NEWS AND NOTES.

NZ Truth, Issue 263, 9 July 1910, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES.

Trentham next Saturday. First Battery is still spelling at Trentham. Flin^othas got over his influenza, and , is again m work at Awapnni. The Parliamentary Handicap" and: Winter Hurdles will be run next Saturday. Rangikapaa is . doing slow work' only, and will not he raced again Wl the spring. At Trentham, several of tbe trainers, j wfork their teams over the hills on alternate days. F. Oarmont is now locate)* at the Park stables, Levin,- and has a ; teans of eleven! horses under his care. ' The two htkack mares, Magneto and; Advantage, are both galloping well on • the tracks at Trentham. Ihe speedy Lace Collar has seen tbe flast of the racecourse, and was last week Trailed tp the Waikanae stud. Tyrannic has been hunted a lot lately, which would indicate tbat he is to be "kept at steeple-hasing' this year. The ex-Jtfew Zealander, Captain Shannon, a Stewards' Handicap winner, recently won a race at Rockhampton. Iney has been worked twice a' day lately, as her trainer has found ft inipossir'ble to get tjbe flesh off her,. by any other i means. C. Wbale, who used to ride and train : Merry Boy when' that horse was com--peting m hurdle races, is' now ha- charge of Eleetrakoff. ' The New iZfcaland bred Peterhoff, which once showed promise of b(eing more than •jsefnl, has proved untfainable, and has been turned out. The Dates and Permits Committee will meet on Tuesday evening, and t_ie Racing Conference will commence its annual sitting two days later. The Prosser trained horses were iaiiled to Trentham on Wednesday, and during the week Jockeys Jenkins and Telford have been riding them work. The fine weattier experienced at Trentham during the week has considerably, benefited tiie tracks, which look Mke providing good going next week. Owners who are keeping their horses m lavender and adopting a watting policy, should remember, tbe old fable about the best laid plans of mice and men. Effort was not nominated for the Met? ropolitan Handicap, and. her owner wai surprised when he found her name am o ngst tiie published list of entries. Achillean, the five-year-old full brother to Achilles, recently changed hands for 200. guineas. The Medallion horse will .take up stod duty m the Orange district. Naumai will accompany the other mem- : bers of C. Ptitchard's team to Trentham, and if the weights permit he will be a ' , runner on the second and third days of: the meeting. The W.R.C. has been favored with splendid acceptances for the winter meeting, and if only the fates will providegood weather, the outing should be a very ' pleasant one. Tlie fashionably-bred Mediterranean had been up only a month when he racod at Oamaru, and is now a much-improved horse. He will be a 'starter m tiie Trial act Trentham next Saturday.

The VJRJC. Grand National Steeplechase will be run at Flemington to-day. Penates will be a runner at Trentham,. and will be ridden by either Jenkins or Oliver. Varna, after a spell m the paddock afcL his owners place at Kelburne, is now in--■work- again. The roan mare, Maidi, has been leased' by her trainer (H. Jackson), and will m future race m his name. Marathon was m a bad way after re- : turning from the Napier meeting, and he has been turned out for a spell. The aged hurdle gelding', Whatakura, is. quite sound again, and he will be doing ■ his best at Trentham next weefc. At tMs time of the year the tracks are not suitable for Ballarat, and she is now running out m the paddoct air Trentham. Truganini . looks as well now as ever she has tibne, but, being a longstanding mare, the soft tracks are not to her liking. Merriwonpa is still feeing spelled at Trentham, and tho- Merriwee mare is carrying more condition now than at anytime previously. Full Rate has not been schooled lately, as owing to the wet weather his owner has not been able to do anything With the Officer gelding. The s 'Auckland/ 'chaser, Capitol* is atfLg, low-set, lengthy sort. _Ie has completely , recovered from his cough, and is now starting to come on ia lot. Owner J. Hcnnah, of Hastings, wired; on Monday cancelling the box he booked for Captain Jingle, and stating that thehorse .had contracted a cold. Expansion and Odessa are tbe only members of C. Prrtehard's team tbat ane not working. Both run out m the paddock all day, and are boxed at night. Mocassin is now turned out at Ms owner's place at Taita, and it is the tetter's.' intention to break .bim into harness with a view of hardening up his cronk joints. Tho brood mares, S. Winifred., __ix, : Wish, and Yosami, along with their ' foals, and tbe stallion Field Battery, have all returned to their owner'-sfjlace : at Trentham. . In Genhany, whece-the betting .isrCon- ; trolled by the State, 20 per cent, is deducted from thef totalisator receipts, which would show that the saver k_aut punters pay dearly for their fun.Matters are busy on the Hutt trades these mornings, and C. Pritchard regular-^ ly works, twelve horses. His team for . Trentham will consist of Ahuapai, Pe-i