TURF TATTLE: Continued.

NZ Truth, Issue 437, 8 November 1913, Page 8

TURF TATTLE : Continued.

■A. Oti»er wide three winners at El|e*siie on Wednesday. YLos Angelp6 was priced alter the ■ Trentham meeting* but no deal resulted. -■ .'" Soltano, drime and Addnought werfc well backed m Wellingtoo when they scored at YEUersße. Anna Cariovna made some 'slight Amends, lor. her CaUlheld Cup failure i by puttings tho Melbourne Stakes to her credit. atv liewington on Saturjday. 7" ,v:Y ;-...,- ■■ -*' Those ' j&SaiiW at Greymouth say H. Bottovan" fiiitly excelled himself m his ridln^dfKoyal Marine on the iirst day, when the chestnut got home by a head. -'J The victory of A.drinought m- the Ohehanga JSteeplechase was generally anticipated ,m Wellington, and the layers wrote nothing but the. Hun-tervflle-owncd < horse. •■ It is not often that a racing club loses mon^^vsr a meeting nowadays, bat, owifcgYfo the wet weather, this was-.the KKperieniJe of the CJreymouth Club.. A deficiency of £200 is reported. ■;- "<- Mr.YE/ ;> !3€£_itford, owner of Royal Marine,, headed. < the list of winning p**a&a, r Q&.„th& recent Greymouth meeting. - v Be should now be well even oa his'-parchase of the Royal Artmery .gelding. . Th^re -was » sftfit m the ranks of the Waikebiua peopie after this Gfey-jnouWYa^eeiifife'-aitd the. black gelding has now changed hands. In con-.. Sequence of tie saute trouble, Day- A Jbceak had a change of stables. .. ' .- AnckSaatders to a man were oa'Jftck Doiavai m the City Handicap, I As it was*s^|arally agreed that the little feUo^fiatf'incu^vW a .whole j heap, and was a better horse now] than.los^ycayw. > X Cohside&iig J^ffe* trouble Hkely to j lie caueod, Trainers W. Ring and G. Price decided not to take the risk of jfthippii^ tipti* horses south on Wedl^esday^ and, when, -these lines were \ written/ Miery wens* still at Tren- _-_. '-'-- ■* i * ;- ,tnam. v '+■ Some thirty-two horses were ship/ ped south by the Ifaunganui an Wed* nesdqy, ,T. t'QuinHvan hard 7, a. WaddeU 0, F. Tißey &, B. George 8, jffi'Citts' 3, W, Trask 2. TL CoHalo V ja <yma_% t, ciark i,h. j Ktojfaa J;;" li.' Barlow V jR. Douglas 1, aid G. McLean 1. Ronakt CwLperon, who rode The? Barisiab, ,lhe winner of the Mel--, bourne Cup tW years agoy did 1 hot hi&vV a.ntdunt. in this year's race.. Ho was engaged lor The Parisian, but the honse split has hoof a couple of weeks before the race, and this left Camercm without amount. . Prior to Piastre winning the Melbourne Cup last yeas, he did a sew satkmal . gallop at - Fleming-ton, viz., one and three-quarter miles m 8.7. Several trainers then voted bim absolute, and? said there was nothing m timing horses if he could not win. This year there was nothing approaehhiff this gallop ' before the msgdncc. Prior to lefcvtag tor KeSbourne to rtde Oosaka, Q. Emerson rode Black and Gold to victory at Kembla Grange. He wan also on Fugue, and won tbe conctuajcDg event by a good two lengths, but tbe horse finished wide out and the lodge missed him completely. The crowd made a big noise, and one New Zealander. is describing it, soya, ♦'Potter's Padidoek: was not m it.** . Those who are dreaming, „ and otherwise tipping the Cup winner, will be Interested m the story >A the most remarkable coincidence tip that swer occurred. It" was m tho 189* Melbourne Oop. At that time .the four big distance handicaps of the Victoria© Spring campaign were the Canlftold Cup, Moonee Valley Vdßey Cup, Marfbyrnong Cup, and .Melbourne .Cup. Paris, figuring No. •1, woo the first; Preston, as No. 8, |he second; awi Tridentote, as No. 9, the third. It only required No. 4 to .win, the fourth j to complete the numerals of the year. Originally, a horse whose chances were none too good appeared likdy to have thai manbet, but ;he was scratched, .' and Patron, whb^wwxt^ont as No, 4, won comfortably. &

Dunloe, winner of the Cup Steeplechase at Fiemington, has now won three cros.«»-country events on end. The ex-New Zealander, Merry Goer, was runner-up m the Ascot Thousand at Melbourne on Wednesday last. Hector Gray passed through Wellington on Tuesday, bound for Riccarton. He has been licensed by the Taranaki District Committee, to. take effect from November 7. '

AN ALL-ROUND SPORT.

(Handicapper, Auckland Racing Club and Many Others). This is Handicapper Morse, He knqws all about the Horse; Can shoot^ and cast a line with the rest o* them; And the stories he can tell Make the sourest laugh like hell, -But fi?B only the elite hear the best o* them.

I A. Shanaban, who rode the winner of the Melbourne Cup, was , formerly J a licensed apprentice m the service 'of .D. W. Lowe- at Trentham, but during the last two years he has j been a rwident of Sydney, where he has met with a fair amount of success. Last November he "fluked" the ride on Piastre m the Melbourne Cup, and duly landed. This year he has again done the trick and put up a record performance m winning tho big Fiemington event two years m succession. Though the dreamers are not so plentiful this year, still, one or two are with us. The latest is from a Wellington resident. He admits that overnight he had a glass of wine and' some lobster, but, as he has had tbe same supper before, ho refuses to connect it wtth his dream, which is as follows: He says that the picture was roost vivid, and he intends acting on it to-day. But, to the dream. In the middle of the night ho was surprised to find tho • sun shining brightly. Then ho was informed that tbe Quarantine station was on flro, and, immediately a fireman galloped past on a roan mare. Summed up, -he thinks that Midnight Sun, Quarnntino, and La Reina will be the places to-day.