RACING AND TROTTING.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16584, 17 November 1921, Page 3

RACING AND TROTTING.

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FITTTT7BER. !V«yr®?nber is, 19—Winton Jockey Club. November T 9. 23 Otahubu Tvott.ing Club. November 28—Anhhurst Pohanginp Raring Club. November ‘H,. *pv . Routh Canterbury J eokey Club. November 2f. 80 Takapunn Jockey Club. November 30. December 1 - Feilding Jockey Club. December S— Forbury Park Trotting Club, beoember 3 Methyen Raoing Club. Tlecembev 7. p ’Wbodville Jockev Club. December 10—Otautaq. Racing Club. December 14—Dannevlrte Pacing Club. December ift, 17 —New Brighton Trotting ClubDecember JO, 1 7--North ‘Otago Jookey Club. NOMINATIONS. November 1* Woodvllle Jockey Chib. November 22 -North Otaeo Jockey Club. November 23—Net* Brighton Trotting Club. "November 24—Otautau Ba.cina: Club. November 24 VJjgstport Trotting Club. November 2R-- >Hrnawatu Pacing Club. November 25 —Dannevirke Pacing Club. HANDICAP* November IH -South Canterbury Jockey Club. November 19--Forbury Park Trotting Club. November 21 —Methven Racing Club. November 28—Otautau Racing Club. December 2- Dannevirke Racing Club. December s —North Otago Jockev Club. December s—Weetnort Trotting Club. December 7 —New Brighton Trotting Club. ACCEPTANCES. November 18—Takapunn Jockey Club. November 21--South Canterbury Jockey Club. \ofetnber 21—Feilding Jockey Club. November 24—Methven Pacing Club. December 2 Woodvllle Jockey Club? Derember 3- Otautau Pacing Club. December 9- Dannevirke Raring Club. December 10—North Otago Jockey Club. BETTING TAXES. , Another successful raid has been ■made by the Victorian State (iorornmont on the. pockets of a section of racing men. Those who have to snffet this time are the bookmakers. The ( ■ovcrnraent. being in the condition which seems chronic these clays, required more money anti pounced on the bookmakers as the handiest medium lor raising it. The method adopted was the simple one of doubling the stamp dnty on betting tickets issued on certain parts of ihe course. fn practice, the system will operate very' unfairly, as it. imposes a. special hardship on the bookmaker who bets in a small way, the duty being the same whether a backer invests ten shillings or a hundred pounds. There was a £ood deal of opposition to the scheme {or increasing the taxation to he borne, by the bookmakers. It did not nil come from members with friendly Jennings towards the layers, much beWug prompted by a general objection to the. principle of levying taxes on any special section 0/ the community. The bookmakers waited on the State Treasurer as a deputation, to urge tbeir objections to the taxation hut. they did not hare a specially hearty reception. ]Vtany of the statements made with regard to bookmakers’ losses, or probable *losses, under the new duty was regarded as greatly exaggerated. The bookmaker cannot convince the public that he is nob on a good wicket. Properly jnformed people know that lie often loses, at times heavily, but the ordinary backer cannot be brought to believe it. The ordinary barker In>=os consistently, and he wants to know, if tin bookmaker also loses, where the raonev goes. To nsfi n term understod by those who indulge in some other games. “ Kitty ” takes a good slice of >1 —meaning in this case betting fee?., betting duties and general expensee. The increased taxation in Victoria L to he imposed only at. race meetings held up to I he end of this year. The .subject Will then be viewed again but there is litle chance of the Government foregoing its demand for more revenue from the racing portion of the community, whether it is obtained from the satchel of the bookmaker or t)irough some other channel. Tt is quite likely that the upshot of the dis cuss-ion over the new betting duties will be to hasten the legislation of the lotalisator in Victoria. Tho installation of the machine will not neecssar ily mean the passing of the bookmaker. He will pti]| he required tor owners and others who do not. wish to confine their batting operations, to small limits. The