NEWS AND NOTES.

NZ Truth, Issue 106, 29 June 1907, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES.

G-isborne on Thursday and Friday. Wellington, weights. arc due to-day. Quantity is m the ; Winter Cup, but not quality. , H. Hick'ey has been having a lot of trouble - with . it aipetipeti ' s legs . ■ . ■ ■ - • i'toe Duiiedin sJockeiv Club lratetwl to increase the stakes for next year by £1000. ' .- , , ■■■■•• •••■ The Napier Park races had to be postponed on Wednesday owingt to the heavy rain. ' Lionheart was. shipped. back to' Melbourne immediately after the troulbdO' m -Sydney, s . The veteran Red Gauntlet again figures amongst the nominations for the Winter Gup. > ■■ The entries. for the Winter Cup total 52 and for the Qrand National Hurdles 58. ':'. ' .- . ' v Fontenoy has been sent to the stud at his •owners-s tation at Kai Iwi, near Wanganui. > 'The' Melbourne Cup winner, Revenue, is now toeing used as a lady's hack m Melbourne. , Limitless defeated . a very strong tip m Strathcona m the Ngamattia Handicap, at Hastings. - - ■■ The. Marton Jockey Club had a credit balance of over" £600 . for the past year's Troilting. ' . Eclair (11.4) is top weight m (the Park Steeplechase, to be decided at Gisboru© on Thursday. First Foot, who won the Bracelet at Hastings last- weak, is a halfbrother; to First Blood. . George Price rode ' Lionheart m the Rosehill Welter last Monday week, but "the story ended there. J Creusot and Cuiragno,' two former .winners "of the. Grand National Hurdle, race; figure amorog tbe\ entries' this year 1 ; '."' '... : '; ;: , ■'•• \- ■ ■■ ■ ■ ' ■ Mr Ot. G r Stead has entered three two-year-olds for the A.J.C. Breeders' Plate at: the Spring meeting m Sep-tember. ; .; , The O'Nieill Bros, had a most sucoessful season. sd. W&nganui witt..th< buckjumpers,, and went -North, on Wed- 1 nesday last. ? Th© well-kiiown penfeiller Jack' Ross intends to take a three months' holiday m Sydneyi after , the Riccarton meeting. ; ■, Up to the" present time Apa is the \ best backed -ttorse for the New Zealand. Cup. but money does not make them win., . ' As Maniopoto has been genuinely supported for the New Zealand Cup it looks as if the proposed Australian trip is off. Fontenoy has been scratched for the Wirater Cup, so Mr G-. F: , Moore : will now have to* rely on Helen Portland, as 'Armistice was not entered. Leonore, who ,wis, 'backed for a lot of money last week, is" a ohestixut mare 'by Seatoh Delaval — Leocant, therefore a .full sister to Togos. It was funhy'fo see- tie "hiea^s" runiiing round trying *bo : giet money on Leonore m theßaUkawa Handicap' a-tj Hastings, but- the bookies turned it away. ' , • ''■'.' The Wailcato-rowned Uranium is entered for tile, Q-.R. Hurdle race.- If Qiis owner does not intend to .start him lie should take him out earlier than he did at 'Ellerslie. A.- Oliver and W- Young, who left Auckland after the;" National meeting, for Sydney, arrived there safely and then pushed onto Melbourne to ride Oa-pulet m '-his work on the tracks. ; -... , ' Tihe connections •of Hai>ley indulged ! m a -good punt on their horse m the Final Handica-p at Hastings, but,'liadtihe mortification of seeing their money left standing -at. .the post wwen the baiirier up. ' # The . hitherto best two miles (over ■nurdtes) recordat Aintree* Enffila/Dd,was recently -beaten, by One Away, when he won , the Liverpool Handicap Hurdle Race m 3min 51 2-s sec. This is several seconds short of the best New Zealand time for a similar dds-j tance.- "-'..'' A returned viSitor from Sou-th Africa informs me rthat the ex-Maori-Jander, Nat Noble, is still riding j jumpers at Capetown, and doioig well. Mention of r Nat reminds me of a. few years ago (I think it was 1902) when he set out for England with aibout five hundred . pounds! which he hoped to turn into a few thousands. When he landed he interviewied the. Anglo-Colonial sportsman, Mr S. H. G-ollan, and asked , for a billet, 'but the best offer he could get was 10s a week and half that sum when he rode m a trial. This, of course, was no use to Nat, so he went further and _ fared no better, and eventually he returned to this coloiiy with his capital greatly diminiished. Soon, afterwards he ; took o n South Africa, and since then he has never looked ihack. He was always a bold, fearless horseman, who could ride a finish with the rest of them, and h« was equally at home on a crook 'tin. Not many of our present day jocks ters can cover up a ••Hot wanted" as well as NobJe used to do. V I

