NEWS AND NOTES.

NZ Truth, Issue 105, 22 June 1907, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES.

Napier Pbrk next Wednesday, and Thursday. Lfloaheart's form has been very disappointing lately. Aohilles' winnings on . the race tracks amount to £9185. Record entry for the Melbourne Oup. No less than. 175 horses are entered. _ - - Tike Irish horse, Orley, who won the Epsom Derby is owned by *'Boss" Croker. The owner of Uenulcu had £10 on his horse when the hay gelding won '.tire York Welter at Auckland. The owner of Seaman has backed his horse for the N.Z. Oup, hut of course that does Hot make him win. Golf is the favorite recreation of the leading English jockeys. Wonder does "totr Hewitt frequent the Slinks. ' If Spe&rtnin-t stai-'ted m the Grand Prix at Paris, he .finished out of a plaoe, as the cablegram announces the result as follows:: San Souci, Mordaun<t, Ping Pong. A recent addition to J. Lowe's v ables is a rising three-year-old bay gelding by v Daunt. The gelding; arrived from Napier last week, and Was taken to Trentham by G. Davies. Perambulator, by Persimmonr-Spy-glass, was the King's representative m the Dnglish Derby, won by Orby. The South African millionaire, Mr 'Abc Bailey, had his colt All Black, by Gallinule— Vortex, engaged, but the cattle -makes no mention. «f him.

Hewitt still furnishes good copy for , the Press at Home. The "Hon. J . D. ~ Ormond haV. four horses engaged at the Weffiflgtoh. meeting/.: ; . , ?■ •■'■ : '.-'•;' .: J Lowe intends to give Aeolus a special preparation for the New Zealand Cup. The losing mount for hurdlers ' m New South Wales is. £5 against £1 for a flat race. Being the second to last meeting of the year, the Wellington meeting attracted a very decent entry. His Majesty the King won a i' ace at the Newm.irket meeting with the Persimmon filly Pearl of the Lock. The Nelson Jockey Club's next meeting will be held m March next, and not Jahuary as m previous years. The Tommies' prices on the. N.Z. Cup greatly resemble punters' baoik-in-g accounts. They are steadily shortening. Apa lias been well baoked for the N.Z. Cup.. Last week nearly £2000 was secured about the Fordell horse at 20 to 1. It looks as if Exmoor must be himself again, as the -son of Graf ton- is amongst the Porirua brigade entered at Wellington. It is rumored that a considerable time will be" spent} by delegates to the Racing ' Conference m discussinc; the -ways of several well-known jock-, eys--' . 'i;/'^!-. •■■■'■• ' '. : -,•v„, ''. The Auckland horses Kaitere, Cuir-a-gno, Vizier, '■ '<3a.t,ch "em," Lari'dlbcJc,' ' Ben. JonsonraM Lady Hune are "all ffc«ly 'engaged ai the Wellington meeting. : ' ' '"-" " : ;f. . .''. Although it is af ar cry 'to the N.Z.. Cuf), 'a, large numfoer' of punters arc endeavoring' to "beat the books," and backing tbdir fancies for various amounts. . ■ Mianiapoto was backed for a (rood parcel to' win the next N.Z. Cup. The commission was worked .. from hi^lewoofl, and the money went on at 50 to 1. Noctuiform has been removed from Ogbourne and will m future be tirained at Elford. TJie'CHampion colt will run m the Great Jubilee Handicap this month. The pony jockey, D. Price, has had his diSQiualificataon removed. ,l>y the Australian Jockey Club, but as yet he ihas not been granted a further lioense here. -• > .... It is said that the costs the V.R.C. have had to pay over the law case of Cplman v. the. Club amount to pretty well nearly as much as a Mel-bourne-Cup stake. As yet. I' have not heard of any • of .the bookmakers .having a '.'shop" book on tih>e N.Z .-Cup. Here is ,a chance for one of them with more enterprise than his "brethren. Reports from Hastings state that Finery is wintering splendidly. A lot of w.f.a. events should be won by her next season if she recovers her best form as a two-year-old. The owners qf Moloch are very sweet on their horse's chance at Hastings on Wednesday. Cork's gelding is very well at present, and should win his winter oats very easily. , Aidivices from up the line state that , Mahoc is making a good recovery. Let us hope that he will be all right by the time th'a.C.J.C. Grand National Hurdle Race comes on for decision. | . .....'■"■ "-^hfl^He-wv^^^nd;^ King Paul, by St. PiKppoalscu'tole, has ■..toeen nominated lor the V.R^C. Gralid National.; He was recently succeSsfiil m the Brighton -Plate m Tas-* manjia. A private letter from Pa<Vdy Me-/ Laughiin, to a friend m Hastings, states that Contender arrived safely on the other side, and a certificate of identification, has been accepted by the V.R.C. What a grand contest the Grand National Hurdles will be if Exmoor, Ma-hoe,-- Shrapnel, Creusot, Cuiragno, Nestator, Black Reynard, Hautapu, Lady Hune,' Maui and /Kremlin go to the post. W.' Brown, 'of Motto Farm, New South Wales, is the new owner of Swordfish 11. Swordfisb is now 13 years old, and as he was a fine-look-ing horse and' a beautiful bred one, he should do well at the stud m New South Wales.' Mr Walter Winans, who won so many prizes at the International Horse Show at Olympia is the possessor of the largest stables m the whole of ' England, and English, American, French, Russian and Dutch horses are owned >by him. Pink 'Un had a life m the hands of jtho Riofomond stewards last week. New ZeeVanders visiting Australia are very foolish to take any war risks, as they are very closely watched, andi if caught napping will be made an example of. Mr A. .Trask, owner of Roderic Dhu, has decided to give the old ohestnut another chance to distih-: guish Monself. m the race tracks. When we consider JioU' Not-west and Kanaka keep banging away, it is quite on the cards that there should yet be a good race m Roderic Dhu. E. ; Kelly, who Was recently dis- ' cjualified for being concerned' m the attempt made foy t L. G. AHietti to bribe handica-ppex ,S. Griffiths, made an applioation to the V.R.C. for a re-hearingi, and tendered a quantity of fresh evidence to prove his innocence. The application was refused.. Swimmer, is doing very well on the training aeroßs- the pond - ari'fl whim the big jumping events m .Melbourne come along he should give a good account of himself. In the Spring last i year Swimmer ran very well, but was unfortunate m as much as he fell on one occasion and just fafiled on another. Yduiig Abercorn, son of James White's Abercorn, the horse that gave Carbine some great goes at Randwick and Flemington, was a winner at the show of King's Premium Stallions m England. Some little time since, RockaWay, Kano, and Foundling, three sons of Trenton were also winners. At the Newmarket Craven meeting, there was an Apprentices' Race, m which the use of the WMp was barred. It was a great novelty, and everyone was well pleased With, the result. Many good horses are spoilt with a too free use of the whip, and every nine out <rf ten animals Will do just as well without a whip as with one. As far as lam aware the Fordell own'or-traiTier, F. Tilley, is the only one m New Zealand who absolutely discards both whip and spur, and several of our leading owners might well take example b% him.,

