SPORTING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 318, 6 July 1912, Page 7

SPORTING.

JtACIKG FHTURIB. N«w Zealand. July 17, 20.—Wellington Rating Club. August 13, 15 and 17.—C.J.C. Grand National Meeting. Australia, fiily O—V.R.C. Grand National Ha; Ve Race. July 13.—V.R.C. Grand National Steepje.- ~. eaage. ■ 1 . L«. fc TURF TOPICS. <«. r - (By "Moturoa.") Spell-6h! next week. Multiply made good on Thursday. Prosper is in the boom for the Winter Cup. Kopane (Sir Laddo—Ponaturi) has gone to Sydney. Continuance and The Native are quoted at a ridiculously low price for the ■ Grand Nationals. Mr. 11. McManaway's 'Frisco colt American broke one of its legs recently, and wa9 destroyed. i Taiaha has often been mentioned in these columns as a bold jumper with a good turn of speed, and the Auckland horse's victory at Gisbonie was expected by his party. Since his Auckland mishap, Hautere has been on the easy list, but the Great Northern Steeplechase winner is How in strong work, and is looked upon as a horse likely to prove dangerous at Trentham. 5 A meeting of representatives of coun- I try racing clubs is to be held in Wellington on July 19. Amongst the busi- j ness to be considered is a Bill promoted with the object of restoring days of racing taken away under the recommendation of the Racing Conference: 1 Trainer P. Coffey lias Darby Paul, Compass and Ngatiruanui going well on the Wanganui tracks, and the trio will be asked to do their best at the Welling. ton meeting. At York (England) Succour, ridden by D. Maher, and Protestant, on whom L.) Hewitt had the mount, ran a dead heat '■* for the Great Northern' Handicap, one' mile and a half. : Judging by the abundance of "double" and 'treble" charts knocking around, the bookmaker is still going for his life. One ex-penciller is reported to be offering '£lso to "a dollar" about the Canterbury "treble." The race of Ikcys are taking no chances about Miscount, Prosper and Undecided in the Winter Cup, wlide The Ifative and Koran in the Hurdles, and i Continuance, Hautere, Okaihau and Whakawcira in the Steeplechase, are at cramped prices. The Victorian Racing Club's winter meeting opens to-day the principal event; being the Grand National Hurdle Race J run over three miles. At latest advices J the New Zealand-bred horse Merfy Mon-' arch, who has Iflst. 101b. was as well backed as anything in the race.'i The New Zealand jockey H. Cairns got into trouble through his handling of a horse named Retailer at the* recent V.A.T.C. meeting, and was handed out twelve months' rest cure. At latest, Cairn's appeal h.:s been thrown out with a loud crash. Ths action of the Canterbury J.C. Committee in refusing to keep baelc Grand National weights until after the Wellington meeting was over will not serve to popularise the big Riccarton fixtures. The Canterbury Club is too fond of call-) ing for nominations and declaring weights at ridiculously long periods before their meetings, and apparently the soie aim is to gather in every possible neddy, good' or otherwise, so ,as to cram the ilists) and make the club's handicapper's task i as arduous as possible. A case jn point ; s that of the New Zealand Cup. Entriaa close five months before the race, and weights are declared in August. The nomination fee is a comparatively small one, and draws all sorts of horses, the Tast majority of which have no earthly chance of seeing the post, let aloDg winding. Many are dead and boiled down long before November. In the case of the National meeting, fixed penalties accruing from Wellington victories make a botch of the handicapper's work, and seeing that there is just about three weeks between the two gatherings the Canterbury committee might have taken a common-sense view of the request to delay publication of weights. As it is how, a horse which wins by a head at Trentham is penalised as much as one' that wins by the length of the straight. The Palmerston trainer. J. Hatliaway, now has Gaelic in his stable, and the fencer is going well in view of Trentham engagements. Hatliaway was unlucky to lose Rosegrove the other day. the veteran having to be shot after falling at Hasting?, j

in about a fortnight's time the Hidden horses, Bronze. Ermengarde and two youngsters (by Charlemagne II.). that are engaged in the Australian J.C. Breeders' Plate, will be shipped to Sydney. Bronze and Krmengarde are reported to have came through the winer well, and with a good spell at Randwiek should be cherry ripe for the big spring meetings on the other side. Jockey W. Rettcr is still in a serious condition as the result of a fall off Parallel whilst schooling at Ricoarton. In future the caretaker at Riecarton racecourse will enforce the rule passed by the Canterbury Club that all riders over stick or big country, even in train: ing work, must wear protective skullcaps. The racehorses Captain Soult and Lucille were shipped to Sydney last week, and after being raced there will be offered for sale. From recent figures it appears that horseflesh commands a much higher price across the water than in the Dominion. Winning Way and Scottish Star have been put into work again at Riecarton, and will probably race in Australia next •eason. "Ain't it murder';" wailed ;i sport on Thursday, "the variegated bookmakers have put a £3 Ids limit on Oisborne betting." Well, all this scribe can say is that layers were taking a big risk. In consequence of the "saltpetre"' commissions that came through from (iisborne a f<'\v sen-ons ago the bookmakers absolutely refused to do any business with wees connected with that town. Aunagii. winner of the (lisbornc Steeplechase, was remitly made a free gift to his trainer. •(. Williamson, and being an entire noddv would be classed as a valuable asset even if lie never won » race.

of li.'itincr. Hie writer heard the nthrr <l:iv of a man who backed a treble at 'wen?" fur a poodly sum. IL was as follows: —Enjrland to beat Australia in tbe le=ts. .Johnson to beat Flynn, and Dick Arn-t to leave Harry in the backwash. Paritutu was expected to leave for Wellington this week, and will be schtifiled at Trentliam by the Auckland horatman, V. Coleman. The okl horse

new men cannot obtain licenses. By skilfully working the post office in New Zealand the bigger men are still able to "live without working"—their strong point still —and the double-laying business is said to be the road to wealthno less!