RACING AND TORTTING.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12699, 22 July 1919, Page 2

RACING AND TORTTING.

FIXTURES. 2S— -Cltrigtcharoh Hunt. August 12, 14, is—Canterbury Jock-ay Oluls. nominations, June 25 —Canterbury Jockey Olub, HANDICAPS. August- 1--Canterbury Jockey Glut ACCEPTANCES. ;’y 23—-Christchurch Hum-. aly 35—Canterbury Jockey Club, august B—Canterbury Jockey Club. r ,J u v (ew <>f the near approach of the Christchurch Hunt and Grand Na-. tional meetings, the track work at Iliccarton is now growing more interesting, the outside of the trial grass was open this morning tor horses going fast, but tacre was little of a -sensational character, though a number of horses got through useful trials. A cold wind made matters very unpleasant for the spectators in the early part of the morning, but later the wind dropped and the sun shone out brightly. Hiero easilv beat Karainohe over nix furlongs in, Imin 19see. while Pretty Bobby and Athens 11. did a useful circuit, sprinting down the straight. Afterglow and Falstaff sprinted half a- mile in St-sec, and Karo took imin 24. 3-osec over six furlongs, moving comfortably all the way. All Over and Otnahu ran six furlongs in Imin 20 3-ssee. Hands Off and Single Rose going over the same ground m Imin 20 I-sscc. Sam Pan sprinted half a raiH and* Cyme did strong pace work over a' couple of circuits. Gamecock ran six furlongs from astand, in Imin 18 3-osem Sea^Blucbringing him home from the half-mile mark. Gamecock moved freely, and his effort was attractiveB ikl Pilgrim ran five furlongs comfortably in Imin lOsco, while Glenskine and Loyal Arch got to the end of six furlongs m Imin 19 2-usee. Troublesome and AYaimaj, separately, were given strong pace work. Caverock sprinted half a mile in 50 2- Amenanthus taking Imin 5 3-5 sec over five furlongs. Form l T p ran seven furlongs in Imin 33sec, but. bo was under a strong pull in the early stages of the gallop. Sonny beat Winslow over a mile in Imin 48 3-osee, a useful performance for n hunter. Post© Haste sprinted half a, mile smartly in 49 2-saeo. while Merten beat Belair and Pyjama over the same ground in 50 2-Asec. •Trannot ran five furlongs in Imin 6sec, Sea Blue joining in over the last half-mile. Kilkee, moving freely, covered five furlongs on the sand in Imin 5 2-osec. Achilledes and Tip Dp occupied Imin 20 2-6scc over six furlongs, with both going on well at the end'”. Dardanelles (J. M’Chesney) and Bore (P. Ellis) went once round the steeplechase fences- The pace was sound- all the way, and both horses fenced in. good style. Vascular easily beat Sport over seven furlongs in Imin 37V-Ssec, and Moorabbe sprinted half a. mile up the back in -51 2-osec. Art was going well at the end of a mile, which occupied Imin 48 3-osec, having a mate over the list Jja-lf of the journey. " Cerberus sprinted half a mile in ol 3- and he looked ,as lif he <bu|d have done n. hit better. Gar Lad wimped off at the nine furlong post and ran home in Imin 59 2-5 sec, a Useful effort. Hie Sapper heat. Fabiseo over six furlongs in. Imin 22sec, while Glendowqr beat Stray shot over the same ground in Imin 19sec. Charley sprinted half a, mile in 50 1-ssec, finishing up his task strongly. Marvelite (L. Hccarty) went once round tho hurdles. He jumped in someiugly- Collins was out leg-before to Trend in after scoring 11, ’ but then J. AI. T aylor and Kellaway entirely filtered the complexion of affairs, for ip partnership they scored 112 in eighty minutes. Taylor was particularly good to watch. Quick on his feet, and with a stout defence, lie got the hall plump in the middle of; his bat and hit all round tho wicket in a masterly fashion. Once lie off drove the ball’ for six, and. on eight occasions he found the boundary. IVben caught behind the wicket he had made 78. Kellaway and Gam pan! were together when stumps were pulled. Then the Australians’ captain was 64. KELLEWAY’S “ CENTURY.” Resuming tin Monday, Kellaway and Murray scored 129 runs in ninety tuiri-ut-cs, and. the Australian captain had the distinction of getting' 126 before he was bowled middle stump bv Douglas. His innings was not perfect, and he had several narrow escapes in the slips, hut. taken altogether, one could pick few holes in his batting. The Essex bowling was not “ great,” and the fielding was 'on the slack side, but it was not this failing that caused Essex to suffer overwhelming defeat; they were palpably up against a bettor side. Kelleway spread his innings over three hourg and ten minutes. 