RAGING AND TROTTING.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 20000, 16 July 1920, Page 3

RAGING AND TROTTING.

% “ARGUS.") ; FIXTURES ■inly 17—Wellington Racing Chib. r"! 7 Canterbury Hunt. July Sl—BraqktQiaeld Hunt Club. Angvtt 7, 11,13-'-Metropolitnn Trotting Olnb. Angiut ip, 18, U—Canterbury Jockey Club- . NOMINATIONS. “Oly 21—Metropolitan Trotting Club, July 23—Canterbury Jockey Club. ' HANDICAPS. July 19—Canterbury Jockey Club. July 23—Brackenfield Hunt Club. July 2ft—Metropolitan Trotting Club. July 80—Canterbury Jockey- Club. ACCEPTANCES. ' July 1 ft—South Canterbury Hunt July 23—Canterbury Jockey Club. July 27—Brackenfield Hunt Cluu. August 3—Metropolitan Trotting Club. August 6—Cautorbury Jockey Club. , : RACING CONFERENCE, Tho meeting of the New Zealand Racing Conference, which is being held in Wellington this week, is the most important gathering of tho kind that has been held for many yea/s. In the first place, the jockeys’ dispute has drawn so much public attention to thh conference that its deliberations will be even more closely followed than usual. Apart from other considerations, however, the length of the order paper makes it a memorable meeting, us for t|ie first time for some years *pnst tho proceedings could*not be completed in a day. It. was a matter of general satisfaction that Sir George Clifford was able to take His place as president, despite the ill- ' advised attempt that was made to pre'ent him from reaching Wellington. His annual report, which is always an interesting document, contained mainimportant references to the sport. As was to bo expected, there was some reference to the jockeys’ trouble, but Sir George failed to nmlf P . out a convincing case in support of his attitude in ignoring the Jockeys’ Association, tu other respects, however, his report was- full of points well worthy the serious 'Attention of those who take any interest in- racing. The need for legislative action to remove some disabilities which press hardly on the sport was touched oil lightly. The' financial trouble which threatens clubi if tho Government insists on the payment of income tax is a serious one, and the position is. quite unfair, when ■; it is borne in mind that clubs are already contributing large sums in ’ special taxation. Sir George also urged the need for additional totalisartor licenses for.growing districts, but , Nothing in this direction, can be looked I lor at present. The business tiansacted by the delegates on the opening day of the conference covered a wide . range;-' The proposals for licensing , by conference and raising the minimum | lo vtl met with no better fate shaii in previous years. There is not much , Of.a contentipus nature remaining for 'I discussion, but most people will, bo '■disappointed if the conference con- ■ chides without a discussion regarding 1 the jockeys’, trouble. Acceptances for all events in connection with the South Canterbury Hunt (.Tub's steeplechase meeting, to 'be/held ‘ mi July 22, will close ni. 9 p.m. to-day. A special passenger train will leave Christchurch on the dav of tho meet- ; lugAfr J. IT. Olliver, of Lyttelton, died vestordny, after being in bad health ’ for some time past. T he deceased was well-known : in trotting circles, having ■ a number of horses, of. whom Aliss Horrie. C and 0,1.0, were the best known performers. The proposal that all licenses should be issued by a committee of the conference gave rise to the usual discussion • at the meeting of the Racing Conference yesterday. The voting was 19 to IT in favour of the netr method, but the majority was not sufficient to carry an alteration to the rules. The Dunedin Jockey Club fared badl> at .the Racing Conference yesterday in its attempt to have the minimum raised from Gst 71b to 7s.t. The proposal was rejected by IS voles to Assumed names will’ no longer be permitted under the New Zealand Rules of Lacing. In this matter the Racing (.on erenee has followed the lead of the . English Jockey Chib. Utnwai, who finished third in the Parliamentary Handicap on AVcdnescsy, is a likely son for hurdle, racing' The . defeat of Tama-a-roa at, Trentham on Wednesday was very expensive, to Auckland speculators.' . Ihis not often that a horse and his sire are found competing in the same , race, but there,,.will probably be such ■ a case at J william to-morrow, as the , fo i:. 'thc lviu or; ’ ftandicup mTnde Gold Ran and his' sire, IVm 1 a n« The Wellington Racing (Tub's meet, mg will :be concluded at Trei,thorn tomorrow. u As was the case on the firsl dav Lochella has I wo engagements a I Trent,jut m to-morrow- the steeplechase and tie hurdle race, Double bate wil thus have their troubles increased by having t-o pick, first „f ;I H. tho ra ,; lnke h sul ,hC ° t3S ° Sokling is ,ikn, y i'' l flitl llot »"<- ol her uni "heni she captured |' :ir |i„. mentary Handump, Sb,, ()|1P11( , ( | (|)o K f ’ji>on with a win at Olnki. but d yesterday that was her JU lU , tins season though iu d, e had heeu three times second and twice H, > elßuued Unnt ‘he Anchland Tro ling (-uhs ,mw'course will be Ihe uesl m Hie Dominion. It will be about fire furlongs am) a ( lu |f in cumfemn.ee and ,0 feet, wide, with a o feet hanking at. each turn. Demos.l hencs. wbn w 3s mrenflv sold lo a New Smith Wales si udvnasler ‘j, mporled io have a full list f.,,- ne X | ' son at a fee of lOdgs, Sandule and iolans. winners of () K , 1 Grand National double in .Melbourne this year, are both trained hv N, D Godhy, with whom ihe nn*-time AVine-i. loi trainer, Ggorgo Uepbuni, i.-' u .. w 7,’-.

