RACING AND TROTTING.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 20041, 2 September 1920, Page 3

RACING AND TROTTING.

“ARGUS”) , FIXTURES. l-Marton Jockey Club. Mptember B—Manawntu Hunt, gwoptember JR—Ambetley Kadng Glob. September 23 2-I—Ashburton County.Bscicg Club. September 98-95~WR' B ga,nui Jockey Club. Kept. 25, 29—Avondale Jockoy OluK Kept. 27, tW—Otaki Maori Piocing Club. Sent. 3-0, Oot. P—Geraldine Racing Club. Oot. 2—2,' spier p»rli Racing Club. Ocl. 2, 4. 6, 9—Australian Jockey Club. Oct. 6—Bawkc’e Bay Jockey Club. Oat. 25—Oarrmcu Trotting Club.. Oct, JR, C9—Poverty Bey Turf Club, NOMINATIONS. Beptmber B—Amberley Racing Club. September 6—Ashburton County Ricing Club. Sept. 3—Otaki Maori Rroing Chib, Sept. 3—Avondale Jockey Club. Sept. 11.—Geraldine Racing Club. Sept. IT—Napier Park Racing Club. Sept. IV—Hawko’a Bay Jockey Club. Oct, B—Oeraaru Trotting Club. Oct, 6—Poverty Bay Tart Clan. / HANDICAPS. September 10—Wanganui Jockey Club. September 10—Amberley Racing Club. September 11—Ashburton County Racine Club. Sept. 10—Otaki Maori Racing Club. Sept. 2j—Geraldine Placing Club. Sept. 27—Napier Park Racing Club. Oct, t—Hanks’a Bay Jockey Club, Oct. 14—Oantarn Trotting Club. Oct. 13—Poverty Bay Turf Club. ACCEPTANCES. ) ,September .I—New Zealand Ouy. September U—AmberleJ Racing Club, September IS—Aehburton County Racing . Club. September 17—Wanganui Jockey Club. Sept. 17—Otaki Maori Racing Club. Scut, 17—Avondale Jockey Club. Bopt. 27—Geraldine Racing Club. Sept. 29—Napier Park Racing Club. Oct. s—Hawke's Bay Jdckey Club. Oct. 10—Oamaru Trotting Chib. Oct. 23—Poverty Bay Tut! Club.

DERBY ENTRIES.

