RACING AND TROTTING.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 20052, 15 September 1920, Page 3

RACING AND TROTTING.

(By “ ARGUS.' 1 ) f.ix#rbs. 'September IS—Ambcrloy Racing Club. : September 33, St-Ashburton County Racing Club. 1 September 23-25—Men gun ui Jockey Club. September 35, aS-Avondale Jockey Club. September 27, 28-Otaki Maori Racing Club. September 30, October I—Geraldine Racing \'« Club. October 3—Napier Park Racing Club. October 3, I, 6. 9-Auetralian Jockey Club. October o—Hawke’s Bay Jockey Club. „ Ocfcbup 35—Oamam Trotting Club. ' ■October 28, 29—Poverty Bay Turf Club. NOMINATIONS. , September. 37—Napier Park Racing Club, September 17—Hawke's Bay Jockey Club. October B—Oamaru Trotting Club. October B—Poverty Bay Turf Club. HANDICAPS. ■ i t \ September 25—Geraldine Racing Club. September 27—Napier Park Racing Club. October J—Hawke’a Bay Jockey Club. October 14—Oamaru Trotting Club. October 15—Poverty Bay Turf Club. ACCEPTANCES. September 15—Ashburton County Racing Club. September 17—Wanganui Jockey ClubSeptember 17—Otaki Maori Raping Ulub. September 17—Avondale Jockey Club. September 27—Geraldine Racing Club. September 29—Napier Park Racing Club, October s—Hawke's Bay Jockey Club. October 19—Oamaru Hotting Club. October 23—Poverty Bay Turf Club, ST ATi\jLOTTiR! it, V.

Though there is certain to he strong opposition, State ■ lotteries in New South Wales seem probable in the near future. Money is badly needed by the Government, and it is undeniable that' anything in: the way of a gamble appeals to most Australians, so that the lottery proposal seems an excellent way of meeting the financial stress. The proposal which is receiving consideration is to rim lotteries on the lines of Tuttersall’s sweeps, hut the prizes will take the form of ten-year . Treasury bonds,-instead ■of cash. The idea is that the first prize in each lottery should bo £SOOO worth of bonds which, at 6 per cent, would return the handy income of £3OO a year. At the end of tho ton years .the winner would also receive his £-5000 in full. At the outside the Government's deduction would be 25 per cent. That may appear rather stiff, but it is not so bad in . face of that the various charges associated with Tattersall’s sweeps now approximate 40 per cent of the money invested. Tt ishnentioned that, in the second year of the lotteries there would be forty in existence, which, with 100,000 subscribers for each, at 5g per ticket, would mean £1,000,000. Of this sum £250,000 would go directly to the Government, while the remaining £750,000 would bo divided among the prize winners in the following proportions i—First; prize, £SOOO Treasury bonds at 6 per cent, ■£'3oo a year; second prize, £2OOO Treasury bonds, £l2O a year; third prize, £IOOO Treasury bonds, £6O a year; ten prizej) of £>3oo, £3O a year each; twen-ty-three prizes of £250, £ls a year each. Mt. is considered doubtful, however, whether State lotteries, with .1 t'ca-sury bonds as prizes, will prove quite so attractive to the public as the’New South Wales Government believes. The average man, when ho buys .a sweep ticket, is flattered by the idea of getting a few thousands in hard cash 5f he draws the winner, and the enforced thrift which is a,' feature of the proposed scheme may, in some measure, act as a deterrent to the sale of tickets. As a -further moans of raising money it is stated that the racegoers an New South Wales may bo taxed to [ « greater extent than is the case at present- If this idea is carried into effect it may take the form of an amusement tax, sufficiently heavy to cause an advance of at least two shillings in the cost of admission to the saddling paddocks on the various Syd- , ney racecourses. * f: ' Acceptances for the handicaps on the first clay of the Ashburton County Racmg Club s meeting and entries for the Trial Plate and