Turf Jottings

Maoriland Worker, Volume 8, Issue 344, 26 September 1917, Page 2

Turf Jottings

A Canterbury Cup winner in Diavolo I dropped dead up CJisborne way. The (dead racer was by Stepniak, and did his galloping under tho care of .). N. Prosser.

Cisco , , who ran second iv the l?oseliill- Guiuoas in 1911, which was. won this year by Biplane, is still, in training, as was pointed out in last week's issue. Vagabond has started his three-yea'-old career well by winning t-lie.lsjprins Handicap at Qamievirke. The Mar-tian-breed gelding is in the .Great Northern Guineas, and he may live up to his name 'by scooting' away with that prize. AYfltcli him. .

A pony called .Parsing, by Parsee — Slowing, won the Flying Handicap at Koseberry, Sydney, in 1 niin. l.'Ji sec, a pace New Zealand, prads don't often make. His dam is Slowing, ■&' t there was not slow going about Parsing. Ho is a. pony with tho pace of :i. prad full

"Lyttclton Times" points out that tko Now. Zealaiklor, Mr. G. 1). Greenwood, who won the KosoJiill Guineas with Biplane. Inst Sn tmday. week, 'hatl tries for Uio same stakes in iflll-1.'3-11. In tho lattor year Binieter ran second k> the great Carlita. But Bimetor and Biplane are Australian-bred though New Zealand-owned.

Biplane's winning of tho Jto'sehill. Guineas, boating his former victor, Prince Viridis, by moro than two lengths, will make many Xpw Zealand-, ers think the black son of Comedy King has tho Sydney Derby safe. Biplane may start favorite, but the distance is three furlongs furihor, and the Prince, his chief rival, comes ,of good stock.

".Sentinel," of the "Otago : Daily Times," said the other day that New Zealand horses in Australia have aa unsavoury reputation. If it is correct, which the writer docs not fully admit, then Biplane has added to the tnisavouiiupss, for after having run indifferently in the Chclmsford Stakes, be won the Rosehill Guineas, boating the horse that downed him previously. B. Deeley received a. hostile demonstration from the crowd.

The Auckland Racing Club's new handicapner is an old trainer, Mr. F. McManemin. He started in tho horse preparing business more than a quarter of a century ago, and has made cherry ripe many a galloppor. ''Whale-; bone" of the Auckland Star", says of him: "Of mature judgment, a.keen.observer, and a thorough knowledge af , . the great racing game from A to Z, Mr. McMauemin is peculiarly adapted to the position, and other clubs aro sure to take the chance.to secure his services, ilr. McManemin's first effort for the.'AJt.C- will.be tjio compiling of the weights for the City Handicap, to be run at the Spring Meeting of the Club which are due on October 2G.": Well, this .scribe will watch with interest his first efforts at allotting weights.

Weights are out at time of writing for the Geraldine Cup of 13\> sovereigns to be run on September 27. Some of the horses may not accept, but as Sedd-el-Bahr (9.0), Red Book 18.3), San Sebastian (7,10) Minesweeper (7.8), and Don Francisco (rt.U) have accepted for Ashbnrfcou, which is near by, it is sufe tb assume they will go on to Geraldine; and tho three lirst horses have proved they are movers. v - '

By cable we arc informed that the New Zealanders. Shrill and Sweet Corn, have been scratched for'the big Spring handicap of the Australian Jockey Club—the ■Metropolitan Handicap. Shrill had 8.7,. and Sweet Corn. 5.2, and below them were some good Australian horses' that would probably have held the Maorilanders safe.