NEWS AND NOTES

NZ Truth, Issue 849, 25 February 1922, Page 7

NEWS AND NOTES

Be with Maniahera at Wanganui. Dannevirke on. Wednesday and Thursday.

The Wanganui meetdng concludes today.

Dannevirke on Wednesday and Thursday next. ' .

Entries for the Napier meeting close to-night. ' ,

R. S. Bagby rode Void m his Woodville engagements.

La Paloma gets well looked, after by the weight adjusters. ... ... . ... •Record entries, have been 'received for .the Blenheim meeting. •-•-'•.' '*- Newmarket ■ Handicap run. -at-; Flem-. ingtoon .next Saturday. '■'■ v :.;■<''• ■ Marqueteur 'is the '•; eleventh hour tip for . the : Wanganui* Cup. '_'!"■ '_"■,;!'• Akar'oa has got good entries, and the coming meeting should be a good, one.

Rowan will not be long now. Passionless is to lake on open, company at Dannevirke next week. '

Halcyon is the makings pf a good hurdle horse. .

St. Easel was backed and beaten on the concluding day at Wingatui.

Seventeen horses in*the Wanganui Cup, •It is the biggest field of recent years.

Flying Nell, the dual winner at Woodville, is a bit above the ordinary hack.

Trespass was unlucky on the second day at Wingatui, and he should have won^

Black Art' -\-yas expected to win a race a£ Woodville, but the Hastings animal let his party down with a thud.

t With an ounce of luck, Battle Song would have defeated Honey Bee on the first day at Woodvdlle.

Chimera is back to form again, and at Woodville she won with a good hold of the bit on each day. ■

Lovematch is lame behind,* and this is the reason for her absence from the Wanganui meeting.

Racing at Nelson next week, when the folks of the sleepy town 'will have sport on three days.

Entries for all events at the Rangitikei meeting close with, Secretary H. A- Goodall, on Monday next at 9 p.m. -

War Loan was sore at Woodville, and was- started off m the hurdle race on theopening day. ' .

A. Oliver is riding m his' best form 'at the present time. He steered Makere to victory at -Woodville.

Volo, . Chimera, Mountain March • and Flying Nell were dual winners, at Woodr ville, : -. . : , • v ■ :. „: .. Insurrection is very slow-to begin iri his races, and this gets him m a hopeless position. - ' . ' -."..:■'.. Better handled, Silver Peak would have beaten Wdnning Hit m the Hazlett Memorial Plate at Wingatui.,

The Otaki trainer, D: Webster, is taking Bestir, Bonecto and Deriioness to the Marlborough meeting.

Stan Reid, who. has beeri ori a holiday visit to his relatives m the Dominion,.returned to Melbourne last week. -■

Kick Off is to make bis* first appearance this season m the Open Welter at Dannevirke next week.'

I Old. Gold, who has been off the scene for several months, is back m work at .Woodville. .*• ■' Honey -Bee won like a good horse at Woodville, but his showing on the second day was poor. A „.-•'-■ "•y. Mireusonta has been troubling his trainer, and he was too sore to start at Woodr ville.- - , ' y - Joe Killorn will be on Mermin {n . the ' NewMarket Handicap, and E- O will be on another New Zealand bred one m False Alarm (Finland-Gossip).

The new owner of The Cypher is Mr. D'Arcy Eccles of Melbourne, and the two-year-old will be trained by P. Guinane at Caulfteld. ' , . ' :

, The .Opaki trainer, T. Higgins, and' his apprentice, F. McGowen, have been most consistent m winning with Mountain March of late.

Roseday is extra good,, and. just how good we will see before the season closes. Tatau Tatau ran off the course on both days at Wingatui. • '

Amythas is nothing like a good than g m the Wanganui Cup. If he can pcore with 10 at. 2 lbs., he well .deserves* the prize. ,

The Achilles gelding; Heel Tap, who has not raced for nearly five years, has been nominated for the open sprint on the second day of the Marlborough meeting.

Ditchley, who got badly cut about at Marton m September, has made a good recovery, and it is dntended to race the Boniform filly at the Blenheim meeting.

Owners are reminded that nominations for all races at the Masterton meeting close to-night (Friday), Feoruary 24th, at 9 p.m., with Secretary A. Hathaway.

At Warwick Farm,- the New Zealander, Dusty, started favorite m the Maiden Handicap six furlongs, but he could only fill second place to Poilu, the full brother to Poiti-el.

The Vallarice colors,- which Have hot been much in 'evidence this season, were well dn the limelight at Woodville, where the old stager, Chimera, won a double, and the. Roniform two-year-old, Penejis, scored oh the opening day.

Melbourne files state that though' Mer-, mm is looking well,, he has either got very lazy or has lost his form, for, when going alone or m company, he is unable to make time m his gallops.

H. Cairns scored on two horses Of C. T. ©odby's at the Epsom meeting on February 4th They were Flaviol and Demetrius, and they each started favorite. Cairns was roundly cheered on landing the double at his first attempt. -

In managing a racehorse the great secret is to get him well beaten on hus first couple of appearances. He then drops to the bottoni of the weights, and can win a couple of times before .he gets up to tho top. A good, first appearance is often fatal to a horse's chances.

Simonides seems back to his best form, and was very unlucky not to win the concluding event at New Plymouth. He was going like a winner dn behind the leaders at the home turn when he got interfered with and sent back to last place. 'His- owner expects him to win a race on the' Wanganui trip.

There is a big increase m the galloping entries at the Nelson meeting, and it looks as if J. H. Finney and his club will experience a. most successful fixture. The meeting takes place on Thursday and Saturday next, and wdll be" followed by the Marlborough meeting next week.

