Cap and Jacket.

Observer, Volume XXIX, Issue 35, 15 May 1909, Page 15

Cap and Jacket.

By BOZ.

Racing Fixtures. May 12 and 13 — Egmoet Racing Club. May 12 and 13 — Ashburton County Racing Club. May 22 and 24— Takapuna Jockey Club. May 22 and 24 — Wanganui Jockey Club. June 3 and 4 — Dunedin Jockey Club. June 3 and 4 — Otaki Maori Racing Club. June 3, 5 and 9 — Auckland Racing Club. June 16 and 17 — Hawke's Bay Jockey Club.

Dates of Coming Events. May 22 — Wanganui Steeplechase. May 22 — Century Hurdle Race. June 3 — Great Northern Hurdle Race. June s—Great5 — Great Northern Steeplechase. June 16 — Hawke's Bay Steeplechase.

Kia tere heads the list of weights chase, with 12st

Ben Jonson top weight in Great Northern Hurdles, with list. 131 b.

Paritutu receive* 71b from Ben Jonson in the Great Northern Hurdles.

North Head, who is spoken of as a coming hurdler, has been given lOst. 41b in the G.N. Hurdles.

The weights for the first day's racing of the Takapuna Jockey Club's Winter Meeting appeared early this week, and acceptances close to-mor-row (Friday), 14th inst. The meeting is fixed' for the 22nd and 24th inst. There is every prospect of a big and successful gathering.

The death is reported of Mr W. Knight, handicapper for many years in the Auckland district. Mr Knight handicapped for various clubs in Auckland, but was chiefly identified with the Takapuna Jockey Club, holding the position of handicapper to that club for a number of years.

Sir Frisco is in work again at Trentham.

The Century Hurdles is run at Wanganui on the 22nd inst.

Takapuna Jockey Club's "Winter Meeting opens on the 22nd inst.

Muskerry has returned to work at Napier in big and healthy condition.

Tangimoana, the Hawke's Bay Cup winner, oost only 50ge. as a yearling.

Gold Treasure and No Shot have been jumping satisfactorily at Napier.

North Head ifi apparently a " flyer " over hurdles. His style of jumping is highly spoken of by Hawke's Bay men.

From India comes word that Peru is doing well, -while the report as t Apologue being unlikely to race again receives further confirmation.

Another effort in the direction of halving fche toalisator legalised in Victoria is to he made during the next session of the local Parliament.

Golden Slipper has dropped considerably in estimation in Australia. In the Flying Handicap at the A.J.C. Meeting she was handicapped at 7st. 61b.

The Canterbury Jockey Club haye decided that in future no rider in steeplechases or hurdle races shall be weighed out unless wearing a skull cap.

A Calcutta paper has it that a fee of srs. will be charged the public for entrance to the betting ring at meetings held there next year. This, it is said, is being done in the interests of the totalisator s.

The appeal judges have remitted the Cunningham case to the Auckland Metropolitan Committee for the consideration oi fresh evidence which had not been produoed at the previous hearings by them.

Eighty-three applications have been reoeived in connection with the N.Z. Metropolitan Racing Club's First Futurity Stakes, to be run for at Easter next year. Eight of the applications are from Australia.

Subsequent to his defeat by Duke of Sparta in the Lincolnshire Handicap, Mr Sol. Joel's horse Arranmore won the Newbury Spring Cup. He was ridden at, 6.3 by F. Wootton, whose weight keeps down in a remarkable fashion.

An exchange 6ays that backers had such a disastrous time at the A.J.C. Meeting at Randwick that it was humorously suggested that the concluding day's racing should be postponed to give them an opportunity to rake up more money to go on with.

As was anticipated, Provocation easiV won the Hawke's Bay Stakes. The telegraphed report of the race shows that he won by a bare length from Xylophone, who led into the straight, Provocation having no difficulty in beating him at the finish.

Aborigine's victory in the Hawke's Bay Stakes demonstrates that he is more than a good miler, whilst the handsome manner in which, he got over the mile and a-quarter indicates possible staying qualities which until now he was not credited with possessing.

We do not know how much the clubs have received in license fees since the present Act was passed, but (says the " Canterbury Times ") we have it on good authority that one bookmaker paid over* £2000 to the clubs he patronised during the first twelve months.

An exchange quotes the evidence recently given at the Palmerston North Magistrate's Court by a horse trainer, to the effect that he had seven horses in training, which at £2 per week each brought him in £56 for a month, whilst the cost for upkeep was £54, leaving him a profit of £2 for the month.

Aborigine had a comfortable win in the Burke Memorial Stakes on the concluding day of the Hawke's Bay Meeting. Aborigine was not overweighted, having Bst. 101 bto carry, as against Bobrikott's 9st. 101 b and Tamgimoana's 9st. Bobrikoff finished last, and the Cup winner was unplaced. The time recorded was _2min. Bsec, t

Diabolo is to be spelled. The English Derby is run on the 26tn inst.

Jackpot is taking the big fences well at Napier.

Wanganui Steeplechase is run on Saturday, 22nd inst.

Sea Dog is doing satisfactory schooling tasks at Riccarton.

Leonardo, who is being schooled at Riccarton, shows a dislike for the- sod wall.

Buccleuch broke down in the UTlying Handicap at Meeting, and his retirement is looked upon as permanent.

Bobrikoff gave a bad display in the Burke Memorial Stakes, run at Napier last Thursday, in which he was last to finish.

A number of New Zealand trotting horses are expected to compete- in stakes that are oeing promoted by the Melbourne Trotting Club.

The Chester Cup was won by Santo Svato. A interesting feature of the race to New Zealanders was that Mr Spencer Gollan's horse from Tiraillerie was third.

Derelict^ a rising two-year-old sister to Zimmerman, now being broken in at Napier, is described^ as having plenty of size, and showing rather more quality than some of her relatives.

Sir Tristram made a bold effort to defeat Aborigine in the Burke Memorial Stakes. He beat the rest of the field, suffering defeat from Aborigine by a length and a-half in a strongly run race.

Nominations for the minor events of the Auckland Racing Club's Winter Meeting close to-morrow (Friday), 14th inst. On the same day acceptances fall due for the Great Northern Hurdles and Great Northern Steeplechase.

The ancient Kiatere (says a Hawke's Bay writer) has arriyed at Greenmeadows, and looks as sound as a bell, notwithstanding the travelling and racing he has undergone. The old fellow's day is not by any means over I should think, and I should not be at all surprised to see him hailed as the winner of an important cross-oountry contest ere the season closes.

The appeal judges have confirmed the endorsement by the Auckland Metropolitan Committee of the disqualifications b->* the Avondale Jockey Club of S. G. Lindsay and the horse Royal Soult for two years, but have reversed the decision of the said club in respect of the disqualification of the jockey Mark Ryan. They have called the attention of the Auckland Metropolitan Committee to the evidence of William Jones, and recommend that he be disqualified for life. The deposits of the appellants are to be refunded.

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