TURF TOPICS.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVIII, Issue 1064, 28 July 1910, Page 6

TURF TOPICS.

Handicaps for the minor events to be decided on the opening day of the National meeting are due to appear to-morrow.

The.annual meeting of the Auckland Racing Ciub will be held at the Chamber of Commerce on Monday, August 1. * * * *

Outlander was scratched for the Grand National Hurd.es on Thursday last.

Lord Elmo has resumed work again after a spell.

Lochbuie is being hacked about the roads, preparatory to being placed in work, with a view to spring engagements. He is still in K. Irwin’s stable.

C. Brown, the Auckland horseman, rode but one winner at Wellington, his success being gained on inchbonnjMn the Crofton Handicap-

Only six of the thirteen starters in the Wellington Steeplechase completed the course.

Master Paul cut up very badly on the concluding day at Wellington and when Kremlin went up to him, he closed up like a pricked baliooii and died right away.

Loch Fyne was the last to finish in the Wellington Steeplechase.

Sir Frisco is reckoned the unlucky horse of the Wel.ington meeting, as in each of his races he received a bad passage.

California, Multiple, White Cockade and Paisano, each won a double at Trentham.

Those who saw Corazon race at Wellington are selecting him to be one of the hardest to beat at Riccarton next month. In the Wellington Steeplechase he was going well in third position six furlongs from home, when he came down, and on the final day he had the July Steeplechase at his mercy when he refused at the last fence.

Sal Tasker and Dan Patch are included in the list of entries for the 500sovs trotting handicap to be held at Richmond in November under Mr. J. Wren’s management. Denver Huon is also engaged, and a meeting ■between the trio is sure to arouse a great deal of interest-

It is stated that W. Young will ride Te Arai in the C.J.C. Grand National Steeplechase.

Owing to the accident to A- Julian at,Trentham, “Rangi” Thompson will do the riding over fences for the Hon. J. D. Ormond’s stable.

Cigarette smokers are advised to give the “Tabard” cigarette a trial when desiring a really high class article. These cigarettes are made of the best of Turkish tobacco, and are full of quality, while the flavour should easily satisfy all connoisseurs. “Tabard”, which can be obtained at any tobacconist’s are packed in airtight tins of 10, 20, 50, and 100.

The stipendiary stewards’ question which it was thought would be the subject of much discussion by the New Zealand Racing Conference was very-easily disposed of and was quickly placed on one side.

It is now stated that Woolloomooloo will not be taken to Australia, but will remain in the Dominion.

The totalisator returns for the last year represent a shortage of over 100,000 sovs in comparison to the previous racing season.

The chestnut, Ruaparaha, who has been in the private sale, has changed hands and goes to a Gisborne sportsman.

Mandarene is to be sent South to compete at the New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club’s meeting, next month.

Congratulations to F. Davis, the Hawke’s Bay trainer, who was married last week.

The throwing out of the motion of the Hawke’s Bay Jockey Club, that every club should have at least one race of a mile and a-quarter, by the Racing Conference, was a surprise, especially after the president (Sir Geo. Cufford) in his address had pointed out that long-distance races were, in most favour-

A catalogue to hand from MessrsBedford, Taylor and Weston, giving full particulars of the trotting stock to be sold at Randwick on August 8, shows that the sale will be the most important in the history of trotting in Australasia. All the best of the world’s trotting stock will be represented, and buyers should experience little difficulty in fulfilling.their wants. We would advise all interested to write at once for catalogues to Messrs Bedford, Taylor and Weston, 35 Bligh street, Sydney.

The two gold chronometers donated by Mr. Herb. Price, outfitter of Willis st, to the successful riders for the 1909-1910 season, writes our Wellington correspondent, were presented to the two winning jockeys, Hector Gray (on the flat), and A. Julian (over the hurdles), at the King’s Theatre, on Saturday night by Mr- F. MB. Fisher, M.P. Hector Gray received his watch personally, but in the unavoidable absence cf “Tartar” Julian, who had the misfortune to break his collar bone when Audax fell with him in the Wellington Steeplechase, a friend, Mr- Matthews, received the watch on Julian’s behalf. The recipients suitably responded., after which cheers were given for the champion jockeys-