TURF TOPICS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17130, 4 September 1926, Page 7

TURF TOPICS

FIXTURES—RACING,

September 1, 2 —Marton Jockey Club. September 4—Otago Hunt. September 4 —Manawatu Hunt. Sept. 0, I.l—Wanganui Jockey Club. Sept. 15— Danncvirke Racing Club. .Sept. Hi—Danncvirke Hunt. Sept. IS, 20 —Otaki Maori Racing Cluti. Sept. 24, 25—Ashburton County Racing

Club. Sept. 2.1. 25—Napier Park Racing Club Sept. 25, 27—Avondalc Jockey Club

(at Ellcrslic). Sept. uO, Oct. I—Geraldino Racing Club

A filly engaged in the Debutante -.a-.es iit Wanganui in whose display a lot of intereset will bo centred is Auratum, whose dam is Desert Hold, Auratum is by Absurd.

Little River was one of those set down fur an outing al the Manawalu Hunt meeting to-day. His schooling performances recently have dune nothing to improve th«' reputation, oi the .Martian horse.

The price paid by an English owner, Mr. Richard MeGreeuy, for Apelle, winner of th<j Royal Derby of Italy, indicates a considerable faith in Italian racing form. He paid £15,000 for the colt.

A quartet of Australian-bred horses figure among the entrants for this year's New Zealand Cup, viz., Tanadees (by Roseworlhy), Haze (by Demosthenes), Tresbam (by Tressady), and Mali Jong (by Comedy King).

Prince Willonyx has arrived from the coast, looking the picture of health, and will stand the season at Te Hapara. His list has a good start with .a couple of mares from Dnnedin, two from Hawkes Bay, and another from Auckland.

Cohesion and Highway are just topping off their preparation for the Avondale spring meeting, in the hands of trainer C. -Morse. They will leave for the North on September 18, and as they are both going well, they should, with ordinary luck, both run prominently in their engagements there.

Civility continues to do great track work at Wangaiiiui, and has lately been galloping with Kiosk. A six-furlong trial run on a recent morning was done in 1.15 2-5. Civility running with her shoes on and a substantial weight in the saddle. She finished level with the colt, and the splendid gallop confirmed the impression she has been making lately.

A short rest will be terminated for First Prince about the middle of the month, when he will be brought in again to prepare for the local spring meeting. Garzon is going well on steady tasks, and will be seen racing over hurdles in October. Trainer C. Morse is well satisfied with the progress shown by Cluster and Miss Willonyx, who are both working well with the Turf Club's spring meeting in view.

The reputation of Autumn, Mr. D. J. Barry's stallion, is gaining recognition among the owners and breeders of the North Island. The Taruheru Lodge sire is to be visited by a mare belonging to Mr. Lacllie McKenzie, owner of Sunarl. two mares are coming from Napier (Hohere and another, the latter the property of Mr. Frank Ormond), and one (Weka), from Auckland. An Opotiki duo. Elsie Aroba and Marble Star, and a couple from Wairoa, are also on the list, which will be a fairly full one.

The annual report and balance-sheet of the Te Aroha. Jockey Club states that, after allowing for depreciation of plant and buildings, a profit of £557 remained as a result of last season's operations. For the accommodation of visiting horses 20 new horse-boxes have been built on the reserve, costing £755, and a new judge's box erected at a cost of £156. During the year 24 new members were elected, making a total of 000.

Bad luck was experienced with Threadneedle, the Autumn—Stipsliteh colt, a fall in the plough late last week having put his preparation back. Consequently he will not be taken to the Avondale meeting, though the colt is already on the. improve again. He will accompany Ngawati and Automne on a southern tour, howover. The other pair will race at Napier, Wellington, and Christehureh, and if Threadneedle continues to go on all right, he will be given an opportunity of further distinguishing himself. Automne and Ngawati are both looking bright, find are expected to do themselves credit in the spring engagements.

