RACING NEWS

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 10028, 20 July 1918, Page 10

RACING NEWS

FIXTURES: Julr 25—South Canterbury Hunt SU't-r e* v cfiasc*. :;OTES AND COMMENTS (By “Tohuuga.”) Several horsed have iext here for .the Canterbury. ..Jockey. Caibs uweai. o , UdUMiKsv tiieiu s>m*« .'°‘ r A S“ es ' cjo-o, ’and Master l>ons. Coalition will be the oruy representative- or J. »V- TMwe’s stable at ue Kiccartou meeting. he leave ior iUcoiuten in a fortnight. Sardinia is said to be a certain starter in tno, winter Cup. Hiero, another Winter Cup candidate, has gone oouin. lie should. run a gouo race in the Cup. A correspondent ,writes asking whether King i-upai has won a race cany? ing Hist or uicte.' me won tne Mua..ri waiter at feuding in laid, carry— >% lO.d. The following horses have arrived at Bit-canon ironi w.eunigtoii: d-eiga.-sl-Hand, letlow and n.uelc, Ketormation, Sir Fisher, Collector, nmahu,. Coiorauo, Ail Over, Soiector, and Ming of me Fa-ley.

Mr P. Selig, who stated last year that ho proposed *.o retire Iroui tne candidature of xjresident of cue Trotcing Absociatiun. has his - mind’, lie will contest the aeax this year.

Air J, E. Henrys has gone south to consider the form at the nmaru JiUat; meeting prior to framing lus handicaps tor the minor events* ut vhe Canierbuvy Jockey's Chub's mealing.

The scratching of Bon Iteve for the Grand .National Sieep.echace came as rather a surprise to most sportsmen, although, really the' ge.diug has hatl me share of racing this season, duimg which he has won A'iSA) in states. Onnesby, who has gone to Kara ice s iiay, wouui appear to have been quittec by his late ow ner'ac tne wrong uun. lie has persevered with the geUung lo long enoiiga, and when tne norse get, into a Winning strain he is sold out. There may he sometniug to it, ol course, A local paper states. that the possible closing of telegraph hours will nave a material effect upon acceptances, nominations, and weights. Maybe it will I'he suggestion is also made - that tne general hour for such records -shall be noon. That would be one of ■ the most sensible things done. in the racing wor.d for some time. Way 8 o'clock and 8 o’clock should be set down as times, for acceptances and. nominations is beyond comprehension. ■ It: contuses everyone, and keeps them out of bed. Moon for nominations: and acceptances would be quite a sensible measure. R. Gorry, who won the Caulfield Cup thirty-one years ago on Oakleigh, and later on Surprise and Mv Gad, was riding at the Cauiiield meeting last month. By Gorry!

■ Myles Connell must. be getting close to those 1000 winning nmunts he, aspires to before retiring irom his profession (says the Sydney "Referee”). At iCharters Towers last Triday, he added ‘’fcwd wins to'his lengthy list thronga the medium of two old Sydney identities in Clydeside and Nojah. In ifl« North Queensland Denhy, his mount, Persian Gulf, was third. The imported horse Varco was repre. sented by a double-winner at Hobart last Saturday, in Daily Mirror (says a Sydney paper), who won the Red Cross Plate, six fur.ongs, and the -Welter Han. dicap,- of the same distance.

