TURF TOPICS.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XX, Issue 1123, 19 October 1911, Page 5

TURF TOPICS.

Whilst schooling, at Trent ham, with Stayboy last week, Forest had the tendons of one of his legs severed, and it is very doubtful if he will ever race again.

Motoa has been a long time winning a big race on the other side, but his victory in the Toorak Handicap on ►Saturday will no doubt make up for a number of his defeats. It is about two years since S. Messena disposed of the Conqueror horse to his Victorian owner, at 1000 guineas.

The Middle Park Plate, of lOOOsovs. for two-year-olds, over six furlongs, was won last week by J. B. Joel’s ch. c. Absurd, by Sundridge—Absurdity. Second and third places were filled by Sweeper 11. and White Star respectively. The latter is also owned by Joel.

A. Carmichael, Opposition candidate for Wallace, speaking at Riverton, said he was not a racing man, but felt that there was not very much dittereqce between buying £1 worth of totalisator tickets and buying a £1 worth of opera tickets. In one case a percentage of revenue went to the state. He thought it would be a very fair thing for the Government to pay out through agricultural and pastorial societies a certain proportion of that levy for the encouragement of the belief that Carbine and the All Blacks had advertised New Zealand more effectively than the famous Dreadnought. He hoped the time would never come when this country would be run by faddists who wished to stop manly sports and pastimes, but that New Zealand would go on breeding Carbines and All Blacks. As indicating the relative profits made out of race meetings by the racing clubs and the Government, it may be mentioned that as a result of their last fixture the Ashburton Racing Club made a net profit of £2O, while the Government tax amounted to £2BO. The Auckland Metropolitan Committee last week granted the following licenses:—Jockeys: A. R. Whittaker, W. G. Ross (three months), and E. McSweeney (three months). Gentleman riders: W. Taylor, A. Pollard, D - . Gorrie, A. Morice, H. Bergetrom, and J. aPterson. weller, the apprentice, who rode Mescal to victory in the last race at the Wanganui meeting, has been credited with weighing-in under sst. Trainer Tilley informed a southern writer that the lad’s usual weight is sst 121 b. * « s(: Paritutu is at present turned out at New Plymouth, and will not again be commissioned until the approach of autumn. ❖ * * * Ebonit e has resumed work at Trentham. * * « « __ At the Marlborough meeting, Emma won a treble, and by a strange coincident Katua acted as runner up to the Blenheim mare. * * • w Tht the New Zealand horses have not done really well at Randiwck this time may be fortunate for future visitors (says a Sydney writer), inasmuch as our handicappers may be disposed to treat them a little more leniently than in the past. We have had some very high-class animals from New Zealand, but it is too much to expect them, as a whole, to be better than those of Australia. a,*: # * Glade, the two-year-old victoress of the Hastings Stakes, will be a starter in the Wellesley Stakes, at Trentham, on Saturday, when she will meet Monoline. The latter has a big proposition ahead of her, but there are many who like her chances.