Turf Topics.

Free Lance, Volume X, Issue 468, 28 August 1909, Page 9

Turf Topics.

By "Te Ngaio."

EVERYTHING promises w<?W f or the opening season of the WeUlngton Pooj and Galloway Racing Club'fc) ineetiJig, which takes pllaoe at Miiaru&i on Septeambcr 4th and 11th. Seveiad. new ponies will be competing, which will add to the abtfracfauveness v& thy racing, iii. Gummiug (has eveaytuiing m leadiness, and, WiLtth the tiack in good condition, there shoudJd be nothing to mai the pleasure od; raeegoeis. i'lequediit trains will lun from Courtenay Place, and ladies wiill be admitted fiee to ail' paits. Mr. Moise's handicaps for the spring meeting 01 the Marton Jockey daub liare made them appeal anee, and,, as the weights appear to be framed on. tquitable Oanes, tlieie should be a good response fiom owners on acceptance night. Owing to the unprepared state of the racing track at Bulls, the Rangitikei Racing Club wiJil hod'd their spring meeting on the Marton Jockey Cdnib's course on September loth and) 16th. -Nominations dosed on Friday last, and the weights are due on September 4th. C. Pritohard has engaged a number of his team fox the Marton fixture, amongst them being Aema and Aotea. This pair should give a good aooouniftof themselves, as they are well forward m oandatjjan. White Lie will be a competitor, and, as the black mare has been kept up to the collar, she should 1 run well forward an the .Marton Handicap. Jim Cress will give Gaelic a ran at Marton, amd after the bold showing of the Bonnie Scotland gelding at Trentham it will' have hosts of friends in the Marton Handicap. The unruly WiirailH, whom Alex. Haill is persevenjing with, as top weight in the Trial Hurdles at Marton, but, after this gelding's bad display at Trentham, it is hard to propliesy how he wall fare. Dad Peters has Waiata in splendid oonditiou, and the Tupuhi geHdJng should show up well at Marton. Paddy McLaughlun. has tired of Rock Ferry, and the Birkenhead oaLt found a, new owner in H. Solomon, at Chnstchuich, the price being 130 guineas. Tawhaki, the arisitociatically-b'red' youngster belonging to Mr Gaisford, ■which is being piepared by J. Prosser foi future events, wall be racing at Marton. Being so full of promise. Tawhaki should give a good account of itself. J Prosser will have a fair team at Marton, including Te Kahurangi, Lady Medallist, Lovell. and Tawhaki, and some of the s-pcmJis should be secured' by patrons of the Porixua stable. Conquestiina, who showed' good form at the last Ashhuirst meeting in a short Tace, ought to show up weJH in a similar race at the Macrton fixture. Comparative tables for the last tight seasons show the representatives oi Stepnaak to have won £71,010, and those of Soult £59,621. Mir. NoeOl Wilson's bixxwn gelding, Lovell, whom Prosser has in good condition, will be seen at the oomung Maiton and Rangitikei R.C. meetings. The half-brother to Pilot will after has wins down South, liaye a lot of foMlowers at the aibove fixtures. Mr. G F. Moore, of Kai Iwi, has a ■promising yearling colt by Biikenhead from 'Mis& Penelope, which is said to be the finest-looking colt yet sired by the Karamu horse. The progeny of Birkenhead continue to do well in Australaa. On July 31st, Mischief Birkenhead — Miss Nevei) won a race at a Queensland' meeting, andl on the same day Borax (Birkenhead — Industry) won his second race am' Victoria. * Two days later WaMassey (Birkenh^ad — Aphn-odate) won a race at tihe Park pony races, Sydney. Returned visitors from Riocartoni affirm that Jack Hall rode a splendid race on Nadador whoai she won the Grand National Steeplechase. Sir W. R. Russell's mare has now won ten steeplechases, and over £3000 in stakes. Roosevelt is getting through a sound preparation at Wanganui for the New Zealand Cup. GruicrnoiLTa and Astiaea will be put m woirk at Waveriey next week, and the former wiM probablfy be in good racing condition by the time the Manawa.tu summer meeting comes round.

