GOSSIP FROM ALL PARTS

Taranaki Daily News, 20 June 1930, Page 4

GOSSIP FROM ALL PARTS

NEW ZEALANDERS IN AUSTRALIA. (By "Moturoa.”) A schoolboy, when called upon to write an essay, using the words “calm and collected,” spun the following: “One day an absent-minded- sport was walking across the track at Ellerslie when he” discovered that a race was in progress, and the field was bearing down on him at a great speed. In spite of his awkward predicament, he stood calm and was afterwards collected.” The McLachlans Again.

W. H. McLachlan, senr., was one of the greatest riders seen in .Australia a few years ago, and when his son expressed a fancy to follow in his father s footsteps, a move was made to England. where the prospects of riches looked brighter. But McLachlan senr. was getting up in years, and opportunities did not come his way as they did in Australia. Nevertheless, the Old Country gave McLachlan junr. a good lift, i and he might have continued to win races if increasing weight had not narrowed his chances. In the 1924 season young McLachlan rode 29 winners, and was in minor 'places on no less than 61 occasions, while in the following year his figures were 32 and 74 respectively. Since then the lad has been right out of the limelight, but Sydneysiders gave him a pat on the back the other day when he returned to the saddle to win cleverly on Mr. E. J. Watt’s Celtic at Warwick Farm. Me-. Lachlan senr. is now endeavouring to get a small string of horses . togethei, but will find training less remunerative than riding, when he won Melbourne ■Cups on Westcourt, Comedy King and Prince Foote; an Australian Cup on Almissa; Caulfield Cups on Maranui and Aborigine; Sydney Cups on Vavassor and Lily veil; a Brisbane Cup on Bunting; and an Adelaide Cup on Meda°lia. Sportsmen will* wish father and son the best of luck as trainer and rider respectively. Napier Stakes Small. Taranaki horse-owners have not been attracted by the stakes offered at the Napier Park winter meeting, and it. is not to be wondered at. The Napier Steeplechase is only worth 200 eovs., and the Ahuriri Hurdles 150 sovs., while the best flat event only carries with it a paltry 150 sovs. Hacks run for bigger money on this coast. Still the Napier Park Club is fortunate in securing very fair nominations, though mostly local. The Napier Steeples. The following horses have been entered for the Napier Steeplechase, run over two and a-half miles of etiff country: Bendower, Brigadier Bill, _ Flying Swift, Maunga, Red Bank, Ponjola, Kowhatu, Handy, Master Arch, Wharncliffe Charlatan, Bon Ayran, Birkbeck, and Niikumai. Of these four, Bendower, Kowhatu, Master Arch and Bon Ayran,

also figure in the hack steeplechase. No Missing There. Chatting to a Nev; Zealand owner recently returned from Australia, the writer was informed that the almost general practice on the other side is to count a horse “in” until withdrawn. This means that once a horse is nominated for a race, its owner has no further worries about acceptances or further payments. This practice, which events, has much to recommend it, and is followed in New Zealand classic if made general. would spell “finis” to the never ending howl about “missed acceptances.” Unfortunate Habit. The New Zealand filly Habit has been the medium of very heavy wagering in her recent starts in New South Wales, though her owner, Mr. H. J. McManaway, is himself only a very moderate bettor. It is stated that when the filly was beaten by a head in the Casula Handicap at Warwick Farm on May 31, one lady punter, in four wagers, invested £1,200 on the New Zealander, while other bets of £5OO. apiece were too common to attract more than passing notice. Habit has'been a veritable goldmine to the layers, arid as she will never touch a tall price again in Sydney, the peneillers appear to be on velvet as far as she is concerned. Snowfall was Best.

The steeplechasers in the South Island do not promise to cut much ice in the big steeplechase at Riccarton in August. At the Dunedin meeting the fourteeny ear-old''eon of Balboa,. Snowfall, was much too goo? for the cattle he met over Wingatui country :nd surely the North Island can produce something capable of beating the southern veteran and a collection of crocks. Fabriano is under a cloud and though Lord Ranald ie going fairly well he too may be an absentee from the jumping carnival at Riccarton. On paper it looks like another clean sweep ior the North Island. i

Promising New Zealand Filly. Though beaten in her division of the Trial at Canterbury on June 7, Stately, a New Zealander, should be worth watching, writes an Australian scribe. Stately was at a disadvantage when the barrier rose and was soon near the rear of the field, but a fortunate run on the rails enabled her to make up lost ground rapidly. The effort brought her near the leaders at the straight entrance, but apparently it -had taken too much out of her with the result that she had no stamina left for the finish, and -second to Veneer was the best she could accomplish. In the circumstances that was satisfactory, however, and with a bit of luck at tho start she should soon lose her maiden certificate. Goldings Not Wanted. The South African Jockey Club has decided to prohibit the importation of geldings for racing purposes. There is no objection to geldings bred in their own country winning important races, < but South African breeders are tired of

seeing English-bred geldings getting more than their share of the plums. England will not be a heavy loeer, aa only about 200 horses have been sent from that country to South Africa in the last four years. Of those 60 per cent, were geldings. Some time ago there was talk of again debarring geldings from the South African Derby, and on® of the principal two-year-old races run in Johannesburg, but they are eligible. Australian News.

Recent Sydney files contain the following references to ex-New Zealanders: Aussie has been turned out at Richmond. Moorgas went amiss after his win at Tam worth.. Super Ruler, who has not been a success so far, has been sent back to New Zealand. Satrap, who has been put .to hurdling, .has been awarded 10.2,. the same weight as Overhaul, in-the V.R.C. Grand National Hurdles. Other weights of interest in the same event are Horoscope 10.7, Affirm 10.7, Reonui 10.5, and Home--Made 9.7. Gibsontea, by Tea, TrayFlovita, landed a big stake for Mr. A. A. Marks when he won the Warwick Farm Stakes. Patadawn, by KilbroneyBon Chic, was unlucky to go under by J a head in the Warwick May Handicap, conceding 15 lbs. to the winner, Glasgow. Horoscope (11.4) finished a close second to Dookie (9.13) in the Hurdles at Moonee Valley, the. .2 miles and off yards being run in torrid time, 3min. 44|secs. Waterline’s new owner is said to be the well-known Victorian trainer, Mr. Adam Skirving. Maurice McCarten rode three winners at the Queensland Gup meeting—Trainer in the Cup, Rhonite in- the . Sires’ Produce Stakes and Gold Fern in the Welter. King Quex • and Hot Springs were both beaten out of places at the Adelaide. Birthday meeting. Lucky One and Miss Myrtle both won at good .prices at Victoria Park ponies on May 31. Tea lime, by . Tea TrayrMendacity, scored a' hollow victory at Richmond ponies on June 2. Papatu is in work at Randwick, but appears tn have gone back. Habit continues to gallop promisingly on the same tracks. # # # * The starting times for the Hawke’s Bay winter races, which open at . Has- s tings to-day are: 12 noon, 12.40, 1.15, 1.50, 2.30, 3.15 and. 4.0. HUNTING IN NORTH TARANAKI The Taranaki Hunt Club will meet at Mr. E. Rooke’s, Waiau Road, about. • miles from Waitara, just off the. Main North Road, to-morrow. The hunt wn be over the properties of Messrs. J. • Mabin and 0. Honeyfield,- and otners. The hunt should provide .tip-top 9 PJ“»the country being most suitable, hares are reported to be plentiful. 11> e hunt was carded for Mr. J. R- Mabi , but owing to sickness in the house ic was impossible to have.it., Mr.;K°u camo ,to the rescue by taking, over tne hunt, which .njll -.be practically, over same ... , ' .- ■■