SPORTING.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 30 May 1914, Page 11

SPORTING.

RACING FIXTURES

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Sir Moseley scored an overdue win

«f FryervSr' a former inmate lne Gisborne trainer, G Jones'1 wto has trained some first-class huS tmm werly owned Continuance and Scorch - i.? wner £ aye eomethine in the; '^W °f 30° for theT Amusement gelding M SSmL? Pnly and had S^trS. 8"1116 ei£«t weeks, g.tMw:,fliouglit it would be set-: ting him too. severe a task to take on juch a Ions: journey, over sticks as the •Century Hurdles at Wanganui or the «reat Northern Hurdles Jackwards, and since then -Ms; stud Jaties had been curtailed. Two Derty Amata* (I^B^ the °ther h ™* TlwL,^ Dari? scl l n's^^ thomughbred sire Htisbandman had 3 a very successful lSld-14 season and among the stud --. patrons that visited him were the fo" .Idwmg-Pmw^i (Obligado-Impatif: It ai ;< Gl P?y King—Toron), dam of Jkady Amai; Flying Wind (Musketry— Ttoatajirwha): Plylos (Nestor—WekaY; lady Formosa^ (Formosan—Helene) : lAdy Maud (Cordon Rouge—Lilly) a full sister to .Crawford; St. Myra (St. Oman—Myra); a. half-sister to Haydn: 25 a*P£ UV< S*; Paul-Mystery Maid) Turkish Maid (Sylvia Park—OsmanieV Brusholia (Reynard—-Brassolis): ApjHause (Daystar-^-Mainboom), the dam «f/Encore; Black Cat; Gleam; Mendip's <lam, Vaccilate; Contralto; Mai-suma. and a number of others. As several of tfcese mares have already thrown winners to horses, and others ar© weU bred, it seetns safe to avsaume that «n due^course progeny of Mr Davidson's ▼aluabl» young sire will take a prominent part in the decision of many races on New Zealand courses, and possibly aren further afield. v

"Whalebone' 1 m the Auckland Star , ■ *g. po following description of the *"Hi&hden" stable. Price, private /:%ramer to Mr "Highden," permitted me to have a look over the stable at Awapuni, and the visit was one that could not be easily forgotten. The •tables are right alongside the Mana- ■ -watu course, and nothing more up-to-date can be found in the Dominion Tlie boxes are high and lofty, fitted throughout with electric light, and there is an air, of business- about the place that anyone knowing the enerEfltic little, man at the head of affairs «an well imagine. The boys' quarters are quite out of the ordinaryi and fitted up with every convenience. The fact that most of the lads engaged «aye been. connected with the stable for some time ei>eaks volumes, for nowadays boys are very hard to get. Tie ''household" » presided over by ' M Price. 6©tir and n h

ia. ~-» ■••-,,. o more .ospitMMc welcome could be' accorded anywlf ere' than at the up-to-date est&blisii■oent at Awapuni. It is five years «in.cc Geo: Prior took over Mr "Highden's" -fco^ id in that time jiifet on £20,000 iviA been won in stakes by ▼arious members of the team under ius control., The success is well deBerved.- ■' :'■■■." .• ■' '■ -.'■' Sol Green/s Enclish-bred stallion White Star, full-brother to the Derby turner Sunstar, and half-brother to this year's One Thousand Guineas winner Princess Dorrie, , will have ■ptentyof time to becorae acclimatised liefore takinp' up stud life at the Shipl«iy Stud. Victoria. • The ~Wanganui light-weight jockey, CJ. Carmont. left recently for Meltbourn© with W. O'Hallorari. where the l»ir inteend to reside. They should do well on the other'side, where there *is.reported to be a dearth of clever lifSit-weighta. • . ' '^The French Steeplechase Society arranged a. race meeting at Autueil to help to entertain tis Majesty the King «bf'England during his visit to France. Aba compliment to the King the six jevehte were named as under: Prix de TTork*. CJottage. Prix de Balmoral Oastlier, Prix-de Windsor Castle, Prix de Buckingham Palace, Prix de St. Creorge (military steeplechase ridden liy- officers on the active army list). ■And Prix de Sandringham. The pro«Cramme was composed of jumping events.

