FIXTURES.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLIV, Issue 9, 2 March 1910, Page 12

FIXTURES.

March 3, s—Wanganui Jockey Club. March s—Waihi Jockev Club. March 7, B—Te Aroha Jockey Club. March 12—Thames Jockey Club. March 17—Whakatane Racing Club. Jr r ‘ «_ l7, 19 — Ohlaemuri J.C. Annual March 28, 28, and 29—Auckland R.CL Autumn. April 9 and 13—Avondale J.C. Autumn. April 23, 27, 30 — Auckland Trotting Club Autumn May 21, 24—Takapuna Jockey Club.

Yankee, which won three races at Huntly on Saturday, is by Salvadan from Joy.

E. Pope has had an addition to bis string Fon tOD Bt>y ' 3 sLx y ear-old gelding by

The gelding Regain, which went amiss last November. has resumed work again at Ellerslie. lie is still under C. Norgrove’s charge.

The Auckland Trotting Club have fixed April 23, 27. and 30 as the dates for their Autumn meeting.

T ' V 2 r ?_- - from tbe South states that lawnaki is amiss again.

The Wanganui Jockey Club’s Autumn Meeting opens on Thursday next, when the Wanganui Cup will be decided.

The nominations received for the Autumn Steeplechase are very satisfactory, and augur well for the coming jumping season.

The filly by Hierarch — Peace, sold at the last Cambria Park sale, has gone into F. Macmanemin’s charge to receive her early education.

The many friends of Mr. E. Sheriff, caretaker of the Avondale racecourse, will refn et tO learn tbat be is at P resent seriously

The Auckland horse Advocate has been allowed to drop out of the Wanganui Cup. Sedition is now the only candidate to represent Auckland.

The Soult filly Aerina still continues to win in the South, and since being purchased at auction last November for 125 gus by Mr. Buckley, has won four races.

The Thames Jockey Club have received excellent nominations for their Autumn Meeting, which takes place on March 12, and a successful gathering should result.

The most noticeable absentee from the A.R.C. Easter Handicap is Cambriau, and the son of Cyrenian does not figure in any of the principal events of the gathering.

H. Gray, who heads this season’s list of winning horsemen, was only successful in one race at Woodville, riding Fond Memory tu victory in the Settlers' Hack Handicap.

George Absoknn is handling an exceptionally fine 2-year-old coir, by Explosion*— Extractor. which looks like turning out something above the ordinary.

The Raugipuhi horse Rangihaeta is now located at Ellerslie, and on Tuesday morning was responsible for some good schooling work in company with Armagh aud another.

The Hotchkiss horse First Gun has gone into R Hall’s charge. There is every probability of First Gun finding his way to Australia shortly.

The latest aspirant for jumping honours 4 s Black Northern, which shaped satisfactorily in a schooling display at Ellerslie yesterday. in company with First Barrel.

In our report of the Huntly Meeting tbe placings for the Huntly (’up were given as Fraulein, Philosopher, and Caruso, whereas they should read Fraulein, Caruso, Philosopher.

Mr. J. H. Pollock, the well-known Wellington handicapper, is at present on a visit to Auckland in connection with the N.Z. Amateur Athletic Championship Meeting, which was decided to-day.

The Soult gelding Sedition will be ridden in the Wanganui Cup by R. E. Brown. Sedition looked bright and well when he was shipped, and should give a good account of himself in the Cup.

The gelding Leo is now l»elng scb«x>led over the big fences at Ellerslie, and shapes well for a beginner. It is understood, however, that la*o has been hunted in tbe Waikato.

Sydney exchanges to hand state that Dr. Bennett, of South Australia, has lost the yearling colt by Seaton Delava 1. from A morel le whtoh be purchased at tbe recent Glen ora Park sai»v». Tbe cause of death was perforation of the intestiaes.

The Annual Meeting of the Ilelensville Racing Club is fixed for March 17. Nora'natxens for all events close on March 4, either with the Secretary, Mr. J. 8. Hands. Felensville, or with Mr. H. B. Massey, Auckland.

Evidently the connections of Salute are under the impression that she will stay, for the brilliant daughter of Soult has been accorded a nomination for tb.e St. George Handicap at the A.R.C. Autumn Meeting, which event is run over a distance of a mile and a-quarter.

The local sportsman who races under the name of Mr Bolger, purchased three horses during his recent visit to Taranaki, and they have gone into J. Chaafe, jr.’s, charge. The trio are Flying Cloud, a six-year-old gelding by St. Cyr, and a six-year-old mare by St. Paul.

