OTAGO JOTTINGS

NZ Truth, Issue 770, 7 August 1920, Page 7

OTAGO JOTTINGS

(By "Galtymore").

It is said that Jim Thistleton contracted a huge smile "on tap" when Sartolite ran second at Timaru. Lawsuit jumped very poorly m his first attempt at Timaru. He gave a much better exhibition m his other race. Still, he had all the luck, as General retain ran very wide going out of the straigbt, and Sir Medallist came down at the second last fence. Had the latter Hf '" (l '"> he would probably have beaten Lawsuit, Bill Coughlan is a great believer m trees, and is energetically pushing ahead tree-planting at Wingatui. Jock is m form, but will need it all and more for the Cup event. The track is kept fairly bnsy at Wingalui these days owing to" the tlrv weather. Stiven has some juveniles m hand, and pays a visit to Wingatui now and then when he wants a sun-bath. Southlanders has not had much faith m local mokes running at Timaru Very little, it is said, was put on. Two gee-gees worth watching, Sembric and Bengeroop. Watch for the latter at the National meeting. Bonister is a promising 'chaser. He made a very creditable showing at Timaru. One of the hardest heads at the game chucked a "fiver" away on his chance fit Washdyke. However, he will come good some day. The racing at Washdyke showed what a rotten lot of gallopers we shelter at Wingatui and m Southland. Proper place for some of them is drawing a cart. It's a good job there is no death m the community, but matters tended coflinwards at the recent annual meeting of the Otago Jockey Club. There are two factions m the matter, and the reader can imagine the rest. Brethren: The sermon ,to-clay is brief, but has a moral. Scotty Bryce. F. Holmes, M.- Ed wards. H. Young: and K. lieed went to sunny Sydney for a holiday. How many punters could do that? Verily may it be said unto you that racing is the sport of kings — and mugs. Solomon Septimus Myers, dentist and D.J.C. steward, is doing the bays and by-ways of Honolulu. Tom E'Hott, another steward, is back from Samoa; he's as healthy looking as a cocoariut, and must have smacked not a few of the dainty hairy heads. One is surprised to learn that L. C. Ha'/.lett had any faith m Morecambe, |i"v ! na ro-rf-- 1 to the !att«-'e oyhibitirn of form at Timaru. But faith- Is a gift. It is somewhat amusing to note that Parson ,J. J. North and E. P. Brown, of the Council of Churches, are rather m agreement with the Dunedin Jockey Club Ist. minimum. • Surely these gentlemen i nrp misrepresented. It's the 12-stone j minimum on a Clydesdate they would |

8"ivo us, if their remarks mean anything.

The Heroism— Kathleen gelding, InnisI'allon, wriggled home at South Canterbury. Heroism is an Aussie item and was at one time controlled by "Put" Ho,ian. "Put" considered him a stoomer m stud and field, and many others shared Hogan's opinion. The Winton Jockey Club intend making their numerous lady supporters nice and enmfy next season. It is high time indeed, as many of the fair sex had to carry hot bricks and other domestic appurtences m their muffs and hold-alls.Ta, ta ! Dr. Gow, you have wakened, you have. * J. R. Hamilton, the Parliamentarian Kas-tube for Awarua, is still blowing hot fc,nd cold on the Winton Jockey Club, and tiouthlanders are fast getting their bellies full of his steam. Hamilton says c>ne thing m Awarua and another thing m Wellington. Little wonder Watty Taylor has sized him up properly, and has told him m plain terms what to do m Wellington. Let's see if holy Hamilton, M.P., will do it The great query for Watty Taylor and other sane people m Awarua is, does Hamilton, M.P., represent or misrepresent the electors of Awarua? If he has been found wanting (and he's certainly not doing' what he Is told or what he promises), then give him the ballot axe on the big head. That will settle the acrobat.

A sporting Dunedin chemist suggests to writer that Sir G. Clifford should baptise his latest promising turf youngster —Stokehold. The jocks let down Sir George, and the sporting knight lowered the seamen, but it is suggested that "Stokehold" (if so named) can't let down anj'one. Anyway, the proletariat abaft the fo'c'stle need turf honors.