RACING NOTES.

Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 15679, 4 October 1922, Page 6

RACING NOTES.

(By Meteor.) FIXTURES. Oct. 4.—Hawke’s Bay J.C. Oct. 5. —Kurow J.C. Oct. 6, 7.—Oamaru J.C. Oct., 7. : —Pakuranga Hunt Club. Oct, 12. 14.—Whangarei R.C. Oct. 12. 14.—Dunedin J.C. Oct. 13, 14.—Masterton R.C. Oct. 21, 23—Wellington R.C. Oct. 21, 23. —Gore R.C, Oct. 23.—North Canterbury and Oxford J.C. Oct. 23.—Waipawa County R.C. Oct'. 23.—Waverley-Waitotara R.C. Oct. 23. —Waikato Hunt Club. Oct. 26, 28.—Poverty Bay Turf Club. Oct. 27. —Poverty Bay Hunt Club. Oct. 28. —Taratahi-Carterton R.C. Nov. 4, 6.—Auckland R.C. Nov. 4,6, 8, 11.—Canterbury J.C. Nov. 10, 11.—Hamilton R.C. Nov. 15.—Horowhenua R.C. Nov. 17, 18.—Winton J.C. Nov. 22.—Ashhurst-Pohangina R.C.

ACCEPTANCES. Oct. 6—Whangarei R.C. Spring. Oct. 6 —Masterton R. C. Spring. Oct. 9—Dunedin J.C. Spring. Oct. 13—Wellington R.C. Spring. NOMINATIONS. Oct. 3 —Waverley-Waitotara R.C Annual. \ Oct. s—Waipawa County R.C. Annual Oct. 6 —Poverty Bay T.C. Spring. Oct. 6 —Canterbury J.Cil Metropolitan, HANDICAPS. Oct. G —Waverley-Waitotara R.C. Annual. ’ . Oct. 7 —Wellington R.C. Spring.

SATURDAY’S MEETING. i The Pakuranga meeting, which 'takes pla«e on’ Saturday at Ellerslie, is reckoifed the premier hunt club meeting of Australasia. With £7OO for the Hunt Cup" -Steeples, £SOO for 'the Jellieoe Handicap, and £450 for •the Chatham Handicap, no complaint can be made as regards stake money, and as some of our best horses in commission are engaged, the success of the meeting .is assured. Koura won the Hunt Cup last year. Hoke- • mai was third, and ought to give a good account)of himself on Saturday! Perfect -Day, Mangamahoe and Khublai Khan were the placed horses last year in the Jellieoe Handicap. Income and Royal Abbey have been very much' in request in connection with doubles in the Jellieoe Handicap. Income can carry 9.0 all right, and nothing is wanting in condition, while Royal Abbey is a much better horse than he was last year, and the 'company is not what one would call classy. Glen Canny is always dangerous. Myall King is. training nicely, and will have a good chance in the Hunt Cup. A win is long overdue for Gladwin, and his chance may come in the Maiden Steeplechase. Daddy’s Girl reads as well as anything in the Hunters’ Hurdles. Fort Regal was a hot, favourite in the Swanson Welter at Avondale, and if he is as good as they think he is he must be given a good chance in the Jellocie Handicap at 6.7. Golden Dream will not be far away at the end of the six, furlongs in the Chatham Handicap.' Tactful and Dancing Doll, on Avondale form, have, more than a chanfce in the Sylvia Handicap.

NOTES. The New Zealand Cup arid Mitchelson Cup are both run on Nov’ember 4. L. G. Morris is to ride for the Kemball stable this season when the weights permit. •Thespian is in steady work, and is to race at the Wellington meeting. Gold Kip was nineteenth favourite} and Glen Canny fifteenth in the Avondale Cup. If Ballymena starts in f;he McLean Stakes at Dunedin, he will keep the opposition busy. Explorer was sent out favourite at Otaki, but' only managed to get second in a very moderate field.,

Romance has been a paying proposition since he went south. Third ■favourite at Geraldine in ''the First Hurdles, he captured the stake money in a very convincing manner.

A lot of good money went west on Master O’Rorke at Avondale. He will have to improve a lot to win a stake, judging by his running, at the meeting.

