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(By The Judge.) John Chaafe, sen., returned from Gisborne last week, where he has been for some time past. ♦ * * • The Messrs. Stead do not intend to send any horses over to Sydney to run at the A.J.C. Spring Meeting. * * • W. O’Connell rode four winners at the Amberley steeplechase meeting. * * * « Cross Battery and Sea King were shipped to Sydney last week. * * ♦ • The death is reported of the brown gelding Uhlander (Uhlan —Dolly), as the result of an acute attack of strangles. Mr. Renwick’s gelding was a fair performer, winning among other races the Waitemata Handicap at Ellerslie, the Whangarei Cup, and the Tradesmen’s Plate at Hamilton, and the Birthday Handicap of 450 sovs. at Ellerslie. He was insured for £2OO. *** * ■ Master Soult has made a good recovery from his recent accident, and has been out on the tracks each morning recently doing light work. Handicaps for the first day of the Wanganui J.C. spring meeting are due from Mr. Morse on September 11. ♦ • * * Mr. Wynyard will declare his adjustments for the first day of the Avondale meeting next Monday. • • • • Miss Winnie and Sir Artegal have been scratched from the Flying Handicap at Avondale, while Uranium’s name has disappeared from the Cup. * * « « The English St. Leger will be decided next Wednesday on the famous Doncaster Town Moor. • • • • The attention of the stewards of the English Jockey Club having been called to the fact that shoes having a sharp flange round the outer edge of the shoe, to prevent slipping, have been used on horses running in races, they have given notice that they consider such shoes, and those known as American toe-clipped shoes, very dangerous to other competitors, and direct that horses running in them shall be disqualified, and the trainer responsible reported to them. During the last five seasons, descendants of Grafton have won 782 races, valued at £96,958. Other successful sires during the same period were: —Lochiel, 633 races, £65,180; Wallace, 230 races, £62,417; Positano, 156 races, £55,627.

The Southern jumper Pilot is under orders for Sydney, where he will tackle the cross-country contingent. ■ The bay gelding by Eton—Rapid has been named Fleetnote, and the gelding by Eton—Kotera, Eton Boy. ■ * •• ■ • . The bay colt by Seaton Delaval — Lady, Hester' has been named Royal Scotland; The Wanganui J.C. spring meeting will take place on September 24 and 26. The A.J.C. Derby of 2000sdvs will be run for on October 3. Mr. W. Delander is the new owner of the ex-Auckland pony Kilderkin (Cyrenian—Kiiihorey). The brown gelding realised 47 guineas. ■» ' * • ■ * Mr. W. E. White, who recently purchased Golden Slipper for a record price, has sent her to be trained by J. C. Finn. ; / * • • » The Hon. J. D. Ormond has scratched all his horses for the A.J.C. Derby, and in doing so expressed regret that he had nothing quite good enough to compete. ■'* * * * Nautiform (Multiform — Rattler), who'was sold .at Yaldhurst for. 2050g5., has been scratched, for the A.J.C. Breeders’ Plate arid'Gimcrack Stakes. Webb has made his final deposit of £lOO in connection with the sculling race with Arnst for the world’s championship and a stake of £ 1000. Sir George Clifford’s mare Stratagem (Nelson—Dudu) .is much fancied for the New, Zealand Cup. Our Otago correspondent, in his weekly budget; enumerates her best performances. Most of the horses purchased by buyers from ’ this State at the Yaldhurst sale arrived from New Zealand yesterday by the Moeraki (says the Sydney “Referee.”) They included ’Multiform. Otterden, Sans Peur, Royal Plumes, Isolt, Golden Slipper, Saucer (bought for Mr. T. Longworth), and Fantan, the latter’s owner being Mr. J. H. S. Barnes, of Lyndhurst, North Queensland. Prior to leaving New Zealand Mr. Chisholm so’d the brood mare Barley Bree at a considerable advance oh what he gave for her, and purchased ‘ ! the’ ’four-year-old mare •Nhncy Stair (Soult—Chiara) and the aged mare Pretty Maid (The Officer— Norsemaid. The. smartest two-year-old seen out in hie O'd Country this senson is Bayardo. a.bay colt -by Bay Pomld from by Galonin from Isoletta. by from Muncaste”. At SanlP;rk in Jify be won the Na-tjr^n-prflgders’'Produce'Stakes, of. £43s7."f’’ : om thirteen' other runners, • seeo”d !?ce” being filled bv an uncolt by Gallinule from Excellefiz?, while Vivid, a sister to Lerbl?ii; H nd half-sister to the VictorianhorSe Bright' Steel, was third.' Though be has only won two races F?''hrdo- bah put ‘£6174 10s to his owner’s credit. The cable advised us of. Noctuiform W’hh’ng a race in July at Leicester, but th"' victory'was of little account, as he ‘ o™’v bent, two'others, from one of' whom be was in receipt of 91b. w’t-h n n iq eu Slipner (4*oogs.) and O’-e-ic nnM'g's'.) among <"be runners, F- - "'■'ld f'nr the .A.J.C.' will, as a whole.' be 'about the most exnensive that has'ever contested that race. The State of New York has never jn'.obTd n severer .blpv? than that sus-t-inA'U ’by the passing of the Anti-Rac- : ing Bi’l, in the ohirijon of Judge E. P. Covne,' of New York, who is now in lon don. “As counsel for the Jockey C’-’b. I suppose mv views, on the subject will be ’considered, as nreiud’ced.” he said to a “Herald” correspondent the Savoy Hotel, “but as a nrivate lawver I think the-Bill is unconstitutioimt and that therefore ’n the end it wi T be found impossible to enforce its provisions. The love of gambling is mprndfchble weakness in most men, and especially Americans, and the law making betting a misdemeanour punishable by a fine and imprisonment is . a curtailment'of the liberties of citizens an'd, therefore, unconst tutional. The Bill was : even passed in ‘an uncostitutioal way, for to gain his ends Governor Hughes- repeated y^ called extra legislative sessions. The majority of Senators even did.not vote as they wished.' The Bill wH 1 kill racing, discourage horse-breeding, hurt agriculture, and throw ..thousands of men but. of employment. In the end, ■ -p am sure; the courts -will decide that the Bill is a violation of the constitution.”

