NEWS AND NOTES.

NZ Truth, Issue 507, 6 March 1915, Page 11

NEWS AND NOTES.

Akarda to-day. .';. Nelson Cup on Wednesday. Te Aroha to-day,and-Mbnday.y Racing, at- Napier- on Friday and Saturday.' - ■ Balboa' hasY^eenundJcriinated; for the big handlcapsfcat Easter-'^ -*Y-;^ Rlnaldo hasYrun three seconds out of as many starts for "WiriTpkena." Master .Lupin .was bought' for.. 33gns at onefof the Bushby Park sales.' \ The result of the Newmarket Handicap would be a royal one fdr the ring.' :, The Gore Racing Club will hold its Autumn meeting on Wednesday and Thursday next. Leonta ran two good races, at Wanganui. He is coming back to form, 7 so be ready for him. Tba Tere and Bercola \yere shipped to Sydney last week. Trainer J. Prazer follows shortly. ; The going at Wanganui was very false, and several horses did not show their proper form on it. Quality Is better represented at tho coming meeting at Masterton than it has been for years past' The hurdle races at Wanganui -were contested by small fields, but tha finishes were very close. The list of the irnportcd Hallowmas is full for next season, and over half full for the following season. The Racing Commission Is at present working the South Island. Its labors m the North were completed last iweek. Astor is only sniall and a bit of weight soon pulls him up. This was very noticable on the second day at Wanganui. R. Young's appeal against his disqualification by the Marton Jockey. Club, was heard at Wanganui last week and was dismissed. Goldstream could not act m the going on the opening day at Wanganui, but ho made the opposition look very cheap on Saturday. Those who noticed Banksla getting, banged about m the opening event at Wanganui .went for her on Saturday, when she strolled m. Do Gama met his Waterloo in_^o Essendon Stakes on Saturday, when the imported Land of Song defeated . him by^a, harrow margin. Like good wine Flinjot seems to improve with age. Tho Old fellow jumps ? better now, but he requires a lot of kid. to do his best on the flat. Crawford was priced last week eh behalf of a Dunedln buyer, but t*o hundred and fifty guineas was the/ium named, and this ■ stopped negotiations. Princess Moutoa was nicely weighted m th© Stewards' Handicap at ganul, but she finished out of a place, and Was not saddled up on-the secorid day. ■ '■'..•■ t: '■■■' W: Adams has been retained to ride tho Karamu jumpers this season. There ."'.will be plenty of them to steer as Ballln, Vascular, Peary and Co. are all m work. Pavlova is nominated for the' big handicaps at Ellerslie and Riccarton. For the sake of the know-alls, it may be mentioned that she will run ih the same Interests as In the past. ' Invader ran well enough m the Stewards' Handicap at Wanganui to encourage his owner to try him over a distanco of ground m the Stakes on the second day, but tho class was too high for him. Marimba goes five furlongs extra well, but she cannot get a yard past it. She was tried m open company on Saturday, but though she had no weight on ncr back, she could not see out the six furlongs. Combustion had a c^iebk put on him at Wanganui, and though fancied by his trainer, he failed-on both days. Tho chestnut cannot begin, and gets into all tho bother that is going m the first part of the race. Boldstroko now runs m the colors of Mr. D. Barry, and is trained by R. Barlow., If the New Plymouth trainer can succeed In quieting the San Francisco mare at the barrier, she will soon repay her purchase money. Ladoga was a double winner at Wanganui. Each time he vVas. ridden by Deeley, who seemed to, experience no trouble m getting him round tho turns. Prior to the meeting he did a very smart six furlongs on lho tracks, but tho "heads" would not stand for him because of'his "hanging" propensities. New York finished very fnst, and came from a long way back ln the Petre Hack at Wanganui, and on this form he looked to have a chance second to none on Saturday, but he began slowly, and was never dangerous. The llght-fleshed chestnut son of Frisco docs not arouse enthusiasm over his* looks, but he can gallop some. Before leaving Hastings for Wanganui. Fair Rosamond donkey-licked Indigo once round, and the sports there would not hear of the mare's defeat m the Steward's Handicap ht Wanganui. L. Wilson was m the saddle, but he could only get her into fourth place, whilo on the second day, when few of her backers went for a recovery, she finished third. Tho second day certainly looked tho timo to back fher, for she was much bettor treated than sho was on the opening day. A well-known Waipukurau native ln Rupuha Te Hlanga is ihc new owner of Jem. Rupuha raced many horses ln bygone yearn, and ihe best was probably Tirllea, on whom Jimmy Red- ' mond won ninny steoplochascs. Tirltea wus» In the big steeplechase ut EllerHlif once, nnd tlu- ruco looked n good thing for him, but while m New l'lymouth, waiting for a boat to lake him and the horso north, Redmond picked up tho paper, and found that tin* horso was scratched. Subsequently it was found thnt hl«* owner had a dream In which ho ww his how In a shipwreck, ho h?. Immediately wired scratching tho

