INTERPROVINCIAL GOSSIP

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1716, 18 January 1905, Page 48

INTERPROVINCIAL GOSSIP

NEW PLYMOUTH NOTES

(From O'ur Own Correspondent.) TARANAKI, January 12. A. Hall is training Kremlin at New Plymouth for the Taranaki meeting. From a private source I learn that the Auckland stewards dropped the inquiry into Paritutu’s running.

Nominations for the Taranaki Summer meeting, which closed last night, total 289, as compared with 285 last year. There is a great falling off in the open events, hut the large increase in the hack events more than counterbalances the shrinkage. Mr R.. G. Pardy will have reoresentative fields to handicap in the hack events, in which Auckland horses are numerous.

The Egmont nominations should also be satisfactory, as outside owners can take the two meetings within the fortnight.

The Taranaki Christmas meeting should result in a substantial profit to the club. Mr J. O’Driscoll has bought in Waiweia, who will be put in commission again. Commonwealth, in the same stable, is in work and looking well. Pharos looks light after his Auckland trip, and will need to build up a bit. Mr O'’Driscoll has not nominated at the Taranaki meeting owing to some disagreement he has had with the club. Caretaker Blewman has the Taranaki course and enclosures in excellent order. He is a man who understands hia work thoroughly. Backers seemed generally to get the worst of the deal of the Christmas and New Year betting. NEW PLYMOUTH, January 14. At the meeting of the Taranaki committee on Friday number of applications were received, for removal of disqualifications for taking part in unregistered meetings. In R. Morrow’s case the committee decided to accede to the request, as the applicant’s name had been used at the Rahotu races without his consent. Other applications from R. Jackson, A. Lucas, C. Gill and W. D. Linn was refused, and the disqualification will be allowed to take its course. Jockeys Jas. O’Connell and George Roberts applied for the removal of their disqualifications, but the committee refused the applications. The committee decided that the disqualifications. if any, be removed from the horses Ranana, Pharos and Toledo. The point arose in connection with their former ownership by Corrigan and Paltridge, an application .to remit fees because the person leasing the horses was unable to start them owing to the owner being on the unpaid forfeit list was refused. WAIRARAPA NOTES. (From Our Own Correspondent.) The profit made by the Lower Valley Jockey Club over its recent meeting at Martinborough amounts to over £2OO. The club is to be congratulated on the result, as it proves that it can now afford to be progressive. It is many years sinoe a credit balance of any consequence has been recorded by the club, and the turn in the tide of affairs is appreciated. The Merrie England gelding, Tikarawa. who has been runnimr out for t.Twt

past six months, was brought in this week and will be hacked about for three months previously to being put into work again. He appears to be sound, and with ordinary luck should stand a good preparation. The Saracen mare, Saraband, who has not yet been successful in scoring a win, has been thrown out of work for a tinie, and is now at her owner’s place at Papawai. After a short respite from work she may again be taken up with a view to winter racing. Rungarawa, who ran successfully at the JVLartinborough and Tauherenikau meetings, will now move into open company, and may compete' in the 1 H oxton Cup. This sen of Lethe. —Zig-zag is a very useful customer, and he can skip over six furlongs or a mile in good time, while he is also a first-class jumper. Scrip, by Au Revo-ir —Mischief, and consequently a half-brother to those onetime good performers, Rebellion, Revolt and Revolution, is again being put into work after a lengthy spell. He is an occupant of D. Wilkinson s stable at Tauheren ikau.

The Wairarapa Racing Club’s profit over its summer meeting amounts to about £6OO. This must be highly satisfactory to the officials of the club, and goes to prove the strong support accorded the institution by racing folk. During the week the St. Clements gelding, Clem, changed hands, and is now owned by two* residents at Tauherenikau. be trained by A. Mackay, of thisPplace. Another Tauherenikau trained animal, First View, found another owner this week, a South Wairarapa sportsman having purchased the Tasman gelding from Mr W. A. Grace, of the Hutt. He will remain in the same stable as before.

