BY "MULTIFORM."

Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12856, 11 December 1912, Page 2

BY "MULTIFORM."

_Mr. A.- Jackson, the popular owner of Coromandel and others is again getting about, after » rather severe attack ot appendicitis.

Coromandel, who has been on the retired list since the recent Auckland meeting, i s -nearly all right again, and will shortly resume work on the track -Uie well-known jumper Don Carlos camo to his end the other day at Pal--morsfcon. He met with an" accident which resulted in a broken leg; and this necessitated his destruction. " Lord Soult, one-time champion spnnter of the Dominion, winner ot the lauding Stakes, and holder ot tno New Zealand six-furlohgs record was sold at tho Woodviile meeting to his trainer for £23. The latter passed him on next day at an advance of- £5 to a- feouth Island owner. It is a biff drop from what the son of Soult and 1/ady Antrim would have realised two or,three seasons ago. The rtired Australian champion, Trafalgar, has started his stud "career at Bnngenbong ,by serving two mares belonging to his owners Messrs P and W. Mitchell... When Carbine left the fcurf in the spring of 1891, he only served three mares, but from one of them he begot his 'best son 'Wallace, .winner of the \.RC. Derby and a dead-heater tor the -Champion Stakes, and sire of Trafalgar. Mr. F. Hall, the Gisborne owner, is certainly having a big innings this seaBfm- In addition to the victories gain■ed by Bleriot, Waiorewn and Merry Roe trained by E. J. Rae at Ellersiie, he has ibeen picking _up a stake or two with Mira, and Obiigant, trained by J. Lowe at Trentham, and the last-named pair pulled off the two principal events at Feilding for the Gisborne sport. As Mr. Hall is a plucky backer when he has anything good on he has probably captured a fair amount of .bullion besides the stake money. In all his representatives have saluted the judge on twelve occasions so far this-season, white they, have .been three times second: Waiorewa and Mira are halfbrother and.sister, the former mare being by -Glenapp (imp.)—Tauhei, and the latter gelding ibeing by Soult—Tanhei. Tho victory .of Virtvx- in the Trial Handicap on- the first day at Takapuna came as a great surprise to-his connections, who let him run for the stake alone. His work had been of so moderato a character that the touting fraternity classified him as the worst horsa training at Ellersiie, and it is said to be an actual fact that the highly-bred -son of -St. Ambrose (imp.) —St. Regis, was' offered for sale for £15 on, the Friday prior ~to the races, but the would-be purchaser had his ardour cooled by the jests of the knowing ones who enquired if he was buying a rocking horse;— so Virtue remained "in P. Jones' stable. His few supporters on tho toto received a substantial dividend. When ho won £he Pupuke Handle*.p on Saturday he again paid a good price. His. double victory, how-' ever, once more evidences the great uncertainty of horso racing. Mr. T. H. Lowry paid 450 guineas to 'become the owner of Virtue, and in the Okawa enorbsman's colours ho won tho Trial Handicap at tho .Napier Park Racing Club's. spring meeting in 1910. This was his only win prior to annexing the two' events at Takapuna.

Golden Loop has passed into the hands of Mr. J. M. Cameron and Mr. C Boyle, of Hastings, who have acquired him from Mr. A. F. Douglas. There should bo many a good rr.ee yet in the golden-coa'ited son of Xmpin (imn.) — Docility.