CAP and JACKET

Observer, Volume XXI, Issue 1178, 27 July 1901, Page 10

CAP and JACKET

By « Boz.*

RAOING FIXTURES. 1901.

August 13, 15, 17 — C. J.C Grand National Meeting.

Seahorse all right again. Hopscotch a hurtile horse. N Z. Grand National weights out. Gobo wins the Wellington Steeple chase. Okoari has been backed for the N.Z Cup. Seahorse is at 100 to 3 for Melbourne Cup. Advance continues a firm favourite for the N.Z. Cup. Glen ogle is in work again, apparently all right. Dividends on first and second horses a success. ' Director ' suggests the publication of a trotting stud book. N.Z. Gup is going to be a good betting race, after all. 1 Hotspur ' (Mr W. Hutchison) has returned from Sonth Afrioa. Fifties to one are quoted against Advanoe for Melbourne Oup. Record Reign's Indian mission will, of courae, be the Viceroy's Cup. Abolition of braoketing nnder the two dividend method is considered desirable. Dnndas should be in good form next month. He is said to be improving every day. Avondale Jockey Club's opening dates for the coming Beason are September 21st and 25th. Matchbox's progeny have won in Austria-Hanguary £10,800 since the commencement of the season there. One Sydney writer credits Advance with more paoo than La Carbine, and gives him a chance in the Melbourne Cup. If the C.J.C. adopt W.R.O. two dividends method, an extra filip will be given to straight out betting ou N.Z Gup. Malatua is reported in good health, looking fresh and well, but it is not anticipated that he will be ready for tbe August meeting. Southern files quote the following New Zealand Cnp business : — 203 to 6. Benzoin ; 100 to 14, Advanoe; 100 to 10, Pampero ; 100 to 6, Materoa. It costs an owner _£25 to run for the .£I3OO or thereabouts of the V.R.C Steeplechase. Tbat is just £52 to £1 ; a very reasonable rate of odds. Freedom, the V.R.C. G.N. Steeplechase winner, has for owner Mr S. Lazarus, president of the Bendigo Jockey Glub, who purchased him just prior to his Bendigo victory. Straybird is probably one of the most appropriately named horses racing in the oolony. By Wanderer from Fleetwing, it would be hard feo find a more apt name for him. The Guard has gone up wonderfully in the weights. It oomes aa a shook to find hira handicapped aa the equal of Dummy, albeit the latter has been almost an absentee. The Guard ls set a big task Social Pest is said to be looking really well, and Southerners are expectant that Anna's brilliant son will exhibit some of his old form at Riccarton next month. His injured foot appears to be quite sound again. Perhaps no olass have been so tenacious of their calling as bookmakers, ln our own aolony, in the South, the oom* bined action ol raoing authorities during a long period of time has been totally'foiled of its intended result to oust the bookmakers from racecourses Indeed, the bookmakers are at la«t triumphant, aod tt will now be for the Mlbotitlist Ome tb terms with them.