Included in the 446 nominations that v. ero received for the Australian Jockey Club's Derby, to bo decided in a few weeks, were the representatives of several Now Zealand owners. .iMr T. H. Dowry nominated fire( among them being Right and Left, now owned by Mr G. <L. Stead, and Blackhead, who claims a New Zealand Cup engagement, in the interest of Mr W. Higgins. -Mr A. McDonald named three, including Vrince Martian and Strategy; Mr IV S. Luttrcll put Samovar and Triboulet in; Mr Harvey Patterson was represented by Fnhronet and his wife by Fabrinade; Mr J. Goring Johnston hy two; while Mr IV- (4* Stead had Delight and another engaged; Mr R, A. M’Kenzie, the New Zealand Gup candidate Askari; and Mr W. R. Komball had four representatives. It is pretty sale to say, however, that all these horses will drop out on general entry day, when a sovereign will bo sufficient, for it : is unlikely that any one of this lot is intended for an Australian campaign. There still remains a chance >|f a New Zealand owner being represented in '.the race. Mr G. I>. Greenwood nominated three of his, and two of them, Vespucci and Dewdrop, accompanied Gloaming to Sydney a few weeks ago.. Neither of the threo-year-olds has ever raced, , but they are a couple of promising young ones, who look certain Jo turn out profitable. , Whether cither of them will prove up to Derby form is another matter, bub j uo one knows belter 'than' IV. J. Mason ' what is required for such a contract, and he is mot likely' to worry much about the Derby unless lie has a can--1 didato calculated to do his stable credit. Even if they fail’in Australia,' it will not be wise to discard Vespucci and Dewdrop as Mason has brought , more than one horse back froth an un- : successful Australian trip to g'airi a, high place in New Zealand turf history. ■ With-a grass track open the Riccarton, trainers gave their charges plenty of strong work this morning. The near approach of the spring meetings will give additional interest'to the training operations during tho next few weeks. Amythas was responsible lor a useful gallop over seven furlongs this inorn- ' ieg. He had Mustard Pot as a mate over the last six, and gob to the end 1 nl : tho journey in Imin 31 2-osec. It was a useful working gallop, without any attempt at time making. A UtUo later Airowsmith was sent over the panto ground. Ha had Daytime as a mate for about three furlongs in tho middle stages, but ran the balance alone, _ covering the journey in Imin 27 4-ssec. It was a. brilliant effort, especially as the imported liorse was carrying a fair weight. I The English bred horse Counter At. i lack, was responsible for a very attractive mile this morning. He is a very smart galloper, who looks like I "inning some good races this season. ! Smoke, who will he on© of I’ D. f lones’s team for Wanganui, sprinted : half a mile smartly this morning, in I company with tho three-year-old lilly ! Wav Cry. I E. Scoullar gave his two Cup candidates. Royal Star and Chaoronia, useful work over a mile this morning. They I are both going on well, j Nighlraider was sent 'a mile at a 1 strong pone tbia morning He "ot through his task really well, finishing I up strongly. , Good Hope, who has recently joined T. H. Gitlett's stable, was sent out j to jump the pony hurdles this morning,' i but he fell at the second obstacle. Nominations for the Amberley I!,ic- \ ing Club's meeting will close at the j Canterbury Jockey Club’s office at I eight o'clock ■ to-morrow night. j Acceptance? for the Now Zealand Qup ■ are due at eight o’clock to-morrow j night. i Several Norlli Island racing eluhs i will take entries to-morrow for future i .classic events. Otaiiru Kid, the winner of the Hawc ■ Hurdle Handicap at; Marten, was n j moderate hack when racing on the flat. ! He’lias not had muoii experience over ’ hurdles, but he showed promising form : at Treiibham in July. Starting off ! with a Hurd to Mcltchikoff and Ethiopian, he just won from Kerehoue on (no Second clay. He has a Jot to do yet, , however, before he can ho' regarded as ' a good performer over hurdles, Militairc, who won the 'lVial Plato at Marlon, is a four-year-old gelding by Martian—Vicereine, by Birkenhead -Roio. This is the first win scored by Militairo. who in turn is- the first win* 1 per produced by his dam. When Rmljgal was at Kiccarton, aa ail inmate of R. J. Mason’s stable, ho' vhowed fair promise os a galloper, and .jiiaa sold to a North iikud sjfortammv

