SPORTING.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 9736, 31 December 1909, Page 5

SPORTING.

Berenado ran, badly in a Welter Handicap at Mentone, near Melbourne, on December

The report' that the Austrian Government had offered J860.000 for Bayardo has been denied* ■• • v At latest mail advices, R. Wcotton. the father of the crack horseman, . had trained forty winners this season. 'li/Hv Hewitt has contracted to ride in Austria for Prince Hohenlohe in 19^0-11 at a salary of £2000 per year. Toe 7 two-year-old colt by St Ambrose from the Melbourne Cup winner Acrasia will be puVinwork at Bandwick shortly. -The Australian horse Peru, .who was looked.on as » likely winner of the Indian Viceroy's. Cup, has- gone lame, and is now regarded as: a doubtful starter. dio. account ot the death, oi nits eister, Mrs , F. Hutfcon, "Mr "W.i"E. B\dwil\ t«a withdrawn all his: horses nominated tox the Wairaxapa Bacfnar Club's meeiing-. The Kace Meetings Bill was amended to provide that the Minister of Internal Affairs should, ■ -bom (time to time, publish in; the " Gazette " a list of licensed race clubs. The committee of " the Ashburton Raoing Club jias decided to appeal to the Eacing Conferwace against -the decision of the Cajaterbuiy Jockey Club in the Rose Noble-T>ki-terecase. .

