SPORTING NOTES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7636, 20 February 1903, Page 1

SPORTING NOTES.

Dodo,. sister io the jumper Ditto, has teen ■sent to Sydtaey. . A half-sister to Scylla was told at' ORmaru recently for £15. Machine- Gun is -profcabZy" the best two-year-old seen* out .this season. J. M'Comb rode seven winners out of eleven mounts at the Naseby meeting. De la Rey is a smart two-year-old. He won both his races last week very easily. The Victorian mare Eleanor, by Haut Brion — Trieste, has been sold to go to South Africa. Narcissus ran two good races at Riccarton on Thursday, •and- 'should score a win before long. Backers had a good time at RiccaTton on Saturday, seven first favourites being successful. . Jt -- Quarryman (has grown- into «. fine two-yaar- | old, and .-should- be worth watching next sea-, son. ; ■ : ■ Taggart turned Pallas andi lavalette out in good -condition ior last week's meeting at Ric-caTt-on. It ia exp-ecfcedi that The Victory, winner of ihe Me'jbouxne Cup, will be sent to England shortly. The Mohican shows a- 'lot of pace for a few furlongs, but ie deficient ,im staying power at present. Fahey, the Hawera horseman, rides. Sloan fashion over hurdles, and doe 3 the business very well. Two Gipsy Grand 3, in Romany Queon andBagpipes, were successful at fi-iccarton on Thursday. The American lighit-weight, Lucien Lyne, wiil ride in England far i ! he M-essrs Keene. next season-. The Australian-bred Gra6pan won the 3 Champion Plate at Johannesburg on New Year's Day. . Kremlin, a full-brother to Muscovite, started in a'-'hack race at Naseby, but he is not ready for racing yet. Dundas was a claas above the rest of the competitors in the Selling Race at Riccarton 'bh ' Saturdays ' : Since 1891 twelve' Viceroy's. Cups 'haye 1 been run, and) of ih'eae seven, have 'teen won by Australian horses. • ■'■ - .-■•.•-. -A sister to F. J.A. ■ and) «. .sister io Abundance are among the yearliiigi. to.be- sold in i Melbourne next 'moni'h. '■■ " ''. ■• , Tsaritsa, inoagh looking' "big,, showed! fi«« ; form on boih days of, the Canterbury Jockey Club's Summer MeetiDg. ; ■, ' The totalisator receipts at the Johannesburg Turf Club's three days' meeting at the end of the year amounted to £150,000. Tho value of -stakes won in Englan-d last season, aniouwted to £354,970, in Ireland to £22,014, a-nd; -in ■Scotland' io £12,000. Ropu, the three-year-old half-brother "to Hu&u, 'by St Conon, is a- likely customer. He should make a good jumper later on. S. Smith, who rode Vladimir when he won at Riccarton in November, has left the employ of the Wingatui trainer, J. M'Ginniss. There is a probability of Mr D. O'Brien's horse Malatua, by Malua— Faithful, being put into training again, after a season at the siud. -An Auckland writer hear 3on good authority that, an American owner contemplates a visit to New Zealand with a team of useful horses. The Australian-bred Cranberry, who has been- known- as Stbccado since he was taken to England, has. gone to the stud ata fee of £Sgs. . : • There are' some fine foals at the Kelburn Stud Farm, Ashburton, this season. Some of the young Finlands promise particularly well. A*t a country meeting in Victoria recently a record was- established ,in the way of poor fields, there being only two starters for each event. In the event of Henry and Reiff having their '.icealses restored by t ; he French Jockey Club, they will probably xide in America n-aii ser.son.- ■ . The Ashburton. . sportsman, Mr' H. Friedlander, is expected iback in the colony shortly. Ho is much, improved in -health as the result of his tripl '. •- Lady Lillian ran very disappoiaiting'.y in botii 'her races at Riccaxtw iasb week. She .looked well, but had no dash -at the finish on either day. The Aanerican. oockey, D. Maher, is putting some of ihis English earnings to good ac-cou-nt,. as. he has endowfJi a bed in the Hartford Hp'spita'.. . Chesney, the full-brothor to Malvolio, who, -since he went to South Africa, has become recognised as the champion of that country, has broken dP^nGladsome is earning a- reputation' ior consistency, two more seconds 1 being credited to h*r this season. She appears unable to. win j at Ricoarton. Mr C. Machell gave Mr G. G. Stead 300gs for De la R-ey last week, and got back a. third of his purchase money in stakes at the first time of asking. Ardrarff showed) poor form at tho Canterbury Jockey Clab's Summer Meeting. The Otago horse has a good reputation, which he quite failed' to sustain. Ardchattan, the two-year-old brother to Terrapin and Tercelet, is a long way behind decent class at present, judging by his display at Riccartbn last week. In the State of New York the tax of 5 per cent imposed by law on the gross receipts of racing clubs resulted in £34,017 being received from the seven principal clubs'.. ]• A recently-returned Aucklander, who -saw the Viceroy's Cup run at Calcutta, has expressed the opinion that Record Reign would have won if he. had been decently ridden. ■' The Australian Jockey Club' h** definitely decided to revive -Hie Sires' Prodruca S;t»kes. Breeders are b3ing # asked to state, whether th«y are mi favour of geldings bijing ■allowed to compet-e. . ■':'.']'■'. . ; . '■-..' '• T. Buddicombe was in the' saddle at Riccarton last week for first time in a. race since he met with the accident at Wyndham over . a. year ago. He is looking stronger, and is fast improving in health. The, revenue derived' by the French Government from ilh-e 5 -per cent tax on thfe totalisafor investments totals £250,000 annually, all of whic-h is sipcnt in .the encouragement oi breeding thoTOUgh'Med stock; Mr R. Phillips, the owner c£ Abundance, was unsuccessful ;in am attempt he mad« ire-. c^'ntly to purchase Great Scot, who appefcTS , likely to offer strong opposition) to Abundanca in- the autumn engagements. . Sincfr 1883 there has "been sold in England 498 " four figure geldings," whose total cost wa-3- 837,430 guineas. They ih«iv© wr»n amnngat th«em a totai of £343,867 ira stakes, which leaves a- deficiency of £556,697. „ - Some discussion; was caused last week over the weight ot Achilles- in tihe Middle Park Plate. At the time of thenomjnatfons he claimed the breeding allowance, which it was afterwards found he was not entitled to. The Indian Grand National Steeplechase was won by Milburn,'S near relative of. Wakeful. Milburn "i»: -by Trenton-La Toßca.'(«ster to Wftkeful's dam) >: anoV w<w hottehb tor; Wtos at tha sale of the late Mr W. R. , R. J. Mason- trained 1 three winners vt, Riccarton on Thureday, and' De la .Rey, again, on Saturday, was prepared by _ Imn. ♦p-^gart oets offici*! credit-ip. tfle:boo«, Uoougm.