totalizator and the bookmakers get on well together in Sydney and experion ~o there has shown that a ?ourid ring can well ho allowed to operate alongside the machine. Sir George Clifford. Mr A Biv. if ; tn d Mr W. E. Bidwill. fitting as Racing Conference appeal judges, decided the appeal by .Mr If. A. L. Mouteill. against the decision of the Hawke's Bay District Committee in dismissing his appeal again-.t the decision of the •Indicia 1 C Olll m 1 tree oi the Dannevirke Hunt Club who dismissed his protest against the horse Nieomar being awarded the race for the Hunt Cup Steeples Handicap run on August I*l. 1921. on the grounds that Nieomar had run inside a flag, and had not completed tho proper course. The judge*, decided as follows: In thi* case, after consideration of the evidence and a personal inspection of the course by one of their number, the judges decide that the. steeplechase course was adequately marked out by flags*, and therefore must be held to have thereby been shown to the riders. The* flag at the point where Nieoninr ran inside if. was one of the flags denoting the course. Ihe judges .therefore decide that the horse Nieomar must be disqualified and the placings in ihe. race altered accordingly Pluto, who '»on the Jockey Club and i Et sdalto.n Handicap* at the Canterbury Jockey (Hub's meeting last week, was bred by his owner. Mr G. D Greenwood His sire. Su+ala, by Ely si an— Lady Hester, was a successful two-.vear-old, whose career was cut short by an accident at Trentham. Procrastinate, the dam of Pluto, is the first of Ihe daughters of Demosthenes to earn distinction at the stud. Mr J. \Y. Abbott, a steward of the Wellington Raoiuo- Club, who has been >r, an extended visit 1.0 England, will r.!\ Vancouver at the end of Ibis V‘tk on hi- nay back to the Dominion.

* The Methven Racing Club has received a very satisfactory list of nominations for the meeting to be held ; early next, month. Riccarton stables ; will provide most of the competitors-j for the galloping events, and the meeting should he a. great success. Gloaming has been left in the Feilding Stakes, to lie decided at the end of this month. Rational is among the others engaged, -so that Mr G. !>• Greenwood’s champion will require to be in his best form to win. Punka, mho has been ofF tho scene since February, *3 n result of being galloped on in the "Wanganui Cup, is ; booked to make her reappearance at Ash hurst next week. R. -L Munr© lias recommissioned Rorke’s Drift and Gold Queen, who have been on the easy list for a few weeks. • • Man o’ Yi «r has been having a rest since hi* effort in the New Zealand Trotting Cup, hut -T. Bryce will probably have him going again shortly with n view to engagements later in the season. With First Carbine. Lady Swithin. Onyx and Thixendale engaged, the chief event at the Otahuhu Trotting Club's ' meeting on Saturday will arouse considerable interest in Canterbury. A garb os. who was not raced at Addington. is at present having a. spell, i but he will he taken in hand again shortly and got ready for engagements at the Canterbury Park Trotting Club’s New Year meeting. The stallion Ethiopian, who was sold : »v auction in Melbourne last week for !/(>0 guineas, is a soti of Dark Ronald, him that has gained considerable pro- j ir.ipence of late. Ethiopian was bought I at auction in Mel bourne in the spring 1 01 IMLS lor AGO guineas, bv Mr William ! ;IT or dan, an ex-New Zealander, for S J whom lie won a number of good races i msi. season, among which was the Cant.ila Strikes ol £2600. Ethiopian was. therefore, a good speculation at 500 guineas. His new owner is the New South Dales studmaster, Mr J». Miller, ho lias two other English sires Demosthenes and Magpje, at hi 6 stud. Tn referring to the mishap that be-' td Eurythmic in the Melbourne Cup contest, and which is believed to have settled the turf career of the brilliant chestnut (for a period at least), a Mel- ; bourne writer says:—F. Dempsey has • ridden ft u rythmic in all ‘ his races in ; the eastern States, and it is significent ! that the first time a srsinge jockey was on him he