TURF GOSSIP.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1265, 28 May 1896, Page 24

TURF GOSSIP.

BY TIIE CHIEL. NEW ZEALAND NOTES. Kangipunehu is the Maori for dusky or cloudy sky. Orestes is in foal after three years without breeding. 11. T. Rani Pore is in the C.J.C. forfeit list for .£l2O. Mr Hobbs will shortly take up a full sister to Prime Warden. The Wuirarapa Club lias to get rid of (hat J.'l 13 debit balance yet. Impulse will lie amongst the Now Zealand Cup nominations. Nominations closed last Saturday night for tho Taranaki Hack Derby. Fire King is jumping the hurdles all right but won’t go at big fences. Mr Stead’s youngsters are making great improvement at Kiccarton. Liberator is in great heart just now. Ho should make a grand show up North. A jumper named ltaupo was taken up to Ellerslie recently from the West Coast.

Dir T. Morrin has called his yearling filly, by Castor from Cissy, by the name of Janet.

The betting over the Great Northern Steeple and Hurdles has been confined to doubles.

Tno racecourse at New Brighton is being improved by Mr Mare. It needs improvement.

Mainstay is doing splendid jumping work and is improving in his stylo by leaps and bounds.

I understand that Mr W. H. Keith intends going over to the other side with his team very soon.

Mr Harvey, of Melbourne, Ims purchased Bloodshot from Mr Stead at the price originally asked.

The acceptances for the Groat Northern Hurdles and the Great Northern Steeple closed last Friday.

One of the Forbury trainers says ho will shift to Christchurch if tho Dunedinitos don’t shift to Taieri.

Booties, who ran at Wanganui, was penalised 71b in the Steeplechase, bringing his weight up to list.

Nominations for the Now Zealand Cup eloso on Friday, Juno sth. Owners and trainers remember this.

Rip Van Winkle changod hands in Hawke’s Bay recently, lie was bought by Mr McDonald of Horowhenua.

It is not correct that Bombshell lias hoen offered for sale by Dir Stead, nor has ho had any enquiries respecting him.

A wager of 500 to 15 was laid about Black and Red, who has come out from under a cloud lately, about tho New Zealand Cup.

Artilleur, who broke his log recently, is still in tho hospital. His owner does not intend to put him to work again until spring.

Tlie best indication of tho merits of a handicap, and the chances of the horses emtained therein, is to bo found in tlio betting market.

Spermaceti, who is among tho nominations for tho llawko’s Bay Steeple, is a full sister of Whalebone’s, the groat steeplechaser of past days.

The Taranaki Jockey Club have refused to endorse the disqualification of throe years passed by tho Fnlea Jockey Club on ii. IS it. veils for foul riding.

.Mura;;, who was not ready for tlm Napier Bark meeting, is improving very fast and will be very fit for the Hawke’s Bay Steeplechase next month.

I see that Ocean, half brother to tho Victorian crack homo Nowhaven, is amongst the nominations for the Wanganui ’Two-year-old Stakes in 1890 and tlio Derby in 1890.

Mr R. Bryant won Ocean in tho St. Albans Art Union. Ho was got by tho imported Eiridspord.

If Mystical had won the Stewards’ Stakes at Otaki ho would have paid i!190. Ho was beaten by a nose, but if tho race had boon one yard longer lie would have won.

Messrs Allison brothers have joined tho number of our breeders who emasculate their blood foals. Ono promising yearling, by Regal out of Pearl, in particular, being recently treated in that way.

The Auckland Racing Club lately sent a few gentle reminders to owners and trainers that) if jwmiwvtipft tutf feBS du<3

by them were not paid at once their names would be placed on the forfeit list.

This week over our heads has seen a lot of racing. Wo have had Dunedin (two days), Takapuna (two days), Otaki, Waipawa, Wanganui and the Nelson Trotting Club’s meeting.

The Auckland colt Doadshot., who died recently, was famous for having paid, a £135 div. when he won the Nursery Handicap at Ellerslie. He was owned by Mr D C. Caulton, who has had a long run of bad luck for some time past.

“ What kind of a raeo did you rido in those hurdles ?” asked a suburban stewards’ chairman the other day. I rode according to orders, sir.” “ Yes, wo could see that. Implicit obedience deserves recognition. You may take a six months holiday.”

Backers are still accepting ridiculously short odds for the next Now Zealand Cup about tho chances of their selections. “Mazeppa” says the old story that “ a million idiots are born every year, twothirds of whom live,” is as applicable now as it ever was.

Kulnino most unmistakably shoved his dislike to the big jumps at Ricearton last week, lie got over tho minor obstacles somehow, but repeatedly declined to negotiate the big ones. When previously tried Kulniue did just the same, although he occasionally got tho other side of a rasper.

On Friday, 29th May (general entry night), nominations are duo for Maiden Handicap Steeples, Winter Welter Handicap, Selling Steeplechase, Maiden Handicap Hurdles, and six other races, in connection with tho Auckland Racing Clubs Winter Meeting.

