THE TURF IN AUSTRALIA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18406, 23 May 1923, Page 6

THE TURF IN AUSTRALIA.

GLOAMING AND COMPANY.

.. . BY PHAETON.

Advices to hand from the South point to Mr. G. D. Greenwood carrying out his previously expressed intention of again sending a team across to Sydney in order to compete at the Australian Jockey Club's Spring Meeting. Gloaming, who had to be' eased up after his efforts last spring /owing to leg ailments, it is pleasing to learn lias come round all right, and he is, of course, ticked off as one of the most likely ones to be included in the Eandwick team which R. J. Mason presides over. The two rising three-year-olds spoken of as likely to go to Randwick nro Lascelles (Martian—Mary of Argyle), and Golden Tresses (Tressady— •Lady Grafton). Neither of the youngsters has so far carried silk. Gloaming and Cupidon, who won distinction in the A.J.C. Derby, it may be remarked, did not make their debut on the turf until they reached tho age of three years, and the character of the form to be displayed by Lascelles and Golden Tresses will be invested with keen interest. THE ADELAIDE CUP. - Details of the Adelaide Cup, won by the four-year-old King Lngoda, on the 9th inst.', now to hand, show that the feat accomplished by tho son of Comedy King was highly meritorious, for he carried 9.7 (71b. ! above weight-for-age). and beat a field of 22 in comfortable style in 2m. 51}s. Up to date, King. Ingoda's winnings in stakes amount to £14,231. In referring to the Adelaide Cup winner, " Mostyn" writes— " Tho story of King lngoda is almost a romance. Mr. Dubois wont to the Shipley dispersal stud sale in 1918, and there took » fancy to a big upstanding yearling by Comedy King. It turned out to be Fiscom, the hero of two V.R.C. Grand Nationals. A few minutes later he also took a fancy to the New Zealand-bred brood mare. Ingoda. who had a filly foal at foot, and was in foal to Comedy King. Mr. Dubois bought the lot. The filly foal, - Lady lngoda, proved a failure, and has not been able to get a place in trial stakes company, but tho foal ill utero proved to be King lngoda. the hero of the Melbourne Cup of 1922, and the Adelaide Cup of 1923. King Ingoda possesses stamina, and there is no - doubt that he is one of the longest striders and most p'erfect-actioned horses ever stripped in South Australia. The partnership of Messrs. Dubois and Bennett has been a rather pleasant one. Both are members of Tattersalls Club, and it is within the precincts of that building that the partnership was agreed upon." GREAT STEEPLECHASERS. Two horses that stand out prominently among the steeplechasers that have performed . in Australia aro Sussex (by Grandmaster) and Redleap (by Dante-), both of which won Grand National honours. In the course of an article on great steeplechasers of the Australian turf the Melbourne Leader remarked: —"There will always arise arguments as to which was the better, Sussex or Redleap. ■ Many oldtimers declare in favour of Sussex, who, in addition to his timber-topping exploits, won a mile and a-lialf race on the flat at Flemington, beating Andover and other good horses. On the other hand, Mr. Septimus Miller and Humphrey Bellamy say Redleap would have won a champion race but for his feet going wrong, and we know what ft great horee he was over fences. His v feat of winning th« Australian Steeplechase at Caulfield under 13.12 is not likely to be equalled for many a long year, if ever, ' As a steeplechaser Redleap was. in our opinion, the best horse that ever raced at Flemington and Caulfield. He won the Grand National Steeplechase of 1892 with 13.3, th& highest weight ever carried to victory in i that event, and won it in a. canter by half-a-dozen lengths-"." - CAULFIELD RACECOURSE, The district of Caulfield (Victoria) is well known as a racing centre, but the V.A-T.C., which carries on operations there, does not carry on the sport untroubled, for the simple reason that the ground on which they hold their meetings is a Government reserve, and at various periods agitations have been fostered to terminate the privileges enjoyed by the body named. The following bearing on Caulfield is taken from the Australasian: — Some surprise has been caused by the appearance on the central portion of the Caulfield racecourse of a number of pegs such as are employed in pegging out mining leases. The pegs bear the name ' Hoffman.' Although it is not legally impossible to obtain,, permission to mine even on such an area as a popular metropolitan racecourse, which one associates rather with the losing of wealth than the winning of it, it is highly improbable that an applicant for a mining lease would surmount all the difficulties in his path. There is a disposition to treat the matter jocularly."