The Income Tax Department made a forward move wheu they placed two officials at the admission gate to check tickets and count gate receipts at the Avondale meeting. Tatiton Park has now won four steeplechase events in succession. He was bred by Sir George Hunter at Porangahau, and is a son of Sylvia Park and Miss St 'Cecilia.

Trainer T. F. Quinlivan is putting a lot of work into Scion at Trentham. The gelding has 7.10 in the New Zealand Cup. At the present time Royal Box is the favourite for the New Zealand Cup in Wellington. Bathos will be well worth following this season. Mr A. B. Williams paid 600 guineas to Mr J. Gleeson, of Auckland, for this Absurd gelding, and he seems well worth the money.

Far North, the brilliant winner of the Maiden Plate at Avondale, was purchased for 50 guineas by his owners, Messrs Evans and Maria. The Bridgenorth gelding is going to prove a lucky purchase. The handieapper seems to have a high opinion of him by his position in the Jellicoe Handi-

The Wellington Racing Club will distribute £B3OO at its spring meeting —Jhe same total as last year. The West Australian crack Easingwold, who is one of the fancies for the Caulfield Cup, has arrived in Melbourne.

A partnership has been registered in Golden Dream as between Messrs J. Williamson and C. Hill-

Beau Soult, the sire of Beauford, was bred by Mr G. M. Currie, of Wanganui. . Blueford, the dam of Beauford, was sired by True Blue, who was foaled in Auckland.

- The Riccarton horseman, C. Emerson, was in good form at Ashburton, his four mounts ’ during the day, Eighteenpence, Bluff, Battle Scene, and Jazz, resulting in'three firsts and one third.

Since the totalisator was legalised in 1916-17 in New South Wales the Government has gathered over a million of money in taxation from it'. The Grand Prix Alfonso, decided at San Sebastian, is the richest race in the world, being worth £20,000. The winner was the Duke of Toledo’s Ruban. Donoghue rode Franklin,' which was joint favourite, but was unplaced. In twelve New Zealand Cups Martian has been represented by thirtynine starters. His stock have won six of the dozen races, and have scored three seconds and two thirds. Demos has broken down, and his racing career may be near an end. The news does not come as a great surprise, as he has been under suspicion for some time. The Australian horseman, 'C. J. Wingrove, is now residing at Ellerslie. For Wingrove, who goes to scale at seven stone, it is-claimed that he once rode 11 winners out of 14 mounts. *•

The death of Verbosity removes from the turf a galloper of much promise. The son of Demosthenes ‘and. Suratura broke his leg while gal-* loping on the tragic at Woodville, and had to be destroyed. The owner, Mr P. F. Wall, is at present in Australia. “An old dog for a hard road.” Wood’s superior horsemanship seems to have been the deciding factor in the great struggle between Beauford and Gloaming. “Change jockeys and Gloaming would have won easily,” a shrewd judge who knows both horses stated. Though Young is one of the

best we have, he has not had' the experience of Wood, and experience will always tell in a close finish. Can Gloaming stay? That question ought to be answered now. A horse that can run Beauford* to a neek in a mile and a half can stay all right, and Glo'aming has vindicated himself in a very convincing manner. The form of Enthusiasm at the Otaki meeting, when the daughter of Panmure won the two principal handicap events, would suggest that Mr T. Duncan has a good chance of winning the Oaks both at Riccarton in the spring and Ellerslie in the, autumn.

After the race for the Plumpton Handicap at Avondalq on Monday Mr A. Gordon, the stipendiary steward

present, found it necessary.to severely caution L. Scott, the rider of Glen Canny in that event, for using his spurs too freely.

Mr E. Pope has disposed of the two-year-old filly Queen of the Earth, by General Latour —Rhodium, to one of his patrons, and the youngster is now being handled at .Ellerslie by the trainer mentioned.. Queen of the Earth is a well grown filly and looks promising.