'The feature of it was his play on the leg side, but he often drove vigorously and cut crisply. If Murray’s hatting may he taken as a fair sample of his ability he will give our b'owlera mucji trouble. He is a finished batsman, merciless on indifferently pitched halls. He was seldom in trouble, and his solitary mistake brought about his dismissal. He went out to drive and cocked the hall up in the slips. In making 77 he found the boundary on six occasions. _ The batting of Kelleway' and Murray d>d nut exhaust jbhe Australians’ capabilities in this line; indeed, only one failed to reach double figures. Bans did not make more than 17 before being liowled. but bis play was delightful. Stirling played like a firstclass batsman, got 58, and when the innings, which realised 4.34, was over, he had not been defeated. Faced with a deficit of 215, Essex’s position was hopeless, hut it was hoped that tile side would at least give a better batting display than ‘or the first occasion. The order of going in was changed Freeman being Gillingham’s partner, hut only 25 runs Were on the board when the parson was bonded. iVangh soon suffered the samefa/ts, in playing forward, and at 49 Turner was run out., unluckily. BTth three, teen out 1-crrin went in and played admirf dm cricket, The scope 'was only up to 71 when he lost Freeman, wlio" hatted steadily for an hour, hut Douglas stayed, m-tlunm while 41, runs were put on, wheu Gregory howled, down his middle stump. Ten runs later Gregorv disposed .‘of three batsmen at tlm one total-—-Dixon, Hazeltoa and TrcmTin. tne. iastenamed Wo were out to successive balls, and Clark, the nest batsman, had a narrow shave of being clean bowled first ball. He only stayed two or three overs, and after Hills bad kept up Jus end wdule Perrin made kome more runs he was out l.b.w. and the game was over. .Scores—Australia 43,1; Essex 169 and lot.

wliafc erratic fashion, and his effort was not particularly impressive. Rubicon (F. Ellis) and The Grand r' {f ra Y) were schooled over a round or the steeplechase fences, 'Rubicon easilv led his companion the whole way. The Canterbury Trotting Horse .breeders and Owners’ Association decided some time ago to be represented in the Citizens 5 Procession which took place yesterday, and the members made a good showing. Between twenty and thirty horses took part, some in sulkies and others under saddle. The pacer Great Britain, by reason ‘of Ids name, wag sorted out to head the procession, and arrangements were made with Lieutenant Prickle ton, V.G.. who is a good sport, to ride the pacer- Ho was tol lowed by Mr R. J. Munvo. president of the association, in a sulkv. and then came the various horses, manv well known on the racing track, although in this respect one missed several <>£ the best performers, also many or the prominent riders and drivers. The risk, however, of taking highly bred and trained pacers and trottersm a procession which was witnessed bv such large crowds, was probably the reason of their absence, but there was no excuse for so many of the leading rulers and drivers absenting themselves. The comic clement was nrovided at the roar of the procession, by a horse who bad no pretentions to racing abilitv. geared up with all the necessary appendages. and hitched to a sulkv that in tho past may have seen a race track but was long past its usefulness, lab- ,, " an Batch, 2min 40sec in IcoO. The horse was driven by a strong follower of the sport, and onetime owner, whose “ get up ” made him finite unrecognisableT News by this week’s mail from Melbourne states that there is every likelihood of the Kemball team being returned to tho Dominion shortly. The colt by The Belkin from Land Rose that cost 90Q guineas as a Yearling has been named Weldone. He and Treswho is a, half-sister by Tressady to Veronal, both appear likely to hold their own in the .Dominion. A few weeks ago the cable drew attention to the high prices ill a t were being paid in England for raxing stock, as one result of the successful close of the War. It seemed that there was a boom on. Late tiles show, however, fchofc many cbe:i.p lots to bo had. and at a sals in May prices ranged as low as 18gs for the vearliug colt Marine, by C.yllius from Lady Gull. It was on this occasion that the Marchioness of Queensherry paid -toOOgs for the throe-year-old