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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVII, Issue 977, 26 November 1908, Page 7

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Nobel has been scratched for the Railway Handicap.

Armlet will come on to Auckland after competing at the Feilding meeting.

Grenadier returned from his unsuccessful Southern tour on Saturday by the Rarawa.

The Canterbury Cup winner Signor was on Saturday scratched for all his engagements at the A.R.C. meeting.

The Feilding Jockey Club’s meeting will take place next Monday and Tuesday.

The Hawke’s Bay Club has refused to endorse the disqualification of the Auckland rider B. Deeley by the Poverty Bay Club. This result did not come as a surprise as it was freely stated by those who saw the particular race, that the disqualification was not deserved.

After competing at the Feilding meeting Sir George Clifford s trio, Flitaway, Husbandman and Broadsword will journey north to Ellerslie.

It is rumoured that Signor may be taken over to Melbourne to try his luck in the Australian Cup.

The pony Glenora Is evidently very well just now as she has been winning a few races of late. On Saturday, at Alexandra Park, the daughter of Soult added the Epsom Handicap to her list of wins.

Mahinga (Soult —Spitfire) made no race of it in the Flying Stakes at Alexandra Park on Saturday. She met four opponents and fairly romped home four lengths ahead of Elenore.

Mr J. M. Johnston, secretary of the Manawatu Racing Club, courteously sends me the book programme for the season. The summer meeting commences on the 23rd prox. and entries are due next Wednesday.

The New Zealand brood mare, Stepfeldt, by Nordenfeldt —Steppe, has produced five colts in five years, viz., Elevation, Gravitation, Provocation, Tribulation, and her foal at foot.

Up to October 31 the leading winning stallions in Australia this season were Grafton £8762, Positano £6427, Malster £5027, Orzil £3393, and Metal £3336. Since then the totals of Grafton, Positano, and Orail have been considerably augmented as a result of the successes of their progeny at Flemington.

In the list of horses' still remaining in the Great Northern Derby are: — Master Soult, St. Aidan, Husbandman, Chanteuse Nobel, Diabolo, Armlet, Sunglow, Aborigine, and Santa Rosa.

Captain J. Polson, a well-known New Zealander, won the Transvaal Handicap on October 10th with Happy End, an English bred colt.

According to the “Weekly Press” Master Soult and Artillerie were the best three-year-olds of their respective sexes competing at the New Zealand Cup meeting.

A filly by Cyllene, from Sceptre, won the Cheveley Park Stakes, of 880 sovs as Newmarket recently. Cyllene, it will be remembered, cost his owner, Mr Bass £30,000 and the same owner paid £20,000 for Sceptre. Out here a horse cannot start without it has a name and it is a pity the Home owners are not subjected to the same excellent rule.

Rattler has’ foaled a full sister to the high-priced Nautiform at the Shipley Stud.

It is a somewhat uncommon experience for C. Jenkins to go through a meting without a win, but that was his fate at the C.J.C. fixture.

Nautiform’s next appearance in public will be in the Great Northern Foal Stakes, in which he may once more mf&' Broadsword and Elvsian.

The largest collection of motor cars yet seen grouped together in Australia was that witnessed at the Flemington racecourse on the occasion of the recent Melbourne Cup, wnen 168 eras were counted in the members’ motor reserve.

The “ Special Commissioner ’ of the “ Sportsman ” says that Mr Buchanan’s reserve on Noctuiform was at first IOOOgs, but this was unexpectedly reduced to 500 gs. The writer quoted adds that. o.i the day prior to the sale, in reply to an inquiry from Australia, he cab-ed that lOOgs was the lowest price that would be accepted, and when the reduction was decided upon it was too late to make it known to the would-be buyer. Furthermore, he states that a wire from France, authorising him to go to considerably more than the 500 gs for which the chestnut was sold to Mr Portman reached him too late. Thus the Yaldhurst horse was unlucky to the last.

A French breeder, M. Caillant, has been unfortunate in the death of his stallion, Perth, from inflammation of the kidneys. Perth was bred in 1896, and was by War Dance out of Primrose Dame, by r^arcaldine —Lady Rosebery. He won one good race race as a two-year-old, and next season (1899) carried off the French Derby and Grand Prix de Paris, but as a four-year-old broke down in the race for the Ascot Gold Cup, won by the Australian-bred Merman. Perth was considered such a certainty for that race that long odds were laid on him. He had, however, won £31,200 in stakes by that time. At the stud he has been a great success during the last two or three seasons, this year alone North East, Sange Pourpree, and others of his get having won £40,000 in stakes; and M. Calilaut only refused an offer of £20,000 for him from the Hungarian Agricultural Department.

Radium, the recent Doncaster Cup winner, was beaten in the Prix du Conceil Muicipal at Auteuil recently by Binion, a French our-year-old, who was conceding him no les than 201 b. The Eglish horse, however, was delayed many hours in his box on the railway journey to Folkestone, and probably gave nothing like his true running.

L. H. Hewitt, who has not had the best of luck in England, has been engaged to ride as first jockey next season for Prince Hohenlohe-Oehringen in Germany and Austria-Hungary. Carslake is to ride next year for the newly-formed stable of Count Paul Esterhazy.

Betting frauds upon bookmakers by means of the telephone have been particularly numerous of late in England and on the Continent, and when the latest papers to hand left London the English Post-office officials were presenting in no fewer than five cases of alleged conspiracy and forgery arising out of these matters, and the facts in connection with several others under investigation by the department. In one instance a startling sequel is expected.