| Lubriline is a long time striking | form. ■-.'_■• '•'" ' ! Nominations are -still getting' less and less. | Timothy changed hands at Wanganui for 33gns. Leapuki was sold during the Wanganui meeting. , The Rover has broken down, and could not race at Wanganui. The New Zealand-bred Fireglow won the 14.2 Handicap at Ascot last month. Ventura is to go to stud next season, and her first consort \tfill ybo Maori King. * . It looked a shame to start Chaminlde m the Wanganui Cup, for he was palpably sore. The nominations for the Easter and Autumn Handicaps at Riccarton show a. big falling off. Dinner Gong whipped round at the start of the 'Jackson Stakes .-and took ho part m the race. : News from Riccarton states that Reval has been very sdro since his return from WingatuL Master Strowan should have been home and dried m- the Second Hack Hurdles at Wanganui. Canella (Alawa-^Cruelnella) .has a very big knee, and it looks doubtful, if she will stand training. is full of promise, and gives every indication of being a bigger hofse than his Illustrious relative Patronymic was sold last week for ; 56gns. He is now an inmate of ' M. Gardner's Waverley stables. , Square Deal is again having a change of stables, and has left j. Farmer's at Awapuni.for a Feilding stable. / Auckland "heads," who cajne down to put it on Goldsize and El Gallo, returned empty m pooket ' Though tliero were several individual record investments the totallsator turnover showed a slight falling off. The report that Marshall McDonald is to be gelded is incorrect. He will finish up as a station sire at Okawa. A yearling full brother, to the champion Warstep has recently been taken m hand by. G. M. Aynsley. Tha juvenile • • Eligible, the full-brother to Bon Ton, is a very shapely youngstet and very like his brother, though he -will be a bit bigger. -''Y-'v'; '." A ' '■"' Black Heart is a badly-hatxdlcdppbd-horae. He has yet t6 v wln;a race, but he is always foutid well up in^ the weights. ;'■"'■ , Rlnaldo has not been nominated, m any of the big handicaps at Easter, • so, presumably, he will toe , seen out at the Feilding meeting. " ; Big money was won over Avon Park at Wanganui when thtf chesthut mare paid jus.t about double what her owner expected/her to vrash up. A-. peculiar fact m conectloh .witti the W\ahganui Cup was that the, horses were supported on the machine m the. order 1n which they figured.. on .the machine. . y Considering his recent form, Kew pa^fl a wonderfully good price whence defeated the three moderates opposedto him In the Hack Hurdles at Wanganui. ■*• ; ?'■..■■ Yfi'lingot was unlucky not' to. beat Stynax m the Westmore Hurdles, but those who looked upon the old Musketry gelding got a §?6od price on the second day. ' m the Flying Handicap at Wanganui, .Tree Lucerne looked a likely winner l lohg way -'from' hOme, but he had only a head; to spare from Postillion at the finish. ' Both the long hack races at Wanganui were won by inmates of F. Tilley's Fordell stables. These wero Austin and Ararat, who are the property of "Wiri Tokena." W, Price, who broke his collar-bone at Gisborne, was able to take his arm out of the sling on Saturday last. He hopes to be well enough to resume riding at Napier next week. The distance {ound out Rewi Poto In tho Wanganui Cup, and he was well beaten a long way from homo. The second day he was heavy m commission over a shorter distance, but Banksia up-ended him. The finish between Austin and Quo Vadis m the Wlrltoa Hack Handicap at Wanganui waj very close, and the Fordell representative just got thortf. Quo Vadis was m a bit of trouble over tho first part of the race, or tho re T suit may havo been different. Tirohanga performed very differently the second day at Wangamil to what ho did on Thursday, when ho was tailed off. The explanation lay m the fact that ho had dono very little work, and the race and another gallop between the races* worked a big Improver ment m him. Indigo was a four-flguro favorite In the Wanganui Cup, but though He ran a good race, ho could only finish fourth. He was railed home before the second day and presumably he will not do much moro racing this season, as he has not been nominated m any of tho big handicaps at Easter. The fact that Red Book cannot begin well enough to win a big sprint did not dotcr the betting public from making him second favorite m the Farewell Handicap at Wanganui, and it was plain that he was "expected." He was tailed off after going two furlongs, and seemed quite unable to go the pace. . It is hard to know how to sum up Postillion. The black horse must have been the cause of deep thought to his owner on numerous occasions, m the Flying at Wanganui ho ran like a good one, and only suffered a head defeat, but' m the Farewell Handicap, after doing a particularly good preliminary* he failed badly m the race, and finished out of a place. Tho win of ainstcr Lupin In tho Wanganui Cup was not unexpected,, ns ho had beon well tried at Bulls, and had done well ovor a ton-furlong course. Under Instructions, H, young put a break on tho field at the seven furlongs, and from this point nothing could got near the bay gelding. Rlnaldo stayed on the best of the others, and wns as fur ahead of the Held as Master Lupin was of him. Whon Master Lupin won the Wnnjrnnul Cup he put up now llKureH for the distance. StruiiKo how It is, always a moderate hor.se thai runs a record. In punt yi'iir.M, there have been much belter tj.ids than eonlept-d the Chip thlK year, and when tlivs entrl«« camo out, everyone remarked on the rubblnh tho list rcmtulnod. HUH. tho rubbish contained a horse that was able to run a record fur thu distanco.

