NEWS AND NOTES.

NZ Truth, Issue 474, 18 July 1914, Page 8

NEWS AND NOTES.

F. Flynn has been suffering recently with an attack of pleurisy. E. Lowe is now permanently domiciled m Brisbane and is riding for Mr. E. J. Watt. Bracken struck himself very badly while working at Trentham on Tuesday. He was very lame after it. Morning has been m m unlucky vein lately. First of all he contracted a dry cough and now he is suffering from a cracked heel. . Jackman is as skinny as a maggot and seems to have gone the wrong way since he won at Wanganui. His National prospects do not look good. A. Oliver has been offered the mount on Gigandra m the Epsom Handicap. The big Ibex' gelding will not be at 100's to 3 if the only Oliver goes over to ride him. Old Goodwin Park has broken down badly and it is feared he has run his last race. This is unfortunate as he promised to be a hard horse to beat m the National Hurdles. "Kinoh" Irwin is going back to Ellerslle next week to bring Ngatlruanui down for the National Hurdles. The gelding jumped exceptionally weU m a schooling gallop last week. Ruatangata has improved a lot of late and looks more like a sprinter than a hurdle horse. He got pricked somehow on Tuesday and a "vet" had to be called m to attend to him. J. W. Lowe's rising two-year-olds are all looking and sprinting well at Trentham; arid their owners, the Messrs. Riddifprd, should play an important part m the decision of the weight- for-age races next season. The annual football match between the North and South Island jockeys is attracting considerable interest this year and both teams are training hard. The Northerns bought a new ball last week and nearly kicked it to pieces at practice. A prominent legal practitioner m Wellington has joined the ranks of winners and has registered his colors. He has purchased the Danube — Mistime youngster from the Messrs. Riddiford, and for the time being J. W. Lowe will train for him. . Mr. Alf. Rore, owner of Beacon and several other horses, intends standing as a candidate for Parliament m the Maori interests next election. If the dusky man from Blenheim is as popular with the Maoris as he is with the white folks he is sure of election. Leonta is reported to be schooling well at Fordell. He is coming into favor for tho Grand National Hurdles. The Conqueror gelding is a very active horse and should make a good hurdle horse. He will be given his first race over fences m the Trial Hurdles at Riccarton. Every day Voritas grows more like his sire Elevation, and if it were not for the fact that the latter is m the paddock one could easily -mistake Sir George Clifford's horse for the Rototawa sire. Veritas has improved a whole heap m looks lately. His crest is bigger and he has filled out everywhere. Discussing Clontaffs victory m the V.R.C. Grand National Hurdles, the Melbourne correspondent of the "Sydney Sportsman" says: "His owner, Mr. A. Mathcson, does not seem to be much known, and though he figures m the race-books as the trainer, it would seem that a brother of (he disqualified trainer, M. T. McGrath, has a good deal to do with that part of the business, while E. A. Connolly, who threw m for a big stake, would appear to take much interest m him."