A Sydney exchange says: "Some Tnontbs apoMtJ. B. O'Brien submit- > -ted his colt Beragoon to the process of lieing vaccinated, Mr J.M. Stewart, V.S.. inoculating him with an -anti-. influenza eeriim. and auitej receiitly the i ' operation was repeated.v It ; .i« intended ) to submit Beragoon-to sitnilar tre-'it-i • inent during the winter jribnths. .Mr Stewart, who is attempting <to make the vaccination of hordes pornlar "here, is a i?reat believer irv the system, which, be says, is colculated ti>, make abo^it 80 per cent of. hor«es . ' thc~>" TCho should h^ so attacked . «ro not likely to have the disease in ]^<oof ftgainet contractinff influenza,

any but a mild form. Wh«m ;+ * following It ■ v ? ?le, ls 1 1K)t wortk a heSra oXt apj26ars ** * woria to-day who has won more races the S?Snr C)f than W; H" MScSS Sunf tP ho. rseman <says the Sydney erthir ™,H 1S n° moro modest man, either, and it was a matter of difficulty to draw him on what he considered S lest achievement in the saddle He W, W°n + *S mai ly bi S events, and has been astride of so many fine horses, that he naturally felt a bit doubtful one rr°WmK hi& Wide choic6 down to

o J Vt 6 ' he said ' "Mooltan was thi?^ n TU 1'86 ' fu nd did solxie «reat fc nn n S-° te ' and a host °f S'rt ?\ n}l thl? gs w^idered, I think the best thing I did was to land m the Melbourne, Cup of 1910. That was Comedy King. "Tell you the story? Well, the horse was suffering from a cold, which he contracted a few days before the great race On the Thursday before the Cup he had a gallop with Apple Pie, and beat her comfortably. The next day, however, the cold was on Comedy Jung, and he ran so badly in the Melbourne htakes on the Saturday that we did_ not think he would win the Uup. ihe only hope, to my mind, was) that his light weight of 7st 111b would P" 11- t™ through. I took good care that lie was never far behind tbe horses making the pace, and approaching the home turn I moved, him up and as soon as we swept into the straight I let him 2 0. Trafalgar was the horse I was frighteneed of, and I knew he^was not far behind me. Oomedy King seemed to be going easil- at that time, and when I sent him along he reached out in fine style. Trafalgar was coursing through my bvain all the time, and when Comedy King began to stop about a rurlonfj from home I thought it was all up with us. I dared not move on the horse, as he was rolling about the course like a drunken man. "If I had moved it would have been the^end of Comedy King. A hundred yards from the post I saw Trafalgar coming right on too of us, overhauling us at every stride. Still I did not move, and nearer and nearer crept the top-weight. The roar of the great crowd was in mv ears, but still I did not shift. Comedy King was faltering all the time, but I waited for the last moment to call on him for that one supreme effort. With thirty yards to go, I could see Cameron's ,face riding Trafalgar a desperate race. His teeth were clenched, and, I suD-nose, mine were too. My horse seemed beaten, but when I asked him for that one last struggle he responded, and—well, you know the rest! " . . .

"Just after we passed the t>ost Oomed" King wae done. No doubt I was lucky to win the race, and to-day I realH. think that had I not shot hini to the front when I did he would never have won. You see, I made Trafalgar chase him, whereas had I waited. Trafalgar would have beaten us for,a certainty in the run home. "I would like to tell you something about Mooltan and Aborigine and Prince Foote. because I really don't like to' let them be excluded from what I consider my best .performance. But for all that I reckon Comedy King's Melbourne Cup was 'my best-"

Cornelian was somewhat sore after the Century Hurdles at Wanganui, and will not be taken to Auckland for the \Great Northern Hurdle Race. Bercola, who is in both, the Great Northern Hurdles and Steeplechase, went on from Wanganui by the Main Trunk on Monday under charge of E. Cooestake, who will ride him. in his engagements. "

The Stepson geiding Tahpra, in Fryer's stable^ was priced by some South. Island sportsmen this week., but no business resulted.