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Otago Witness, Issue 3512, 5 July 1921, Page 39

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Kilbroyw. is brio:.: vhcowd ov?r hi,Hie*. Twenty lining tv;o-yo ir-olda .we in v/ri at Ellens lie. Accident fees have Den paid this -oi «.r 2G3U horse:. An effort is being l. ; : Kan v.de ro into a jumper. Amyilm-.’ is once wo; a member of (h relive lcigwle at Jt.'cearton. lha-'O We adh is rooor ?<! to law o-.re. and o 1! is quire a -evil. IP : . the one her to !'•; . j. 3 . | , lie very a t! vtive-looi; in • Th stin •rdiarv steward*’ :l «•••»::•: -I n at CD5(i ■ 1 w the IVe ! ‘ see M, 11. !;'. > icol 1 I: is to , i,.,.,. ; . member of the Ashburton Kacirv; t ' ' Sir Fisher is reported to be .shaping v;cl ill Ilia school:!!.; bs-swis over big i-uniiiy. Kauri King bias I ■ m sp-Gi; - bandages and appiiientiy is not too wnind at present.

Trix Pointer is again in active com mi s--7 sion for the next New Zealand' Trotting* 3 Cup. £ Lncliclla continues to- get through useful f- work, and was echo clod ever Ten cos last * week. j. . During the present season 450 trainers’ * licenses and 355 jockeys’ licenses have been issued. . Ashley ReecPs riding in Australia has come in for favourable comment by the Australian 1 critics. * 1 1 • - New . Zeeland Cup winner, Oratress 3 - ins been retired fro n the turf, and will visit Absurd. s r J lie well-known trainer R. O’Donnell has s started in tne horse destistry business at j Christchurch Tiicre is a possibility that a. match will 3 be arranged between Nelson Derby and -> C 1 ii 1 d-e Pointer. Ba’thazcr. a three-quarter brother to Mr 3 J- B. Reid's colt Tractor, is showing good 3 form in England. It is reported that both "VTarlove and War- ? tone bear an improved appearance- as the } result of a spell. T} io South La-n d r id o r W. R ob i n so n w ill have a fairly large team tinder his charge during the coming season. J. Campbell has been retained t-o- ride Mr 1 W. R. Komball's team running at the "WelL ’ ling ton winter meeting. ? Tlie owner of the rising two-year-old by Cathedral Chimes from Seda recently asked JOOgs for the youngster, b It is said that a well-known sportsman s backed one of the runners in Hum .-l’Let’s f Derby to win 150,000sovs. Mo it Avis, who has been showing winning ? form, is a four-year-old brother to the Auckland Cup winner Depri elation. 1 Gano- Awa is schooling well at Riecarton, } and will very probe Id v start a good favourite if seen out at th© Waimate meeting. J The New Zealand-bred Red Reek, who was got by Roke-by from Rose Red, was amongst ' the winners at Brisbane last month. P A. W or maid unluckily .fracturud a thigh * when riding at the Hawke's Bay meeting, J and is at present in a private- hospital. ‘ The Advance gelding* Hurry Up is again r in w-ork after a spell. His running* lias been 5 anything but in keeping with his name. r Mr W. G. Carter, who formerly owned the smart pacer Man-o’-War, is likely to invade New Zealand with another team. Biplane is to receive another chance on the turf. Since sold by Mr G-. D. Grceni wood lie has been a failure on ihe track, t Nat : ve King created a favourable impression by the way he won at Auckland, and 3 is sure of support ii seen out at. Addington. j Fis-com, the winner of the V.R.C. Grand ■> National Hurdles, w-as one of the ruling j favourites in the ante-pest betting on the j i ace. It is" reported that A. Goodman is lenyj ing Trentham-, and will drop training 1 in , favour of becoming a- hotelkeeper at Blen- , heim The Riccarion trainer F. Christmas, who has been acting as private trainer for Mill. W. Brown, is at prevent with an empty 1 stable. 1 The Martian colt Raeeful h.as been purL’ chased, by a patroai of J. Buchanan’s stable J at E-11-erslie. The price paid is said to be ? 1500 gs. l Paddingtcn Green bus generally been a » handful when at the post, but managed to t win at the first time of asking as a steeplej chaser. [- Acceptances for the first day of the AY-el-lingtoii meeting and also acceptances for I the Wellington Steeple-chase are due on Friday, July 8. j Hymesfcra has been off the scene since the Wellington Cup meeting, but figures ■ amongst the nominations for the Wellington r winier meeting. 1 The Ail Black mare Cross Words is a. * daughter of Mrs Wiggs, a mare by Camp- ? fire from Palaver, the winner of the Great Autumn in .100.1. s Tlie Otago Hunt held a very successful ) s mol to concert last week, when it furnished ' the occasion for about UK) people spending* 3 an crpy able evening. Mr J. Grigg has been appointed p.resident l of the Ashburton Racing Club. He a.lso was recently appointed to the presidency of the Canterbury Jockey Club. The CsnJerbury Jockey Club holds the I iicnrur cf allotting move money towards adding trophies !o 11-eir prize-list than any ’ other club in New Zealand. 