NEWS AND NOTES.

NZ Truth, Issue 92, 23 March 1907, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES.

" There is a meeting at Thames to« day. ; There were some good fields at the Stratford meeting. Pretty Madd w,as. among ' the unsuccessful runners at Napier. ■ They say that Pink 'Un will' win the Great Autumn Handicap. Merriwai was engaged m the jumping events at the Napier Park meeting; ' • ■■■■■• Bourrasque was favorite for the Napier Cup, 'but failed to gain a place. ■ Most likely "Ernie" Stevenson will pay another visit to India very shortly. '■■■■ Landwern's owner has paid up for him m fobth the C.J.C. Easter < and Autumn Handicaps. ' There were' two or three hurdlers trying their luck on the flat at , the 'Napier Park meeting. • . '';') Boomerang was unable to catch the judoe's eye at Napier, and the Merri-> wee horse seems all to pieces. . Little Harry Price, who rode the last New Zealand Cup winner, had [the mount' on Gazely m the Napier Cup. . ■■■"■;' Volume, who won the St. Patrick's Handicap at Stratford, was third in' the '■ ■ Midhirst Hack on the opening day. , : '. Wirral had.no difficulty m settling the weak opposition m the Welter Handicap on the opening day at the Park. . . Achilles has continued :his engagement m the'C.J.C* Challenge Stake's and " the- , North Island Challenge Stakes. . ' Roseal seems to he a good second, day. horse, but he bumped against a; good one at Stratford m the shape of Volume. . ' , •• : . Pluck, who 1 has been second aM 1 third several. times, Won the Scurry: on the concluding day of the • Napier jP^rkrmeetiirigr^'-'''"^!.:; j^" !^":.\ """" /It" is st&ted ; that Paddy ~Crick f put £1500 on Cpllarit at- even money when -he won' the A"ll-A'ged Stakes at the V.R.C. meeting!. Joe Gallagher took the ride on Regulation m the Stratford Cup, and he was also successful on Mulga Bill m the Cardiff Stakes. The Tommies got "rats" over tlfe Napier. Park, meeting. , The Hutt trained Moata's successes depleting the ring of a lot of money, Poisedon's owner has just returned from England, and he saw, h^s colt race- for the first time m. the Loch . Pla"te at the. V.R.C. meeting. '■ ; In the Sapling Stakes the three placed .horses were owned 1 , respectively by the Hon. J. D. Ormond, Mr E. •J, Watt- and Mr Geo. Hunter. . .; There is a general feeling \about the district . that Truce will foltow m the footsteps of Boomerang and win the Great A,utumn Handicap. The New Zealand gelding, Putty, has. ( be&n put out ot work owing- to injuries received by being galloped on when rjacing at Mentone recently,. Southern Cross is improving greatly, arid his dual win at Stratford w;as easily accomplished. On each occasion he nas ridden by C. Coohrane. • . ■'. ;, ;. 'Lull won the AuiAimn Hurdles 'at Levin m very convincing; style, but; as his party: had backed /him on the opening day the win would be of little use to them. Sweet Helen's form , is anything but good. Lowry's . filly is at presen"); well up m the weights, but .her form does not suggest she ' will get out of' the hack division too soon. Though Gold Dust went under to Orya on the first day at tNapier, he won on the second day carrying the big impost of 12.10. He will m fup ture have to race m open company, Bookmaker Jack Davidson was a visitor to Wellineton last week, and his brother pencillers have every reason to know it, for. he punted, with much success over the Napier meetma;. ..■'■'■■ • Last November Contender was backed for a fair amount of money at Feilding, but he ran very badly. He will probably be given a chance to retrieve his bad form at the Easter meeting .there. Immolation, with 6st 131bs, was weir backed for the big race at Napier,, and started second favorite. There were two. horses, however, who prevented, Paddy' McLaughlin's prad from .paying ;. a- dividend. Polyanthus has done a deal of racing this i season with poor results. The Possible filly seemed very well at Christmas time, but I do not think she was benefited by being started, m so many mile and a half races. . Maid, of Astolat was made favorrite for the Esk Handicap, but the Karamu condidate, Erl King, was too goad for her by a length. The son of Birkenhead paid £A Bs, a good price considering his form at Dannevirke. Regulation's success m the Stratford i Cup was very well received locally, where her trainer, Joe ,lrallagher, is very highly thought of. Everybody would like to see Joe hay^ some further' successes with the Regel mare; i

TauhernLkau meeting next Saturday and Monday.

Two hurdlers, Rose and Pawa, won fiat races at Levin on Monday.

Saga had a walk over for the Heatherlea Welter at Horowhenua.

