SPORTING.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 November 1920, Page 3

SPORTING.

HOROWHENUA RACES. ESPERAXCE WINS THE CUP. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Levin, Last Night. 'flic Jlorowlientia Club's meeting was 'held to-day. Tho weather was showery and the course heavy, hut there was a large attendance. Tho sum of £22,8111) was put through the totalisator, as against £l4,NliO last year. Results : MANUKAU HURDLES.—Orane 1, Fawerewero 2, Revocation 3. Scratched: Retard, Cruokiiecl;. Won by a neck. Time, 2.55.

MOUTERE WELTER.—Admiration 1, Passenger 2, Terrier 3. Scratched: Utuwai, Bombala, Lady Polly. Won by a length and a. half, the thirtl horse two lengths away. Time, 1.3 1-5.

MAIDEN HANDICAP.—GaIIia 1, Top Dog 2, Lady Polly 3. Scratched: vYairnahoe, Spare Moment, Lord Ashlea, Sagacity, Gold Coast. Jackaroo fell at the entrance to the straight. Won by three-quarters of a length. Time,

HOROWHEXIIA rUP—Esperance 1, Rose Pink 2, Mouioa Iranova '!. Scratched: Sir Fanciful and Ladify. Ladlfy slipped l'er bridle during her preliminary and bolted lour times round the course, the rider (Blanch) remaining In tho saddle until the horse was exhausted. Time, 2.14 2-5.

LEVIN HACK HANDICAP—FIight Commander l, American Beauty 2, Automoaua 3. Scratched: Blackhead. Fortune Teller. Won by u length. Time, 1.10 2-5.

Mcdonald .memorial handicap. Nursing Sister 1, Gold Problem 2, Beloved 3. Scratched: Walmatoa. Won by a neck. Time, 1.1(1.

WERE'ROA WELTER.—Printcnips 1, Matty "J, Risiugham 3. Scratched: Moutoa Ivonovu, Sir Fanciful. Won by a head, tie third horse a length away. Time, 1.43 2-5.

HOKIO HACK HANDICAP.—Yankee Dan 1, Samarang 2, American Beauty 3. Also started: Spare Moments, Beloved, Gold Coast, Golden Vi. Won by half it length. Time, 1.2. TARANAKI DISTRICT COMMITTEE, A meeting: of the Taranaki Jockey Club District Committee was > lieid on Tuesday evening. There were present: .Messrs. L. A. Nolan (chairman), Newton King, 0. W. Sole, W. .1. Morrison, B. H. Chaney, (I. Eraser, J. Grey, H. Washer S. Pitt, J. Mol.cod.

A trainer's license was granted to .1. Fryer and jockeys' licenses were granted to P. Holniau and K. Landless, An apprentice jockey's license was granted to Morris .1. Cotton, subject to the Wellington Jockey Club bavin? no objection.

At. Conza, trainer, and the horse White Hanger, were disqualified lor tour years, and L. H. Lynch was disqualified for one year for corrupt practices. Permits to train their own horses were granted to the following owners: J3. Lovcridge, w. La Couple, and R. E. Laurent. TURF TOPICS. (By ".Moturoa.") t occluding day at Winton. The Takapuna spring meeting opens on .Saturday. Ashhurt races take place on Wedicsday nest.

Silver Link will go: a headache if she is asked to chase Gloiraiing in ihe Ee'ldin" Slakes.

The Easton perjury charges, over which a Falmerstoii jury disagreed last nee.-:, will be heard at Wanganui on Thursday next.

Everybody in Marlon appears to have heaps if money since Urain-ss woo tie Cup, and

.ii~ sports have clone milling but .Iri'.ik fizz <i:wl play "sixteen bob rises" ever sine?. According to •■Fianeiir," of the Smnjwntu .Standard, Arthur Oliver will 3c t up at Awataini as a public trainer, bis first cnarjfls Uitij Parisian Diamond, Statuette, .nd 2stcr!ita.

"Mick" King, the well-known Bills trainer, finds bis present stables unsuitable for. his' steadily increasing team of homes, and w II Fttbably move into more commodious and up-u-ih-ue stables at Marion shortly. "Ted" i'eitman, ,\'m trained Slude.,.. for Mr. W. Homes, of raraivaiuii, is ni'ivi:ij; into the. stables being vaci.lcd by M. Kins at Bulls, and w.ll have several :>i Mr" lb n.es' horses tinder his charge. An acceptance of fire only is lisMi'iMmln/: for tl.e well-endowed St. Andrew's Handicap at raiding, but two of the nuartette h.ii! iron Tarauaki. Marqueteur will in'obably be preferred to Depredation at the weitdils, but both Tenterllcld and the veteran Client may bo depended upon to run a ;:uod twelve furlongs.

'Hie I'cilding Flying Handicap sliouii lie a, great race. Acre, who is reported ;o bo very forward, will make his re-appenram:o in this event, and seasoned horses like Chimera, .Miss Cold, Dunedln, and Nursing Sister will also have to be reckoned with. Duneilin has done all that has been asked of kim so far, and looks like proving a topnotch splinter.

Miss Barrett, a daughter of "Davie," Barren, niluo host of the Manchester Hotel, in FeUding, has been granted permission to train her father's horses, Idle Talk and Siberian, and to ride them ill their work on the Feilding tracks. Miss Barrett Is an accomplished little horsewoman, and was a popular figure on, the Wangauul tracks a few years ago.

King George won a two-year-old race with the gelding Torment (Torlorsk-Flame), at Newmarket on September 28. There jvere 25 runners, ami Torment started at a remunerative price.

Prom March 22 to September 25, S. Donoghuc had ridden in 485 races in England for 10!) firsts, do seconds, and C 3 thirds. P. Bullock was second with 70 wins, 52 seconds, and 39 thirds for 3GO mounts. Then came B. Carslake, whose 248 mounts had resulted in 50 firsts, 311 seconds, and 22 thirds.

The death is reported from Sydney of Mr. T. Paytcn, one of the most successful trainers who ever led in a horse in Australia. It is computed that he trained over 2011 different winners, and won 550 races. Horses prepared by him won five A.J.C. Derbies, four V.Ii.C. Derbies, three Sydney Cups, tkree Metropolitan Handicaps, two Epsom Handicaps, six Australian Cups, four Champion Slakes, one Caulfleld Cup, one Newmarket Handicap, four A.J.C. St. Legers, and other notable events. Amorujst the great horses that passed through his hands may he mentioned: Ahercorn, Dreadnought, Trideru), San Fran, Projectile, Antonlus, Dewey, Cranbrook, and Volley. Mr. Payten was i>r, years of age, and was associated with horses all his life. It is nearly 40' years ago since lie was foreman for the late Mr. M. Fennelly at iiie Newmarket Stahcs, and ho took charge In 1880. His patrons include Mr. Wlltc, Mr. Adrian Knox (Federal Chief Justice), C. C. Stephen, Agar Wynne, J. It. Smith, D. Brennan, P. Osborne, the lalo J. N. Hail, and Dr. Ewan Frazer. For several years Mr. Paylen had'been encaged In the less strenuous occupation of bleeding thoroughbreds. He was an unostentatious and charitable man, and his death occasioned widespread regret.