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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XIV, Issue 854, 19 July 1906, Page 5

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(By

“ The Judge.”)

The C.J.C. Grand National Meeting commences on August 14. » ’ • ♦ The winning double on the opening day at Wellington, viz., Rongoa and Narcotic, paid a dividend of £249 16s. * * * * Matters are very quiet at Ellerslie just now, the very heavy tracks being partly responsible for this. The sand track has been most in use. * * * * A good word is spoken for the Trial Plate winner Wirrall by those who have returned from the Wellington meeting. The colt is a son of Birkenhead from Nixie, by Daniel O’Rorke.

The cross-country rider J. Stewart, broke his collarbone when Slow Tom fell in the Wellington Steeplechase. * * * * There is no doubt that the double-event machine is a very popular institution. At the Wellington Meeting £1385 went through it on the opening day and £1566 on the second day. Many racegoers are hoping that the A.R.C. committee will decide to have such a machine next year. * * * * Up-to-Date has been given the crusher of 12st 121 b in the Caulfield Grand National. * * * * That good mare Lady Wallace will not be a starter in the Caulfield Cup, the pen having been put through her name for that event. * * * * The Avondale Jockey Club is advertising for a handicapper. Applications must be sent in to the secretary by August 15. * * * * The Thames Jockey Club made a profit of £638 on last year’s operations. The Thames Club has always adopted a progressive policy, and the successful issue of the season was well deserved. * * * * The sum of £26,876 was handled at the totalisator at the recent Winter Meeting, which is £5149 more than at the corresponding fixture last year. * * * * Prospector is evidently a very useful gelding. He won the First Hack Hurdles at Wellington with 9st in the saddle, and despite a rise of 161 b, repeated the performance in the Second Hack Hurdles on the concluding day. Prospector is a five-year-old son of Gold Reef and Dazzle. * * * * It was evidently the distance that found out the Derby favourite Lally. A few days later he was started in the Hurst Park Yearling Plate of lOOOsovs, and the son of Amphion came home in the van, so there cannot have been much amiss with him. ♦ * * * . An Auckland friend writing from London tells me that he of course went down to see the Derby. “ Never in my life (he writes) have I seen such a crowd. I managed to get a good view of the race, but never want to see another English Derby as long as I live, although I backed Spearmint. The course is one of the worst I’ve seen. They say it’s not the best in England, a statement which I found not difficult to believe. The stands are small and the lawn would not compare with the one at Avondale.” * * % * Cuiragno is very well just now. After a brace of wins at Gisborne he only reached Wellington in time to compete on the second day, but the son of Cuirassier and Lady Agnes proved equal to putting down a strong field in the Final Hurdle Handicap. Mr. Foss intends giving the gelding a chance to distinguish himself at Riccarton. * * * * The fifteenth annual show of the Auckland Kennel Club will take place on August 3 and 4. Entries close with Mr. F. D. Yonge, the secretary, on Saturday next at 10 p.m. * * * * Kruger returned yesterday from his nusuccessful trip to Wellington, as did Pearl Necklet. * * * * Mahutonga is to leave shortly for Sydney in charge of “ Jimmy” Buchanan. * * * * The Grand Steeplechase of Paris, which is worth 5000sovs, was decided on June 3, and was won by M. G. Dreyfus Burgrave 11., a son of St. Damien and Distant Shore. The only English competitor was Theodocion, others being doubtless kept away by the dislike to steeplechasing in the summer. * * * * The following were the winning owners at the Wellington meeting: — J. Franks, £300; A. Hall, £210; E. G‘. Harris, £175; W. Foss, £175; J. B. Williamson, £170; J. Maher, £140; J. R. McDonald, £130; C. H. Smith, £130; J. Brett, £110; the Hon. J. D. Ormond, £9O; R. Weller, £80; W. Davies, £80; J. H. Prosser, £7O; H. Brown, £5O; Captain Campbell, £4O; J. Monk, £3O; J. B. Adeane, £25; E. Russell, £25; J. Handley, £2O; Hikaka, £l5; W. D. Thompson, £10; J. Robb, £10; W. Donald, £10; R. O. Campbell, £10: total, £2105.

The Wellington Club was very lucky as regards the weather for the recent meeting. Sandwiched in between much cold, wet, and boisterous weather were two beautifully fine days, and these were the days on which the meeting was held. * * * * It is reported in a recent issue of the London “ Sporting Life” that Mr. r. J. Farquharson, the New Zealand trainer, who had just arrived in England, had taken Manor House, Ogbourne, and will commence training immediately. His horses will be trained on the same Downs as Major Edwards’ Snowberry, whom Mr. Farquharson purchased at the last Kempton meeting. Dalkieth, Nightfall, and Scarpia have already arrived at Manor House. * * * * The first public appearance in Sydney of the New Zealander Chivalry was ushered in rather inauspiciously at Moorefield on Saturday (says the '‘Town and Country Journal”), when his rider, G. Price, was cautioned by the stipendiary stewards for the manner in which he handled the son of Conqueror —Justice. He was given a run in the Tramway Handicap, and showed prominent to the top of the hill, when he fell back rather suddenly, which may have been the cause of the inquiry, but being his first run since the trip over, no doubt some allowance could easily be made. * * * * The New Zealand jockey G‘. Price had his first winning mount in this city at Moorefield on Saturday, riding Cairngorm in the Moorefield Handicap. After getting Cairngorm to the front Price did not take any risks, keeping the Stockwell gelding well on the move until the winning-post was safely reached. As Price is in the front rank of his own colony he will probably get a fair share of riding during his stay in Sydney. The other New Zealander, L. H. Hewitt, has gone to Melbourne, but does not intend bothering much about riding while there, his trip being of the holiday order. —“ Referee.” * * * *

The crack horseman, C. Jenkins, has a record of seventy-two wins for the season —a capital performance. M * * * Canada has won the Kolapore Cup at Bisley, beating Great Britain by 729 to 720 points. * * * * The Victoria took down Marshal Soult to Gisborne on Tuesday. The son of Soult is to stand the season at Gisborne. » » * * The Racing Conference Accident Fund is in credit to the extent of £4707. * * * » In some parts of Germany the race societies institute races where the winner goes to some person having bought a chance on entering the racecourse, as at Cologne, where now and again some lucky man for his shilling admission gets a thoroughbred he can sell privately or by auction for a good round sum; or, as at Mannheim, where the winner becomes the property of some member of the local racing society determined by lot. Last year the winner went to the most rceent member, and this year the same thing has happened, for a Mannheim tradesman who had just joined the society secured the £75 at which the winner of the Verloosungs Handicap, France 11., was valued by his owner.