’I he American-bred horse Alohawk, who was u 'cry smart performer when he was young, is to lake up stud duty iu A. Pringle, who recently went into business in inmedjn, has leased a few boxes adjacent, to Uorbury Park and he will commence training two or three horses next month. Vi .■ Anderson, who will be in charge as head man, was associated with Pringle when ho was training at Ashburton. Over, eighty horses are handicapped at bst 71b in the Melbourne Gup this year. H is understood that the cross-coun-try horseman, K. Copcstnke. has decided to take up his residence in the South Island. He will attach himself lo the, training centre which gives him the best opportunities for riding. The cross-country rider, F. Al’Cabe, who rude in; New Zealand a few years ago, has left Alellvourne. for India It is about thirty years since a hurdle race was held at any of the principal meetings in Queensland. There will hb no election for any of the offices at the annual meeting of the Dunedin Jockey GTnh. The following have been elected without, opposition: President, Afr A. (’. Hanlon : rice-pre-sident, Air 1/. C- Hazlett; committee, Alessrs W. J. Goughian, .15. H.. Ijougli, P, Afiller and James Smith. Nominations for president, vice-pre-fident, five committeemen and three, stewards of the Auckland Racing (Tub rinsed a. few days ago. The Hon .15. Alitchelson was elected president, and Air H. T. Gorrie vice-president, unopposed. For the committee the nominations were Alessrs S. Bradlev. F. 15aiT A,. AI. ArCallmn. O. Nicholson. H (>’ Nolan and J5. A. Tatley; and for the Howards _Messrs J. D. Jones, At. J. 'V vn^ G* Hodgson ancl L. A. TaMey. As the number noniinated exceeds those required, a ballot S5 tor l,olh “ ra “' i,ne • "dm won the ATctoria Raemg Clubs Grand National Hurdle Handicap this mouth, is trained bv N i>- Godby ,v brother of the owner and tiamcr of the second horse, Origin Plume—C. T. Godby--and this fact rather seemed to emphasise the ill-luck oi l>ii"ht 1 lump s eomiections, who had gone for a particularly good' win. It "■us indeed ill-fortune to encounter an outside,- capable of lending all the wav "itii lOst 21b and winning in record t'nm. handnlfi belongs to a well-known .Melbourne business man who races under the name of Afr Alonckton Frankiu, and who, as a close friend of a lending patron of G. TV Godby’s stable, probably stood to win more bv tlie success of Bright Plume than through his own horse. He. however, backed Sar.idulo early in the'betting on the race. N- I). Godby backed Sandule, and also bad two nice doubles with him, • but Irom a purely hotting viewpoint a win foi Blight Plume would have been the more piofitable also to him. It wail great result for the bookmakers' Mith the earlier declaration of weights, there was more betting than usual ortho ‘-'Nationals,” and had Bright I iume won the “ ring ” would have had a very hard blow. C. T. Godby ami those associated with him aro very courageous bettors. American newspaper files to hand stale that the resul.t pi the Epsom Derby, won by Spion Kop, proved a. windfall for the bookmakers, for enormous sums had been wagered, ranging from a shilling to hundreds of pounds, on the badlv defeated favourites, Allenby and Te.tratema. An American report stales: “One of th„ conspicuous features of this year’s Derbv was the increased -popularity of sweepstakes, ou the result, and it was difficult to find any gathering of people whore this form of ‘haying a flutter’ was not adopted. The world-famous Calcutta sweep-stakes is stated to have eclipsed all records, and it is estimated that tho first orize will he in the neighbourhood of £BO.OOO. The London ' Stock Tsxeha nee -Sweepstakes gave the winner of the first prize £SOOO. Promoters of war eharitics.and other movements were appealing to lucky prize-winners to devote part of their winnings to the assistance of unfortunates." ~ ENGLISH NOTES, (Special to tho “Star.” LONDON. A lay 27. ' Recent racing is naturally overshadowed by Hu;-approaching race lor the Derby, and I may perhaps be esciued lor touching on a recent trial at Newmarket, "Tueii unquestionably' has an important bearing on the classic. It took place on .Saturday last, and the outcome was that Sir James 'Buchanan s Sarchcdon yvon by a length and a halt Irom Paragon, Gomnule, Spion