NEWS AND NOTES.

NZ Truth, Issue 100, 18 May 1907, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES.

Takapuna to-day. Ballarat will not be raced again this season. Black Reynard, 10.6, is the local favorite for the CenTufy Hurdles. Anatroff, who won the Newcastle Cup,, was the outsider of the field. Golden Gate behaved very badly at the barrier at Hastings last week. Blue' River ran m the ownership of J. Oamerton at the Hastings meeting. It was a very solid punt that went on Kaipetdpeti at' Hastings second day. Veneer > has been blistered again, and is still m the paddock at the Hutt,.. .".... Landwern is recovering slowly from\ the accident which befell him at Ricoartpn. C-xton was easily the ■ best pf the s^cpnfl^ „ cia-ss of two-year-olds at Hawke's Bay. ... Campfire . ,was given a run on. both days at^ Hasiftprs, but the Carbine colt is riot rea : dy yet. An unusually, large coaiiting'ent of Wellington sports are going up to the Wamganui meeting next/ week. .MaJh'oe .has -been w.eiL. supported by iiis owner. for the. Century.. Hurdles on Friday next at the Wanganui meetBnifl. La Torpedo scored a long overdue Win by annexing trie Omaka Handicap at the Blenheim fixture last week. The trainer of Giencullock attributes that colt's defeat m the' Hawke's Bay Stakes to the heavy state of the going. . • . The local bookm^'cis have all laid large amounts ajbout Black Reynard and Nadaidor for the Wanganui double. The Lark will probably start a good favourite m tive Coiinolly Handicap, a^d followers of tile .Fordell stably will not hear of his. defeat. . : -'AtfJoliH? sSein's'-fe n'a^je ■fefisefi- aniiew : f€|sg 6t life". He won t& IVlarlbor- ! 'ough- OtfjS -very easily ahd ret'tffned t>is- stippor'ters £2 fTs of a divi- ; de-rid. The O'Neili Bro.'s BuckiQmping Circus will shortly open m Welling-} ton for a short season, and after- > wards will .tour the whole of the North, Island. . . As. anticipated by me. ■ m these col" j umns when.....the ..■vy-eighiis appeared, Platypius was th? jjestjDf. good, goods for the Flying Handibap at the Marlborough meeting. W. iDavies will not be represented at the Wanganui meeting, but when the O.taki meeting comes on the Hutt ! trainer will 'be found with a good ' team m the field. , Harry Fletcher did not bfing Silken Rein back frpm Blenheim as the Wairarapa trainer . intends to settle there m future, and will remove his string over there at once. Truthful put up a good performance at Blenheim on the second day. She was second m. the High Weight Handicap, ajid won the Final • Welter ; from Hillspring and a few others. Elevation's victory m the Hawke's Bay Stakes placed Mr W. E. . Bidwell at th<e hijad of winning owners ■ for the meeting. In addition to that it points to Count Witte as the best two-year-old of the season. A'berjationls proper weiejht m the Autumn Handicap was 7.9. and not 6.7 as it appeared on the cards issued m Wellington. Cragg's gelding was very well supported here, but proCably not a quarter of the money would have been invested if the proper weight ,was shown on the card. The advent, of HewiLl, the New Zealand jockey, is sure to be attend- ( ed Ly hysterical screams as to his greatness, now that he ,l;as succeed- j ed m r'idiing a winner, so early m his. oai)ipaign, Dertainly, ami witliout auy l.iias, one cannot describe Hewitt as more than the e.q : ual of { our first-class riders. He is an excellent, jockey, and. he proved this at Kemp ton day. when. on Nightfall, he finished second to Bridge .of Canny m the race for the Queen's Prize— Daily Chronicle. C. Jenkins had a' good record at : the Hawke's Bay meeting. He rode four firsts. -a second, aM two thirds , his wins iiiciudihg the principal handicap on both days. On Volume, the crack horseman rode one of the races of his life. -From the fall of the flag iio was m the lCivdiing' division, and took bis mount on to the vails. Imhrodiatelv the pacers showed .sL«ns of slacktinin.