Ture Topics

Free Lance, Volume II, Issue 75, 7 December 1901, Page 21

Ture Topics

By Silverspur

The one-time c lack spnntei Coiahe i& in wOl k ag.im X Tin lien lode the winneis <>t h\e races at the Flemington carnival Reeoid Reign, tin Auckland-bred horse, is leported to ha\e landed in Calcutta in yen pool condition Mr W t Whitne\ latch won the Frenchmen's rich Pnx clv Con&eil Municipal worth £4000 Whitne\ 's luck" Gaiiloon who ran \en badh at Caulfield and Flemington, was offered foi sale latch , and passed in at a thousand guineas One Melbourne bookmakei laid £.">OOO to £2.3 about Hautvilhers and Revenue foi the Melbourne Cup and Derby nearly a \ear ago but backed the fust-nam-ed, and thus got out of his trouble The late Maicus Da,h 's Knghsh-bred stud was recent l\ sold" at Sheepshead Bay when the total amount realised was L 40.000 being an a^elage of over £1000 a liead including mares vearhngs and foals Tho Yankee jocke\ John Reiff has taken the place of his brother, Lestci Reiff in the stable of the tiainer Huggins at Home It will be remembered that Lester Re iff was recenth warned off Newmaiket Heath According to all accounts, Pietermarltzburg fanh slauglitered his field m the rich JockeA Club Stakes,, worth £10,000 He won in a eantei fioni Ensom Lad, winner of the two previous £10,000 races The I)erb\ winner Diamond Jubilee was one of the held. After Hautwllieis got home m the VR C Dcrb\ Mr J Ewen acting on behalf of Mi W Samson of Buenos Ayres, offeied 3000 guineas, for him Mr. Bailey consented and the pui chase was completed. The horse was sold as a yearling foi 430 guineas and won two Derbies for Ins ow ner A well-known member ot the Victoiian ring jocularh remarked after the V.R C. Handicap had been decided, that he had a fine servant for life A friend gave him the advice to lay against Kulai until the cows came home He added "If she wins I'll work for yon for the rest of mv life without payment." Boreas 11. latel\ won the King's Cup at the Queensland T.C meeting, undei the steadying impost of 9st 91b, and another race with lOst bib, which goes to show that either the quality of the horses there is \en poor or the son of Little Bernie is better at home than abroad He could do no good whatever when ho visited Ne-n South Wales a A\hile< back. The Bang's Birthday meeting at Moree (New South Wales) was of the ' willing" order some of the racing being enough to make one's hair stand on end One papei remarked ''We have heard of, and read of, barefaced robben' being committed from time to time, but the yon' boldness of some of the lat-ter-day attempts in this direction almost takes away the breath of honest men " The English horse Simile, who has been m Earnshaw's charge for some time has been turned out for a spell. He is a rather shapely colt by St. Simon from Mimi by Barcaldme, and i<* a full-brother to St McLow , who ran third to Floriform in the Liverpool Autumn Cup the other day During the long voyage between England and Australia young hoises' feet aie apt to get out of order, and Simile i.s no exception to the rule It is ver\ evident now that the twodividend system will not find fa\oui with the public unless it is paid when theie aie six or moie horses vi the field. It seems ridiculous to pay out when the fields aie less in number and the sooner clubs fall into line on the subject the better Unifoimitv is desuable in a mat to i of tins sort, and it would be ■well if the next Racing Conference consideied the question, and drew up a legulation bearing on the subject Bv the last mail came particulars of two great races won b\ Sempei Vigilans and Pistol two of Caibine's get Semper Vigilans is well-known but Pistol is a two-\eai-old belonging to Sn Edgar Vincent and trained b\ F W Day's son R Da\ Pistol who won the Hopeful Stakes (£562) at the Newmarket October mcetinjr is out of Wcnonah by (ia.loinn from F.sa, by Uncas — son of Stockwell--fiom Fleida In Hermit thus he has a close double cross of both Stockwell and Newminstei to blend with tlie "fJalopin-Musket" cross

