AUSTRALIAN TURF NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20716, 8 November 1930, Page 9

AUSTRALIAN TURF NEWS.

[LAST DAY AT FLEMINGTON. PHAR LAP IN FISHER PLATE. AMOUNIS TO BE SPELLED. TRAINER BUYS CARRADALE. (Received November 7, 9.15 p.in.) MELBOURNE. Nov. 7. The Melbourne C'up carnival concludes at Flemington to-morrow. The principal events are tho C. B. Fisher Plate, of .£I3OO. standard weight-for-age, 1} miles, the V.R.C. Handicap, of £IOOO, 1} miles, and the Batman Stakes, of £750, for three-year-olds who have not won a race of the value to tho winner of £IOOO, ono mile. Phar Lap is in the C. B. Fisher Plate, which is worth £IOOO to tho winner. A success for Phar Lap would increase his stuko-winnings to £10,842. This is £1155 10s short of Amounia' record of £18,207 10s. The following horses nro left in the C. B. Fisher Plate: Second Wind, 9.1; Wise Force, 9.0. Phai Lap, 8.11; Lincago, 8.9. Phar Lap is in excellent condition after his tritimp] s in the Melbourne Cup and Linlithgow Stakes. First Acre is an acceptor for tho V.R.C. Handicap and Hunt the Slipper is engaged in tho Flemington Stakes, of £OOO, five furlongs, for two-year-olds. Both these New Zealand horses' nro to be ridden by T. Webster. M. MeCarten will ride Pentheus in the Final Handicap, of £750, li miles. Aniounis is now to bo given a spell. Carrndale has been sold privately by Mr. L.' I\. S Maekinnon to his trainer, J. Scobio • RICCARTON JOTTINGS. MR. COTHER INDISPOSED. [BY TELEGRAPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENT.] ' CHRISTCHURCH, Friday. Mr. F. C. Cother. secretary to tho Canterbury Jockey Club, will not bo present at Riccarton to-morrow, . owing to suffering froip n severe chill, contracted, early in tho week. This will be tho first opening day's racing at Riccarton Mr. Cother has missed in tho past 30 years. Mr. J. M. s'Griffiths, secretary to the Wellington Racipcr Club, has acceded to a- request from the club to fill tho breach, and will bo in charge of tho organisation during tho absence of Mr. Cother. who hopes to be able to attend before tho conclusion of tho week's programme. Mr. W. T. Hazlett has two representatives carded for the Welcome Stakes, but will probably rely on Irish Chieftain, who shaped so well under soft track conditions at last month's Trentham meetjng. Tho three-year-old Roßenor gelding Royal Sceptre has been leased by Mr. A. Cambridge to a patron of H. J. Smith's stable at Orari and was sent south by C. Emerson to-day. H. Goldfinch arrived from the North today. He has been engaged to ride Count Palatine in the Cup, but is unable to get down to the weight, 7.6, and will have to declare a few pounds over-weight. LEIGHTON TWO-YEAR-OLDS. MR. STANBRIDGE'S PURCHASES. The New Zealand owner Mr. H. Stanbridge has every reason to be well pleased with his purchase of the Lcighton two-year-olds, Movie Star and Hunt tho Slipper, from Mr. W G. Stead in Australia. Movie Star's win in tho Breeders' Plate at Randwick was worth £1783 and Hunt the Slipper's victory in the Byron Moora Stakes at. Flemington on Thursday £450. Both two-year-olds are trained by A. D. Webster and wore ridden in their successes by T. Webster. DEATH OF BROOD MARES. STUD MASTER'S MISFORTUNE, [OX TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] CHRISTCHURCH, Friday. Mr. 11. J. Gordon, of Waiiuate, owner of Vplkyrian, has had the misfortune to lose two brood mares recently purchased by him. Nada, by Itokely from Temba. dam of Nadarino and other good performers, broke her neck in a paddock. She wr.s due to foal in a few days to Wcathervune. The other mare. Lady Martia, died at the Kaituna stud while on a visit to Night Raid,

KOHARA'S CUP PROSPECTS. PACER BACK TO BEST FORM. The Auckland-owned Kohara, who previously won the Now Zealand Cup and is a competitor this year, continues to please in his trials. Prior to going south Kohara put up a sound effort on the clay track at Otahuhu, running two miles in 4.24 and coming home tho last half-mile in 1.3. Kohara has benefited by the race at Wellington. and again pleased his supporters by a solid two miles effort at Addington on Thursday, when ho registered a shade worse than 4.25. J. Bryce, who formerly trained Kohara, will be behind the pacer in his cup engagement. Tho owner, Mr. J. L. Webb, states that his horse has come through his preparation excellently and ho has high hopes that Kohara will win his second cup.

H. KINNIMONT'S TEAM. TWO PROMISING YOUNGSTERS. H. Kinnimonl has two promising youngsters on the active list at Alexandra Park. One is a three-year-old trotter by Nelson Bingen from a mare possessing strains of Peter the Great and McKinney blood. The young straight-out trotter was bred in Gisborne by Mr. R. Fisken, and since being educated by Kinnitnont has shown good promise. Kinniniont's other representative is a well-grown two-year-old filly by Florizel from a Gold Bell mare and favours the pacing business. Somewhat flighty at tho commencement of he. tuition, she has now become docile and well mannerefl and has a fine style. Recently on the tracks the filly has demonstrated that ehe has a nice turn of speed and with experience should make good.

HISTORY OF EPHIALTES. BOUGHT BACK BY BREEDER. An interesting fact in regard to Ephialtes, who paid a sensational dividend at Carterton last Saturday, is related by our Hastings correspondent. The brond mare Rose of Athens was sold by Messrs. P\va» Brothers to Messrs. F, and J. D. Ormopd, tho sale being negotiated by Mr. T. S. Roulston, of Hastings. Hose of Athens was Vi foal to Thnmond and Mr. T. Dwan, who favours his horse, Thomond, as a siro, stipulated that the Karaiuu estate should keep tho foul until it was a yearlinff and lie would then buy it back at 50 guineas. The foal iB identical with Ephialtes. TWO .HORSES SCRATCHED. [BY TEI.EGIIArH.-—OWN COnitESI'tINDENT.] CHRISTCHURCH, Fridav. Sargon was withdrawn from the Riccarton Handicap at 11.5 a.m. to-day and Havasnot from the Spring Plato at the same hour.