SPORTING.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 June 1916, Page 7

SPORTING.

m ■■■" wfl ELLERSLIE TRAINING NOTES, By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Yesterday. More rain iell during the night a!nd the tracks wore very heavy for training operations at Eilerslie. A record number of horses were worked, the grass and t.and being the principal i racks used. Before breakfast Loloma ran seven furlongs on the sand with the assistance; of Vinaka, the last four of which took 52 2-ssec Soultikoff waa better than Signo, Tragedy King and Tact over seven furlongs on the grass, the last six furlongs taking 1.22. Castalia beat Inspector over six 'furlongs on the grass in 1.214-5. After the interval Royal Chef covered four furlongs in 54 4-5. Flying Start, Battle Eve and San Sebastian were together at the end of seven furlongs on the sand in 1.33. Muitiply beat Ladoguer over seven furlongs on the grass, the last five taking 1.9. Harbor Light and Styrax did a round on the sand in ? 2 4-5. Kitty Bellair3 covered five furlongs on the grass in 1.6. Tatterley made a track for Heat Wave over six furlongs on the grass in 1.22 1-5. Multiplication was too good for Marimba over four furlongs on the grass in 51 2-5. Aurore and Fisher were together after six furlongs on the grass in 1.21 3-5. Captain Loch, Ambassador and Captain Jack, in that order, did a round on the sand in 2.8 2-5. Te Papapa, Alf Delaval and El* Gallo were in close order after seven. furlongs in 1.36. Husliman and Bisogne did four furlongs on the I sand in 51 2-5. Hyginas ran five furI longs on the grass in 1.9. Te Onga did a round on the sand in 2.1 4-5. Naupata and Scrutineer did a round on the grass, the last six furlongs in 1.2 2-5. Tararu Jack easily held Spalperion during a rour.d on the grass in 2.44-5. Gwalior, Maryland and Pursefiller were schooled over two hurdles, the last obstacle hard. Marton and Bonny Jean jumped the big fences without mistake. Motokio leaped Ave hurdles proficiently. Idealism and Flingot had a turn at the big fences, the latter being very slow. Glenmore and Queen's Post took the big fences in good style. A lot of others ■vere also exercised. Captain Macky and Tarero arrived yesterday. THE RE-HANDICAPPING SYSTEM. Christclmrch, May 30. At the annual meeting of the Canterbury Jockey Club, Mr. J. S. Barrett brought up the question of re-han<licapp-ing as against fixed penalties, some other clubs had adopted the system of reliandicapping. and though the merit of. these methods was a matter for academical discussion, those proficient in the science of handicapping had remarked on injustices possible under the system of fixed penalties. This was apparent in connection with the Club's Easter meeting, at which the penalty for winning the Easter Handicap was 141b. Two horses, might run a dead-heat or a horse might win by 100 yards. In both cases the penalty would be the same, and an obvious injustice was created. In the Stewards' Handicap and New Zealand Cup there was. no possibility of this. The chairman (Mr. W. F. M. Buckley) said the handicapping question had been thrashed out time after time, and however the question was looked at, or put, there were difficulties. The committee of the Club had almost unanimously held the penalty system was better than Lie -handicapping.