CAP & JACKET

Observer, Volume XL, Issue 12, 22 November 1919, Page 22

CAP & JACKET

[By the Eably Bibd.]

RACING FIXTURES

November 22, 26—Takapuna Jockey Club, Spring. December 10—Bay of Plenty Jockey Club. December 17—Taumarunui Jockey Club. December 26, 29, January 1, 2— Auckland Racing Club. December 26, 27, 29—Manawatu' Racing Club. December 27, 30, 31—Auckland Trotting Club.

The past week proved a very busy and .exciting time both in Auckland and in the South/with galloping and trotting meetings.

The New' Zealand Metropolitan T.C. Spring Meeting held their best meeting to date, and speculation was very brisk. The club handled £218,----733.

The last day of the N.Z. Metropolitan T.C. Spring fixture topped all previous totalisator records with the sum of £83,684 10s., a record for the Dominion.

The Auckland Racing Club Spring Meeting proved a financial and a racing success on both days. The totalisator passed £122,642 through the machines.

Most of the visiting teams to the A.R.C. Spring Meeting have left for home or are located at Takapuna, and Ellerslie is back to normal.

Depredation, Simonides, and Generalissimo have left for Takapuna in charge of trainer R. Harlow, to get used to the track.

E. George roturned to his native heath, Taranaki, with his team, and may not bring the full team back if he decides to give his nags a run at the T.J.C. gathering.

F. J. McManemin handicaiipcd 211 horses for the Takapuna Jockey Club Meeting.

The Devonport Ferry Company is keeping pace with the times, and have raised the spoil to two shillings to land on the course. The presentday sports will not demur.

Kilhard, one of J. Lambess' charges, has so far proved a disappointment since coming to Ellerslie. The gelding could not be landed in much better condition than he was at the recent A.R.C. Spring fixture.

The Southern trainers, T. Quinliven, W. Rayner, and W. Stone left the day after the A.R.C. Spring Meeting, taking their horses with them.

Benzine, the winner of the Manukau Hurdle Race at the Auckland Spring Meeting, did not long survive his victory, but dropped in his tracks after a sand roll.

W. Smith, who has been absent from Auckland for several years at Poverty Bay, last week at Ellerslie won his initial race with No Mistake.

When Lucullen won the. Musket Stakes last week he finished like a racehorse, and should go on winning again in the near future. He finished like a game 'un.

W. Orange notched a winner at the N.Z. Metropolitan Trotting Club Meeting with Miss Salisbury. The stable mate, Nora Creina, failed to make good, although fancied.

Hector Gray had a good many mounts at tho A.R.C. meeting, but the "alert one" did not manage to break his duck, and proved a costly proposition .'to his numerous followers. No Surrondor, although lumping 13-st. in the Hunters' Steeplechase, returned an odds-on dividend to his twelve hundred odd supporters. Southland, who ran second to No Surrender, gave a beautiful display of clean,, clever jumping, and with time may develop into a stayer. T. Quinlivin and R. Hannon were the only two trainers at the Auckland Spring Meeting to lead in two winners, Crenides, Demagogue, Queen Abbey and Mangamahoe respectively. That sweet little pacer Pitaroa paid a remunerative dividend when he scored in the Australasian Handicap last week at the N.Z. Metropolitan T.C. Meeting. He was seventh favourite. The Te Kuiti Racing Club annual race meeting takes place on February 14th, 1920, when £1,220 will be given in stakes. The Te Kuiti Cup Handicap is worth £375. Messrs. R. B. Lusk, F. J. McManemin, and C. O'Connor are the officials operating. Blue Black, who started in the Gordon Handicap, had been in Queer Street for several days before the meeting, started with leg trouble, and was short of work. C. Winder, the Thames trainer, has improved Miss Leslie. The 'sister to Kohesian should not be long off the winning list. She has been removed to the North Shore with the rest of the team. The Auckland trotting owners were very unlucky on the opening day of the Otahuhu Trotting Club Meeting, only securing one race out of eight events wTth Prize Pearl. An enormous crowd turned up at the Otahuhu Trotting Club Spring Meeting, and the grandstand and lawns were filled to overflowing. The many friends of Mr. F. W. Marks, the clerk of scales, will be sorry to hear, is still absent through illness. Mr. H. B. Massey is assisting during his absence. Seventy-two horses started on the opening day at the Otahuhu Trotting Club Spring Meeting, and some spirited finishes took place. Prince Child ran a surprisingly good race in the' Electric Handicap (saddle), considering he met with a bad accident a few days before through the sulky collapsing. Prize Pearl, prior to winning the Stewards' Handicap, played up in the bird-cage, and fell over with the sulky, and a fresh trap had to be secured. The mare won easily. Mr. Arthur Shepherd bred the winner of the- Mangere Handicap, Ena Bell. .Mr.' Fisken has won two races with the Cold Bell-Princess Ena filly. She is a nice pacer. Sea- Nymph, in the same race, was a quiet tip in tho paddock, but third place was the best she could do for her supporters. Flora Dillon started iv the Mangere and Stewards' Handicaps, running unplaced each time, and is not quite herself. Bronze Patch was favourite in the Peace Memorial Handicap, but Hal Junior and Peter Mac finished in front of the son of Dan Patch. These were the only starters. The Waikato owners, Mr. Fisher (Hamilton) and Mr. Ceo. Paul (Te Awamutu), were both present to see the meeting. The latter's horses, Oruarangi and Strategy, did not start. The ancient Kirikiriroa ran a surprisingly good rase (second) in the Campbell Handicap, ; and paid his plucky owner-trainer and driver Bill KelseV, a g"ood second dividend. Reindeer gave the rest of the field a taste of his quality by making v runaway raw of the Onehunga Handicap, leading nearly all the way.

Trooper Dillon cost- her thousand and sixty odd supporters their good gold in the Tramway Handicap by not striking a gait at the beginning and then did not settle down kindly to pace.

The Electric Handicap was the best race, of the day,- fifteen horses starting. It was a great race between Prinzona, Dorothy Dimple and Prince Child. The former paid nearly half a century.

Of the sixteen lots recently sold at Christehurch the yearlings brought splendid prices. The Mar-tian-Paneta colt brought 1,150 gs.. and went to K. S. Williams, of Gisbornc.

Mr. Ben Goldwater seems to have a fairly good gelding in Bitholia, by Demosthenes-Rangiao, the winner of the Normanby Handicap. The chestnut came at the right end.

King Lupin should be greatly benefited by the racing he had at the A.R.C. two days' meeting. The same applies to the Shore mare, Taiamai. The latter has had a good spell since last season.

Young Glover, R. Hannon's apprentice, seems gifted in the saddle for so young a lad. The way he handled Mangamohoe and the rest of his mounts speaks well for his future. ~, On Saturday some schooling work took place at Ellerslie. Middle Mark beat Lombardv and Lady Bruce over eight of the big schooling battens. Star Lady followed over four,

Calais alone flew six of the big battens, acquitting hflmself fairly well. Backfire acted as schoolmaster for two novices over a few of the small battens.

The best display over a couple of the pony battens was put up by Crowhurst's half-brother, Happy Valley, who flew the timber like an old stager. The chestnut has a fair turn of speed.