NEWS AND NOTES.

NZ Truth, Issue 87, 16 February 1907, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES.

Mahoe won a double at the Karjoi> meeting., '.': ' . ; ! Polyanthus,' 8.8, is No i m the Woodville Cup. The punters prevailed over the, pencillers last week. The Dunedin horse; Crichtohj is to be spelled for some time. The Melbourne Cup winner Revenue is among the Australian Cup acceptors. • , ; Lapland seems to have struck form I and ma? win a race where the fields are not too go«d. • In view of her recent track 'form, Stepdancer's display at Riccarton was disappointing. . ' Watershooit, Aeolus and Chryseis were dual winners at the Canterbury' Jockey Club's meeting. It appears useless to race , Aimee, Soult m six furlong flutters, as she is invariably cooked at five. ■.; ■ On Pahiatua form Rendrock, 7A\ is not unduly burdened in ' the \ Whariti Hack, at Woodville, on Wednesday next. : Signalman left the barrier safely m the St. Alban's Handicap last Saturdaf, but was done with at three furlongs. 1 . Stepdanper seems to baye lost all trace of form or she would have performed better at the Canterbury Jockey Club's meeting. The Ashburton County Racing Club" intferid spending several hundred pounds m improving their racecourse before the next meeting. Cuneiform is-3nbviii£ weJ^in his" work at' Caulfield, and he should have . his number hoisted by the judge at' the A. J.C. autumn meeting. . < Jos. Prosser, who has been uvdisjfosed for some time past, v was suffir ciently recovered to be able to accompany his team to Hawera. T. WilEams has decided to indulge Cavalry m a couple of months' spell before preparing the Light Artillery gelding for the winter campaign. ]Mr W. E. Bidwell's colt, Elevation, was unable to show bis best form at the C.J.C. 'meeting owing to his having developed a bad cough. . Baliar,at's suppprters were unable to get accommodated locally on Wednesday. A leading local pehciller mr formed me that he could have laid 3.00 chances^ of her, had he so chosen. , When" Scotch .Reel . defeated Sun Bonnet at (the Pahiatua meeting, rumor says a lot of money was' lost by the ■connections of the winning horse. "'■•■ San Julie was purchased., by ter ton v sport at the conclusion of the Pahiatua ' meeting, ,arid the San' Fran mare will now pass out of 'Harry' Fletcher's strtbte. '„•■•■■.. * ' ' ■Parvenu was. started three times, at the Eketahuna meeting. Rather rough that on a horse, but then some trainers seem to think that- their horses go on wheels, • " , . - It is quite on the cards that N.Z 1 . Tattersall's Club, whose. headquarters are m Auckland, will shortly be.disbanded,-' owing to lack of 'support from the bookmakers m Auckland. Amboise, who -won the .fiye furlong, event for two-year-olds on the concluding day of the Canterbury meeting, led from start to finish, and had all .the other candidates scrartching once the straight was reached. A visitor to the C.J.C. s meeting informed ■ me, durine; jbhe week, that Aeolus was very lucky to win the Craven Plate , . and that . . properly; ridden, Buccleuch should have had. -..His! number hoisted. - ■;■•'*■' . '. ' The connections, of- Putty- have backed' the chestnut for the 'Australian Cup, m which the son of S<t. Leger has only 7.12 to carry. His success would afford pleasure to his. owner's numerous friends on this side of the "pond." .-■■,, . Mr Bidwell was unfortunate in' not getting ■ a good run with- Elevation m the Middle Park Plate. The- San Francisco colt would probably have been close up, with a decent start, but it is unlikely that he would have beaten Glenculloch. - . ' Silver bettors at Petone had a very rocky timp during the* Canterbury meeting. Aeolus ■ was m .great deman J, and the books out there went on with the horse while the money offered. As a. result some of them Will probably put up the shutters. The .late -sS^G-. Cook left estate valued for probate, purposes at £7327 to his daughter. The deceased's liabilities, it is stated, will more than absorb the above amount. It is expected that the benefit race meeting a.T)d the subscriptions m, aid. of Miss GooK WM total t^Oft 65.360, '