The question of a railway line from the main line to the Tauherenikau course will probably come before the Wairarapa Racing - Club in the near future. Year by year the number of visitors from the Forty-mile Bush and Wellington is increasing, and there is ever the question of conveying a thousand or so people by coaches from Featherston to the convincing ground. With a line to the course the club would go ahead by leaps and bounds, and its increased revenue would very quickly justify an expenditure in the direction of conveying people right to- the ground, as is now done by so many clubs. The Tattler gelding, Te Opi, recently purchased by Mr K. McKenzie, jun., from a Featherston resident, is being trained by J. Ayers. He started in the Hack Hurdles on the first day at Pahiatua, but liis condition was not sound enough to enable him to negotiate the mile and three-quarters successfully. Our Wellington Cup entrant, Jeanne d’Arc, managed to gain second place in the Pahiatua Cup on Wednesday. Com sideiring the growth of grass on the course was rather long and very thick, her performance with 8.8 was very meritorious. With a better track at the Hutt the St. Andrew mare may get the mile and a half. She is expected to run at least well forward, and as she ranks as one of the best we have sent for the big event there would be great rejoicing in this district if she prevailed. The well-known trainer, H. Fletcher, has taken up his residence at Carterton. He is to take over the stable at Olareville at present occupied by Atlas White, who inteids returning to Hawke’s Bay. Fletcher will have the horses until recently in charge of F. Barry, who is now devoting his attention to riding. NAPIER. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Tlie good showing of Captain Shannon at the Takapau annual fixture last month had the effect of attracting a patron of George Oollelo' to him. and last week Mr G. Staunton was approached by the sport in question regarding the price at which he would sell. “Otne hundred and fifty guineas,” was the reply, and though the would-be buyer hung off for a day or two, lie decided at last to not stand upon the order of getting but got, and consequently Captain Shannon arrived here last Monday. Electric Gun and Hydrant, who both proved victorious at Pahiatua on Wednesday, were at one time inmates of T. Quinlivan, Junior’s, stables. Hydrant was bred at Mangatarata station. By the way, Mr Gollan’s Mangatarata breeding quarters here were represented at the meeting on the opening day, for Sleepwell, Hydrant and Polyanthus, who downed the opposition in their various contests, each saw the first glimpse of day at Mangatarata station. The Napier Park Racing Club have appointed Messrs Chadwick and A. Hyde, handicapper and starter respectively for the remainder of the season. At a meeting of the committee of the Takapau Racing Club it was unanimously decided to instruct the secretary to write to Mr W. G. Nightingale, the handicapper of the olub. asking him to accept a cheque as a recognition of his services both as regards the weight adjusting and the assistance he has given the olub at their race meetings for the pait couple of seasons. A l . Woods, Mr Richardson’s private trainer, has set Mouro and Melba goring again. The former, who is a haif-

brother to Hinetaura. is tlie property of Mr George Ormond, of Mahia. Mr F. Armstrong, of Akitio station, the owner of Probable and Co., has claimed the following name® for a couple of the most recent additions to his blood stock Colt by Explosion out of Sunbeam, “Skyhighand filly out of Miss Stead, by Hilad, ‘‘Yellow Bird. The latterd baby is therefore a halfsister to Halberdier. Waipua, the three-year-old son ol Torpedo and Ua, has been leased by Mr A. F. Douglas from one of his sisters.

Mr Harris, a Gisborne sport, purchased Pantaloon from Mr G. E. G. Richardson last week. A three-year-old filly by Daunt out of Link, who was one of Pantaloon’s stable chums, also found a new owner, Air R. Gooseman purchasing her. Cadeau, who is now under the guidance of J. Griffiths, is fast, improving.

J. Rollo informs me that owing to the difficulty of attaining suitable quarters at Hastings it was more than probable that he would shift his horses to the other coast of this island. Laertes has come on well of late, and is now a vastly improved horse to what he was when lie made his debut here last month.

Seraph in e’s younger brother, TV ater-o’-Milk was purchased last week by Air A. P. Douglas, and is now under the tuition of J. Cameron.

St. Leo, a half-brother by Coeur-de-Lion to Captain Shannon, is running out in the' Hampden district. He is owned by George Pilcher, who has Ontario und South Star in active commission.

