THE TURF

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14457, 25 February 1909, Page 10

THE TURF

By Sentinel.

THE TAIIUNA PARK MEETING. The Taluina Park Trotting Club will commend) their .autumn meeting on Friday next, ami it will be concluded'on the. foilowing Wednesday. The oiub have issued a record programme for llio fixture, and the increaitt.l .stakes should bring alwtl, soma keen competition for their possession. The first race is timed to start at 1.15 each day. -All Red, Gold Crest, and Taitoko are amongst (he likely runners at the Waiiganui Cup meeting. ■-A Sydney cablegram reports Hint Motor liiut l>L'cn scratched for the Newmarket Handicap. — A complimentary ticket for the 'Wan ganui Cup meeting is to hand, and acknowledged with thanks. — A Melbourne cablegram states that Alnwa has been scratched for .all (mgagoHi'.'nt- at tin; V.Pi.C. Autumn meeting\ —At the Mastcrtou agricultural show last week CotUjilwor was awarded first and champion in the thoroughbred stallion class, P>:ris and Chatsworth being second and third. — An offer of 10033 was refused for Courier prior to hi.-; dual win at tlio Egmont meeting. Courier is a half-brother bv Advance to Bailing. —11 i-i reported from the north that the last has Veen seen oi the Lochicl horse Glenullin on the turf. Lyrist is another northerner reported to b.i amiss. '—Grafton Inch is among.-;', there getting through lenient tasks at Wingalui. lie has bscii spelled owing to msotiug with a mishap white being schooled over mirdlcs, — Tlio thoroughbred horses Peneforrn (Multiform—.St O'uklu). My Lawyer (Mlncl:ftoiie— liiinnclinc), ami Tiucri (Oliiigadc— Emmcliuc) will lie offered for sale oji i'riday next.

—At Los ABgeles (U.S.A.) rece track on Saturday, Lf-iciuner l'J, Vox f'opuli, carrying lllllb, Covered tilt; mile and a furlong in 3-miu Msec Hat, clipping ;i-ssc« oft the world'.-, record.

— The Ttiliiina- Park Trotting Club commences their autumn meeting on Friday of lllis week, and will he concluded en'ihc fallowing Wednesday. The first race will start at 1.15 each day.

. — The imported American trotter Marion Wilkes (•.'.12.';) has been put in work at the Allendale Slock Farm, and will probably lie raced in it month or two. All Ike Allendale sires were liberally patronised by bret'dcis.

— The aimual sale of yearlings from tli-a "Warrington Kind will be held on Friday next at Messrs Wright, Stephenson's saleyards. The siilo sfarls at 1(1 n.ni., and fomo well bred mid shapely youngsters will go under Ihe hammer.

— Soultline, whom the cable informed it? landed the Cnitilield Futurity Stakes (worth Jt'l'JOO to llio winner), oust bin present owner IflOßgs at. Hie Melbourne Cup meeting. Soultline also won tire hit. George Stakes, and the Souli—.Snstorliuc gelding has no'.v ['roved a cheap horse.

— Tile Violorimi Trolting Association is arranging .'or a conference ijetwoeu t'i'.o Xeiv Zealand Trolling Association, the .\'cw South Wnkj Trotting Club, and ihe Victorian TWtieg Ansocie.iiou, to take, place in Melbourne at an early date, In order lo establish a uniform standard for Australasia.

—Mr (I. i'ayne passed through lo Melbourne by tiw Talunc litis week with flulde-i Cairn, Kobel. a two-year-old, and six vcarlinga. The horses wcic originally .■shippcil by the (j'liuuroa, but had to bo Iramd'iprcd owing io the. latter boat meciing with'an incident, which necessitated her going into dock.

. —During the French flat-racing reason horses numbering KSW were saddled, as against 'J3-11 in ISIO7. !ii7l ia 11/00, and 'fflfla ill .1905. On the other hand, the takings in the pari mutuel, or lutalisalor, lor tiio season show a, decrease of nearly i'l2l),oKl. The •takings p.i the gates of the courses, aveiaeing £41,1X11) last year, showed an increase of close on .£SOO,

— l)urii;g the progress of the Arlibuiton 'Trotting Club's summer meeting two of Mr H. V. Kit-oil's horses, To llaugi and Turk, We're sold by auelion. Tile former was bought by Mr T. Hathewm for XL'5. and the latter lea- £'.0 by Mr 11. Thompson. Turk ■vyon the Autumii Handicap (saddle) in Jniip. 65 1-osec, and Te liangi won the Telegraph Hiuidieap in 'iniin 28h'C.

— Pe'rovna, has played an important part in several [IJ.C. Publicans' Handicaps, bast year she ran second with S.U to Sea King 7.7, in imiu llisec. In the previous season alio did not blurt in the race, but in lifflfi nlic won with U.l in luiiri 17 1-fises; in ]!);)3 alio wen with It.!) in lmin 10 i!-ssec; in I'M she won with BJO in Imiu 17 l-s;cc; and •was unplaced in I'JOI! with 8.11.

