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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVI, Issue 935, 6 February 1908, Page 6

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The Judge.)

Handicaps for the Wanganui Cup and Flying Handicap are due on February 15. Jp . The Gisborne Racing Club’s summer meeting takes place to-day and to-morrow. * * * • The Canterbury Jockey Club’s summer gathering will be commenced today and concluded on Saturday. ♦ * * * Second forfeit of 2sovs for the Champagne Stakes and the Oaks (to be run at the A.R.C. autumn meeting) are due with Mr. Hartland tomorrow evening. * * ® • Entries for the Taranaki J.C. autumn meeting are due on Friday, February 28. $ * * • Armlet’s sister, Ringlet, was among the winners at the recent Aspendale (Vic.) meeting. * * * * Cocky, a brown gelding by Waiuku from Daisy, hailing from this province, was submitted to auction at Randwick a few days ago, but was passed in at 100 guineas. ♦ ♦ • • The ex-Auckland pony Lady Avon won the International Pony Plate of 3000 rs at the recent big Calcutta meeting. *■ * f Another ex-Aucklander in Putty finished among the unplaced division in the Aspendale Park Cup on Saturday week. « * * • The Australian stallion Cannonier was destroyed a few days ago. He was 28 years old. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Bill Squires, the Australian champion, has met with another defeat in America. He was knocked out in the sixth round by Jim Flynn at Bakersfield, California. « * « # The English cricketers easily defeated the Victorian second eleven by 338 and 241 (for four wickets, innings closed) to 77 and 172. * * ♦ * Pencillers Bill Lyons and Martin Taylor have gone to Rotorua, where no doubt the bowling green will be the likeliest address to find them. * * * * The Treadmill colt Husbandman is well spoken of in Christchurch. In a recent gallop he easily beat the speedy Fleetfoot, but the latter is said to be hardly himself, and might well be spelled for a bit. * * • * Ben Deeley was the most successful jockey at the recent Takapuna meeting, scoring on Celerity, Scotty. Castadrift, Advocate, Lochbuhie, Lucio and Sweet Alice. * * * * Waipuna, Lady Cressy, and the stallion Malatua were shipped to Sydney by the Manuka on Monday. # * * ® This is Mr. Menzies’ idea of New Zealand form as per his adjustments in the Newmarket Handicap:—Elevation 9.1, Pink ’Un 8.13, Munjeet 8.13 Dusky Morn 8.3, Grenadier 7.12, Seddon 7.7, Maranui 7.3, Captain Shannon 7.2, Equiform 6.11. * * * » The enquiry by the Auckland Trotting Club in connection with the Grandstand Handicap, run on the sth ult., will be continued to-morrow afternoon. The club is to be warmly commended for the attempt to sift the question as to the existence of a jockeys’ ring. It is not the first time the A.T.C. has gone to immense trouble in its augean task of purifying the turf. „ C « ® H. Gray rode five winners and a dead-heater at Takapuna, getting home on Master Soult (three times), Mighty Atom, Lucrece, and Certainty (dead heat with Veronica). « « * if Master Delaval will not be sent over to contest the Australia Cup. Too much weight.

Apologue has been given 9st 111 b in the Australian Cup. Whew !

Although Master Deleval is considered badly treated in the Australian Cup he is in receipt of a stone from Apologue. When they last measured strides here in the Auckland Cup, Master Delaval, in receipt of but 61b, gave Apologue a bad licking. In the Summer Handicap which, according to the judge, resulted in a dead heat between Veronica and Certainty, most people thought that the latter mare was beaten. The angles at Takapuna are, however, very confusing, and no one but Mr. Ralph could really tell which had won. Our photographer snapped the finish from the stewards’ stand, and, if anything, the inside mare (Certainty) seems to have the advantage. No doubt the judge’s verdict was absolutely correct.

The sum of £26,021 was put through the totalisator at the Takapuna meeting against £32,825 for the corresponding meeting last year, when there was a double machine and no bookmakers. As a contra account against the big decrease £720 was received from bookmakers’ fees.

Mynota was supposed to be something particularly choice for the Ponui Handicap at Takapuna, but never had a look in, Lady Frances fairly running away with the race. Roche wasn’t taking any chances on the Eton mare, and there were quite six lengths between her and the second horse, Escamillo at the finish.