^ (he paco Jenkins rushed to the lead and riding vigorously over tliC last quarter of a mile he was able to boat Sir Tristram by hajf-a-leng'th. Apropos of Hewitt's finish on Nightfall when Bridge of Canny (f). Ma[ildf) '.iv.st beat the ex-New Zealanii '~-**tsjji ri>ji *>> ou m the Queen's Prize at . ■'"Jtt Fi'ii^ t'lio Sppcia). Commiskempc. vC A has the fplstoneu of v- -*^, ZeaiiMitf jockey, lowing :— i%e Ivu tr.,}^ m tniK Hewitt, shaped very W? L fust race. Especially I '^ VlZ he does not worry his rtOUnt «U JUS . start, but sits still and moU9 I^ 8fe f i I v.-hile so mawy of our lot are m&y , ! ling and turning, itnd trying to gel. a start on the run. Hcwjfct got away bi;st of any all Hie sa-mo. i'/v.i wop from start to finish. He is a powerful, resolute horseman, and rides -vmv short indeed. Personally . 1 should be well satisfied to have QW on any favourite, and, with a fair j c-hancp. .aiveat him. , he will hold lttS | owji here with the best, though there were some, as 1 have said, who ill? not appreciate his finish on Nightfall against Malier on Bridge of Canny, where one horse, however, has the. speed and the other has not. the .iockey on the former can seemingly outclass the one on the latter without iany, serious difficulty s

It .is.s;&a.ted that £40C was refused ■ for H5SisJEKri&. ! Keep a s&arjv look' x>ui for Tfiie Lark aad 3\(Latio» at Waa>£ajiui. J. Hall will rid« Black fteynafd and Na«lador it Wa»sanui. Hewitt's retainer m England is for two years at £1000 per annum, Mataari is to be given a good spell, and he cam certainly do with it. . The double F. Hi^ott and F. Cairns was very much m evidence at Blenheim. Picton, who ran second m last year's Derby m England, has never raced since. , The West Coast trainer, E. Murfi%ti, will ia. future reside m Palmefsion North. The police wens very busy at Blenheim keeping spielers and bookmakers off th" ooursc. Flamen ran very feaidly at Hawke's Bay, and t/he bay horse must be voted an out and out duEer. A big section of the racing public at Hastings are pinning their, . faith on Eclair to take out at Wangnnui. .King Billy is usually a good ber- ■ dinner, but he got an extra fait m hand at the start of tlie Burke' Memorial. The double machine at Hastings should Ivave been double the size to ayoid the. necessity of double-banking the doubles. Wirral .was not started at the Hawke's Bay meeting, and the erratic one is still an inmate of S. WadJell's stable. If you except Mcfrdwai, Te Uifa and' Kaip'etippti, they were a very poor lot of hack hurdlers at the Hawke's Bay meeting. Kurawafca is still Improving,, and she gave the opposition no sort of a show m the Autumn Handicap despite a very bad start. Land o' Koi, who ran unsuccessfully m the Longlands Back Hurdles, is a fuiLhro'ther. to . Bveniii>g, who .won the Wanganui Steeplechase last year. The running of Kaipetipeti a-t tbe tiawke s Bay meeting formed the suJbject of an inxiruiry, but no action was\ taken by the stewards of the club. Tiiat .good (horseman, F.