TURF TOPICS.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1247, 12 March 1914, Page 21

TURF TOPICS.

Tranquette has apparently trained off.

Virgilia, by Tartan from Georgie, who won the Cambridgeshire for the Hon J. White when sent to England, won the Paramatta Mile at the Rosehill meeting on March 2nd.

If the nominations for the Auckland R.C. Easter Handicap are a guide, it would appear likely that Flora McDonald, Bonny Helen, Merry Roe, and othes will measure strides in the Great Northern Oaks.

Master Delaval, carrying 9.12 in a 6.7 minimum race, was a competitor in India recently in the Andheri Plate at Bombay. Mordialtoc, an Austra-lian-bred one, carried 6.12 and won.

M. McGrath, one time of the Wairiarapa, who took O’Siris and some othe s to Australia, trained Wallalo for his Australian Cup engagement, and would no doubt benefit to some extent as the owner and rider came out so well.

A report comes to us that a proposal is to be brought under the notice of the Racing Conference that horseman should, after entering the

birdcage on our courses, remain there during the day, excepting while actually taking part in the races of the day. We have not yet learned with whom the idea originated or who intends moving to have this bit of machinery applied to racing authority, but is there really any necessity for such a drastic step, and is anyone simple enough to think horsemen would submit to be caged? Why, they would go out on strike in a body. It would be :a good idea were some clubs to provide horsemen with greater accommodation than they get at present, and to keep the jockeys’ rooms clear of undesirables.

Mr. W. H. Brown, Labour candidate for Randwick, at a meeting having for its object the establishment of an Eastern Suburbs Hospital, expressed himself to the effect that it would be a good idea if the Government were approached with the object of having a pebiscite taken of jockeys riding at registered meetings in the metropolis, asking them to consent to the