Turf Results.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume IX, Issue 690, 28 May 1903, Page 17

Turf Results.

WANGANUI JOCKEY CLUB’S WINTER MEETINGFIRST DAY,I MAY 21bt. The first day of the Wanganui Jockey Oiub’a Winter Meeting was held on Thursday. The weather was fine, but the going rather heavy and times slow. The sum of £6694 passed through the totalisators against £7430 last year. The results are :— Flying Stakes Handicap. Six furlongs. Mr J. Monk’s br g Exmoor, by Grafton—La Vivandiere, 7.12, O. Jenkins ... ... 1 Mr W. Smart’s Shrapnel Shell, 6.12, J. Collins ... ... ... ... 2 Mr W. Elliot /b Black Reynard, 7.6, Towers 3 Other starters —Westguard, Chasseur, Crusoe, Hardwork, Regulation, Glory, Optimist, Blackwing, Kidbrook, and Warwick. Won easily by Jtwo lengths,. Time Imin 17 l-sth sec. Dividends, £2 15s and £1 7s. Grandbiand Steeplechase Handicap. About two miles and a-half. Mr Geo. Pilcher’s Scallywag, 11.6, Mitchell 1 Pipi, 11.2, Thomas ... ... ... 2 Oronje, 9.9, D. Watt ... ... .. 3 Other starter—Jack o’ Lantern. Won by two chains. Time, smin 36 3-sth sec. Dividend, £2 13s. Maiden Hack Race. Six furlongs. Mr J. George’s Paritutu, by Ca-ator—Yattag-han, 8.7, E. George ... ... ... 1 Mr W. Rathbone’s Fireaway, 8.8, Jenkins ... 2 Mr Coleman’s Maureen, 8.8, W. Raynor ... 8 Other starters—Moetoropuku, Komuku, Artificer, Black Squall, an i Commonwealth. Won by half-a-length- Time, Imin 19 4-sth sec. Dividends, £2 7s and £1 16s. Century Hurdles Handicap. About two miles and a distance. Messrs Oswald and Jefferson’s Merryboy, by Merrie England—Phantom mare, 9.0, MeMorran ... ... ... ... 1 Mr Wire Tokena’s Otairi, 10.4, O’Connell ... 2 Mr G. P. Donnelly’s Awahuri, 10.9, Cameron 3 Other starters — Waiwera, Mars, Haydn, Glencoe, Kohunui, Lady Bell, Fakir, Bags. Merryboy won by a bare neck, Awahuri two lengths away third. Time, 4min 8 4 Sth sec. Dividend*, £9 Ils 6d and £1 7s 6d. First Hack Hurdle Handicap. One mile and three-quarters. Mr J. Green’s Otaio, by Haere—Strayohot, 1010, Morris ... ... ... 1 Mr D. Craig’s Highlow, 9.10, Arnott ... 2 Mr O. Riseley’s Ranui, 10.4, Proctor ... 3 Other starters—Cavalcade, Nat Gould, and Ranaud. Won by a length and a-half. Time, 3min 34 4-sth sec. Dividends, £1 18s 6d and £1 2s. Hunters’ Steeplechase Handicap. About three miles. Mr J. Courtney’s Great Shot, by Craokshot— Mute mare, 11.0, Mr P. beagle... ... 1 Mr Alex Still’s Perore, 11.0, Mr L. Roach... 2 These were the only starters. Won by 100 yards. Time, 6min 49 4 sth sec. Dividend, £1 ss. Pubua Hack Flat Handicap. One mile and a distance. Mr W. Robinson’s Waimoe, by Somnns — Watercolour, 8.0, Williams ... ... 1 Mr F. Stohr’a Inglewood, 8.4, Collins ... 2 Mr J. F. Hooker’s Waireka, 7.10, Lindsay ... 3 Other starters —Taura, Ballarat, Endeavour, Handsome Rose, Tambourine. Won easily. Dividends, £5 13s 6d and £2 133 6d.