Rangitoto is still on- the retired list. ' If rightly placed, Hikairoa should . win a steeplechase shortly^. Lavfnia has not woa a race since .bt&iDg. purchased by her present owner. White Lie put up her best effort to' date when she won at Hastings last week. P. Rogers 'intends to bring Sen Sim and Clem to the Trentham meeting, „. ' Mr. J. Bull was m town during the week, but his stay was a very short one. Creusot rai> a goodraoe at Hastings, hut Davies is not bustling his preparation. . : - S. Crawford will ride Sen Sim m the Hurdles at the forthcoming Trentham meeting. Mabiopoto has received further support for the New. Zealand Cup, and closed at 100 to 4: Rellis, is top weight m theV.R.C G.N. Steeplechase* with 13.1. The New? Zealand horse, Swimmer, has 11.4. Royal. Blue is being schooled over country at Opaki, and reports state that he is jumping remarkably well. ' \ -The Steeplechase course 'at Hastinigs is not a very formidable one, but still it takes a lpt of giefctin© over. > ; . Oince again "Dan Leno failed tp take out . when the money was .on him. He must' be a good bit on Me dobitVside^of •t'he^ger now^ * : -Hovai Who has not been nearly thesuccess at : the -stud'tihat'he was 'on; the racecourse, 'has been purchased by Mr T. Gat«iby, of Tasmania. Maoriland-bned . Noictuiform has done no good m England so far. At his latest attempt he was unplaced m t(he Spring. Cup, won byDalk&ith. It is announced that Pink 'Unwas sold for £600. Tdiis can ■hardly be correct when we consider that Price gave; £1300 f or the son of Strowan. : King Paul (9.11) and liionheart (9.6) are the weiights apportioned th&se two Maoriland horses at Flemihigton m ■bhe.y.R.C.V 0-. N .; Hurdle Race. ' ' "; ': . • Probably the very heiavy state.' qf the track was responsible for • some of the curious, form shown by some of the runners at the Hawke's, Bay meettog. -..'.-..;.•■.' ■-■„- •. :. .,'•'■■ ; •■■'• ■ Rookby, liul}, and Kremlin are nominated by Alec Hall for the Grand National Hurdles, but the Feilding trainer is without a representative m ,the big Steeplechase. N Twen'ty-^fchree horses; are entered for the Grand National ' Steeplechase at Riccarton, but th,e liandicappef will be very lucky if .he sets one thirdiOf that number vto go to the post. : Paritutu "has been nominated m the Grand National Hurdles, but-not m the Winter Cu<p, so most likely the Castor gelding will for the future take part m jumping -events only. Starina has 'been well supported for tlie New "Zealand Cup. It might be mentioned that this horse comes from the same stable that sheltered Star Rose when he .' was successful last year. .... For the Metropolitan Handicap, Poseidon is s top. weight with 9.9, Solution 'has 1 "19.5, - Manlappto 9.0, MabutonEa 9:0, Putty 8.11, Apologue 8:7. Pink-un 8.7, Cross 13 iUery 8 4, Subterranean 8.2. Capulet ;/ has been .weighted at 10 .4 m the Grand National Hurdles to be run at Fiemington on' July 6 th. This is c not a harsh ,im.post, ; and the New Zeaiander will probably make' a boldbid for yiotory. "■''<' . Tim Howard had the mount on Irish at Hastings, .and he was also to have ridden! Aqua Regda, hut a fall off the first-named left him too' stinv. and ho was compelled, to stand' down for the rest of the meetirig;.: The owner of Volume received a big Offer for thes; son of Sylvia Park during^ the week, but at the time Of writing it is not Iknown whether it will be accepted or'not. The wouldbe 'buyer is a Sydney sportsman. The latest, qlub to go m for a double total isator is the Marton Jockey Club. At thieir 'annual . meetang last Saturday, it was unanimously decided to run ' such a maohin'e at the next meeting of the Club iri Septemter. A cable from Sydney states that •Solution 9.9 heads the weights for the Epsom Handicap. • Maniapoto is handicapped with 9.2, Maliutonga 9.2, Pink-un 8/13, Apologue 8.10,' Cross Battery. 