NEWS AND NOTES.

NZ Truth, Issue 65, 15 September 1906, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES.

Hifcairoa. is oow owned by Mr 'A. Gregory. Bulls races on Wednesday and Thursday. , The Totalisator Bill will come before Parliament again on Sept. 26. . The Auckland-owned MiNie and St. Harp each won races at the Waikato Hunt Club meeting.

Mr Tanner has given notice of his intention to introduce the Limitation of, Totalisator Permits Bill. Though Armistice was taken to the Marton meeting and given a run, the N.Z. Cup candidate does hot fignre m the list of nominations for the Wanganui Cup.

Mr Franks has sold Rongoa to a Sydney buyer.

Weights for the Wanganui meeting are due on Friday next.

Geologist is entered m the flat races at the Avondale meeting. ,

Flanagan now runs m the same ownership as Sedgmoor and Co.

The Steeplechaser Lothian is beinp raced on the flat m Western Australia.

Mr G. G. Stead leaves for Sydney to-day, and will be present at the A.J.C. meeting.

Landwern is being indulged m a spell and will not take part m the Rangitikei meeting.

Mr W. Davies has sent the brood mares Wish and St. Winifred on a visit to Field Battery.

The Avondale meeting commences to-day and will be continued on Wednesday and Saturday next.

The Soult horse. Promotion, who was shipped to Westralia last year, was sold at Perth last month.

Field Battery is having a verylbusy. season at the stud, and already the Hotchkiss .horse's list is nearly full.

W. Best, who used to race Oracle, Frost and other horses, has Tiraumea under his care at the present time. •

The Hutt owned White Heather will this year be mated with- the near relative to Multiform, Field Battery. • That speedy mare Ballarat will be sent to Wanganui next week and will remain there till after the Spring meeting. Reports from Sydney state that the Yaldhurst colt, Huascar. is goinn- alone satisfactory m his Derby preparation. - If the weights permit the N.Z. Cup favorite, Paritutu, will be given a run m the Plunket . Handicap at the Avondale meeting 1 .

The Waikato owned Millie is very forward m condition, and with 8.12 on her back, can be depended on to run a* good race m the Flying at Avondale.

Though Bustiqaie failed to annex a race at the Marton meeting, he ran vsrv creditably and should be much improved by the time the Wanganui meeting comes round.

Record entries have been received for the Avondale Spring meeting, which commences on Saturday next, and -the outlook for a highly successful gatherinc- is very promising.

Joe Gallagher is getting a good team together at Auckland, and a patron or his* has purchased Chief Steward and handed him over to Joe to be prepared for future ; engage-, ments. ' ■: ■

A cable message from F. Jones, who went to England under engagement' to ride the horses m Major Edward's stable, states that he has left his employ and is returning to this colony at once.

The owner of Saga informed me last week that he was satisfied with the way his mare ran at Marton and as she is susceptible of a lot of improvement, he thinks that she will win m the near future.

The death is reported at Hastings of Missfire. With Harry Moore m the saddle the Maxim horse won a lot of good races and during the last few years he has been at' the stud m the Hawke's Bay district.

It now transpires that Veneer has not been sold, but that the full brother to- Mahutoits>a "is itill v owned by Messrs Baxter Bros. . The Quilt horse is still under W. Davies' care at' the Hut't and will be prepared for racing immediately ' .

A well-known sport, who was present at the Marton meeting gave me his impressions of the horses' he saw there. Apa and Splendid Idea stood out head and shoulders above everything else m of condition, and Gleam was m the next division, but as a whole the horses were very backward. '

Thirty-six horses have made the first payment for the N.Z. Cup. The market still shows Paritutu to be favorite, but Multifid is only a point longer, and there, is a lot of good money coming for the son of Multiform so we may soon expect to see him displace Paritutu for the position of favorite. : . Dick Wootton, who recently took Fabric to England, wasn't long before adding; to his strine of nags which will carr^ his colors m . the Old Dart. At the Newmarket sales he purchased a bay filly by, Fowling Piece from Lady Gwendoline for ; l7Qgns., and later on pave sOogns. for a two-year-old named Florestan.

Pius, who won the Boulder Cup, is owned by Alfred Drake, the ex-Auck-land bookmaker, and now a prosperous hotelkeeper : m West Australia.. Pius was one of- Jack Wren's Derby candidates last year, and on J.ack Wren being outlawed by the V.R.C., Pius and all the other horses running m Wren's colors were put under the hammer.

There is a wail every few months, m Wellington, for the suppression of the bookmaker, and apropos of this a leading penciller was asked the other day as to how he viewed it. "I am thinkine: seriously of assisting; the reformers," said the bookmaker, "as if I do not I will quickly be non est, The game lately has been very bad, and at. least three firms m this city are talking., of, shutting up shop. ' ' From further, enauiries it was gathered that for a long time past the punters have been havintr matters all their own way, and the losses of the- bookmakers have been enormous ; over the Marton meeting 'alone the Ring i>n Wellington los,t over £2,000.

Grants from the Racing Conference Accident Fund are administered m a very tardy and parsimonious manner. The case of H. Telford, who was injured when riding Kohunui at Hastings, has just been brought under my notice. Telford was compelled to cancel his ridinn- at the Napier Park, Wellington and Canterbury meetings, and his doctor's fees alone amounted to £4. The administrators of this fund, have, m a manner that is anything but creditable to such an august body, granted him the munificent ;sum of £7. This is £3 over and above his medical expenses, and as the accident occurred m June and his claim was allowed m September, it will be seen that he has been awarded £1 a month for the time of his enforced idleness. So much for this much • boosted and boasted Racing Conference Accident Fund, which owners are taxed to provide.