.. EURYTHMIC'S RACING FEATS. ' . In Eurythmic'B palmy days, the term, "the flying chestnut," was freely applied to the son of Eudorus, and bearing in mind the sterling character of his performances it is surprising that there should be any need to proclaim the prowess he displayed in his racing days. The defeats Eurythmio met at the close of his career having apparently weighed unduly in certain quarters, "Pilot," of the Referee, has something interesting to say on this , tendency to belittle Eurythmic, and in a recent issue of the Sydney journal, he penned:"l have heard it contended more than once that Eurythmic never really defeated a good horse. That seems to me a poor argument, and absolutely unworthy of anybody who saw the chestnut win any of his races. There is not the .slightest doubt in the world that he was a smasher of the first order, or otherwise he would not now bo at the top of the winning list of Australasian horses. A moderate does not win £36.000 in stakes. Did not Eurythmio defeat Poitrel twice at weight-tor-age? I will admit that the races were not run to suit Poitrel, but nevertheless Eurythmio won on each occasion. Disregarding all his wonderful weight-for-age victories, what about his Caulfield Cup win, when he practically went round everything in the field and yet' won easily? And what about his Sydney Cup win with 9.8, after being last at the seven furlongs in a big field? Moderate horses do not win that race with over 9st. and give everything else in the race a start that ranged from a length to 20 lengths. Of course, opponents of Eurythmio say, 'How do you explain his defeat by Beauford ?' First of all, it is admitted that Beauford is a freak, but nevertheless I really think that if Eurythmic had been specially prepared for his meeting with the Newcastle flyer instead of being prepared for the Newmarket and going through a . gruelling V.R.C. meeting, he would have given Beauford a great race, even if he did not actually beat him."

STUD NOTES.

FILLIES FOR THE STUD.

BT PHAETON'. At the yearling sales held at Randwick (New South Wales) in the autumn of 1922 Sir Rupert Clarke purchased a brace of New Zealand-bred fillies, a chestnut by Finland from The Hague, by Stepniak, and a brown by Feramorz irom Bon Elspoir, by Boniform. Information now to hand from Sydney states that the youngsters are not destined to carry a racing jacket, the intention of Sir Rupert Clarke being to send them to the stud quite untried as racers. The sire selected as the mate for the two New Zealand fillies is Rossendale. a descendant of St. Frusquin. who is one of the celebrated St. Simon line. The Stud Book reveals many noteworthy cases where nonraced mares have claimed illustrious, performers, and two that may be mentioned in the history of breeding in Auckland are Mersey (by "Knowsley—Clemence). dam of Carbine, and Frailty (by Goldsbrough— Flora Mclvor), who gave the turf Trenton. , /

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. Mr Norman Falkiner, owner of the Noorilim stud in Victoria, left recently on a visit to the Old Country, and it is understood that he is intent on the purchase of a high-class stallion. . Eurythmic, being booked to taice a place with the sires during the coming season much speculation is rife as to the standard he will attain as a parent. •'Pilot, of tee Sydney Referee, has a good word for Eurytbrnic and be recently referred to the chestnut in the following terms:—'! cannot see any reason why tie snould not get horses that will both sprint and stay. He could run a rattling seven . furlongs himself—his Futurity stakes win with 10. , proved that— he also won over two miles. He is stoutly bred, being by Eudorus, whose lines are a combination of Hampton and Bend Or, from Bob Cherry, who is bv Bobadil from Ardea. by Wallace from Danae Calma, from Duenna, by Lecturer and whose pedigree is a. combination 'of St. Simon on Musket twice. -■