Control. bv Chaucer from Camlarg, and Mr F. Leach gave 3500gs for the two-year-old colt Damar, bv Pol v nidus from Damage (dam of Damask). Other high prices given on the same day were 3200gs by Mr T>, Colling for the Fonr-year-old Silvester, by Morena from St .Mary, 1200gs given by Mr M’Ouijran for Thermogene, four rears, hr P6lvmelus from Emotion: )000 gs ’by Mr C. Waugh for tbree-year-old colt by Bowman from Hellene; and 800gs byMr FI de Meet.re for Toluol, three years, by Spearmint from Benboin. Referring to the cancellation of the nomination of Mauiiardoo owing to the death of Mr A. W. Oox, his pwner, Mr Ailiaon .writes in the London, Sportsman ” :—“ Mauilardo’s nominations are void. This means, on a modest- estimate, that £1.5,000 is knocked oh the value of the colt. and. in addition to that, books on the Derby are thrown into serious confusion. Surely the time has come when the rule under which nominations are rendered void by death should be unreservedly abrogated. In point of fact, if this were done there would be no reason to substitute any other rule. Tho horses of a- deceased nominator would either have their engagements paid or thev would go into the forfeit list, and in nineteen cases out of twenty the engagements would be paid, as a com monetise matter of business in winding up the estate, just as executors are accustomed even to make engagements for horses so as to enhance their value. Had Gay Crusader suffered as- Manilardo suffers, and been deprived of the chance of a great career on the turf, he would not he worth 5000 guineas at thjs moment, whereas now. if becomes up for sale by auction, it would »e no surprise if lie were to make 50,000 guineas. His list fills readily at_ 400 guineas, which means 16,000 guineas a year. Insurances would take £2500 of. that, and £3OO would pay other expenses- Thus there, would be fully 13,000 guineas net per annum, and the capita! insured- I have never been able to ascertain who the people are that obstinately stand in the way of such an iniquitous rule being; once for all wiped out. Everyone whom I ever met is of one mind on the subject, and it is not as if other Countries had not long ago shown us the better way. _ Ireland is constantly mentioned in this connection, but the Irish Turf Club has only followed tho example of Australia., New Zealand and other racing communities. In Germany and Aus-tria-Hungary engagements can he settled for when itiade. and forfeits, a< they fall due, so that there are no outstanding liabilities in any case when a nominator dies: but even this very simple course is not permitted in England, except in the case of entries for stallions in produce stakes- T am sure it would puzzle the stewards to explain, why this curious exception is made, for it is entirely opposed to the void nomination rule. From every point of view the void nomination rule is mi evil thing, and ought to be abolished, .oet us hope that the new stewards will signalise their advent to office by making this very necessary clean sweep. “ Now J hare another and convincing example of how executors can, and do, take upon themselves to deal with either racehorses end breeding studs when they get t-lie chance (poutinues M.r Allison). According to hidebound legality it can doubtless be contended that executors would be actihg absolutely ultra vires in carrying on the Sledmero Stud on the'came lines as it lias hitherto been carried on, but I happen to know, with absolute certainty, that the Sled mere executors are going to carry on the stud without any alteration of policy. Surely this must be an object-lesson which should convince the Jockey Club stewards that executors do not need to be dry-nuiwed by their void nomination rule, but want a. free hand in dealing with tho blood stock that comes into their tare. I have more than once written that the Skdmere Stud is probably tho best asset of that estate, depleted as the latter _ mast have been, by repeated death duties And super-taxes, all payable from, land. What, then, would have been the damage to the estate if from some imaginarv ideas of legality the executors had forfeited tho goodwill of the annual sal© of the yearlings and disposed of the brood mares for what they would fetch? My readers will, I am sure, be glad to know that the stud will ’re curried oil, and we shall see Slerlinere yearlings sold at Doncaster on Thursday in the coining years as in the pist.”