8.7, Suibterranean 8.3, Leonator 7.12, Oon'tender 7.11. The Xrozo-Industry geidiing, The Grafter, has gone where' all horses go. English files to hand announced his. death a few* 'weeks ago. When m Australia he was owned by ,the late Won/ FarreSter, who wbn' a Mel-^ bourne Cup witti hijn, besides many other important! events. • Afterwards he W&9 sold to a patron of J. E. ■ Brewer's stable and shipped to England, where he won the City and Suburban Handicap. By the merest acdident it was discovered that he could jump, and so he was prepared for hurd>le races by Brewer, and succeeded m placing a few jumping events to his credit. Many are the stories told about the coups landed over him m a certain hurdle race, which he won at a meeting not many miles from London. In) those days Messrs Clark (his owner), GJollan, and Bob Sievier (then Bob Sutton) were great, friends and always together m any v yoke" that was goang. However, for soiae reason- (best known tto them-\ selves, the two former decided to leave Sutton out of one "joke," and i-t was intended to try The Grafter with' Battalion .11, two miles, over hurdles, and if, he won to get m early and secure the cream of the mar-' ket. However, the jockey who rode The Grafter, wired Sutton the result of the' trial, with the result that ■ when Messrs Clark and Golla-n. stepped m to' back their horse, they found the price much shorter than they antioipated, so they held oH and consulted Sutton, who arranged to employ a tirivate detective to find out who had backed the horse, Vut he also persuaded them to get ' m and back him now, as he u»ould ibe s>horter later on. The detective reported that hisefforts had been m vain, but still the money went on the horse m bueketfuls. Eventually on the day Ihe Australian gel ding started second favorite and won easily. Some time afterwards the whole game leaked out, when it was found that 1 the private detective had been putting the money on for Sutton, and that a-stuts . in"dividual's winnings amounted to close! on £3)0,000. The jockey who rode the winner and who, it might be mentioned, is now m Australia, received a present of £200 and his passage niooev t/> Mpi'hourne- ;

•Dulcinea is taking kindly to the Jumping business. White Lie is tetter m the mud than on 'top of the ground, <A Victorian, fereedej intends mating a couple of mares witTi Aahdlies. H. Hickey. was at the head .of the list of winning owners at Hastings. Already twenty-nine 'mares have teem jbooked' to Achilles. His limit is to toe forty. ' ' : Mr J. W. Sargisson has refused the position of secretary to the Wairoa Racing Club.. Mr E. J. Watt, of Hastings, is sending five marcs to visit Achilles this coming season. Seahohm who figured m the Hack Hurdles at Napier Park is m J. B. Williamson's stable. ■ As the bwttner of Bonheur intends to give up racing, he is anxious to sell the Seaton Delaval mare. The local quidnuncs are pretty puzKled to select the weight Ma-hoe will get m the Grand National Hurtles; The Auckland-owned jumper Silicia has been accepted f or m three races on the first >day of the Gisftvorne meeting. • ■ " ■ ■Reservoir, .10.2, ■ will probably be' the medium of a big commission m tfe Winter Oats a-t Gistyorne next week. '■ \ ' Lyrist was galloping well prior to the Hastings fixture,, but he failed to reproduce his form inhiS .effort on the opening day. ; . It was intended tp start Irish on the second day at Hastings, o>Wj>ut he was too; sore after his fafll^'in the big Steeplechase. - : '."i->j it- vvv T-he Swimmer has airexsft^ arrived at Fleming'ton and will't^^e ' firidsh his preparation for the ;x VtTRd > .