Mr. Morse virtually made Master Soult a present of the Marine Handicap, and the race was almost a farce. I doubt if another stone and a-half would have brought the field together, for a little extra weight hardly tells in a half-mile flutter. * * * * Sweet Alice made no race of it in the Welter Handicap on Saturday after playing up at the post. What a pity it is the Soult mare is not better behaved, for she would be more than useful. » « « » The Egmont summer meeting opens on Wednesday next.. The nominations are very large. * * * * The Te Aroha meeting takes place on the 19th and 20th inst. * * * * The Newmarket Handicap will be run on February 29 and the Australian Cup on March 3. « 4 • > Nova, who ran third in the Pahiatua Cup, did better on the second day, when he annexed the big event, the P.R.C. Handicap. He is a five-year-old son of Stepniak and Fauna, and belongs to Mr. A. Sands. « * * * The sum of £12,805 was put through the totalisator at the Pahiatua meeting, an increase of £l2OO over last year, and this though 44 bookmakers’ licenses were issued. * * * * Trepoff won the Ngaruawahia Cup on Anniversary Day. He is a fire-year-old brown gelding by Soult from Elsie, and used to race under the name of Waima. * * * * The chestnut mare Loiret was first home in the Pahiatua Cup. This five-year-old daughter of Seaton Delaval and St. Loire was ridden by Lowe, and just managed to put down King’s Lynn and Nova. There were ten runners. * * * * Elevation’s sister Culmination has been sene o the stud and will be mated with Birkenhead. * . * * * The lankey Wellington Park bred Lord Bobs, who when racing here could never go fast enough to keep himself warm, won a doub e at Wairoa, Hawke’s Bay, last week. * * * » Armlet and Sunglow, versus Fleetfoot and Husbandman, in the Middle Park Plate. It ought to be worth seeing. $ * * • Mr Bob Wynyard is entitled to a word of warm praise for his management of the Takapuna Meeting. It’s not so easy as it looks. * * * » The New Zealand horses in the Ausra'ian Cup are Apologue gst ulb, Master Delaval Bst nib, Putty Bst 41b, Melodion yst nib, and Seddon 7st. * * * • Mr Lowry has tired of that good looking fraud Loftus and sold him for half a century. * $ » » The Waihi Jockey Club intend charging bookmakers a license fee of five guineas for the annual meeting on March 7. * * * • That racing among ’bus drivers going and coming from the Takapuna course has been the cause of more than one accident- That smart pony Frederick was a victim on Saturday, being knocked down by a ’bus.

Misty Morn won the King’s Plate, the principal event at 'the Calcutta Second Meeting. The race, wnich is run over one mile five fur ongs and forty-eight yards, is worth 10,000 rupees, and last year Fitz Grafton won this race, after succeeding in the Viceroy’s Cup.

The Kawakawa Cup on Anniversary Day was won by the aged chestnut gelding Franklin (Leolantis —Coryphu), who was followed home by Sir Gilead and Discoverer.

When the mail left, Prospector, Lesbin, White Eag’e, Vamose, Mountain Apple, and Little Flutter figured in the English Derby quotations in that order, but the odds offered, according to one writer, were “ neither more nor less than an insult to the intelligence of racegoers.”

Weights for the Dunedin Cup are due on February 10th, and for the Wanganui Cup on Friday 15th.

During the past flat-racing season in England 218 Irish-bred horses won 395 races, of the aggregate value of 562, or about one quarters of the entire amount of money raced for.

Ben Deeley left for Gisborne in the Mokoia to ride at the meeting of the G.R.C.

The Derby winner Spearmint is to be given a great chance for a successful start at the stud as the peerless Pretty Polly is to visit him.

Mr Macmanerriin will dispatch the field for the first race at Alexandra Park next Saturday at 1.15 sharp. * * * ®

Mr O’Connor as a starter cannot be beaten in New Zealand. After officiating at Takapuna he went south on Tuesday to act at Gisborne, and will then be in charge of the barrier at Egmont and Woodville.

The horses exported from New South Wales last year total’ed 9664, but it is said a market could have been found for at ’east three times that number. The trouble is that he class of animal wanted bv foreign buyers is not forthcoming.

B. Carslake. the Victorian jockey, who has done so well in Austria, will return there on February 25, in time for the racing season. He wil] be accompanied by J. C. Pratt, whose service he has engaged for a well-known Aus rian trainer.