„Ah extraordinary occurrence resulted at Victoria Park early this\month. In the 14.2 Handicap Why Why and Beon ran a dead heat, and the owners decided on a run-off.. Again the pair could not be split by the Judge, so the winners then agreed to divide. J. .E. Madden,- the most famous breeder and racer of race horses m America, has a farm at Lexington, Kentucky, 2000 acres pf the finest blue grass land. He Has other large interests, and possesses a large fortune— but not one cent of this has ever been made through betting on race horses, notwithstanding the fact that he has bred have been big. winners, and he has been fdllowdng the turf for. 40 years'. . ■ George V., King of England, scored his first turf victory of the season ' at tha Gatwick course near London, Oct6ber 18, when BowoOd, from the Royal "stables, which was an outsider iri the bettdng, carried off first honors m the feature race for a purse of* £1000. The King had placed his horses on several occasions, but Bo.wood's victory marked the first time he had taken down the, long end of a purse. Bowood defeated Winter King, odds-on favorite, by a nose. Frank Woottori; who was 28 on December 14, is declared by London "Sporting Life" to be-" without doubt the finest horseman since the. days of Fred Archer. He was only thirteen when he rode his first winner m England, Retrieve, at Folkestone, and three years later topped the jockeys' list with 165 wins out of 777 mounts.*- In the three ..following seasons he was again champion 1 jockey. Besides his triumphs m England Frank Wootton has ridden winners m Australia, South Africa and Mesopotamia. There ds a lot' of. talk m sporting circles lately about ''the way the racecourse'detectives are carrying out their duties, and it looks as if there will be an eruption yat any time "unless the officials are worded and told to, do their duty properls*. At the present time decent citizens are being "insulted, and the. president «of the conference should give the matter his personal' attention .or next session of Parliament there will be such .an, outcry by the Labour. M.P.s that Sir George will wish that he had never .thought of racecourse detectives. ,

A tale which reads ■ uncommonly liko the old, pony days at Miramar is told anent a recent race meeting m Australia, where, m one event, there were only two starters. It looked all Australia' to a peanut on one, but the owner, not willing to lay such odds, interviewed ■ several bookmakers and "arranged, for a consideration, to reriio've a' few pounds of lead "\frorn his horse's pkck.'So the books went «lpn .cheerfully taking' a 'shade of Odds. The Mood thing duly iromped • home. 'but the Sbooks still smiled, only for a .little., while, ihowever.: , The clerk 'of. '•.scaled £irid the/ 'Jjudge- had dropped to the joke,,. and had .quietly invested a tenner apiece, on. the' winner. v-The -former- ahh'ounce'a ' "An slight," and the judge, promptly ordered i.;the hoisting of the flag. The bookmakers could not- squeal, of course.' but the things thpy.. said -to themselves' rose blisters on the roofs of their mouths.

Egotism has got every pound she is entitled to m the Wariganui Cup. . She has 10 lbs. more than she .carried at Wellington, and the distance is two furlongs further for the' pony daughter of Deiriosthenes. *

Spring Tide, who raced all last season withqut getting a place, "scored an unexpected "win m the Second Hack Hurdles at Woodvilie. Spring Tide Is by Au'tumnus from Ebb Tide, an,d is a half-sister to Battie Tide, who shaped well as a juniper m the northern district..

:.London . ''Sportsman" states that, the first race, at Birmingham ori November 28 was put back fifteen minutes owing to the late arrival 6t" Frank Wootton, ''the ex-Au'strftiian jockey. " .The train m whibh he was travelling to .the course was delayed. Wootton. rode the winner pf the race.

Something like a record "vv-as established at Woodville when five horses, that won on the 1 first day were saddled .up on the second day, arid four of them won. The weight adjuster's .face must have been a study when the last one rolled home. . '• -.■',.-

Writing after' the Dunedin meeting, a prominent southern .trainer says: "Bad starts and . foul riding . were the main features .of 'our meeting. In the. big handicap the second day, the' field was knocked over at the 'start by one of the riders, and m the race anything that .came near him got the worst of it. Stipe Me-, Mahon is badly wanted down here.". ■■'.. ■■■-

Solfanello is being trained, at Morddalloc.fpr the Newmarket Handicap.^. Ih being asked to concede a pound to Greenstoad, the Trentham horse lias none the' best of it, and he .is not%likely to trouble the judge. A Sydney bookmaker, probably acting on behalf of Wellington pencillers, has backed the horse for £600.0, and the double, Solfanello— Dayid,. has also received attention.; Evidently the local bookies think some Wellington , punters will be . crazy enough to back Solfanello On the day. - ' ' .

'-,-.• '/ The. action of a galloping horse has been -analysed by instantaneous photography. Photos taken' at the instant when all four legs are off the ground show the back is arched, the hind feet are directed forward, and • the forefeet backward, so that all are tucked an under the animal's body. When the limbs ag&in touch the ground, the first to do so is one of the hind "feet, which is /thrust far forward so as to form an acute ..angle with the line of the body, and thus serve the purpose of a spring m breaking - the force of an impact of the hoof x when the horse is"> going A at top speed.- ..

i A Melbourne Veterinary Surgeon,, who subsequently graduated as a 'Doctor of ,Medicine, has given, special attention to cases ,o& bleeding iif racehorses, arid .he is confident that He can cure any case of bleeding froni' the lungs. Some bleeding.' comes from - blood vessels, dn the head, but these cases are ndt or importance. The general run b$ "bleeders" bleed from the lungs, and this was proved by inserting- a tube m a horse supposed to bleed- from the head.' When t'he "horse wHs given exercise the blood gushed from the lungs. To' conquer the lung-bleeding thisdoctor has perfected an injection that coagulates the blood sufficiently to pragp vent any "effusion, and his has offered to wager that he can cure any case of bleeding and keep a horse fit to run even after a bleeding attack;