SPORTING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 18, 21 June 1913, Page 7

SPORTING.

RACING FIXTURES. ' June 25, 26—Napier Park Racing Club, July 3, 4—GisbQrnc Racing Club. July W, 19—Wellington Racing Club. TURF TOPICS. 1 * (By "Moturoa.") Napier Park races on Wednesday and ■Thursday. .„ w . Punters bad'a good time of it over '«'• the Hastings meeting. t ' ' Redloh's victory on Thursday cost the &' layers a lot of money. |? The. jumping at Hastings was awful. *& The big Country must be very "tricky" Mr* over them vm- Castle Canter paid a very big dividend JS* on -the ffcret day, and the, rejuvenated yL' El Dorado returned his supporters a tidy jj! sum on Thursday. J*?t. The popular Karamu horseman, "TarJulian, did the "hat-trick" on Wedfei ' nesday, scoring on Bollin, The Spaniard tand Peary in consecutive races. ' Kopu, who was reported to have gone 'wrong, put up a great fight, in the /•ladies* and "only, failed in the last bit. He pulled up lame. g"»j-'- *. Coronetted was\ well fancied locally f& 'tiat the landed the , V bauble. Incidentally it might be retw.' , marked that the son of Coronet carried « r , 12.10 and cut out the twelve furlongs *■;, in 2.43—a good gallop! The disappointing Wild Lupin was V '.' made a hot order for the Final Handicap, jJ Xis .'jHit onpe again let his Hawera backers t\ t .down very badly. Probably the horse £\i L s^ore ne w^n * na *' accident at Wel"ls' lington. V? Bollin set a very warm pace in the %; > JBawke's Bay Hurdles, and the favorite, S&.'w Goodwin Park, could only gain third ftp-, 'place. On the second day the last-named £„n "found the shorter distance more acceptp'X , able, and won nicely. \K; ' The ups and downs of a jockey's life %** were never better exemplified than in ™& J 'ithe ease of J. CConnell, whose record Wednesday—four mounts, four falls §£■£" —takes some beating. &J'-> r 'Prom all accounts The Chief was very e«?, lucky to win the Hunt Club Steeple at W{' .JEastings. The veteran was a long way ™'-. } lt in the rear when the leaders, Levent pand Master Webb, came down at the '* last obstacle and practically handed the -Hrace away. The Chief's luck must be jm to brag about, seeing that sbe the old horse has won the Hunt Club 'Steeple five years in succession. fti?r Quite a number of New Zealand-bred §k , horses are engaged at Rosehill (New jS?''' South Wales) to-day. Don Quex'is in i^V-'the hurdle race, Brave, Heart in the Pi,\ Flying, Sir Artegal and Necktie in the SSUißoßehill Handicap, and Elfbolt, Manakau Jj|f li and Merrie Zealand in the Rydalmere ItJ -Mile. So far, Sir Artegal has been a jank failure in Australia, but the others & v^manage to catch a heat in their turn. fe&/ f Jockey B. Deeley was riding in good Wf{ 'form at Hastings, and won races on Vi |r\i(*''and Redloh. He now has a good lead of 8$ New Zealand horsemen, Charlie Emmerpojso'n being in Australia. Emmerson was Jiot long in breaking the ice across the j IfS,u water, and as he is connected with J. | f; '„ • Whitworth'B powerful stable he should j 0$ ' 6** plenty of chances to distinguish hiin|wr*,»s "self over there. j «Wi, A terrible lot of fuss was made at F|?* J '*Randwick when Eler.trakoff won the J fof- . well-endowed Winter Stakes. Two days &r>vijearlier the New Zealander could only; ja, -gain sixth place in the Ellesmere Handi-j wjpV cap,'run over the same distance, but the J gjy' dry going on the first day was in direct Uk." contract to the slush which covered all ££ _, things on the second. Electrakoff was ftfj. always a mud lark, and he romped home. x£>* The deeds of this horse at Trentham a | jp< couple of jears ago, when the mud was] knee-deep, are fresh in the minds of % , 1 New Zealanders, but of course our Aus- j %). tralian brothers knew nothing of that. | !:>■ t Few racing clubs have the boldness to fe\''publish lists of unclaimed dividends; yet. the amount gained by the carelessness of {*© punters must be considerable. The West Sjr'i 'Australian Turf Club, in eighteen days' tf ' racing last- season, picked up the rcmark'able sum of £1494 19s in unclaimed \\ '"divvjs." * ; St. Francis, a Hawke's Bav candidate b'* ; for Melbomne Cup and New Zealand Cup J," < l honors, is a two-year-old half-brother, by ; £'r San Francisco, «to Gladsome and Apo<?f logue. If breeding counts for anything (•> I the colt should turn out a top-notchcr. ]", Viewing recent form, one cannot lirlp j " thinking that Dorando would only need £. to have started to have gathered in tl)c * > ' Hawke's Bay Steeple on Wednesday. It was a good stake, but our Wanganui friends reckon the Grand National is a ""■' " oetter one. Time will tell whether their f move was a good one or otherwise. Four hundred pounds steeplechases 'I must be easy to win in Sydney, when X -old Hautapu' can go on winning as lie '," does. There are heaps of moderate ■ 'chasers which are doing no good in this i country at present; and many of them I could make no race of Hautapu over 5 three miles. Napier P.irk weights appeared yester : ' day, and atceptances are thw. lii-nitjht. The Spaniard has gone up frorcr 9.7 to 1011 for winning rt Hastings, but the field at "The Park" does not promise to be a verv select one, and -Mr. V. Aim'strong's g.inie little iumper may be hard to beat. Lenlanter has-, been-raised 41b. f and the easier country next week onr' lianees bin prospects. As a rule Hastings ■' running is a poor guide for Napier Park. I'H the marked difference in the obstacles Jf upsetting calculations considerably. S*~ Patriotic figures in both the Stewards' J . Handicap (Hat) and the Moteo Hack T * Hurdles at Napier Park. The Hawera h horse jumps fairly well, but it was repoited last week that he was an unlikely starter at Napier. \ > Pearv. who cost Hawke'". Bay punters „' a lot of money while racirg nn the flat. looks like turning up tru nps over the small sticv",. He came at the right end in the Whikatu Hurdles at Hastings, and on the second day ran second to floldcn Water in fast time—2.47 for the •* xnile and a half. Probably the son of Birkenho'id will show up best over long ', comse-. Suma\ \.as sent out favorite for the June Steeplechase on Thursday, but he ran ofT early in the race. The horse was well li.uked away from the course, while ! the pentillers didn't write El Dorado's name. The Steeplechase meeting take-> place on Tuesday and Wednesday week. A good crowd of Auckland horses are booked to make the trip, and the meeting should be a successful one. I Jud"inu' bv the increased totalisator "*■ tumo\cr at Hastings, racing is on the l)00m o\ ci on the East Coast.