•'. At-'ihe annual meeting- of the Hook (Waim»ii) Dittxiai SpoiU Association on December,2o, » motion, to make the club a racing 1 elub was carried. The race meeting was fixed for'Ejffcter Monday, and it was decided to register the club at once. . . ; /Golden? Cairn, who ia now a member of IJ>. J-ilPrjce's team,, finished second to Yailibar in thft M*ntone Handicap on December IJU? !ib»>2!tefr Zealand horse . appears to have qpite: lost, form, *s he wa 8 only carrying 6at 18lb, tb»- winner being weighted «t Bst 41b. :' Bayardo^tad.a.very eiay.win in the Liverwool on November 10. He hat fi^h«^- his three-year-old oto«er with eleven wins .and two defeats. Pis stake earnings <orJthia -Reason- total eU.IWT, andashe won *ia,«&Uoß..l*Bt Mason, bis total to date u OTiass ios. ■'■■;.-. ~ Mrjjeopold, de-Rothschild does not intend t6:X»ttun &■ jockey for, next season. This ia %: x»w ; aepWrtnrft on his i>art, inasmuch oaj faring » the "last thirty years he has. retained •raMMively Tom Cannon,* F. . Barrett, T. Xioates, 'Kemptfcn Cannon, Gr. M'Call and Otto. Madden. '„ .... . &r ; Antrim / and Lord Soult, two winners an -ttfev.flrrt digr-. of Ijbe: Man*wattL- meeting, »ft" ; MlibTotli«rs. A. year ago Sir Antnm> won the /Jrandaiand Handicap on the, second day of the Manawktu fixture, and a month later he was successful in the Summer Handicap at Trentham, both these races, like his latest victorious effort, being .decided over the winner of the Awapuni Handicap at the Manawatu meeting on Thursday, is a five-yesi-bld by San Francisco-* Charentß^and is therefore a half-sister to. U©ne,tte, a" high-class racer as a two and ifire^jroaf-clbT. * Last season she won the Cummer and President's Handicaps at the Sfenavratu meeting, after which, she was given ■X*ra' ; Soultj who won the Ealmeraton North fitakefl, at the Manawatu Racing Club's mejsfc-inV-ta Thursday has for several seasons been in' ib* front, rank «mong New Zealand aprinter*- Unfortunately, he has always suf- - fue3 -from unsonndness, but. notwithstanding this di» ability he has- many good Performmctt rio' his- "credit. • He, was reported to Save" broken, down last summer, but he reappeared on tUe scene a mpnth ago and beat »*«nart £e!d. in the Feildinrf Stakes. v I Jk» untisual accident happened. in Tasmania recently. The jockey Crossiri was riding a pony- and' leading Hospodar. He pulled up to "light • cigarette, and while doing bo wound'- Hospodar's rtin round his wrist.. The click of the match frightened Hoßpodar; who suddenly dragged Crossin off the pony, and, m\ the lad could not. release the reins from Jjfe -arm, it was a matter of going wherever Hospridar- cared' to take him. Crossin was bumped along,. and,, when at last the tackle gave way, the unfortunate fellow presented e>s most pitiful appearance. He was, 'bloodBtained from head to foot, and. although no aerions results, are likely to follow, it -was a- most miraculous escape from death, or at lew -serious injury. . *D. Maher" is riding as a freelance in England -next "year, and according to a London exchange this. Has caused- a new clause to he -inserted in the agreements made, by certain stables with other jockeys for the eomfag;B^ason., The: clause referred to stipulates that ..tie -jockey/ is. only engaged for weights tipi'tp Bst 7lb, it remaining at the discretion of'lhei trainer whether another jockey may be' substituted on oocasions whan a horse has to cany ov «r &** weight. " This means fnat'the conoerned are prepared to employ 1 . Maiier oppbrtuiiity offers, and Button 7 is another jockey whose services will neilavafled of '.under 'similar conditions. Though ». freelance in other respeots Maher N has already contracted to ride Bayirdo in *11 ' hj*'«ingagements next. year. - . / T^Jhough desperate efforts have been ' made -fb'."toes interest in racing in New York 'up to abmetbing approaching the old standard, {Jiete ' is n» doubt as to the anti-betting laws p-uitirig>a damper on the bußinesß.' As we ail- ; >knpw, racing, without .speculation- does xfo£ v ifcpeal v to a -very large seotion, and there arei-difficulties .attached to making a bet at i*y^»f7the ; N«w .York tracks. There has b^»;a great ialling' ofE in attendance, and .meet this .the.: charge of admission has fceeri Craiiied. :Belmont Park, in particular, has;' suffered, and though the average daily ittendinoetwjo ; ••years' ago was' .about 20,000, if 4H aiot exceed 4000 at the October fixture. Binall 'fields were~tEe rule, and a New York feribfti.jemirks that "the oral system- of bettog .did- not »p'peal id the follower «i'^tfi!B'horse.s; nor did. the 3dol admission i*i;«.and -the other .etbeteras : that swelled the •ip>n*M .account." '.„ • :?TJ6V 3p6ri' r Zeitung "-'makes an attaok on fKw-43«rm»n fiscal stable,, whose recent suoeeates'.'in- Austria and Hungary, demand that some stringent ' measures should be adopted' to , home : breeders from the oversuperiority of the establishment founded -with- the - resources of the Prussian <?ov*rnment. It says that no private person ftjlh*' stand againct th» enormous amount of eipitiJ at *he. disposal of a - Government eslibUsnmeni, which can, with the v«ft reiwuiAss' at its. disposal, select its different smiWMßtativefl. in such a manner that in •a^E'tespective raceeitKer a colt or a filly ean^b* antered- with; the right to claim the maiden allowances accorded in the condittatn. :"Th«» ; is no dißpoßitibn to evict Gradits from J any/ of -"the classic events on the Preudenau or at Kottingbrun, but it is felt that, some protection is. required for the email breeder unable to fall back on the vast re•aurces enjoyed by Gradit*. { • "Writing of - a^recent Melbourne suburban tmfatij '''Poseiddn " had the followJng in the i "yrLeaidtjr?!:— "Messrs Nettlefold and Price must b> very -tired of ' seeing the heavy . wsigh'ts : -allotted meeting ' after ' meeting to : TTnw The; son of. Strowan ana Manutnka on Saturday had 9s t 7lb in the Mentone: Handicap, .and was asked to fdve 21b to Erie who has a couple ctf important reeeht victor Jes: to his credit^the Waverley Handicat) at Ilandwick with 8«t 41b, and the KinVi Birthday Handicap, of 750 hovs. at 'WilUamstdwn, -with 7st Jllb, while Pink 'Un : has ndi won a race of "any sort, thowh he Ka»:>|.artecl.' a s?reat number of times since lie annexed the .Linlithgow Stakes over thir- . teen months apo. Judged by the manner in which. *ho handicappers.. one and all. keop | Pink'.'lTn rxp.in the. weights, they surely mnsi Dot be quite cure that the horse has been qoin? his bent' But the class of y aces in which he has been defeated again- and »»ain of late are certainly not the nort of race*- that owners would elect to run diwd in, and surely the weight, 'adjuster can afford to conclude : that. Pink- 'TJh at present is very mueh, below, his proper form. He in now seven rears old, and does not get any better With advancing .years. . '