nates, Naumai, Mon Ami, Penza, Whatakiira, and Mediterranean. •The Auckland bled mare Celerity, which has 'been racing at Melbourne during the last three years, won another race recently at Aspendale. The party, be- : hind her punted heavily, and she went . out a strong favorite and "won easily. The black filly, Ahuapai, was coughing badly after the Otaki meeting, but she is now all rigftt, again, and will be racing at Trentham. She seems, to have recovered from the fall she got m Blenhewn. and now appears to be quite sound m front. Lady H_3_be__n has become very flighty, and 1 the baH-siater to MexrivonSa ifljaysi <up a lot when being taken on the training tracks. Her trainer is> pushing her along with a view of starting her m. the Tr*al ; Plate .at Trie<n*h3m._ext Saturday. Tho Ellerslie trainer, K. Heaton, re■cently had the had luck to lose the services of the Leolantic gelding Baltimore. The horse was playing about m the Raildock, when his rug- became entangled in> his legs. He: fell back heavily and broke his neck. . Lares has recently been taken up again*, after a spell of two months, and the han I brother to Penates appears to have benefited considerably by the respite. His owner intends to give hian plenty of time, and will not race him ..till the new season is well under weigh. The Trentham trainer, J. Lowe, will shortly mate a move towards Australia with GoW Lace, Iranui and Effort. Tlie first-named is now looking a perfect picture, biit -tybe others ' have done notting on the tracks, as they have been suffering with tiie coughing complaint. { Sonite would appear to .have the best of tiie opposition m the Trial Plate next Saturday, as he is a colt that looks like being -well up to welter weights, and as ;he is nearly a three-yr-old and carrying al stone less than the older division, it r-points to hsm as being the victor. Succession, m A. Goodman 1 ® Trentham -tables, is looking well and going well m her work, but the Merrfe England gelding, Blurry Time, appears to be sore m front. White Lde, the remaining member Of this roe-tor's team, is being schooled over fences, and jumps well, though she has had to do all ber schooling alone. One of the biggest racing men" m Johannesburg is T. p. Johnson, aborotiier-in-law of the An^o-AJu_tra_ian trainer, •/R. Wootton. The S' African sportsman bas named a borsq, Prairie, after the famous' little light-wiefight, F. Wootton. It may i be mentioned here that Trainer R. Wootton has -won races m Australia, Africa, India, and England. Sonite, the big Field Battery colt m .W. Dawes' s__b.es, is generally noted the best looking horse trained at Trentham. He is doing a good bit of work, and recently ran a half-mile mS 53J seconds, which is a good gaHop, (as tiie tqacks are at present. , He is m the Trial jPiatc at Tremtbam, and' is- sure to be well backed m .the event m question. When oomperang m the Wanda. Steeplechase at Caulfield, Leeside met his end by fracturing a stifle. The old New Zealander was maSring his .first appe_ranc_ :in a race over big fences, and, up to the time of the accidnet, he liad .been jumping well and was up with the leaders. After '. breaking his stifle the old fellow went on for a . considerable distance, and i jumped three more fences before being • pulled up. The Western India Turf Club'S'Official calendar "is responsible for the following : — '"lt having been brought to the notice of the stewards that some persons are iv the habit of bribing jockeys and ■ridiing boys to give them -information as to gallops and other private stable matters, the stewards give notice tbat any person found so offending will be warned off the Bombay and Poona courses, and other places where the W.I.T.C. rules are m force. Any jockey or riding boy found improperly giving or offering such information will also bei warned off." The Menschikoff gelding, Electr akoff, has :&een at Trentham for the . past week, and \he 'has impressed all who have seen Mm by, the resolute manner m which he ploughs through the softgoing. He is i . only a Mttie fellow when stripped, and hast a lot of tbe Castor brand a|bo-* bim. Originaliv he was 'purchased for 31 guineas, biit previously to the decision of the York Weltter at the recent A. R.C. Winter meeting, his owner, a Thames sportsman, refused 50fr guineas for him.. Trutty, this was a big sum to refuse for _. gelding, and it is to be hoped that the owner's pluck will be rewarded. An interesting experiment was made recently at Maisons-Laffitte (says London ''Sportsman"), and probably the suc•cess which attended it. may bring back the old method of starting with the flag;. On that occasion the gate was only used as a [means of b-ringing the horses up level toa certain position. When this had been accomplished by thi* assi_tant,starter the signal, was given by the starter, who stood some paces m advance with Ms flag. It is supposed, with reason, that the official who is iv front of his horses is a better judge 'of their being on level terms than when perched m a stand and liavin« to fiddle with either a button or & dismantled squirt.

