TURF TOPICS.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1240, 22 January 1914, Page 12

TURF TOPICS.

The s.s. Ngapuhi will be running to Tauranga to suit the Bay of Plenty meeting, nominations for which go in on the 24th inst.

T. Quinlivan disposed of the chestnut yearling he purchased at the Auckland bloodstock sales last week. A Hastings sportsman is the new owner. » » » M

The watch and chain F. Davis thought had been stolen from him was found and returned to him by a boy.

The well-known sires, Charlemagne IL, Achilles, and Bezonian, are represented in the list of yearlings to be disposed of on Friday on account of the Waikanae Stud, and so are the young sires Boris and Danube.

The tracks at Ellerslie are being regularly watered by the caretaker to keep them from getting parched up and unnecessarily hard. The watering process has been going on for some time.

B. Deeley, as was announced last week, won only four races, and not five, at the Whangarei meeting, but in the report of the meeting the win on Golden Grain that should have been credited to Jack Deery went to Deeley.

Horses bred at the Napagedl stud, Austro-Hungary, have, during the last 20 years (says the “Deutscher Sport”), won in stakes alone £326,999.

The Dannevirke Racing Club’s next meeting will be held under favourable conditions as regards conveniences for owners, trainers, jockeys, and the general public. The new appointments to which we have already referred are now complete.

The Victorian horseman, Bob Lewis, won the West Australian Derby of 1500sovK on Radnor, the Karrakatta Plate of lOOOsovs on Hathor, the Visitors’ Handicap of 400sovs on Dollar Dictator, the Perth Cup of 2000sovs, and Midland Handicap of 500sovs, all at one meeting.

According to an Australian authority Beragoon is. not likely to visit Victoria for the autumn campaign. His name has disappeared from the list for the V.R.C. St. Leger, and it does not appear among the candidates for the Australian Cup. His rival of the spring, Radnor, is also absent from the list of Australian Cup candidates, and as he will be turned out for a lengthy spell he is not likely to figure in the classic races, of the autumn. Eubulus is another, of the three-year-old division that is not likely to be seen out during the autumn. If this is correct and the New Zealand colts Cherubini and Rinaldo should go over and go to the post fit and well, they may have some luck on the other side. | I 1

The tracks at Randwick are very hard just now, and badly need rain. Not a few horses are suffering from soreness, and, while engaged in a gallop, Mr. Francis Foy’s horse John McElhone broke down badly. John McElhone was got in England, and is by Santry from Ellen Terry, a Multiform mare who was sent from New Zealand to England by the late Mr. G. G. Stead, and was purchased there and brought back to Australia by Mr. Foy, who, “Milroy” regrets to learn, is in Paris and seriously ill.

Lucille, carrying 9.4, won the Opening Handicap at the Inverell meeting in New South Wales on the 7th inst.

People who have been receiving invitations in Auckland to take tickets in a Swiss lottery are warned against having anything to do therewith.

Three horses —Chielba, Humulus, and Grundois —fell at the Roseberry, N.S.W., races on the 7th inst. The result was that Chielba broke a shoulder, and was destroyed. The jockeys fortunately escaped without serious injury. An inquiry was held by the stewards into the cause of the accident. They decided to suspend for six months the licenses of Meekirigs and Livingstone, the respective riders of Goodwin Sands and Calvinia.

Mountain Knight, who won a good race for Mr. E. J. Watt recently at Kandwick, is engaged in the A.J.C. Pnillip Stakes on January 24th.

Two well-known members of the ring in England, Messrs. Barney ihompson (brother of the late Mr. joe Tnompson) and J. D. Marks, are at present on a visit to Australia, •where they have been accorded a welcome by Tattersall s Club both in Melbourne and in Sydney.

The American-bred stallion Ballot, by Voter from Cento, who some four years ago carried the colours of the late Mr. J. R. Keene to victory in rmgland and on the Continent, has recently been purchased by Mr. James B. tuggin, tne well-known American breeder, for 50,000 dollars.

A fight between two thoroughbred horses is a sight to be remembered, 't hat between the stallions Simile and Prince Foote, which took place near Sydney last week, ending in the firstnamed receiving injuries which were so serious that he had to be destroyed, was an expensive one for the owner as things turned out, as Simile was a valuable horse.

Mr. D. Thomson, who purchased North East from A. Hall after the A.R.C. meeting, may take that gelding to Sydney for the Easter meeting oi the Australian Jockey Club. As Hall was practically left without horses in consequence of the fire at the Harp of Erin Stables, he has decided to give up training for a time at least.

The sale of racecourse gate tickets of admission in the streets on the day of a race meeting is an Australian innovation that the Stratford Racing Club followed at their recent meeting with satisfactory results. It did away with crowding at the gates. The attendance was a record one for the club and the new entrance was greatly appreciated.

The well-known horsemen,' Frank Wootton and W. Huxley, who are at present on a visit from England to their relatives in Sydney, are expected to apply to the Australian jockey ciub for permits to ride in races during their stay. Huxley intends returning to England in less than a month s time, while Wootton will take his departure from Australia in about a couple of months.

M. Edmond Blanc heads the list of winning owners for the year 1913 in Prance with 816,635 francs to his credit. Then come Baron Edouard de Rothschild with 756,725 francs, M. E.

ae Saint-Alary 560,420 francs, Viccount d’Harcourt 509,78,2 francs, carcn Courgaud 508,600 francs, and M. A. Aumont 402,450 francs. Mr. H. B. Duryea has won 338,800 francs, Mr. .august Belmont 217,512 francs, Mr. W. K. Vanderbilt 212,735 francs, Mr. j. D. Cohn 135,285 francs, and Mr. C. Uarroil of Carrollton 69,220 francs.

We were quite prepared to find Mr. E. J. Watt’s brilliant gelding latteriey nominated for the Oakleigh Plate ac the V.A.T.C. autumn meeting. He has not been entered for the Newmarket Handicap, however. Binperador, Rinaldo, Mowbray, Bon Reve and Bandeira are nominated for the Doncaster Handicap (N.S.W.), and Mjidnight Sun, Cherubini and iiinaldo figure in the Sydney Cup.

The result of the first day of the Auckland R.C. meeting made good reading for the owners of at least two Australian studs, Messrs. R. C. Allen, of South Wambb, and Rous Brothers, of Biraganbil (says “Milroy”). Sir Solo, who won the Auckland Cup, is by Sir Laddo, whom Mr. -Allen pur chased some time back with a number of mares from Mr. P. E. Baldwin, among them Sir Solo’s dam with a brother to that good horse at her side. Sir Solo was also a winner • the Wellington. Cup of £lOOO, and Sir Laddo generally has been successful in New Zealand as a sire of stayers. Mr. Allen had quite a good time on Boxing Day, for in addition to Sir Solo his stud was represented by Anona in Brisbane and Eastern Chief at Wallsend, and next day Lady Antonio won at Randwick. Bilboa, who looked like being one of the Best two-year-olds in New Zealand, was also successful at Auckland. He is by Varco, whom Messrs. Rous, purchased at the break-up of Mr. Reid’s stud. Dowshire, it may be added, has been leaving winners also, and he is in an Australian stud, too.