Tne pony Warnote, by Soult, who won a race at the Wellington pony and galloway meeting, was killed at Masterton last week. Warnote was being exercised by his owner, H. Abbot, when one of the stirrup-leathers broke, and Abbott was thrown heavily, and rendered insensible. The pony ten bolted into Masterton, and in gallopig dow the street, skidded on tne roadway, falling with terrific force against a cart, and receiving such injuries that he died in a short period.

The Feilding Stakes will be decided next Monday. The acceptances include Gold Crest, Bobrikoff, rucinella, Provocation, Expansion, Flitaway, Armlet, Broadsword, Ambrosian, Guiding Step and Lady Menschikoff, so that it will be readily seen there is splendid material for a fine race.

S. Lindsay is at the Rawlingstone private hospital, and his' many friends will be pleased to hear his broken leg is mending splendidly.

A jockey named F. Begley rode the whole five winners at the recent CairnsMulgrave (Q.) meeting, winning three races on Silverpaint and tne other two on Langley.

The hollow-backed Ranana is in work again at Ellerslie after a long spell. T. Williams has the gelding in hand.

Jimmy Beckett, the one-time wellknown Auckland penciller, is back again from Australia.

Dr. Bennett, the new owner of Waipuna, intends to try the gelding over hurdles.

The American-bred colt, Norman 111., who won the Two Thousand Guineas, was successful in tne Newmarket St. Leger Stakes last month. He beat St. Wolf and three others in 3min 15 secs for the mile and three-quarters.

Apologue has gone wrong in India, and, touching on this, the “ Asian ” says: “Tne breakdown of Apologue was more or less anticipated, as the horse was lame after he ran in his last engagement in Australia, and India is most emphatically not the place to which to bring the infirm, as witness Boabdil last year and many otners before him.

The first race at Takapuna on Satuday commences at 12.45 p.m.

Entries for the Avondale Stakes (1909), and Avondale Guineas (1910) close to-morrow.

* * • ♦ Nominations for the Wanganui meeting are due on the 16th prox.

Master Delaval, Master Soult, and Elysian are back again at Ellerslie looking none the worse for their southern campaign.

Considering that the English Jockey Club Stakes has been won by such celebrities as nislaglmb mb mb mm celebrities as Isinglass, Persimmon, Cyllene, Flying Fox, Sceptre, and Rock Sand (says the London “ Sportsman ”), the runners in the last Stakes hardly came up to the class seen out in some former years, and it is to be feared that on Signorinetta’s last three outings sne must be regarded as having been very lucky indeed at Epsom. Primer, mostly fancied of the ten who went to the post this year, had never won a race, though nis fifth in the “ Leger,” and the fact that he was meeting Santo Stratto upon so much better terms over a similar distance, was considered sufficient. The Duke of Portland’s colt finisned second, but nothing had any chance against Siberia, another St. Simon youngster, carrying the colours of Mr L. Neumann, who had four clear lengths’ advantage at the end of tne journey over the favourte. Siberie has done quite well as a 3-year-old, as since running fifth in the Oaks, second in the Coronation Stakes at Ascot, and third in the Eclipse Stakes, she appropriated nice stakes at Goodwood, York, and Doncaster. It may be remembered that her owner was credited with the Eclipse Stakes of 10,000 sovs two yeans ago by the aid of Llangibby.

Touching on the working of the anti-betting law in New York, a writer in that city states that during the days of the Gravesend meeting the police authorit’ •« became active again, and a number of leading bookmakers were arrested. There were, however, none of the scenes which characterised the head Bay gathering—the arrests were made quietly, .’the prisoners promptly gave bail, and resumed business, making oral wagers on the credit system. Some of the ablest lawyers in Brooklyn have been engaged for the defence, and they have had no hesitation in publicly denouncing the police officials and claiming that convictions will be absolutely impossible.

The Avondale Jockey Club is still worrying through certain happenings at the spring meeting. The result will be awaited with interest.

The ex-Auckland sprinter Soultline, for whom Mr S. R. Mackay gave 1000 guineas, has been placed in R. Bradfield’s charge, and after a few weeks’ spell he will be put into work at Flemington.

In Germany it is proposed that racing societies should allow gentlemen riders a certain sum of money equivalent to a second-class return journey from their place of residence to the meeting where they purpose riding, with a further allowance of 30s' a day for the payment of hotel expenses.

Roselike, by Multiform—Soult Girl, is now an inmate of D. Morraghan’s stable.

Everybody wondered at the poor showing of Alawa in the Melbourne Cup. Here is the explanation: Like nearly all the descendants of Goldsborough, the colt has brittle feet, and always races' in plates. In the Derby race, one of his plates shifted, and tore away a small piece of the hoof, and for the Melbourne Cup race his trainer sent him out in a lighter set of plates. These evidently affected the Derby winner, as Lewis stated after the race that he seemed to be unable to act on the hard going. When he won the C. B. Fisher Plate, on the fourth day of the meeting, he was shod as he was in the Derby. Still it has yet to be proved that he can run a solid two miles.

After The Dane had won the Second Hurdles at the Marlborough meeting, his owner (Mr. Malley) was called before the stewards to explain his action in interfering with some of tne obstacles It appears that Mr Malley loosened the hurdles and canted them to a much greater angle than that to which they were originally set, The only explanation tendered was that the jumps were too straight. After hearing evidence, the stewards decided to disqualify Mr Maliy and The Dane for six months.