Woodvilie, on Wednesday alad Thsri-< 'day. ' •■•*•■ -■•■■■- ■•• \ - -"• "''Unless The" Libyan " improves she . disgßiee* 'her : family. • •,. :; ... ?,~ "■'jA. i |ter"->ftfariig''''a'" r - i 4eason. at the stud rMonbformV-iTs a^aftn'Sn work. ■ ■*"' ;'!i3unedii ;; "Jockey v Gluh's '^.utiimii tiieetirig "Hjp'lm'M^ces; ! WelneSdaiy • Clanranaldvheaded the "winning sires at the Canterbury^ meeting just concluded. ■....'"».. Horses owned by Sir Geo. Clifford ran first, and second, m the Middle Park Plate. . , , There .were eleven starters m the Selling Race at Jliccarton. Quite an unusual .field. ; „ The Waikato; owned Uranium .has now won sevea races out of his last eight , starts; ..-•'. ' Record- nominations have Deen : received for the Shannon races, to he held on the 27th. , . According to the state of the betting market St. Joe will be a hard horse to beat m the Wanganui Cup. The local bookmakers assert that "grafters" were at work on the concluding day y of the Takapuria meeting. * , ' ' . ' ' Amboiae,' who scored m a five fu'r-long-^event on the second day of the , C.J.O. meeting, is a full sister to Marguerite. Submarine was .given a run m the principal handicap at Riccarton on Saturday but the Torpedo gelding could only run - third. ' Cross Battery went out a decided favorite m the Srt. Albati'S Handicap last Saturday and finished unplaced. Bad juagfit^nt or Inform? - Sydney tipsters ... will not have Solution, 9.12, m the Newmarket Handicap, and most of them regard, Collarit, with 7tts less, as the pick of the handicap. A lot of punters who usually put ten on a horse went, a bit over the odds ;on Aeolus when the Hutt trained horse was successful m the Craven Plate. i Aeolus was backed for £ s, d on both days of the Riccarton meeting; and was apparently determined to show his best form on the field of his sire's greatest victories. Chryseis' and Stronghold have . no compunction m beating representatives from the Chokebore stable whenever they meet.' Looks as.; if they resented being turned out. ■ The success of Gateriby m the Plying Handicap at Gisborne protighit a lot of grist to the mill of the bookmakers, as Paddy McLaughlin's Contender was a hot favorite m town. • ■A . reoent visitor to Christchiirch states that Huascar is a greatly improved colt. He has also a Rood word to say for Seal Rock and reckons that there is a good handicap m him. Cross Battery was made favorite for the St. Alban's Handicap last Saturday, but ran nowhere and the stewards deemed it advisable to ask for an explanation, but took no action. . ' F. p. Jones was one of the most successful jockeys at the recent C.J.C. meeting. Sid Reid, who went down to ride Elevation, had a number of other mounts and won the principal handicap on both days.A couple of days before the Middle Park Plate was run Glenculloch covered six furlongs on the plough m lmin 15sec. This would tend to show that the speedy two-year-old has not' felt airy ill-effects after his northern trip. ' Buecleuch had an easy task when: he the Flying ; Handicap last SaturdayV Sea king' was a slightly ■ itey^as <mr g& v^yery A well for five' furlongs, but Buccleuch conceded him seventeen pounds and, gave him a decisive, beating. Black Reynard was the medium of a big commission when he won the Grandstand Handicap 'at Gisborne. The black horse has not always jus- J tified confidence being reposed m.him, but he is a cut above, the opposition he. met at the Poverty Bay meeting. ' ;■■ Mr A. Bradshaw's cast-off Speculate .won the Nasebv Cup from his solitary opponent, Stepenfeldt, and paid £1 16s. jA peculiar thing m • connection with the totalizator investments on this race was the fact that both horses had the same am- , ount invested on them. Fine weather was experienced for the annual meeting of the Karioi Jockey sClub, which .was /held last Wednesday. .The principal event, the Karioi Cup, was won by Mrs J. Bull's- Mah : oe; - who sbarted at 2 to 1 on, and won" easily from his twp' opponents , Snip and Ruapatere. « • ; . Mr G. Hyde, owner of • the champion pony Frederick, has received -advice from W. Tozer, who took rthe' sPn of Soult across • 'to Sydney, that \ the pony passed under the 14..3 . stan- . dard without any trouble. r Sydney writers are already surmising what weight is likely to be apportioned Frederick m -his first essay -on tlieir courses, and hint that the haiidicappers are not v likely to take any liber-, ties with ■ him until they properly . gauge his form. :r : • "'The Lvtte'lton "times" shouldstart a circus as it can' turn a somersault like a- practised hand. Not long ago it was' 1 - a hot adyocate'r of anti-gambling and was so earnest in' its endeavors to do the correct thing towards the suppression Of the bet-V ting fever, that '•' it : stopped .: giving tips iii its columns. ' The good reso-. liitions of ' the Lyttelton "Tinles" j lasted about as lohfr as the ordinary ■ drunkard's ' conversion, and as^theJat-^ ter •frequently makek (rreat efforts' to. stouah : the drink, and as 1 ' often _is tempted again on passing a pub, so it was with the "Times. 