last spring ho looked like turning; oui useful. So_ far, however, ho hue been a great failure, us he whs only once in, a plant' last season. Ho has opened this season unluckily, by finishing second in th® Trial Plate at Mnrtoij. but probably he will improve on this form shortly. Prodigal is a four-ycar-old by Danube or Sutaln from the well-bred imported mare Lady Wayward 11., (jam of Empcrador, ?o that he has a. family reputation to live up to. The three-ycar-old colt Stratjbredolo, by Tressady—Rerdita, won a, race at the Victoria Racing Club’s meeting last month, and he is now being freely discussed as a Derby prospect. Among the recent winuetaju Sydney was Fiugnu, the three-year-nra brother to Estland and Finmark. by FinlandWar Scare. Fitigou was bred by Mr T- H. Lowry and was sold as a yearling in Sydney for llOOgs. He was ,a wolf-grown colt, who appears to have benefited by getting plenty of. time to develop, as he is spoken of as likely to prove the equal of his wcll-pcrfornuid brothers. The Great Northern double winner Lochella has been turned out on Ids owner's station at lieriot, in Contra) Otago, and is to be given several, months’ spell. There is some doubt about Paraoa standing another, preparation, and it is probable that he will be returned to his owner at Stratford. | At latest an attempt was being made to resuscitate pony and galloway racing in England. That branch of sport died m England during the, wav., Air 11. • Chisholm has been a member of the committee of the Australian Jockey Club for twenty-five years, a laSt that was referred to at the annual meeting of members last month. America’s moat successful jockey of this season, J. Carmody, intends riding in England. 'He is not yet seventeen, his weight is only 7st 2!b, and, according to his admirers, he is another Tod Sloan. If the latter part is correct, there is plenty of room for him in, England, where, according to what we read, tho present standard of j-otfkey-shlp is far from high. Paris ” Sport” fells a. sensational story of Bolshevik stupidity and ferocity. The Bolsheviks seized a son of bun star, and learning that tho horse had won a race for a onp offered by the late Czar, had the unfortunate animal shot after trial by court-martial and condemnation for “having been attached to the old regime.” English turf statistics for this season, show that up to July 10 Polymslus was hrst in the winning sires’ list with 18 winners of 15 races, of the total value .of £20,0-11. fhmstar was second with 1.1 winners of 22 races, but, 'only £12,002 Uls m stakes. Sir K. ,larding, with 12 winners of 19 races and £11,764 led the winning owners; and the order of the winning jockeys was: S. Donoghm, 62 wins; F. Bullock, 39; A. Whatley. 87 : and 15. Carslake and F. Slade, 31 each. lu France, as in New Zealand, men known to, do bookmaking in city offices arc in future- to be entirely debarred from racecourses. Baron Maurice do Rothschild was an active mover against tho bookmakers. One of his contentions was;that clandestine betting deprived owners and breeders of their share of the lux that, would come to them if alt business were done through the totalizator. Jockeys are kept busv in America-. Fiom January. 1 to June 30 of this year, four had ridden iii over 400 races each. Of these, the. most successful was J. Carmody, with 98 firsts, 77 seconds. and 70 thirds for 452 mounts; nest coming: C. Duggan, with 82 firsts, 69 seconds, ami 05 thirds for 450 mounts; J .Rodrigue*, 75 wins, 79 seconds and 67 thirds tor 418 mounts; and b. "Ida, 59 firsts. 78 seconds, and 67 thirds for 428 mounts. L. Lykc had the best winning percentage with ,64 wins tor 271 mounts. An American exchange in referring t > the opening ol the season’s racing at Belmont Park (New York), said that the regulation of betting, although per-uu-ted to ue as liberal as. convenience required, would undoubtedly be rest! icted within the bounds of law and decency, and with due regard paid to the. character of persons permitted to risk their money on the credit svstem The paper added that it was greatly to be regretted .that the totalisafor could not he installed. If tins were in operation bets would be verv nndV more conservative in amount, as they were necessarily in cash, which a.]"-’"vs had a restraining influence in anv kind ot expenditure. " ‘ Totahsator competition is not reducing the number of bookmakers who operate in Sydney. For the current season 144 bookmakers am licensed for the paddock, 14v ter the leger reserve and 129 for the Hat at.Randwick In addition, there are 51 bookmakers licensed tp bet at registered courses other than .Rundwick, in tho Svduev area. Besides these there are’bookmakeis who operate at oulv unregistered meetings in Sydney to' be counted. Ray-out clerks licensed for Randwick arc as follow; Raddock, 39- Jecer 24 ; lint. 11. In addition to these 76't bookmakers’ clerks have licen licensed by the Australian Jockey Club for this season. Of course many follow some other occupation during a portion of their time. A feature of flic two most noteworthy steeplechase contests decided in Victoria this year is that both fell to horses sired by grandsons of St Simon, whoso son, Simmer, was responsible for each sire. The Victoria Racing Club’s Grand National Steeplechase was won by lolans, .w ho was got by Heracles, white the Australian Steeplechase fell (o Kinlark, a son of Kincmnbcr. It is' interesting to relate that (ho 'Grand Steeplechase de Paris, which is still the most valuable, cross-country event in thejvorld, was won by a horse tracing te St Simon, through Royal Dream, a i s?u pi the Derby winner, Persimmon.