Fortify finished fourth m bpth h^ck sprints', at ..Wanganui. . . '._ '.. / '/.,._ /'.' .They say Sylvan Dale does not-run up' to track"' foriri m ber-t-ades. •■"'- ■'?•;?? Inability to begin is the cause of Quo Vadis losing many races. ' Warstep has been entered for .-the big races at the C.J.G. Easiery meeting. /•• ■/ V -!••?>*-■-. ; *?"-.»/ >'- L. .Traill won^ both^tfuridle tfacesf oh, the fir;st day Of the Wangkhul meeting, Y^ „.:. .'-'.'. "■■ .':;• -- • : --- : -^y. Weights. . for s - C. J.C, . r .Eߣt^. : asd. Autumn -Handicaps are dueYon^jfche.ißth inst ;-,'. y. / / Weights for Mastertbn^^e'^aUO'^-fo-' day, and /acceptancg&'^tfsg/'dfl Thursday next. - ,r ' ''♦' ." '* .yvf> ■ Ardent hung 'out; a .lot, in *t£e' /flying ' at Wanganui,? ajjd ; .he ; wjas ,'njnt "a^pejp^pd. for on the- concluding day* „.,,'.,.. Crawford might have :boen.yßecond to Banksia had he not gOtaMiyrtoa^dly m the Autumn Handicap at -Wanganui. Hopes were entertained. that' Night will ;, stand , , training,' ■ a,nd yh<_v Js ' entered for / the big events a.ti Riccarton at Easter. Emperador has now won the Jackson Stakes twice... in succession. If Greenwood's moke wins it next "year, he will equal? the record of Achilles. Beiasco finished close up to." the placed horkes m tjie, Fiyl^g at'Ywlangahuii and on Saturday With the winner -and the third horse put, He. easily , scored m the Farewell Handicap. . j Ineru and ' Chakwana, ridden by tlie - ; two Reidß, battled put the finish for! second, place jn.Uhe Farewell Handicap at Wanganui, and the Ellectrlc Plate winner got the position by a head. Dinner Gong had plenty . of supporters' m the Flying at - Wanganui, because 'sho had galloped well with Emperador before theymeetlng, but m the race she go{ lost % the shuffle, and was not prominent at any stage; The Jaokson Stakes at Wanganui was the gbo'dthihg anticipated for Emperador. Blmeter went but with Flying Start and kept him going, and m the end Eniperador strolled- along In time to tear. it off.. , Raclnig clubs should be on' the gui vive,? as'kt Wanganui last week, eighteen forged tickets wereYput m on Master Lupin,/ and; it was only by careful examination that the forgery could "be detected.^ vThose^ who have seen the tickets say; they were almost perfect. , Ih/M&y last, Master Lupin wbii a hack rade at ' Wanganui when he was not eligible, to compete. : The .owner /of-, the second :horseY protested./ some mprtths later,-'-. but the' time-} for. protesting; *had 'expired. • To .got oyer the ' difficulty iir.L Jas. Bull has now. donated the amount to the Belgian Food Fund. Tw6 Imported stallions arrived /^in the Dominion last week. One was Absurdt(!Suji<lrra^^Jesi;; f r'&ndtktd&^Ho the Koatantii 'stud ; at /t/an^htii, ahd the other was, . Sahqubar '■ (Santry^Valve). The. latter was a gooa'-^ef-. fornix r^^^^j^ti^-„ tE^f^? owned by '"Sir /• Geo*' Clifford, Y'anji goes to Stonyhurst. . t / Handicapper R. Kelly. -Maitland, who has 'oMdiatecV-at CaulfieLd) for ..the slast 18 Ve'arA;YKVgolifYr<)^tiof the game. The resignation of the old : chap was- asked for by the V.A.T.C., owing to his having a little punt occasionally. * Of course this was always on other people's "handicaps, •' and • it is difficult to see whait harm there was rin it. •■■'.■lf the truth were known, it would probably be 'found that the V.A.T.C. is only using the, pijhting as an excuse to dump their old servant For a long time there has. been a lot of talk about lenient treatment one particular stable's representative received from Maitland, and sO outspoken was the section, that the Committee -was probably bounced] Into, taking action. /./";. ' V I