The Apremont horse 4 Mystification, was not started at the Napier meeting.

Noctuiform has been weighted at 8.4 m the Ciity and Suburban Handicap.

Le Beau, Strayboy and Southern Cross were double winners at Stratford.

Splendid Idea was not taken to the Horowhenua meeting, neither was Ivanhoe.

Locally the speculation over the Horowhenua meeting was the poorest ever known.

Nomination for the South Canterbury Autumn meeting close on Wednesday. . .

There was a two horse, a one horse and a no horse race at the Horowhenua meeting.

Lady Storm, who took part at the Levin meeting, is under J. Lowe's care at Trentih'am.

Jos. Prosser railed Kuku to Masterton after the son of Gold Reel had failed to win the Levin Cup.

Sir Tristram is the Hon. J. D. ©rmond ? s sole representative m the Easter " Handicap' at v Auckland . : -'- - '

It would appear ' that 1 all is riot well *with Intelligence , : as she has not been accepted for at Auckland.

There was a lot of money put on Molock m the Koputaroa Handicap, but none was collected afterwards. "

After a - long series of defeats Volume won. the St, Patrick's Handicap on the -second day at Stratford.

Moscow was made an o dds on {favorite, for the , Ohau Hack, but he dwelt at the post and went under to Lothair. . .

Bonheu'r was. taken to, Levin, but was' not started there as .she was found to be/lame on the morning of the race. . . • .. .-..-. - ; :■.'...

With the exception of Yuelba, > who won the Farmers' Plate, not. a single; favorite won .on the first day at Stratford. ' V '•

Seddon, the full-bratiher to WairLki, is again m work at Caulfield. It is to be hoped ' Ike Fcmteham will " have better luck with him this time. • '

• Tim O'Neill ' had Recreation ' and Daisy Paul at Stratford, but : a second with Recreation m the ; Toko Welter was the best he could do.

The overthrow of Kuku m the. Cup was a severe facer to backers who regarded it as picking up' ■money, .investing on the son .of Gold Reef. ;

The rain ; spoilt the l. Horowhenua meeting, and made, the track very heavy. The fields m most instances were small, and the attendance was very meagre.

Kitchenmaid had a very easy task m the Park Stakes. Her solitary opponents were Lord Soult and Miretta, and she disposed O f them m a very simple . manner..

Followers of the "cerise jacket and cap" had a great innings . a ; t the Napier meeting, as no less than four horses belonging to the Karamu stable won on the first day.

There was a " turn up " m the Hurdles at Levin when Romany Lad kept the opposition 'busy, and,.* beat them m the, run home; returning his supporters a : y£iO dividend.^ : Ifofr HgiclrSeuxfy ■ on' Tuesday Pixie; m; Atiiwood's Feilding stable; was the only horse, enquired for off S.P; merchants,^ ahd you bet . they Would not lay too muoh of it,

Sporting men will' be interested to hear that there is a full-brother (Abergeldie) to Moifaa, King / Edwar d's*horse,' running m a milk cart at Woodville. Both horses are by Natator out of Denbigh. .

Gazely's win at the recent Napier Park meeting, was long overdye, and it was qjuite time he notched a couple of races. He must have been in' rare form last week, although the class he metwds not too good..

Strayboy, who Won: a race on both days at , Stratford, is by the anoient Lebel, from a Dauphin mare; and is very highly spoken of.. His success was anticipated by his connections; who are reported to have had a good win. . „..;■■.■ ..■

It is not a. Very nice thing to. see a boojcmaker shoving, and bustling the 'police when they were ■attempting to arrest a ; drunken sailor, but such a" sight was witnessed outside •the Grand Hotel m.: Willis-street on Saturday evening, „:, :■'.■■ ■

Contender: further demonstrated his improved • form by winning on both days of the Napier Park meeting. The horse was well backed . on several occasions prior to his Gisborne wins, but he must surely, have made up for lost time by now.

Playmate scored a long overdue win for his owner by 'annexing the Flying Handicap aifter a good .setto with .the Foxfcon-owned Waicola. The Porirua horse had the ' way made • easy -for him by the scratching pen being freely ..used. '.

Silver Lead was never prominent m the six furlong flutter on the first day at Stratford, ' but on the second day he showed wonderful improvement, which was anticipated by some of the' "-heads" m Wellington, and the Tommies knew it to their sorrow.

Douche, with,s,.6,:;lptiked. tp possess, a ''great chance m the Napier Cup, but the Jet d'Eau mare "was outpaced by G-azeley, who cut the distance out m Stalin 10 4-ssec. On the second da-". Douche again finished behind tlie> son of Grey Leg and Lygia.

