BY "MULTIFORM."

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12711, 23 March 1911, Page 3

BY "MULTIFORM."

Mastcrton races to-day. Wa.'iganui Trotting Meeting to-day. So mo good sport is promised..

Playn-ate., who broke down badly at Wangamii, is again able to walk nboufc, though his damaged leg is still in piaster.

Some of Menschikofl's stock were sold cheaply at the opening of the Victoriaji blood stack sales. The highest-priced lot only made 70gns., and the nine youngsters did not average much hotter than about 40gns.

T. Wilson, of Palnverston, intencTs leaving for Australia in .about a fortnight's tirao en a mouth's holiday. It is probable that when he returns he will resume training at Awapuni. Wilson has been.out ol harness for somo time ]fl.st, bub lias now quite recovered his usual state of health.

There was \ery spirited bidding at Newmarket for tho handsome bay colt by.Posit-ino from River Trent, the dam of Eye Glass, submitted in Melbourne last week, on behalf of Mr. Sol Green, proprietor of the Shipley Stud. It was a triangular duel btv.xen Adam Skirvmg (acting for Mr. S. A. Rawdon), James Scobie (representing Mr. E. E. ]). Clarke, the owner of Eyo Glass), and Mr. J. Brown (tho owner of Prince Foote). Scobie went to 1700 guineas, but Mr. Brown, with folded arms and fieitennincd mem, capped this with 1800 guineas, and Seobie retired. "He had too much money for me," remarked Scobie afterwards, with a smile which did not'hide the. regret he felt over losing such a promising youngster. Mr. Brown purchased the colt more for stud that, racing purposes. The conditions of light-weight riding in England are altogether different to what they were when boys of from 4st to 5s t distinguished themselves (says the "Sporting Times"). %They are diflerently schooled now to what they were then. The earlier a boy is put on a l'or.ue the letter tho horseman he becomes; but nowadays there is tjie School Bor.rd to consider. There is another thing U> consider in teaching lightweights. I hoy cannot get the practice thisy formerly did. Small boys were sent to the post in race after race on non-triers. They gained experience at' tho c-xpenvj of mortality. It did not ! matter whether they got off or not, I but all the while the jockey was gaining confidence and experience, and was "all there when at length ho had to go for the money. iSion-tricrs are- no longer rtx'.ign's.d, or, if they aiv, woe tj all concerned. '1 hear," said old Admiral Rows to us on ouj occasion in his .sanctum in Berkeley square, "that things have come to such a pass at many of the suburban meetings that laltve .starts are, gut up so as to give tinvo for a messenger to come from the grandstand with instructions as to winch horse was to win. We once aaw a race* for which the four starters belong to Mr. Brown, Mr. Jones Mr Robinson, and Mr. Smith. The lot b-bnged to Brown." Tins irs how the Melbourne "Agi" refers to the ckwing scene in connection vy,'V l. tllfe Handicap:— ' Bhiirgour tailed on Saturday to prove l.>im.spJf t!;r» smasher and. world-beater his fatuous admirers, in a paroxysm of hero worship engendered by his Caul-" Juki vjctorie?, pronounced liim. There is no <«cu-e to bo advanced for Irs d&ieat. He was beat-en fairly and squarely en Irs merits. He flattered his legion ot supp: rteirs fcr tli- first half oAhe journey, he being in front up to that pint Cameron sitting perfectly still, ami hi.s mount pulling a ton." '"'lt's all over; look at Cameron reefing," remarked an excited Blairgourite^on the top stand, as the favourite parsed the throe-furlong post. Then the Wallace colts troubles began, and hci commenced to ease thof pressure on the bit, and ' when inside the next furlong hci sud- < c!: nly collapsed. Blairgour practically o:td m Cameron's unv.s, ko to speak. lio .Nciymarkot Handicap has brought al),.ut tho downfall of numerous lav-<unt:-s, but few have been idolised to ' tno same extent as Blaiigour. One of t.ie icituiTs of the race was the fine , <-onii|iicl!ii X run put in by Broadsword ' wh-j sct?m:?d to drop from the clouds in tho last lot) yards,, and finished within ' lefts than a length of the winner. 'Where did ho come from?' wa a question heard on all sides, so dramatic and electrifying was his finish, when Broadsword «-jrs fining as fast again as Queen <>' Sets and Desert Rose. Another halfdoKon "long ones'' such as he was putting .n would assuredly have carried nim first past tho p;st. J' j Tho Earl of Derby, (says a London (vjntrtre), who is second on the list of

winning owners, owes his position mainly to tho victories of Swynford. As the result of the lattor's 6iicce»ss;s in tho Hardwick© Stakes at Ascot, the Liverpool Cup, the Doncaster St Leger, and the Liverpool St. Lcgtir his Lordship was credited with nearly £11,000, towards a us^eful total of about £25,000. Lord Derby i» a steward of the Jockey Club, and ono of his ancestors established tho Derby and the Oaks. It therefore seems appro-print? ithat; lie .should win the St. Leger. His lordship is, of course, regarded as ono of tho pillars of the turf. His somowha-t impotucus nature doee not tend to popularity, and hie action in the Wcotton ca&o did not m<rct with universal apliroval, though doubtless he acted for; the bctst, acoidiug to his own rat hen autocratic ideas. That bis lordship has the primary interests of tho turf in view few will deny, though, unfortunately, be does not. always display the best of tact. The Stanley colours were very popular in his late father's time, but it is to be hoped that tlr? present peer's little notvilanccr, will net render them otherwise, in the future. 1 think his lortklnp is at heart a kindly man, only his actions are perhaps not always interpreted in th? proper light. I believe that he is now rs sorry as any-k-xly that the Wootton incident o?----cr.rred. Certainly the boy appears to have been rathec unjustly accusrd. Tt tho same zeal was only exhibited in regard to the multiiariors cases of su,snicious running with which we are confrontrrl from we&k to week, we should probably hear le?-s scandal talked on tho turf than is the case at present.