A series of new works projected by the Te Aroha Jockey Club include a new training track, the enlargement of the inside and outside enclosures, and an alteration in the lay-out of the course, involving the purchase of an area of !>i acres of land outside the western boundary of the reserve. The purchase of this'land, it is pointed out, will enable the club to carry out alterations to Hip present race track, which, when completed, will render it second to none in the Dominion from the standpoint of spectators and horseowners alike.

The new Zealand Kclipse Stakes, to be. run to-day week at Wanganui, has drawn an excellent entry. Reports from llawera credit Iteremonana with being w<ell forward, and such being the ease, his presence will scare some of the others engaged. Grand Knight, .Nigger Minstrel,' Civility, Mask, (Nation and Liciiuus represent the four-year-olds and over contingent, but the ■feature of the entry is the fact that no fewer than nine three-year-olds have been entered. They arc Lysander, Seatown. Kiosk, Tea Bell, Alyson, Rascal, Vcrtiget'li, Pemidar and Resinous. Only once has the Kclipse Stakes been won by a three-year-old, when the brilliant filly Razzle Dazzle captured both the Guineas and that event.

France's' principal hurdle race is ■ the Grand Course de Haies, three miles one furlong, run at Auteuil late in June. Tin's year there were 11 starters, and the held had not none any distance hefore six horses baulked and one fell at the same jump. The fallen horse, Sanhon. was remounted, and, to the. astonishment of the spectators, led past the stand the second time round. Sanhon eventually finished second, being beaten four lengths by Histoire d'Hue, but. in the circumstances, he ran such a remarkable race that, after his jockey had weighed in, the horse was ordered into the doping-box, where horses under suspicion are examined. Nibble, one of the live runners that finished, dropped dead on the way back to the weighing-yard,

The three-year-old IT.ly Helen (Limond —Helen Portland), is n'garded as likely to prove a good one tins season. During last year she contested four races, for two seconds "and a third, and the winter has seen her build up well.

Bachelor is doing plenty of good strong work. Galloping! is not among bis list of duties so far this season. However, he is thriving on the tasks allotted him, and being naturally gifted with speed, there is no imediate hurry to send him along. Describing the Liverpool Cup race, run at the end of July, the Daily Telegraph (Loudon), paid a tribute to the riding of Steve Douoghue, 'who rode Sparus to victory. "For the cup all the horses looked well, as was only to be expected at this time of the year (stated tho report). After leaving tho paddock Vermilion Ponvil was in sullen mood, and refused to line up. In the race he was always hist. The first to break the line was Donze'.on, but after going two furlongs Invermark wrested tho lead. Sparus was kept well back, but after entering the straight Douoghue brought him with one run. and then the tace was" over."

The stewards of the English Jockdy Club recently found it. essential to make a cut into Michael Beary's racing season by suspending him for three weeks. This action was taken, following on their inquiry into his riding at Sandown Park the previous week. Beary was reported by the local stewards on the complaint of C'iiilds for having, if is alleged, ridden dangerously on Fort Flare, who, aftet winning the race, was disqualified. The stewards of the Jockey Club requested the four jockeys whose evidence they heard—Childs, " Douoghue, Beary, and Dines —to show on paper the spot at which the incident took place and the position of the horses. This was done, and there was general agreement among them.

Commenting on the suspension of Beary, one of ' the leading jockeys on the English turf, for dangerous riding, an English turf writer reveals that rough riding is becoming so common that determined efforts have had to be instituted bv the authorities to suppress it.

"From the fact that the suspension is only for a comparatively brief period, it may be inferred that the stewards took the' view that Beary had brought about a dangerous position through excess of zeal rather than deliberate intent to ride foully and endanger life," the article stated. "Still, excess of zeal, as was pointed out, is no excuse for cutting away from a straight course when horse's are racing in close company, especially round turns, and the turf authorities are determined to stop such practices. It is particularly reprehensible among the senior pockeys at a> tima when some of the younger jockeys, who are just beginning their careers, are suspected of offending from time to time. Lord Lonsdale .doubtless made this perfectly clear in most seriously warning Beary of the consequences of airy subsequent offence."