The Australian buckjumper is a product of hereditary rebellion and inferior methods of horse-breaking. There are horses ibred of buck-jumping stock which can never be trusted, although their latent powers of getting rid of their riders may never be fully exploited. There are other horses of shifty manners and vile tempers which may do everything in their power to make things unpleasant for those who have to deal with them, and yet they may never be able to “buck.” Bucking is a fine art, a talent which in a few notable cases approaches genius; but owing to better methods of handling and breaking horses in the bush, the buckjumper is gradually becoming extinct, asd possibly, in three years such a thing will be unheard of as a bucking horse. —Will H. Ogilvie, in the “ Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News.”

According to the “ Referee ” the racehorse Eariston (Love Wisely— Monday), who was purchased in England on behalf of Messrs W. and F. A. Moore, reached Sydney on Friday in charge of J. Pinfield (who brought out Rambling Jack and Rouvray). Earlston, who is to be raced here before being retired to the stud, was landed in splendid trim, and his owners are highly pleased with their purchase.

The Auckland bred pony Balgonie, who won the Richmond Thousand at Ascot (Vic.) on

the 6th of last month, is reported to have been purchased for exportation to the East by Mr G. Powell, but may not leave Australia for some little time. It is more than probable that, she will be again raced in Australia. An offer of £6OO was refused for Balgonie after her victory in Melbourne, so her sale price must have been a fairly stiff one.

The estate of G. Cooper, a wellknown English bookmaker, has been proved at nearly £500,000.

It is rumoured that the Auckland Racing Cliub have made a very substantial increase in the amount of stake money to be distributed this season.

The South Auckland Racing Club’s balance sheet for last season shows the receipts to be £1163 15s 9d, which included a balance brought forward, £36 16s 4d; donations Publicans’ Purse, £3o'; totalisator, £220 3s 6d; bookmakers’ licenses, £190; members’ fees, £57; privileges, £297; and jockey’s fees, £l64' 10s. The expenditure totalled £165 6s sd, leaving a balance of £1 9s 4d. The expenditure included: Stakes, £600; printing and advertising, £57 15s 9d; handicapper, £l6; starter, £l4; rent, £5O 3s lOd; band, £ 14; totalisator tax, £4l 13s 4d; refund jockeys’ fees, £lOO 10 s; loan refund, £75; and sundries, £5l 13 s 9d:

In advertising Aurum for the coming season it is announced that the owner undertakes to keep and care for mares free of charge for 12 months, but will charge 50gs for the foal. No foal, no charge for services or keep. .

It has been decided, to instal at Flemington, posts bearing .the names of each bookmaker fielding during the day. The. idea has. been in use at Kensington Park for some'time, and is much appreciated, particularly on a busy day. . It wouldn’t be a bad idea to copy this at Ellerslie .

A good cause is often damaged by excess of fervour,, and there was just a trace of this in some of 'the speeches delivered at the Pan-Anglican Conference discussion on gambling and speculation. There was a good deal of truth in the observations made by Mr Killik, of the London Stock Exchange, who pointed out tha tthe. element of speculation entered almost inevitably into every business- transaction. When the manufacturer buys a large or small quantity of. raw material, he- generally does so in the expectation that there may be a rise or a fall in price. He speculates or gambles on his knowledge. It is much the same in dealing with securities, and though it is easy to define certain transactions as a gamble, it is not equally easy to draw a line between fair business and pure speculation. Neither is it very easy to distinguish sharply between- the harmless custom ■of giving a stimulus to one’s pastimes by a paltry monetary stake and the act of gambling—using that word in a strict sense. But we know (says an English paper) that the man who whets his appetite with a glass, of wine or beer is not a drunkard, though it would be as reasonable to apply that description to him as to call the player for nominal stakes at bridge a gambler.

That one-time smart filly Glenowlet. (Clanranald—Madowla) has thrown a colt to Treadmill. Gosling, of Wellington, defeated Ireland, of Sydney, in four rounds in a boxing .thatch at Wellington on Tuesday. » » * • Kotiti showed the way to Marangai and Reservoir in a round of the hurdles at Ellerslie on Tuesday. *■* * « L. H. Hewitt won the Stand Handicap at the .Ayr meeting on Pieman, the favourite. . * . * ’ •* ' . * San Paulo and Regent were schooled over the big jumps at Ellerslie on Tuesday, the latter showing to most advantage. The autocratically-bred Lady Lucy (Seaton Delaval—Hilda) won the Maiden Plate at Marton yesterday. * * * * The Horowhenua meeting takes place next Wednesday and Thursday. The black horse Ghoorka (Lochiel — Fiancee) is to go to the stud. Lothair, an aged bay gelding by The Officer from Tiratu, won the Shorts Handicap at the Marton meeting yesterday. ♦ ’ • *. * » It appears to be generally . understood that the English jockey, Mornington Cannon, who suffers from rheumatism, has finally retired from. the saddle.