RACING CHATTER

New Zealand Mail, 5 February 1902, Page 39

RACING CHATTER

vetk *he W kaka (N ® lson ) meeting last fcllioii-n air ?rapa-bred Tynan (bv Rewon thc farewell The imi, anC RP eu Steeplechase. »>ig inSgfa't theTl W ° nder ’ ha - (1 a winning Hi the Takapuna meeting, fitSSJi 6 H^ d e and both ThomsoJf v All ? k . Ha!l retie Mr meats. ° C dlng ln fii s three engageI) elaval Se i” S t tl ° nal . dividend-payer Leo filly by W neat r^ tle three-year-old cant, and fwT Delaval out of LeoSeaton fi , herefor e a full sister to Paul and was S? ™ as bred at Sylvia Park, b L Mr . Harr y Franks has remained ?? guineas, and she tnffH + T\ h h ™ ev «r since. Her ly, as last v P if' tl .^ be . Coldd gallop fairearly niornimr 0 ü be b ® ak Tolstoi in an that her turn j op ’ bub i fc i® probable tor , othenvhL °i toe sur P n sed her menEha /« of that £322^4s Uld had hiS idfW® 1 * £ xtended spell of ill oard Marshall ? G k haS creditcd M r LeoThis was the a,l °ther good stake, wbicli the veteS apUn x Cup t of 600sovs, te mindful of M ” c ?P tured in a manner victory in the ™ ° ld Styl °- Coronet’s jnarked the senr, l! ; pima Cup last week ho has scoredtn H 1 , occasion . on which Access beinc l i ace ’ his previous years bid. The d he was thr ee remarked taW ° f , Castor > ib may C r ’f or al " S i,' ank a ® a sextette V n at TakapuL bl k " to his dual Egmont Cup tr-W ca P ta red the Cup whd ? the A.R.C. other events +k + Taranaki Cup are the T«i?£ h r f “ llen I*;™ f nef. fie had hP at Ja ® b come to fall at Takarmnl S i tblgb broken by a and a P WellinS Saburda y- The at thoßellevpo p3 ton bus mess man & 00n were 0 7 arda ns on Sunday af,ocstey ® take, w hen CU tl S,ne tho risks ’ wa en the names of T.

Connop, Batman and others cropped PP- . No a»rm could be done by issu mg instructions to clerks of scales as to weighing out jockeys, and some accU dents might be avoided. The Stratford Racing Club hac pointed Air C. M. Lepper, of the Tara" uaki Jockey Club, to act as a stipenchary steward at its meeting on March f ? r bhe Groat Northern Foal Stakes and Royal Stakes find descendants of Phcebus Apollo, Multiform The Officer, Sir Lancelot, and Daystar nominated for the first time At a meeting of the stewards of the WoodviUe Jockey Club, an application t>i received from J. Crockett, New Plymouth, for payment of the dividend on two mutilated totalisator tickets. It was decided to interview the totalisator proprietors, and if the tickets are genuine, to instruct that the amount should he paid. Air H. B. Buchanan, of Kumeroa, was elected a steward of “ eduk Air Redwood was appointed tbe Ground Committee, in place of Mr Gothard. The balance-sheet for the December meeting showed a credit balance of £2OO. The conditions of the Scurry liace at the club’s next meeting were altered to road as follow’’For three-year-olds and upwards that have never won a race of over 15sovs, and have never started in other than hack races.”

There is absolutely no truth in the rumour that the Canterbury Jockey Club s forthcoming Summer Meeting is especially prepared for a benefit meeting for the squire of Yaldhurst. If it so happens (the Canterbury correspondent of a Northern paper states) that the horses hailing from Yaldhurst win every race on the programme, or at least two-thirds of the stake money offered, it will he because they are superior animals to those competing against them. Still, for all that, the public persist in calling the Summer Meeting “Stead’s benefit.”

St. Michael having won the Auckj land and Wellington Cups, a, remark ; has been heard that the St. Lcger geldl lag "'ill probably achieve like notoriety j to that of Nelson in 1885, by landing i the Dunedin Cup. XTnfortuuately for j the interesting record cited, the son i °f St. Lcger was not nominated for the j Dunedin. Cup. Air Stead’s sole reprei tentative in the Southern race is San i Remo, the three-year-old son of St. ; Leger and Cissy. i At a meeting of stewards of the Foxj ton Racing Club last week, it was . stated by the secretary, Mr J. R. i Whyte, that the profit on the meetI lug amounted to £3OO, and taking into : consideration the outstanding liabilities ! for the improvements on the course, j the balance to profit after paying these I would be about £l4O. The steady ad- ! vaneo this club has made is clearly ! shown by the following:— ln 1894-5 | £340 was given in stakes for the one i day’s meeting; in 1895-6 a two day’s 1 meeting was held, when £SOO was given in stakes, and the receipts were £921; in 1890-7 £SOO was given in ! stakes, and the receipts were £844; in i 1897-8 the stakes were increased to £6OO, and the receipts rose to £894; in 1898-99 the stakes were again £6OO, i and tho receipts £1023; in 1899-00 : £OSO was paid in stakes, and the receipts rose to £1045; in 1900-1 the stakes were raised to £750, and the 1 receipts rose to £1215; and thc last ; meeting the stakes were £BOO, and thc receipts £1490. j Those in quest of big dividends will j probably bo interested to know that ; the big dividend oil Leo Delaval, £322 ' 4s, was divided among a small syndi- ; cate. It happened in this way. Four ‘ gentlemen were discussing the chances ' of the horses,and the consensus of opinion ! was that in such a big field the race ; over five furlongs would partake of the character of a scramble, and that it was possible that an outsider would turn ,up and pay something good. The re- ; suit showed that they were right, but | the dividend exceeded their expectations. Four of them contributed £4 5s each, and took a ticket out on each : horse in the race. Thus it was that the solitary ticket on Leo Delaval was taken out. Had it not been for the syndicate, Leo Delaval would have been friendless on the machine, and the other investors would have had their money returned less 10 per cent., as the machine in the saddling paddock paid out on the first horse only. The : individual members of tho syndicate re- ; ceived £BO 11s, but one of the quar- ! tetto had sold half his chance to a j well-known trainer before the race was | decided. i Nominations for the forthcoming ! meeting of the Woodville District ! Jockey Club, to be held on the 26th and 27th instant, close on Saturday, February Bth, at 7.30 p.m., with Air E. J. Gothard (secretary), Woodville. The programme appears in the columns of the “New Zealand Times.”