SPORTING.

Taranaki Daily News, 31 May 1924, Page 3

SPORTING.

NEXT WEEK'S RACES. AUCKLAND, OTAKI, DUNEDIN, BIG STEEPLECHASE EVENTS. (By “Moturoa.”) Races at Auckland, Otaki and Dunedin on Tuesday. The Epscm Derby will be run in England on Tuesday next. Income and Lo ch son will be favoured in Auckland engagements. First Born is schooling in good style, and will take a lot of beating in hurdle races at Ellerslie. Zircon and Diamond Ring will be bracketed on the tote in the Cornwall Handicap. Amongst the horses qualifying with the Rangitikei hounds this year are Onipoto, Adrienne and the once useful Rajput. Rangimoana and Tamakana are a promising pair of maidens likely to be seen out at Otaki. Both have run into minor places lately. John Dix was unlucky at Wanganui, but looks like .showing up in one of the minor handicaps at Ellerslie. A lot depends on the “draw, ’ however. If Brigadier Bill is one-half as smart as thev sat he is. the Penrose Hurdles will see him looking very “cheeky” with only lOst. Jo carry. Strange to say. Prince Rufus is only entered for one event, the Great Xorthem Hurdles, at the Auckland meeting. The fact that Roy Reed is to ride Diamond Ring in the Cornwall Handicap ha= brought her many friends, and the Camobell “bracket” will probabiv be favourites on the machine on Tuesday. Marie has been backed and beaten on so maliv occasion* that good judges will not have him for a race like the Cornwall Handicap, although Ashley Reed s horsemanship will help the V anganui horse a whole lot. F. D. Jones trill make another descent on Svdnev next month, and with such good’ones as Ballymena and Glentrum in his string he should do well. The over rated Sturihaupo will be taken across as well. Vr r Acton-Adams’ horses, Lochella, Silent King. General Advance and Cartoon, arrived in Auckland this week and probabiv the first-named pair will be seen out in the principal jumping events at the gathering. Silent King has done a lot of racing, and may prove troublesome in small stick races. Steeplechases at Dunedin have not attracted the fields which the stakes warrant, onlv six being paid up for in the Otago Steeples, worth 750 sovs. and seven in the St. Clair Steeples, of 2.>0 sovs. Master Peter appears to he well treated in the big race, and Kipling has only to stand up to prove dangerous in the minor event. Penury Rose ha. been sent down for the Jumper,- Flat and Otago Hurdles at Dunedin, and appears to be leniently treated in both races. It is qmte on the cards that the £6OO hurdle race will be his particular mission, and he may trouble Captain Sarto over the disBurt has been engaged to ride Savourv and Tuki at Ellerslie but the latter horse is renorted to be slights amiss, and a doubtful starter at the Auckland meeting. Oakleigh’s jumping has not been as clean as eonld have been wished of late, and on Thursday morning he came a crontier while schooling. Oakleigh is rising’ eleven now. and cannot expect to remain rt the top of the tree much lO omahn has been doing everything asked of him on the tracks, and his owner has great hopes of winning the Great Northern Steeples this year. Omahu has been over the course often enough, though his luck in this particular race has not been good. Mr. Bull won the Northern Steeples with Master Lupin in 1019. Lochella is the only previous winner of the Great Northern Hurdles engaged this time, but Lochella. Sea De’il and Marv Bruce —all previous winners of the Great Northern Steeples—figure in next Thursday's steeples. . Charlie Emerson had a busy time ot it at Oamaru. having twelve mounts in two days, and scoring four firsts, two seconds, and three thirds. E. Shaw, who L attached to S. Trilf ord’n ptaJ * e ’ aUo won four races, and was placed eight times. T Kfter the Great Northern meeting J. Williamson will take Pittsworth, Loyal Dish Pavo, Tactful. Tehimana and one or two other horses to Sydney. With »uch a strong team he should do well.

RACING FIXTURES. June 3. 4.—Otaki Racing Club. June 3, 5, 7.—Auckland Racing Club. June 3,5, 7. — Dunedin Jockey Club. June 20, 21.—Napier Park Racing Club. June 25, 26.— Hawke’s Bay Jockey Club. DEATH OF PERFECT DAY. Auckland, May 30. Perfect Day, owned by Wenzl Scholium, dropped dead on the Avondale racecourse this merning He has been •truck out of the Cornwall Handicap at the A.R.C. meeting. AUCKLAND SCRATCHING. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Auckland, Last Night. Royal Present was scratched for the < Cornwall Handicap to-day.