SPORTING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 127, 16 October 1912, Page 3

SPORTING.

TURF TOPICS. (By "Moturoa.") Iforae-owners are reminded 'that oil Friday, October 18, Mr. J. F. Hartland, secretary of the Auckland Racing Club, will receive general entries (lsov each), acceptances for the City Handicap (3 sovs), and forfeits for the Welcome Stakes (lsov) and Great Northern Guineas (lsov). The above events will be decided at the A.R.C. Spring meeting next month, and in view of the good stakes offered Taranaki horses should be well represented. Handieapper Ceo. Morse declared the weights for the City Handicap on Saturday and they appear to be framed on equitable lines. Sedition heads the list with 9st 1111), and on his own course is always hard to beat. Waiinangu reads well with Bst -81b, "and Electrakoff would only have to be fit to 'have a chance with Sst (iJb. Patriotic Bst lib'and Labor.Day 7st 111b are well in, as is Royal Soult, who, however, has yet to prove his prowess over • ten furlongs. Coromandel 7st 71b is galloping satisfactorily, and may make 'the trip. Of the light-weights Multiply reads best. The little Gisborne horse finished up gamely in the Wanganui Guineas (one mile) and may perform best over longer courses. Sea Elf has' gone wrong aiid will not start.

T.he withdrawal of Bon Ton and Bandeira from the New Zealand Clip leaves Stead Bros, without a representative. Bandcira was much fancied iii the South.

, The peneillers got another "turn "p" when Prince Soult dropped out of the New Zealand Cup. Since racing at Avondale the colt hag been showing improved track form and his prospects in the Great Northern Guineas are highly asseiied.' Euroco has been afflicted with dental troubles lately and is an unlikely starter at Warerley. A troting club is being formed a.t Gisborne.

Penates is doing stud duty in the Oanmru district this year. The Caulfield Cup will be run on Saturday next. Lady Medallist is still favourite, slightly in advance of the Eng-lish-bred horse Endorus, then come Wilari and Royal Scotch. When it comes to training a horse one cannot expect much for a paltry ten bob a week. One of the witnesses in the Adkins v. -John Wrenn ease in Melbourne, a jockey-trainer named Tom Kings, just about takes the loaf for sheer casualness. Tf his candid admissions are to be relied upon things cannot be conducted too cleanly on pony courses in Victoria. .Tust listen to the bright youth in tlie box: Counsel for the defendant asked Kings: "How long were you riding on Mr. Wrenn's courses 2"—"A fortnight." "You were then disqualified —"Yes." "What for?"—" Careless riding." "liave you often been disqualified?"—" Over twenty times." (Laughter), "What for?"—" For doing what the owner told me." (Laughter). "If the owner tells you to do anything, you'll do it?" —"Yes." "Would you say 'anything?" —"No; I won't put myself away, but I'll ride to liis orders." "Do you remember a horse named Fly you' rode at Jubilee Park? What were v'our orders."

—"Not to win." (Laughter). "Well?" —"the three of ns in the race pulled our horses up and walked 'home." (Loud laughter). "What, wasn't the race finished?"—" No." "Did the three of you have instructions not to win?"—"lt looks like it." (Laughter).-

The recently deceased Multiform received a good advertisement when his two-year-old son Berragoon won the Breeders' Plate and Gimerack Stakes at RandwicK last week. Berragoon was bought as a yearling at Randwick for 700 guineas, and has already gathered in nearly three times that amount. Tlie Masterton R.C. Spring meeting takes place to-morrow. Acceptances are fairly numerous and given fine weather the gathering should be a success. Duke Foote started at a famine price for the Metropolitan Handicap and the Bar Yons showed their wisdom by practically cramping him out of favour. That Duke Foote looked a "moral" nobody denied, but something in tlie region of a £2 dividend doesn't often tempt a punter in such a big field.