should get into trouble, j Dempsey generally kept him on the j outside of a field in case the peculiar i outward swing of his off foreleg interfered with other horses. M'Lachlan, who rode. Eurythmic in the Melbourne Cup. is of opinion that ho swung his leg against the limbs of another candidate, thus causing tho injury which resulted in his breakdown. Ho was going up on the inside of another horse at the time. The accident lias settled Fury thmio’s prospects of reaching Carbine’s total oi £29.626 in stakes. Kept for the C. IT Fisher Plate on the lastdas of the' meeting, lie would have been a certainty to have got the sum of £llOO necessary to place him ahead of the older champion. Recent advices to hand state that Eurythmies off fore fetlock is badly cut. and there is a good deal of swelling down the pastern, and it is feared that one of the ligaments of the leg has been strained. The trainer, J. Holt, is hopeful that the injury may not prove as serious as at first supposed, which may be taken to mean that hopes are entertained of Eu rythmic* again carrying silk. IT. ( . < Bud) Fisher, the well-known cartoonist, whose Mutt and Jeff pictures appear every day in the “ Star.” is the owner of Sporting Blood, a colt by Fair Play from Felicity, who recently caused a. surprise by winning flic Latonia t Jin mpi on ship Stakes at Estonia, and in doing so defeated the favourite. Grey Lag. from the stable of IT. F. Sinclair, the owner of Man o Mar’s disappointing brother, Playfellow Recently in England strong comment has been made by leading sporting writers on the alleged abuse of selling races. The practice of putting a horse of superior class into a seller to bet on is condemned, but it is not a new departure, and has been going on for many years now. Some writers consider it is a scandal. “Vigilant,” in the “ London Sportsman,” has the following to say: Whether it amounts to a 1 scandal,’ is a matter of opinion, and except that the good horse bars the way of the owner of the legitimate selling plater. I question whether any one suffers in marked degree. The ' fund ’ certainly docs not. for surpluses from selling races have never been so big. and bookmakers cannot he- hard hit by the betting on them, otherwise they would cut dow n prices to meet the situation. Then there is the regular racegoer, who. no doubt, likes to be ‘on ' the ‘ good thing,’ and is better off than the owner, in that he has not the onus to bear of buying the horse back. 1 1 is also an attraction to j owners of a certain class that by run- j uing second they may profit largely ; by reason of their share of the sur- j plus.” In no country in the world does the j turf obtain such cosmopolitan patron- ! age as in France. Ever since the sport • was established in Ihe country by a ■ group of English settlers in 1830-184.0 : the most flourishing stables have be- j longed to foreigners. At the moment of | writing, s:iy« the Paris correspondent j of tlu* “.Sportsman.” for instance, j two-thirds oi the trainers and jockeys arc either English or American dr>- ! scent, while in the ranks of important | owners about a dozen nationalities arc j represented. Thus in the Prix Saint- j Catien, at Deauville, not one of the j seven horses engaged belonged to a j Frenchman. Two were owned by M. i N. E. Ambatielos (Greek), one by M. j A. avan I Armenian), one by Mr j A. M acorn be r (American), one by Mr ; J. D. Cohn (English), one by M. Van , l Dyk (Dutch), and one by M. L. Man- ! j taeheff (Russian) 1 ho following appeared in the ” Eng- ; lishman, ’ a. leading Calcutta journal, i a few weeks ago :*‘ All the horses owned by Mr T. C. Galstaun were dis- i qualified for Saturday's racing in Cal | eutta. This was the effect of a notice ; posted up on Friday . Tt appears that ; someone well connected w ith the stable | had been trying to gel: the starter to 1 give one of the horses running the previous Saturday a favourable start, J but Captain Deane *vas not having any. : and lie immediately reported the matter' in the stewards, who took up the | case .-•iid warned off the gentleman re- • ierred to.”

