THE TURF

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 144854, 4 December 1915, Page 8

THE TURF

FIXTURES. December 4—Waipa Racing Club. December 9—Methven R.C. Annual. Dccembor.il—Hay of Plenty J.C. December 17—Kawakawa Racing Club. December 27 and 28—Thames J.C. December 27 and 2S—Taranaki J.C. December 27 and 28—Dunedin J.C. Summer. December 27 and 30, January 1 and 3 Auckland Racing Club. December 28. 29 and 31—Auckland Trotting Club. January 1 and 3—Wairavapa R.C. Summer. t • January 1 and 3—Stratford R.C. Annual. January 13 and 14—Whangarei R.C. January 22—Northern Wmroa R.C. January 26 and 29—Titkapuua J.C. Mr. W. J. freoth's (Pukearuhe) fine brood* man: Raoy, tne dam of llamapuka, baa uuoan a nice tiiJ.v to imia, Utc little hujae mat ran so well at- the Cniistcliurcn moetiug and is now.owned in AucKJand. Her lust year's loai, a niiy by Lora Asiiley, has growa into a luio beast, and snows plenty oi action, tt is an mieic:>Liug loot that this mare did not lor aoaut ax seasons, and has thrown three hides running since starting again. Two oi mo wiimeis at the Queensland Turf Club s meeting in Novejuuor, Common Haw and imya-l Ratas, wore biea by Mr. U. .M. Cun ie at tue Jxoaxanui near Wanganui. me North (Jingo Jockey Club has increased the value of stakes at the January meeting by £420. The big event, tuo. Norm Otago Cup, is worth £SOO. tin icoio, who won me Auckland Cup two seasons back, is reported to bo a certain starter in ttie same event at the approaching Auckland meeting. v,oioufci Hall Wamor, having decided to retire from the sport in Britain, will break up his racing and breeding statics. Minoru, uno wmv the Derby lor xviag Edward \ if., was one of the norses bred by Colonel Walter.^ Op to the present (he New Zealantlbreti mate, Cariua. bus won £13,467 in Australia. Too stake rt mrd for a mare is that established by Wakeful (£16,000). At a meeting oi the committee of the Auckland 'Trotting Club'll was decided to make a further donationof £SOO towards the various patriotic funds. The Auckland Trotting Club’s big race, the cup, carries a stake of £10lX). this Class ot racing has caught on with tlie public, and the next meeting is c . 'acted to he a record for Auckland. | The committee of the Victoria Racing Club has decided not to accept the nominations of Fidelio and Alansford, owing to those horses being bad at the starting post. The Victorian rider, W. Smart, usually rode Pntrobus in his engagements, but he stood down in favour of K. Lewis in the Melbourne Cup, and received a solatium of f 200 for doing so. Not many people are paid £2OO for doing nothing. Mullingar, who won the St. Andrew’s Handicap at Takapuna last week, was tho best three-year-old in Auckland in the early part of last season, his_ successes including the Avondale Guineas and Great Northern Guineas. Racing in Germany goes merrily along, which caused the London Sportsman of September 28 to remark: — “While many thousands of people directly or indirec v interested in racing under National Hunt Rules in England are without information whether or no their moans of livelihood will be swept away on the pretext that winter racing will interfere with the transport by rail of troops and munitions, the jumping season in Germany was__iuaugurated a fortnight ago at Berliu-rkarlshorst. A program! e of seven races attracted a total of 10-1 runners. There was plenty of grief, twenty-five horses in all coming down, and of these igp fewer than nine fell in the opening uurdlo race, which was won by Tasmania, a three-year-old filly by Ard Patrick.” According to Dentscher Sport, only a shilling was charged at the gate on the opening day, and the takings were £l2so—representing 25,000 people—while the totalisator turnover was £22,800. •When Desert Gold won £3665 last season, which constitutes a prize-money record for a two-year-old in New Zealand, somo of the critics were doubtful whether she would be nearly as successful at three years, but so far from falling short of her.earlier form she is improving upon it. Last season her eleven starts wore productive of six wins, four seconds, and a third; while her five runs as a throe-year-old have resulted in a similar number of wins. At her first appearance last month she easily accounted. for the Hawke’s Bav Guineas, which she has followed up with the Champion Plate at Trentham (Wellington). and tho Derby, Oaks, and Stead Memorial Cup at Riccarton (Christchurch). In the last-mentioned race she probably met New Zealand’s best, and in heating Warstep a length and a half, ran the mile ancf a quarter in 2min. 5 1-osec., which is a record for tho race. Counterfeit won in 2min. Gsec. in 1911, and Reputation made tho same time, last year. Desert Gold won the Derby in 2’min. 34 l-oscc. and file Oaks in 2min. 35Jsec.. thereby considerably reducing the figures for those races. The previous best for the New Zealand Derby was Cherubini’s 2min. 35 l-ssec., and Mr. G. D. Greenwood, who owned tho latter when he won, is also the owner of Nones, the filly that has finished second to Desert Gold in three of her recent races. The prize-money won by Desert Gold for Air. T. H, Lowry this season is as follows; —Hawhe’s Bay Guineas, £250; Wellington Champion Plate, £550; New Zealand Derby. £1100; New Zealand Oaks, £350; Stead Memorial Cup, £500; total, £2750. .In the above is not computed the £IOO cup attached to the Champion Plate, nor the £2OO Stead Cup.