The performance of A. Whitaker in riding the winners of the whole of the seven races on the card at the Huntly meeting last Saturday, constitutes, I think, a record. Numerous instances have occurred of a rider winning all but one, but I have never heard of the feat of scooping the lot having been done.

Albion Park racecourse, Brisbane, is to be the scene of big things this year. Mr J. Wren, the well-known race-promoter, is advertising a Five Hundred, run at a mile and a-quarter, for March, and a Two Thousand, 7 furlongs, for June. The latter will be one of the biggest stakes given In Australasia for the distance.

Comedy King, which won the Caulfield Futurity' Stakes on Saturday, was imported t>y Mr Sol Green as a stallion for his stud farm, and is a beautifully bred coi V being by Persimmon from Comedy Queen. The time is a record for the race. Comedy was in the Newmarket Handicap, in which he had the lenient impost of 7.1, but ran unplaced.

A Press Association cable states that Bobnkoff has been withdrawn from all engagements at the V.R.C. Autumn Meeting, so that Victorians will not have the pleasure of seeing the New Zealand crack extended at Flemington. At latest advices Bobrikoff was shaping very satisfactorily in his work on the tracks at Rand wick, and Mr Lowry is certainly acting wisely in giving him p«enty of time to acclimatise before he asks him to measure strides with Aiawa and Co

At last there is really a cbawe of the New Zealand mare Sal Tasker and the Sydney stallion. Denver Huou meeting in the much-talked-of match. Mrs. R. O. Duncan. Sal. Tasker’s owner, cables from New Zealand to Dave” Price: ‘ Will you train Sal Tasker for a match? Failing match, prepare her for a record T’ To which Price replied : “Yes. If match in New Zealand will prepare mare here (Melbourne) and take her over.” The race should bp worth going miles to see.

Although from a numerical point of view the nominations received for the principal events at the A.R.C. Autumn Meeting are below tbe average, there is plenty of material for some interesting racing. The Hawke’s Bay sportsmen, the Hon. J. I). Ormond and Messrs. E. J. Watt and T. 11. Lowry, are all represented, while the strong Porirua stable has all its cracks engaged. Mr. Morse’s adjustments for the Brighton Hurdles, Autumn Steeplechase and Easter Handicap are due on March 15.

A cablegram from Melbourne gives information of the death of tbe ex-New Zealand horse Bloodshot. The son of Maxim was bred by the late Mr. G. G. Stead, and was a good performer as a two and three-year-old in New Zealand. Bloodshot will be principally remembered by Aucklanders in connection with his sensational defeat by his stable companion. Blue Fire, in the Musket Stakes at the A.R.C. Summer Meeting of 1895-96. The event will never be forgotten by those that witnessed it.

The feature at the Baldoyle meeting, in Ireland, last month, was the reappearance, after a lapse of two years, of His Majesty’s ’chaser Flaxman. He was pulled out for the Sutton Plate, and, if decidedly on tbe big side and heavily bandaged in front, he was looking right well in himself. As might only be expected, want of condition told its tale when two miles had Ijeen got over, and he finished last ; but Mr. Lushing ton is not without hope of tbe gelding standing another preparation for the National. It will be remembered that he occupied fourth place in that race in 1908.

It was hard luck for Mr. Montgomery to take Iloanga to Woodville, and after win nlng to lose the race on a protest. There was plenty of money for Iloanga in bis engagement on the opening day, but he was neglected by local backers when be rolled home first on the concluding day, although he started second favourite. According to the accounts, Maku attempted to get up on the inside at the last fence, and was checked. He came again in the straight, and some bustling apparently occurred be-

