GOSSIP OF THE TURF

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12285, 3 November 1925, Page 8

GOSSIP OF THE TURF

Talk from Track and Stable

(By

"CARBINE")

The Melbourne Cup will bo run at Flemington to-day. ' After his ridiculously easy win in the Derby Manfred is sure to be at a very short price. New Zealand will look to Pilliewinkie to do honour for the Dominion. Judging on his form in the Melbourne Stakes on Saturday he is ’ going .to give a good account of himself. , It is very nice to return to Mqh bourne for a 'holiday, and just to pass the time away ride sucli a great three-year-old ns Manfred. That is what happened to F. Dempsey. The Riccarton track should witness a good deal of interesting work this morning, for most of the horses engaged at the meeting have arrived! Two North Island jockeys, M. McCarten and R. J. Maclcie, were riding work at Riccarton on Saturday morning. Rampion, who won the Maribymong Stakes at Flemington on Saturday, was also successful, in ' the Breeders’ Plate at Randwick. 5 J. Barry had a very successful trip to Gisborne, where he rode five winners. From the Poverty Bay town he went on to Auckland. The final payments for the New Zealand Cup and Stewards’ Handicap disclose that the races will be keenly contested next Saturday. In the south they think that the three-year-old-Money Order is a com ing champion. The Cup meeting will show how true this is. Incursio is to bo given an opportunity to make good gs a hurdler. He works well on the training tracks, but has so far failed to run as well in races as his training essays suggest. Perhaps the change may have the desired effect. Nancy Bee’s record this season Is a remarkable one, and her success .at Gisborne on Saturday brings her scoix up to four firsts, five seconds, and one third in nine starts. B. H. Morris was associated with Mr C. Elgar’s horses at the recent meeting at Trontham, 'when tlia weights suited, and it is now announced that he'-will do the riding for the stable during tlje current season. When Red Wink was withdrawn from the New Zealand Cup and Stewards’ Handicap, it was thought that something was wrong with him, but

recent track performances at Riccartor. suggest that he is very well, and na doim. his owner has his eyes upon a good middle-distance race at the Cup meeting. , The following foalings are reported from Mr J. F. Buchanan’s Kinloch stud: Waterspray a colt, Temerin a filly, Rainbow Gold, a colt, Bonaria a filly, Disdainful a colt, Tumult a colt, Lovelorn a colt, Lady Kinloch a colt, War Lady a colt, and Cvmene a filly, ail to Paladin; Kildee a colt to Martian, Charmilla filly to Clarenceux, and Torquato a filly to Night Raid. Polyphontes, who won the Eclipse Stakes at Sandown in 1924 and 1925, is to go to the stud at his owner’s property, Maiden Erlegh. Two successful stallions of past yeais. Grme and Buchan, equalled Polyphontes’s performance in the race at Sandown. Up to the end of the A.J.C. meeting G. Price had won eight races in the Sydnev metropolitan area of the valufe of £9951. Tamatete is said to he a likely starter in the Feilding Stakes'. which eventhe has already placed to his credit twice in succession. -. Good reports come from Te Awamutu concerning Phaola, who is reported to have trained on well since winning the Avondale Stakes. Phaola is sure to he one of the popular fancies for the Welcome Stakes at Ellerslie and her form at Avondale entitles her tq be. Mr J. A. Taylor’s English horse Royal Picture is a two-year-old, and ran thrfee times in England tip to the end! of August. His only placing -was a third in the Mount Harry Selling Plate at the Lewes summer meeting. He is by the Polymelus horse Phlyriotus from King’s Picture, by Roi Herode — Glass Picture, by Rising Glass. Rafa was again schooled at New Plymouth last week, and jumped two hurdles satisfactorily, his showing being an improvement on his previous attempt; also Mountain Bell jumped four hurdles ■in faultless style, and looks like making good over the small sticks. . ' Mr 3) N. Heslop is in receipt of full information from England with regard to the filly recently purchased on his account in the Old Country. The filly is a two-year-old named White Bird, a daughter of White Eagle and Lady Southampton. White Bird is now on the voyage to the Dominion by the Mahana, which vessel is due to reach Auckland en November 16th.