THE WORLD OF SPORT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 84, 28 March 1908, Page 4

THE WORLD OF SPORT.

bacino fixtures.

April I—Uaoaia Back B.C. Annual. ' April 1 and 3—Nelson J.C. Annual. Anil I—North Canterbury J.C. Hack. April 7 and B—Manawatu B.C. Autumn. April 8 and (Waouthland R.C. Autumn. April 10 and 11—Reefton J.C. Autumn. * April 18 and 20—Wairarapa R.C. Autumn. April 18. 20, and 21—Auckland R.C. j J.C. Autumn. April IS, 20, 22, and 25—Australian Jockey Club Autumn. April Beaumont J.C. Annual April 20 and 21—Riverton R.C. Ea-tor. April 20 and 21—Komara B.C. Autumn. April 20 and 21—CJ.C. Autumn. April 2() and 21—Feilding J.C. Autumn. April 2U and May 2—Wellington R.C. Autumn. Mar 6 and 7—Hawke'a Hiv J.C. Ajtnmn. Hay 6 and 7—Marlborough R.C. Autumn. May 13 and 14—Aahtxi rtou County B.C. Autumn. , May 23 and 25-North Otago J.C. Winter.

TURF TOPICS. (By " Moturoa.") Races at Manaia o^ "Wednesday next, April Ist. Acceptances dose to-night.

The bookie with the brassy dial doesn't always lav* the brassy pile.

Skny of the "-weeds" racing at the local meeting ought to be dealt with Uader the Noxious Weeds Act!

• ■ • • P ' ' To a Wellington paper belongs the unr disputed honour of unearthing a place *■ ia the Hawke's Bay district named t' TanatanidiafcataitgilTaiigiUcoauaptaenuiarangUdUuutaha. This scribe wonders T who will be the first cheerful idiot to apply tlx terrible cognomen to a neebone. » • • •

The following lines from an Australian paper probably express the feelings of maijr losers on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons as they w»re "walking back to town": — When you're rtony broke and thirsty, ■Ami the sun is stream!* 1 down; You've got time for moialMn*, ' When you're walkin' hack to town. When the locky sports in 'ansoms, Go a-bowlin' past immense, And you're slinkm' sadly homeward On the grass track by the fenceOb! you of long, cool shandies, And the "certs" that all went down; And—you're gojn' to chuck up racfn', When you're walkin' back to town. • i • •

The idea of numbered saddle-cloths is good (says the Bulletin), and cleanliness is next to godliness, but when the cloths are so washed out as at Caulfie'.d that one cannot read the numbers on them from the Grand Stand, even through glasses, people ask "Whaffor!" and the übiquitous humorist suggests that the stewartb are so particular th»: they objeet to the colours being worked in "fast colours" or "oolors that will not run!" » ♦ • •

Did you ever notice that the things which appeal to you most on our racecourses are the gueasers—those Idndlydisposed gentry who whisper "can't lose" tips into your unsuspecting ear, and then coolly ask you to "weignout" five bob (or more) for the tip!

Apropos of Lord Stanley's sporting tastes, an amusing story is told of an incident which occurred when he was flrst elected to Parliament. He had invited questions at one of his meeting;, and a voice called out, "CWn you give as a tip for to-morrow's race!" lord Stanlev did not hesitate for a momen;. " Y»-s," he said, " I'm backing such-and-»oeh a horse,'' and be gave the name. The horse, as it turned out, did actual 1 } win, and some people maintain that it was largely this which helped to place l«ord Stanley at the top of the polL

One of the many cheap tipping sheets ia England recently gave itself away beautifully. It was dated on a Monday, bat iteeived by the addressee either Wednesday evening or Thursday morning. Yet the extraordinary thing was that this sheet—supposedly in the pr°sa on the Manday—had actually tipped, amongst others, the long-priced winucr of a sailing plate on the Wednesday, for whkh the entries only closed late on the Tuesday night!

• • • • The Btepniak—Madder rising two-year-old colt (brother to Munjeet and All Bed) will be known as Cronstadt.