— fc'arto, lho son of SI. Simon and Miss Mildred, imported from England by the Hon. (1. Jl'Lcnu, bears r. stronger resemblance, to pictures of his world-famous sire than any other Ihe writer litis seen of the same strain of blootl. Sarlo stands a shade over 10 hands, and as a dappled brown, showing no white beyond a taint star and snips on a couple of his coronets.

,—Au impression, is abroad thai Risluti. who was a winner at Iho recent midsummer mooting, was making her debut when she. vron tho Lyttelton l'ktc. Tim filly vras a Starter at the K«w Zealand Clip mealing, and wan amongst the woll-beafen lot in llio lnvell Handicap, won by l?asnakylo iu tlie slow tinis of 50 1-Gi'cc. As a Mailer of fact, alio vaa not ill the first six at (lie finish.

-The defunct Quarryman has left some fine sturdy fouls at the Wuriingtoii Stud, and although judging equine, babies savours of gigantic guesswork, still it will not be surprising to find tho son of Bill o' Portland dud Miioowhv gaining pest humous as a Tesiill of his brief sojourn at the place where Euroclydoii, Ylodiiuui', and olhcx good performers spent their juvonilo days, — Tito balance sheet of the Society for the Encouragement of Horse Kaciug in I'riuice (■hows Hint the society lias distributed in prizes, principally at Paris and Chantilly, ■the. sum of i-.W1.a53. Of this total JEICJ.S2I ■was given to the owners of winning horsEs; owners of horser, placed second received SlBv2S3, thirds, 111,02!; and breeders got £3231 by way of extra premiums. — The biggest winner ever fouled in Aus-tria-Hungary, in regard to the total sum ■won, is Tokio, whore winnings in his own country mid Germany combined Tench Gtelßokr (something over £''2(i.l)i!(ti. Patience stands second with ySG.TaOkr, and Kincsem (never beaten) third with WO.fUakr. Kisbcr. who won the Epsom Derby in 1870, comes tmlv tenth on the list with a total of 31C,600kr.

-The Stewards' Handicap at (lis Ashbiirton Trotting Club's meeting was i-uii twice. Tito jnco wan started Mow the proper time. UJld the stewards, aHvr iitqniry. or<lcr«l it -to he re-run. On etch occlusion Hub)' S. finished first, but tlio other platings wo different. Jji the first nee Quineey was second and Urgent third; but in the second race, in which Quinccy wont badly, Urgent finished second and Prince (lilt third.

— The Treadmill—Goldleuf coll Ayiplcgartli, to whom many look a fancy ivlnm he ran second to Kilwinning in the Spring Xnrscry at Ibo Now XciiUuul Vnp meeting, is apparently not too found (makes 100 much sound '.t.i it were) in tho respiratory organs. On Monday morning at Wiugutni he whs treated ■to a couple of sprints lip the straight, and 3iy heralded his approach in a manner which fllroiigly suggested ho has "joined the band." Tito trouble may not affect him over a short course, but even r,o one cannot help regretting tliat such a promising colt should be inclined to mako a noise.

—We have, sometimes wondered what has become of the Jfcw Zoahmder Jfoifaa (savs (ho London l'lnk 'Un of January !>), As far •a:) big juinprng is concerned, v.c never saw a liorso go over liie Liverpool country as he did. lie was sold (o (be King. f or w i lonl [,<, did nothing, and eventually' was presented by his Majesty to one of Jus equerries for -j, litiutcr, and, to the disgust of the equerry, lio would not. jump even the most trivial of fences. When ho won the Grand Xational lie had a lon;,' (ail reaching ihe ground, mil! itp to then he had always j-im in that trim. Possibly cutting Ms tail had the same effect on him as IXslilalis hair-cut ting Vmsiucss had on Samson. We know what is often the result of shifting tho ballast of a facing yacht. !S!:o never terms to come back to the same trim again. -The programme of the Kivcrtou Tiicing Club's annual Easter meeting is of a nature, and aim? to cater for all sorts of racers bar the light-harness horse, due (ho first d»y'« card ihere aro two steeplechases aud a hurdle race, and on the second drv two "lopping" events find a place. The ib't raws are well endowed, and no event is to bo decided over loss than a six-furlonc journey. On the first day's card there arc throe (Ist races of a mile or over, aud whilst the second day's card is not so good in that respect (hero is the regulation mile race and i.w<> sovcu-furiang events. Tho absence of tho four and five-furlong scrambles is a matter on which tho K.R.C. is deserving of a word of praise, ami it is regrettable that, other clubs do not follow tho southern club's example.

- The lack of accommodation at Wiigatui was never tuore ftppirunt than it is at present. On Monday Eorrting about 70 horses worked on tho tracks, wid'to acemmuodido theso only 1C boxes arc available. It is understood the club contemplate enlarging their saddling paddock, but an immediate requirement is about 30 stalls, which coidd be put up near the syndicate boxes. So Jong as fine weather k on ha:id the lack of accommodation is not noticeable except to those 'who are kept waiting for a box or two, but slwuld l»d weather he experienced at any mceling where there is a fairlv largo jmmbor of runners "Wiugaiui would ccrttiinly bo robbed of a great deal of its popularity. A row of stalls would not bo a serious financial item to tho club, and it is an urgent duty to their patrons tlsat ehotdd "bo carried out without delay.

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