1 ' Everything went well till .the C.J.C. Summer meeting and then phe good intentions of the journal went pop and it offered the public its -help m. picking the winners. . . : . . On, more than one occasion . this paßer has urged Racing Clubs to empower the starteir to deal with fractious horses so that the. starts may not be unduly delayed. The Canterbury Jockey Club' stewards recently passed a resolution to facilitate the work of the starter by which any troublesome candidate might be disregarded after a few minutes' delay. This rule was brought into operation at the Midsummer meeting, and I must congratulate the .Club on the stand they have taken. Frequently, the "chance of a usually quiet candi-. date ..is ,sppilt by the vagaries of somfe 'troublesome . animal near him, and the rule introduced by the C.J.C. will meet with the approval of all snorts. It is to be hoped that many other clubs will follow the lead gives by th« soutWn body/

\ Tpiqe plowed jseoond again. :■ Coxswain has chinged harids. 'L - Kuku's win ait '■Jiiweta wa.s long oveMuSi— '■ ■ ' ~\H *;■ ■■fXf^.'-'i ■ i • .-,; '■- Jos'. ' Prosser I$T ; ii *ttii:ee winnet b on Wednesday at Vthe'; jfegmont meeting. .. .. . ..,.*'.'.. ; ;/ 'Vf "i *A- ■'' A-c.c ; e>^nces '^rst : day's "e^eni^- art D^nn:|vi^ JpfeC '<$c next Tuesday. ■•':■: „ ]; v V il -^ " ' : The bookmakers considering boycotting on .their, books horses -trained by W.jDav^ . v.', -, V- ' I understand .Jjtf^W^ Jbrgensen has decided to 'igiye vp ;j . racing and intends offering his^horses -vfor, private sale.- „, ' i; ; |i : /' '••■.' '.•'>', Thunderer W^sVunable • to . notch a win at'Riccartoft'liist though the Hotchkiss geldinfe' was twice placed. * -; { . v :-" : '- ,' J ' There was a sub" staiisiai ( increase m the totalisator reveriue, !at the Gisborne meeting, as ; icbmpared with last year. ' ' : -\ f ■•.. ; ?'',' i - i " i Uenuku, who w^s-tp have^ won the Auckluind Derby, secured; a win on the second day at Gishorne, %hen he was well supported^ ';■,<;.. /Aeolus has shown great, form m his recent efforts and \, 'has apparently never failed hi? baokers when the money has been at stake. "*. Contender and Immolation did not improve matters 'for 'their stable at Gisborne. These horses; went seeking gold: and brought home lead. Engraver, . , who has not run very prominently for a considerable time, paid the handsome' ( price . of £6 4s oiijthe first day at Hawera. Intelligence is gbing* 'well m "her work at '^Hastiflg§Taiiil~her connections expect ;towih ; a race or two with the daughteli: of • Birkenhead m | the near future. ;•;'■; ■! "^The Caulfield tracks are every morning busy with ex-New Zealanders. Putty, Ellis, "Beresina, Captain Shannou, Cuneiform and 1 Menchikoff are all working there now. , By* her win m the Egmont Cup Marguerite proved herself to be every bit as good as her supporters declare her to be and She would now bring .a great price. a$ a hropd mare, v, .Marguerite, was „ a 'strong tip m town for the Egmont 'Cup, and, as generally anticipated, this, greatly iimproyed mare landed the. stake and naid little better ,than even money. .'• Shrapnel was the; local favorite for the Wharefoa Hurdles, but the good thing went under, both his stable mate, Rookby, and the Auckland horse, Aqua Regia finishing m front of him. . v • Last week Cuneiform got through some useful Work; at (jJaulfield. After doing 5 furlongs, ; one morning, m •'2l, she strode over ■ six the next morning m ;.'l6f . rNpt bad track work, but what sort pf foot gear ? Seaman, ■ who has 'not won a race since he joined Da vies 1 Hutt stable, i was well supported for the Waipapa Hack Flat \)n Wednesday, but he' had to be content with, second ' place ,t6 Climax, who is , a more than useful horse when well. Mr G. Palmer, who "purchased Chryseis a month or' t^vo- back, has now won three s'fcak&s with his purchase. He has/ been; extremely fortunate m meeting poor- opposition, • but independent of that : Chryseis must be racing m much improved form. The 'bookmakers , were rather careful on Wednesday and refused to go beyond a cerjaih point with the Gold Reef mare, Ba.llarat. Wonderful how punters who -usually^ jAit five sM-; lings, on a horse 1 Wsh along with five pounds on a hot 'un,' and wonden why. they get' l'^he .yeimoht turn"doWn.""' " .-.-"l,^l^; ".yj-. ''":'■'■. -