i In the House of Commons, April SOtli, .moved the second reading of the Horse Breeding Bill, the'Object of which, ho explained, was to reguia a the stallions wflich travelled for hire ; or were exhibited in public places or i markets or shows. The Army had recently bought -a number of light and i heavy horses, and the reports from the 1 remount officers disclosed a very serious ■ state of affairs. A letter from the W; T Office was quoted in the report of the committee appointee by the president - of; the Board-of Agriculture 'tin regard ,i tfl, the supply of horses for military pur- ' poses. 1 In’ thht report, which was pubI fished in 1915, the War Office stand that owing to the inferiority of many . of the sires a large number of these I horses were of so poor a stamp as to ■ be- of no military value. The committee to which he had referred recomI mended, the compulsory registration of , stallions, and that would be carried out ,] under the bill. It would embrace not 1 only -.pedigree stallions, but ail other stallions. The bill would also apply to ; Scotland and Ireland. It was read a j second time. Readers of these brief notes on racing matters will not he surprised at ■ the J War Cabinet's decision to have all racing in. future confined to Newmarket, i A curtailment by cancelling those fixi tures mado in the , provinces—that is outside the , racing metropolis of NewI market—was accurately forecasted. It is quite probable Cour racing correspon- : dent "Centaur” writes) there will bo | an outcry from the industrial parts, of - which Manchester. Stockton, and Birmingham are centres, and it remains to be seen whether the Government are wise in thus witdrawing 'from the workers what was after all only a very occasional opportunity for an afternoon of recreation in the open. Really it is dijficult to understand the attitude of the Government, for it was perfectly well understood that the only reason for allowing racing in the centres named was to please the workers. Then they sud- ; denly withdraw them, and what is the | working man to think?. He did not go to Stockton or Manchester, racecourse 'by the hundred thousand because he hated it. The outing was a relief in : the day-to-day toil and grind, and it i made him more contented. When wo think of fhese vast attond- ! ances at an occasional war-time race meeting we begin to doubt that the War Cabinet realise the harm that may come of sudden suppression. They do. not seem to understand the temperament of those masses of people. Certainly there is a psychological side to the ivho’.e question, and. while we were prepared for the War Cabinet's .decision simply because they abide by no steady policy, we are also preparcrl for strong protests from the people. This time the War Cabinet make the railways an excuse for the decision. We know there are big difficulties of transport and strain on officials and rolling stock, hut the public are also aware of inconvenience, gross discomfort, profiteering pas-: sengor rates, and always the Government listen to the Bailwav Executive Committee and never to the public. It may I>6 added that there will bo no National Hunt racing next winter unless a miracle should happen in the form of theend of the war. A decision has been reached on this point, and those concerned have been warned, but no official announcement will bo made yet.

During the past week there have been taree oays' rac.ug—one at Woiveruamptca on i» me Monday, and two at manCmeSbCi. lwo out-ScaXiuiiiy Xealures wei« tuvj sdip oi EoUwgauo, w.io was ou tne Oevuiio or no lower uuin tvu dad i.Yt) ' Wlaliol'a a I AiaU“ iOr iur o. i>- It is cauiOuio now oa-iues atuupi.y unn u»*expecic<i.y» jtisl as failures uu. buno-g-ue nud ueeu uicauua wua many r«re.ocs, uau cter iOady to con-do-übU, Übw-aICU Uc- Uad aOST UiS duoil all** h, SKili. -UC, Id iaCc, U<to v tv.O Old, Uc was "uone. • Air was 'UuaeioCouU to oe wvuiu.iUi wiin mm on t*as gi’O.inu coat hiy Jt-si iue One 1-eOUotina uruinod* mioagu betng ouu,y rn.v*cu. -On iue tasc **ay oi me rocoui Ajwmai’ker niseung ue uaa uttn ocxueu >?.■ n duwU nena on LorJ x'uuuu-ata's jr-riun ior ihtJi liiccuers' ficuKeo. inero is snore -shriit ior a jiw&uy wuo got® beaten oy u &i»oit nead t/ii .a not .^vrar. i. ana so iue luixan/uuace. became dimmer. lius sot t ox tUiUg muot, consciously or unconsciously, affect u jocuey, wno ail cue Dsrve ami cvniiuencs ue cun ouuiauun to his aid. ±Ub onUiunt wCwh, ie®tncveu to turce nays' raring, nua, lUdieiore, gi*en his s.auucu im-uns very rea* pleasure.

riis three winners at Wolverhampton hare on horses trained by iiu-ir»uu, Poihili. iivo of them weie two-yenr-olOs K.ohging to Mr, Frank Ciuson; tne uui>. curried me Craganour colours of Captain b.ier ismay, who commaiius a BcuioUoi Squadron in the norm, lie went on <.■. A-dicne=ter and rode all air Joel’s v inn.rs. Mr Joel Deeau The meeting by declaring that his noises weie a.. out of form and that he had not macs hope ofisuccess! first, there was iu*.> mama, who won the Koyal . dcandan. Smkes of a:2WO, thames to the absence ci Guy Crusader, for wuom the nice prize would have been a gilt, t'olyorama bid been Polyscope’s trial horse before the l,vo Thousand Guineas. Polyscope hud g.iea him allb and an easy oeatiug, but « .at is the use 01 that if Folyorama is a bud horse on the home ga.iops and a g..od one on a racecourse? They mow rtora uow aoout l-olyorama, and there is no excuse if they should be deceived again. ,