Maiden Hack Race will close at five o’clock this evening,. ' Nominations for the Kurow Club’s evenhm ° loSe at eigllt o’clock 0 ’ clock this The Amberley Racing Club has secured an exceptional list of acceptances i r lts “f to he held on Satur'lav. Only nine horses dropped out, *nd some of them are in other events, there may be a few scratchings on the day on account of dual engagements, but present indications point to the meeting providing a good dav’s bport. J I 7 I All the horses nominated for the \mbcrloy Cup and the Welter Handicap at Amberley on Saturday survived the acceptance, ami the only withdrawal -rom the Patter Handicap was Mustard * ot, who has been .thrown out of commission. ,v.' n V’P e Zcalalld Cup candidates; Avan ike. Chacronia and Marc Anthonv are engaged in the Amberley Gup on Saturday. ■■ Tl i'J liorses engaged in the Trial Plate at Amberley on Saturday include the New Zealand Cup Candidafo, Adopted. He only has to repeat the form ho showed at R wart on on Easter Monday, when lie was second In Cashmero over six furlongs, ami he will be verv bard to beat_ Tn connection with the Amberley races on Saturday, a special train will leave Christchurch at 9.20 a.m. II will start on Hie return journey at- 0,17 p.m., end is due in Christchurch at 7.20 p.m! A special horse I rain will leave Soukburn at 7.20 a.Vn. ' The four (rotting events at the Geraldine meeting have, attracted n fine lot of nominations. Among llicur aro ' mine well-bred young horses, whoso form will bo worth watching, in view of the prospect Unit they will shortly be racing in much more- important crents ■ ' The Manaw!)ti| Racing Chib has recently had a new semaphore erected on the Awa-puni-course- It is describe-} as the most, up-to-date affair of ih kind .ever seen ih the- Dominion, ; Rococo. ■ who won the Parorangi Steeplechase at the Manawa+u Hunt ■meeting, is the first winner turned out ■by R, Hatch since hj« set up on bio ow C account a& a ti-aiac*.. w — — - _• ...

Tho veteran' .pacer Frandocia was destroyed a few days ago, having contracted a disease of tho feet which was considered incurable. Frandocia, who Was by Franz—Cappadocia, was bred by AH 11. E. Hall. He raced for several seasons with great success, being a brilliant performer over mile and two-milo courses. Trontham Rose may lie hard to beat in a mile and a half hurdle race at one of the South Island spring meetings. After Hcndra was purchased by Air Parker, of Gisborne, tho son of Royal Artillery and Hecuba was fired. Information was lately received from Gisborne, to the effect that the operation bad. so far been successful, and it was anticipated that in the very near future tho gelding would be able once again to produce his host. Tiro Afastcrton sportsman, AH J. S. Lord, who seat his two-year-old Tommy Rot. to Avondale with tho rest, of <J. Jamieson’s team, has been advised that tfie colt has contracted influenza, and will bo unable to race for some months. Tommy Rot is by Absurd, from tho imported mare, Lysistrata. A AVanganui writer states that Tcnlerfield has a very ugly action, when galloping, but he has great driving power. The Australian-bred gelding is on tho big side at present. Tho Highden trainer, G-. Price, is not experiencing the beat of luck with his team a,t_ present. Several of his most promising juveniles have gone wrong, and he is left without a youngster ready for early spring engagements. There is to bo a. conference of the Adelaide racing dubs to consider the for increased racing in South Australia. It is pointed out that tho population, of the State has greatly increased since the present limit, in respect of racing dates was fixed by Parliament. ■ Racing conies cheap to some English companies.. At Lingfield, on July 9, tho advertised value of the stakes'was £2IOO, but the cost to tjio management was onlyy £412 IDs, owners