Sporting Notes.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 2123, 15 May 1922, Page 6

Sporting Notes.

1, BY “AVIS." Ggl

FIXTURES. May IS, 20—Wanganui J.C. Winter. May 19, 20—North Otago J.C. Winter. May 30, June 1, 3 —Dunedin J.C. Winter. June 3, s—Otaki Maori R.C. June 3, s—Australian J.C. Winter. June 3,5, 7—Auckland B.C. THE ASHBURTON MEETING. (Per Press Association.) ASHBURTON, Last Night. Summer weather prevailed, and there was a large attendance for the concluding day of the Ashburton meeting, the totalisator put through £15,954, making a total for the meeting of £30,078 10/, compared with £32.804 10/ last year. Results: SECOND HURDLES. —Likelihood t; Wartax 2; Mandrake 3. Also started. —Vice Regal, Opiate. Pomposa, Innisfallen. Won by three lengths. Time 2min 45 45secs. SECOND HACK HANDICAP. — Kerb 1; Island 2; Balefire 3. Also started.: —Lord Leslie, Madame Chlion, Unio, Kilfane, Wartone. Urgency, Starlike, Agnola, Bigel. Won by two lengths. Time Imin 0 3-ssecs. ASHBURTON CUP. Silent King * Whipping Boy " Twinkle " Also started;—Castellan, Kilmoon. Won by a neck, and three lengths between second and third. Time, 2 min G 2-ssecs. JUVENILE HANDlCAP.—Triormain 1; Economist 2; Ardour 3. Also started. —Contempt, Lovesien, Nyanza Stream, Maytime, Deborah. Won by two lengths. Time: Imin 14 l-ssecs. WINCHMORE HANDICAP Mythology 1; Counter Attack 2; Deucalion 3. Also started. —.Callaghan, Kilkee, High Heels, Lord Ashlea, Orange Mart. Won by a length. Time: Imin 26 1-5 secs. SECOND TROT. —Plain Bell 1; Lady Trafalgar 2; Harewood 3. Also started.—Guy Fawkes, Lauriston. Swift Pointer, Vera's Doll, Roth Locanda, Jimmy Chimes, Cherry Child. Kanieri, Event, Royal Locanda, Dusky Boy. Won by two lengths. Time: 2min 23secs. MORETON HANDICAP—Winsome Lady 1; Dame Straitlace 2; Blackhead 3. Also started: Weird, Master Hand, First Aid. Won by two lengths. Time Imin 14 l-ssecs. W AKA NUT H ANDIC AP.—Tatau Tatau 1; Limelight 2: Battlescene 3. Also started; Bon Spec, Will Oakland, Pyjama. Jazz, Weary Willie. Cattach. Thestius. Won by a neck. Time: Imin 12 l-ssecs. NORTH OTAGO HANDICAPS. (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH. Last Night. The North Otago Jockey Club’s handicaps have been declared as follows bv Mr. J. E. Hcnrys: — EMPIRE HURDLES. Rorke’s Drift 11.2. Vice Regal 11.0. Bellrock 10.11, Phil May 10.6. Opiate, Red Fire 10.5, Cerebrus 10.1, Mirza, Killowen 9.13, Pariform, Mandrake 9.9, Island 9.5, Red Admiral 9,3. War Tax Moonstruck 9.2. Wild Night, Orange Bitters, Claverhouse, War March. Pomposa, Palledium, Innisfallen 9.0. REDCASTLE WELTER.—Morse Signal 9.9, Winsome Lady 9.8. Nunerant 8.13, Salerno 8.12, Kilfane 8.11, Blackhead, Moulin Rouge. Unio 8.10, Weird 8.4, Kerry Star, Sunlit, Paddy’s Hope 8.0. OAMARU CUP. —Rorke’s Drift 9.0, Tin Soldier 8.2, Linden 7.13. Mirza 7 11 Kilkee 7.9. Cavorock 6.13, Night Alarm 6.12, Lord Ashlea 6.10, Orange Mart 6.7 MOTOR AKI WELTER —Roseday 11.5, Callaghan 9.8, Lady Blissful 9.3,, Sartolite 8.13, Vice Grand. Franchise 8.12, Kilkee, Grim Joke 8.10, High Heels, Raconteur 7.13, Lord Ashh*. 7.12. Roniform 7.11. Nunerant, Rosevear 7.10. Soldier’s Pride 7.9, Orange Mart 7.8. Kerry Star 7.7. JUMPERS’ FLAT.! —All Ready, Phi! May 1013, Lawsuit 10.9. Staff Officer 10.8 Red Fire 10.8, Mandrake 10.4, Indus 10.3. Bandy 10.1. Mettle Drift 100. Zarkoma, Carbinl, Innesfallen 9.0. STEWARDS’ HANDICAP—SiIver Peak 10.6, Radial, Roseday 9.9, Pyjama 7.9, Deucalion 6,13. Linden 6.10. Bella Lake 6.9, Counter Attack 6.8, Cattach 6.7. ANTE-POST RETTING FARCE. PROBLEM OF 1922 DERBY. [By Electric Cable —Copyright. 1 [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received Sunday. 7 p.m.) LONDON. May 13. Ante-Post betting in England is becoming less and less popular, clubs finding it difficult to create a live market. For the Derby being inn on May 31, lists of quotations are published daily in the newspapers, which frequently describe them as sham betting and almost daily allusions are made to the farce of bookmakers determining prices while the public looks on. St. Louis’s past victory in the_ Two Thousand Guineas has made him an intomatic favourite. He is a grand colt, trained by Gilpin, but the position is clouded by the ract that Gilpin lias Reecho in a different ownership, recalling the problem of the 1920 Derby, when the same trainer had Bpion Kop and Sarchedon. The ongpriced candidate won comfortably. Gilpin delights in mystifiying the public, and Reecho and St. Louis will not be tried together until they meet in the Derby, Pondoland’s easy win over a moderate field in the Newmarket Stakes did nothing more than strengthen St. Louis’s position, but the bookmakers clipped a couple of points from Pondoland’s price, shortening other quotations in sympathy. NOTES. Acceptances for the Wanganui J.C. meeting close to-day. Gamecock and Cliquot are expected to arrive in Wanganui to-morrow. Sir George Clifford has disposed of Purple Spur to a Chatham Islands sportsman. Though he was not a success on the tracks, due to unsoundness, :he Antagonist edit should make good it the stud in lu.s island home. At a recent meeting of the Heddon Jockey Club (N.L.W.), Parick Merv,

