RACING NEWS

New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9690, 19 June 1917, Page 8

RACING NEWS

FIXTURES.

Juno 22 and 23 —Napier Park R.C. Wintor. . June 29 and 30—Hawke’s Bay J-C. >» inter.

NOTES AND COMMENTS

(By “Tohunga.") Multifid had three representatives in the limelight at Gisborne on Satuiday, Multive, Multifual ami Grand Idea, imthree were well supported on each eccasion Multifuai being No. 1 on the machine, the other two ranking as secono favourites.

Ookely. who ran well at the recent Auckland meeting, was not at all wen supported at Gisborne on Saturday, tit returned good money to those who stock to him. On the first day oi the meeting C'okeiy finished in the Tramway Steeples just behind Sabronui aim Gliiterino. The former toppled over at the last jump on Saturday, tv hen carrying the bulk of the money, and Gluturinto finished up third to Cokely ami Kaiwhakahaero.

Kauri King (Soult—Sawdust) kept hn end up- well at the Gisborne meeting On the first day ho accounted lor > good held in the Flying Handicap, c: six furlongs, some of the vanquished being Gazique, Multifuai (winner of the Waikanae Handicap on Saturday), Carlysian. Downham and Zeus. He lioppec lin again on Saturday as No. 1 in the Farewell Handicap, defeating-' among others Lady Penury. Toki and Bjorneborg, the latter being the public choii-i for the race. For some unknown reasoi Kauri King was left alone by the punters, Bjorneborg and The Summit carrying most ot the money. He won it most convincing fashion, despite the public scorn. - On the first day at Gisborne three first favourites got home out of seven races, and on the second day only two bearing the No. 1 saddle saluted the judge.

Despite the rain, the floods, the deluge, the railways and the disorganised shipping the totalisator turnover at Gisborne was but J 53835 down on lost year's figures, which represents something like .£2OO per race over the two days. When those figures appear in black and white they tend to make one wonder where that voice in the wilderness which keeps on crying for the cessation of racing comes from.

Current files state that racing in England is to he resumed op a limited scale. Mountain King was represented by two winners in other States on, Saturday, Acclivity (a sister to Mehi King) scoring at Perth, and Claret King winning in Brisbane. Cooltrim also had a dual success, as, in addition to Goo (riff''winning at Moorefield, Cocdale captured the Welter Handicap at the Q.T.C. meeting.

Tho first crop of foals by The Tetrarch numbered 15. tnd there wore eight greys, one brown or grey, a roan, lour bare, a'lid a brown. Ten. of the 15 were fillies. Early in tho year a three-year-old chestnut filly, full sister to The Tetrarch, was sold in England, being purchased by the Wicklifie Stud situated in America. She arrived there safely and will be tried on the racecourse before taking np stud duties. The Australian trainer. E. de .Mcstre, had a large team in hand when the la.test- files deft England. Sir W.,, J. Tatem is his principal patron, and a great sum of money has been spent in the formation of that owner's now important racing stud, which numbers 21 horses. Of these. Grand Fleet was last year the star performer. Very highly bred two-year-olds, purchased for big prices as yearlings, are included in the team, among the fashionable sires concerned being such as Sunstar, Santo:. Cicero, Polymelus, Santry, White Eagle, Tredennis, Eoyal Realm, and St. Amant, and some of the 3-oungsters axe said to be of more than average promise.

The "Thoroughbred Record"/ publishes the following message from ‘Louisville (Ky.). April 17th: —‘‘Ereo Lance, a stallion standing at George J- Long's Bashford Manor Farm, near this city, is dead from injuries received in an encounter on Monday with Rah'h, another one of tho Long stallions. Through negligence on the part of the attendants the animals were allowed to come together, when they engaged in a fierce combat, that only ended when Free Lance was placed hors de oombat. The infuriated animals fought fiercely, each biting and kicking the other. After the conflict it was found that Ralph had kicked, in three of his antagonist's ribs and pierced his lungs. A veterinarian was hastily summoned, but the once noted racer was beyond human aid. and succumbed the following morning. Ralph was pretty well battered up. but his injuries are not fatal."