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(By The Judge.) Apologue pulled up lame after the Australian Cup, but the mishap was not serious. He 81: * » The Wairangi Racing Club will hold a race meeting to-morrow. Nominations for the Avondale Handicap, Autumn Handicap, Steeplechase, and Railway Handicaps close with Mr. H. H. Hayr on Friday, April 3. The stakes paid away at the recent V.R.C. meeting amounted to £14,439. * * * * Mr. R. Cleland, the well-known metallician, is now on his way to England. On his return he will settle down and carry the bag no more. At the Royal Graditz Stud in Germany, R. Day is training 45 horses. Day was in Australia when his father was training for Mr. S. Hordern. The Victorian jockey, F. Bullock, will do the Graditz Stud’s principal riding this year. ty. The 1900 Melbourne Cup winner, Clean Sweep, is again doing stud duty in England this season at a fee or 9gs. In the Liverpool (Eng.) Grand National there are 61 aged horses out of 72 entries. Drumcree, 14 years, is the oldest. Owing to the successful start made last month by the Wellington Pony and Galloway Club, the liliputians are in demand at the capital. The latest to go South is Herculean, the five-year-old daughter of Soult and Pretoria. The Gisborne horse Montigo is evidently going the round of the Waikato meetings, but so far without any very great success. • » » < Uhlander is to be given a spell owing to meeting with a slight mishap. ❖ * * Mr. E. J. Watt will have a good team engaged at the A.R.C. meeting. Report states that the Napier sportsman will send up King Billy, Aborigine, Arc Light and Lamsdorff. # % * ♦ In the Doncaster Handicap the New Zealanders are weighted as follows: — Elevation, 9st 11b; Seddon, 7st 91b; Submarine, 6st 121 b; and Maranui, 6st 101 b. * S» * * The Newcastle Cup was run last Saturday. Putty had top weight of Bst 101 b, but evidently did not win, as we should have heard about it. The chestnut is probably on the down grade by now. Poseidon is top weight in the Sydney Cup with 9st 111 b, which is assessing him as being a greater horse than Carbine. Apologue has 9st 51b, the same as Mountain King. Putty has 7st 131 b, Melodeon 7st 101 b, Seddon 7st 51b, and Maranui 6st 71b. * * * * Arc Light, who won the Napier Carnival Cup in the colours of Mr. E. J. Watt, is a daughter of Merriwee and Dazzle. She is said to have reeled off the mile and a-quarter in 2m. 75., which, if true, is by far the fastest time the race has been run in. Arc Light will be seen in Auckland at Easter. * * * * The Ngaruawahia Regatta was perhaps the biggest success of any achieved at the picturesque township on the Waikato at “the parting of the ways.” It is estimated that 10,000 people were present. :Js nc :fc Waiotahi scored a double at Paeroa. She is a three-year-old chestnut filly by Bluejacket from Lady Emily, and claims an engagement in the Oaks. * * * » What is the latest turf scandal in Auckland? Rumour asserts it to be worse than the Hierarch case. The popular Auckland rider, Ben Deeley, continues to add to his list of winning rides. His Ohinemuri record will take some beating, as with ten rides he won six times, was second twice and third twice. No wonder punters are given to following what Deeley rides.

The pony Glenora has been among the barbed wire, and will require a spell. * « « e Arthur Hood, who piloted Scotland to victory in the Newmarket Handicap, won the same race two years ago on Pendant, and was also up on Wairiri, third in 1903, and Pendant, second in 1905. Amongst other important riding successes claimed by Hood are the Caulfield Cup on Marvel Loch, Maribyrnong Plate on Maltine, and Oakleigh Plate on Pendant. Hood, who is a Sloaner of the Hewitt type, is in his twenty-seventh year, and has few equals as a rider in shortdistance events. Among the Cup winners engaged in the principal handicaps at the A.R.C. Autumn Meeting, are, Master Delaval (Auckland Cup), Zimmerman (Auckland Cup), Frisco (New Zealand Cup), Moloch (Wellington Cup), King Billy (Summer Cup), Landlock (Summer Cup), Scotty (Takapuna Cup), Mahuta (Egmont Cup). *-*«■* After the accident which resulted in Persimmon’s death, those English breeders who had taken subscriptions to that horse were invited to transfer them to his brother, Florizel 11. :-t s’: * A London paper mentions that John Porter has pointed out a curious piece of heredity in connection with colts sired by Orme. They have a strange manner of carrying their heads sideways and askew, fighting at the bit. The remarkable thing, however, is that the fillies sired by Orme do not show any trace of this trick. I wonder if the Birkenheads do the same. The Masterton Racing Club’s Autumn Meeting will take place on the 26th and 27th. At the recent sale of the Durham Park Stud in N.S.W., the Hotchkiss horse Machine Gun was sold for 1500 guineas, which is just 550 guineas more than Mr. Baldwin gave for him three seasons back. * w » The recent rains have made a wonderful difference out at Ellerslie. It was looking as “ brown as a berry,” but now is of a hue that would have pleased St. Patrick himself. * * • Mr. W. Lyons, the well-known penciller, left for Sydney by the Mokoia on Monday. * * * » Mr. J. Popewell gave 25 guineas for the Regal gelding Henry Havelock on Friday. Pohutu was passed in at 250 guineas. Nephrite, by Cuirassier, was was sold for 15 guineas. as sf » a Shrapnel has resumed work at Ellerslie after a good spell. * •• fr « H. Gray, J. Conquest, and J. Griffin have been disqualified for 12 months by the Auckland Trotting Club for suspicious riding at the Summer Meeting. They have appealed to the A.R.C. * * * Revenant, the dam of Uhlando, was bred by Mr. Alison, who says that she was the slowest mare he ever owned. A maiden race at a paddock meeting at the Lake was her sole winning performance. Being out of Phantom* Revenant was a suitable name, being French for spook. The Taranaki Cup will be run for next Wednesday. * >.• A * The Matamata R.C. will hold a meeting on the 24th inst. * * * ♦ The Liverpool Grand National Steeplechase will take place over the famous Aintree course to-morrow week. * * =■• , The Princess of Wales Stakes has been reduced from £lO,OOO to £6,000 m England this year. There were 182 nominations, but on the declaration of forfeit a few weeks ago only 25 were left in, and they, as a whole, comprised a very poor lot. Sancy stood out from everything else engaged, but his death occurred last week, so it now seems as if the big prize will be competed for by a collection of second and third raters. The race is for four-year-olds and upwards, but it has been suggested that it would be a good move to revert to the old conditions, which permitted of three-year-olds competing. In support of this it is pointed out that most of the horses left in those other rich events, the Jockey Club Stakes and Sandown Park Stakes, are three-year-olds, there being 30 (43 acceptors) in the former and 34 (42 acceptors) in the latter race. * * * » The Australian jockeys, B. Carslake and C. Pratt, who are to ride in Austria this season, left for Europe by the German mail steamer Grosser Kufuerst recently.