SECOND DAY, MAY 22nd. There was splendid weather for the second day’s meeting, and a large attendance. The total put through the machine for the meeting was £12,916, against £14,336 last year. The results are: —

Winter Oats Handicap. One mil® and a distance. Mr W. Smart’s Shrapnel Shell, 7.6, carried 61b over, Carmont ... ... ... 1 Mr E. W. Morse’s Hardwork, 7.5,*W. Young 2 Mr E. M. Sheedy’s Regulation, 7.0, McAlojsr 3 Other starters —Crusoe, St. Lyra, Lifebelt, JBlackwing. Won easily by two lengths. Time, 2 min law. Dividends, £3 12s and £1 6s, Wanganui Steeplechase Handicap. About three miles. Mr G. P. Donnelly’s Awahuri, by Kaiwhaka, 11.4, Camoion ... ... ... 1 Mr Geo. Pilcher’s Scallywag, 11.8, Mitchell 3 Mr T. S. Bristol’s Light, 9.7, O’Connell ... S Other starters—Haydn. Won by 100 yards. Time, 6min 51 l-sth see. Dividend, £3 10s 6d. May Hurdle Handicap. About two miles. Mr E. D. O’Rorke’s Mars, 11.0, Stewart ... 1 Mr W. Davies’ Kohunui, 9.7, Thomas ... 3 Mr J. O. Driscoll’s Waiwera, 12 O, Hill ... 3 Other starters—Lady Bell, Fakir, and Rags. Won by two lengths. Time, 3min 555e9. Dividends, £2 14s 6d and £1 Is. Hunters’ Hurdle Handicap. About two miles. Mr J. Courtney’s Great Shot, 11.0 ... 1 Mr F. H. Gibbon's Old Gun, 12.5 ... 2 These were the only sta ters. Won hard held by six lengths. 4min 18sec. Dividend, £8 12s. Second Hack Hurdle Handicap. About one mile and a-half. Mr 0. A. Loughman’s To n Flynn, 9.0, Walls 1 Mr D. Craig’s Highlow, 10.3, Arnott ... 2 Mr J. Better’s Nat Gouli, 9.0, Better ... > Other starters—Ranui and Pangaroa. Won easily by two lengths. lime, 2min 57 15th sic. Dividend, £2 Bs. Final Steeplechase Handicap. About two mileo. Mr T. Godfrey’s Pipi, Ihomas ... ... 1 Mr jj. Rhodes’ Oronje, Hutchinson ... 2 These were the only starters.) Time, 4min 30sec. Dividend, £1 6s. Farewell Hack Flat ’Handicap. One mile. Mr W. Robinson’s Waimoe, 9.0, Williams ... 1 Mr E. White’s Taura, 9.3, Jenkins ... 2 Mr Boss Allen’s Ballarat, 8.2, G. Price ... 3 Other starters—lnglewood, Otaio, Waireka, Endeavour, Recoil, Maureen, Siandra, Opaeae, Tirole, Tambourina, Moetoropuku, and Louie. Won easily by two lengths. Time, Imin. 49sec. Dividends, £8 0s 6d and £1 8s 6d. F 1 ’ ' ■ ASHBURTON RACES. FIBST DAY. The first day of the Ashburton County Racing Club’s Autumn Meeting was held on. Ihursday. The weather was fine, and the attendance numbered about 600. The sum of £1,776 10s was put through the totalisator. The following are the results :— County Hack Handicap. Six furlongs. Miss O’Oonnel, 8.0 ... ... 1 Rye, 9.8 J ... ... ... 2 Helois, 8 5 ... ... 3 Other, starters — Artilleryman, Beira, and Tenderfoot. Won by a length. Time, Imin SOjsec. Divide ad, £3 4s. Melrose Galloway Handicap. Four furlongs. Bangitikei, 8.0 ... ... 1 Little Dolly, 7.7 ... ... 2 Hearts, 8.7 ... ... 8 Other starters—Lucretia, Mauserette, Deceitful, Adile, Tilikum. and Manna. Woa by about a length. Time, 52 4-sth sec. Dividends, £3 6s and £6 10s. Ashburton Handicap. One mile and three furlongs. General Symons, 8.3 ... 1 Zealous, 612 ... ... 2 Clanburn, 77 ... ... 3