he ealy took charge of -him 'after the first *Ftfutta!m S of Sir J. Blundelt Maple's yearlings wnd' 'brood mares wer& put up to auction at New York in December. They on V. realised 14;925d01. Mr ilanming, who took the horses from England to America, s*ys Ithe sale baire]y realised the stud fees. Carbine's progeny ar& starting to distinguish themselves ov«r tie jiinip» as we.l • ac pni tine flat in Engla-nd). Quiokstot, a five-ycar-pld gelding by' the Musket horse, won >a> selling hurdle Tace at Hurst PaTk on Dec. 31, and was 'bought in far . The following horses .. have been re-handi-capped for the Forbury Pa<rk meeting:— Flying -Handicap, Tearitsa 9st3lb. Lady Dundas 7st 21b; Welter Handicap, Tiigela 9st 81b, Transport 9st 7lb, Beauclere 9st slb; Hack Handicap, Maltster 9st 7lb. . Several men, prominently identified witn sport in England, 'have- died .recently, one 01 the latest beio\g Mr Edwacd Weatherby, h«ad of th© firm of Messrs Weatherbv and 1 Sens, awd Mie keeper ci the Match Book, and Secretary ©'£ the English Jockey Club. • A recently Teturned" Au'3traliain, who, -whi.e in> ' Ec"hvnd' paid I '»' visit ..to ■■Welbeck. Abbey, says tfcat Carbine is a- perfect wreck to look at, 'and- no one who did not actually know the horse would' ever lecogmise in the -pirese-nt " object : " tihe erstwhile champion of oham-pic-ss. • In one of his rides nt the Naseby meeting, J. M' Comb had to make his weight up by strapping a small bag. of potatoes in front of the saddle ; but, although riding a la: Sloan, with a sack .of vegetables in front. of him, he BUCceeSed in catching Hie judge's eye as a winner. ' • r '. ■ ' '■'/-, , , .1 i The Rev Jpseph Njcholson;. said to be the I bittere3t opponent the;: totalisator has in Victoria, was present as a reporter to a. religious journal at the conference of delegates held recently in Melbourne in favour of the legalisation of the co-operative system of speculation on horseracing in Victoria. In America stud fees are very low a-s compared) wi'iih England, 'ihe highest tee charged in the States is £50 for-Hermehco (Isonomy — Thebais) whose progeny have done exceptionally well, Hermis, . last season's orack three-yeai-old, being «.m.ong tho number. Few other sLailions reach £40, in facb some of the best in' America are obtainable at £25 In,.the New Plymouth Police Court a Maori witness was giving evidence about a racing tour in the North Island. He said he had been given a ticket to get on a certain racecourse, but he was "blocked" at the gate because it was a jockey's ticket. As the Maori was about 14 stone, and grey-headed, ihe reason for the " block was obvious. The English. Derby winner Galte-e More is reported to have proved a great success at th« stud in Russia. It is expected (says an exchange) that Irish Lad, an appropriately named son of the Irish-bred champion, will win the '" 1903 Defby of all Russia, ' run at Moscow. Iri«h Jjad) was a crack perforroer last season, which was the first year Galvee More's stock was, nnwvirig. Trainers at N'ewm'a'rkst (En^lana) canocot accept aoiynew employers until the -name* of those employers have been submitted! to and l approved by The. stewards of the Jockey Club. Elsewhere- in England any mad can get up (as a trainer, and' train- for whom h'« pleased. .As this state of affairs- is not exactly consid'ere-d desirable, some of the turf reformers* point .cv* that it would ".be. an improvement if l'h* A correspondent of the Auckland "Graphic" suggests that at or near the racecourse gates, or, say, between the inner and outer racecourse enclosures, there should be stands where race cards' can be procured at all meetings. This practice works out well in Australia, and is one that can. be followed with advantage in New Zealand,' and I hope to see it adopted. . Most clubs who now Eell the right to their correct card privileges should;; retain them as a matter of business, and their gates as well. •' ■