In Chrfst__ur__ it is said that Outlander has a great chance of winnngthe big hurdle race atßiccarton. Influenza has been very prevalent m Carmont's stables at Levin, and very few . of his team have escaped the malady. Awapuni trainers are very loud-moulded i about their tracks, which they declare are , 'the best wet weather ones m the Dominion. ' It would seem as if Le Beau was dead . istale after Napier, as he has been allow•led to drop oat of his Trentham engagements. / E. Yufle is working three ' ' horses y at Levin, but, so far, he _oes not appear to shelter a champion m his stable. Sir Frisco, who is well handicapped m the Parliamentary Handicap, looks very well, and has «videtrtly done a good preparation. A. Sheaxsby has returned Royal Maid to her owner at Pah-atna, and his team at present consists ot a quartette ol youngsters. T. Wilson has returned from his holiday jaunt to Auckland and JNapier, and ' has -commenced work again oc^WaiKuraka and Toanga. It is expected that m a couple of weeks the contractors will have finished their work, and handed over the new course at Otaki to the club. The steeplechaser, Lingerer, purchased by Mr H. M. Campbell at tbe recent Napier meeting, has been handed to R. Gooseman to train. ' In Melbourne the general opinion is that Prince Foote is very wetl treated -in being asked to carry only lib above weight lor age m tiie Caulfield Uup. ,- ,r, The Victorian crack performer, Alaw% has top wez^it, &J., m the Melaoyuttton Handicap, and -he same weight m both tiie Caulfield and Melbourne Cups. Tbe Auckland-owned Ngapoka, m charge ' of M. Ryan, who will ride him m __MR*rfiameartary engagement, is expected '«t headquarters on Tuesday evening. The winners of the Parhamentery Handicap, Winter Hurdles, and Wellington Steeplechase will have to put up a stone " penalty m tiie Nationals and Winter Cu^ A well-known veterinary surgeon at Palmerston North expresses the opinion that if Teotane is given a good, long spell he will get! over his bleeding ■ troubles. '..'■„ Turna ' by Stepniak— dairymaid, who '. runs m the nomination of Mr H. Whitney, will be the Porirua representative ; . m the Trial Plate at Trentham next , Saturday. v Ataahiia's form m the National Hutdies at Flemingfeon was too bad to Be true, and it must have been that the gelding wasted a race or two for sharpening purposes. -„.;' The Feilding horseman, W. "_ dung,; has had his services fully booked for the coming Wellington meeting, and on the opejfr 1 ing day he has a mount on every race, gn the programs me. .. .^ There is a rumor m the air of a -libsi case to! come before tiie courts shortly, the parties being a well-known traiiner and one of the leading sporting weekly papers m the south. y* .. Jack Cameron is expected from Ha!sirings on Monday next with Kaite^, Woolloomooloo, and Seraphic. The laSt „' named has been spelled since being brought' back from Melbourne. ; Miscast was schooled over the small hurdles at the Hutt on Saturday, but, .he pulled up sore, and his trainer has decided "to blister his affected joint, and spell him for a couple of months. ,-t^ " "'■ The owner of t Naumai is getting disgusted at the weights alloted to i>fie brown gelding, and contemplates retiring 3 - from the game. This horse was certainly well loaded at the last Otaki meeting Owing to tiie dearth of • capable hor^>men at tiie present time, several owners who have horses m ,the Wellington Steeplechase are experiencing great culty m getting suitable riders for^ their steeds. _, "■;•■■■+ There has not been much galloping' done at Trentham during the week, but now that several