NEWS AND NOTES.

NZ Truth, Issue 164, 8 August 1908, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES.

Riccarton on .Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday next. " .

Llanwern is still very lame but is: beiag exercised again, at .-- Trentham. •

It will be a small field and^a poor one in the Trial Hurdles at Riccarton.

G-hoorka is the only horse -likely to start in ; both the National Sseeplcchase and Hurdles. ' ■. ■ ' ■ ' : - >'

The N.Z. ponies Cocky apd Ruatamata each won a race at the Kensington meet-, ing on July 15th.

' Prism, looking as big as a bullock, is again a member of Higgott's "bap.d of workers at Trentham.. / .

J. George took Paritutu i-.and . Kiatere South on Tuesday. Both horses, will be ridden by P. Johnston. -. i ■ .

B. Deeley has been granted a temporary license by the A.R.C. and will be 'riding at Ellerslie at the Fleet meeting. .>.-.

F. Higgott has "■ taken ' Wailethe ana Truthful to Riccarton. On Trentham fornv neither of the ; pair should trouble, the judge much. . ' „ .; - .

Ahci has become musical and is not to bfa sent to Riccarton. His 1 trainer, F. Davis,'will attend the disposal sale at Yald-. hurst next week. „-,...' ' ' '■■

King Post was priced last week, but Ms owner "Was not prepared to entertains the offer which was made on behalf of a .Dunedin sportsman.

Though Gold Seal won the Hunt Club Steeplechase at Hastings, the "heads" will noVhave him at Riccarton as they doubt his abUity to get round the course..

Nadador passed through Wellington., on board .the Wimmera last /Friday. . The chestnut mare is very well and. her trainer, V. Colello, will not hear of her defeat. ;

Kitchenmaid, Truce and Monardo are all to go to the stud and will be located at Highden, which is the name of the stud farm and which will be situated just outside Feilding.

At Trentham Tupono jind Wailethe were rattled along over seven' furlongs on Monday last before there were any . track watchers present. The gallop was only at moderate one.

The well-known Melbourne blood stock salesman, A. Yuille has left Melbourne for the purpose of attending the dispersal sale of the late G-. &,. Steadfs horses at Christchur'ch next week.

S.barkeyn, looking nice and big/' after his long spell, is now a regular : worker on the tracks at Trentham. He is very fresh and took charge of his rider, o e morning last week and had a gallop uiong the'road. ' ' ,

Landwern has gone through a very hard preparation for the Winter Cup and since the Wellington meeting his owner has beea pushing the wor.k into hint. He should strip one of the fittest horses in the Oup field on Tuesday next. . x

Tzara, who was leading when he fell in tho big Steeples at the Hastings. Hunt Club fixture, is a beautiful jumper, but unforturiately he is touched in the wind and was very tired when he tipped out at the double at the bottom of the course.

It was intended that only soft tack would be sold on the Ellerslie course on August 12, the ; clay on which the Auckland R.C. race meeting in honor 01 the American Fleet will beheld, but this was objected to, and quite right. Wi&t chance has anyone of picking winning geegoes on ginger beer? Compass is not eligible to start in the Trial Hurdles at Riccarton, hut will be given a run in tho Jumpers', Flat Race. Last Monday R. McGregor schooled the Daystar gelding at Trentham, and he gave his best exhibition to date. His fall has not affected him id the least, and he is kicking out of his skin. He was never so well previously and must be a very hard horse to beat.

' Jno. Stewart, who was disqualified in Victoria some two years ago in connection with the running of Hydrant, has had his disqualification lifted and will be riding at Riccarton next- week. Stewart has been working in Mr ' G-. F. Moore's stables for the past twelve months, and no doubt he will ride that gentleman's jumpers next season. Certainly he will not be required to hook horses for Mr Moore, who is one of the straigutest sportsmen in New Zealand and will not descend to anything shady.

Ancyle is doing good work over the sticks at Hastings.

At the present time F. McManemin has eleven horses in work at Ellerslie.

Mr J. Gh Duncan's brood mare Moreze slipped twin foals to Achilles' early last week.

P. Keith has put Hiro into commlission again and the ' Cyrenian horse is apparsehtly quite sound. ■ The Winter Cup and G-.N. Steeplechase, will be run next Tuesday 'and the big Hurdles on Thursday.

Taimanupo is still in Auckland and so far there is no' sign of Andy Robertson taking on that Sydney trip.