' Hector Gray is now residing m Melbourne. ! ', • \ Trainer James O'Neill has cancelled his proposed trip to Melbourne with Cheddar. . The Fordell pair, Kew and Kanlkl, both look pictures and a stake or two should fall. to them at Roc*carton. On appeal to tho V.Tt.d the twelve months' , disqualification recently imposed upon the ex-New- Zealander, Tommy Cahill, was reduced by one 'half, i Herb ? Price, the "sports' mercer," Willis Street, Wellington, extends a hearty invitation to all sports m town for Trentham races to call upon himl "His window display is at present one of the sights of tho city. During one of his early schooling lessons, Royal Arms went through a fence and the result was a badly enlarged kneo which he still carries. However, it does not impair his jumping m the least though often he is very lame on it. ' Several of the horses that raced at Trentham on Wednesday, seemed to be suffering from an nttack of the "slows." It may have been the weather, or perhaps it was the big stakes offering at Rlocarton next month that was responsible for the trouble. Ij. Traill would have been well at tho head of the list of winning rlder« over fences had it not been for the accident he met with at Ellorslie last month. He would have been on Leapukl, Bonny, Hutana, and Sam Pan m their winning efforts at Hastings and Napier. ' It is easy to tumble why they will it the "grandstand" out on tho course. Everyone stands up when the gee gees commonca to niovo: and Its ten to ono that some burly blighter will rise up oven on tho mil or a seat m front, and absolutely obliterate your view of the race, which you have paid your ailler to get up into tho stand to sec. Friends of Jockey V. U>e, will be glud to hear Out I ho 1b milking good over tho other side. When ho left New Zealand n« Just wont to Tasay, but did not stay there long, but went on to Now South Wales, where ho hit v town yclept Wlnghttm. He writes ho has hud ton rltie« which panned but In throe wins, twy seconds and three thirds. 4 . Tho Froggyvoos run their racing on strict lines. At a mooting near C3ay Puree lv** { month, tho trainer, I). JlellY. wu« fined 300 francs for huvlng He.nt to the post a tilJy thut luul been m HuUiclently schooled hi the ulurtlnggute. Tho tralnorw have all been notified that they will bo held reaponxlblu for uny trouble thut Is given by their horses at the barrier. F. W. MeCube. who went to Melbourne to ride Obi m the Y.U.C. (Jmnd National Hurdles, «uy» the old chestnut wan badly kicked by another homo «pvernl limes before, this burrler rose. Ha jumped perfectly In the race, but tho kicks left him too sore to mine, v git Hop «nd he ilnlnhec! lam but one. After the race both his fore-leg* were found to bo bndly cut and tho gelding also twisted v plate. A well-known Chriatchurch bookmaker concluded hIH letter m the following termn lust week:— "l need hnrdly remind you that thi» account la now three months overdue; uevortho--li>h«, In your nbHonce I will refmin from taking notion for another neven days, hh 1 think it Is not altogether Improbable tlmt you may be away training for a 25-mllo Mnrnthon race, for which d — — (1 long-wlndedneHH Jh a npiiclul qualification." Clontuft, winner of the V.R.C Grand National liurdlo Jtnee, wuh got and foaled at Orbost, Victoria. Within a week of birth h« followed hl« tlnm, Cookci'. In a ttlxty-mllo walk to Wyumt, near Huirtmiulc, wh«-r«« h« wu« r<ar«>*l. Glvtm nwny «* »» hnete nt I yvsirn, (lie recipient naked bin breeder. 31 r. W. Counlhun, to lake, him buck, lie did ho and after wlnnioK v number of evrnla with lh« gelding, sold him for "'a. tnonk«y."

The speedy Jason is again m work at Hastings under T. F. Qulnlivan. While m Sydney. Black All proved to bo quite unmanageable, and* his owner gave instructions' to have him gelded. Did you see Sunrose ' jumping on Monday last? And one trainer remarked, "Gee whiz! He takes oft before the nominations." j Jockey Ned Kelly has been schooling Tragedy King over hurdles at Elierslie. Kelly is a most enthusiastic track, worker and deserves more success than comes his way. No fewer than twenty horses sired by Positano "are engaged In the Melbourne Cup. Lord CardlganT Poseidon, Lord Nolan, and Piastre nro four horses by that sire who have already | won tho big two-miler. Mr. G. L. Stead, owner of Boniform, reports that his horse's list for the coming season is filling rapidly and very few subscriptions are left. Owners who intend sending mares to tho Amberley Stud should get m early to avoid being squeezed out. , Tho owner of Master Stroman, run-ner-up to Otakl hits lodged an appeal claiming the stake, owing to the winner having boon awarded the stako m the Plying Handicap on tho opening day. Tho Racing Conference is to be asked to settle tho matter. In making an application for a pubMean's license a little while ago at a place not a hundrod miles from Napier, a well-known racing man was' informed by the presiding magistrate, that being an owner of face horses ho would bo likely to attract to .his establishment trainers, Jockeys and other undesirables, therefore, ho could not see his way clear to grant tho license. The foregoing, but a sample of the Justice of some of tho decisions glvon before by the same gentleman, and this being the case, "Truth" would llko to know how long tho people arc going to stand it. Wo don't blame »i magistrate for being narrow-minded, most magistrates are, but wo cortainly blame tho system that appoints such people to responsible positions.

Postillion is again m work at Fordell. The well-known sportsman, Mr. Percy Martin, recently retired from business m Napier, owing to failing health. Tom Pay ten has, at the moment, 32 horses m work at Raridwiok. Of the number 16 are yearlings, > The New Zealand light-weight, cAA^rmont, will ride for Payten and his lE^rons during the approaching spring; H. Cairns, who rode Clontaft to victory m the V.R.C. Grand National Hurdles, had a big packet of money going with United Kirigdom who finished second m the Steeplechase. Sev r oral other Maorilanders at present fn Melbourne also supported the same combination.