visiting' trainers have airived a change will take place, and loping and schooling galore should Jie witnessed every momtog. « E. Redmond arrived from the south on Wednesday, and brought Southern Or<^s and Intdrbonay witil him. His early^:departure from home was rendered neces- ■ sarv by the deartii of suitable horses to school with at Riccarton - . «-S? T_ainer Iferry Patchard, who assists his brotiwr m the preparation of frfs Hutt team, has been laid aside for stipe time, with influenza, but hs now enough to resume work, and will accompany, tbe team to Trentbam. :*** Feeling is pretty strong with reference to the. disqualification of "Tony!' Carmont at Napier. He has only one hand to ride with, the other being paralysed, and tiie genual opinion is that the pp-y was very harshly dealt with. 4 Though Penza always does well, she does hot improve m hKrfcs, and is , stm tiie same 1»g loose-framed fHly. She is 4b be started at Trentham, though one would hot expect that she w 0 t_d be p_rticularfy brilliant m heavy going. •?* If T-r<-»mH_ were back to his best form what a sorry mess he would make of $jie opposition m the Hack Hurdles at T^itham. The Stepniak gelding is well" up • m years now, and wiH probably mever be the same as when he won the Witffcr Cup. +v The Wellington Steeplechase, which is to be decided on the second day of the Trentham meeting, should furnish an exciting and keen race, and with jumpers lite Kaitere, Audax, Red McGregor, Capitol, Nero, and LoveU engaged, some •splendid fencing should be witnessed. Elcctrakoff will be ridden by the Kilets- ; .'lie light-weight, C. Brown, m his Trentham engagements. The latter horseman has recently joined the ranks of the benedicks, and has abandoned the notion jpf going to India to ride for ti»e owner of ; I Mooft»n, who offered him a good retainer. ,All tiie Bar Vons will tell you mournfully tbat there is "nothing m tire game," and that most of them axe dead brofe:e. Poor beggars. 'Tis wonderful, thougb, how they can manage to hang on 'to their great,, flashing tiamont rings' and lockets, smoke the best cigars, cab it everywhere, and indulge occasionally m a champagne night. . v Those riders who are plumping strbng for Paisano m the National Hurdles will be pleased to hear that W. Young will ride him m the big Riccarton event, and that the son of Strowan will run a great horse, baarring accidents — if he does not lose his breath, or fall over a hurdle, and if some other "ifs" do not militate against his chances of success. To show how the public dearly love a gamble rt may be mentioned that a Wellington firm of metallicians, which^lays a treble on the Winter Cup, Sb^tes, and Hurdles, is being besieged with inquiries re investments by people who are "anxious to try and win £400 for the modest outlay of five shillings. Though the odds against their picking the successful combination are about 66,080 to 1 and the price is only 1600 to 1, and later on is to 'be reduced by half, yet already some two thousand attempts have been made to pick the treble. It has often been said that the gambler never stops to reckon up if the odds are these for him, and this is true enough, for when a hettor will accept one-tortietfa of tbe correct odds about a bet it proves clearly tiiat the section of the public referred to do not stop to think. Tbe principal horses tbat are being' backed are Boane_™es, Penates, Faunus, North East, St. / idan, and Wet Day tn the Winter Cup ; Audax, Te Arai, Red .1 McGregor, Nero, Sir Lethe and Capitol m the Steeplechase ; and Paisano, Wimmera, Prophet, Oxton, M«__t_«_d T«a* ira m tlie Hurdles.