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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XV, Issue 857, 9 August 1906, Page 5

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(By

“ The Judge.”)

The Auckland Racing Club made a profit last year of £4286 16s lid over the four race meetings. ♦ * ♦ « Ability and Asteroid have been scratched for all events at the Grand National meeting. * * * » Rose Madder will not be seen out at Riccarton. She will be thrown out of work, and later on will be mated with Merriwee. * x- * ■JiSol has been going much better of late in his training gallops, and on Tuesday morning particularly distinguished himself.

The Caulfield G.N. Steeplechase will be run next Saturday. At the time of writing Bellis is favourite, despite his tremendous impost of 13st.

Irish performed somewhat disappointingly in a schooling gallop o n Tuesday, otherwise he has been jumping in great style.

Nominations for the Great Northern Foal Stakes of 1907-8, and the Thirteenth Royal Stakes of 1907-8, close with Mr. Hartland, secretary of the Auckland Racing Club, to-morrow (Friday) at 9 p.m.

Eurus, who is a strong fancy in the South for the big steeplechase on Tuesday, has not been pleasing the frack-watchers of late.

I understand that the beautifullybred imported horse Sir Laddo has already had his list filled for the season.

The V.R.C. made a profit of £l2OO over its recent Grand National Meeting.

Acceptances for the minor events on the opening day’s programme of the C.J.C. Meeting close to-morrow evening.

H. Thomson has leased Treadmill from Sir George Clifford, and the Bill of Portland horse will stand the season at Riccarton.

Kremlin has been shaping very well at Riccarton, and bids fair to start a strong favourite for the G.N. Hurdles.

The balance-sheet of the Egmont Racing Club showed a loss of £169 12s 5d on the . year’s business.

The amount won by the stock of Seaton Delaval in Australia, viz., £3650, brings his total for last season up to £9582 10s, which amount puts him second on the list for New Zealand and sixth for Australasia. This very successful son of Melton and Rosedale is standing the season at Sylvia Park at twenty guineas for single mares, which is a low figure for such a well-proved horse.

Sir Rupert Clarke’s mare Sweet l\ell, who during her racing career earned well-merited distinction by including in her victories the Caulfield Cup, Caulfield Guineas, and other good races, goes to the stud this season, and will be mated with Dreamland, winner of the Australian Cup, 1901.

The victory of Realm in the Caulfield Grand National Hurdles was by no means unexpected, as he was backed down to 3 to 1 against, and went to the post a pronounced favourite. As the son of Majestic and Lynette carried list lib, he is evidently a very fair horse. The St. Swithin gelding Florin carried 12st 51b into second place, being only beaten by three parts of a length.

The list of winning stallions in Australia for the season 1905-6 has been compiled by the “ Sydney Mail.” The defunct Lochiel heads the list with 49% winners of 144 races of the value of £21,433, a great record indeed for the son of Prince Charlie. Grafton comes second with 65 winners of 144% races of the value of £17,588. In third position comes Carbine’s son Wallace, with 22 winners of 46 races worth £11,991. Then follow Simmer, £9609; True Blue, £8213; Medallion, £6600; Positano, £6569; Little Bernie, . £6131; Haut Brion, £6097; Bill of Portland, £5680; and Metal, £5172. Multiform is 14th on the list, Seaton Delaval 18th, and Soult 27th.

Last season Soult’s stock won £2804 in Australia and £6517 10s in this colony. The total amount, vz., £9321 10s, is a big sum, and proves the truth of the saying that anything by Soult can gallop.

Exmoor is said to be still showing traces of where he struck a hurdle when competing at Ellerslie in June.

Mr. J. H. Pollock has been re-ap-pointed handicapper for the Masterton R.C. and the Otaki Maori R.C.

Mr. Ulic Shannon has been appointed handicapper to the Taratah:Carterton R.C.

Mr. J. E. Henrys has been appointed handicapper for the Hawke’s Bay J.C., as far as the spring autumn and winter meetings are concerned. Mr. H. Coyle will make the adjustments for the summer fixture.

The Yaldhurst trainer R. J. Mason, leaves for Australia on Friday. He will take over to Randwick Isolt, Porcelain, Huascar, and Boniform, who should give a good account of themselves at the A.J.C. Spring Meeting.

Kremlin, Waikato, and Aboriginal may prov’de the place-getters in the Winter Cup. The result looks very open.

The cable notifies us that old-time event, the Goodwood Cup, has been won by the three-year-old colt Plumtree, a chestnut son of the King’s stallion Persimmon and Cauliflower. Another Persimmon horse in Plum centre, a four-year-old out of Fuse, ran second, with the Two Thousand Guineas winner Gorges in third place.

The N.Z. Metropolitan Trotting Club intend giving £5OOO in prizes for a four days’ meeting in November. This should attract a number of crack trotters from Australia, some of which will probably come up for the big gathering of the Auckland Trotting Club later on.

A syndicate of nine employees of the Hobart Metropolitan Board drew Hotspur, winner of the Silver City Cup, in Tattersall’s sweep. The prize was worth £lOOO.

Pretty Polly and Spearmint are not the only first-class horses carrying Major E. Loder’s colours, as that gentleman also owns that good stayer Hammerkop. At Ascot, where Pretty Polly was beaten in the Gold Cup, Hammerkop made amends for her stable companion’s failure by successfully carrying g.B in the Alexandra Plate of 1405 sovs., 2J miles 85 yards. It proved a very soft thing for Hammerkop, who, in a field of four, started at 5 to 2 on. The previous year she also won the Alexandra Plate, and subsequently the Cesarewitch, so there is good reason for accounting her one of the best stayers in England.

Great interest was taken in the July yearling sales at Newmarket, England. There were buyers present from France, Argentine, Germany, Austria, Hungary, and Italy. Mr. J. Musker cleared out his mares, stallions and foals for a total of 63,760 sovs. Sir R. W. B. Jardine secured Baroness La Fleche for ygoogs., and La Force for 2600g5. ; Lord Derby gave 3200g5. for Princess Melton, which Mr Joel purchased for ig.ooogs, as a 2-year-old. Chevening Belle, Admiral Breeze, and Orion were sold to Hungary and Flying Lemur found a purchaser in Germany for 7500g5. Thirty 2-year-olds sold for i2,880g5., among them being a sister to Paid Up, which went to Sir E. Cassell for 2ioogs.

Among the MSS. of Lord Kenyon published by the Historical Manuscripts Commission is a letter from a Mr. Wm. Foster, at Wigan, giving an account of a curious racing accident which occurred on Midsummer’s Day, 1662 :—“Your brother Joseph,” he says, “on Barber Moor, near Eccleston, at a horse-race there, was riding, or, rather, running—,i.e., racing—hjis new-bought gelding; and being about the height of his speed, he met a man running the other way, who, as they say, was drunk. Your brother giving way, the man gave way on the same side, so that they met with great force. Your brother’s gelding broke the other horse’s neck and back, and with throwing up her (sic) head, hit your brother on the nose and jowls, broke the girth, and left him sitting on the saddle on the earth, in a swoon ; and so he continued about half an hour, but was never the worse.” The other man fell underneath his dead horse, but was not much hurt.