Late Racing.

Observer, Volume XXXV, Issue 48, 7 August 1915, Page 23

Late Racing.

. *. Once again the handicapper's judgment in giving Tryfluke nine stone in the Auckland Welter Handicap has ibeen vindicated. A good many, including the writer, thought in> the parlance of the talent, "it was a stone certainty," but evidently the little brown is not the goods after seven furlongs have been traversed. He ran well for that distance and was in the pink of condition. Robert the Bruce, the promieing young sire, has been purchased by Messrs F. Steaming and J. Hand, and will.stand the season at W. Tozer's stiables at Ellerslie. His first crop of foals show great promise, being a fair size and showing plenty of quality as well. S. Gr. Lindsay, the Avondale trainer, has again taken up Yankee Doodle, who has built up a lot since last seen, in public. He is also preparing the maiden filly Miss Liipin and also has a two-year-old by Royal Soult-Lady Gladys which is still a bit backward but a good' kind of a youngster. Mr Clem Macmanemin; the eldest son of Mr F. J. Macmanemin, of Ellerslie, who has enlisted leaves on August the Bth to go into camp. His many friends wish the young Aucklander a speedy and safe return to the land of his birth. In the opening event at the P.H. 0. meeting money spoke the truth when Mr T. Wilson's Spalpeen-Cap-a-pie gelding Waimai was sent out an odds on favourite nicely handled by G. Henderson. He duly materialised. Mr A. Hattaway's Rambler gelding Giraffe, which had done useful schooling work at Ellerslie was paying a big dividend in the Maiden Hunter's Steeplechase. There was undler a score on the horse out of a pool of nearly £1340. It's always pleasing to chronicle a win for any of the ex-New Zealand sportsmen, the latest being Mr J. Gainsford, who captured the Nursery Handicap at the Moorfield meeting

recently with Kahonpi, by Malster-De-aar. Mr Gainsford will be remembered "by sportsmen of a decade ago &b being the rider of Mr Sam Bradley's good l horse Wairiki.

Messrs W. A. Scott and C. Hird left for Christchurort last week to assist at the New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club's meeting with Syrie and Kirikiriroa respectively.

The last week of the old! racing season there were five meetings— Pahiatua, WoodJlands, North Taranaki, Waimate and Bakuranga Hunt Olulb's fixture.

Mr Jack Walters, the owner of Goldsize and . Gold Lac, has just recovered from a severe attack or "flue." The genial one said it was a sharp, short and severe tussle before the enemy was routed.

The brothers Messrs W. and V. Casey seem to have the makings of .a useful filly in the Boniform-Culroy ba.by named Oultriform, which, struck out freely in the two-year-old parade scramble on Saturday.

E. J. Rae's team were in capital condition, Lady S'abretastahe, Ambassador and Inspector all keeping up the name of the stable. The winner of the Liverpool Steeplechase was at the top of her form at the P.H.C. fixture.

Only two first favourites managed to get home at the Pakuranga Hunt Chtb's fixture on Saturday, when Waimai won the Hunter's Hurdle and Hunt Cup Steeplechase.

Tryfluke endeavoitred to win the Auckland Welter Handicap from barrier rise, but, found tihe opposition too solid, and' although the little brown ran a good race fourth was the best he could do for Messrs Goldwater and Edgar.

The stakes for the Pakurariga Hunt Club fixture were split up among seventeen different owners, Mr G. Verooe taking £195, Mr A. L. Raven coming next with £120. These were the leading winners.

Among the ladies at the P-H.C. meeting, Mass E. White was the chief winner of £85. Mesdames Stewart and Fosis won £40 and Mrs E. J. Rae £5.

One of the chief features of the past season's racing just concluded was the big percentage of accidents among the lepping brigade. Is this due to insufficient schooling?

The winner of the V.R.C. Grand National Steeplechase, Flash Jack, carrying 11.8, was recently beaten by one of the light weight division at the V.A.T.C. meeting in the Godfrey Watson Steeplechase by Ragon DOrr, a ten to one chance with. 9.0 in the saddle.

Mr Jas. Mitchell, the caretaker of the Alexandra Park, is already making preparations for the next season's trotting. The flower beds and lawns bear evidence of the careful attention they receive. The trotting track is carefully looked after, and quite a number of owners are now turning up to get the winter grossness off their favourites for the September fixture.

Mr J. I. N. McKenzie's Mossman was a quiet tip for the Sylvia Park Handicap, but although nicely handled by McMillan could not get into the first or second place, and had to :be content with the fiver for third money.