THE TURF.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LV, Issue 13929, 12 June 1909, Page 5

THE TURF.

(By "Field Glass.")

As this is the off season, there is not anything of a startling nature being accomplished on the training circles locally. I The contract price for the erection of stewards' room and stand, secretary's office and press room and stand, as well as new stabling, for the Taranaki Jockey Club was £796. Mr. A. Cliff , was the successful tenderer. The ' plans for the new buildings were prepared by Mr. Frank Messenger, the cluo*s architect, and will provide pleasing- additions to the- appointments of the local club. The following were the principal winning owners at Otaki:— Hon. J. D. , Ormond £340, "J. Monk" - £256, A. Jackson £180, J. R. M'Donald £170, G. H. Gibson £17X), H. M' Maria way ■ £135. W. J. Douglas £160, E. Woods 1 £95, L. G. M'DonaH £90, $. Meaen* I £Co, F. Ryan £45, W. .Cooper £40. Mr. E. J. Watte' Psnist^hia b«w* destroyed during tce t week qjj. account of paralysis. '- s WhHsi he'Kas' oeen at the stnd Merriwee proved a faiiily suecoasfur sire. j Kaitoto, who finished second in tli« j G.N.S. on Saturday, won this event in 1905 when carrying list. In 1906 he did not start, but in the following year again won with 12st 131 b. ' Last' yeajr when carrying 13st lib he wa» unplaced. | Golden Slipper has again been sent to Windsor, and is to remain there about six weeks (says an exchange). There have been few greater disap- | poinfcments than the daughter of Mul- [ tiform, who has so far shown herself a better galloper in private than in ] public. That she will ever stay is I more than doubtful, but her poor displays at the A.J.C. meeting should cause her to be sufficiently well treated to give her a fair chance of picking up a good sprint race in the event of a return to her two-year-old form. J. Cameron Mas due to leave last Monday with Kiatere and Waipu for Australia. Cameron was also taking charge i)f Don Hannibal for Mr. Lyons. "There were a couple of glaring reversals of form during the Wanganui meeting, and it is open to question whether there were not one or two nontriers in a couple of the second day's events: but on the whole," aays "Achilles," "the racing was quite as clean as can be expected until such time as the stipendiary stewards are introduced." The Wellington Racing Club has decided to raise the stakes in the Steeplechase to £650, and in the Winter Hurdles to £500. Burton has again changed hands, and now goes to Hawke's Bay. He has changed hands three or four times since he was purchased By Mr. Young at the Taranaki meeting. Moriarty, recently purchased on behalf of Mr. J. Leek in New Zealand, arrived in Melbourne by the s.s. Moana on May 22. A rough passage was experienced, and Moriarty and his box were washed down the corridor. The horse was a good deal cut about. The very satisfactory entry of 69 has been received for the New Zealand Cup, the list being a thoroughly representative one. Unfortunately for their owners, the nominations of Plunderer, an Australian-bred horse, and Auratus were received to late for inclusion. Up to April 23 the young Australian rider Frank Wootton was well in front of the other jockeys riding in England. Up to this date he had had 28 winning mounts. At the Sandown Park meeting the stewards, owing to a complaint lodged by D. Maher, held an inquiry into young Wootton's riding. After the race for the Esher Cup Maher, who rode the second horse, complained of bumping and boring by Wootton, who rode the winner, Sealed Orders. The stewards, in dismissing the objection, forfeited the deposit. The Canterbury Jockey Club contemplate purchasing the freehold of the Riccarton racecourse. Moccasin, the Wanganui Steeplechase winner was purchased by his present owner, Mr. F. Saunders, for £."30. The annual report of the Canterbury Jockey Club states that though over £1000 was added to the stakes the profit on the year exceeds any other in the history of the club. The profit and loss account shows that the receipts amounted to £46.842 8s lid, and the expenditure to £38.314 0s Id The club made £8528 8s lOd over the year, and the excess of assets over liabilities amounts to £36,306 os 7d. £27.900 was distributed in stakes, £6759 of which was contributed by horse owners, i Bookmakers' fees amounted* to £6355 I 10s. There were very few on the course I (says "Geraint" * in the Manawatii Standard) at Otaki who knew that The Saint had broken her leg when she fell at the home turn in the first race of the day, and it was not for some time that the news worked round the paddock. This was due to the fact that tho mare as soon as sho rose galloped off the course and in amongst the spectators at the bend, the fact that she carried a "swinger" being noted by very few on the stands and in the paddock, their attention being with tl>r> race. The mare was shot as soon as a gun could be procured. Mr. E. Collins, who owned The Saint, lost the services of Greenleaf also by accident whilst training at Ashhurst. Something in the shape of a sensation was caused at last month's meeting of the Ascot Racing Club, when the stipendiary stewards exercised their privileges of substituting a rider for the one already secured by the owner of a horse with an engagement in the 14.2 Handicap. Justification of the action of the club's officials in connection with this matter has since met with varied expressions of °P' mon . (says an exchange), both on and ofj the course, being principally debated from the different standpoints of those personally affected by the result thereof. Plainly put, the facts of the case are simply this : When Letting opened on the race above referred to Manning and Fuse shared the honour of heading the quotations, but as soon as the names of the jockeys and the numbers of their respective mounts were hoisted on the semaphore Manning rapidly receded in the market, till odds of o and 6 to 1 were freely offered against him. As moat recent form scarcely suggested the justification of such liberties being \ taken with the unsexed son of Othello especially when no decided move had . been made in favour of any of the other competitors, the stewards cvi- ' dently assumed that the recognise* . qualifications of Manning's intended [ rider had something to do with that gelding's sudden and lengthy drift in t, the market. Such being the case or t, not, their prerogative to engage another horseman to pilot Mr. Duncan a * gelding was put into force, with the V result that Manning immediately resumed his former position at the head i of the quotations, and, after being b sent out a pronounced favourite, won 1 decisively at the finish from Miss May7 field end Fuse.

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