THE TURF.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LV, Issue 14510, 13 November 1909, Page 5

THE TURF.

(By "Field Glass.")

There has been little doing on the local tracks this week, most of, the horses having oeen away fulfilling engagement*. A well-known Waitara sportsman is reported to have netted £1300 over Lady Lucy's win in the New Zealand £' Hatch has been granted a jockey's license by the Wellington Racing Club. His apprentice's license expired at the end of October. ... Very satisfactory nominations have been received for the spring meeting of the Feilding Jockey Crab.' There are seven races each day, for which nearly 400 nominations have been received. Weights will be declared on Tuesday. Acceptances and entries for the Trial Plate and Bcurry close on Friday, the

19th inst. The "tote" investments at the Waverley meeting showed the substantial increase of £1571 on the previous year. R. Barlow's Golden Loop was the best of the nine starters for the Morton Memorial Maiden at the Waverley meeting, winning with ease by nearly a dozen lengths. Golden Loop, by Lupin out of Ducility, has come on wonderfully well sinoe he got into the "Bands of his present owner, and should land several good races ere long. He hat grown well and looks every inch a race hone. _^ . j One of the Waverley-Waitotara winners paid' a very big dividend. The hone was an outsider, and I believe only boasted three or four tickets. Timothy looked all over » winner for the Flying Handicap, but not being equal to the final pinch, finished unplaced. Koran created some surprise by winning the Cup. It was only a few weeks ago that his owner, Mr. D. < Noakes, purchased the Pilgrim's Progress gelding for something under twenty pounds. At that time many , thought a big price was paid' for the j horse, but he has already turned out a very profitable investment. He ' followed up his success in the Cup.race i by annexing the Momahaki Stakes. r Mr. Alexander's Goodwin Park rani a good second to Koran in the* Cup. I and Mr. 8. Pitt's Timothy was second ) to him in the Momahaki Stakes.

The old Taranaki horse Southern Cross won the Middleton Hurdles, of 200 so vs., at the C.J.C. meeting easily. He never accomplished anything, very startling in this district. At that time, however, he was running on theflat He has been more successful as h hurdler, and has won seteial iaoes. He was sold at auction here some, two years asp for £70 odd, and changed panda again a month pr two later prh vately. Dr. Shimoae registered another win at the Auckland meeting, leading the field in the Normanby Handicap, of seven furlongs. While schooling the horse Red Macgregor at Etfenlie on Saturday last, the jockey R. Percival had hi* shoulder dislocated in a peculiar manner. The horse struck a fenoe, but did not fall, yet the accompanying jar put out the rider's collarbone. Taranaki sports will be exceedingly sorry to learn that Charlie Jenkins, the well-known trainer and jockey, is in a very bad way at Riecarton. Charlie was injured by a fall from War Song in the Welcome Stakes at Riocarton on Saturday. After the accident he was conveyed to the Riecarton Hotel, and there his condition became so serious that it was considered inadvisable to remove him to the hospital. Jenkins, as a result of his fall, received internal injuries, and probably will have to undergo a very serious operation. The result of the New Zealand Cup race for 1909 should be very gratifying to followers of the turf on this coast, seeing that it claims ownership of theTtime placed horses. Lady Lucy and Roosevelt hail from Wanganui. and Sir Prise from his prominence. Lady Lucy was a motherless foal, her dam Hilda paying the penalty -of production. MrrToxward secured her for 85 etrineas or thereabouts at the Wellington Park sale, and she hat proved a rare bargain. She was not raced as a two-year-old, but last aeaaon, at 8 years, she won twice, the Maiden Plate at Marton and subsequently the Escmont Cup, out of nine starts. Bh* opened her winning account ac « four-year-old at the Wanganui meeting last September, putting up an attractive performance in the Higgle Handicap, one mile and a quarter. Ref -.rinfc to tho Taranaki represenlativ^'Augur" in the Times tayt:—Of . Se'sixteeV saddled up for t£e Cup apparently not one looked so out if place in such company on appearances asthe thort-pedigreed St. Paul gelding Bir Prise. He is only a pony in inches, bat a mean, looking head, but it a cood deal better oehind the taddlfi. But for his Wanganui Cup performance, when, as Kumarnock, he emphatically asserted his galloping * n ? ■ t *fi n £ powers, it would have been indeed aiificult to oonvince anyone that he possessed the remotest chance against such opposition. Yet he was installed, sixth favourite. Sir Prize once again dejnonstrated that he is a surprise packet done up in a very small parcel. He was, as usual, slow-to begin, otherwise he might have proved a dividend-payer. Five furlongs from home he was lying tenth, but over the last three he was travelling faster than anything else and corning" on with a well snstamea run, he forged his way through, and by the time the winning post was reached he bad drawn to within half alength .of Roosevelt. Were the Canterbury Cup of two miles and a quarter a handicap event and not a weignt-fof-age contest, Sir Prize would certainty have to be reckoned with-.