It is reported from Melbourne that the trotting trainer, P. Glasheen, will leave for New Zealand with a team of horses next month, and will take up quarters at Addington. A copy of the book programme of the Canterbury Jockey Club is to hand, giving full particulars and conditions of the £50,100 the club are giving away in stakes during the coming season. At the Grand National meeting £12,750 was distributed, while the spring meeting will absorb £24,850,- the summer meeting £2900, and the autumn meeting £9600. Trainers are now taking cognisance of the new rule which deprives them of the 1-Jlb the rider could previously claim when weighing in. Many trainers now take the precaution of weighing out their jockeys 31b overweight to provide for emergencies. The two principal handicap events at the Avondale meeting were won by gift hoi’ses. Royal Present, the winner of the Cup, was given to Mr J. Wilson by Mr E. W." Alison Junr, and * carried the former’s colours to victory, while King’s Trumpeter was a I present to Mr W. F. Desha from Sir | James Carroll. King’s Trumpeter was, however, sold by Mr Desha and won in the colours of his purchaser, Mr A. B. Williams. , Tommy Rot has' been sold in Australia to Mr R. Skelton for 375 guineas. The new owner of the Absurd gelding is a patron of unregistered racing in Sydney, and Tommy Rot should do very well on the pony courses,

The Trentham lady trainer, Mis§ Grace Barrett, was accorded an ovation when Kyoto won at Otaki and paid a thumping dividend. The fast pace set by Petunia in the early stages of the race helped Kyoto, who stays well. In the straight the black fellow was galloping over everything, and he won very decisively. The great performance of (the Otaki meeting was that of Solfanello. The

/ finished at a terrific bat, and had Oliver cared to he could have won by a good deal more than he did.

BETTING BY CHEQUE. In the House of Lords on July 19, the Royal assent was given by Royal Commission to the Gaming Act. The Act, which does away with the obsolete Gaming Act of 1835, gives a greater stability to betting transactions and makes it impossible as was .the case under the old Act to recover money paid by cheque for betting loss, either by bookmaker or backer. The legislation of payment of betting debts by cheque now relieves exeeu tors and trustees of the objectionable obligation to sue for the recovery of such sums for the benefit of creditors of an estate or beneficiaries under a will.

DOPING. “Doping of racehorses in an endeavour to make them gallop faster is extensively carried out on Melbourne courses,” said a leading veterinary surgeon in Victoria recently. “It is cruel and, very dangerous to give stimulants to racehorses, as is now being ’done in, Melbourne,” he continued. “The trouble is/that the people who do this are inexperienced, and they have little idea of the quantity of drug to administer. The horse treated becomes mad, and is "a greatdanger in races. The* treatment is of no benefit to a horse, and undermines its constitution. One only has to see the distressed faces of some of the horses after a race to know that they have been doped up to the eyebrows.” The veterinary surgeon points out that arsenic can be discovered in the saliva of horses 36 hours after administration. He advocates taking tests from horses in order to put a stop to drugs. “A dose of whisky may be benfici'al to some horses,” he said. Its effect is only immediate, and not harmful. I consider it time that racing authorities conducted a campaign against doping, and this could easily be carried out by taking swabs from horses after a race and having them analysed. This is the French system of detecting doping, and it has been verj” successful.”

1 A HARSH ACT. The hardship occasioned by the operation of the regulation under the Gaming Act was under the notice of the Minister of Internal Affairs in the House some weeks ago by Mr J. A. Young, f who stated that under these regulations many worthy and respectable citizens were prevented from going on to a racecourse. He cited the ease of a returned soldier who, while in uniform, was the guest of a Racing Club, but subsequently when on_ the course in civilian dress was arrested for trespass and prosecuted on the grounds that some years ago he had been convicted for an offence which to-day under the regulations, made it an offence for him to be present 'on a racecourse. Mr Young also cited the case of another man, who said it was fourteen years since he had been in trouble, -and he had since then married a,nd reared six children. He was convicted and discharged .as a trespasser on a racecourse. The member considered that the law was never intended to operate in such- a vindictive manner, and suggested that some steps should be taken to make it possible for respectable and law abiding citizens to go on racecourses.

The Minister has now informed Mr Young that it has been decided that the regulations shall be amended by the addition of the following words 'to Regulation 3 (8) “Provided always that the Stipendiary Stewards 'Committee appointed by the N.Z. .Racing Conference (or the N.Z. Trotting Conference), upon being satisfied that any person who by reason of any conviction, comes within the scope of this regulation, should have relief fr&m the effect thereof, may grant exemption to any such person, and may at any time revoke such exemption and without assigning any reason for suchorevocation.” This amendment will allow persons such as those referred to by Mr Young to make application to the Stipendiary Stewards Committee for relief.