Turf Notes

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 532, 8 December 1928, Page 10

Turf Notes

Programme for Next Week There will be racing at Woodville on Wednesday and Thursday; at Oamaru <in Friday and Saturday : and Te Awamutu on Saturday. Waipa’s Good Day Excellent acceptances were received yesterday for the annual meeting of the Waipa Club, which is to be held at Te Awamutu to-day week. Auckland Acceptances The rapid approach of the Auckland Racing Club’s big summer carnival on December 26, 28, January 1, and 2, is heralded by the fact that all first-day acceptances and final payments are due at 5 p.m. on Friday next. Handicaps for Ellerslie Weights for the Robinson Handicap. Grafton Hurdles, Nursery Handicap, and Christmas Handicap, to be run on the first day of the Auckland summer meeting, are due to make their appearance on Monday. Good Odds In a six-horse race at Menangle Park (N.S.W.) last week, 3 to 1 the field was on offer at the finish of betting operations. Fancy the favourite in a six-horse race in this country paying £4. Ownership c*f Soy Rumour has it that questions may be asked as to the ownership of the racehorse Boy, who has contested seven races during the 1928-29 racing season. Textile for the Stud Textile has run his last race. After what may be described as a brilliant caxeer, during which he has won over £17,000, he is to be retired to the stud of his owner, Mr. C. G. Brown, at Chatswood Park. Textile is by the American horse Green Seal, who in his racing days claimed three records, from Bradford Hass. His successes included a Caulfield Cup and a Toorak Handicap, both of which he won brilliantly last year, when, by running fourth shortly afterwards in the Melbourne Cup, carrying a 101 b penalty, he proved himself a good horse. Goldfinch, Green, 'or France? “Who will ride Supremacy?” is a constant query from sportsmen, this of course deriving from the fact that Supremacy’s jockey, T. Metcalfe, is hors de combat just now owing to a fall at Otaki recently. C. France and W. Goldfinch have ridden occasionaJly for trainer W. Stone this season, and perhaps one of these jockeys will be entrusted with the handling of the Northern champion. A report from the South is to the effect that T. Green will have the mount. Little River Disqualified In Victoria last week W. Ross was fined £5 for carelessness in saddling up Little River for the Brush Steeplecnase, and leaving the lead bag in u, horse’s stall, in consequence of which the ex-New Zealander Little River weighed in 121 b light. D. Zeally, rider of Falrose, who was placed fourth by the judge, did not present himself at the scale to weigh in, and for this contravention of the rules he was fined £lO. As a result of Zeally’s neglecting to weigh in, a third horse could not be placed when Little River was disqualified. That Odour! Recently, at a race meeting at Gympie (New South Wales), which has recently changed from unregistered to registered racing, a jockey named Cummings was before the stewards. He was questioned about his riding of a horse, and was told by the chairman of stewards, Mr. A. J. Taylor, that he “still had the odour of the unregistered about him.” On being let off with a caution. Cummings was warned that he would not find “an easy sort of way of get.tting through every loophole, as he did when he was riding unregistered.” Not Only in Australia Racing folk the world over have to pay dearly fox’ their entertainment, but complaints are seldom heard. The following from the “Bulletin” is as true to fact generally as it is satirical: A horrible impediment to true sportsmanship has been revealed in Melbourne. The railway commissioners charged 3s return to Flemington during the recent horse frenzy, although their price for the same distance to the show ground dui'ing show fortnight was ninepence. Moreover, when the discrepancy was pointed out to them, they had the temerity to justify their action on the ground that the annual show was of national importance, and the annual betting orgy was not. A league of punters pledged to have the iniquity removed is foreshadowed. New Zealand-bred Two-year-old races in Sydney this season have not yet produced anything of outstanding merit, like Parkwood in Melbourne, and perhaps that fact influenced G. Price in bringing Peacemaker, by Limond from Makepeace, back from his holiday sooner than was generally expected. Peacemaker was sent to Richmond after he had finished third to Gold Tinge and Marco March in the Breeders’ Plate, but he did so well while he was away, without losing much of his condition, that the colt has been taken back to Sydney. It is not intended to rush him along in his preparation, but as there is a good chance of his coming to hand quickly, he may be a runner for the December Stakes at Randwick. Interesting Figures Colts predominate among the foalings at Kia Ora Stud, N.S.W. Of 90 . oungsters, 56 are colts, Magpie (imp.) being responsible for 20 of th<\n. Of the 25 foals by that sire, there are five fillies. Spelthorne (imp.), has sired 16 foals, including 10 colts; Saltash (imp.), 17, including a like number of colts; and Windbag, 15, including nine colts. Legionaire (imp.) has 17 foals claiming him as sire, and 10 of them are fillies. Affirm will do stud duty next season, located at Chatswortli Park Stud, where Malvolio and Woorak began their careers as sires. At the Nook Stud, Chersonese, the dam of Heroic, has produced a chestnut colt to imported Devises. One From the Dominion Accommodation having been arranged for him, the Northern Rivers | two-year-old Spot Cash is now located at W. A. Ross’s stables, Granville, Syd ney. At the last yearling sales he was sold to Mr. G. Malouf, of Coff’s Harbour, for 225 guineas. Spot Cash was bred in New Zealand, and his breeding suggests that he should be able to gallop. He is by Paper Money, whose two-year-olds have done well this season, and his dam is the Birkenhead mare Margarethe, who comes from the same family as The Banker. He is a half-brother to Jack Point, who looked like justifying his cost price of 1,750 guineas, after he had won a Juvenile Handicap at MooreHeld. Jack Point, however, was a disappointment, and after winning another race for Sir James Murdoch he was sold for much less than he had realised as a yearling.

