TURF TALK AND TIPS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIX, Issue 12401, 14 January 1905, Page 7

TURF TALK AND TIPS.

BY "MULTIFORM." Pallas may be raced :in Victoria, at the end of the season. :

Mr. G. G. Stead's team for tihe Wellington meeting will probably consist of Nightfall, Munjeet, and Golden Lily. Sir Georgia Clifford's contestants at the-Wellington meeting wiLHI be Golden Vein, Quarryman, Glemowlet, Stronghold, and Perhaps. A gelding by Mannlicher —Ro^eguard has been taken up at Riccarton.

Roseal showed great improvement in his running at the Pahiatua meeting, and will probably catch the judge's eye ere long. Tho dooal mare. Fisher Maid, was solidlly supported in her essay at Bulls, but' although she let her backers down badly, she should win razees later' in the

year. Armistcce is in Tare buckle at present, and she may be dangerous in her engagements at the Wellington meeting. No reason ha.s been assigned, so far, for the scratching of Mahutonga. His owner last week informed1 an Auckland ocriba that he considered it was only a matter of the horse keeping sound for him to annex the Wellington Cup.

Mi*. R. W. Paterson, the Wellmgton owner, has decided to d'iepose of his string, being dissatisfied with the veigntsi allotted -to his horses. Th© members of his team in training have been, or are to be 3 leased or sold. Master Aiis, who has been showing good form in his essays in the South Island of late, will compete at the Wellington meeting. Sea Lion and Tirole are in future to bo trained at Ricearton, where they will bo under the control of the veteran, R. Derrett. It struck me, by the way Tomairangi finished "«. tho.-raco he- won, the Carnarvon Welter, at tho Rangitik-ra meeting, that he will bo hard to beat, in his next ventures. Benmoro is to be taken up again shortly. . Local turfites -were glad to see Mr. W. Tuck's name on the -winning list once more. Th'S'i-e was a dearth of jockeys at the Rangitikei meeting, two owners, at leasC having to scratch their horses owing to this cause. Of the Antipodean sires of stock running in England, there is little to choose

between Musket's sons Trenton and Carbine, for while the former is the sire of ten winners of thirteen races, worth £4550, ten of Carbine's get have won between them sixteen events of the total value of £4480. Tha other stallions known to you come out very indifferently. Derringer and Chain Shot are each oredited-with one winner of a race worth a modest £100. Merman figuies in the list as the sire of a winner of tAvo races worth £23G. Aurcim 11. as the sir© of the victor in a race Avorth £190, and Australian Peer of the winner of a solitary event worth £273. Bill of Portland may 'later do credit to his sire St. Simon on this side of the water, but otm'.y two of his progeny have Avon races this year, the value of tihe stakes being £635.

During her turf career Cruciforml started in 32 races,* won 19, and garnered £7207 in prize money. Another race itn which she looked to be going better than the w'saocv Avas AA rhen her stable companion, Menschiikoff, Avon the C. J.O. Derby, whilst -it has been said that if Hewitt had. not been hampered Avith riding orders, she would have beaten Ibex in the C.J.C. Craven Stakes.

Freeland, who showed faiirly attractive form at the West Coast} holiday meetings, ia a four-yeiar-oild gelding by Wonderland out of the Javelin mar© Mystery. He started 17 times last season, and fa'a only win was scored in the It.C. Handicap, one, mile and a furlong, at Paniagua, which he won easily in 1 mm. 56£ sees., from Fleka, Platypus, Roseshoot, and fivo others. Th>o ex-New Zealander, J. Hickey, who has been acting as Mr. S. H. Gollan's trainer in England, has been for some time past in a private asylum owing to' mental affliction, and at las* advices Avas still unable to resume Ke duties. During Hickey's illness Mr. Gollan's horses have been under the charge of J. D. Page, who went from NeAV Zealand some time back to act as head lad in the stable. A3 shoAving hoAV English blood has been scoring -on American courses, a New York paper mentions that of the 172 important stakes decided this year 88 Avere Avon by colts and fillies of direct imported blood, as follows :—Goldfinch 15, Meddler 9, AtheYng 8, Ben Strome 7, Golden Garter 7, St. Gatien 5, Order 4, Oraus 4, Star Ruby 3, Gold Crest 3, Hermen.ce 3, Melton 3, Candlemas 2, Rapallso 2, Watercress 2, Woolsthorpo 2, and one each for Demonio, Esther, Horoscope, Knight of ttho Thistle, Kantaka, Prestonpans, Sor-os-re, Top Gallant, The Friar, and Sandrmgham. Of the hoa-eea to finish 1, 2, 3, no less than 345 of the possible 516 positions were filled with direct English blood! It is anticipated that the! amount put through the totalisator in France this year will exceed £10,000,000. Tho sum of £130,000 was invested on the totallisatoT at various race meetings in New Zealand on December 26 andi 27. NightMl was cut about the legs a KttkTas the result of her fall at Ellerslie Avhile contesting tho Great Northern. Derby. , The tAvo beet two-year-olds at present in Russia are said to be Galtee Boy andl Galtee Girl, tAA'oof the progeny of Galtc© More. . The' American jockey Hildebrand is credited with having received £14,000 in presents and fees during the past season. ■.-■•". -The result of the £10,(000 Handicap at St. Louis was so satisfactory to the promoters that there will be another race of the same amount; im 1906. M. Edmond Blam-o recently refused £20,000 for Ajax, the son of Flying Fox, who proved such a splendid prize Avinner before being compulsorily retired to the turf la<it year. Keston, who Avas one of a trio of dead heaters in the West Australian Derby, is a brother of Salaam, the two-year-old filly which carried.Mr. T^schemaker's colours at the recent D.J.C. meeting.

Tho 'chaser Tip to Date was recently under offer to an English sportsman who is at presieait in Auckland, but the halfbrother tjo Record Reign failed to pass a vet.'s-examination, and the deal was not completed. : . A-London writer -expresses the opinion, that there is too much.inclination-; to, "coddle" English racehors^ iiowad^s. It; is-doubtless'a very pleasant sight,' he says, to ,93e Pretty Polly and her inseparabila companion, the now,famous cob, rubbing noses together, which presumably is the equine method of kissing. Supposing, however, that every horse in a paddock was accompanied by a companion of some sort, matters would beawkward indeed, especially where the ficCd wa.s large and the paddock small. Moreover, it is questionable if this companionship has not been, carried to far too great lengths in the case of Pretty Polly, who exhibits more and more disinclination to leave her inseparable companion, and on the occasion of her last raoa it was noted that Maher had considerabTie difficulty in getting her to go to the post.