The Invercargill trainer P. Hogan has sold Loftus, .and the bay gelding is now owned by Messrs Shedan Bros.

Seaman tightened up considerably after the Wellington meeting, and his trainer has decided,, to give him a short respite from active work. .-

Castiglione, who ran .second to Cauldron at Hastings, is a bay three-year-old filly and is highly spoken of. She is a me"hiber of V. ColeUo's team at Hastings.

The Westralian sportsmen, Emanuel Brothers, owners of Prophecy and other good horses, have engaged the Victorian lightweight W; Andrews to ride for them m that State. • ;

The 'Melbourne . Cup candidate, Dividend, who is so' far standing his preparation in a very satisfactory manner, has been -entered for the Malakoff Stakes, to be run at Caulfleld to-day. . •-

The open Steeplechase at thd N.C. meeting provided, a good race between Watiiue r.-r.d Deerslayer. For over a' mile the two wjerc/x out by themselves and led alternately.. The former, well rid&en . by A. Ayers^ gained the verdict.

Jockey Tate, who was injured when Compass fell with him at the Wellington meeting, has left the hospital and is at present spelling at Tren'tbam, The medical officer attending him has forbidden him to ride for at least six weeks.

Canr.cn icr, who 'is engaged in the Hacfc events at Riccarton, won a race at th*> North Canterbury meeting last week. H« is by Royal Artillery and has a. bit of pace, but unfortunately he is blind in opb eye, and this causes him to bore w ery badly. „ • ,\

Cauldron, who won the Trial Hack a* th,e Hawke's Bay Hunt Club, meeting, is a full brother to Merriwai and is now a four-year-old.. He is a great big fellow and should tjum out a better horse than his brother at the leaping This was his first race.

Charlemagne, who ran second in the Australian Hurdle Race at Caulfield on Saturday last, is a member of J. Lynch's team." Quite recently he won a good race at Catilfleld, and as he had the minimum, impost it was only td be expected that he would perform well. ■ ,

' Aeolus is again in work at Trentham, under the 'supervision 'of J. Lowe. He is being got ready for a trip to Randwick, but so far he is not aoquittinig him -.elf any too well. His owner is at present jn Australia and is very anxious to 'see liis colors racing there.;

. The New Zealander ' Putty, . who ,has lately been in: W. Kennedy's staples' at Flemington, . has been , 6old privately to H. Mbrt, of Hprsham. His late owner lost a parcel ,of money backing" the Chestcut at Caulfield, and evidently decided that he coiild never jset it back again. As . King Ned was " leaving the 13psorn Club 'stand on Derby Day, after his neddy was! beaten,, a voice called out in clear i Cockney apcents : "Never mind, sir, cheer up, an rave afeothex go next year ?" It is recorded that Ned's face Learned with laughter, and the crowd cheered tremendously. , . . .

The , Hastings Jockey, J. Hall, who is to rfide Nadador in the big Steeplechase at Riccarton, went South last week. On passing through Wellington Tasked Hall if he would be on the winner of the U-.N. Steeples of 1908. The jockster smiled ant} said he sincerely, hoped he would, and as far as that went he could see' nothing bo beat his mount.

A hot pot, in the New Zealand galloway Mighty Atom, was beaten by a bare half head by Jean in the .Height-Class Handicap at Fitzroy, Melbourne, on Monday, after looking to have the race well won. The Maoriland jockey, A: Whittaker, went over . especially' to ride him and was blamed for being in rather too much of a hurry to get to the winning post.'

At Wanganui on Monday night C. Jenkins was granted a renewal of his / jockey/S license. The news was received with appreciation . throughout the ■ whole of the Dominion, and to show the popularity of the Bulls horseman, it may he mentioned that , during- Thursday he received no less than' seventy-six wires from all parts congratulating Mm on his reinstatement. Jenkins' first ride will be on All Ked in the Winter Cup, and,, I hope it will be a winning one. , ■

A distressing accident ; occurred at Mosgiel on Friday last. ,A young man named John Beale, a well-known jockey,' was out shooting rabbits with' a companion, and through some unfortunate mischance] his Mend's gun was accidently discharged. Beale received the charge in his eyes. He was immediately driven into Duhedin in a' trap and taken to the hospital, where examination showed that the case was a very serious one, and that his eyes had been badly injured.