3t is vte d that a forbidding price was 1 placed on Tvc.unss re cent lv when an Auckland o.v.ier CMpie-s-sod a desire to buy the Au 'tra ii:in-V>red son o*f Trossady. r Bright Plume had to be withdrawn from 1 his Y.K C. Grand National Hurdle cn gagey merit owing to- damaging one cf his knees !• vvd.ilst- racing at Caulfield on June 18. s The Winter Cup is to remain at Ib. usual mile cov-iiQ, and to comply with the Rules of Racing Mie dir.unco of the Islington Hunr cMeup lias bui'ii increased to TO furlongs. I The Auckland horses Luperino, Star.'all. CarrcEs, and Forest Gold reach'd Trciitlrum ’ lus wok to conclude their preparations for on.iTige;;;r::tj at the Wellington w.nter meetj ing. com? little time back the judge’s box at ' Trentham. was sh.U’ted back from the rails, f and it lias since been rec-sed in order to give a better view of the horses coming no the 1 straight. Lord Desmond, the winner cf the Maiden 1 Handicap at Dannovirke, is a throe-year-old i by Demosthenes from Northern Rose, the da m of Trentli-a n Rose, S we nee River, and * Miss do Yah > The Accident Fund lias paid claims to the ex ten!, of £1906 7s lid during* tlie present i season, and it cost J 2397 Is 7d to administer the claims, or about 50 per cent, of the > total paid out. i Muring the present season 30 days’ racing r and trotting lias taken place in tlie Auckland > district, and the totalisator investments ran 1 to £'*2,289,803 10s, or £209,271 in excess of the s previous ®eason. > The well-known rider if. R. Lorrigan, wlio ' was injured at th; Auckland winter nueett* ing. Las liad to undergo an operation, and at latest -said to be making .good progress i towards recovery. ‘ The date selected for the Otago Hunt -> vacs meeting* has been objected to hy tlie i Kurow Jockey Club, whese annual race ) meeting is to take ,/iace Iwo days before the gathering at Wingatui. Lady Swith in wlio was a strong fancy .for tlie Winter Handicap, run at Aiickm nd, sp'ilt her chciKo by losing a good bit of gTound a- the start. Another item in favour <>. he standing start--perli-aps. Tigerhmd, who won over countrv at Hawke s Bay :.ud Dannevirke, is a luiifbl her by Finland to Tigriliya, and is said i to he likely lo earn distinction, between the flags, tie is engaged at Well ing ion. It never rains but t pours Whilst T. Metcalfe- was confined to Ins bed >'* i t H the (ffer-t-a <>•? bis fall at Wingatui lie was sc:v;b with a l)l-te paper demand an paym ids due i <> l lie execidive of tile doci: Association. frctii Ib-ecarioi- -la' that jMazama . is mah’tig a poor raspe-uso *■_> th-’ effort to 1 make him in o a !u rdh I * is, however, < riiv a nionl !i ai ho wen if. north, end honkers an no! its ua 11 >.* made in two or : tlm » weeks [ 1 reported 1 Hat \ .- a a bond has been , nurclia • ed by Mr W. R. K-mball at 60Ogs. cud ’.dll ca ri ho; colu-urs ever hurdles. .Such

a fine staj*er should make good a.t the business if he acquires any proficiency at skipping the timber. Twelve months ago Lis towel was made a strong order for th© Trial Plate lun at Wellington, but Battle Kn-ght outstayed and beat him handsomely. Battle Knight has again struck winning form, and is engaged ln r Bis Parliamentary Handicap. The excellent nominations which were roce.vcd lor the Waimate Hunt and South Canterbury Hunt race meetings makes it a matter of regret that some of these horses were not seen out in the minor steeplechases run at the Dunedin winter meeting. It is reported that the imported colt. Tractor has been lame off and on since his arrival at Trentham. It is to be hoped that there lias not been a big hurry to find his speed, us he was apparently as sound as a brass bell when seen at Ocniaru about a month ago. Mr S. H. G oil an, who- won the New Zealand Cup with Tirant D’Enu and Tirailleur, and the G rand NaHona 1 Steepies w; 11 1 Norton. recently ran second in a race in England with Bnubia, a filly by Ambassador from Bim, a mars by Bill o’ Portland from Freda, by Maxim —Fair Nell. The Australiam-br?d Cooluan. who won at Dannevirke, lias been qualified with the Rangitikei Hunt. It is -about three years since Cool pan won a race. In the sea-sen of 1917-18, whan running as a three-year-old, h? won four races, and was twi-ce placed out of 11 starts, and if he recovers his pace should win a stood race ever the sticks. When Coalition won vhe Grand, National Steeplechase he carried 11.13, and was receiving Bib from Loehella, who fell during the race. Coalition has since won the Great Northern Steeplechase with .12.3. and at Wellington has been asked to meet Loehella on 1511) worse duns than when they met at Riecarton in August last. Tlie Dunedin Jockey Club is fathering n. motion to come before the Racing Conference, which will strongly apneal for the sip port of nil horse owners. It is to the effect that the combined entrance and acceptance fees in respect to any lace shall not exceed £5 per cent, of the amount of the stakes “payable to the winner.” The Auckland Racing Club gave 130,550&0vs in stakes this season, and had a totalisator turnover of 1,146,4-803ovs. The Canterbury Jockey Club gave 12,6.id.