GRAND PRIX ROMANCE.

LUCK IN RACING

Racing is a funny game and there is a lot of luck attached to owning a good horse. This was strikingly exemplified when Take My Tip recently won the Grand Prix dc Paris. Take My Tip, who was foaled in England, while his tiani. was on. a visit to Gainsborough, is by Hire aux Larmes (who is 1!> years old), from Take a Step, .by TJeouen (dam of St. Frusquiri), from Tallynacree, a mare bred in Ireland, by Fowlingpioce (son of Carbine). Tally - nacree is inbred to Musket, as he is great-grandsire at the top and bottom of the pedigree. As a foal Take My Tip was, according to the French correspondent of the Horse and Hound, a poor sort of a foal, with one doubtful leg, and M. Hennessy's veterinary surgeon condemned him and said he would never race. But Batcholor (his trainer), treated him as a yearling with great patience, and in the end was rewarded. However, so little was thought of him that he came out first as a "two-year-old in a selling race and finished second. Ho was easily beaten tit three years old and there was little encouragement to fancy Take My Tip for the Grand Prix. To complete the romance of Take My Tip's win, it is only necessary to add that Batehelor, trainer to M. Hcnnessy, was carrying a forfeit form about in his pocket two days beforo the race with a view to striking Take My Tip out of the Grand Prix, and it was only .by the intervention of Jennings, his jockey, that the horse saw tho post at all, as M, Hcnnessy listened to his argument that the 'horse had not yet had a strong-run race and that he would do better in the Grand Prix, as there was always a good pace. And so the greatest race of the French turf was once again captured by a despised outsider. .WOOO A YEAR. .1. Monro. 21 years of age, has demonstrate.:! during the season that a jockey can earn in a. year more than is paid in salary to the' Chief Justice or the Premier of a, State, says a Sydney writer. His percentages have in round figures amounted to £4OOO. 'Monro, who, ''or the lirst_ time. _is at the head of the winning jockeys' list in Sydney, bad more successes than have fallen to the hit of a jockey in a year since .1 tine,s Harden was in hi? prime. Among his big win/ in Sydney were the Epsom (dead-heat) on Boaster, the Spring Stakes. Craven Plate, Rnnclwrjk Plate, Autumn Slakes, and A.J.t . Plat© on Windbag, the Adrian Knox SI -.k-os. Ihe Do-icaster, and the Ail-Aged Slakes on Volienro, and the C.imcraek Sla'-i'S on Kaiuio'-:i. These represented £VJ.f; ':• n sta 1 . i■ . and as li is customary fni the joe'-ey to draw 10 per iCent. Munro'., share was £19;.5. Then, too, he achieved his ambition by winning the Melbourne Can on Windbag, a.nd as that was worth £10.215. the lad got a little more than £IOOO out of that. He also won more than 30 races of lesser importance, on whhh his percentage would amount to about £IOCO. Tims we arrive at his T4COO income, thati W wit boil' Hiking into account special presents he may have received Lorn delighted owners for winning races like the Melbourne Cup or the Doncaster.

NEW ZEALAND CUP.

FlltST ACCEPTANCES. (Per Press Association.) CHIUSTUHUHC.H, lost night. The Mowing lirst acceptances have been received for thtf New Zealand Cup: Rapine, Count Cavour, Star Stranger, Degage, Koseday, Ngata, Tanadees, llavenna, llapier, Beacon Light, C'hickwheat, Tarleton, Olarinda, Indian Sage, Yoma, Kilbronsyth, Rouex, Pink Note.t Opa. Desert Glow, Over drawn, Novar, Diogenes. Shining Armour, Waetoa, Full Swing, Perle de Leon, Ooosestep, Kalngnua. Heather Lad, Mali Jong, Jubilant, Kilperon, Kil.box, Ring Broney, Divinnl, and High Clear,