NEW GAMING ACT.

i HOW WILL JT OPERATE J At the time of its introduction by the Hon G. J. Anderson, the Minister 1° - Internal Affairs, the Gaming Billy v.-,-. rise to quite a Jot of talk in racing circles. At first glance some of the provisions appeared to many to hdrastic, and some of the extreme aniiracitig members of the community am >aud to have regarded it as a measure tilffiiy to “ wipe out the bookmaker.' ’ I o-dav, says a writer hi the “ New Zealand Times,” opinion is much divided as io what the result of the 1020 amending Act will lie. The Bill as originally introduced m tlie Lower House first, of all declared tho business of bookmaking to be unlawful, and then proceeded to make every person carrying on tlio business liable to a. fmo of £560 or to imprisonment lor two years. Next n. was made an offence ter anyone to bet with a bookmaker. Those who do so are liable to a tino of £l6O or to six months’ imprisonment. A neiv clause respecting evidence as to the business of a bookmaker has provoked a good dual of argument. Home contend that .under it grave injustice can ho perpetrated, while ot hers reply chat, this is a most unnecessarily alarmist view. , The clause reads; ‘ in. imv prosecution for an offence against this Act the fact that- a. person lias directly or indirectly offered fo make a bet, or has knowingly issued or been knowingly party to the issue of any card or circular indicating in any manner whore or with whom a bet mav be made or stating the odds upon or against any horse or event shall be sufficient evidence, until tho contrary is proved, that; such person is carrying on the business or occupation ot ii bookmaker.” This section is held by some to violate tho British principle that a, maa is innocent until he is proved guilty, but Parliament accepted the view that there was nothing very dreadful about Hie clause and agreed to it. The official explanation of the clause is that if a person offers to make beta or issues betting cords this will be sufficient evidence that he is a bookmaker, until tlie contrary is proved. It is open to anyone so suspected to explain away the suspicion. The Act does, not interfere with any two persons neither of whom arc bookmakers who oaro to make a wager between betting are not offences. For instance, if A and B differed as to whether il would-rain or be fine and each wanted to support hiß_ opinion with £l, they would be quite safe in making tho wager within the hearing of the most industrious police officer in the citv. Another new clause widens the definition of bookmaker with the object of catching the persons who lay small doubles (£5 to Ib, £lO to 2s, arid so on) in big concerns whore congregate numerous people willing to have a small financial interest in current events. It Ims already been enid that opinions differ as to what will be the result of the now Act. So much depends on the administration of the measure that time alone will answer the question. Up fo the present there is no evidence of any bookmaker having gone out of business, but this need not be taken as meaning very much, because the Act, is not yet in operation.

nominations.

