SPORTING NOTES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 15 November 1913, Page 11

SPORTING NOTES.

(By "Sir Single.")

That good little mare Lady Mensehi-i-koff has foond a new owner, Mr Q. Clareburt having parted with her daring the recent race meeting at Auckland. The purchaser was Mr Dugald Thompson, but the sale price has not Itranspired. T- F. Goddard has Patronata in work again after a considerable spell. The •chestnut mare is big as a bullock at present., . Volume's sister Avon Park, who went lame behind whilst working recently, i has made some improvement, but will have to go out for an extended rest.

C. Jackson's luck, with Astor coni>inues bad. Following upon his un--fortunate experience at Waverley, Jackson took the colt on to Ellerslie, where in the Gordon. Handicap on the •second day. he was just_ touched off T>y a nose. The five furlongs was run in 1.2 3-5, and as .Astor carried 8.7 Hihere was- evidently no loitering by •the wayside* Other lotfally trained horses that -competed at ."Ellerslie were Sinilax, Xady Mensehikoff, and Ingenkender; but all finished outside the money. ; Red;:'iane, a former member of T: .F.v Goddard's tciiii is again upon tlu» xeiired list.

J. Rae[ who was hurt when Tirohanga fell with him at Waverley, has recovered, and left the Hawera hospital test week. :

The Taranaki-owned Royal Arms ran 4i'.-great race in the Metropolitan Handicap on the second day at Ric•carton. and was accounted for by only half a head by the winner Tann.hauser. ■ .

Mr J. McKean, of New Plymouth, recently gave St. Serf to L. Nodder, -and the chestnut, who has been broken in, to harness, may frequently be seen •earning his oats between the shafts of a gig. One has to go from home to hear .news. A.Hawke's Bay writer «Vite« -that: "While riding at Waverley on Labor Day, J. Conquest had his neck "badly cut by the. tapes of the starting ibarne.-*. The man. in charge of the machine was removing the cords as the xace was in progress, but failed to get them out of the way in time, with -the result that the Auckland horseman, ■who was in the lead at the time, got •them round his neck, having a lucky ■escape from a serious accident.'' The Accident really happened at Poverty •Bay some days earlier, and occurred »fter the race was won, as the horses were pulling up. The owner of Beragoon states that lie had his horse inoculated as a yearling, by a veterinary surgeon, with * particular serum, a s a precaution Against taking cold in a serious way. Mr D. Hughes, of Kapuni, had a valuable addition made to his thoroughbred stock recently, when his ibrown mare Manosa produced a fine l>ay filly foal to Sylvia Park. The newcomer carries a Bruce Lowe numier, her dam being by Maniapoto■Osmanie, by Medallion—Auray, by Rapid Bay—Aureola, by1 The AnglerChrysolite, by Stockwell—Juliet).- These two" last names, by the way, occur in the dam's side of the pedigree of Mr Alexander's smart filly Bonny Helen, winner of the Wanganui Guineas). If breeding counts for anything (and- racing men will hardly disput this), Mr, Hughes' filly should in Sue course prove hers ability to gallop, And may be looked to to carry her owner's green and silver racing livery yith distinction. \ . ' Manosa, Jam of the filly referred to above, iaced three timeß at New Plymouth during the 1911-12 racing season, when she carried the colors of Mr R. H. Campbell.

Sinapis, winner of the New Zealand Cup on Saturday last, returned a remunerative dividend on the totalisator, this, no doubt, being partly due to_the fact that she had not reached Ric»carton until 11 o'.clock that morning, owing to having been held tip in Wellington by reason of the strike troubles. rSinapis is a five-year-old mare by St. Ambrose—Prologue, and had already proved her ability to stay the distance. as with 7.0 on her back she finished third behind Midnight Sun and Masterpiece in' the same race last November, and was also third behind Bobnfkoff and Golfinder in the.Metropolitan. In the 1911-12 racing season Sinapis had six successes to her credit, the most important of which was the Marlfcorcrogh Cnp, in which event, by the •way, she was steered by the local horseman^ L. Nodder. • In the 1912-13 reason she won four races—the Blenheim Handicap, U milerthe Shorts Handicap 5 furlongs, at:Woodvillej the Telegraph. Handicap, six furlongs, atlJlenjieim; and-the Richmond Park Handicap, one mile andi a distance, at ]Nel-Bon-^but was knocking at the door on several other occasions, having been placed in the Nelson Cup, the Autumn Handicap at Wairarapa, and the Marl%oro«gh Cjap; as well as the places at IRiccarton already mentioned. It will ?thus be seen thaf Mr Durrant's mare lias been a consistent performer, and vould hardly have been allowed to start At the long price she did had it not !>een for her late arrival on the convincing ground. As it was, she appears from accounts to have won pretty comfortably.