These were the only starters. Won byj a length and a-half. Time, 2min 386 l-sth see. Dividend, £1 10s. Lagmohb Flats. Five furlongs. Black Tracker, 8.0 ... ... 1 Orkaß, 7.11 ... ... 2 Lee-Enfield, 7.3 ... ... 8 Other starters —Tenderfoot, Benounced,' Don Bell, Dirk, Unknown, Merrymaker, and Count Gorton. Won by six lengths. Time, Imin 4 4-6th sec Dividends, £5 4a and £1 10s. Abhbubton County Stakhs. Six furlongs. , Pallas, 10.0 ... ... 1 Cannie Chiel, 9.5 ... ... 2 Bayonet, 7.1 ... ... 3 . Won by about a length. Time, Imin 17 3-sth see. Dividend, £1 16s. Faibmeld High-weight Handicap. One mile. jJgS-A " Antigone, 9.2 ... ... 1 Firebrand, 8.0 ... ... 2 Skobeloffi, 8.0 ... ... 3 Other starters —Covenant Maid, Catherine Gordon, and Hurricane. Won by a bead. Time, Imin 46 4-sth see. Dividend, £3 10s. (Gbove Fab at Handicap. Six furlongs. Hypnotist, 7.8 ... ... 1 Goldenmere, 7.6 ... ' ... 2 Lady Brandt, 8.0 ... ... 3 Other starters —Secret Society, Ayrdale, Count of Kolmar, Ordnance, King Stork, and King Dick. Won by three-quarters of a length. Time, Imin 18aec Dividends, £4 12s and £2 4s. SECOND DAI. The meeting was continued on Friday, the following being the results Hack High-weight Handicap . Beira, 8.0 ... ... ... 1 Helios, 9.7... ... ... 2 Miss O’Connell, 10.3 ... 3 All started. Dividend, £44. Kolmab Galloway Handicap. Hearts, 8 9 ... ... 1 Bangitikei, 9.0 ... ... 2 Lucretia, 8 7 ... ... 3 Dividend, £5 4s. Autumn Handicap. Kelburn, 8.10 ... ... 1 Secret Society, 7.13 ... ... 2 Zealous, 6.13 * ... 3 Dividend, £2 10s. Trial Handicap. Don 8e11,6.10 ... ... 1 Orban, 8 3... ... ... 2 Kaolin, 8.8 ... ... 3 Dividend, £l3 10s. Juvenile Stakes. Lea Enfield, 612 ... ... 1 Firebrand, 6 7 ... ... 2 Dividends, £7 10s and £l. WINOHMOEE WELTEB. Catherine Gordon, 8 9 ... 1 Zealous, 9.13 ... ... 2 Antigor e, 9 9 ... ... 3 Dividend, £3 Wakanui Handicap. Hypnotist 8 6 ... ... 1 G oldenmere, 7.9 ... ... 2 Ordnance, 7.0 ... ... 3 Dividends, £4 14s and £2 Bs.

BREEDING FOR RACING-

The English scribe “Sir Hercules,” writing in a recent nuumber of “ Sport ” says: It would seem after all that the blood horse came to us rather only through the East (Arabia) than really from it. So far as the deepest and latest research can discover, his genesis is most un certain, and the only thing certain as to his real original “ vaterland ” is that it was not Arabia- Old Homer makes clear that at the time cf the Trojan war breeding for racing, as racing was then, as well as the art of jockeyship, had reached a highly scientific level. Hundreds of years later and the Greeks still bred for racing, and for war, and for hunting and work, whicn shows the breeds were still clearly distinguised for their varied callings. About the the year 500 A D. we find a Stoic, one Phlethon, addressing a speech to the Emperor, in which he distinguishes what he calls the blood horse from cart and plough dragger. All through Christian time what may be called civilised nations kept up different breeds, so as to be able at all times to be readily distinguised. With the savage races it was quite different. The savages whether we call them little brown men, Iberiam, Cymri, Scythians, or Goths, all bred and owned horses, and many of them even eat them. They had but one sort of horse, and he but a pony, true son of the common bushelheaded original Asiatic horse the accepted fountain of the one and only horse owned by our savage forbears right down to civilisation. It is no longer held that the pony, small and hardy in body, with huge heavy head, was the progenitor of the blood horse. Beyond doubt the blood horse comes not from Arabia, as his natural habitat. To Africa belongs after all, the honour of being “ vaterland ” to the racer. Latest enquiries of the learned go to show that Lybia was his home. Then further, though not m fully, it is settled that his general refinement, both of frame and spirit, cannot have been built up by any oourse of selection from the horse of tIMMWgo. .:'!.

Starting from this standpoint, inquiry lends itself to accept his decent as rather from the quagga or zebra than from the well-known horse of savage fame and ownership. To the eye the zebra is far more widely separated from the blood horse than is the common cart horse. On the other hand, a cross with the zebra would. I hold, not be so difficult to breed clear of again as would a cross with the cart horse, for the latter seems to leave its strain for all time. England always, but Ireland* and even Scotland, never (in good o’d times), kept cart horses This useful farm breed had thus much greater chance of contaminating the finer racing breed in England than in Ireland. Further, the first batch of Eastern mares sent to Ireland were the cream of the bloodstock of England at that time When these got to Ireland we had a native breed of horse famous as a saddle horse all over Europe, without a drop of cart horse blood in his veins. If crossed with the first arrivals of mares referred to such a cross would in no sense damage the breed as would a cross with the hai’ yheeled Britisher. In this way breeders will at all times find that it is far easier to mate successfully where the mare strains back to Irish taproots. we have but to look into the Stud Book from the “ Racing Calendar ” standpoint to be convinced that, as breeders of “ good ’une,” Irish mares are much to be preferred