Tho Wanganui Stooplechaso was first won in 188(3, by Guy Fawkes; 1887, Orient; 1888, Kangaroo; 1889, Oddfellow; 1890, Sir Garnet; 1891, Ingorangi; 1892, Conran to ; 1893, Empire; 1891, Booties and Nanakia (a dead heat); 1895, Tiritea; and 1890 brings old Booties to the fore again as the first horse that has won the Wanganui Steeplechase twice.

For tho Grand National Hurdles and Steeplechase, Dante, Donald McKinnon, Hopgarden and St. Jvildo, coupled with Mutiny, Tiritea, Carbuncle and Bombardier, are tho favourite selections at 100 to 2 to 1. Tho apparent favourites however, aro Tiritea, Mutiny and Bombardier for tho Grand National Steeple, and Hop Garden and St. Hilda for tho Grand National Hurdles.

Mr H. Goodman has won tho Dunedin Jockey Club’s Birthday Handicap throe times, with Sir Modred, Kathleen and Blizzard ; Mr J. Stephenson three times, with Tairoa, Captain Webster and Ilippomonos ; and Mr G. G. Stead twice with Marion and Melinite, who ran a dead heat with Captive; and now Mr V. Harris has had a turn with Quiltiri, whose performance is all tho more wonderful because he is only three years old.

An Auckland writer says that the three-year-old colt Deadshot, by Brigadier— Katipo who died in his box lately, had boon ailing for afow days previously. Jle proved a great disappointment on tho turf. This season ho failed to win a single race, although last season he made himself famous by winning tho Nursery Handicap at tho A.K.C. Summer Meeting, paying the sensational dividend of £135. At the A.K.C. Autumn Meeting lie was disqualified for a cross after winning the Onslow Stakes.

Mr J. H. Overhock, in the Breeden <’ Gazette, says Until i commenced to use linseed cake I did not know there was any food in existence that could do so much good for a horse. When properly used it produces the perfect health that makes a bone-yard a hack, and a hack a roadster ; and in every case that has come to my knowledge it has added 25 per cent, to the value of tho horse in appearance and working qualities. It is the best health producer 1 know. I have been feeding one quart of cake, two quarts of ground (crushed) feed, and a handful of salt, soaked one hour before using.”

"Why should a brood mare throw one good one and all the rest rubbish when Hie same sire has boon employed over and over again? Robert tho Devil was a nailer, and his brothers and sisters were not worth a row of pins; and the same may be said of Ben d’Or. The dam of Don Juan bred regularly for nearly 20 years, and Don Juan was tho only winner she ever threw. "What did Casuistry throw beyond Paradox, and she was sent to Sterling over and over again ? What wore tho brothers to Musket like ? and how would you compare St. Simon with his brothers and sisters ?

A correspondent of the Weekly Press signing himself “Island Bay” says that, after a long study of the result of the working of the totalisator in the Colony, he has reluctantly been compelled to come to the conclusion that the machine, in place of being a blessing, is a curse ; that it causes too much racing; too much betting; that it encourages gambling for gambling’s sake with other attendant evils ; and, abovo all, it has raised in our midst a largo, an undesirable, and a dangerous class of individuals, who will continuo to exist as long as wo have the totalisator, meaning by this, tho “ tote bettors and their attendants.

Thunderer is described as one of tho handsomest horses South Australia . can boast, and a successful future is predicted for tho son of Thunderbolt, who paid the sensational dividend of £99 at tho S.A.J.C. recently.

ROUND THE WORLD

Idolator’s split hoof is no better yet

The entries in connection with the Sydney Grand National have closed.

Another Umslopogaas was sold in Mel bourne recently for £5 15s lid.

Hova has had a bad leg, which he has developed since his stay in Adelaide.

Mazeppa is a new jumper over on the Australian side, lie is credited with 7it.

WTatlcnuli’s Grand National Steeplechase Meeting takes place at llandwiek on the 30th.

Paris has to carry Ost Gib for the Great Metropolitan, and the same in the Chester Cup.

Warpaint, who won tho Adelaide Cup, made tho fastest time on record for that race. A full sister of Moonraker’s named Cora Creina won the Autumn Handicap over in Tasmania.

The entries for the Victoria Racing Club’s Birthday Meeting totalled 112, as compared with 81 last year.

The punters had a had time at the Melbourne Hunt Club's Mec.i lg. One in particular failed to settle.

There are over a hundred entries for the Victorian Derby, to be run in the spring, and over sixty for the Oaks Stakes.

’The late Colonel North’s colours were “ Light blue, with primrose live-pointed stars, primrose sleeves, scarlet cap.”

Victor Wild, who won the Kempton ParkGreat Jubilee Stakes on Saturday week last, was a pronounced favourite at 8 to 1 some time before.

The Queensland horse Dareen, by Excelsior —Dagtnar, was impaled on a fence recently, and so seriously injured that it was found necessary to destroy him.

Mr .John Crozier lias refused 300 guineas for the colt Concussion, in Adelaide. Mr Crozier has also purchased the Adelaide St. Eager candidate, Duke of Richmond, for 500 guineas.