Kop,and King John. Paragon was the ■‘key’ horse, since lie had been third to Tetraloma, and Allcnby ioi tho Iwo thousand Guineas and second to Allcnby for «• Ihe Newmarket bliikcs, Sarchcdon and Spion Kop wore the horses to he tried for the Derhv, and the lesull tlieows up the lonuer in f '"osl lauiurablo light. On the other band, Spion Kop's chances would seem to■ have sunk consulcrablv. One mav jiistiliahly assume that both horses wenasxed to give weight to Paragon', ,Sar•shcclon did so. and’ the fact at once imls him on terms with Tetratenia and cues him an undeniable chance at Fn Pom o| winning the groat race for Sir James Buchanan. At that I |eave the. Puhiect. until Inter in the. work, when 1 shall be able tv, oiler some concluding comment on tho candidates'and their chances. Racing during the past, few rhiv.s has Tl 1 ? t" ’ arrmni ' bnt T mnv md- that I re.sppßf.cr. u, r ohnmpion hurdier of Inst winter, was "innor of t| le Sslishury 0„p. HisV-.k "as not i. lormidahlp one. but it ,Vas gnod to see him win in good s(vI P a„,| Kivu every promise oi vOnnimi m 0 vnees vm the |. ;il ln n mU ~ J 1 r (lu,! , s kvoiul Ihaldis. am-e, thongli he gets Iwo miles over’ easily enmigh. T|, e Salislmrv Inal Stakes went f„ H„nga>w, who when know,, as the HapMmrg/fJree Jv Girl colt won a selling race n{, Kern u ton, and was hen bought in f or igr,ij s Ibis success showed Iha Che is a bier n-' more Iron, he selling p ,. lte ”7 ; HeU'vortb Alckx won „ , ni | e rsu . o t.amaralzaman, „ vorv • ,• 1 thmsy-ar-old by Swynford. -nd'’"^ "ill surely win more races |,ni so ThTG-din; "k. "no "as If'mg to comedo o||ij am was second. Ihe for,,, showed the lai'er to he a very r-inarf horse. Af Windsor o;i Saturday we snw v-wy f,n- -nriiifer n; Or'-v’s I',-jdn rr ;' igain for Air W. do Pledge. This 1.0-w----pulTcrised Urn oonodtion in a welter handieap. and ,u Iu- is (ar from |. ( . n , fl n-atured ye| I flunk the day „i|| rom -; "ben he "ill b- ah.--iul.dv R,,. ot tile tree as a sprinter. Ho is ~ gjcal pmvorful horse hy Orby. „nd bis bold, resolute, style ol ga'lor.ing is most impressire. S-ranus. ho"v.a. returned Mu- winner of ihe P,ov ;l | W'iud.ur Tbive-yrar-oh) 1 landie.-,;- ; tf ,, b-ngs U- Air Soil v ' Josh J j,, ~ ~ hot public hivuunte. but Iu- „n!, j’ .' 1

scraped home from Double Up, who had been beaten earlier in'the week m the west country. Quite a. nice 1 woven r-old in Captain Hanhury’s Highlander was returned the very easy wmuer of the .Speedy Plate. ' This colt should (h> well, and incidentally it may be mentioned, that he is the first of the progeny of Lord Carnarvon’s ' oUa, a _ horse that 'was a. brilliant sprinter in his day, though tremendously impetuous and very fad at the stalling gate. A minor race was wen hy Lord Rosebery’s Rizzio, who bad not won a. race of any kind since his two-yen r-old days. He is by a Derby winner ilrom a, Derby winner—-most nnnanal breeding in the annals of racing and breeding. Thus he is bv Cicero, who won the Derby in 1901.'from iSignorinetta, who won the .Derby in 1908. .-Did so wc come to HurstT Park on "hit Monday; There was an enormous croud, the great park being just one mass of people. One race in particular is well worth special reference. 1 refer to, that (for the AVhitsnnlide Plate, which brought Wimasn. recently well hacked for the Derby, and Lacrosse into opposition. The'latter is not in the Derby, hut he had run fifth for tho Two Thousand Guineas, and -his was bound to bo a good trial for AVimasu. The result must hare been most disconcerting to his hackers, ns Lacrosse was always galloping over him and wou'very easily! VVitnasu was not even placed, though he might have been third: at anv rate the 1 form at. once extinguishes his chance of win■nuig the Derby. Charlebelle.' a. very good filly last year and spoken of in connection with the Oaks, was favourite for the Holiday Handicap, nf a mile: but there was one too good for her in Air J. Shepherd's Kingf Idler, who as . a tour-year-old was conceding only 41 b .1 hough beaten I hold to tho view that the fillystill has a. chance for the Oriks, as her jockey, Whnlley, rode her vetw tenderly. Mr Shepherd is a big r\. porter to the Argentine of pedigree Shorthorns anud rams, and recently carried through the. sale to the Argentine of Tracery .for £53,000. I maf'add in leferenee to the Murat Park racing on Dank Holiday that the chief two-year-old race was won in convincing fashion by Air James AV bite's smart colt Cylette. On the second day at Hurst Pa'P. Onr Bill, a horse that used to belong to Afr Lionel Alontagne. won the Durham Handicap, ol a mile and five furlongs. lor a patron of Cottrill’s stable. S'i 5 , a st, ? bl ° ,y, " c ' !l sta rtod the sea .on frcll but lias clone badly since; their ehicf failure, of course," having been Aumteith. The Newmarket winner, buu Orb, could not win the, Toy Two-,'ear-old Stakes, and the outcome, of a desperate finish was that Donoghne, on Air James AVhite’s AYate.r God. was beaten a short head hv Lord Rosebery* Sally Lunn. Sun Orb. a hot lavoiirite, was not in the first three. Then all the favourites were routed tor the ALddlesex Three-vcar-old Handicap, the spoils being taken by ;,n animal named Bow Street, trained at -Newmarket. Its record was poor, which accounted for its light weight. And now I must break these notes to journey on to AJanchcster- foi\. the ug lour-day meeting, which continues till Saturday.

RACING CONFERENCE* MEETING OP DELEGATES. U’eh Press Association.] \VELLJv>uiU.v, ju)v j.j At the Pacing Doiileienco tlie at.peuclia’ry stewards' t-ommitlco recmmcndcu that positions ot judge and cierk of m e scales now ollcn honorary, should bo hllcd with ' na id oUicials. 1 iho Dates Committee recommended that licenses should be withdrawn from curbs having courses incompletely railed on the insmo of t no hack- u tno railing wa.-. -ot completed by next year. Ao additional'cr new totalisator licenses could b 0 ..-raineri ss-none was available, nor any ,| ttß „i racing. . J 01 Denting on the interpretation 0 f “win umg, part I, rule 1 was amended to include ueacl heat lor nrst place. *'- .Iho following addition was made to part o rule i ; " Any club having ooramitled tombfr* ° f ai Y nll ° ° r s - pecial resolution or shal 1,1 L l u“ ° r paSSOCI by the conference shall be liable, on repetition ot such bleach, to nave i s certificate of registration cantciJetl by tbe conference." At the request oi a deputation of jockeys tie president moved That the programme at which the totalisator is -ed ■shall include,not less than one steeplechase or hurdle race or jumpers' flat race on each day. unless otherwise authorised in writing by the president." After some discussion it was, decided to wake.the following new ruic BA " The programme of every, meeting at which the lotahsator is to he used shall, unless the president otherwise in writing authorises, include (a) on each day at least one steeplechase or lilydle race or jumpers’ flat race (fhhl is to say, a flat race confined to horses and jockc-s who have at the time of entry conmcled three times in a steeplechase or hurdle race)(hj) if the-meeting extends over two or more days, at least one race (not being a maiden race or race for two-year-olds, or a race Un-less-distance. than six furlongs) in which only .apprentice jockeys shall be eligible to ride/’ At tlie lequesl of the jockeys, president also moved That at no race' mcctmes from May 7 lo August HI inclusive shad il,. lasi race of th.o (lay he fixed later than four o clock.” , The remit was adopted after the time had been altered to 4.15 p.m. » After considerable dismission, (he following new - rule (60) was adopted: gramme of every meeting, whether Hie hdalisafer is do he. used; or md. shell include (a) at. least one flat race of no! loss ihan one mile and a. quarter, such rare fn he. one of the principal events on the programme; (hj if the meeting is 1 0 be held on ;; ny dav from Mav 7 to August ?,!' inclusive, at. least one maiden or hack and hunters' steeplechase, hut shall not include, move than 0110* race 011 each day oi less than six furlongs for horses three years old and upwards." It also was decided that no assumed name sha’l hr used in any entry. The president, was requested to interview the Government with 11 view of securing more effective supervision of racecourses l-y detnctjves. It was agreed to impose disqualification for not less than six months in the case of anr owner or person having nn interest in a Imrse making a wage'.' with a bookmaker on any other horse in the race. The conference adjourned I ill to-morrow.