RACING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19195, 8 December 1925, Page 6

RACING.

SEASON'S FIXTURES. December 9. 10—Woodvillo Jockey Club. December 12—Waipa Racing Club, December .17, 19— Dargaville Racing Club. December 19—Banks Peninsula Racing Club. December 20, 29. January 1. 2—Auckland Racing Club. December 2G. 28. 29—Manawatu Racing Club. December 2(>, 2S—-Dunedin Jockey Club. December 26—Alexandra Racing Club. December 20, 28—Wostland Racing ( tub. December 20, 2S —Taranaki Jockey Club. December 26 —Waipukurau Jockey Club. January I—Tirau Racing Club. ASNWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. " Musketeer."—The figures published show that- tho order of favouritism for tho Auckland Cup of 1924 was as follows : —Musketoon, Polonett. Te Kara, Royal Divorce. Stork. NOTES BY PHAETON. Tuscan was cratched for tho A.R.C. Railway Handicap at 1.25 p.m. yesterday. Tho Hawk is expected to arrive from Sydney to-day by the steamer Maunganui. Deucalion, who is engaged in the Auckland Cup, figures among the entrants for events to be run at (ho Manawatu Racing Clubs meeting. Te Monanui, who is a candidate for honours in the Auckland Cup, is engaged in the NVoodvillo Cup, set down for decision to-morrow. There appears to be a good prospect of Count Cavour and Money Order coming to Auckland to fulfil engagements at Kllerslie. Both horses are said to bo well served on ttie score of condition. Judging from a certain movement during yesterday. To Monanui and Oration is likely to form something in tho shape of a strong tip from Taranaki for tho big impending double at Kllerslie. The satisfactory accounts to hand bearing on tho manner in which Haze is getting through his training work at Riccarton serves to add further to his security as favourite for tho Auckland Cup. The Solferino gelding Muscari, who has finished out of a place in every raco he has contested since ho won the Robinson Handicap at Kllerslie on Boxing Day last, may run his next race at the Manawatu meeting. There does not appear to be much prospect of Steel Bar winning an important handicap near at hand. The Bardolph gelding was considered to have a chance in tho Taurnarunui Cup, run on Saturday last, but he failed to gain a place. From the fact of Grand Knight having been nominated for events at the Manawatu Racing Club's Summer Meeting it would seem as though Mr. \ . Riddiford has decided on racing the English liorse at Awapuni this month instead of at Kllerslie. Extending over quite a long stretch of years there have been many sparring displays on the totalisator question in Victoria. The staco is once again being set for another display. A prediction is offered that the legalisation of the totalisator ir Victoria is still some time away. According to some of (he Southern writers, the owners of Glentruin were in somo doubt as to sending the English-bred maro to Auckland or Pahneraton North to race this month. Tho fact of Glentruin being further nominated nt tho Auckland summer meeting would appear to point to tho maro being raced at Kllerslie. There is a fair sprinkling of Aucklandowned horses engaged at tho Manawatu Racing Club's Summer Meeting. Master O'Rorke. King Pot, Muscari. Quinette. Pinon, Alfort, Whetunui, Ring Potoa, Bright Knight, Lady Comet, White Comet, and Miss Egypt figure as entrants for events to be run at Awapuni. It is staled that an overture was recently made to M. McCarten to ride a prominent candidate other than Tho Banker, engaged in the Auckland Cup. This he declined, and it is inferred therefrom that he is quite satisfied to stick to the Kilbroney gelding, on whom ho won the New Zealand Cup and Canterbury Cup. Mr. Douglas Stuarf who is the principal bookmaker in England at the present time, will havo good reason to remember tho Cesarewitch and Cambridge double of 1925. It is stated that ono backer won .{'79,,500 from him over the Forseti-Masked Marvel combination. In addition another individual bet in which Masked Marvel was the horso backed for the Cambridgeshire was for £27,500. The catalogue of tho blood stock sale to be held by Messrs. Alfred Buckland and Son, Ltd., on the Kllerslie Racecourse on December 30 and 31, has been issued by the auctioneers and, embracing as it does 71 lots, it will composo the moat numerous collection of thoroughbreds that has figured in the sale ring in this district for many years. The yearlings to be submitted number 39. the two-year-olds 21. while a collection of brood mares brings tho number of lots up to 71. Though Ngata has not won a race 'for something like two years and is now rising 11 years old. ho continues to be nominated for important flat events. The latest entries mado for Ngata are in connection with tho three leading handicaps set down for decision at the Manawatu Racing Club's Summer Meeting. Ngata won the WangaTiui Cud (one mile and three-quarters) in 2m 595. but that feat was recorded by the won of Manianoto in the autumn of 1922. Nincompoop is stated to be training on nicely at Riccarton. and that may he said to point to tho probability of his carrying silk in the Railway Handicap at Ellerslio on Boxing Day. in which raco ho has been awarded the handy impost of 7.2. Nincompoop has failed to gain a place in each of the three races ho has contested this season, but the fact that he continues one of Mr. G. D. Greenwood's team is worth keeping in mind. In his first race at. two years old Nincompoop won the Breeders' Plate at Randwick in brilliant style, and maybe the forthcoming meeting at Kllerslie will find the son of Absurd in a position to reproduce his best form. Tho judicial committee of the Takapuna Jockey Club lias held an exhaustive inquiry into the accidents which occurred during the recent Spring Meeting held at the North Shore, and tho evidence elicited, both from the jockejs who wore injured, and other riders, was that the same were purely due to accidental causes. After the judicial committee had concluded tho inquiry yesterday the chairman, the Hon. K. W. Alison, accorded me full- liberty to peruse tho evidence, and in no case was any fault expressed by the respective jockeys as to the Takapuna course. Indeed, its safely wan completely attested. It- may be regarded an quito certain that the authorities of the Takapuna Jockey Club will maintain their course in a matter aiming at the maximum of safety.