Rhyl is progressing satisfactorily in his studies at Takapau, under the guidance of C. Mitchell. Should all go on well in the interim, Rhyl will make his reappearance at the Dannevirke annual meeting in Alarch. There he will compete in the interest and colours of his breeder, Air W. Ellingham. PALMERSTON NORTH. (From Our Own Correspondent.) The Quilt—Waiau filly, sold by Mr B. Coyle to a patron of J. Alaher's stable, goes into the latter’s charge to be prepared for three-year-old engagements. Black Reynard has just about recovered from his injuries, sustained at the Woodville meeting, all that now remains being a small cut above the coronet. He will be present at the Foxton meeting, together with Tomairangi, who lias just got over a knock she sustained while racing in Bulls. Victoria Park, trained by A. Cowper, of Palmerston, was sorted out as an especially good thing in the Trial Hack Flat at Pahiatua, hut she could only get second to Electric Gun, a smartlooking gelding by Hotchkiss —Electra. Lorelei’s daughter, however, made amends later in the day by winning the Welter Hack race very comfortably from Hamua. The pair inflicted a very decisive defeat on their field, finishing fully ten lengths in front of Letherm, who headed in the rest. The St. Hippo gelding Explode, that won the Alaiden race at the Rangitikei meeSbing, has been purchased by M[r F. Leicester, of Waituna, for 125 gs. He will be trained in future at Fordell bv F. Tilley, who has the rest of Mr Leicester’s horses, including Martello. the 900 gs colt, the highest-priced one of his year. Sleepwell, by Capt. Webb —Leo nie, opened her career over hurdles very auspiciously on Wednesday, appropriating the Hack jumping event very easily. It was her first appearance in public over obstacles, and she created a very favourable impression. She should prove a useful representative of the locallyowned sire.

Hawke’s Bay bred horses were very prominent at the Pahiatua meeting. Hydrant (winner of the Cup), Bounce (second in the Flying Handicap), and SleepAvell (Avinner of the Hack Hurdles), were all bred on Mr L. H. Gollan’s station. Bounce and Sleephell are each by the Palmerston-owned sire. Captain Webb.

The local owners of St. Aimelia have a very promising colt by Captain Webb from the filly’s dam, The Elk. He will be placed in J. Maher’s hands to prepare for the 1906 Ashhurst Guineas. The St. Andrew gelding St. Albert has had a lot of bad luck lately. After the Master ton meeting he contracted a bad attack of influenza, and lost all his condition. At the Manawatu meeting he was kicked by Tessera just behind the knee, and last week he made a too close acquaintance with a barb wire fence, cutting himself rather severely on the forelegs in consequence. No permanent injury resulted, but he had to be eased in his work, and does not figure among Foxton nominations. Prior to the start of the Maiden Hack Scurry at Pahiatua on Thursday Reticent took charge of Conquest, his richer, and jumped the rails on the training track and did a fast five furlongs along the gras® gallop before being pulled up. The fence is about four feet high and the- gelding carried aAvay the top bar, but beyond rubbing some hair off his foreleg did no harm to himself. The Sylvia Park —Kalmea gelding Do,

main, who was thrown out of work after the Woodvillc meeting, owing to an injury sustained in his box, has been put in commission again. Since going into W. McConky’s hands lie has improved wonderfully, and should win a decent race before long. He is a powerful horse to whom weight should be no trouble.

The Vanguard mare Valima occupies a box in the same stable. She was put in work again a couple of months ago, the first clone since her fall at Napier last season. She is coming on well, and has benefited greatly by her spell. Gold Dredge (Gold Reef —Hipuodamia) is another member of AlcCouky’s string. He is an. improving horse, but is a trifle low in condition at present, a chronic state with him unfortunately. When fit and well he is a very attractive horse.

Rosewood and a mare by Rangipuhi from Hippodamia, half-sister to 1 Golddredge. are useful members cf a team that, with ordinary luck, should easily secure some of the plums offering at this time of the year. Air J. AlcKonzie, of Palmerston, has disposed of Loch Tay, by Lakeshell, and a twOf-year-old, by Sir Lancelot, to Air Wylie, the former owned of Loch Tay. Hamua completed his hack engagements at the Pahiatua meeting, and will in future compete in open company. The Porirua cast-off appears to have benefited by the change of trainers and. quarters. Neither at Woodvillc or Pahiatua did: he show the slightest inclination to shirk his work.