The German Government has sent the four-year-old stallion Kevelaer (Joyful—Volosca) to German SouthWest Africa for stud purposes. I. ■ U33* » * * • The handicaps for the Sydney Cup, the big two mile event of the A.J.G. Easter Meeting, to be run on April 20, are as follows: — Poseidon 9.11, Tartan 9.9, Apologue 9.5, Mountain King 9.5 (scr.), Antonious 8.13, Peru 8.6, Neith 8.6, Melodrama 8.6, Welcome Trist 8.2, North Head 8.2, True Light 8.2, Proceed 8.2, Malt Rose 8.2, Booran 8.0, Putty 7.13, Vanadium 7.13, Gaby 7.13, Artful 7.12, Bright Steel 7.12, Sivori 7.12, Comely 7.12, The Castaway 7.11, Melodeon 7.10, Little Toy 7.10, Aragain 7.10, Duke of Melton 7.9, Virtu 7.0, Jack Smith 7.8, Ritchie 7.7, The Climax 7.6, Lady Rylstone 7.5, Seddon 7.5, Dyed Garments 7.4, Maltine 7.2, Absentee 7.2, Cross Battery 7.2, Curtain Lecture 7.0, Coomcalla 6.12, Togo 6.12, Camera 6.12, Lady Diffidence 6.12, Proprietor 6.10, Electron 6.10, Duke of Clarence 6.10, Oboe 6.10, Windlestrae 6.10, Argea 6.9, Xanthippus 6.9, Florence 6.9 (scr.), Coppertop 6.9, Ben Albi 6.7, Royal Star 6.7, Snowy River 6.7, Fiery Star 6.7, Pretty Peg 6.7, Maranui 6.7, Wha Hae 6.7, Kenmare 6.7, Lancasterite 6.7, Bauvray 6.7, Longchamps 6.7, Lady Fucile 6.7, King’s Cross 6.7, Schooner 6.7, Rocklight 6.7, Skoperra 6.7, Sagitta 6.7, El Ourar 6.7. ♦ • • « “The best thing ever known in the history of the Turf,” was how a veteran decisively summed up Scotland’s Newmarket Handicap victory (says a Melbourne exchange). Before the entries were even announced the man in the street knew that Scotland was the correct pea for the Newmarket. When Mr. James Brennan’s horse reached Cauldfleld it was seen that he had undergone a sound preparation, and his subsequent training work bore out the market operations. And there was never any secret about Scotland’s ability to win. When he galloped, everybody knew it, and when he was backed, everybody interested was able to ascertain the fact. Scotland’s Newmarket win will be long remembered by racing men as one of those rare things which come their way occasionally, an'’ when missed are most regretted. * ♦ ♦ • In Australia thye have not that idiotic law which prevents newspaper writers giving their readers suggestions as to likely winners. The Meibournp Sporting News claims that at the first two days of the V.R.C. Meeting it gave eight tips, the result being six firsts, one second, and one third. At latest the English Derby winner St. Blaise was still alive in Kentucky, but as he is 28 years old it is improbable that he will last much longer. * When the New Zealand jockey, H. Phillips, was badly injured as a result of a fall from Cambooya at Canterbury Park in July last, his recovery was very doubtful (says the “ Referee”). He is still at the Rookwood Asylum, but has so far recovered that he is now able to walk about, and is hopeful of being in the saddle again before many months. He expects to leave the asylum shortly, and will then go to E. Donovan’s at Randwick. * * ♦ » Considerable confusion has in the past arisen owing to the running of a Grand National Hurdle Race and Steeplechase at Flemington, and a Grand National Hurdle Race and Steeplechase at Caulfield. To obviate confusion in this direction in future, the V.A.T.C. committee have decided to alter the title of their events, which will henceforth be known under the names of the Australian Hurdle Race and the Australian Steeplechase. This reminds me of Sir Henry Parkes’ idea of changing the name of New South Wales to Australia. There’s nothing like cheek. » » » ♦ In the Australian Cup Apologue, with 301 b over the weight he won the Melbourne Cup with, did not look at all well handicapped, and yet, well ridden, he might have won, says the “ Australasian.” W. Evans may be all there in short races, but occasionally he shows very bad judgment when riding over a distance. When the pace was clapped on in the Australian Cup he still let Apologue linger in the rear, and the horse was so far behind at the sheds that he would have needed to be a Carbine to make up the lost ground. He was running on very strongly at the finish, but whatever chance he had had been thrown away. Apologue may not be a first-class horse, but he is one oT the best old horses we have, and he can stay.