

The Racing Club dismissed the protest against Goldspur in the Federal Handicap.

Impati's weight in the Second Hack Flat to be decided at Eginont R.C. Meeting is 7.7. The Taranaki Herald writer says :—: — The sensational dividend, £322 4s, paid out on Leo Delaval on the inside machine, at Takapuna on Saturday, is undoubtedly one of the plums of the turf. I think that the dividend paid on Crummy at a meeting in Hawke's Bay many years ago was bigger. The Dunedin Star writer, " Old Identity," says: — This is Mr Stead's third Wellington Cup. He. won it in 1888 with that fast but unreliable horse Beresford, and in 1898 with Uniform. In Uniform's year there were only four starters, the same as this year. The record field was in 1895, when Mahaki proved to be the best of nineteen.

Blazer lias now won the Telegraph Handicap at Wellington three times in succession. In 1900 he won with 9.4, last year with 9.12, and has now got home with 10.4. He has never been beaten at the Hutt.

The same writer, referring to the disqualification of Edelweiss and her jockey, McCoinbe, says : — Mr F. Griffen, owner of Edelweiss, tells me that the mare raced very freely for six furlongs in the Invercargill race that she got into trouble over, but could not see it out, though McCombe did his best to drive her along. The weight and distance told upon the mare, she being on the light side. After being told of the disqualification, Mr Griffen asked the stewards to take possession of Edelweiss and try her themselves, and First -Light could have been had also for the purposes of a trial, but the stewards did not think it fit to accept the offer.

Laura, the dam of Petrarch, Fraulein, and other good horses, having broken a blood-vessel at exorcise, was sold for £25 to a Midhurst miller. She bred him thirteen or fourteen foals, five of which, including the two above-named, were good ones. Petrarch was sold to Lord Dunplin for £10,000, and Mr Stirling Crawford paid £3,500 or £4,000 for Fraulein.

Since St. Simon's first appearance as a sire, his career has been one unbroken success. Between 1889 and the present time his winnings have never been below live figures, and the grand total for the thirteen years amounts to no less than £446,121 ids.

For Australian Colors £2,000 is asked.

Lord Marcus Beresford has been managing the King's stud, and also his horses in training, for years past. While Mr H. Oxenham, his daughter, and Mr H. A. Rose were on their way home from Centennial Park, Sydney, on the sth January, they encountered a black snake of considerable size on tho Bandwick road, near the racecourse. The reptile showed fight, but the leviathan kept it at bay with his umbrella until Mr Rose secured a stick and despatched it.

Gibraltar, the big son of Grandmaster and Algeria, winner of the A.J.C. Derby, for which Titan was heavily backed, and conqueror of The Admiral in the V.R.C. Leger, died on New Year's Day. He ran his last race in the Australian Cup of 1891. Going along the river-side he broke down so badly that at first it looked as though he had broken a leg. He was not a success at the stud, undoubtedly the best of his get being Rock Gun. Although a remarkably game horse himself, most of his stock were soft — a noticeable example of this being Surge. The Queensland Cup winner Drake was got by The Rake when he was nineteen years old, and his dam, Decoy, was sixteen years old. Drake was bred at Fleurs by the Messrs Hatfield Bros.

The American boom in England is at an end. Now that the English jockeys have adopted the best of the American methods they are in as much demand as the lads wlio brought about the revolution in riding. Sloan and Lester Reiff have retired at the instance of the Jockey Club, and most of tke other Americans will ride on the Continent this year. The proprietor of an unregistered racecourse near Perth has issued a writ claiming £5000 damages from the West Australian Turf Club for having issued notices warning certain persons from attending race meetings held on his course.

Before Lester Reiff left England for America, he asked the Jockey Club stewards to let him know what evidence, if any, was given against him other than such as related to the charge of not doing his best on De Lacy. The reply was that there was nothing to add to the statement as published in the Calendar. Referring to this, the Special Commissioner says :—": — " Ido not wish for a moment here to go into the question, and no one is more conscious than I am of the great importance of upholding the authority of the stewards ; but I venture to think they might remit the warning-off notice, especially as there is not tho remotest prospect of Reiff riding again. He goes back home to be married, and the stewards would at once do a kindly action, and in no way damage the turf, if they were to lift the cloud which must otherwise overshadow a young couple."