The well-known cross country horseman, H. Carr, was before the stewards of the N.C. Jockey Olub to explain his handling of. Pacific in the Hunters Steeplechase. It was alleged that Carr purposely pulled his mount off at one of tlw jumps/and as a result of the inquiry he was disqualified during the pleasure, ot the stewards, which will prevent him riding at the Grand Rational meeting. It seems incredible that Carr would do such a thing in ' a paltry 8 so vs race. ■

' If is strange but true that no application for a permit to race on Fleet Day, ■was sent into the Conference • which recently concluded its sittings im Wellington. ( However, that is not going to bother anybody in Auckland, as it has leaked out that the Government is controlling the meeting and will get all the profits. Needless to say, the: totalisator will be working, so as - the Law says that ho additional permits are to be issued, some club will have to go short. Which will it be? .:'

The Flemington trainers, J. Lynch ami A. Skirving, w 11 attend the sale of the late G. G. Stead's stud. inOhristchurch next wees. The former will represent Sol-: .Green, the big Melbourne book mater, who lis unable to come over but who, rumor says, is particularly sweet on possessing Golden Slipper, so we may expect the filly to King anything m the region of 2500 guineas. II we except Malt Queen, who is dead, there was not a really good two-year-old in Australia this year, so the V.R.C. Derby should be easy to win for the purchaser -of Golden Slipper.

I Pukenui 9.10 is a well- treated horse JK I the Welcome Hurdles at "Ellerslje uexV week. . ■■■<'■■

It has been definitely decided that Jj Hall will ride Nadador in the Grand Har 1 tional Steeplechtu'.2.

Faro broke down in the Second Open Flat at Hastings last week and will not be taken to Ricsarton.

H. Hickey tool: Papatu and Black Rey* nard to Riccarton during the week, Tft* pair are well and sound.

Sol is an. acceptor in the Speny Sie%< plechase at Ellcrslie on Wednesday next, the day of the Fleet meeting. .

Consequent c her poor showing &% Trentbam, Yosami was scratched for au engagements at the C.J.C. meeting.

Lctheriri was vry lame after hjs efforts at Trentham, so iris owner decided not to send him South for the O.J.V, meeting.

JJnless Sir Frisco wins the Winter Cup he will Inot be taker, to Randwick. At that rate the son of San Francisco will nob see Randwick.

Ohrysoprase, who certainly looked a mo* ial after bis recent form at Na.pier Part, cad a very easy win in the second Hack Race at Hastings.

In well-informed circles it. is stated that L. Hi Hewitt has lost his position as first horseman to- the Hon. Win. Hall Walker, in England. . \

Lingerer, in charge of C. Millen, has been • doing some sound work at Kliccarton, and* "Plain Bill" reckons he is s.ure to lead in a winner during, the meeting.

An article on the Full Cry case is unavoidably . crowded out of this issue, \ but it will appear next week, when some sensational're vejati6ns. will be given publicity. J- ■ ■'! •■■'■•■■ ■'■'■ ■ ' ■■;

It is quite vpossible that" Mr S. Nettlefold, who races '.. in partnership>'.witn D. J. Price in Melbourne, will be present at the Yaldhurst sale next week and will b« a likely buyer -for tone or~two lots.

The Australian jockey, Frank Bullock who is riding in great " form in Qorraany', where he has been offered a two years? further engagement; is doing very well and should be ; on- the high road to fprtune, '•• ; : ' . " . ■

Th'e Sydney trainer, W. Kelsp, and th« light-weight jockey, J; B. .Pilas, > - paake4 through Melbourne at the end of las^ month on their return home from tneir visit to England, 1 : which, hardly- proved as successful as they anticipated. '

Some Dime back Mi J. O'Driscoll inado a present of • Waiwera Jfo^Slr r r. ■H. Lowry for hunting purposes. The latter was now sent Mr O'JDriscoll a fisiii_g two-year* old, which, is reported to be full of promise -and likely to win many races.

Tile Officer gelding Lyrist, who was purchased ' some .time back by Messrs Uprrigan and Bowen;^ of Hawera, ;is being trained again and is doing good work over the small sticks. Pearjie, iiP ?^the samo stable, is walking sounrf no\fr and will 'be put into work again' shortly. •■ ■ -

Says Melbourne "Truth'*' of last week .w "It strikes us that when the Ityme arrives for backing Bflaui that thii conneotions. of p: J. Price's?" stable .will have to accept a T).recious shcfrt ptiU 1 . about the New Zealand gelding, who .again rao well for a while in the Leaihiug ton Hurdle Race." , ' !

