SPORTING NOTES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19045, 15 December 1923, Page 16

SPORTING NOTES.

By Sentinel. F. Tilly’s team for Auckland will consist of Enthusiasm, Para, Demand, Tukia Inferno, and Shining Armour. Coldwater and Delvilie .Wood will be taken to Auckland by G. Reed. A-crom and Peter Swift will be J. J. Kenno Gey's team for the Auckland trotting meeting. Ballymena and Mnrihanpo have been strongly supported for the Auckland Cup and Railway Handicap. Many Kittle and Pilliewinkie are to be raced at the Auckland Cup meeting, and. Deucalion at the Manawatu meeting. J. M'Combe, who has for many years been in evidence at Wingatui and southern meetings, has this year decided to take Sunny Loch, Geranial, and The Cheat to Mana-wat-n. Winning Hit gave indications of coming back to form when raced at the New Zealand Cup meeting, and with Wild Hind and Viewpoint, will race at the Auckland Cup meeting. It is reported that Bon Spec has been purchased by an Australian owner lor 600 guinc-as. Unless Bon Spec shows improved form he will belie Ills name and be a had spec. Stuart Waddell’s team for will consist of Goldlight, Kazzle Dazzle, Kings Folly, and Tanadees. F. Waddell will ride them when he can do the weight. A Melbourne writer states that J. M'Cann, whose health broke down on his return from the dominion, is improving, and he will shortly leave the private hospital and return home to Caulfield. M’Cann will be remembered as the trainer who was negotiating [or the purchase of Loughrea, but did not complete the deal. A Wellington writer states that L. A. Pine, who rode the winner of the principal race each day at Woodville, was offered the lightweight riding in C. T. Godby's Victorian stable, but bis falter, to whom he is apprenticed, declined to let him go. Parody and Gold Town will carry Mr G. G. Greenwood's colours at the Auckland Cup meeting. . The former was a rather brilliant two-year-old, and has also displayed rather mote staying power than most ot Absurd’s stock. She drew a bad position in the Stewards' Handicap, but under more favourable circumstances may be hard to beat over a short course at Auckland. In spite of the fact that 70,000 spectators, the largest number of spectators in the history of the American Turf, gathered at Belmont Park for the race between Zev ana Papyrus, the Westchester Racing Association realised a profit of only 22,206 dollars. The big purse offered for the race and the heavy expenses of bringing Papyrus to America cut down fbe margin o[,profits. Tho receipts were 230,032 dollars, ond the expenses 207,826 dollars. The race won by Bonaparte (Boniform — Desniin©) at- Caulfield last month was worth oOOsovs to the owner of the winner. “Touchstone,” in the Australasian, states that the colt came at the right end after being hopelessly out of it, and shaped like a stayer. When he bought Bonaparte Mr G. Tye was on the look-out for a Derby oolt, and it looks as if he has got a likely one. Dr W. H. Lang, whose death is reported from Melbourne, woe very widely known m racing circles throughout Australia, He had acted as handicapper to the Victoria Racing Club for a few years. Apart from this official position, however, he was a recognised authority on breeding. As “Fife and Drum,” in the Pastoral Review, and “Teviotdale” in the Australasian, he reached a wide circle of readers, and his entertaining articles on racing, especially on breeding questions, will be greatly missed. The well-known jockey F. F.. Jones contemplates taking up his residence at Riccarton again, with a view to devoting hia attention to race riding (says “Argus”). ,ie served his apprenticeship at Riccarton, with the late E. Cutts, and during that time he rode a large number of winners. He subsequently became first jockey for Sir Goorge Clifford’s stable, retaining that position for a number of years. Later ho became identified with the trotting sport, as a rider and then as a trainer. • Eventually he removed to South Canterbury, where he trained gallopers and trotters for a lime, but he decided to devote his full attention to the trotters and pacers. After a- few years he took out a jockey's license again and during the last season or two he has occasionally ridden gallopers. His intention now is to come hack to -the galloping sport altogether. On his rare appearances lately he has demonstrated that he still can hold his own with the best jockeys in the dominion, and as he can go to scale at Bst 31b, he should command plenty of riding. Another disappointment has been the lot of the advocates for the legalisation of the totalisator in the State of Victoria. Owing to the pressure of Government business, the Totalisator Bill, introduced by a private member, will not he dealt with in tho Legislative Assembly this season. The measure, a private one, will have to stand over -until next year. Referring to the position, Mr Morley, who