W. Bell, the clever "Highden" apprentice j came near to winning the Tsis double at Riccarton on the opening day. His mount, Warstep, won -the Stewards' Handicap, and he was on Sea. Pink, runner-up to Smapis, in iihe two-mile, event. Hector Gray, whose disqualification lias now expired, was riding the Stead Bros. 1 horses at Riccarton, and registered his first success since his reappearance on Bandiera in the Criterion Handicap ._ , Everybody in England who concerns himself with racing, whether to hack horses or simply to read about them, is deeply interested iust now in the doings of a - grey phenomenon called The Tetrarch. ;

Veterans or the turf who can remember St. Simon and Ormonde and are accustomed to talk with bated breath of these wonderful horses, do not hesitate tede^ribe Th^ Tetrarch as one -of tbe^ Neatest, wyeniles ever seen. out at JStewhiarket in an unpretentious plate early in the season, |ie has proceeded from victory to vie-

Tory, and only once has he been in the slightest danger of defeat. This was in a £5000 race at Sandown Park in July, when there was a rumpus at the starting post, and The Tetrarch reared straight up,, losing a considerable amount of ground.- But he surmounted his heavy handicap and just got home .

Racing crowds dearly love a good and they have taken The Tetrarch to their hearts. They did this with Bendigo and Victor Wild and other popular idols, but only after their tayontes had been doing remarkable things for two or three seasons Making an idol of The Tetrarch as a youngster they have distinguished him m a remarkable, if not unique, way. fcccentneity never fails to attract notice, and the singular coloring of The letrarch has no., doubt contributed materially to his great and early popularity. He is. an iron grey splotched all over with irregular patches of a lighter grey. Somebody nicknamed him the rocking horse. Both descriptions tickled the public, focussing attention on him as a personality as well as a racehorse.

?& £ir?4 S a l Srey French horse, .called Roi Herode, who competed unsuccessfully in the St. Leger and is now located in Ireland. The Tetrarch is one of his earliest Drogeny, and was purchased at the Doncaster sales last year for £1365 on behalf of Mr Dermott McCalraont. the inheriter of the McUalmont millions and a young soldier eportsman with the real spirit.

There is nothing about The Tetrarch to suggest his possession of phenomenal abilities. Grey and particularly the splotchy grey, found in his case, but poorly shows off the good points of a horse. But The Tetrarch in action is a revelation. He moves like a machine, taking nothing out of himself biit everything out of his rivals. His habit is to demoralise them at the 6tart, on the principle of getting through with the business early. Pretty Polly, the famous mare of a few years ago, won all. her races al a penile in the same slaughtering, effortless way.

Some time in August a bet of £1800 to £600 was taken about the Derby. This is run next June, and no horse was ever supported at such a short price ten months in advance.

The Evening Post's special gave the following account of the race for the Aew Zealand Cup:—Tannhauser and Expect were the eleventh hour withdrawals from the New Zealand Gup, the field numbering fourteen. Quarantine wound up favorite, with the bracketed Sea Pink and Midnight Sun second best, and Emperador and Bon Reve almost as well, backed. When the field reached the course proper, Bon Reve was showing in front. Sinapis and Lady Moutoa joined him when in front of the stand. AtOutts's, Lady Moutoa was well clear of Emperador and Bon Reve, while Sinapis was at the head of the others. At the mile post, where Emperador and Lady Moutoa were in front, Sea Pink had moved up to the second division, and Ariom was also going strong. A little further on Sea Pink had taken charge, followed by Ariom, Emperador, Bon Reve, Sinapis, and Royal Arms. Then Ariom ran past Sea Pink, and was .actually the first to head for home. When fairly in line for the post, however, Sinapis shot through with a brilliant run, and from that I point nothing else had a chance, the j St. Ambrose mare running home an easy winner by about four lengths | from Sea Pink, a length behind whom came Midnight Sun, after a strong run over the last Jialf-mile. Ariom was fourth, just in front of Thrax, i Royal Arms and Mangaroa. who were followed by Emperador, Quarantine, and Bon Reve in a bunch; then came La. R©ina; Undecided, and Haskayne, with Lady Moutoa bringing up the rear. It was a fast race, and the time has only been beaten by Bridge, about j whose record time doubts have been \ frequently expressed. Sinapis ran a great race, and her performance was exceptional when it is remembered that she only arrived from Wellington this morning. Her ' .connections no doubt thought themselves unlucky when they did not get away with the first consignment ofv horses that came down by the Maunganui on Wednesday, night, but she struck a smooth passage on the way down. She stripped, to-day looking none the worse for her eleventh-hour arrival. Had she been here a week earlier she would have been better backed, as she had demonstrated last year that she was pretty useful when she finished in third place. Sinapis .is by St. Ambrose, whose progeny seem" to improve with age, and to take kindly to long journeys. , Sea -Pink ran a fine race, and might have been even more dangerous at the finish had less been made of him in the earlier stages. As it was, after being .one of the leaders' a mile from home, he had nothing reserved when the straight was reached. 'Midnight Sun's performance was full of merit. He was a long way back for more than half of the going, and had a big gatj to bridge half a mile from home. Then he put in a great run, going faster than anything, saves the winner possibly, at the finish. The failure of Quarantine was- hard to account for. The onl.^ explanation is that he got a. couple of bad bumps in the first half-mile, which, caused him to drop back to last place, after which he was always in trouble. His runriinK was specially disappointing in view of the form shown by Stevedore and Brown Owl, as they had been worked with the Cup horse, and their successes made Quarantine's chance look better than ever. Emperador and Bon Revo both, failed in the Cup through inability to see the journey put. as they were well placed when the straight was reached. La Reina was one of the great disappointments. She looked overdone, and will probably need freshening up before eke is seen at her best again.