Flic Austiahan-bicd Cianboii\ is 10poitod to ha\e bioken down lheieason why Mi G. G Stead is so successful on the turt is tJiat lie goes m tor classic laces, instead of handicaps Ho di&co\eiod tlu& years ago, and Ins sjstem ha.s turned up turnips Of com so, lie does stait some animals m handicaps, but the. majont.\ of his wins now-a-dajs are in classic events — laces he pa-\ s paiticnlai attention to At a teteiit meeting at Poona, in India, a veiy unpleasant incident occuiled in a race called The Trials " the big ia.ee of the day The Austiahaii liorse Socunty w a,s backed down toe\en money and Yeneda, who is m the same stable as Socunt\ was quoted a.t ") to 1 It was certainly a cunous race A furlong fiom liome Yeneda who had made tlio tunning and Spcuiit-\ weie piacticaJl\ out by themselves, tlieie being nothing else at aJ] dangeious Securit\ then cut a cornci too hue rind lan oft the couise on to the sand training tiack, and was pulled up The stewards took a serious mvv> of the circumstances and summono-d the owners jockov. and bookmakers befoie them and sat on the case foi a whole da\ At the conclusion of it they averred that tliev accepted Ramshaw's (the jockey's) explanation that Security in cutting the corner too huv ran off the com so with him And their- the incident closes On the second day the chief event fell to Airlie, aftei a. tremendous finish with Security Refein .q to the sensational sales at Doncastei m Scptemboi , a Home paper says that when the La Floe ho filh w?led m a regular pulsation of excitement passed lound the nng, as surely as i v it hael been communicated by wneless telegrapln There coulel be no two opinions about her, and, aftei Mai<=h had put her in at 1000 guinea"- and someone else advanced 100 guineas, Mai or Bailey said ''2000 guineas " To this +he answ or was 2.")00 eumeas ' Three thousand," said Major Bailey and an advance of 100 on this elicited i compromising 4000 guineas Soon an othei hundred was bid, and Ma]c Bailey inci eased this b\ a fmther hun dred and Maish who wa.s desperated anxious foi the filh then bid 4500 guineas on his own account Major Bailey , as one who had at la«t gajned the da\ went ajiotlioi hundied, and Marsh ictired Then came ' oOOO" fiom Mr Muskei Tln.s was a startler, but Major Badev made one more effort to the tune of anothei 100. Mr. Mucker bid "3200 guineas, and looked like going on Majoi Bailey thereupon gave it up as a bad job When I want to buy a good one," said he, "they won't let me," and down came the hammer 'The most beautiful yearling I have seen since her dam was sold," sain 1 Captain Machell And win should sir not be worth as much as her dam p Few thought that the Bonnie Morn filly would make even more than the other for, good as she is, she is not in the same street with the daughter of La Fleche but she is a rare mover, and put in at 1000 guineas, she was quickly earned on by Mr. Watson and Mr Larnach to extraordinary altitudes until finally she was secured by the inexorable Mr. Musker at 5300 guineas Squash shop" races (uniegisteied) ha\e quite eclipsed public house regis teied gatherings in public inteiest up C'harteis Towers (Queensland) waj Tt is all in" at the sejuash shop" gatheimgs a favourite may bolt into the bush, or be pulled into a walk, without punishment except from enraged backers A racing man, with a big black beaid, attended one of these gatherings, cine] backed pretty freelj the mo^t likely looking nag in a race Before the stait he was told that Streak o' Light was deael " and as the books weie confid ently laying that animal at a long price the rumour certainly bore the impiess of truth The backer said nothing bu^ walked into the nng and put on awho'e two pounds moie, then he crossed o\ ci to a, group of riders, boriowed a stockw hip mounted a. smart hack and canteied to the home turn wlieie he awaited events. The lace was started and Stieak o Light led the held to the psychological spot where the backei was stationed Heie Streak o' Light's ndei began to haul at the bndle and his horse had dropped from hist to fourth when the backei sallied out with a -\ell and began to chip pieces of hide off Stieak o' Light's hmdquarteis The eflect was masfical the startled animal, logardless of his rider's efforts bolted with such vigour that he quickly estabhfehe " a lead and won bv six lengths Tt takes me to liven a dead 'mi " remarked the backer as he collected his winnings and dealt the unregisteied nng a blow equal to that felt b\ then orthodo biothron in C'ai bine's Cup