TURF TOPICS. RECENT DERBY WINNERS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13481, 22 July 1907, Page 3

TURF TOPICS. RECENT DERBY WINNERS.

We little thought when we watched Spearmint led away after the Derby last year that we were — as I fear is tho case^— seeing the last of him on an English course, remarks "Rapior," of tin* Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News. For one reason or another, however, the public careers of Derby winners are usually brief. It is not strange that owners should like to hurry then; to the stud, but ncrb seldom the colt is withdrawn because fie cannot be trained — anyhow, it is the exception for Derby winners to run at five. Spearmint wo have just discussed, Cicero has done with racing. St. Amant was most skilfully kept on his legs, and ran thrice as a five-year-old without winning, but Rock Sand finished at four, so did Ard Patrick and Volodyovski, the latter having run nine times and been nine times beaten the year after his Epsom victory. Diamond Jubilee also was out, and failed thrice as a four-year-old before he retired. Flying Fox was sold in consequence of the Duke of Westminster's death, and I am not sure whether he could have been trained had M. Blanc studied to find some of the few races for which ho might have been entered. Jeddah Was patched up in the autumn of 189&, and ran last for the Jockey Club Stakes. Galtee More disappeared as a three-year-old., Persimmon as a .four-year-old was out twice, taking the Ascot Cup and the Eclipse Stakes. Sir Visto, if I recollect aright, never ran after three. Isinglass I always think had the model gareer — unbeaten as a two-year-old, winning ihe three classics and incidentally the Newmarket Stakes at three, taking the trio of Ten Thousand Pounders as a four, and the Ascot Cup as a five.

Molodeon has been put into work again at Randwick after a spell. The New Zealander Noctuiform was unplaced in the Manchester Cup. The weight to be carried by Cuiragno in the New Zealand Grand National Hurdles — list 121b— is top weight for this event. Exmoor and Maui been scratch-

od for all engagements a* the New Zealand Grand National meeting. It is reported in reliable quarter? that Loch Fyne will shortly be shipped to Sydney. If this is so, the horse's Grand National engagements will be cancelled. / Apologue is for sale in Sydney, his presont owner being disgusted with the treatment meted out in the weights on the other side. Kiatere (13st 31b), Phaetonitis (list 91b), Waitarere (lOst 121 b), and Romany Lad (lOst 51b) are mentioned as a likely quartette for the New Zealand Grand National Steeplechase. Hydrant's owner is said to contemplate approaching the Victoria Racing Club on the question of the disqualification imposed on his horse last spring being removed. The New Zealand Racing Conference opens its annual session at Wellington to-day (Monday). 'The horses engaged in the Winter Hurdle Race at Wellington are all among the entrants for the Grand National Hurdles. Accounts of the race for the Manchester Cup state it was plainly "all up" with Noctuiform at the end of a mile. The annual report of the Wanganui Jockey Club shows that the year's racing resulted in a profit of £1535 0s 9d.