providing the remainder. It is not surprising that English owners arc of opinion that ail clubs should give them' greater consideration in respect of added money. A. -Cummings,, who was for some years in charge of the Cambria Park stud, and who for a long time past acted in a- similar capacity for Air G. Currie at Kai Iwi, has been granted a trainer’s license by the Auckland District Committee, and is now supervising tho preparation of the two-year-olds owned by Air E. A. Price. The Auckland owned trotter. Lady Wilmington, is now an inmate of E. .). Berry’s stable, and is fast getting into racing condition. Last season thirty-ono racing clubs in the South Island gave £9515 iu stakes for trotting and pacing races. Non-trotting trotting clubs in the Dominion gave £3400 in stakes last season. Trotting clubs with totalisator permits,gave £97,315 in stakes last season. Hie total amount given for trotting and pacing races last season in the Dominion was £110,230. Six trotting chibs in the Dominion provided seven events last season other than handicaps, the total given in stakes for them being £3325. The Aletropolitan Trotting Club provided tho Champion Stakes and Free for All of £6OO each, while • the Auckland Trotting Club gave £650, Ashburton Chib £525. Forbury Park Club £SOO, New Brighton Club £SOO and Waimate Plains Club £l5O. The V ictorian-owned colt Stratbrcdole, who is one of the Derby favourites, L now being trained at Rami wick in view of the Australian Jockey Club’s spring meeting. Strathredole, 'by Tressadyyfrom Lady Perdita, by WallaceSloping Lady, is a, very well grown colt and looks like proving a stayer. F. L. Bullock, son of Frank Bullock, the successful Australian jockey is getting some riding practice in England, and R. Day, to whom he is apprenticed, has great hopes of making a capable light-weight of him. P. P. Gilpin took throe colts across to Paris for the Grand Prix meetings. Two .of them ran in the.Grand Prix de Paris, which Comrade won, while Spion Kop was unplaced. On tho same day P/aragon, the other member of the team, won the Prix do Seine at Alarne, a race run over a mile and a, half, and worth £I2OO. He won running awnv by six lengths. _ Paragon is by Radinm from the St Frusqnin marc, Qnintsscuce. He is thus a brother to the Two Thousand Guineas winner, Clarrissimus and ho is also closely related to the North Island sire, Panmurc, whoso dam, Panacea, is by Cylleuc, from QumtcsscnAe. . Two Carbine mares, Fickle Neck lourteeii, years) with a. filly foal at foot by St Amant. and Parvo iqicditcen years) were sold for Digs and IFm respectively at tlic Newmarket July sales. ft was something of .% surprise to many people to read that the. veteran, H. Ihiyuer, had been granted a No. 1 license by the Australian Jockey Club, says a Sydney writer, lie. retired last year, and the only reason that he lias come into the game again is to temporarily take over the horses in charge, of T. Payton. Tho latter's ill-health’has debarred him from snperinteiidiiu.- hie. team recently, ami though his”son, Bailey, has shown himself adapted for tho business, the services of an experienced man like Harry Rayncr will naturally be a gain for patrons of tho si able. Payton, jun., will also benefit by his association with one of Randwickila most respected re.tßinuw, and it is safe to prophesy (hat in due course, ho will he licensed for llaiulwic-k. .Something of a sensation was caused at a recent meeting iu Adelaide when, half-way through tho afternoon, R . ln , port was current that tho slipcmliarv stewards had under consideration what was considered to he. a ease of a(,tempted doping of a horse. Subsequently it transpired that Air W. J. Troniella.ii had noticed two persons going near his horse Kekop, ami, big suspicions be ini* aroused, ho watched! hem closely, ami then secured the assistance of