The Ascot Gold Cup was run last Thursday. 'Katigitoto .w&s not taken to lne> Hastings' meeting. The Wellington weights will be published on July 6th. The ex-New Zealand hurdler Tenakoe has 'been sold to go to India. ficlair and Pushful, the winuir.g double at Bastings, paid £2Q 18s. J. Maher was very' confident that Tangaroa would win the Winter Handicap. The failure of Hipporofla. m the Ladies' Bracelet eased' punters of &' lot of coin. ; Irish was unfortunate enough to fall at the first fence In the Hawke's Bay Steeplechase. The Wairarapa punters to a man were m on Hinupai m the Winter Handicap at Hastings.- } The Moloch mob are still wondering how it happened that Narcotic beat them on Saturday, Hurimoana has changed hands, and will m future be found racing on the West Coast of this island. Matakokiri- was well backed locally m the Whakatu Hack Hurdles on Wednesday, which .he duly won. ? Handicappers, Henrys, Ghadwick, and Coyle witnessed the * running at the Hastings rgeetirig on Wednesday. The nominations for -the Winter meeting- of ', the Wellington Raoing Cluib ! must" fc© .considered very -satisfactory:. Pending Jerry 'O'Driscoll's return, to this country r Piiaios and Itecrea-i tion have . been turned out for a ; spell. 1 Reservoir, who won the winter Hack at 1 Hastings is a full sister to Douche, and is trained by W. Whittaker.- . : ' The Hawera horse Tarina was well supported locally for the Scurry at Hastings, and the dividend paid was a , surprise. . Reservoir wa,s the pea m the Winter Hack,, and the bookmakers are still talking about the bundle which went on him. . ■ CoihvtTWitte will represent Mr. G. Q-. Stead m the A. J. C. Derby. &nd wJiile over there the colt might change hands. -■•■;, The 'crack colt, Ppseidoii, is engag-ed-in both the Caulfield . and Melbourne Gups as well as m the Met-* ropoiitari 1 Handicap. , v Apoloigue is doing all right m Sydney, and by the. time the Mctrppolita/n rolls; WHraid he should be, able | to make things, hum. . It is more than likely that, a pretty useful Mahaki colt will be sent I to Sydney to join. F# McGrath's i stable. in the spring- . : . < They are a very bad lot of jumpers m Australia at present, and the New' Zealand horses over there are sure to do very well. Pigskin Pilot Frank Wootten steered Collarmaker to victory, m the Mite Selling Plate a(t Newmarket (Eng.) spring meeting. Spearmint, by Carbine, and winner of the English Derby, has been nominated for a 'big French event to come off during the present m,«on*h- , The owner of Mahutonga is m receipt of ' advice^ from Fi. McGrath. stating that all is well with; the chestnut. His mission will probably be the Melbourne Cup. . : Eclair won -the Hawke's Bay 'Chase, and so did a good turn to "nipawn^rvii;" 'HiCKey7~aiOT^ae Tommies. It is not often that Hickey',s hqrses do the boqks a. good turn. '„. The parity behind . the Soul t geld- I ing Sandy recently got themselves into great trouble through Tunning a* very bare-faced bye at Kenso. All the papers spoke very strongly of the incident. On. Prospector's' Hastings form it would look ,as if Maher has the big fellow ( uite himself aßairi. It is to be hoped that George Walls will now have a turn of fortune's wheel, and ride a winning race on Prospector. The Ellerslie trainer T. Williams had the misfortune to lose the services of the jumper 1 Defender last week. It appears the gelding had strayed on to the railway line, and was run over by, a late train and killed. The weight of money that went., on IViartyrum m the ' Scurry at Hastings frightened ten years' growth out of the Tommies, who stopped the, punters. It will be readily seen what good judges they w/jre, ;is the Birkenhead prad failed ' to gain a situation as the horses passed the judge's box. . . • Last week's Sydney "Sportsman" has- the following about the 'New Zealand ' owned Lionheart-r A lot .of; booze was poured' into Lionheart prior to going out . for the Second Hurdle iR-ace. The joy-promoting liquid 'Svould have been .better down the necks. of a lew on the "flat" as m the latter case something m. '■tine shape of a , fight might have varied, the monotony. . Hutana is now trained by H, McConkey at • Ruapuni. Arthur Mr-'-Conrion • rode the old battler m his Hastings engagements, and the. same horseman also had the mount on Prospector, whose usual pilot, Geo. Walls, had not sufficiently recovered from. his Otaki accident to enable him to make the journey to Hastings. ; Putty is often round a pane, a window-pane, but there was pain, much pain, over Putty settling yesterday . Who w ere^ the ojaes who thoughi PufVy'was not try ills"? Who were the ones who thought all the boodle m the bag was theirs ? Is's as well to mix it sometimes, eh, my B.ar Von brethren ?— Sydney Sportsman, . A well-known owner informed me last week that foe reckoned it cost hum about £150 a year for the training of a solitary horse, and m. addition to that he had' to pay nominations, acceptances, riding fees, and train ami boat charges. Altogether he was of the opinion that the luxury cost him just about £300 a year, for the honour of being an owner and he Was seriously thinking of letting someone else h-ave the honour and the horse too. Some English sporting scribes, resent Hewitt's success, and one of them unkindly refers to the New Zealanders second winning mount as scrambling home "beneath the punishing squir'; whip of the Melbourne (!) ranch-rider." Another remarks with surprise that Hewitt sits up When finishing on a horse, says ho is most inelegant, and writes that his whip has "two short pieces of leather at ' the end instead of being finished off m the usual way, 1 *