Engaged at Marton Included in the Marton entries are the following Auckland provincial horses: Black Maire, High Tide, Taumai, Indolent and Bright Day. Among the Auckland Cup horses entered are First Sight, Historic and Seatown. Horseman's Death Mr. A. J. Hamilton, the victim of the Frankton Junction motor-car accident last week, was for many years, up to three months ago, a well known Te Aroha resident. He was a fearless horseman, and a few years ago rode for the stable presided over by Mr. Sid Walker, a trainer of over 30 years’ experience. A hurdler ridden in most of his engagements by Hamilton was the General Soult gelding Stilts, who was such a big jumper that but few horseman cared to ride him. Totalisator Worries The totalisator is still perturbing the sporting public in England, and to those South of the Line familiar with the working of the mechanical gambling methods the controversy seems farcical. We gather from the latest sporting files that an idea is abroad by the Betting Control Board that bookmakers should pass through the totalisator all bets they have collected, and receive 2h per cent, commission. London “Sporting Life” asks: “Will the bookmakers fall over each other in their eagerness to take advantage of this princely generosity? We are certain that they will fight shy of the invitation to -walk in the tote parlour.” Writing on the same subject, London “Field” says that the board has a difficult tasks to grapple with. WTiy so difficult? Insurance Premiums In England the British Bloodstock Agency, Ltd., have recently effected through their underwriters at Lloyd’s several insurances against barrenness in mares. The premiums at the present time are at the rate of £25 per cent., with a rebate of £lO per cent, in the event of no claim being made. For instance, if an insurance were effected on a mare covered by a stallion whose fee was £IOO, the premium would be £25. If the mare proved barren, the underwriters would pay £IOO, they of course retaining the premium. If, on the other hand, the mare was in foal, the underwriters would return £lO of the premium paid. After considerable difficulty, the agency persuaded their underwriters to attach the following valuable, clause: “To pay the amount of stud fee in the event of mares proving barren, and/or throwing stillborn foal (i.e., cast, aborted, slipped, or born dead).” The underwriters stipulate that it will be necessary for breeders who wish to avail themselves of this scheme to give a brief history of any mare submitted, stating age and foaling record. REMINDERS Auckland Racing Club. Acceptances, also final payments, are due at 5 p.m. on Friday next. Manawatu Racing Club.—Acceptances close at 9 p.m. on Tuesday, December 18. Taranaki Jockey Club. Acceptances are due on Tuesday, December 18, at 9 p.m. Marton Jockey Club. —Acceptances close at 9 p.m. on Tuesday, December 18. Thames J.C. —Entries for the annual meeting at Thames on January 12 and 14 close with the secretary at Thames, or with Mr. F. D. McVay, Takapuna Jockey Club, at 5 p.m. on Friday, December 21.

RACING FIXTURES

December 7, B.—Cromwell J.C. December B.—Taumarunui R.C. December B.—Ashburton R.C. December 12, 13.—Woodville J.C. December 14, 15.—Oamaru J.C. December 15.—Waipa R.C. December 26, 28, January 1. 2.—Auckland R.C. December 26. 27.—Dunedin J.C. December 26, 27.—Westland R.C. December 26, 27.—Taranaki J.C. December 26, 27, 29. Manawatu R.C. December 29, January I, 2.—Greymouth January I.—Waikouaiti R.C. January I.—Wyndham R.C. January 1,2. —Wairarapa R.C. January 1. 2.—Hawke's Bay J.C.