- Davis, did not take a -mount m the Hawke's Bay Stakes. C. Jenkins rode Loftus, while Downfall was piloted by T. O'Brien. Mr ,R. T. Turobull has disposed of Boris, to Jos. Prosser, who will use the ■ Stepniak horse as. a sire, haying found that he will not stand a preparation. Jos. Prosser thought G-auze would win the Scurry Hack at Hastings, btit C Jenkins could only get third though he. was within a length of the wintrier. . --The bfig Torpedo gelding, British Navy, was. se&n out twice at -the Hastings' meeting., but he v?as aniongst^ tibj? unplaced division oh each _ occasion,. ; - Bide River - (Merriwefe-Blufewaier.) xron the Maiifei race - froni end to &M. and /on the .second day. she. finished- within.. a -length -of.. Swimming , Belt m the Okawa Hack Handicap. Glsncullooh got a bad start m the Hawke's Bay Stakes, but if he had been,fir.ed out.it is. very doubtful if be woujjd have h<eaten Eleva,tio'n, who stripped, m splendid condition. Mr G. Hunter's chestnut horse, Mystification, .-.-is to be spelled, and it is not certain- that he will reappear on the racecourse, as his owner is thinking of using him as a sire. The* owner of Romany Lad supported his horse well at Blenheim on the., first day, and the old fellow paid ' the good price of £3 iOs. I did not hear of him putting much on him the second day. On the wav home from ' Hastings, Sir G-eo. Clifford's horses, Lady Annie, Glencullooh, and Dc Witte were detained m Wellington from Friday till Tuesday last owing to the boisterous state of the- weather. The Central Club members to a man were on Kaipetipeti when that gelding . was successful last v;eek. Thov also tried to back Scotch Reel at Blenheim when she failed, but the bookmakers refused to accommodate them, so they saved their i.icriey. Another instance of how some people bet lucky. The Scurry at Hastings, for which there was a field of nineteen, resulted m a great finish. Toa Tuhi winning by. a head from Strathcon.a. On the double machine Toa Tuhi and Strat'neona were bracketed with Kins Billy. But for this the double. Toa Tuhi— King Billy would probably Ivave paid something m the region of £150. The,* crack New Zealand jockey, L. H. Hewi-tt, soon got going m England, for he steered- Rarer Sort, by Laveno— Rare Sort, to victory m the Maghull Plate at Liverpool, the very first race m which he took part m, and 'he created a very good impression. If he gets half a chance he will keep his end un with any of the riders m the old country. Mr. "SoT" Green and his ■ trainer, J. Lynch, leave for England uext week for the express purpose of purchasing a stallion for the stud farm which the former has lately established on the Hopkins River, near Warrnambool. No time is to be lost, for the services of the horse selected will be required for the coming season. During Lynch's absence, all his team will" be treated to a spell. Says the Sydney Sportsman '•— A rumor was . going the rounds at Newcastle on Saturday that an "arrangement" having been come to between Anatrofi's owner and the two miners who are said to have drawn the Cup winner. in "Tattersail's" sweep, the owner, through force of circumstances, had to have £15 ri-gh't away with which to pay expenses entailed through the horse having to be journeyed by train {from Sydney to Newcastle. A more i likely explanation of the fifteen }«f,i;Md" advance is that . Anatrofi's : oxfiibV W<i,S tak-ing.no risks as to ■ doittg the mentioned amount m train iejfHeiises, as m the ovont of failing 'Jib' would derive no monetary benefit from -U& $wpep arrangement. AnatroH wor., awl- then the fact of his owticr requesting £15 with which to meet expenses anil he nothing put of Inopkct should iiis horse fail, w nU Ift ptese, is distorted intp the theory ith-at ho, the owner, was broke, and, >hV ia P 6 H fov f;n advance. Had any ! a5 her hofSe %&*, it 15 quite within /Ynatrofi story 'as to flMenses . W ! advance could b© .fold about aim I also.