twee* be and Hoanga, the Inevitable protest resulting In the Auckland horse being disqualified- No action was taken in regard to the rider. A Julian. An interesting Little story is going the rounds concerning a couple of amateur l«ookmakers. A commissioner had a commission to work on a certain horse, but failed to get on in time. lie was bewailing bis fate to his friends when two of them offered to take the commission. The burse missed, and the amateur layers were jubilant. and next day invested part of the proceeds on another horse, which won and returned a substantial dividend. They were now ou the high road to fortune, and had auotlwr flutter, the horse again being snceessfnl. but this time fortune frowned on tht-m. for their fancy, after winning, was ii -gneand their language at present is unprintable. Albert Edward, the winner of the big event on the concluding day of the Otabuhu Trotting Clubs Sumner meeting, was got by Albert Victor from Cloud, and is a second foal. Cloud was a black mare, and was broken to harness and driven for some time by the Ellerslie trainer. 3 B. Williamson. While at Ellerslie she was mated with Salvadan. and produced Aqua Aegia. aid afterwards Lady Patricia. both good winners over hurdles. She also had a couple of foals by Wilmington, which have won trotting races round about Hawera way. so that it will be she has been a most profitable and prolific mare. Judge Sim. in giving judgment in the Supreme Court at Christchurch in regard to the application of John Hanna for an injunction restraining the Trotting Association from disqualifying him. said it was not ti e function of the Supreme Court to act a< a Corrt of Appeal from the decisions of such bodies as the association, and the only gio:nd of interference would be that the decision was not arrived at properly, or that the association acted contrary to the principles of natural justice. Fie concluded. -Hanna had, in purposely avoiding giving explanations to the committee before the disqualification. no reason to think that the association had not acted in a bona-fide n inner, and judgment will be giver* for the defendant association, with costs.” During the week a correspondent. M* A. Bennett, of Tai'iape. wiote forwarding a .ouple of hairs recently taken from the Tail of the mighty Carbine. Accompanying The hair is a letter and a stud card from the famovs Welbeck Stud, and forwarded by John Huby. the groom in charge. The letter to Mr Bennett is as follows: — Dear Sir. — I have just leueived your letter, in which you ask for a little hair from Carbine's tail. As the horse was bred in New Zealand. I am glad to oblige you. and am enclosing a portion of hair I* have taken from his tail. The old horse carries his years very well, and could not look better. but as he is now about 24 yeais old. we cannot expect him to go on manv years longer. — Yours faithfully. JOHN HUBY. Just before the last Indian mai' left, his Excellency the Governor < Lord Minto* had a horse running in the Military Steeplechase. and it finished second, beaten by a horse owned by one of his own staff. If in. Pan Viceroys were Eastern potentates instead of English peers, what an unph asant tragedy (for the A.D.C. • might not follow upon such an occurrence. Nat- ’■ rally there was a great deal of mild chaff about it, and the A.D.C. has been asked when be expects to go back to the bosom <*f his regiment. It is the first time that an Indian Viceroy has run a horse at a Calcutta meeting. It is Lord Mintos last season in India. In the days when he was Lord Melgund. and used to ride under National Hunt Club rules as "Mr. Roily." no better ffmateur rider was seen our. and he rode in numerous Liverpool Grand Nationals. Although a better horse, probably, that I'lorizel 11.. I do not think (writes "Vigb lant" in the "London Sportsman”*. Diamond Jubilee was of the same high class as Persimmon, admitted even that he went «>ne better than his elder brother by winning the Two Thousand Guineas, in addition to the Derby and St. Leger, bur as he is the sole survivor of the Three it is now more than ever to be regretted that he has been expatriated to the Argentine, and his st r vices consequently lost to this country. He was a horse of peculiar temperament, and. for some strange reason, took a violent dislike to Mornington Cannon, a circumstance which led up to Herbert Jones riding him in his races, success in which established him in the proud position subsequently of first jockey to His Majesty. Sold for 30.000gns. Diamond Jubilee went to South America in 1906. and, from ail •accounts, has Thrived and done extremely well there, but we shall be better able to judge of his success when something has been heard of his two-year-olds during the coming Argentine season. In writing of the Bond Cup. won by the ex-New Zealander Golden Cairn, a Sydney writer says: “The Bond Cup was a race uf incidents. Near the sev.-n-furlongs post Vivacious. Carl Dour. and Delaware fell, and D. Baird, rider of Vivacious, was so badly injured that he had to be removed to the Alfred Hospital, and hie life was for a time despaired of. Orline made the pace to the straight entrance, where Golden <*airn had him beaten, but cut right across him. Matouree then came up on the rails, and Gulden Cairn, who is a nasty, hanging brute, cut across him. Golden Cairn then won by a length. It was thought that there was certain to be a protest, but, though the owner of Matouree iMr A. J. StaughLuu} stood to win over £SOO on his colt, he declined to enter a protest against his friend, Mr E. Manifold, who owns Golden Cairn. Ihis is no doubt sportsmanlike conduct, but hardly fair to backers of Matouree, who, had a protest been entered, would probably have got the rare. It would, of course, have Ven hard luck for Golden Cairn to tote, as It was his first win in Australia after runBlng nine seconds. That would, however,

have only been the luck of the game The stewards cautioned E. Neal, who was on Golden Cairn, for his careless riding. £ £ £