Writing of Martini-Henry who died a few days ago, the well-known Sydney writer “ Milroy” says that the horse was the first of the Muskets and the last but one of Sylvia’s sons His great achievements in the spring of 1883 turned all eyes in the direction of New Zealand and Musket. Mr, White went there again and got Nordenfelt and Matchlock. The former won both Derbies and the latter both St. Legers, as well as the Champion Stakes, Martini-Henry came among Musket’* first lot and established his sire in the hearts of sportsmen. Trenton followed MartiniHenry. Nordenfelt was in the third batch, while those remarkably fine individuals, Carbine and Manton, belong to the fifth set. MartiniHenry was a half-brother to Goldsbrough, but the difference is in their strength as sires, and perhaps as stayers on the turf, may be accounted for by the fact of Goldsbrough being Sylvia’s first foal, born when she was six years old, while Martini-Henry was her eleventh foal, produced when she was sixteen years old. Goldsbrough, therefore, had all the advantages a youthful mother could give, while eleven foals must have drained this fine old daughter of Fisherman of much of her remarkable vitality. Though not in the same street as Goldsbrough as a sire, MartiniHenry was for from being a failure. He was, in fact, little fittle below first class. When he retired from the turf he had to play second fiddle to the mighty Chester at Kirkham, but he sired Budolph, winner of £5520 in stakes; Singapore (A. J.O. Derby) ; Sinecure, winner of £1667 in stakes; Litigant, winner of the VB O. Oaks, Veteran Stakes, and V. 8.0. Handicap; Prelude, winner of the A. J.O. Oaks, Hawkesbury Guineas; Vanitas, who carried off the Carrington Stakes and Incian Viceroy’s Cup; Precaution, also a Carrington Stakes winner; Mahee, a Summer Cup winner; Donation, who put up a mile and three quarter record when he won the V. 8.0 Handicap ; Acmena, a Champagne Stakes winner' and a success on the English turf ; the well performed Utter, whose children are winning in America, as well as Solon, Mons Meg, Marco, Pretence, Geologist, and others. At the stud Mortini-Henry’s daughter Piecrust has thrown Grasspan ana Brakpan, while another daughter, Tea Bose, has produced Scorn and Scornful. Other winner-producing daughters of the defunct son of Musket are —Henrietta, dam of Henry*; Ilex dam of Bullomin ; Jacinth, dam of The Caretaker; Marplot, dam of Carnival; The Biddle, dam of Perplex; Martingale, data of Free States; Prelude, dam of Peppercorn ; Rus kinite, dam of Ruskin. The best of MartiniHenry’s two-year-olds was Rudolph, who when worn out, fell into the hands of a blackblock South Australian sportsman, and he perished miserably there for want of water. I think the best of the old horse’s sons was Singapore, though the book shows Vanitas in a better light His daughters were very good, Litigant and Ruskinite were top-notchers in Australia, while Acmena and Mons Meg scored well in England. The latter was one of Mr. White’s exportations to the old country, and after running well iu the Newmarket Challenge Stakes and March Stakes she won the Ascot Gold Vase, an important two mile race run at Royal Ascot. At the break-up of Kirkham stud in 1898 Martini-Henry was purchased by Mr. E. G. Blume, and taken to Bexley, which is situated on the Thompson River about 600 miles west of Rockhampton.

In the English House of Commons last month Mr Lough, M.P. for Islington, gave notice of the following question to the Home Secretary“To ask whether his attention has been called to the circumstances under which the recent Grand National Steeplechase was run ; and whether, seeing that out of 27 starters only seven finished, and that 14 of the horses fell at various fences, and one broke its leg and was destroyed on the course, and another died of staggers, he will state whether any Inspectors under the Home Office were in attendance at this race to prevent cruelty to the animals, and whether it is his intension to order the prosecution of any of the riders.” Ms Lough was educated at a Wesleyan Connexional School in Dublin. An Irishman by birth, he is a tea merchant with a penchant for golf. His qualifications as a critic of steeplechasing are therefore obvious. He is wrong, though, in stating that there were 27 starters, as only 23 went to the post, and Lis statement that a horse died of staggers is likewise inaccurate.

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