a detective, whom ho informed that, he had seen them attempting to dope In's horse, with the. old of a syringe. The detective apoko to the individuals concerned, and took them before tho stipendiary stewards, who, after an extended inquiry, decided' to adjoin-:) matters lor a few darn until the,' eontents of the syringe could ho analysed. The report is current that one of Uieindiriduals concerned is a trainer, and that the other is a certified chemist Two days later the stipendiary stewards decided to disqualify ' Alfred Bimms, a, chemist, and AI. C, Trott. trainer of llekop, for life, the. former for having attempted to administer a drug to tho home,, and Trott for hav. tug cwsjcntsd In tlm doping,

ENGLISH NOTES. (Special to the "Star.") i . LONDON, July 22. i During the past week at -feast two I races or first importance have been ! relegated to history. Reference is made to the Eelipso Stakes and (he National Breeders' Produce -Stakes, both decided at Sundown Park last weekmid. The former was a £IO,OOO- race up. to the war. TJic entrv for last week s celebration was made dunii"(ho war, when, things wore verv critical indeed. Thus Hie promoters thought id well to cut down the prize bv 50 per cent, with the result that last' Friday's iace was worth only £SOOO. It, will'be of tho sarno value m W2l, but will j return t0,£10,000 in 1922. I liven had it been worth £50,000 it j could not have provided a more iuterp&tinp; affair than was the case last I'ndav, when the four-year-old Buclian, i so disastrously disqualified for the Ascot Gold Cup, opposed Tctratema (receiving 12!b) and' Allenby (receiving j lolb). • J'Jiore were also in the held the four-year-olds Pommc de. Terro and Insensible, the latter being from Prance, and t-uc three-year-old Silvern, who was m receipt of 181b from J Puehan. There was tremendous con- I met ot opinion as between Buclian, ! ietratoniiij and Allenby. The connections of each wro confident and all the three; looked wonderfully well, indeed Buehaii and Allenby stood out as I perfectly trained horses. An animal named Braishficld date Bth Division) ran as pace-maker for Buclian, who was kept much nearer last than first until about three furlongs from home. At that point Allenby'looked-like :i winner if ho could only last out. Tetra-j-ema. was spun out, but then. Buchau began to,overbaul Allenby. a .nd just a* lie had got Mm settled ' Silvern was brought up on his onside. This occurred less than a furlong from home, and for a few strides there was a, sharp tussle between tho three, with Silvern threatening most danger The first to crack was Allenby, and then soon afterwards Buclian raced on .to gain a most meritorious victory bv a length and. a half from .Silvern, with Allenby two lengths away third. There was great cheering over tho victory, and beyond all question it was most popular, for Buclian is reallv ». srood horse though lie has been unlucky'throughout Ins career. Lord Astor was warmly congratulated, as also was tho trainer, Alec Taylor. Allenby and Tetratenia ivoro lieateu bceauso they could not' stay, but it was surprising to see tho bold show put up by Silvern. He turned the Two . Thousand Guineas form upside down.. Ojn tho day following there was the raco tor the National Breeders' Produce Stakes, the most valuable event of the year lor two-year-olds. It was. therefore, most disappointing to find only four turn out, though 'it was of particular interest to have the Coventry Stakes winner, Milosium, and Polly Flinders in opposition. Tho former is a most improving grey colt bv Itoi Herodc. owned by the Irish breeder, Mr 15. Kennedy, who it is said refused £20,000 for him some time. ago. lie had lolb to concede to Polly Flinders, a beautiful filly by Polymelia from Prettv Polly, and owned by Major Giles Loder. owner of SpionKop. ' This filly had run well at