The Austrian Associated Clubs have decided that at theirfutnre race meetings neither trainers nor their assistants will be allowed to accompany horses about to start for a race on to the course proper.

That racing is becoming more popular in South Australia is shown by the fact that for the leadin'.' events 121 horses were nominated in 1891, 483 in 1895, and 512 in 189(3.

Nomadic, winner of the Totalisator Handicap at the recent S.A.J.C. Meeting, is by that successful winner of the Melbourne Cup, Malua, who also won the Newmarket Handicap, Australian Cup, &c.

Returned Melbourne sportsmen, says the Aye, who visited the meeting of the S.A.J.C. at Morpliettville, are unanimous in affirming the healthy influence which the totalisator exerts upon racing in that colony.

A Sydney clairvoyant gave, says Hie BulleAin, Patroness ton bookie’s wife as next Melbourne Cup winner. It’s a fortune to a Clay pipe against her winning, and something not much smaller about her starting. Hliepropliets are wise, though. They only advise crcdu'ous females. And only tip them female horses.

The A.J.C. have fixed a time limit for all future three-mile races at Baud wick. These events will have to he mu in fmiin 15-ee or under. Any horse taking over that time will only get half the prize money. “ Maitindah',” in the Town and Country Journal, lays it is hardly lair to compel a horse to run faster than is uoee sary to win a race.

Although the subject must he in everybody's mouth, I suppose I must repeat that Mu! urn a lias been so 1■ 1 lor a thousand guineas by Mr Patou, and that she is to be shipped to England. Maltnna was the winner of the Newmarket Handicap, and she is one of the most promising mans that has ever left Australia, and if her new own flake s advice he will give her a run in the Autumn Handicap at Newmarket. She went, oil the week before list in the Oroya.

Michigan, who is a full brother to the Caulfield Cup winner Chicago, by Thu Drummer from Corisande, is being put over the light sticks in Sydney, and promises to become proficient at the game. It will be remembered that after Chicago's Caulfield Cup victory he wa3 very heavily backed for Mentor’s Melbourne Cup, made ever memorable by the accidents which ended the racing careers of the New Zealand mare Spade Guinea and the gallant Ensign, but he failed lo show at all prominently at any part of the battle.

A Victorian writer is responsible for the following: “A trainer working horses on the Kyncton Course had arranged with a light-weight rider to give the horse a gallop, and instructed him, in racing parlance, I to jump off at the half-mile post and let the horse have his headI—meaning, 1 —meaning, of course, that he was to ride steadily for a certain distance and then bring the horse along at top speed. The boy, however, was not well up in sporting phrases, and when lie reached the indicated spot ho jumped oil the horse, tied the reins to the saddle, and turned the animal adrift. This proceeding filled the onlookers with amazement, and when asked, the lad replied, ‘You told mo to jump off at the half-mile post, and let the horse have his head, and I did so.’”

An English exchange makes the following reference to the famous mare La Fleche and her first foal “To be the produce of a year when her dam was in training, she is a remarkable filly indeed, especially when we remember that La Fleche ran and won so late in the year as the Second October Meeting. It was not at that time known for certain that she was in foal, and it was believed that in any case she was due to foal very late, but, as a matter of fact, La Veine came fairly early in the season. La Fleche is a mare of extraordinary intelligence, and she has always preserved a lively recollection of her first love, Morion, whom she recognises whenever she chances to see him. This was so even when she was in training, and fomeliincs Morion would lie visible at exercise on the Cambridge road. Her liking for the son of Barcaldiuc never varied, and she was just as pleased to see him even very shortly before La Veine was toalcd. Now she has returned to him, and really, though the cross was not one which struck some of us as the best possible, there cannot be much wrong about it as judged by such a good result as the yearling La Veine.”

That figures do not always tell the truth will at once become apparent when the reader runs his eye over the following clipping from the Sportsman, which is both instructive and amazing : —“ There were two runners in tiie Adelaide Fisher Stakes, Warpaint at 1711, and Haivrol at 1011. This represents the amount placed on the machine, and in a field of two reads remarkably like odds of about 5 to 1 on Warpaint. Most backers and many fielders, anyhow, would contend those were the approximate odds on Warpaint, as represented by the figures on the discs. But figures can apparently lie, for the 1 machine ’ said the proper dividend was £1 2s, or 10 to 1 on, and the machine was right. Tho-e were the identical odds —and very fair, too, in such circumstances. The solution of the apparent paradox is easily discoverable, and is found in the insatiable appetite of the totalisator for its ten per cent. Less than £SOO are staked on Warpaint, and just £IOO on Haivrol, but that means 10 to 1 on Warpaint, and note to 1. as the figures appear to show. Reason. Each sovereign depreciates, shrivels, and dwindles down to the value of eighteen shillings the moment it is handed through the pigeon-hole lo the cashier, and this applies equally, of course, to the sovereigns staked on llairvel and those planked down on V\ arpaiut. That’s the explanation of this apparent anomaly. But, after all, 10 to 1 on Warpaint was really a liberal price in such a field and against such an opponent.”