Clarence O'Neill lias been granted a license -by 4h& C,J,C. iSt- •KiUimj* was. , well backed «h both, -cUy* sA BleiifeiraOaly £7 Wias ior«sted •» Jeek Pot iii tiic M«ag«.taradbk Hurdles. Te Kotiyl let his party dowu very badly on. both, days at Blenh»im. Wa-n^a/nui Steeplechase next Tliursda^ and Century Hurdles on Friday. PolyantSiais showed no form at the Hastings meeting, and a win for her is long overdue. Waratat is on the improve, and put up a goml showing behind Blue River at Hastings. Levant xs a.^much improved mare, aayd' her tmi .e^E'ys at Hasttags were very cretita'bis ones.'. -Tfaiough Cavalry was accepted foi at Hastings h6 ., ■was not brought down to the meetiing. The owner of Nestator lias supported has horse for a g;ood stake to win the Great Northern double. Chatterer, ran a good race m the Hawke's Bay Oup, but the best she ootiM do Was to finish third. Mr W. G-. Stead had a full-sister to Togos running at the Hawke's Bay meeting. She is called Leonore. "X Bad week" was the wa7 book-m-akers summed up operations . over Hawke's Bay and Blenheim rhe'etings. . Gaw.ain ran prominently, m the Porangatiau Handicap, but when it came to fmishitig Contender settled them all. Hurdle 'horseman D. Watt rode two firsts, ,a_ second and a third at Hastings. Rather a good performance out of four mounts. ' "■' Mr W. E. Bidwell, .owner of Elevation; was the recipient of a -host of congratulatory wires after his colt's success.- j Plorio fell at the last -jump on the Cup day at Hastimss. The Jetd''eau pel'dimg is a good iumper, but tie was very fired when he bliihdered. W. Whd taker took Reservoir to Hastings, and he expected the fullsisfcer ; t,o J)ouche to, run wel.J i-n her ehgiaisemon^s, but he was rftfoined to disapp6in 7 tment. W. Stone has a pretty .useful colt m Comedian m bis care at Hastings, .lie is by Merriwee, from Variety, the latter having been a very useful mare m her day. Mystification .ran like a rogue m the Hawke's . Bay .Cup, .and .1 am convinced that the chestnut will never be made to do his best un-less spurs are used on him. King Billy (has struck form .at last and a lot of people are inclined to the opinion that he will go on .correctly and win the Connolly Handicap at the Wanganui fixture. . F,, Lilnd rpide t a. great finish on Pushful,, m the t?ig .. hurdles on, the flr.ss |ay _„and. "^angaiiui^npTSp-: .^j%s cleanly j&g&M $*aXs£ b^asjpst .nojgye pi his dash q,s a. hurdlg^rider. Wellington - people tttotrtd Ka.se. iict thing but, Elevation m the Hawke's Bay. ,jS> takes. All thp. wires from. tJit) seene v of . action were lot Bi'd^el.l's colt and the Torniriies c6utd not lay anytjiing else. In the.. Maiden Hack at.., Hastings Hippolytus (Birlsßnhead t -Hipp.olyt&), a Karamu representative, fan well for a green two-year-old, and the colt should .be. worth fpllowinig with a year or two on to his age. ... Silken Rein, who has. not been, rw; ning too well lately, won the ; President's .Handicap .at Blenheim to .a very, finished style.. . Everyone was pleased to see Harry Fletcher have a turn of iuok, as the turn, of Fortune" s wheel has teen against him for a long time now. A final reminder is given that acceptances . for the , Hutt . .Valley Trotting meeting, which takes place on Saturday next, close to-night at 9 p.m. with secretary, Mr N. J. Bonninfijticm, 'at the Empire Hotel, P.etone. The nominations received are a record for the Club, and a good day's sport is sure to be witnessed. The death is reported of Patron, who won the Melbourne Cup m 1894 for F. W. Piirchas, who, after using him at the stud for some time, sold him to go to . England for a good price. While here Patron sired nothing of any account, barring Patroniis, and was reckoned cjuite a failure m England ; but after being sold for a small sum, he did much better, and got some fair winners m France, where he died. The WestraHan Turf Club are advertising for applications for three stipendiary stewards, W'hq. will have full control at all the race meetings at which they act. This is quite a new departure m Australian racing, and the result of the experiment will be watched with much interest. The salary attached to the position is £7'oo per annum for each man, together with railway fares to the various meetings. There are bound to be any number of applicants, but it will be" somewhat difficult to obtain people who will fill such responsible positions and deal out even-handed justice to the satisfaction of their ?mployer.s and •to the racing com- [ munity at 'large. The stipendiary steward business may still be said to be only on its trial both iv N.S.W. and. Victoria, and opinion is very much • divided there as to whether the result obtained so far is anyway commensurate with the expenditure incurred by the V.R.C. A few cases of "crook" running may have been discovered that would have passed muster by the honorary stewards, but certain individuals still continue to run byes whenever it suits them, and do so with impunity. No doubt : the V.ra.C. obtain a considerable ; amount of information as to the running at the various meetings, which ; is not made public, and the value of ' this cannot, therefore, be estimated at present, but which may be more ■ apparent when "licensing day" comes i along. i