George Price came down ftoin Wanganui ori Monday night and n«xt day^ ,ho was out at Trenoham riding ,\V, Navies* horses'. On Thursday ' LandWern, m charg* of Price, was shipped South.',' but owyag to the serious .■ illness of ■ Mrs I)aviefl:lfe» owner of the horse will not, go. to Cfc.riat* church till the last available, it«*.»iyr,

The Wanganui-owned Jauella was-irttfj-ped South on Thursday to fulfil h#r «&■ g-agements .in the hunters' ■ tacea at Rio-' carton. ' This is the mare .that' v '*o'. uk*k« pectedly "won" the Rangitik»i Stwplaafci&a last year but; was disrqu*li««al for -wa*ijßiing ia. without the breast plate. Üba tea beautiful jumper and has a lot of pa**.

The result of the Full Cry en/qniry, ntM as a thunderbolt to. T. O'Brieii, >»* .tea Hastings horseman, will now have tie the ,race.s from the grandstand. At ,?fce • present ' tinie . 6'Brien has not deei.Aul .-, "W« to whether or not bfi wiU l ; , a^ea.l "te'' fw Racing : Conference,' but if he taifea siy sAvice, given gratis, he will Tftfr^is ' rrvwa doing so,' but'ritlier by'gdo<l ii«u«Kt U expiate .his offence an-d ttust to the etem-* ency of the Wellington steward* 1b -Mw' near fgiture. . , , "... ."

It was Humored in town during the, w«aM that a, well-known local pwner was.p.ypiying to the W.R. C.i to. enquire into tb« running of Ills horse in the Winter O*s« on the -concluding , day of the Tre*it;if3U* meeting. He alleges that I) is, horse . w** not ridden to win and .that a wvU-;kna ; «r.B bookmaker was at the bqt.loin of 'the business. If complaints like this coutiiiue,. te be made the bookmakers will find, IJarmament,- repealing some clauses of .the receut Gaming. Act.

TJnlucky Dave Price U Had A.taahu.i. u!o« fallen in the Australian Hurdles, it logics as if he would have won, and his • connections would certainly have landed a- '>% Suakej' irrespective of the prize monrsy. But it wasj not to be. Fortune has not. >.ed on the New Zealand trainer Of late 'true Idealist Won a race, but Otira has ueefct backed Hwlice and ran second twice, s».'nd •now just when it seemed as if A-ta uu» would get them even he goes \anrt w>p pies over. Anyhow, it's all in the t.-.uia and Price is a good loser and wool-! 'Co>> ably be the first : to smile . after t'^ 'i'oddent.■:'■>" ■■•••■ '. ■• ". ■■ .?•''■■;{• ■■ ■■*;•

' Messrs Dwan Bros, have reined Cwnswelo from the turf. It was found tlitt sho would 'not stand the strain of tr^in^njj as some time ago she caught her legs in a wire fence which- led to physical \veakness, and on the adylice of Mr liuinnoU, the well-known veterinary sur^cu» • t Vas decided to retire the mare from racinj. Consuelo is _ a beautiful mare— in fact" »u of the finest animals that came On tfee course at Trentham last meeting. Slwta very well bred, being by Spult Ifm M*«serine. Mauserine was hy HbtohKiSß- fr«n Ganza. Ganza was a descendant »f ttw great mare Albatross. Consuelo has •« Prosser's stables and has been s«nt V.vfcha Waikanae stud. * She is to be mated witti Kilcheran. v " -

Discussing the recent .^runniiifc »f the N.2. horse Delaware, a Mslboarab writer thus unburaens himself on Jockey Belton, who was in this country some, y«*.M ago: "Cyril Bolton can certainly k«t he complimented upon the manner in wKHfe he rides . Delaware." There was room 1 f«r fault-finding at Fleimngtqn, but the SmLton Delayel;. horse's V chance -'was . faixly »^ Vnurdered in the Murrumbeena- Handicap. He was bustled right out to the froit a full, half-mile from home, and never *•- ing given a moment's peace,, it was &» wonder that he failed to maintain Xbe pressure, and was just caught " and b%Mo on the post. Ridden with any sort of judgment we reckon that , Delaware would hare won at least a couple of his recent engagements. < • •