Ascot behind Milesium", and here she had a pull in the weights of 121b, in spite of which the grcv colt was made a slight odds on favourite. But in the race he seemed to run sourly, and never at any time looked like overhauling Polly Flinders, who made a very spry beginning and won easily. He was nof even second, lor that position was occupied by Lord Astor's Oubliette, a promising' fillv bv Velens from Popingaol. I should say that'for some reason or other Mile'siujii did not give his true running, and that it would not be fair to estimate him-on this form. He is a big, high-couraged nolt in every way, and is probablv a difficult subject to train. • Other races do not call for special remark, and as regards the Leicester meeting, which took place on Monday and Tuesday of this week, it need only be noted that the Leicestershire Oaks was won for Lord Astor by Pinprick, who is not of much account, but was up against a very moderate opposition. Then on the second day Lord Durham Avon two races, a sufficiently unusual event as to call for remark. His smart two-year-old Teressken won the Wiston Hull Breeders' Foal Plate and Ttokcr took the principal handicap. Mr J. C GafsTann is gradually buying rather a formidable string of'horses for India, though prices are ruling very high. However, as things are, ho probably secured a bargain when for £IO,OOO he bought Scatwcll and StarF.hot from Lord Glanely. He is taking a chance with Scatwell, as he would not pass the "vet" for sandcrack. But tho trouble, has not actually stopped him in his career, and Mr Gaktann is prepared to risk it. For £6OOO he got,the very smart Irish sprinter Gatway Gate. They leave for India shortly, and it is quite likely that F. B. Barling, who until lately was private trainer to Lord Glanely, will go out in the autumn to train Mr Galstann's English purchases. At the recent {Newmarket sales Mr Galstaun purchased Solo Bridge. Leandros and Floreal. 1 like best Solo Bridge and Floraal, as it is a long time since Leandros showed any form. v

ACCEPTANCES. AMBRRLEY RACING CLUB. 'J'hfi following arc the acceptances for the Amberley Kauiiifr Club's meeting:— HURDLE HANDICAP, of 12.5 sovs; one mile, and n half-—Bombproof 1(M nib, Mannish lOst Sib, Good Hope Mst, "Gib. Warform fist 4lb. Glciilanncr Osl -lib, Stravshot 9st 21b. AMBERLEY CL'P HANDICAP, of 220 sovs; one.mile and a, quarter-—Warlike flst, Daytime Sst Otb, Chn<?touia 7st 9lb, Marc Anthony 7at 71b. Nautical 6sl 131b. HACK HANDICAP, of 110 sovs; six furlongs—Link Ud fist I lib. Phil May Bst 4lb. Fabrimidc Sst ."lb. Steepholm 7st 13lb. Cossard 7pl. 13lb. Cauamiina ,7sl Illb, Oreekcou 7st nib, Hands Off 7h! 71b, Astrnv 7st.' 21 b Malaga 7s=t 2lb, Grain! Duchy 7st "2lb. Loch Weir 7M, WELTER HANDICAP, of 115 s-ovs; toV cn furloiif.'fi— Loyal Arch 10 s. I lib, Warlike I,i 311b, High Heels 9st .'lib, Tyne ,« s f, jolb, Nautical Sst Tib. Kolyma 7ft i:.!lb, Woodrow 74 71!). VYATTLK HANDICAP, of 160 sovs; six furlongs—Clean Sweep Oat-. Will Oakland fst 131b, Daytime Bsl lib, Wrestler Tat Sib, Bomb list 7lb. K.OWAI 'rno'i: .handicap tin slu id!ov of 100 fovs; one mile, and a, half— Alarm Dell fior, Lasca Lad sit. Hilly Dillon K cr ]jord Clan scr. Wabineuai ?cr, Worst loi"li Bor, Chautauqua, per. Olcncop. Rcr, Wayaido m\ Den Wallace 12yds bhd. Warl.ond J2-d s Mopcy 21yd?, Wimderiiiß Willie 2h-<ls, £:id" Thehna tsyds, Prince Burlington ISCy'ds " TEYI.OTDALH TROT HANDICAP ' (j,, harness), of 100 sovs; two miles—Proud Nell ?cr, Polo Jim Bi:r, Lanca Lad scr, Wah'inepui IJvds bhd. Grey Peter I'.Gvda Mopov •18yds, Orleiaii 81yds,'Day Drift 84v<l'., Atmio Dream Slydn, Tiranna Oljyds, Delta, PVivds Mara, lGSydc, Onyx IGSyd?. ' "' TRIAL PLAT.K. of H'Q -ova; live fi, r ! u11 .. e --Smoke, War ( ; ry. Volkovo, Oran«e> Mart" r>=p Well. Lochwcir, .lac.kaboo', Abmicd' Silk Lace, Ar-tMy. and Te. Anau Moid'.