WANGANUI JOCKEY CLUB. The following nominations have been received for the Wanganui Jockey Club’s spring meeting;— .LURIE HACK HANDICAP, of 150 sovs; sis furlongs—Empyrean, Quip, Farce, Smoke, Koraeao, Crucello, Vasilkov. M-ana-lto, Datatmi, Haven, Coolpan, Gay Lady, Amber Tins, Voluble Stutter, Senaprite. Big Push IVarrawee, Malingerer, Alias Love, Ticra, Alice iVloatrosft, Active. MAIDEN HACK, oi 150 ao-s; Mi furlongs -Counter Attack, Quip, Yolamle, Gav Patron, Tenterfield, All Cerise, Maualto,' Cats.. Uns, Cniration, Prodigal, Equitable, Amber Tips, Voluble, Watcrcall, War Nurse. Mar°Pa > Walthea, Vagrancepiece, Clem, Country OKEHU HURDLE HANDICAP, of 000 aovs; about one wile and three-quarters— I’isher, Mill o’ Gorvrie. Rekanui. Gladful, Wliile Ranger, Zola, Khartoum, Simonides, Olauru Kid, Endure, Polthogue, Prettv Bobby. HAOK AND HUNTERS’ STEEPLECHASE, of 303 aora; about two wiles and a half—Mattock, Manhattan,' Silent Dick, Ngukanm, Gladiul, Captain Black, Firelight, Whits Ranger, Applaud, Camp Guard, Sar* tolme, Otter, Tira.ii, Paiverewere, Bill, Lonalo, Nicomar, Knmlpi, To Toa, Rococo, Sir Solo, Roaemount, -Wangurai, SPRING HANDICAP of 300 sova"; one mile and 110 yards—Volo, Kilrusb, 'ilnri-y Up, Rose Queen, Ruddy, Simon, Hyginas, Tirana, Croesus, Bonnetter, Trespass, Riki Marqusteur, Depredation, Oratress, Railanci’ Nobleman. PUTIKI HACK HANDICAP, of 150 sovs; one mile and 110 yards—Avmv Service. Farce’ Ngata., Crucello, Ben Bolt. Legato, Manga! wni, Admyra. Rcbnfl. Maniahere, Tvha.rtoum Miss Sand, Isabel, Halcyon, SteJpanl, Wainwee. Whir a Bang, Piro .Piro. FL\ IN G HANDICAP, of ’250 sovs; six furlongs—lncome, limb, Airoivsmith Egmout Park, Chimera, Wake, PAukir. Hymestra Weldon e, Miss-gold, Simonides, Mmsem’ Swanee River. RAILWAY HACK WELTER HANDICAP, of 150 sovs; six furlongs—Counter Attack! Empyrean, Quip, Farce, Yolande, Ngata, Smoke, Karaeau, Crnoelle, Gay Patron, Tanterfield, All Cerise, Mania-bare, Manalto,’ Catalini, Prodigal, Miss Sand, Raven, Coolpan, Equitable, Gay Lady, Amber Tips, Voluble, Wstercall, War Nurse, Stutter, Seasprite, Maropa, Big Push, Wolthea, Wamwee, Malingerer, Miss Love, Tiora, Vagrancci piece, Alice Montrose, Miss Elva, Active, Country Air. 1 DEBUTANTE TWO-YEAPv-OLD STAKES, of 300 eovs: four furlongs—Joe Miller, Panacre, Panoply Thespian, Tolerance, ch g by Sunny Lalte—Medley, _ Rational, Landbird, Piffle, Mockery, Sensible, Kick OR, f by Demosthenes —Rose Shield, oh f byi Boniform—Aloha., NEW ZEALAND ECLIPSE STAKES, of 500 sovs; nine furlongs—Arrowsmith. Kii-. mail, Rose Queen. Insurrection, Amythaa, Askari, Humbug, Racchil, Trespass, Depredation, Demend, Karo,. GONVILLE HACK HURDLE HANDICAP, of 150 sovs; about one mile and five furlongs—Army Service, Hygiiias, Master Boris, Maugawai. Applaud, White Ranger, Guiralion, Simonides, Otauni Kid, Endure. Poltkogue, PreQty Bobby, Toa Tore, Lonato! To Toa MAHANGAI STEEPLECHASE, of 300 sovb; about three milos-MMattook, -Sir Solo, Manhattan. Gladful, Captain Black. Grains! hv, Applaud, White Ranger, Zola, Khartoum, Carapguard, Focmau, Otter, Polthogue, Tirau, Tarero, Pa wore were, Bill, Wirokino, Nicomar, Kurnalpi, To Toa, Ngakanui. HIGGJ.E HANDICAP, of too sovs: one mile and a quarter—Volo. Kilrush, Hurry Up, Pioae Queen, Insurrection, Simon, Adinyra, Bonnetter, Riki, Zola, Marqueiaur, Depredation, Oratress, .Railand, Nobleman, Halcyon. II.OUTOA HACK HANDICAP, of 150 sovs; one mile and 110 yards—Army Service, Fial&r, Counter Attack, Farce, Insurrection, Ngata, Crucello, Ben Bolt, Duo, Legato, Maugavrni, Admyra, Rebuff, A!! Cerise, Maniabera., Kharfonm, Miss Sand. Isabel, Amber Tips, Voluble, Halcyon,. Stelpnul, Warrawae, Whiaa Bang, Piro Piro. OWEN HANDICAP, of 250 sovs; sis furlongs—lncome. In ah, Egmont Park, Chimera, Lislowol. Wake, Ruddy, Carmel Arch, Tirana, Croesus. Vasilkov, Hymeatra, Wekbme. Missgold, Simonides, Kinsera, Sea sprite, Swauca River. -