was responsible for the measure, stated tlie Ministry had recognised the principle of regulating gambling, and he was convinced that he would, next session, receive the required support to make his Bill law. Tho Bill to he submitted provides that no new bookmakers be allowed to register, and to limit the operations of those alreadyregistered to from 12 to 15 years. A campaign throughout the State has been decided upon with the object of educating the public regarding the totalisator. Model totalisators will be erected on racecourses, and moving pictures explaining the working of the totalisator .will also be screened at theatres in the towns mentioned. The succsse of the crack French sprinter in the- Stewards’ Cup and that of Rose Prince in the Cesarewitch Handicap were two of tho most notable features of the English racing season which has just concluded. Rose Prince had been very heavily coupled in doubles with Epinard in the Cambridgeshire Handicap, but Verdict beat him by a narrow margin. The Sporting Times states that Mr Wertheimer played up 10,OOOsovs of his previous winnings on Epinard, and the American millionaire, Mr Mncomber, who owns Rose Prince, had a royal win over his horse. The French sports are reported to have hit the English ring very heavily, and if Epinard had got np in the Cambridgeshire a barrel or two of English coin would have crossed the Channel. Apparently the Frenchmen like to exploit the English market, which offers wider scope than the Pari-Mutuel in France. In commenting on the matter, ‘Flaneur,” of the Sporting Times, said he expected the . market which was obtainable in England will be the means of re-eetablishing the bookmaker on French tracks, in a special enclosure at the back of the stands, and chiefly for the convenience of owners. No doubt ho gathered the opinion from French sports who came over to participate in tho English meetings at which the French horses ran. We have much the same thing occurring in New Zealand. When an owner strikes a good horse a desire is at- once created to tap the Australian market. Unmistakable evidence in that direction is furnished by the fact that about 40 New Zealand horses were taken over to Australia for this season’s spring meeting. An action for alleged libel has been brought by hia Highness the Aga Khan and his trainer, 11. C. Dawson, against The Times Publishing Company ’.Ltd.), and has commenced in England, In opening the action, which commenced as a result of tho Aga Khan desiring to give evidence before a special -examiner previous to his leaving for France and India, Mr Eustace Hill said the.se two actions were for alleged libel brought against the proprietors of The Times newspaper by tho Aga Khan and his trainei, Mr Dawson. The alleged libels were concerned with racing matters, and for the moment it would be sufficient to tell the court that the alleged libel appeared in Tho Times in June and July last, and was concerned with two fillies owned by the Aga Khan, named Toresina and Paola. These horses ran in the Coronation Stakes at Ascot this year. The Aga Khan’s first colours were put on Toresina, and the second colours on Paola. The second colours won easily by a length and a-half. ■ In the affidavit it was stated by plaintiffs that the alleged libels were very serious, and his submission was that no sufficient ground had been shown that the ordinary course should not betaken, and if the plaintiff, the Aga Khan, wished to give evidence, as no doubt he did, he should give it in open court at the trial of the action. His client thought this rather important. The articles complained of were published in Juno and July, and the writs were issued on August 4. Mr Patrick Has tings, K.C., for the respondents, said the alleged libels were very serious, and wore to the effect that the Aga Khan and his trainer had been guilty of what was known in racing circles as in-and-out running. The position of tho Aga Khan was an entirely different one from that of Mr Dawson*, his trainer. Ho thought it unlikely that’ anyone would be likely to say that the Aga Khan was guilty of what was alleged, but the trainer was in a different position, and the present action to him was’ one of pro fossional life or death, and he was bound to take tho proceedings he had done. Several Frenchmen came np to me (says Field Steward in tho Sporting Times) after that short head decision in their favour in the Cesarewitch and candidly admitted their surprise that France had secured the spoils. They were loud in their appreciation of the impartiality of English sporting justice. Even if Mr Robinson had given a dead heat, both parties would have been satisfied, and the man in the box—an Englishman on an English race course, mark you—said that only the” “breadth of Carpentier’s fist” separated Rose Prince from Toresina. France has broadened in sport einco that memorable Grand Pxk in which, an English boras did ■