Irate owner: "Here, I say, what dyer mean 6y pufcig the head off my horse?" "Gam, I wasn't puffin/ 'is 'cad orf. I was only 'oilding 'im up'" With a judge of W. HartgiliD's ajbility, and C. O'Connor as starter and G. Morso as handicapped, thecre should be nothing to cavil at at the approaching spiing meeting of the Borowhenua, Racing Club. The lease of the grounds at present held by the Otaki Maori Racing Club falls due in a fartnnght prior to the club's Octobeir meeting, and, failing satisf acton v terms with the ouneis of tlie propei ty, the Messrs Bright, it is pioposed by the club's executive that the next meeting of the Maori oluib wild' be held on the Horowhienua Racing Club's property at Levin. The Otaki business people will use stienuous efforts for the next meeting of the Otaki Gkub to- be held on, the oJd course, as the Joss of the fixture m a financial sense would be a severe blo-w t-o Otakj sihoulcl t<he chib dec/ide to hold the .meeting at Levin. Meniletta and Mem vale aie a pair from tlie Hutt that should show up prominently at Mai ton. They oie both by the defunct sire, Mernwee, fix>m Valetta. Lord Soulft is engaged at Marton, and the little fellow should mn prominently. Hisowne'i, Mi J Svmons 1 , has recently purchased a faun in the Hastings dibtiict, and will be lemoving from Foxton in consequence. Considerable interest will be added to the coming Maa-ton meetmig owing to the fact that several of the competitors claim am. engagement m tihe New Zealand dap, and', naturally, some of their friends will want to see how their fancies sliape in their prelimmiaries for the big event at Riccarton. R. Knox has Merrie Rose in good racing condition at Otaki, and Mr. PJatt's mare will be a contestant at Marton. Jim Cress makes no seciet of the fact that hn> gelding Gaeljic will account for the opposition wn, the Marton Handicap. A. Masters has in hand, trainoiig for future racing at Hastings, a trio of beginners that have not yet faced the baa-ner — one a full-sistei to Defeat, and _ t\Yo four-year-old Gold Reefs, a gelding and a filly. The trio should come u> hand quickly, and will soon be sporting silk. Mr. J. McLeavey, pie&dent of tlie Horowhenua Racing Ghib, has promised to donate a gold-imoombed whip k> the rider of the winner of the Horowhenua Cup, ait their meeting next month. le Kahuranga, us, doing wal at Poaurua in anticipation of the Marton fixture. The iv eights for the New Zealand Cup made their appeaiance on Friday last, and critics will now have eoanethung to occupy their miadis in attempting to discover the winner at the big event at Riccarton in November. All Red headis the list with 9yb 41b, but, as 'Mr. Buckley's colt is emgaged in the Melbourne and Gaulifield Cups, there is a probability tinat All Bed will not see the post in the New Zealand Oup The handicap provides plenty of food for reflection, and a difficult job is set punters to find tin* ultimate winner. M. Gardner, in cihairge of Auratus, passed through here on Friday last. The Gold Reef .gelding broke down badly m the Grand National JLurMes, and will not race again until' next season. St. Bill is doing wel, and should be cherry ripe by the time the Rangitikei meeting rolls lound. Nero is rapidly recovei-xng from hie recent mishap, but it wiH be some tune berore the Turquoise gelding sports silk. Mr. Twist, of Greenaneadows, hiaa bestowed the name of All Gold on his promising coiltt by Gold Reef. Gold Carp, the dam, was by Daniel O'Roike from Piscatonous, and tihe blendirng ot these two names should be productive of something good. F. Dayis, the well-known rader aaid private trainer for Mr. T. H. Lowry, is shoitly to join tlie ranks of the benedicts. J. Cameion has left for Sjdney, and has taken Buluorth. Ikon, and Srrarphic to compete in events m Austiai'ia. It is hoped for Camerons sake that the venture wild! turn out successful On Saturday last a big commission was woiked in Wellington in fa your of Los Angolas, at Riccarton and the good thing won, paving a substantial dividend. It is hinted that the owners experienced some difficulty m collecting their dividends from the layers an the Empire City. The anmual meeting of tihe Foxton Racing Club will take place at Foxton to-morrow, _ the 28th inst. The funds of this club are in a very sataaPactory oonditioin, and Mir. Angus Keitlh should have a good report to lay before his etewairds.