At a recent meeting of the English Jocfaey Qub it was agreed that in all handicaps, the entries for which clo«e three weeks before the race, the weights should be published in the "Racing Calendar" at least ten days before the day of raining. The alteration, whkh pennrU of a horse, in the case of a - walk oter " merely being ridden past the nuta's box, instead of completing the whole distance of the race, was also carried. « • • •

Dusky Mom and Catapult will not return from Australia till after the-AJ.G. meeting, where they claim engagements. Ktevation was shipped to Sydney yester(hv to take part at the same meeting. • • • •

There ins • time, «nd that not so very loag ago, when the Champion Stakes, ran annually at Flemington, exdted i wry keen interest »U over Australasia; bat though some of those who daim to be. unswerving in their loyalty to - the sport of Idflgs" will in these tUys ply the question "What won t ie Champion!" it is in a languid air. It is a lon* hark hack to 1878—the year first King won—but though 30 summers hare come and gone since the jeautiful bob of King of the Ring beat the equally stout-hearted Chester, 'i*s winning leat can still be counted upw :o stir up enthusiasm when mentioned • in circles abreast of the facts. Mr. Sttie de Mestre, who trained Chester, iad tried the son o«»Yattendon very ughlv, and he was sanguine as to the -esult, confiding to Sir. James Wilson, the trainer of "forst King, that his co-t fas snre to run the distance in omin. »uev. (which, it may be remarked, was (>/. seconds below the record at that imet. The trainer of Chester had not ong to wait ere he was ill at ea*e -J a r at the probable issnt of the race va» concerned, for Mr. Wilson replied, colt will break 525 if he i» repiired to." Kiret King beat Chester in ..gay iityle in smin. 26sec., and when at in interval of a year " the King" ag.iii ■merged triumphant the feat gate his taiwc army ol followers additional ro.im to burst into enthusiasm in regard to hu prowess. For many years " Augur, the talented contributor to the Ai'.--tralabixn, stoutly maintained that First King was the greatest horse Australasia had produced, and it was not 00:11 Carbine pat all previous records in th» shade by carrying the welter weight of lOst. 51b. to victory in the Melbourne Cup (in the decision of which event the bay son of Musket put up a fresh time record against the greatest field that ever contested the Flemington race) t!*t he altered his view. The contest that eventuated in the Champion Stakes of 1883 stands out as one ut the most exciting in the annals oi tli' three-mile race. The three year-oi l Guesswork, who carried the colour* <>t Ht breeder, the late Sir Thomas Elder, foreed the pace at a great rate on a aCOidung hot day (the race was run in jammer is the early eighties), and he held command until the last stride, what Cosmotion got the best of tun ind won by a short head in time eqiul to that pat up by Ffm King in hi* first ,-ietory. The time record stood at smir. MsW. notO 18W, when Fortsea galloped •-he ttoee miles in smia. 23Visec., but the record put np by the gallant ion of Neekencat was not destined to Ion? remain unaltered, aa in 1896 it was reduced to smin. 23'/,sec., when Wallace md Quiver ran their oelebrated d?.i'i beat. The fact that Wallace was got by Musket's greatest son, Carbine, and that Trenton, another of Muskets mighty scions, was responsible tor Quiver, is an interesting fact hound <i|> in the history of the Champion Stako* of 1806 that New Zealanders will not soon lose sight of. What a wonderful record is associated with Carbine's name in connection with the C (tampion Stakes! Twice lie claimed the attention of the judjre in the three-mile rao-; then came the dead heat of bis sou Wallace (whom lie begat in his first season), followed up liy a vietmy 'r- j other -on. Amberite. who «•>- tollo»el home Uy another lU'seciiil.iTit In I' dook. Then came tlie dual victory | the stout-hearted daughter, 1.. i bind, followed up by a victorv for l-.inir. who was sired by Wallace. Tlin-c who keep the run of (hanipion stakes contests can find much to interc-t them: bat, as before remarked. there is not that keen com em in the great ri'.-c that once wa-: so pronounced.