The nominations for fl.« Forbur.y Park Trotting Club's meeting, to be ! held early next month, are very good numerically, but- the class is not quite ! tip to Iho best .-standard, ven* few of the top notch Canterbury performers figuring in the list. The club is very largely dependent on Canterbury horses for the success of this meeting, as .Southland owner* have so much racing in their own district to interest them that they do not patronise Forbury Park very freely in the spring, though 1 hey are always very much in evidence at the later fixturesThe pacer Oinako ha* returned to his ; old quarters at Sockburn, under the care of R. AY. Franks. To effect the purchase of a horse just prior to a contest, and to see the equine come out. at the head of the field is a highly pleasant experience. Air H. C. NT c bolls had such an experience at Alexandra. Park last Saturday, on the opening day of the Auckland 'Trotting Club's meeting. He bought King Capitalist for £250 with his engagements, and th© veteran duly accounted for the opposition in the Onehuuga Handicap, and the owner straightway secured a return of £2lO in stake money. HAWKE'S BAY NOTES (Special to the “Star.”) NAPI ER , November 10. 1 Snatcher, the two-year brother to Anomaly, by King Mark—Hoy, has been sold to a. TTavrera. sportsman and leaves for his new home- this week. Snatcher has a lot of pace and he should pay his way when the company is not. too select. Dissertation is being placed in work again, as is a brother to Verbosity, and j the latter should not he long in gel- | ting into shape. j Last- season Hawke’s Bay stables j sheltered three or four of the best i two-year-old colts and geldings. Merj min. The Hawk, Mannu and Absurdum » all being in the leading class, but this season it looks as though Mountain Lion will he the only one of the sterner sex to occupy a prominent place, in the two-vcar-old ranks. Earth-shine will he put in almost immediately. The Boniform Khamsin filly in V. 1 R. Edwards's stable at Greenmeadows has been named Recherche. This filly has only one eye. MELBOURNE CUP. WINS 1:1; >TH.r> A XT) REBURCHASEIX l| r K. \\ . Norman is credited with winning a largo stake- ovei* the- victory of his filly. Sister Olive, in the, Melbourne t up. I here is a romantic story attached to- Mr Norman s victory with Sister Olive (remarks a Sydney journal). He paid a high price for her mother ten years ago, found a weakness in her constitution, and decided to breed from instead of racing her. He brod Sister Olive, but sold her as a foal with her dam to another breeder. Then sentiment urged him to- buy her back when she came up at the yearling sales. Thus he secured the winner of the turf's greatest prize. One ol Fred. Norman's side lines is grazing, with a breeding establishment in the Yea district of \ ietoria. But as a. turf commission agent he has been associated with racing for a quarter of a century, and during that time he has earned a reputation of which any sportsman might he proud. Mr Norman bought Sister Olive’s dam. Jubilee Queen, at the yearling sales in 19.11 for 1025gns. She was by Posit ano from Tragedy Queen (the dam of another Melbourne Cup winner in Comedy King). Jubilee Queen snowed great speed 011 the track, and in fact, gave such promise that her trainer, the late •lames Lynch, and her owner, had great hopes that she would prove a Derby and Cup proposition. But during a race she broke a blood-vessel in her head, and her ow ner decided that it. would be belter to breed from her right away rather .than risk such a mishap in other races. And so she was re tired to the stud. She was served by Red Dennis, and a filly (Sister Olive) was the result. Shortly afterwards Mr Norman decided to sell some ol the mares and their progeny from his stud at Clarendon. But the purchaser, Mr D. J. Bourke. of Packenharn, would not take them unless Jubilee Queen and her fillv were included. Tn order to complete Ihe deal Mr Norman agreed to this condition, but his regard for Jubilee Queen arid her foal determined him to buy! the* latter when she was offered for sale at the # nnnual dispersal of yearlings, and lie secured, tho filly lor 160gns. Mr Norman lias good reason to regard with especial joy the day the chestnut filly fell to his bid. The recent Melbourne Cup contest 13 stated to have been one of the rough test connected with its history. A Wood, tho rider of David, declared it. was the roughest race he had ever rid den in. The following in an extract from " Smith’s Weekly ’ -Onescramble- that occurred as they entered j the course proper nery the three fur I longs led to the downfall oi: the Ade j Jaide horse, Colonel % Aides. and be 1 broke off foreleg. While he was »1- ! most down old Kennaqubair, who was : last of the field, jumped right over the , lop of him. Kmythmic. who was held I up at 1 lie barrier, secured a lucky rim j and quickly recovered his ground. He j retained a good position from the time j the field left the straight until the j home turn. At the mile and a quaver | post Duke Napoli was swinging along in | front, hut. although he had a two | lengths’ advantage, none of his rivals | seemed anxious to go after him. Ini deed, it appeared as if his immediate j 10l lowers were intent upon slowing | down the field, and their endeavours to j this end were so effective that tine op- | position became, bunched in closely ! packed order. Almost every horse was | btruggliujr for room, and for a few furlongs the Cup degenerated into j something like a football scrum, i A Sydney paper disposed of the Meli bourne Cup contest as follows:—“ If I tlie Cup were run a gain to-morrow j there, would be a different tale to tell. 1 and if it were run again the next day 1 there might still be another result. A | cumbersome field of twenty-fine runners took partand many off the jockeys complained that it was one of the j roughest and most unsatisfactory races - they had ridden in. Sister Olive. 3 ; genuine stayer, who had a feather i weight on her back, avoided all interi ferenee and won. It was her Tuckv day.”