by Merv (imp.), from Little Tess, dropped dead standing at the barrier. The stewards declared the horse not in the starter’s hands, and all bets were returned. In the Hurdle Race at the Pirrin Yallock races on April 29th, Douglas Queen and Ritang, who were the only two to finish, were disqualified for having failed to jump a hurdle. All bets on the race were declared off. Volo and Simonides raced badly in the hurdle events at the Egmont meeting, but it ivould be unwise to condemn them so early in their jumping careers. Though he has not yet raced over hurdles, General Advance is said to show good promise in his schooling tasks. Rational’s win in the .Mokoia Handicap at Egmont on Thursday marked his first success out of his eight starts. Arthur James Niermann, aged 19 years, a jockey from South Australia, was arrested in Melbourne on April 28th on a charge of conspiracy. This marks a sensational development of the affair known among racing men as the Seal King case. Niermann rode the Adelaide horse Seal King in the Plate at Sandown Park on March 15th. Seal King did not win, and his running was inquired into by the stipendiary stewards. As a result of the inquiry, C. Williams, the trainer of Sea! King, A. Niermann, the rider, and the horse were disqualified for twelve months for dishonourable action and improper conduct under the Rules of Racing. Appeals were lodged by Willians and Niermann, and also by R. C. Thatcher, the owner, on behalf of the horse. These came before the V.R.C. committee, and the hearing was adjourned until April 28th, when a further adjournment was decided upon. The chairman of the stipendiary stewards (Mr Warren White) made inquiries in Adelaide, where Seal King is said to have been strongly supported on the day of the race. It was on the information of the owner of the horse that the warrant was issued for Niermann’s arrest. The warrant alleged that “between March 7th and 16th, at Melbourne, Niermann unlawfully conspired with some person or persons unknown to cheat and defraud Robert Claude Thatcher, by attempting or attempting to prevent Seal King from winning the Sandori Plate.” Nier- ; mann was admitted to bail. Coalition continues to go well in his work, and the present intention is to 1 race him at Wanganui. P. Coffey has Mort Avis looking well. The Camp Fire gelding will not I he long in filling the oat-bin. The jumper Kyoto is doing good work at Trentham, and it should not be long now before he stands up in a race. Surely the “Gloomy Dean” is not so dismal as reported, for the following . appeared in "Horse and Hound” for ’ March 18th: —“I’m glad to see that sometimes the church takes an in- . terest in racing, as last week Dean . Inge wrote the following in a contem- | porary: ‘You cannot turn the foal of a cart-horse into a Derby winner by giving him more oats, nor make a ’ capable citizen out of a congenital ; blackguard by stuffing him with education according to schedule, at the expense of the ratepayers.” , The San Fran gelding Submerge is ; at present being hacked by his owners. He will probably be racing again early in the spring. ’ E. Warner, the rider of Oakleigh in ’ the Egmont Steeplechase, was suspended for three months. Oakleigh ' finished first after missing the last obstacle, and was subsequently disqualified. WANGANUI TRAINING NOTES. (From the “Herald,”) A large number of horses arrived from Hawera on Friday, including Omahu and Ngata. On Saturday morning there was a ’fair amount of interesting work on the track, including some jumping. Kyoto and Noble were associated in a round over the hurdles, both jumping well. The former, which looks very fit, afterwards did a round on the grass at half pace. All Cerise was sent a round sprinting up the straight. The daughter cf All Black hit out nicely, and is evidently very lit. Whanoko and Demos were sent seven furlongs together, the former appearing to have the best of it at the end, the time being Imin Sljsecs. Omahu and Ngata were given a round over the hurdles, both jumping well, particularly Omahu, who is in great fettle just now. Oak Rose started off over the big fences, and cleared the hen coop all right, but got into the bush fence, and stumbled, losing his rider. He was remounted, and put at the obstacle, clearing it safely. The gelding was then given useful work on the flat. Manchester and Yankee Dan ran six furlongs together in 1.19. Hyttus finished in front of Yagabond at the end of a mile gallop, the time registered being 1.47 J. Paonui was schooled over the hurdles by himself, but was not extended. 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