Four out of the five starters m the Heretaunga Handicap on Wednesday were ve^y^cvenjy backed, and the^oiitsiaer won. After winning ' the Spring Handicip'; at Stockton, " England, at the. end of April, Normja'n Mint stumbled Sadly, shooting his rider, W. Griggs, , out of the saddle, and rendering Mm temporarily unconscious. Medical assistav 1 ; « was available, but the boy did not come round to weigh m immediately. The horse was unSaddled by the judge, and when sufficiently recovered, Gxiggs was carried to the scale and duly weighed. A writer m "Baily's Magazine" has the following of EJngiland's greatest horseman, Geo. Fordsham : "On Geo. Ford-ham's grave at Slough, near Windsor, Is read the significant line suggested by himself before death : 'It is the pace that kills.' Yet he did not travel nearly as fast as some of Ms contemporaries or as rapidly as some since the time of his day. He was,, without doubt,' the finest jockey, and yet he was but fifty when he died. It was very hard upon him that, having amassed a competency, he should have lost it m business speculations, so that he had to return , again to the saddle m order to live. . . . The most wonderful thiiug about him, perhaps, was his gentle treatment of rogues ; what „ others faiM to do with whip and spur he did without them, .coaxing them, as it were, to do their best.. " Once, at' Newmarket on the hack., of a. roguish horse, he won m the act of patting, i rtsaueck aijd talking; to it, when tnere ■ w>as not, the slightest douh^t that -the! mere sound, of a wthip or the suggesri tion of a spur would have stopped it.' 1