SPORTING.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13732, 22 August 1908, Page 7

SPORTING.

TURF NOTES. (By Field-Glass.) Percy Johnson returned to New Plymouth from Christchurch on Wednesday with Kiatere. H© left this afternoon for Wanganui, and goes on to Hastings on Monday. Mnltind was submitted for sale at Christchurch last week, and was withdrawn at 600 guineas. He was sold privately later for 700 guineas. Multifid is a fashionably-bred horse, and should prove successful at the stud. His new owner (Mr Carrington, of Gisborne) has, I am informed on very reliable authority, filled his list for the coming season, having booked thirty mares. Mr James Hawkins, his former owner, has the option of sending two mares to Multifid without fee. R. Barlow returned^ from Christchurch oil Monday. H. Eva's team now comprises Glenullin, Uhlando, Sylvan Park, Handover and Palades. W. Ryan, a well-known bookmaker of Auckland, was in town yesterday. J. Thaoker has a couple- of horses nominated for the Marton meeting — Timothy in the Electric Handicap with 7.12, and Fulminator in the Tutaenui Welter Handicap with 8.9. It is doubtful whether either horse will accept. H. Eva has Glenullin (8.4) nominated for the Marton Handicap and Sylvan Park (8.6) in the Tutaenui Welter. J. O'Priscoll's Bagatelle has 10*1 in the Trial Handicap Hurdles and "Recreation 9.10 jn the Welter. W. Crozier's Mistress hi the same race carries 8.12; and R. t Barlow expects to take Supplement, whose handicaps are 6.9 in the Shorts and 8.1 in the Electric, as well as Jvura for the. Hunt Cup, whose burden is 10.7. Mr A. Rhodes' Miko-tahi is given top weight in the Tutaenui Welter, lOst, but it is questionable whether he will be able to fulfil his engagement. His owner informs me that the horse injured himself whilst at work on Thursday, and that, he will probably have to be turned out for a time. Local sports who were down at the National meeting tell me Kiatere had his big race well in hand at the time he bumped Johnson out of the saddle. Thacker's team npw consists' of Fulminator, Rahipoto;. Timothy, and Hydraxilic,,and a youngster or two.* Barlow ik just breaking in a two-year-old colt by Lupin— Facility. A two-year-old by Uhlan, belonging to. Mr Dan O'Brien and in charge, of Barlow, is being cantered about steadily. • Scotty, in charge of JRyan> and Le Qeau, in charge of B. McMiken, came up from Christchurch on Thursday, proceeding to {Auckland last night. Kiatere was also taken North the same night. * Scotty was very sore . #md much swollen. A. Rhodes is negotiating for the purchase of the chestnut mare Tauriki. Mr Danragh, owner of Kiatere, was a spectator on the local course yesterday whilst the New Plymouth contingent were at work. The previous day Mr Darragh joined in the sport at the final meet of the Hunt Club, and was so pleased with the jumping of Miss Sole's Ronganui that he made arrangements to purchase him after the Hunt Club's meeting. Ronganui won the heavy-weight point-tOrpoint steeplechase at the hunt on Thursday,, and Black Jack the lightweight event. -There 4 wer& nine and twelve ' starters respectively. H. George 6teered Ronganui to victory, riding an admirable race. 5 • Mr Mitchell's Bushy Park was among the starters. Owners are. reminded that nominations for the North Taranaki Hunt Club's meeting close with the secretary (Mr E. P. Webster) at 9 o'clock on the 27th. The steeplechase course has 1 been fixed, and excellent jumping should be witnessed. The catering will be in the hands of Mr Thompson. - -There has not been a great # deal of fast work on the local course this week, the weather having interfered with trainers.The claim of Hurl© (jockey), who was injured some months ago through his horso colliding with a cow on. the course, has been paid from the accident fund of the Racing Conference. . Says "Boondi," in the Sydney Referee: — "The trail of the racehorse is over them all in Australia. A public school teacher, who had been instructing his infant class on suitable subjects, wrote on the blackboard the word 'saddle/ and asked what those letters spelt. No answer coming, the canefloppcr said: 'Oh, come, now; you surely know what that word is. You, Master Jones, ought to know. Tell me what does your father put on a horse ?' And immediately the little fellow squeaked out: "E gen'rally puts 'arf a Jim (10s) each way, sir, if the hoss is a good 'un and 'o knows it's a trier!'"" . t Tim Jones's application for a jockey's license has again been held over. * Hurle and Trigger have been granted jockeys' licenses. The sale of the late Mr G. G. Stead's stud was one of the most successful ever held in Australasia. In 1887, at the sale of the Maribyrnong Stud, 135 lots realised £63,000, and in 1890 the St. Albans Stud was sold for £75,000. Though ,the Yaldhurst aggregate of £43,905 is not the best, it is probable that tho average price — £609 for each of the seventy-two lots — has not pre- \ viously been reached. I have received a copy of the Wanganui Jockey Club programme for the 1908-9 season. Tho spring meeting takc3 placo en September 24 and 20, the autumn meeting on March 4 and 6, and the winter meeting on May 22 and 24. The amounts of added money this year are : Spring meeting, first day £1000, second day - £900— £1900; autumn meeting, first day £1675, second day £1400— £3075; winter meeting, first day £1375. second day £1050 —£2425. Total, £7400. On the opening day of the C J.C. meeting there wero 63 bookmakers doing business, on Thursday 54, and on Saturday 53. At the conclusion of the C.J.C. meeting tho aggregate of the machine receipts was £57,226, as against £61,641 last year, and £52,077 at the National of 1906. kast week the C.J.C. "received considerably over £2000 in bookmakers' license fees, so that, financially, the late meeting should prove quite the most successful of the C.J.C. winter gatherings. . deferring to the Grand National meeting, the Press says: "The heavyweights, in Kiatere and Paritutu, were unfortunate. Each ran two seconds, Pantutu thus repeating his performance, behind Shrapnel a year ago. It was bad luck to run up against such a horse a» Stormont, with only 9st in the saddle; but such is tho fortune of the racing game. Kiatero made great effofis in tho races in which he ran second, but he found the task of gvimg 3st lib to Gold Seal, and 2st 101 bto Amlax, too severe. Youth will bo served, but even so tho National meeting without the sterling performances of Kiatero and Paritutu. wouM have, lacked some of its most interesting features."