-'€rrati)d' National. Steeplechase. ;. ''^ * 9^" j Tangaroa ran badly "oM^JMe second day a^fc Has-tiuigs, attd mo^f 4.iKbiy itbqi good race lie run on the opening day took all the steam out of him. ■ ' P. Coffey .'lias.-a good string qf twp-.year-olds „iiC,his stables 'at^Tren^iam. Amongst them is a,; f ul'i frothier ■' to Williaift and a full sister to Compass.. W. Price was the ' most successful jockey at the Hawke's Bay, meeting; with three wins to his credit, and the: hurdle /.horseman,?. Jack OVConnell, with a brace of. victories, was -next on the Jist- , . ,/•■ -; V'. 1 -'; Mat Johnson; the popular Hastings sport, hadreaillv bad luck ..to miss the ; June Steeplechase; at Hastings .with No Shot, who held a commanding lead, when he ram' offtwo fences from home.. ■'■■■:»■ • \ Pushful is a much improved horse since gfoing into Harry Moore's 'stable. The Hastings horse should be a very .■'hard ''Wit 'to c^ack inithe Nation-? al JJurdles or- whenever .his/owner elects %6 spin him; next., ' ,-" The non-appearance of the ! Eton gelding, ' -'lrish', • 'm the nominations for the Grand National ' Steeplechase, would ■ suggest that bis owner, Mr *J,i B. Williamson', "will m future prepare him for hurdle races ? only.' • ->."■'■•:- The well-known ' Hutt' mentor, W. Davijes, has decided to transfer his whole team ' to Trentharn, and has purchased a block of land adjoining the racecourse there. Plans haVe bjeen prepared for new stables, and^ the building is to be : c6mmenced at' once. " ■ . „ ■•;' ' : Mr J. Monk assured me during , the week that " he had definitely decided tb retire his brilliant chestnut Aohil^ les from the race tracks, and he will be shortly railed to Waikanae, where..apcommodation has .been secur- J ed ,for lidm' at Mx J. G. Duncan's stud farm. "■■ •, : . - jErhie O'Neill, of buckjumping fame, distinguished himself at. Wanganui by rescuing a drowning lad. When Ernie jumped into* the water, though, he found -he was unable to swim: himself, and the .assistance of a third party had to be brought jnto play to avert a double drowning disaster. ;■'' • . . . A great deal , is heard about hard luck m racinpj, but it would be difficult to beat the performance of Mr 6> ■ B. Morris, who, iat Memphis (U.5.A..) ran three horses m a rsce and backed them all for win and places. They occupied first, second third positions, but were all^disqualified for 'boring the. fourth "horse. Ringlet, the winner of the Minook Two-y^ar-old at Caulfield on Saturn day-, the Bth inst., is a New Zealand bred, youngs-tier; by Menschikoff from Armilla, and at . the. yearling ;sales brought 280 guineas, m . Auckland, being purchased by .Bill Ryan,; the Auckfl£ttid pancilier, on behalf of a Melbqurne sportsman. .... An enquiry was held .into, the run^ ning of Ldonheart /in' ..the .Canterbury Park Welter Handicap at Sydn-ey last week. On the Monday previous .Stev^ enson's horse, with G-.. Price m : the feaddle, failed b'-idly m the Rosehill Welter/ but as lit ran second to Samurai- at the . Canterbury Park his running - at- Rosehill was challenged. The result of : ite enquiry , was . that Stevenson and Price were exonerated from all blame. The fact that Liphheart is am out and out rogue probably helped the stewards 'to arrive at their decision. An explanation of L/ionheart's run-, ning at Canterbiiry Park, is to hand by the Sydney .Mail. It appears that the. horse jumped out all right and led for six furlongs, when the winner passed him, and then the race was a procession. G-. Price tald the stewards that the, horse was a free njover, and it was no use knockding him about with the stick. E. Stevenson also gave evidence, and expressed himself as perfeotty satisfied withthe way the horse was ridden. Probably the fact that Lionheart receded in.' the betting caused the enquiry, but a solution of that would toe found m. the fact that Stevenson is a very peer punter, and I , have never known him to have more than £10 on any horse owned by him. . : .