CANTERBURY.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1302, 8 April 1915, Page 11

CANTERBURY.

Camulus Shipped to Queensland — Specialform Meets With Mishap— F. D. Jones’ Tro of Juveniles —R. J. Mason to Visit Sydney. (From our Christchurch Correspondent.) CHRISTCHURCH, Monday. A. Cutts has been granted a trainer’s license by the Canterby Jockey Club,

and he will assist his brother Harry in the management of the Chokebore team.

On the conclusion of (he C.J.C. Easter meet ng several of the Riccarton stables will send representatives North for the Wellington fixture. Merry Roe had plenty of supporters locally for the A.R.C. Easter Handicap, and her victory should lend additional interest to her meeting with Warstep and Pavlova in the Trentham Gold Cup. Reval is making a satisfactory recovery from the injury he sustained last week, but it will be a long time before he is fit to race again.

While doing a gallop at Riccarton last week the North Island-bred Banian broke a blood-vessel, and has had to be eased in his work. Dominion racecourses have seen the last of the disappointing Camulus, as the son of Martian and Lady Wayward was shipped to Queensland a few days ago. In the early part of his career this colt, who is a half-brother to the Great Easter Handicap winner, Emperador, showed considerable promise, but he has raced very disappointingly this season, and Mr. Greenwood has apparently tired of him as a racing proposition. When running in a paddock at Leeston, where she is trained, Specialform had a fall a few days prior to the C.J.C. meeting. As a result her hocks got rather badly knocked about, and her preparation for the Great Autumn Handicap was interrupted. F. D. Jones has just taken in hand three juveniles from Mr. H. A. Knight’s Racecourse Hill establishment. They are a three-year-old gelding by Charlemagne II. —Tikitere, a three-year-old gelding by Calibre —Clytic (dam of Doon and Fisticuff), and a two-year-old filly by Vasco —Suzannah, dam of Canterbury. R. J. Mason intends leaving for Sydney in a few weeks’ time to escape the Canterbury winter. So far he has

not dec’ded on taking any horses with him, as the juveniles in his stable are hardly high-class enough to compe.e at Randwick.

For failing by a few ounces to draw the correct weight B. Deeley’s mount, Multifual, was recently disqualified and the owner deprived of the stake and backers of their dividends. If all the horses that have carried overweight at the Ohinemuri meeting and meetings in the country districts of Auckland that have preceded it lately were disqualified there would be a long list of them. It is quite likely that some backers lost dividends through overweight being carried, yet in such matters there are no enquiries.

An Auckland waterside worker was this week fined £2O for indulging in side line work in the shape of taking a bet.

On Saturday, after the last race had been run, writes the Victorian correspondent of the Sydney “Referee,” and Saracen had returned to the weighing enclosure, some time after the other horses had been unsaddled, Mr. Lou Robertson, owner and trainer of the horse named, was called before the stipendiaries. Mr. R. Greene, the starter, stated that Saracen had been overlooked, and was never in his hands. Therefore backers did not lose their money. But what about the bookmakers, who laid a false price against Traquette on the strength of the backing of L. Robertson’s candidate?

A recent winner at the Queensland Turf Club’s meeting is named Musket King and is returned as by Musket in a Sydney paper. We had hoped that there was only one Musket, but evidently there is, or was, another >. f that name.