Then Syndnan, n eon of Sunder end Polkerris, easily ivoa the Ked Eoae Slakes. This hprse will surely take his p aco .as the champion sprinter of the frl,»y. He is - a "'smasher.” Daphne, a two-year-old, then won his eng. -munt; w hilo on the concluding day at .Winchester Paudion and Polygnotua, both by Polymslus, were equal to winning their respective races, "it was on the second day of the meeting, attended by a huge c.owd, that By Jingo won the Cup for Hr W. de Pledge, who is a Lancashire man. He gave JdiU)o for the horse alter it had unluckily lost the Manchester -Cup twelve months ago. This time he started a pronounced favourite, and won the race with - extraordinary ease by eight lengths. Donoghue was claimed to ride Blue Danube for Mr "Joel,, so that he could not have the mount, but the fact of the win would delight him, as he fired the horse from his mare Minnesota. A jockey is not allowed to own racehorses, which is .why By Jingo now belongs fb someone else", but he has the mare yet, and she is this year being mated with Pommora, on whom Donoghue won the New Derby of 1915. By Jingo is >y Aquascutura, and I believe 'him to be an uncommonly good horse that is certain to win more high-class races.

SOUTH CANTERBURY HUNT CLUB LIST OF ACCEPTANCES.

WASHDYKE TROT, of 75 so vs; one milo and a half.—Royal George 3sec, Stanley’s Discovery 5, Peter McMillan 3, Vera Wood 3. Young atar Pointer G, King of Lydia 0, High Admiral 6. Prince Darlington 6, Guy nearer 6, Eyre 8, Heiress 8, Bright Child 8, King Cole, Jnr. 8. AUSTRALIAN HURDLES AND STEEPLE By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright MELBOURNE, July 19. Tararu Jack has ■ been scratched for the Australian Hurdles and Steeple.

Press Association !■: TIMARU, July 19. Acceptances for the South Canterbury .Iimt Club meeting are as follows; :— HADLOW HURDLES, Of 75 sovs; one mile and a half. st lb st lb Don Giralda 9 13 Francisco 11 6 St. Cletus ... 9 3 Silver Shield. 10 8 Pronez . urehau 9 J3 Garde 9 0 Golden Seville 9 0 Prince 9 13 PARBORA STEEPLECHASE' Of ICO sovs; two miles. orecambe 13 7 Martial 10 9 Master Luigi 10 9 Hamilton 13 9 Brown Joe ... 10 9 .aunoltonui '2 7 Land Ashore 10 9 , olden Dardanelles 10 7 Butterfly 11 3 Grand . Cross 10 7 transfer ... 10 13 > HUNT CUP STEEPLECHASE. Of 80 sovs; three, miles. Kaupokonui .12 2 Craigdugald 9 9 transfer 10 7 "Wainono y 9 .<uigi 10 3 Hu Hand ... 9 9 orown Joe ... 9 13, Dardanelles 9 9 LEVELS HANDICAP, Of 70 sovs; six furlongs. Eleetham ... 11 3 Lady nobs 10 a Superior 9 0 naif 9 9 Belgian King 9 0 Baney .vRigs 9 9 Moorabbe ... 9 ' 0 Jingo 3 7 All White ... 9 0 aacK . Symons 9 4 The Sapper... 9 0 vVarform ... 3 2 Vociferate ... 9 o Blackheath ... 9 Z SOUTH CANTERBURY STEEPLE- ' CHASE,. Of 200 sovs; two miles and a half. Morccambe ,12 5 Vascular 10 'b (lore 11 9 Sylva 9 12 Master iwt.ing Tide 9 8 .damilfeon ii a Jband Ashore 9 7 HUNTERS’ PLATE, Of 50 sovs; one mile and a half. Jack Symons 12 5 Seville ...I 11 8 St. Clotu’s 11 11 (iiiy i/ight 11 3 Prenez Garde 11 11 L'iie Mat 11 o Hytem 11 8 CLAREMONT WELTER, Of 80 sovs; one mile. John Kaminoho ... 9 8 Barleycorn 11 r Lufl a 5 AiaiesUfCoJl 10 11 Bolishire , ... 9 a Ardmore ... 10 8 Jingo 0 2 i’leethftm ... 10 8 John Reilly 9 1 tJLioro ' 10 o Holford y 0 Bandy 9 11 Warform 9 o Golden Vasconia . 0 0 . Princo 9 8