Moifaa will need to be in his besi form to win at Riooarton with ISst 61b. Hairtrigger is a well-treated horse in the C.J.C: G.N Hurdles. He has lOst 31b. . The favourite opening doable locall* on the C.J.C. G.N. Is Social Pest and Needle. Wellington found Crusoe in rare form. A good many Aucklandera followed him. Voloanic bad a large number of supporters at the post for the V R.G G.N. Steeple. The A.R.C. are expected to follow the lead of the 0.J.0. and place a thousand pounds on their Bpring programme. The totalisator returns at trotting meetings during the past season totalled £138,012 12j Od, an inoreae* of jest over £11,000 on the previous season's figures. Cannongate has been given a nice chance in tbe O.J.C. Grand National. He appears to be very well, and is to leave this week for tbe ground. Aucklandera will wish him luck New Zealand Cup betting has been dull during the week, probably on aooount of tbe passage of the Wellington Meeting, which absorbed all interest. No business of aoy note is reported. The inference to be drawn from the unpopularity of Advance's Melbourne Cap chance amongst Australians is that it is generally assumed that the New Zealanders mission will be the N.Z. Oup. Trainers at Ellerslie haven't had muoh ohanoe lately to do good training work, the rain has been so persistent, and it will require quite a Bpell of dry weather to put the tracks in anything like order. Seahorse is generally considered hardly forward enough for Melbourne, and that should mean almost, though perhaps not quite, the same thing for Riccarton He now appears ready for work in earnest The popular choice of Australian' writers for tbe Melbourne Cup is, of oonrse, La Carabine. April Fool is perhaps the next most generally fanoied horse amongst the selections of the leading writers. The net profit of the Wanganu* Jockey Olub is 18s ld. But against this the Club have spent during the term £552 ln improvements and repairs, inoreased stakes by £1345, and still have £2500 bearing interest. • Probable,' speaking of Venture in connection with the forthcoming N.Z. G N. Meeting, says of him that though he ls not particularly fast, he is considered to be one of the safest oonveyanoes over big oountry that we have in the colony. Mr E. D. O'Rorke, in a letter to Obristehurch Bereree, suggests the publication of the Turf Register in two Bets-half-yearly — instead of, as heretofore, in an annual volume. This is a suggestion which will very likely be given effeot to next season. The Tasmanian public is apparently determined that Tattersall's consultations should not be suppressed so far as that island is concerned. Mr Keating presented another petition to the Senate condemnatory of tbe suppression olause in the Postal Bill. It was signed by 10,448 people.— Exchange. Christchurch Referee thinks that the ' one blot npon the year's record has been the number of oases of suspicious running,' and iv noting that some of tbe offenders have ' met with their deserts,' expresses the opinion tbat ' the firm stand taken by the larger clubs to put down improper practices should have a healthy, moral effeot during the ooming season.' Gobo, by reason of his want of a record at the Illegitimate game, was not generally fancied fbr the Wellington Steeplechase, although, by reason of his oonneotion with Prosser's dangerous stable, he was not altogether friendless. A few Aueklanders, in whose minds the latter distinction outweighed the former, partial* pated In Gobo's very substantial dividend. No change in modes of betting by the legalised medium— the totalisator— seems to have any dampening effeot on pencillers. They change with the mode and adapt themselves to circnmstances with a readlnes tbat ts exemplary, always reserving to themselves, however by a snperior acuteneas of mind, the advantage of some minor point in the readjustment of betting affairs. 'It is some satisfaction to know that the whole victorious lot— Australian breeders and inventors of starting maohines, Australian erioketers and seidlers, American owners, lessees, jockeys and boxers, and Australian and Amerlean horses all owe their origin to the grand old oountry in whioh their mighty recent triumphs bave been achieved. OM John Bull nwy at any rate toact that lf beaten he has only been beaten by his own " get." '—Exchange.

Avondale Jookey Club's chanoe of an extra permit tbis season is rather a remote one. It Is on the list, but three other olubs have precedence. Nearly all the Australian writers are of opinion that Advanoe has his full measure of weight ln the Melbourne Oup, and seareely one of them inoludes the New Zealander in his favoured hit. In oomparing the weights of Advanoe, Seahorse, and Record Reign in the Melbourne Oup, Australian turf critics seem of almost unanimous opinion tnat Advanoe bas the worst ot them. Teaoher (endeavouring to explain the meaning of the word 'harness'): ' What does your father put on the horse V Small Boy (his face brightening) : ' Please, sir, 'c puts all 'c oan if 'c thinks it'll win.' Melbourne Cnp this year happens on November sth— Gunpowder Plot day. Backers of coincidences oan find only one horse in the race whose name seems to fit the occasion— Jimmy Wilson's Nitre, a very favourably handicapped 5-year-old.— Bulletin. Freedom was singled out as a likely horse for the V.R 0. ON. Bteeple from the time the weights appeared, and after running well with Losebvat Caulfield, his ohanoe was still more highly esteemed. Good fencing was the ohief factor in hia victory. With the appearance of the C.J.C. Grand National weights, turfites have something near to occupy them. Betting on these cross country events will probably ezolude, for the time, muoh speculation on the N.Z Cup. The Grand National double will take hrst plaoe In turfites' minds.

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