TURF ITEMS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13557, 7 November 1907, Page 5

TURF ITEMS.

L- G. King had his first winning mount on Frisco in the New Zealand Cup. "• v " Solution is to be offered for sale. Not one of the. New Zealand Cup horses did a racing pace gallop over two miles at Rjccarton prior to the race. It is said there was V lot of bumping in- the New Zealand Cup race. The chief sufferers were Elevation, Paritutu, Armistice and Probable. j ' Gravitation has recovered from the poisoned leg. "He is a. twb-y«aij-old half brother to Elevation.' '. • Eous, who, won the Shorts" at the C.JIC. has been sold for £93. , His purchaser is Mr W. J. Marshall, Invercargjjl. . . . The; B^auchanip mare jLesnarte has established a new six furlong record for Australasia. She covered the distance 1 at Raiidw.ick in the Flying Handicap in lmin. 12£secs. This beats the previous best time by half A second. Elevation created a fresh by covering a mile and a-half at the Canterbury Derby in 2uin. 36 2-ssecs. Up to date t Poseidon has won fifteen races and £16,732.1Qs in stakes. He has started,26 times, won 15 times, been- | second 3 times, third 3 times, and un- f placed 5 tunes. Wakeful won 25 races and £16,695 in stakes/ Carbine won 33 races, and £29,476 in stakes. '', Tho fcufliour that Mr Waklyn had severed "his connection J^ith' the Canterbury- ;Jockey Club is incorrect. Woolley, winner of the Portland Handicap Plate, of £1000, at Ddncaster (England),' in September, was bought out of a cart for £25. Last year he was on offer for £40 as a,hunger, but was not sold, for the best of alt reasons that he could not b© induced to even jump a hurdle.' Since then he has won four races out of six. When he won at Doncaster he was ridden By F, Wootton, and started at 20 to 1 in a field of twenty-one. Landlock has been disposed of for £73 10s.