TOE WELLINGTON MEETING

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12181, 4 July 1925, Page 8

TOE WELLINGTON MEETING

TUESDAY AT TRENTHAM The weights allotted the-New Zealand horses in Australia are severe andi do not represent, invitations to the ConimpiiT wealth. Australian handicappers rarely take risks with horses from this country. . - If the' Napier and Hawke’s Bay meetings ran be taken as a guide, the hack steeplechasers seen out this season are a poor fct. ; ... . -The acceptances for the Hack Steeplechase at Trentham on Tuesday are not strong, and in some quarters the raceis regarded os a match between the southern pair, Frenchman. and Windermere. Followers of form cannot let General Carrington go in the Vittoria Hack - Hurdles, as he has raced very consistently of late. With Box Heed in the saddle Passionate will have a *big following in the Members’ Handicap. The indications are that Omaha and Erie will be the favourites for the,Wellington Steeplechase on Tuesday. The Stewards’ Handicap looks to ibe the big puzzle for backers on Tuesday. Last year the winner, Bose of Athens, paid over half a century. , Dubious is likely to be sent out. favourite for the Trentham Hurdles, whicn is to be run over a mile and three-quar-ters course on Tuesday. The company is nothing like us strong as he will .hade to meet in the Winter Hurdles on the last day of the meeting. By the time the Te AroTTandicap, the last race on Tuesday’s card, is run (the course will be cut up, if the present weather conditions continue, so it will' b* advisable to look for something that is good in bad ground, 1 , Income, Alaric and Passionate are the present fancies for the Members’ Handicap. Fireblight and Nine of Spades have, arrived at Trentham under the care of V. H. Colello. v H. Hickey has arrived with Olympic. Comical went pleasingly at Trentham yesterday morning. . •. Zircon and Uralla also worked. well. Koodoo, Jubilee and General : Carrington were on the tracks working 'under the supervision of .H.' S. Greene. The Strand; did pace work. . Lucallent jumped three hurdles and then did a couple of rounds on the.sand. E. Murtagh has arrived with the steeplechaser ■ Erie. ' Reports • from Taranaki statethat Muraahi, is still in steady work and, looks a picture. He is" being got ready. for spring racing, and probably he VUI again be a candidate .for the New; Zealand Cup. Though Serotina is Sir George Clifford’s only representative on the first. day, of the Wellington meeting next week,-; H. Cutts may also take Barn Owl and Retrospect to Trentham for other engagements later in the meeting, says the Christchurch "Star.” • - - • Kauri Park is reported; to be doing good work in Auckland, and should be in first-class condition by the time the Pakuranga Hunt meeting comes round next month; Kauri Park is a ■ threequarter brother to Kauri King,,who; won the Grand National Hurdle Handicap a few years ago. ‘ ■ ; ’ Beputation has not been much in the public eye since he went to the, stud in Australia. He was, however,' 'recently represented by a winner over hurdles. This was a three-yenr-old gelding hahjed Benown, who won a two mile race at Williamstown on June 18th. ' *■ Commenting on the detAdenc* oft; gentlemen riders, a well-known ' old-timer gives it as his opinion that: the advent of motor-cars was' wholly responsible. "The average country lad nowadays: prefers a comfortable seat in a car to tlie saddle of a spirited horse,’-* he added, "and it will not be long before the art of horsemanship will, be limited to . lads working in racing stables." t A long and somewhat turbulent meeting of the Waikato Hunt Club was 1 held last week.® to decide the venue of* the next totalisator meeting. . One faction was strongly in favour 'of the fixture being held in Cambridge, and another supported Hamilton. After a good deal of very frank discussion, it was decided by 53 votes to 34 that the meeting be held in Hamilton., .subject;tp certain conditions. The meeting alfcb ‘ decided to send Mr G. L. Stead to Wellington to make representations to the Minister

for Internal Affairs and the Racing Conference in favour of the retention of the Labour Day date, Mr R. Acton-Adams tells me that he has : nothing of much consequence in training now, but he is taking forward with, interest to the debut next season of two; youngsters out of Lisp, writes “Old Identity” irt the Dunedin “Star.** One is the; three-year-old gelding Tholomon; edn of Solferino: the other; is a two-year-old filly named Luthy. I Understand that other names submitted for this pair were not acceptable to ■ tho nomenclature authority of the Conference; hence the choosing of names the only merit of which is that they carry trie lisp and thus indicate, the dam. Warpath, by Martian from the Charlemagne ll—Madder mare Rouge.-wim the. Farewell Welter at the Southern Districts R.A. meeting (N.-S.W.) on the 12th instant.- •• ‘ King Beaver, a brother ,to the brilliant English sprinter Tetramete’r (Tho Tetj rarch—Mandola) was imported to Australia last year, but has been a bad j>ur-: chase. He Was recently sold in hyd ney to go into a stabta which patronise* the unregistered meetings in New South \Y a les. The stakes, won in the Two Thousand Guineas and One Thousand Guineas in England 4 this season give another striking illustration of how much it costs owners to indulge in sport in tho Old Land. For the. first, time owners of horse’s engaged in-these races were able to/leave their horses in until about a week prior : ta, the decision of either race fin payment of half-forfeit, .£SO. The full forfeit' was 4100.. The added money carried by these events is as the titles the amount won by the first horse in the Two’Thousand Guineas was <£10,240, .and in the fillies* race .£7600., In. addition, : the owner of, the second horse received £6OO, and the third horse 4300, in each* race. From this it ;will be * seed, that while the management gave <£3150 of* the total of 416,640 attached to the two, races,' owners contributed 413,490, . . ' . / During, the days of the -Great War. and for some time after the signing of the Armistice,, many, matters appertaining to horses were allowed to slip lightly* from memory. In conversation with Mr John Hes Top ‘at Ellerslie, writes “Phaeton,*” in speaking of'the ease with which horses can now be imported .to the Southern 'Hemisphere, he mentioned that he bought Arrowsmifch in England in September, 1918, and, owing to the German submarine menace, he Was unable to ship him till May. of the following year, and the horse was not landed in Auckland from the steamer Port Pirie until July 9, 1919. Mr Heslop is well informed in regard to equine passengers that made the voyage from the Northern to the Southern Hemisphere by the Port Pirie, and he apprised me .with the interesting fact that the stallion Valais (sold last year in New South Wales for 14,400 gns) crossed The ocean with, ArroWsmith, as also did the Roi* Herode horse Chrysolaus. “Audpx,” in “Horse and Hound,” mentions a peculiarly marked foal which recently made its appearance in England. Blue Moon? a mare by: Lemberg, produced a fillv -by the grey Poltava. The youngster. has a white face, a big white patch on >hor belly,* a white splasta on,: each shank bone of her forelegs, and white fetlocks on the hind ones. She is how a- chesjtnut except all over the back, where she is roan. She will probably end ‘up as a grey.