There are two or three small meetings to-day, and then the big Easter meetings will occupy the attention of punters. Easter is a particularly, busy time, important meetings being held at Auckland, Feilding, Tauherin-ik-au and Riccarton, besides several smaller fixtures.

It has been whispered about for alons; time that when the " com " went on Rendrock he would win and the result of the Koputarva Handicap proved the correctness of this. As the horse paid '£6 4s it is a pity the owners did not put a bit more on the machine instead of taking a 3£ limit from the bookmakers.

Last Easter Douche was second to Melodeon m the Feilding Cup, after, running a really good race. In addition to this she won the principal race on the concluding day of the Fei/lding . November meeting.. The daughter of Jet d'Eau and Cartouche .seems-, to gallop generously on the Feuding course, and may have something to say m the settling of this years Cup. . >

Kuku is to be given a trial over hurdles..; .

Golden Comb and Tikirawa each won doubles at Greymouth.

Terrapin, who has bfeen doing a season or two at the stud, is again m work.

Victoria Park won his first race for his new owner at GTeymouth on Monday.

Slow Tom is again m work at Riccaxton, 'under the guidance of Taggairt.

The nominations received for the. Autumn meeting of the W.R.C. are highly satisfactory.

Munjeet and Isqlt are nominated for the Thompson Handicap at the forthcoming, local meeting. ,

The aged gelding Contingent (Workr man-Leonessa) was again on the running list at Greymouth.

Elevation will have a chance to get even on Glenculloch and Guidwife m the , C.J.C. Champagne Stakes.

Kuku and Pawa both ran second on the .first day at Levin, but the Porirua "stable secured a win with' William and. Playmate.

If Champion is taken to Patea he should be hard .to beat m the Hurdles,' and he has only been allotted IG;2 m moderate company.

Five-year-bids have all the best of it m , jhe.Aucklandj Easter Handicap,; but thMe ' good .performer^,. Day r star, Advance and Nonejbte won the event.at the age of three.

' Noetejropuku, who was not good enough, to win races, -m these parts, secured. 'a ; double en- the opening .day of the Grey Jockey Club? s meeting and m the Metropolitan Handicap paid theVlimit. " ".

The owfier of William did not fancy his horse's chance,' in the. Kawiu Handicap . The son . of Conqueirer is very Hfihtly" built, and it was fully expected : . that the w^i^tit and mud combined '■ Would stop \ini f . The approach of the Canterbury Autumn meeting brings to mind the. faojbthat tflio Easter Handicap lias never., been j-.w6n/ twice. ;.by ' the same, horse since AS7-9. A .'similar remark applies to ,Jhe,G-rcatV Autumn Handicap. "V ■ ■ '

.' Blessbok; ;_ who generally manages to pickmp, ■> a race or two on the West -Coast ; was unlucky enough to run two, .secpnds an/the open ing day at Greymquth. Nevertheless her ; backers., would have obtained a\ credit from the totalisator. ■.■ ■

Little Bob Young, who scales just over four stone, won the Horowhenua Cup on Handsome Rose. This is the first race that this lightweight has wonKbut as, he rides a very fair race for a lad it -should be the forerunner of many more, victories.

They are & very even lot of lightweights ,m the Auckland Eastern Handicap, and if the going is heavy it will be difficult to' sort them out. Under .ordinary conditions Aeolus, with 8.3, ■ and Sir Tristram, 7.10, look to. be well m, ' especially the latter.' .1 ■■'.

Two years ago the {Jlanradald gelding; Clanburn put . up.' a similar performance to* that established by Noeteropuku at '•' ' Greymduth last Saturday, In addition to winning the same" two events on the first day, Clanbuirn wbn the' principal handicap on the concluding day, beating Idasa and Veneer., :

A local punter, who geher/jllly ptits a couple .c^E pounds on a horse, was last week the recipient of a Maori* tiki from, an admiring lady friend. Believing m the old adage that the tiki carries good luck with it he went for .a royal win on Parva m; the last race, but the son of Mahaki was not quite good enoußh, and now the ,punter is wondering if after all the tikies are lucky,

Splendid acceptances have been received for I>he Easter and Autumn Handicaps at the C.J.O. meeting. The redoubtable Achilles has oontinued his", engagement m the seven furlong event, and so has Marguerite* Everybody- would; be- pleased to see the/ gallant chestnut returned the winner, and a great race should be witnessed between he and Isolt m the Challenge Stakes on the second day: ■'■ '■■■'■ , ■-. ■.•• ■ „ : " •■•• : ' '