GOSSIP FROM ALL PARTS.

Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16780, 24 April 1926, Page 19 (Supplement)

GOSSIP FROM ALL PARTS.

Waikato Autumn meeting will open at To Hapa next Saturday. The programme will be concluded on Ihc following Monday. Several horses from outside the province expected for the local meeting.

South Canterbury meeting down for Wednesday and Thursday. Hawkc's Bay Club will race on Friday and Saturday. The track work at To Rapa should liven up next week. Good fields have entered for the June jumping double at Ellerslic. Rapine has won £16,195 in stakes, including the value of trophies.

Archeen has found it hard to keep up with the really good ones lately. Count Cavour may not race again until the spring.

New Moon is now being trained by J. F. Tutchcn.

Brushwood Boy is being educated to the jumping game. Mask promises to become high class over a distance.

Roy Reed has won three out of the Inst four St. I.e.gcrs at Trentham, on Rapine, Quiescent and Star Starngcr. Bright" Day and Bright Knight continue to do satisfactorily in the tasks set them locally.

Master Peter will be well forward in condition when he tackles the big country.

Limerick, who is a halt brother to Ballymena, may race in Sydney in thfc spriiig. Thompson Handicap favourites have run unplaced in the last Ave contests for the big mile a!, Trentham. The jumper Kauri Park is,in steady work but it is a proposition to keen him on his legs. Rapine shares with Amythas the honour of being the only double winners of the Trentham Gold Cup. Para is expected to race well if she fulfils her engagements at Timaru. Berinthia ran well enough at Trentham to select the Te Awamulu trained hack as likely before long. Dobbin has raced well this season. The Matamata hack paid a good price when he won at Awapuni. Pamplona, the Otago cross-country performer, is expected to strip in good fettle by June. Rivalry, on Great Autumn Handicap form, will require consideration at Timaru. The honours in an interesting two year old supremacy rest with the niocf-Jton representative, Limerick. Siaosi was enquired after by a Sydney sportsman at Trentham, but the owner refused a tempting offer. Gold Light appears to have again struck trouble but is to be hoped that such a brilliant mare will recover ClU ßattlement, the Martian colt who is a brother to The Cypher, will be useful when he strikes form. W H Jones will shortly complete his apprenticeship and this capable lad should do well as a free lance. Nukumai will come north for the Great Northern Hurdles, He was very big when seen out at the Manawatu m KiKhra has benefited by his recent racing. H he visits Te Rapa he should be ready to give a good account of himself. Weights for the second day s racing at Te Rapa will be announced about 8 o'clock next Saturday evening. Acceptances will close at 9 p.m. the same night. ... h It is likely that Llewllyn wU M given some racing at Egmont and Wanganui to At him for his Great Northern essays. n A Tarauaki paper says.—Owner Ernie O'Neill, who was injured at the Manawatu trotting meeting las month, is still in the Palmerston North hosptal, but, is Progressing favourably. Mr Broughton is training Rona and Gold Lad at Ashhurst for Mr O Neill. The Hawk suffered a serious injury to an eye when competing in we Craven Plate at the A.J.C. Spring nyec!S and it has been decided to give him a three months' rest at Hastings. His owner trainer, Mr J. M. Cameron, g very hopeful of Martian's game son till taking a prominent place among the top notchcrs. Cameron has Egyptian Flower and Goshawk by S 0 In work, and is handling a n cSit by Limond from Salu c, dm of%irs\ Salute and Arch Saute. T ist vcar Eerie won the nack steeplechase at the Waverlcy meeting and. subsequently put up some fine and Wanganui meetings to follow closely, the form shown at Wa\eii« vuiii he keenly watched. PaJscd Carbine's total m stake money by his successes at tig recent A.J.C. meeting. » » oniy air to state that while Gloaming, Furvthmic, David, Heroic, and WmdSme all eclipsed Carbine's record Ko 906 had the old champion won t £ ; 9 quivaient races to-day the tota siderably when W comparison is m u C t'he recent Sydney sales there we e several purchases made on behalf of Auckland sportsmen, lhese were landed at Auckland this week in S 3 con Son. The four purchased hv Mr E W. Alison, Jun., aie oes Indants" respectively of Sir Dighton, wiirinriis Grey Monk, and King soi. Mr J T Jamieson's trio comprises a brace claiming Australian SUn as.sire and the other was got by Baversto.k. A colt by Valkyrian, and a fll y by Demosthenes, completed the shipment for/ Auckland owners. Magna Charta is a Ane big colt who may develop into a first-class three-s-old. Two year-olds who come fnto their own in the autumn^hav .often in the past developed calloning abilities. Magna Charta nas the frame and make up, and being by King John, the sire of Runnymcdo,is ail in his favour. His dam, Landrail, £ the dam of Chimera, ai smart sprintS Pl lh and Landblrd, a very promising ba in C 'n'fcrring to the impending deparVictoria the Melbourne lieraia ro marks "During his term in Ausa pwcuc.l aomo»sir, , - ( a £L ra rn,S by confining himself '"u v°Jibe one horse he has won /^in slakes in a Utile more, than i 8 months Training fees, entrance Joes and incidental expenses would nvolvc him in an outlay of some h.ng jctwccn £SOO and £IOOO, so that his ne, profit would most likely be in the v ini v of £II,OOO. This, added to lesSe price of 10,000 guineas or o horse The Night Patrol, makes his cut re an extremely profitable one No other Governor has ever been so succc sul in his Turf ventures Lord Dcnham won a steeplechase with a Sun er at CaulAeld, but he, like Lord llopcloun, derived more pleasure from hunting than from actual racing It is staled that Glcnlrum will contest the Hawkc's Bay Stakes and Ormon'd Memorial Gold Cup. The presence of the imported marp who is undoubtedly one of the best sprinters in the Dominion at, the present time, will lend interest to the meeting. If Glentruin, Grand Knight, and Hcremoana could be brought together in 4 the Ormond Memorial Cup, of a mile,

the contest would be <juito as historic i in its way as the big duel last year between Gloaming and The Hawk. Such a contest would draw sportsmen from one end of the Dominion to the other. In answering an inquiry why Star Stranger and Star Banger arc coupled on the totalisator, a Wanganui writer points out that Mr A. J. Toxward bred both horses, and Star Ranger races in his colours. He sold Star Stranger as a youngster to Mr A. 8. Williams with a contingency in races only wor th over a certain value, said to be £;>°o. In races of less than this the horses would not be bracketed, for the contingency is not then in force. Referring to the Australian Jockey Club's St. Leger, an Australian writer said that Runnymcdo ran off the course at the half-mile and almost hit the outside fence at the turn. He finished a furlong behind' the winner. « was rather a pity to run him when it was realised that ho was not fit. Undoubtedly he is a good gelding, but, he is but a shadow of his former sell, and is to be spelled before he races again. His owner gave such a high price for'him that it is to be hoped that Runnymede stands training, W New Zealand he required a good deal of work and racing. (Runnymede was started again in Sydney on Saturday last, so that the spell referred to must have been postponed).