Sea Pink Is entered .for the Rosehill Cup to be run next Saturday. Camulus Itnd Banksia are freely entered at the Opakl meeting this month. R. Hatch has been granted a jockey's license by the Wellington Racing Club. He will' be riding at Napier next week.' Ardenvohr (Martian— Mary of Argyle), who cost 800gns as a yearling, has so far not returned her owner any of her purchase money. H According to, cabled accounts De; Gama rah a great race under his blg ; burden In the Australian Cup, but his impost was too much' for a , 4-ryear-old. Land of Song Is going tho right way to get his owner even on the 4000 gplden quidlets ho gave for him after he won the Irish Derby. Already he has won two weight-for-age races,? andseveral more look right for him now that he has defeated Mountain vKnight and De Gama, who represent the top form m Melbourne. : We live -in a record-smashing era, so far as the turf is concerned, and the strange thing, about most' of the time records isf that it Is always a moderate that hoists the figures. Who cotdd have expected Master Lupin to run a mile and three-quarters m 3 mins? One thing is pretty certain that the time was right asY several other watches agreed with it. " V Lempriere, winner of the Australian Cup, is a six-year-old eh. g. by The> Scribe from Colline. The Scrlbo was by Isinglass, but his dam was not an aristocrat." He is an American importation of "Lou" Robertson,. and he raced In the ex-New Zealanders colors.; He was formerly a Jumpers' flatter, and it is said the astute Robertson had hlm^ inYsmoko for a National, but ho went wrong ahd the , idea was abandoned. From a jumpers* flat performer (he won three oh end) to an Australian Cup winner is a big Jump for a gee gee, but Lfemprlcre Was equal to it. Robertson has directed the oampaign of the Imported horse after the manner, of an accomplished turf strategist, and he has hoodwinked the handicapping triumvirate— Menzles, Maitland and I Bauld — under each of whom he won a I Jumpers' Flat Handicap. f

A big contingent of horses are going to Nelson to-day. , ySilver Flood, who broke a fetlock While racing at Wanganui, was a stable mate of Bivouac The pair were trained by B. T. Bennett at Patea. Good entries have been received for the Autumn meeting of the Mastertori Racing Club. The hack events have filled extra well. £1800 for place prize money m Tatt's sweeps on the Launoeston . Cup went - to New South" Wales, £1440 went to Victoria, £1800 to Queensland, £4000 to New Zealand, and £5000 to Western Australia, or £14,040 ln all. This apart from starters and non-starters' money and cash prizes. There would be^oy m the ranks of Cohen m Sydney and Melbourne over the success of the rank outsider ln Blague m the Newmarket Handicap. The viotory of Lemprlere ln the Cup. would not hurt them, as the ring never has the rißks m the second leg that it has" m the first l A local preacher had a fling at horse racing and gambling last week. For the life of "Spearmint" he cannot make out. why the "pas Suns" tackle a subject they know nothing about it'B any odds, the black-coated one was never on a racecourse m his life. Were "Spearmint" not of a very retiring nature, he would give an address on some, theological subject There would be just as much sense In this as. a parson preaching on gambling and racing. Melbourne "Truth" has the following about the New Zealand-owned Sir Solo: — Very much ln the betting limelight m connection with the last four starts— three at Caulfleld and one at Fiemington— Sir Solo has, all the same, developed mild premonitory symptoms of "penollltis" on each occasion, but not to an extent to warrant the ''smell-a-rat" seotlon of ring operators to Institute a knock-out until Saturday, when the more daring penolllors as-* sumed a decidely hostile attitude towards the Maorllander. His running went to show that they were not taking any war risks ln driving him from 8 to l to practically "write your own ticket." There Is no surer way of getting a Hop-weight beaten m a mile than to jump him to the front from the word "go," arid to attempt to fnako every furlong post a winning post This ,is what L. Fisher did, thus faithfully repeating the reckless tactics he adopted ln the Anniversary Handicap on the same course a month previous. As the Bond Cup was run within a quarter of a second of tho mile and a half record for Caulfleld (2.34 put up by AurJfer), is It ahy i, wonder that Sir Solo cried "peccavi" after cutting out the flrst six fulOngs with 9st on his back. The quidnuncs are wandering when tho Maorllander is going to materialise. Certainly /not until ho Is ridden'in a more rational manner than he has been on his last two appearanoes on tho Heath."