-ovs in stakes, and had a totalisator turnover of 6SB,oSßsovs. The Dunedin Jockey Club gave 26,80ftaovs in stakes, and had -a tote turnover of 345,93050v5. The Wellington Racing Club gave 42,05-Os-ovs in stakes, and bad a tote turnover of £319,348. ... There are Cfi notices of motion on the order paper to come before the Racing Conference, and last on the list comes the suggestion from the Dunedin Jockey Club —“That the Rules of Racing be completely revised, and that legal assistance be employed !o do so.” The R veing Conference may sit for a couple of days and finally have its labour in vain by the D.J.C. motion, which, by special resolution, should be made first subject for consideration. During the- season just closing 230 days’ racing took place at 133 -toer meet ugs. The sum of £362.215 wag distributed in stakes, and £7,473,098 invested on the totalisator. Racing clubs also gave ll,loosovs in stakes fo-r trotting events on their programmes, and the totalisulor investments on these events ran to £173,133 10s. Tlie above figures do not, of course, include any of the race meetings occurring in the latter end of June or during the present month. The Dunedin Jockey Club is once more on the warpath in favour of the 7st minimum, but it will have to be very careful if it is not pushed to the other extreme in connection with the Wingatib winter meeting. The Wanganui Jockey Club will support -a motion at the Racing Conference which would mate a Gst minimum compulsory at the Dunedin June meeting. Ihe D.J.C. desires that Jockeys should weigh well, but will no doubt fear that they would weigh tco well at the 9st minimum. The annual report of ’li? Counirv Racing Club’s Association concludes with the following: “It is gratifying to nolo that the strong altitude the club took up in connection with the question of the Jockeys’ Union settled that difficulty satisfactorily. Had the clubs given way V raid have rrsuiwd in racing being wiped cir within Dvo or three years.'' N'-v rthelees the Jockeys’ Union, although in bad odour, materially w!:jitiv ed the poeiiion of jockeys, nod -s it should net be forgotten, still in existence. What may 1.-e o. cause celebre. a s '-m in a teacup”, or a cyclone in a capsul _maybe unearthed in some of the correspondencewinch will, it is understand, conic before the Racing Conference. It understood that an owner supported by documentary evidence has laid a charge aiiaiivt a pionuiiiont racing official cf endeavouring - us? Us influence with another official in the latter’ 3 treatment of the aforesaid owner’s horse:;. And there arc- other statements said 1 0 be contained in the documentary evidence. The x-ews that the Avondale Jockey Club kit ends altering the duvianca of the Av-yr: - tode Cam to one mile and a-h?.’f was not tori! I-- ■ a hy owners, and too subject was h.-toly discussed at Hastings last week. It is pointed cut (says ‘'Glencoe' i that »ncfi a stop will drive the three-veur-ohls cut of the Cup and into the Flying Handicap, which .always lias a big field. Own ays who talc? three-year-olds north for the Guineas like to give them a race in the Cup on the first dav. but this is quite cut of the question if'the distance is to lie twelve furlongs. No owner would race a three-year-old over- such a distance so early in the season. -.Although unable to score in the Derby, in which hi ran third, Lemonoia has proved good enough to win tlie Grand Prix de Pams and incidentally place a royal win to the c ,-ed : t of his owner, who, it is cab! d. landed 50,0U050- s in bets in addiliou to the, substantia] stake attached to th- raw. Len..>-mu-tt is a chestnut celt bred by Sir Mark Sykes, but, fortunately his Grand Prix nomination was not made in his name. I.: numora was got-by Lemberg from Hcnor.i. 1 by Galkin ill?- Word of Honour, by Ha: abend (son of Ivluncaster) from Geheimniss, by Rosiciuoian. Lemberg was got by Cyllene from Galicia, by Gale pin—lsoletta. by Ikoinruy. The following is taken from the annua! report of' the Country Racing Club’s A oiati n: —“The executive desire to bring under your motive the a.disability of all acting together and pul an end to the complimentary or deadhead tick.?; bu->tsi -• It {ms reached such dimensions as to I- <om ■ a serious drain on th.- resources of clubs' finances. The Thames Club put their foot ■ clown on the obnoxious system at their last annual rac:- meeting, with t-lie result that the receipts at the gates wire exactly doubled, alilioiiLii tlicro were no nic.re people ; pic ! nt than at the previous meeting. The gate at the 1920 meeting was £628. and at tlie 1921 me-,'ting if rase to £L2.vi; t 0,.; trnali- | sator receipts which the deadii bad was cx- . j’.S’Ctecl to l.u:ost up were wmo £*‘lsoo over ; . , U"viou? u ee ng* \\ 1 ad v.-aa in o- "a. Tin s - ri - ur- .- .1 re v orth studyinsr, and lha fact they iihistraio wortli i iV.-lioM'in r, Mu-mb'crs of commit!•. e. stewards, and officials of lister clubs only should re- ' |\k‘ t!. - • compliment.”