SPORTING.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18019, 6 November 1920, Page 3

SPORTING.

TO-DAY'S RACING EVENTS. NOTES AND COMMENTS. (By “Early Bird.”) There will be racing to-day at Riccarton ami Ellerslie. To-day’s big event is the New Zealand Cup, lor which Oratress (H. Gray) promises to be better than Kilgour and Tenterfield. The big sprint at the southern fixture, tlie Stewards’ Handicap, may prove Missgoid better than onslaught and Silver Peak. Other events to be decided at Riccarton point to the following: General Petain (Hurdles), Jsobel and Chaeronia (Spring Plate), Link Up and Truthful (Linwood Handicap). Foo Chow and Adopted (Apprentices’ Handicap), and Bonnetter and Demand (Riccarton Welter). The principal two-year-old event at Riccarton to-day will be the Welcome Stakes, in which Mermin, the best of the Northerners, should be able to put it across Meteorite, the best of the South Island youngsters. A couple of Wanganui horses are also engaged at the Auckland meeting, commencing at Ellerslie this afternoon. Principal local interest will be focussed upon the Great Northern Guineas, in which Lucullan, Landslide, and Listowel appear to be the pick. If Listowel can only stay the mile journey he will probably prove to be possessed of more pace than Landslide or Lucullan. Lord Kenilworth and Woody Glen look well in the Mitchclson Cup, Murihiku and Esthonia in tne Shorts Handicap, Toa Taua and Namutere in the Welcome Stakes, Scottish Knight and Oak Abbey in the Hurdles, Koura and Argo in the Hunters’ Steeplechase. Miss Leslie and Loved One in the Hobson Handicap (which has thirty-nine acceptors), and Depredation and Royal Abbey in the Flying- Handicap. Silverlode was scratched for the Trial Hurdles at Auckland at 10.30 a.m. yesterday, and Gatherer from the same event at 11 a.m. Income was withdrawn from all engagements at Auckland at 12.35 p.m. yesterday. W. Raynor reached Ellerslie on Tuesday afternoon, with Listowel and Rose Queen, Murihiku being brought north by the same train in charge of R. S. Bagby. (J. Me Ar ten will have the mount on Anomaly in the A.R.C. Welcome Stakes to-day. Sydney papers record the bare fact that Biplane has been put into work again at Rand wick. Sir George Clifford’s Derby candidate Winter Wind is doing exceptionally good work on the tracks at Riccarton. 11. Robinson has been engaged to ride Uncle Ned in the Mitcheison Cup, so that the son-of Marble Arch will lack nothing in the way of horsemanship. Evidently Mr W. R. Kemball will have a strong team to represent him at the A.R.C. summer meeting, tor W. Hawthorn, his private trainer, has engaged accommodation for ten horses. La Notte, who is the dam of such celebrities as Noctuiform, Nightfall, and Midnight Sun, as well as other winners, has been mated with King Soult this season. As La Notte is 23 years old, her stud usefulness must be nearly at an end. The Yaldhurst training establishment and track, comprising 115 acres,, were submitted to auction in Christchurch recently, when £7l per acre was bid, but this was below the owner's reserve, and the property was withdrawn. Golden Bubble is still feeling the effects of his fall at the Waikatto Hunt meeting, and has been having an easy time of it since. He may not be able to fulfil his engagements at the A.R.C. spring meeting in consequence. Following on the line indicted in the Magistrate's Court on W. H. Windsor tor cruelty to the racehorse John Bunny, the Auckland District Committee has withdrawn the license issued to that trainer. Endure was kicked by one of his mates a couple of days ago and at present he is sporting an unsightly leg. The Advance gelding will not be a starter in the hurdle race to-day. hut if he gets ovei' the mishap he may be got out later in the meeting. The negotiations for the sale of Clean bweep to the Southland owner, Mr W. Stone, have fallen through, and he will continue to race in life interests of Messrs Clarkson and Pearson. Chrysostum has been paid up for in the Spring- Plate and Stewards’ Handicap at Riccarton. but there are good reasons for thinking that he will contest the open sprint event. , One of the crack two-year-olds in England this season is Lemonora, a colt by Lemberg from Honora. At the St. Leger meeting at Doncaster he won the Champagne Stakes, of £2235, G furlongs, for which Humorist was favourite at 6 to 4, and Alan Breck second choice at 7 to 4. Lemonora was at I to 1. there being only live runners. Lemonora beat Humorist a length, with Alan Breck six lengths further back. „ lhe latest bill brought forward in the b.A. Legislative Assembly to deal with bookmakers provides for a penalty of £lOO lor a first offence, and for every subsequent offence imprisonment for 12 months. The police are also to be given power of their own initiative to remove persons suspected of betting, and nobody once removed can re-enter a racecourse. The penalty for so doing is to be £5O or two months’ imprisonment. Tattersall’s Club in Adelaide will also i>e affected by one clause, if it becomes* law. This provides that in lhe definition ot a common gaming house betting need not be the principal business carried on. If the Premier has his way bouth Australia will be more unpleasant for bookmakers than New Zealand. Several bookmakers in Durban were so hard hit by the July Handicap and Durham Cup double that they failed to meet their liabilities. They were men licensed by the Durban Turf Club, but though that body held certain sums as security, and there is a guarantee fund for liabilities incurred on the course, a doubt attached as to whether such money could be applied to liquidating liabilities incurred elsewhere. The doubles in which the books defaulted were not laid on the course—double betting being against the club’s rules, as a general thing—but though I have not seen the decision finally arrived at. it would be strange if the money held by the club as bookmakers’ security could not be devoted to the payment or backers to whom these particular layers were in debt.

KIX.RUSH SCRATCHED FOR N.Z. CUF (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Nov. 5. Kilrush has been scratched for the New Zealand Cup.